[Vo]:FYI: New kind of high-temperature photonic crystal for better thermoelectric microreactors ...
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/02/new-kind-of-high-temperature-photonic.html A team of MIT researchers has developed a way of making a high-temperature version of a kind of materials called photonic crystals,http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/nanophotonics-0203.htmlusing metals such as tungsten or tantalum. The new materials — which can operate at temperatures up to 1200 degrees Celsius — could find a wide variety of applications powering portable electronic devices, spacecraft to probe deep space, and new infrared light emitters that could be used as chemical detectors and sensors. ... could be useful with LENR on small devices, and maybe big devices if mass producted
Re: [Vo]:Cross-over technology
This one looks interesting: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/116853-mits-photonic-crystals-lead-towards-a-nuclear-reactor-in-every-gadget Ron --On Friday, February 03, 2012 9:02 AM -0800 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: It is possible that somewhere down the road, a cross-over technology from a completely different field (like information technology) may be needed to take Ni-H to the required level of true on demand repeatability - over many months. To wit, something like this: http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/02/Information-Tech-Computing-Materials-Fabri cation-method-pushes-recording-density-to-3-3-Tb-per-square-inch/ Imagine a nickel alloy film which is etched into perfectly sized excitons (or Casimir Cavities, or a combination or the two as pictured) ... They are down to below 30 nm now and 15 nm is mentioned. Getting below 10 nm will be optimum (the Forster radius and FRET defines the required range) but the space between the excitons as shown in this image is already there (for Casimir pits). This story is emblematic of the kind of engineering effort that should be going into Ni-H now. We need to expend - not simply millions for RD for this technology - but billions annually. It is that important. In the end the amount spent will be 'chump change' compared to the trillions saved - most of it now ending up in the coffers of OPEC. Jones
[Vo]:Feb 1st 2012 National Research Council News Release Report: NASA's 16 top technical challenges for the next 5 years
I will interpret Nuclear Thermal Propulsion to including LENR... 5 years would not be too bad for something not on the near horizon 1 year ago. Hopefully we can have a residential HVAC/Generator before that or at least something to heat our coffee. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13354 -- radiation mitigation for human spaceflight; -- guidance, navigation, and control; -- optical systems; -- long-duration crew health; -- solar power generation; -- high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy technologies; -- environmental control and life support systems; -- electric propulsion; -- detectors and focal planes; -- instruments and sensors; -- fission power generation; -- lightweight and multifunctional materials and structures; -- nuclear thermal propulsion; -- entry, descent, and landing thermal protection systems; -- active thermal control of cryogenic systems; and
[Vo]:3M speculation on Cold Fusion
Greetings Vortex, I am not sure if the the possible interest in Cold Fusion by 3M was ever posted to Voretx: http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2012/01/exclusive-is-3m-one-of-1mw-ecat.html I should mention that Dr Martin Fleischmann and Dr George Buckley CEO of 3M are University of Southampton graduatesthis makes thingshighly interesting but does not represent confirmation. I know that Dr Buckley is a very open minded individual and that 3M is looking for new technology. I put many caveats into this message. Comments welcomed. Respectfully, Ron Kita, Chiralex
[Vo]: Feb 1st 2012 National Research Council News Release Report: NASA's 16 top technical challenges for the next 5 years
I will interpret Nuclear Thermal Propulsion to including LENR... 5 years would not be too bad for something not on the near horizon 1 year ago. Hopefully we can have a residential HVAC/Generator before that or at least something to heat our coffee. http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13354 -- radiation mitigation for human spaceflight; -- guidance, navigation, and control; -- optical systems; -- long-duration crew health; -- solar power generation; -- high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy technologies; -- environmental control and life support systems; -- electric propulsion; -- detectors and focal planes; -- instruments and sensors; -- fission power generation; -- lightweight and multifunctional materials and structures; -- nuclear thermal propulsion; -- entry, descent, and landing thermal protection systems; -- active thermal control of cryogenic systems; and
[Vo]:Rossi energy per gram computation
in that answer http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510cpage=45#comment-180170 - Andrea Rossi February 4th, 2012 at 4:32 PMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=510cpage=45#comment-180170 Dear Rob: 1- We use Nickel, not Zinc. 2- The actual consume of matter is 1 g/ 23 x 10^6 kWh, all the rest is recycled Warm Regards, A.R. A rossi give a number which is very suspect, i I'd like to have a comment 1gram of Ni produce 23e6 kWh, ie 23GWh, 82.8 TJ (8.28e13 J/g ) mass of nickel is about 58.69 g/mol thus this make 4.85 e15 J/mol (1mol = 6.02e23 atoms) 8.7e-9 J/atom (1 MeV = 1.602176487E-13 J) 50332 MeV/atom thus 50GeV produced by atom ? in widom-larsen slides, hot DD fusion is told to be around 20MeV and Windom-Larsen multi-stage Cycle is about 30Mev per He4 generated this mean that Rossi talk of Ni recycled 1-2000 times in widom-larsen cycle , or the the reactions is very very uncommon for nucleus... nearly as far from nuclear energy, than nuke is from chemical. moreover his numbers are very far from the one he gave, without recycling, and the one of defkalion http://www.defkalion-energy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5179#p5179 Every charge of a Hyperion reactor (assuming a single reactor kernel) requires approx 10gr of specially prepared Ni powder. As already mentioned here, even though this amount is not exhausted within a six months recharge period, we will replace it with fresh. This recharge policy is based on the existing maintenance protocols that we will follow at least for the first Hyperions to enter the Greek market. The total energy that will be produced from such reactor during a six months non-stop operation is 21600kWh... ...(368496000btu/recharge of 50grNi every 6 months) thus 50g - 21600kWh =77.7GJ 1.55e9 J/g 91 e9J/mole 1,5e-13 J/atom 950keV/atom - much more coherent, even if you multiply par the inverse of real consumption(5% consumption is thus realistic assuming WL cycle, or 20-50% assuming a simple 1-2 stage disintegration) of course rossi talk of recycling the powder, and defkalion not but it seems that only 1/1000th is consumed per year, and each atom produce unrealistic energy... did not rossi or someone says that after 6 month half the powder was transmuted ? even if it is 1%, this does not match... Maybe I miss a point, so please correct me... personally I think is is a mistake of 3 zero that he repeat frequently. I've seen the same 1000 factor mistakes in some article of his FAQ but not all... thanks in advance for your comments
Re: [Vo]:3M speculation on Cold Fusion
I once heard it said that the common denominator behind all of 3M products are that they are thin (laminates, floppy disks, abrasives, tapes, polish once it is applied etc). An Ecat is not very thin Nigel On 04/02/2012 17:30, Ron Kita wrote: Greetings Vortex, I am not sure if the the possible interest in Cold Fusion by 3M was ever posted to Voretx: http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/2012/01/exclusive-is-3m-one-of-1mw-ecat.html I should mention that Dr Martin Fleischmann and Dr George Buckley CEO of 3M are University of Southampton graduatesthis makes thingshighly interesting but does not represent confirmation. I know that Dr Buckley is a very open minded individual and that 3M is looking for new technology. I put many caveats into this message. Comments welcomed. Respectfully, Ron Kita, Chiralex
[Vo]:Superpartners
From: Mark Iverson * Enjoy the SuperBowl commercials! They're not nearly as good as they used to be... But there are more of them, so aren't we the same satisfied consumers, as ever? Hey, substituting quantity for quality - this is the Hallmark of McCapitalism, no? Hold the pink slime :-) Speaking of Super-hype, this may be a good time to introduce the so-called the superpartner (sparticle) which is hypothetical. (Who says mainstream physicists are not repressed drama queens? If it's not named after divinity then it has to be an action hero, right?). Supersymmetry predicts the existence of these shadow particles; and like so many things that work on paper, this could have a tinge of reality - even at so-called low energy. (the strong force is NEVER low energy, even if the reaction space has low net energy density, compared to the LHC, due to low probability of quark alignment). Of interest to Ni-H emerging theory is one superpartner called the gluino which is related to the gluon in a shadowy kind of eightfold way - and could be involved in proton mass depletion without transmutation. The idea being that proton mass depletion fuels the gain which is experimentally seen in a chain of related experiments: Thermacore, Mills, Piantelli, Focardi, Celani, Rossi, DGT et al. - without much of a radiation signature. They coulda called it the Buddino. The really ironic thing is that Supersymmetry derives whatever modicum of proof it enjoys from ultra-high energy beam experiments, yet a higher acceleration gradient is arguably present from the strong force and no beam, when two protons approach each other at femtometers geometry with quark suppression of Coulomb charge. If you feel like getting really weird on SuperSunday (instead of guzzling beers and watching a bunch of pampered overpaid jocks do mock battle)- then try to wade through the references from the Wiki summary at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangeness_production Mind-bending, Jones... with technical consultation from Milo Minderbinder, Mess Officer and McCapitalist deluxe attachment: winmail.dat
Re: [Vo]:Is Rossi going out of money fast?
*should be running out of money. I wrote going bankrupt when I first typed the title, then I changed my mind, but I forgot to change the word...
RE: [Vo]:Clues...
Oops! Jones corrected my error where I said... and the three charged leptons (i.e., electron, muon and tau) each have integer spin. I meant to say *half-integer spin*... Thx Jones! -Mark From: Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint [mailto:zeropo...@charter.net] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:26 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Clues... Food for thought... I'm looking at wikipedia's List of elementary particles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_particles and all Quarks and Leptons have an opposite (antiwhatever)... and the three charged leptons (i.e., electron, muon and tau) each have integer spin. I would argue, and this fits perfectly with my qualitative physical model, that as far as the leptons as concerned, the elementary 'particles' (e.g., electron and antielectron (positron)) are simply the two opposites of a dipolar oscillation; and likewise for the muon and tau leptons and their anti-particles... The oscillations are occurring so fast that we cannot, as of this date, distinguish the frequency of the oscillation, and thus, we PERCIEVE them to be separate entities. The more I delve into the details, the more I see agreement with the physical model which has been built up over the years... Enjoy the SuperBowl commercials! They're not nearly as good as they used to be... -Mark attachment: winmail.dat
RE: [Vo]:Cross-over technology
-Original Message- From: Ron Wormus This one looks interesting: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/116853-mits-photonic-crystals-lead-toward s-a-nuclear-reactor-in-every-gadget And it is extremely thin ... 3M notwithstanding How does this sound E-Cat on a chip ?
Re: [Vo]:Cross-over technology
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: How does this sound E-Cat on a chip ? About as bad as eCat on a Hot, Thin Proof. T
Re: [Vo]:Superpartners
Rossi is said to isotopically enhance his nickel powder in some mysterious and controversial way to enhance the nuclear power production of his reaction. Why does Rossi feel that it is important to isotopically enhance the nickel isotopes 62Ni and 64Ni in this micro powder? Well To begin with, 62Ni is stable with 34 neutrons and 28 protons; more precisely, 62Ni is the most stable nuclide of all the existing elements, with binding energy greater than both 56Fe, often incorrectly cited as most stable, and 58Fe. The key factor in the success of the Rossi reaction is loads of binding energy. 64Ni is also near the top of the binding energy pile but to simplify things we won’t talk about that reaction. In other words, the most tightly bound of all nuclei is 62Ni, though the championship of nuclear binding energy is often attributed to 56Fe, it actually comes in a close third. Nickel-62 is granted the binding energy championship because it has the highest binding energy per nucleon of any isotope for any element (8.7946 Mev/nucleon). The size of the Nickel-62 is just big enough to have the repulsive force of the constituent protons felt all over its nucleus. But as the nucleus of heavier elements get bigger; the proton change is increasingly shielded by the share size of the expanding nucleus so less average binding force is needed to hold the growing nucleus together. The binding force comes from the nucleons that comprise the nucleus. Each proton and neutron contributes some mass to the binding force. This mass defect is the difference between the atomic mass of the atom and the mass of its constituent particles, When a proton tunnels into the nucleus of a nickel atom, It is the Z+1 transmutation process to copper that produces the excess reaction energy. That energy comes from the binding energy of the nucleus. Each of the nucleons contributes to that binding energy through what is known as the mass defect of the nucleus. The energy of the reaction comes from ALL the subatomic members of the nucleus and not just the proton. In the heavy isotopes of nickel, there are more nucleons to share the energy production load. This makes the reaction more probable; a higher cross section. It is important to realize that this large binding energy is the AVERAGE energy needed per nucleon to rip the nucleus totally apart. This average doesn’t tell you how much energy for particular nucleon since that amount will vary depending on what TYPE of nucleon you remove. The only way to determine the energy needed to remove any particular nucleon; one must also know both the initial binding energy of the host nucleus and the final binding energy of the resultant nucleus. More specifically, to remove or add a proton to a nucleus requires a different amount of energy than it does a neutron. The difference is determined by a host of nuclear variables including the changes in coulomb repulsion, symmetry and parity. It is important to always remember that the binding energy per nucleon is simply an averaged value. It only gives some feel for how stable the nucleus of a given element is and how much gluon energy is invested in holding the nucleus together. The average binding energy per nucleon does not tell anything other than an APPROXIMATION of the binding energy released or absorbed by a nuclear reaction. To calculate the energy released by a nuclear reaction one needs to know the total binding energy of the nucleus at the start of the reaction and the total binding energy that remains at the end of the reaction. Nuclear binding energy is the inverse of the negative potential energy (mass) of the nucleus relative to its particles. The total mass goes DOWN (is negative), the Binding Energy goes UP (is positive). However, please note that the positive energy generation of a nuclear reaction comes from the binding energy of the nucleus being negative in relation to the starting particles; In the reaction, positive energy must be released to meet the law of the conservation of energy. Exothermic energy production of a nuclear reaction comes entirely from the binding energy of the nucleus. In the principle nuclear reaction that is most likely in the Rossi reactor: 62Ni(2p(S=0), p)63Cu Nickel transmutes to copper when a pair of protons tunnel into the nucleus of the nickel atom and one member of the proton pair carries the exothermal nuclear energy gain out of the nucleus. Remember that there are 29 Protons and 34 Neutrons in Copper-63. The difference in the binding energy between the two isotopes Nickel-62 and Copper-63 is about 6MeV which is carried off by the extra proton of the proton pair. When the two protons penetrate into the nickel nucleus, those protons contribute little to the energy released by the reaction. It is the energy excess of binding energy or the total nuclear mass change where all the power comes from. * * On Sat, Feb 4,
[Vo]:The Leaf Blower
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/one-inventor-wants-boost-evs-towable-turbine-210057167.html?page=1 Not enough range for your Nissan Leaf? Take away with a Capstone microturbine. T
