At 02:16 PM 10/28/2010, Jones Beene wrote:
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From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
> This isn't lightweight stuff. If this were real, we would almost
certainly not be hearing about it.
Yes - that is the reddest of the red flags for me. This has 'military
significance' written all over it.
Plus, having had a look (via Google Earth) at their underwhelming
facilities, there could not exist the kind of staff and ongoing
well-equipped laboratory which would be necessary for work of this caliber
of claimed results. More like a rural barn.
Work of what caliber? We really haven't seen much data, nor anything
about the exact experiments. Basically, they've been working with
their patented equipment, to develop it. Until the examiner.com
article a few days ago, there was no sign of this other work, of the
truly remarkable findings. There do not appear to be patent
applications relating to this new discovery, as far as I've seen. His
last patent, awarded last year, is about the equipment.
It almost smells of some kind of a lure, meant to entice enemy agents out of
deep cover holes - in some kind of twisted spy-vs-spy scenario. High
entertainment value however. Where is Keanu when we need him?
... which does not mean that this is impossible, merely improbable.
The original report in the examiner seemed within possibility to me.
It's still within possibility, but far more improbable. The more
details that came out, the less likely it seemed. If we just look at
what he says, "Wow! How amazing!"
But if we start to think about the implications, such as the military
angle mentioned above, and that the military would almost certainly
know about this, red flag. That there was allegedly a nuclear
accident, with severe injuries in Buxton, Maine, with no local media
coverage, red flag. (The "first responders" are asserted to have been
unwilling to go into the lab, presumbably because of radiation. The
police would be informed. They would inform the feds and others, I'm sure.)
http://business.mainetoday.com/entrepreneur/030815nanospire.shtml
Fascinating technology. So ... what happened? Nanospire has generated
very little news for such a remarkable technology. Did they hit a
bump in the road? Did funding run out? The "investor" Mark mentioned
wants to be anonymous. Not a terribly good sign. They were looking
for major funding, from the government. The story was 2003,
Nanospire, it says, was founded in 2002. Seven "cofounders" are
mentioned; the databox says "seven unpaid employees." Given the
location, it would appear that the only one regularly working there
would be Mark. Serge Lebed lives elsewhere, but was apparently
visiting and working with Mark when the nuclear incidents took place.
Given Lebed's interest in ZPE and Casmir Effect and fusion, that they
were blindsided by so much radiation, so blindsided that apparently
they didn't get the message the first time they got sick, seems
fishy. I have written that I've seen no evidence of anything illegal,
but ... there are a few wilder possibilities that would be *very*
illegal. I'm not even going to describe them, but it will all come
out, I believe, if this is investigated. One way or the other, it
will come out, unless the military take over, in which case the whole
situation might mysteriously disappear, I really don't know exactly
what they would do.
Interesting idea, the lure theory. Sure. That could be opportunistic.
Mark appears, with this story. The military checks it out, finds that
it's not real. But, hey, what a chance to lead other working groups
astray! And to see if any fishermen show up to check out this smelly fish.
If they found it was real, absolutely, this would be locked down,
fast. I dislike the military and military secrecy, but ... I also
would not like to see this technology, if real, in the hands of
terrorists or rogue nations. I don't like that my own government has
access to nuclear weapons, I wish nobody did, but the major powers,
at least, have been able to restrain themselves for more than sixty
years on this.
A technology that could be used to develop weapons with no more than
a few million dollars -- and maybe much less -- ... very dangerous.
Thermonuclear devices are difficult to make because they've required
a nuclear trigger, to get them hot enough quickly enough so that the
reaction takes place before the materials are all scattered. So to
make a thermonuclear weapon, you have to have a fission bomb. That's
hard to come by, the materials are tightly controlled and they aren't common.
It's not difficult to imagine using the technology LeClair has
patented, if it does what he claims, to set off a series of reactions
simultaneously on the outside of a sphere of fusible material. This
is highly controllable, as described. The whole thing would be
compressed and fusion rates would be high. The materials are common,
nothing special. Uff! I really don't like it at all.
The high controllability is another of the strange things about the
radiation accident. I've many times written about cold fusion
research, to not try something totally new on a large scale. What if
it works! I worry about what might happen if one explosively
compresses active cold fusion material, which might be near some kind
of reaction edge. If anyone wants to try it, I suggest making the
experiment *really* small, so that if the thing does cause a high
fusion rate, you and your neighborhood will survive. Then, gradually,
make it larger if you don't see results. But because these things are
not necessarily consistent, I'm not sure I'd even want to try
explosive compression at all. After all, not much use for anything
except destroying things!
The way the story is told, they were indeed looking for fusion. So
they would, presumably, have adequate radiation detectors set up. At
the very least, they'd have dosimeters in place. My material, LR-115,
can be used to make a neutron dosimeter, for fast neutrons, well, I
could sell one for a dollar and make a profit. Okay, probably more,
because of the packaging..... For slow neutrons, it would be more
expensive, but the Boron-10 n, alpha screen would be re-usable. I
could sell a little piece the size of a film chip for $20 and make a
profit.... (I have some Boron-10 material, but I'm not using it yet,
I don't expect slow neutrons.)
It's hard for me to believe that they would be exploring unknown
pressure territory, looking for fusion, and be utterly unprepared to
find it! Pons and Fleischmann were looking for fusion, but they were
not straying far from what was a common material, palladium
deuteride, they were raising the loading ratio only a little from
what was routine, and checking heat with sensitive calorimetry, not
done before, probably. They didn't expect to find anything, so their
meltdown was quite a shock. (Had they found any results before that?
If so, they were low level. We could say that they were very lucky,
since that major heat wasn't reproducible.) And they installed
radiation detectors after that incident, as soon as they realized
that they might actually get some serious fusion, and they reduced
the size of the palladium cathode, greatly.
Mark says that they had a Geiger counter set up.
As far as precautions go, this was a zero point energy experiment
meant to show that fusion was not the driver behind this effect and
I was not expected to happen. I was anticipating speeds of 20,000
mph, not 0.5+ c. We had a Geiger counter to try and show fusion
wasn't happening. The gamma, alpha and beta only rose about 20%
above ambient levels. It was consistent and there seemed to be no
cause for concern. We didn't know we had transmuted elements until
well into the experimental regimen. Apparent neutron tracks in
polystyrene indicates a large neutron flux was present, but that I
determined after the experiments.
So they had some results already. What effect? He has not described
it. Look, if a piece of water crystal hit a target at 0.5 c, I'm
pretty sure there would be all kinds of radiation. There are no
"neutron tracks" in materials like polystyrene. There are tracks from
charged particle radiation caused by proton knock-on, mostly. So
there would be lots of radiation for the Gieger counter to detect, if
I have this right (I might not!), the 20% elevation is suspiciously
low for the magnitude of the other effects. The Geiger counter would
presumably be close to the reaction site, you wouldn't put it across the room.
The whole account reads like one put together by someone as a
fantasy, a science fiction story. Fast neutrons don't cause massive
transmutation, the capture cross-section is low at high energy, fast
neutrons tend to bounce. Slow neutrons are used for neutron
activation. So WTF happened? Fusion produces fast neutrons.
