Re: [Vo]:Page 4 missing
Hmmm . . . I have 2 or 3 copies of this paper but it turns out they are all missing p. 4 and other other pages. - Jed
[Vo]:Is the iscmns.org offline?
I am not getting a response from the server. What about you people? -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
Re: [Vo]:Is the iscmns.org offline?
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I am not getting a response from the server. What about you people? Works for me. T
Re: [Vo]:Is the iscmns.org offline?
It's working now here too. Heh. 2012/3/19 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I am not getting a response from the server. What about you people? Works for me. T -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
[Vo]:Rossi: 45MW generator: 160m3 and 200tons
Larry March 18th, 2012 at 6:14 PMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=608cpage=1#comment-201436 Dear Mr. Rossi I’ve read that your proposed 45 MW reactor would mass about 200 tonnes. What would be the approximate cubic volume of a 45 MW reactor. Thanks and best wishes Larry Andrea Rossi March 19th, 2012 at 8:19 AMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=608cpage=1#comment-201807 Dear Larry: About 450 cubic meters Warm Regards, A.R. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
[Vo]:Fw: Heavy Ion Fusion
Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/ --- On Sun, 3/18/12, Karl Bender karlben...@att.net wrote: From: Karl Bender karlben...@att.net Subject: Heavy Ion Fusion To: todd.pli...@roadrunner.com, chrism...@aol.com, Harvey Norris harv...@yahoo.com Cc: karlben...@att.net Date: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:08 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emKoMgZ03U Presented by Dr. Charles Helsley. Abstract: The limited supply and worldwide environmental effects of carbon-based fuels demand that a different source of energy be identified and tapped. This analysis applies to synthetic bio fuels as well as fossil fuels. The obvious candidates to supplant carbon-based fuels are solar conversion, wind generation, hydraulic generation, geothermal extraction, fission, and fusion. When scaled to the size necessary to satisfy the energy demands of the world, all except fusion have severe unmitigated environmental impacts, induce geopolitical instability, or exhibit very limited availability, reliability, and sustainability. Most technologies suffer from more than one of these drawbacks. The fusion of Deuterium and Tritium (DT) to form Helium and a neutron is a well-known reaction that yields prodigious amounts of energy. Though sufficient fuel is available in seawater to sustain the global energy demand for millennia, we still need an engine capable of running the reaction. As of 2009, the search for such an engine has been going on for 6 decades and common wisdom says it is still 5 decades away. The problem is that the search has been concentrated on the 1 GW regime (the size of a normal large power plant). HIF is that engine now. What is not generally known is that a safe practical way to harness the isotope's of Hydrogen reaction was developed in the 1970's but abandoned because it was only economically viable at a very large scale. The process is known as High Energy Heavy Ion Fusion. Such a fusion power plant would produce about 100 GW of power rather than the 1 GW desired by the power industry. Three facilities would meet the total needs of California, allowing fission and fossil fuel generation to be cut back significantly Heavy Ion Fusion techology is more ready to go now than rocket technology was in 1961 when President Kennedy set the goal to go to the moon and back within the decade. The controlled ignition of DT provides a virtually unlimited source of energy. Fusion power can be on line in less than a decade. The energy produced by a single system is equivalent to a super giant oil field and will take about the same amount of time to come on line producing heat, electricity, hydrogen for synthetic fuel and water with a minimal carbon footprint. The life of HIF is thousands of years, while a giant oil field's life is only a few decades. Speaker Bio: Charles Helsley is a retired researcher at the University of Hawaii. He has lived in Hawaii for 32 years, was formerly the Director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and was the Director of the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program at the time of his retirement. He is an expert in energy matters, especially in oil and gas resources and is knowledgeable about the effects that the of burning carbon-based fuels has on the earths ocean and atmosphere. He has been involved in many fields of research, from paleomagnetism, to seismology, to marine geology and more recently in free electron laser research and in open ocean aquaculture research under the banner of the Hawaii Offshore Aquaculture Research Program (HOARP) of which he was the principal investigator. He has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals during his career and still publishes papers every few years. He holds BS and MS degrees in Geology from the California Institute of Technology and a PhD in Geology from Princeton University.
Re: [Vo]:We're Watching You
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Big Brother is protecting us all. Forget about privacy. Remember the Total Information Awarness project? It's back: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/16/total-information-awareness-surveillance-program-returns-bigger-than-ever/ Gotta love their logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IAO-logo.png T
Re: [Vo]:Fw: Heavy Ion Fusion
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Harvey Norris harv...@yahoo.com wrote: Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/ Where the heck does he expect to get tritium? The DoD/DoE had to build the Savannah River Plant to make it. You can't get tritium from seawater. The half-life is 12.5 yrs. T
Re: [Vo]:Fw: Heavy Ion Fusion
In hot fusion, Tritium is bred is a lithium 6 blanket. 6Li + N - 4He + T (4.8 MeV) On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Harvey Norris harv...@yahoo.com wrote: Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/ Where the heck does he expect to get tritium? The DoD/DoE had to build the Savannah River Plant to make it. You can't get tritium from seawater. The half-life is 12.5 yrs. T
Re: [Vo]:Fw: Heavy Ion Fusion
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In hot fusion, Tritium is bred is a lithium 6 blanket. 6Li + N - 4He + T (4.8 MeV) I understand that; but, at 47:45 he says that he is going to obtain his startup source of T from existing reactors. There are no existing reactors that can generate a significant amout of T since the SRP went down. Our nuclear arsenal depends on recovered T from older bombs and we are close to having to make a decision to build another tritium generating reactor like the one at SRP. T
[Vo]:Through the Wormhole
Animation not as colorful as Jodie Foster's trip in Contact but more realistic: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/what-a-trip-through-a-wormhole-would-look-like.html T
Re: [Vo]:Through the Wormhole
So, black hole transport will feature schmaltzy new-age muzak and lousy cell phone service? Kind of like Amtrac. An elevator ride across the universe with elevator music. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Through the Wormhole
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: So, black hole transport will feature schmaltzy new-age muzak and lousy cell phone service? Kind of like Amtrac. An elevator ride across the universe with elevator music. LOL! My audio was turned off; so, I missed it the first time. T
Re: [Vo]:Fw: Heavy Ion Fusion
See Canadian CANDU sales in *www.fusion.ucla.edu/.../Tritium%20Supply%20Considerations.ppt* The problem is not tritium supply but structural material life cycle issues. No material can withstand fast alpha and neutron irradiation for very long. Hot fusion is not economical because of this. It’s too expensive to rebuild a fusion reactor every few years. This is why the hot fusion guys want to use boron fusion. But Boron fusion is very hard to do. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In hot fusion, Tritium is bred is a lithium 6 blanket. 6Li + N - 4He + T (4.8 MeV) I understand that; but, at 47:45 he says that he is going to obtain his startup source of T from existing reactors. There are no existing reactors that can generate a significant amout of T since the SRP went down. Our nuclear arsenal depends on recovered T from older bombs and we are close to having to make a decision to build another tritium generating reactor like the one at SRP. T
Re: [Vo]:Fw: Heavy Ion Fusion
Sorry...try this link https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vq=cache:_rxl-U3jRuUJ:www.fusion.ucla.edu/ITER-TBM/ITER-TBM2/Tritium%2520Supply%2520Considerations.ppt+hl=engl=uspid=blsrcid=ADGEEShVY_nQfaLJ0hUtuoOq3SlMyE3KLaT3CfsofmIJBvO3QhQPxrEjV3NByq-ekOkoiOL-0Neb1w_aXtXoSJPahhPwFqxnSGp7W2lFSmD0X3y-_MHYnJjwh0TZTxVUaKX5SXZi-cCusig=AHIEtbRC4_lCWLePVrGTfxv4uHCa3CWTVQpli=1 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: See Canadian CANDU sales in *www.fusion.ucla.edu/.../Tritium%20Supply%20Considerations.ppt* The problem is not tritium supply but structural material life cycle issues. No material can withstand fast alpha and neutron irradiation for very long. Hot fusion is not economical because of this. It’s too expensive to rebuild a fusion reactor every few years. This is why the hot fusion guys want to use boron fusion. But Boron fusion is very hard to do. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In hot fusion, Tritium is bred is a lithium 6 blanket. 6Li + N - 4He + T (4.8 MeV) I understand that; but, at 47:45 he says that he is going to obtain his startup source of T from existing reactors. There are no existing reactors that can generate a significant amout of T since the SRP went down. Our nuclear arsenal depends on recovered T from older bombs and we are close to having to make a decision to build another tritium generating reactor like the one at SRP. T
[Vo]:Video Game Solves Fermi Paradox
With The Purge: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/03/15/mass-effect-solves-the-fermi-paradox/ T
Re: [Vo]:Video Game Solves Fermi Paradox
In Soviet Galaxy, purge and something... 2012/3/19 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com With The Purge: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/03/15/mass-effect-solves-the-fermi-paradox/ T -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
Re: [Vo]:Through the Wormhole
very cool On 03/19/2012 01:48 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: Animation not as colorful as Jodie Foster's trip in Contact but more realistic: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/what-a-trip-through-a-wormhole-would-look-like.html T
[Vo]:Wa-a-a-y OFF TOPIC Penguin living in Japan goes shopping
It does not get more off topic than this. See: http://www.flixxy.com/pet-penguin-goes-shopping.htm A couple of things about this have seized my imagination and will not let go: 1. Note that the penguin swallows a large fish, then burps. 2. I cannot help but imagine the reaction of a some drunk guy out for a walk in the midday sun. He sees a penguin march purposefully down the street by itself, wearing a knapsack, and he sees it turn smartly into the fishmonger. He hears a voice within saying, Ah, you again! Hi there! He swears off drink forever. - Jed
RE: [Vo]:Wa-a-a-y OFF TOPIC Penguin living in Japan goes shopping
Heh! This video reminds me of when I went to Sea World a couple of years ago for a software training course. Afterwards, I took a break and went to SW for RR. One of the more enjoyable spectacles was watching a summer intern feed the penguins in penguin habitat. She walked into the middle of the habitat with two pails brimming full with fish. The penguins immediately knew the routine and flocked around her. I was amazed at how they all patiently waited for their daily ration. They were very polite; no pushing or shoving. The intern sat down on a rock and started feeding very large fish head first down the gullets of each penguin. Once they got their single fish, they would waddle away. I remember the intern trying to feed one penguin with a particularly large fish. Unfortunately as hard as the penguin tried the fish going head-first down just couldn't get past the bird's crop. Eventually the intern pulled the fish out of the penguin's crop and retrieved a slightly smaller one. Success! I bet that intern will remember that summer job for the rest of her life. Feeding penguins! What fun! Thanks, Jed. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
