Re: [Vo]:energy products company
OPT appears to have done their homework well. Not only have they made two public offerings, they have some good partners and blessings of the US Navy. At the end of the day the device remains a sea bouy and translating that into profits becomes a stretch. unless.. well .. err.. was never intended to. Maintaining a sea bouy is extremely expensive.. more so than a wind turbine and there ain't a nickel made in wind farms. Richard On Oct 16, 2007, at 2:26 PM, thomas malloy wrote: This company claims to have some interesting energy production products, can anyone comment on their efficacy. http://www.inri.us Horace Heffner wrote.. This alternative looks good to me: http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/ Other things to consider: http://www.physorg.com/news4142.html http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/3/5/64017/45520 http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8240/8240energy.html http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35125 http://www.iema.net/news/envnews?aid=17531
[VO]: TXU buyout
BlankHowdy Vorts, Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play.. deer being the fleeced and the antelope being the swift. Texas, Our Texas,, where no man's life nor property is safe when the state legislature is in session Stage set and curtain opens... TXU of Dallas, a electric utility with a number of coal fired smokeys' cried to the state for help because they couldn't afford to install scrubbers so the state worked out this deal where the state would issue bonds on the state's nickel to cover the cost of shutting down the plants or cleaning them up. Utilities got to raise rates to cover payment of bonds... ok. so far , so good... except.. the utilities took the money, sold the plants and the new owners cried foul ! no problemo!..Just run it past the bond market again.. and again.. until every buck has been wrung outa the deal. Last week, TXU was acquired privatized by an enterprise led by KKR and Texas Energy partners. Leading up to the acquisition was lotsa heat from the environmentalist that demanded they agree to clear up the stacks. Well, to make a long story short.. a few deals were cut and an agreement to close a few worthless plants that were already for the scrap heap.. led to some interesting profit taking among the players.. no one knows what role Jesse from Detroit played but it was announced in the news that our esteemed ex sec of state James Baker 111 received ONE MILLION SHARES of the new enterprise for his ability to smile before the camera. hmmm.. was that the guy that was sent to Florida to validate the Bush victory over Gore? No place but Texas.. just read our state motto Don't mess with Texas hmmm. Richard Blank Bkgrd.gif
[Vo]:Re: TXU buyout
Blankour esteemed ex sec of state James Baker 111 received ONE MILLION SHARES ... Don't mess with Texas Don't tax with me, sec... Michel (can't resist lame puns, even and especially in a foreign language ;-) - Original Message - From: R.C.Macaulay To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:46 PM Subject: [VO]: TXU buyout Howdy Vorts, Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play.. deer being the fleeced and the antelope being the swift. Texas, Our Texas,, where no man's life nor property is safe when the state legislature is in session Stage set and curtain opens... TXU of Dallas, a electric utility with a number of coal fired smokeys' cried to the state for help because they couldn't afford to install scrubbers so the state worked out this deal where the state would issue bonds on the state's nickel to cover the cost of shutting down the plants or cleaning them up. Utilities got to raise rates to cover payment of bonds... ok. so far , so good... except.. the utilities took the money, sold the plants and the new owners cried foul ! no problemo!..Just run it past the bond market again.. and again.. until every buck has been wrung outa the deal. Last week, TXU was acquired privatized by an enterprise led by KKR and Texas Energy partners. Leading up to the acquisition was lotsa heat from the environmentalist that demanded they agree to clear up the stacks. Well, to make a long story short.. a few deals were cut and an agreement to close a few worthless plants that were already for the scrap heap.. led to some interesting profit taking among the players.. no one knows what role Jesse from Detroit played but it was announced in the news that our esteemed ex sec of state James Baker 111 received ONE MILLION SHARES of the new enterprise for his ability to smile before the camera. hmmm.. was that the guy that was sent to Florida to validate the Bush victory over Gore? No place but Texas.. just read our state motto Don't mess with Texas hmmm. Richard
[Vo]:RF energy transfer
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/533411/?sc=dwhp In this story from NIST, an RF circuit is used cool a tiny silicon cantilever— similar to the tuning forks used in 'quartz' watches but smaller — and vibrating at 7,000 cycles per second, its natural “resonant” frequency. Now in a broad (mis)use of verbiage, one could opine or over-generalize that this is creating ice from fire... from wave-energy, in a way. Well, it is a conversion or transfer of one form of energy to another, and even if it is conservative, it can offer some insight on how other resonant circuits might operate to bootstrap thermal or magnetic vibrations into an electrical circuit - and give the appearance of OU when in fact they are taping into a bit of ambient energy. In this case above the experimenters cooled the miniature lever from room temperature down to -228 C - quite impressive. I mention this experiment in the context of a ferrite core, where an (un-noticed) one degree or less, delta T change in entropy could perhaps- be converted into milliwatts of another form of energy ? Jones
[Vo]:Deflation Fusion (Part 2)
Deflation Fusion Speculations Regarding the Nature of Cold Fusion Horace Heffner October 17, 2007 Continued from Part 1 ULTRA-HEAVY HYDROGEN ISOTOPES The existence of hydrogen-4 to hydrogen-7 and possibly beyond, as well as helium-5 to helium-8, may shed some light on the intermediate states of some LENR processes.13 A deflation fusion of multiple electrons and two deuterons or more in a loaded lattice, possibly followed by a weak reaction, could produce these ultra-heavy hydrogen or helium nuclei as an intermediary state. The ability to shed four neutrons or more from a heavy hydrogen or helium intermediate state implies the ability of a quad-neutron to tunnel to a heavy nucleus in the lattice. This could explain various observed jumps of four in nucleon number of lattice elements in LENR experiments. Further, a deflated hydrogen state of an ultra heavy hydrogen may look like a clump of neutrons to the lattice atoms, and thus easily tunnel long distances to them because the tunneling is energetically neutral electrostatically speaking, and favorable magnetically. It is notable that hydrogen diffusion occurs via tunneling the typical separation distance of the lattice metal nuclei, i.e. from one lattice site to an adjacent site. However, the typical distance between a hydrogen nucleus and lattice nucleus is half that. The tunneling rate of a deflated hydrogen nucleus into close proximity of a lattice metal nucleus is thus greater than to the same proximity of a hydrogen nucleus in an adjacent site. If the tunneling hydrogen nucleus is in the deflated state, i.e. neutral, its final destination is unaffected by the Coulomb barrier, only affected by its mass and the tunneling distance. The size of a nucleus is affected by nuclear structure and excitation state. We would thus expect deflated state tunneling to occur into lattice nuclei with greater probability until a low energy small nuclear structure is achieved. This feature may be of special use in deactivating nuclear waste. A typical final nuclear state should tend to consist of multiple alpha particle structures. Because deflated state hydrogen has no net charge, the probability of deflated state hydrogen tunneling long distances is greatly increased. In D+D fusion in the lattice, the tunneling D is therefore most likely to not be in the deflated state, and the static hydrogen in the tunneled-to location where fusion occurs is therefore likely to be in the deflated state. For this reason D+D fusion can be more likely than low energy nuclear reactions with the lattice nuclei. It has been noted that in some cases magnetic fields improve the success rate at producing LENR. This is highly consistent with the deflation fusion concept in that a magnetic force aligned between hydrogen locations and lattice atom locations provides a potential that greatly increases the probability of tunneling in the deflated state. However, it is most notable that it is not a magnetic field alone which should have an effect, it is a magnetic gradient that provides a magnetic force and thus an increased tunneling probability for deflated state nuclei. Attempts to produce magnetically enhanced LENR rates should thus attempt to optimize both the magnitude and direction of the magnetic gradient across the lattice, not just place a magnetic field through the lattice. It is especially noteworthy that powerful magnetic gradients can be induced within a lattice by use of coherent x-rays. THE BACK SIDE CELL The method of applying high electron fugacity to deuterium loaded cathodes has the objective of creating an energy focusing effect, forcing co-centered wave function collapse, resulting in deflation fusion. The objective is to create simultaneously a high deuteron fugacity and electron fugacity. Fugacity of a particle type in a given environment is similar to pressure in that it is a measure of the energy required to add one more such particle to that environment. It is of interest that as electron density increases, the fugacity of a given amount of loaded hydrogen decreases. Increasing electron fugacity increases the loading feasible with a given amount of electrolysis energy, though adding one particle of each increases the fugacity of both. The application of extreme fields to the back side of a loaded cathode is one way to increase electron fugacity. That is to say a cathode can be loaded electrolytically from one side, the electrolyte side, and yet be a charged to millions of volts at the back side surface. The back side surface can interface to a vacuum, hydrogen gas, high pressure dry nitrogen, clear HV oil, glass, or any convenient highly transparent and sufficiently insulating medium on the high voltage back side of the cathode. Call this high voltage side
[Vo]:Deflation Fusion (Part 1)
Deflation Fusion Speculations Regarding the Nature of Cold Fusion Horace Heffner October 17, 2007 PURPOSE It is intended here to advance potential mechanisms underlying the production of cold fusion and low energy nuclear reactions (LENR). The possible existence of such mechanisms suggests new experiments and improved techniques that may lead to a better understanding of some of the anomalous behavior of these reactions, like unusual branching ratios. It is also intended to derive some engineering principles to utilize the mechanisms. ELECTRON SCREENING IN FUSION REACTIONS The term “electron screening” when applied to fusion reactions typically has two meanings. One type of electron screening is the effect of the distribution of charge in the electron wave functions of orbital electrons between two hydrogen nuclei. The charge of a single orbital electron is spread over a large volume, compared to nuclear distances, thus this screening is very tenuous. The electron screening in a hydrogen molecule actually thins out if the two nuclei are brought closer together than their average separation distance, thus increasing their mutual repulsion, and restoring the molecular shape. This orbital electron screening requires long tunneling distances of the hydrogen nucleus to achieve fusion, due to the large size of the orbital in comparison to the nucleus. Another kind of electron screening can occur when most of the wave function of one or two free electrons gets between two hydrogen nuclei. This can only happen if the screening electron de Broglie wavelength is small, therefor the momentum and thus energy of the screening electron is high, well over 2000 eV. This kind of electron screening happens with great frequency only in very hot dense environments. Electron screening fusion reactions can be called electron catalyzed fusion. Proposed here is a third kind of electron catalyzed fusion, called deflation fusion. It is not an electron screening reaction. It is fusion occurring as the result of a multi-body quantum wave function collapse simultaneously involving electron(s) and hydrogen nuclei, especially deuterons. Wave function collapse is a term which has meaning depending on the quantum interpretation invoked. Regardless of interpretation, as applied here, it is a very real phenomenon. Consider the electron capture reaction. An electron with a wave function covering a volume thousands of times that of a nucleus suddenly collapses to become part of the nucleus when the electron capture reaction occurs. Similarly, in the photoelectric effect, a photon from across the universe, having a wave function of very large size, can collapse its entire energy and momentum onto one tiny electron on one atom in order to eject it from its orbital. An electron on one side of a Josephson junction has a wave function that initially extends to the other side of the junction with only a small (volume integral) probability. Yet, depending on the width of the junction and the potential across the junction, once the electron tunnels across, it builds a newly centered (center of mass) wave function having a small probability of being where it was on the other side. These are three examples of wave function collapse, where a quantum wave function can suddenly change both location and locus probability distribution dramatically. Such quantum wave function collapse can happen and indeed happens when it is energetically favorable for either electrons or nuclei. Typically in deflation fusion the wave functions of an electron and two hydrogen nuclei momentarily collapse into a small volume, their centers of mass being co-located, to create an intermediate state. Weak and/or strong nuclear reactions may occur in this intermediate state. This process differs from an electron screening process, where the screening occurs prior to tunneling, and does not involve an electron in the nucleus. A key ingredient to making deflation fusion occur is stressing the electron wave function so as to make its collapse with two nearby nuclei energetically favorable. Another key ingredient is creating a configuration in which it is more energetically favorable for two nuclei to tunnel to an electron, or a nucleus to tunnel to a nucleus-electron pair in close proximity, than for the electron to tunnel toward one of the nuclei. TWO BODY WAVE FUNCTION COLLAPSE An electron wave function collapse upon a single nucleus, followed by reverse tunneling, is much more likely than the 3 body events discussed above, but it is an unnoticed event, an event without any ash or consequences. When the reverse tunneling occurs, the final state is identical to the initial state. Neutron creation is energetically not favored from the two body event, because a neutron
Re: [Vo]:Re: TXU buyout
No problemo with your use of the inglesh Michel, shucks Hillary can do tricks with it too: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019pr=goog-sl Richard - Original Message - From: Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:34 AM Subject: [Vo]:Re: TXU buyout Blankour esteemed ex sec of state James Baker 111 received ONE MILLION SHARES ... Don't mess with Texas Don't tax with me, sec... Michel (can't resist lame puns, even and especially in a foreign language ;-) - Original Message - From: R.C.Macaulay To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:46 PM Subject: [VO]: TXU buyout Howdy Vorts, Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play.. deer being the fleeced and the antelope being the swift. Texas, Our Texas,, where no man's life nor property is safe when the state legislature is in session Stage set and curtain opens... TXU of Dallas, a electric utility with a number of coal fired smokeys' cried to the state for help because they couldn't afford to install scrubbers so the state worked out this deal where the state would issue bonds on the state's nickel to cover the cost of shutting down the plants or cleaning them up. Utilities got to raise rates to cover payment of bonds... ok. so far , so good... except.. the utilities took the money, sold the plants and the new owners cried foul ! no problemo!..Just run it past the bond market again.. and again.. until every buck has been wrung outa the deal. Last week, TXU was acquired privatized by an enterprise led by KKR and Texas Energy partners. Leading up to the acquisition was lotsa heat from the environmentalist that demanded they agree to clear up the stacks. Well, to make a long story short.. a few deals were cut and an agreement to close a few worthless plants that were already for the scrap heap.. led to some interesting profit taking among the players.. no one knows what role Jesse from Detroit played but it was announced in the news that our esteemed ex sec of state James Baker 111 received ONE MILLION SHARES of the new enterprise for his ability to smile before the camera. hmmm.. was that the guy that was sent to Florida to validate the Bush victory over Gore? No place but Texas.. just read our state motto Don't mess with Texas hmmm. Richard
Re: [Vo]:RF energy transfer
On 17/10/2007 12:22 PM, Jones Beene wrote: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/533411/?sc=dwhp In this story from NIST, an RF circuit is used cool a tiny silicon cantilever similar to the tuning forks used in 'quartz' watches but smaller and vibrating at 7,000 cycles per second, its natural ³resonant² frequency. Now in a broad (mis)use of verbiage, one could opine or over-generalize that this is creating ice from fire... from wave-energy, in a way. Well, it is a conversion or transfer of one form of energy to another, and even if it is conservative, it can offer some insight on how other resonant circuits might operate to bootstrap thermal or magnetic vibrations into an electrical circuit - and give the appearance of OU when in fact they are taping into a bit of ambient energy. In this case above the experimenters cooled the miniature lever from room temperature down to -228 C - quite impressive. I mention this experiment in the context of a ferrite core, where an (un-noticed) one degree or less, delta T change in entropy could perhaps- be converted into milliwatts of another form of energy ? Jones The issue then becomes -- as I have suggested before -- does a business have enjoy an unlimited right to treat energy as a commodity? Consider the air we breathe. Is the air for sale? Should it be? Why _should_ energy be for sale? Personally I think power providers only have a right to charge for the energy they used to build their system. Beyond that level they would charge for the (power)/(time interval) and not for the energy used = (power)x(time interval). It is curious that there is no common term for the former quantity. Harry
