RE: Primordial Electronium Sources

2006-02-27 Thread Frederick Sparber
Possible ways for (*e-) to end up in copper, aluminum, or steel. If it exists. Copper Processing: http://www.p2pays.org/ref/01/text/00778/chapter5.htm Aluminum Smelting and Refining: http://www.p2pays.org/ref/01/text/00778/chapter4.htm Steel Making:

RE: Primordial Electronium Sources

2006-02-27 Thread Frederick Sparber
The index covers most of the metals of interest. Good stuff. Primary Metals Table of Contents http://www.p2pays.org/ref/01/text/00778/intro1.htm Possible ways for (*e-) to end up in copper, aluminum, or steel. If it exists.

Re: Positrons Auger Electron Emission

2006-02-27 Thread Frederick Sparber
When positrons annihilate in Iodine-125 Auger electrons come off instead of the 0.510 Mev gammas. Does this happen in Deuterium-loaded Pd for D+D --- He4 ?

Re: Positrons Auger Electron Emission

2006-02-27 Thread Frederick Sparber
The X-ray yield (%) for a material~ = 1.216e-7 * Z * Volts (about 1% efficiency for tungsten, Z = 74 at 100 kilovolts, or 0.56% for Pd at 100 kilovolts, Z= 46. In the D+D --- He4 + 24 Mev reaction in Pd is an Auger Effect "Cascade" yielding mostly heat? - Original Message - From:

Re: Howard Johnson Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Grimer Terry: Well, Scott rebuffed me when I asked him to look into MAHG. My only contact with Scott persuaded me that he had a bad case of the NIH (not invented here) disease. In Scott's defense, he says he is semi-retired and doesn't jump on every

Re: Howard Johnson Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Grimer snippage Yeah the Kawai/Takahashi motor has a fundamental difference from the Sprain motor. It's a yin/yang issue. For now, I *will* be coy and see if Jones Beene figures out why Sprain is not Takahashi. But I will send you the answer directly. g

Re: Howard Johnson Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: hohlrauml6d snip AND, clearly, there is the possibility of a measurement error in the MAHG device. As Scott, et.al. have pointed out, his output was strangely inversely propotional to the duty cycle.  To avoid confusion, the antecedent for his is

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread George Holz
Hi Jones and Terry, I am almost always subscribed to vortex-l, but I do not read every post. Magnetic motors are one of my main interests. Terry posted: http://www.geocities.com/terry1094/pulse_display.jpg Indicates less that he is inputting less than 1.1 Watt-seconds of electrical energy

The Allure of Selective torque

2006-02-27 Thread Jones Beene
The Sprain Motor, in the context of the so-called Magnetic Wankel brings up a salient point which was never adequately addressed during the previous episode of Takahishi a decade ago. That is the potential advantage of using modern electronics to provide what (for lack of a better term) can be

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: George Holz George: I presume that channel 1 in the scope photo is the voltage waveform. What is the channel two waveform? It looks like the voltage across a current sampling resistor in series with the solenoid. What is the value of the sampling resistor?

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: jonfli   Just curious as to the calibration/div for the current probe used on Ch2 to arrive at your energy calc above?  See the post to George on the probe specs. Does that answer your question? Terry ___

Re: The Allure of Selective torque

2006-02-27 Thread Grimer
At 09:47 am 27/02/2006 -0800, you wrote: The Sprain Motor, in the context of the so-called Magnetic Wankel brings up a salient point which was never adequately addressed during the previous episode of Takahishi a decade ago. That is the potential advantage of using modern electronics to provide

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread Grimer
At 01:17 pm 27/02/2006 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: George Holz George:The mechanical energy output looks more difficult to verify. The only proof of utility that would be convincing is a self runner. Put an efficient permanent magnet generator on the shaft and measure

Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread Horace Heffner
Please let me know if any numbers look wrong. The following data and references are related to http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BigPicture.pdf, especially the data in Table 1, repeated immediately below. Table 1 - Current energy plant capital cost in $/W Gas turbine 0.5 Wind

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: Page 2 shows the cost of a 1.65-MW turbine is $0.79/W, but actual power can come in at about 1/3 the nameplate rating, which gives about $2.40/W. That adjustment is reasonable, but it complicates things. By the same token, you might adjust nuclear power, because nuclear

Re: The Allure of Selective torque

2006-02-27 Thread RC Macaulay
Howdy Jones. Not only " tantalizing" but downright insightful. Oh so many years ago while doing a design study on a stepless variable torque proportioning differential gear setup for a dual rotor heliocopter, the study led to the possibility of performing the function electronically...

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread jonfli
Terry, Yes, thank you. However, the CH2 Mean measurement of 71.3mv isn't accurate because it appears to be 200mv! I assume the probe was set at 0-10A with an output of 10mv/Amp, this makes the input current measurement on CH2 to be 2A Mean. The CH1 voltage measurement seems to indicate

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: George Holz George: I cannot tell from the picture the range to which the current probe is set. If it is the 10 Amp range , then the 100 mv/amp signal would give an energy per pulse from the scope waveforms essentially equal to your calculation of 1.1 Joules

Re: The Allure of Selective torque

2006-02-27 Thread Jones Beene
--- Grimer wrote: I'm not quite sure what you're torquing about, Jones, but I found the swing bit so interesting that I actually googled to find exactly how it worked. g Sounds like allure to me, Frank ... as in a lure of the fishy variety ... and since I've no clue to what angle you ...

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Grimer I admire his seflconfidence. ;-) :-Þ ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

Article on carbon nanotube based ultracapacitor

2006-02-27 Thread George Holz
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/batteries-0208.html?tr=yauid=1441616 This is from a newsletter I get from the MIT Alumni Association. A suprise for me is that one of the inventors graduated 2 years after me fron the same small high school and from the same department at MIT. George Holz

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 27, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Page 2 shows the cost of a 1.65-MW turbine is $0.79/W, but actual power can come in at about 1/3 the nameplate rating, which gives about $2.40/W. That adjustment is reasonable, but it complicates things. By the

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
I'll be going back soon with a better ELECTRICAL Engr. While my degree is in EE, I have been in photonics so long I don't trust my oscilloscope capabilities any more -- especially these new-fangled, digital storage, self normalizing, display maximizing types. Now give me an Optical Time

Sprain on Takahashi/Kawai

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
When you place it underload it stops spinning. Your moving from a strong field to a weak field you have no momentum to bring you top dead center of the EM. It stops as soon as you add a load. Paul I even tried reversing the EM trying to attract the rotor, it still won't work. Paul

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Actually, this gets even more complicated. You have to factor in what I suppose should be called timeliness or usefulness or simply the value per kilowatt hour. As noted, gas turbines are used for peak power when it is most needed. Wind turbines produce energy when the wind blows, which may or

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Horace Heffner Yes, or the cost of acid rain.  Coal fired plants are a significant source of ionizing radiation, also. Terry ___ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread RC Macaulay
Our local state owned electric power plant, Fayette Power operated by the Lower Colorado River Authority of Texas uses mostly Wyoming Coal railed down via some 2500 hopper cars owned or leased by LCRA. Normal load per train is 100-115 hopper cars with two trains per day. A third of the

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 27, 2006, at 4:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coal fired plants are a significant source of ionizing radiation, also. Yes indeed. An old post on this (edited for spelling) follows. However, it is notable that the new emissions free technologies for sequestering CO2 may solve

Re: Update on Energy Costs

2006-02-27 Thread Standing Bear
On Monday 27 February 2006 21:34, Horace Heffner wrote: On Feb 27, 2006, at 4:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coal fired plants are a significant source of ionizing radiation, also. Yes indeed. An old post on this (edited for spelling) follows. However, it is notable that the new

Re: Sprain on Takahashi/Kawai

2006-02-27 Thread Horace Heffner
For cogging EM motors, it seems to me to make sense to increase the decelerating cogging angle to as much as possible, then put multiple motors sharing their armatures in tandem but out of phase. For example, if the cogging angle were 36 degrees, then 10 motors should cover the full 360

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread Grimer
Hi Terry, Let's examine the workings of the Sprain Mag Motor in Carnot cycle terms. With reference to the diagram at: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/carnot.html the conventional Carnot cycle takes the following clockwise path. Isothermal expansion Adiabatic expansion

Re: Sprain Mag Motor

2006-02-27 Thread Grimer
I notice that there is an interesting article in Wiki on Harry Paul Sprain's magnetic motor. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Paul_Harry_Sprain_magnet_motor Frank