[Vo]:Bussard's legacy
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/12/1136887.aspx Emc2 Fusion's Richard Nebel can't say yet whether his team's garage-shop plasma experiment will lead to cheap, abundant fusion power. But he can say that after months of tweaking, the WB-7 device runs like a top - and he's hoping to get definitive answers about a technology that has tantalized grass-roots fusion fans for years. With $1.8 million in backing from the U.S. Navy, Nebel and a handful of other researchers have been following up on studies conducted by the late physicist Robert Bussard before his death last October - studies that Bussard said promised a breakthrough in fusion energy.
Re: [Vo]:Sichuan Quake Triggered by Nuke?
Howdy Jones, On the face of it, the magazine making the report represents itself as a model of credibility so as Jones states.. who knows. We do know that if the report is factual the people playing with bamboo matches during a nuke experiment will never make the same mistake again. The report has certain other world scientists concerned that sumbuddy might be keeping some new science very secret. Richard Jones wrote, If it was not planned but accidental - that is even scarier because of its presumed size. I could not find any studies on it, so who knows?
Re: [Vo]:Would an antimatter apple fall up?
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Jones Beene wrote: --- Horace Antimatter has ordinary charge, creates ordinary photons, interacts with magnetic fields ...out of curiosity, assuming that the photons from antimatter, even if ordinary, would be polarized differently - what about mirror matter photons? You mention symmetry is conserved but I wonder if that goes to every detail? Symmetry has historically proven to a good guide to what to expect from nature. It may be present even when it can't be seen right off. You probably know about Jones calculus? (no relation, and new to me ;-) Not part of my experience, nor is Mueller calculus. Before stumbling on it, I had no idea that photons were so complex... but the implications are many - there may be a statistical ways in the future (or now) to determine, from a study of photon emission, if a star (more likely a whole galaxy) is composed of antimatter. ... maybe mirror matter has distinctive photons? Yes, so distinctive we can't see them. They don't interact with ordinary matter - except there may be a very very small coupling. However, in a mirror world they act to a mirror matter scientists in exactly the same way they do for us. or have you answered that before? Every time you mention mirror matter, I get this vague and uneasy sense of deja vu... Makes the head spin. Keep in mind that polarization is not the same as spin. Also, I gather making a head polarized is not necessarily a good thing. 8^) Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Would an antimatter apple fall up?
On Jun 12, 2008, at 6:56 PM, I wrote: It is also true that sufficiently large but ordinary mass black holes should be capable of emitting jets of visible matter, though it would have negative gravitational mass, and thus tend to form a spherical halo. Another is that very heavy black holes should be a major source of neutrinos. All this seems a bit weird to be true. That is one reason why I like the concept that the negative gravitational mass matter is invisible. The invisible (mirror matter) part helps to account for dark matter and dark energy all at once. I suppose a non-symmetric process which creates lone gravitational charge, i.e. neutrino like particles, does in all cases fulfill the need for the invisible particles. Given these essentially invisible mass charge only particles can be of either mass charge, the explanations of dark matter and dark energy are provided by any of the pair creation scenarios I've suggested. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
[Vo]:Fwd: SPESIF-2009 Approval: Log 019 - The Control of the Natural Forces
I'll be speaking at the Von-Brown rocket center in Feb.? I will be presenting my paper on The Control of the Natural Forces.? Hopefully new energy development will follow. It is quite an honer for me. Mr. Znidarsic, The workshop chairs have approved your abstract with the following commen
Re: [Vo]:Tell us how you really feel Bob
Steven Krivit wrote: svj - I was so fixated on Park's comments on BLP I didn't notice this. Indeed, Park does seem to be rather up on LENR... I wonder where the good doctor gets his information. He seems so knowledgeable about these matters. ;-) Maybe he's lurking on Vortex. --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html ---
Re: [Vo]:Bussard's legacy
--- leaking pen wrote: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/12/1136887.aspx Here is a related blog, which is one of the better ones to be found in alternative energy: http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/
Re: [Vo]:Fwd: SPESIF-2009 Approval: Log 019 - The Control of the Natural Forces
On Jun 13, 2008, at 5:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be speaking at the Von-Brown rocket center in Feb. I will be presenting my paper on The Control of the Natural Forces. Hopefully new energy development will follow. It is quite an honer for me. Congratulations! I think that is probably spelled Von Braun Center, as in Wernher von Braun. Have a nice trip to Huntsville in February! BTW, since those papers will be published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as an AIP Conference Proceedings, it will probably give Robert Park apoplexy when he finds out. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Global dimming will be reduced
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: A related topic: http://theheavystuff.com/?p=63 Have ChemTrails Stopped Global Warming? Terry If so, the contrails can only do this where they exist, which is primarily over the US. Forest fires and volcanos have probably had a larger effect on *global* temperatures. However, selectively cooling parts of the earth should result in increased wind energy, and thus a higher variability of weather and temperatures as cool arctic air is redistributed over warm areas and vice versa. It is somewhat of a losing battle, but the fact the effect exists and is not trivial was proven beyond a doubt when all US flights were cancelled due to 9/11. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Global dimming will be reduced
Yes, but chemtrails were allegedly not related to contrails. Chemtrails involved intentionally spraying a foreign substance into the atmosphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory Presented here more for amusement than a legitimate theory. Terry On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: A related topic: http://theheavystuff.com/?p=63 Have ChemTrails Stopped Global Warming? Terry If so, the contrails can only do this where they exist, which is primarily over the US. Forest fires and volcanos have probably had a larger effect on *global* temperatures. However, selectively cooling parts of the earth should result in increased wind energy, and thus a higher variability of weather and temperatures as cool arctic air is redistributed over warm areas and vice versa. It is somewhat of a losing battle, but the fact the effect exists and is not trivial was proven beyond a doubt when all US flights were cancelled due to 9/11. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Bussard's legacy
On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:09 PM, leaking pen wrote: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/06/12/1136887.aspx Emc2 Fusion's Richard Nebel can't say yet whether his team's garage-shop plasma experiment will lead to cheap, abundant fusion power. But he can say that after months of tweaking, the WB-7 device runs like a top - and he's hoping to get definitive answers about a technology that has tantalized grass-roots fusion fans for years. With $1.8 million in backing from the U.S. Navy, Nebel and a handful of other researchers have been following up on studies conducted by the late physicist Robert Bussard before his death last October - studies that Bussard said promised a breakthrough in fusion energy. Interesting. See also: http://www.emc2fusion.org/ http://www.emc2fusion.org/RsltsNFnlConclFmIEFPolyPgm120602.pdf After briefly reviewing the above it seems that two concepts might be of use: 1. The magnetic coils are said to do an adequate job of protecting themselves, but electron leakage in the gaps is said to be the problem. It therefore seems a useful concept to position layers of coils like the layers of an onion, with the magnet configuration at the n+1 layer configured to make the most use of the leakage, i.e. reflect or return the leakage, from the inner layer n. 2. Loss can be expected at structural support and power or cooling supply members. For this reason, a magnet geometry wherein the electromagnet consists of a single long but folded entity, containing structural members and cooling supplies within itself, makes sense. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Global dimming will be reduced
On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: Yes, but chemtrails were allegedly not related to contrails. Chemtrails involved intentionally spraying a foreign substance into the atmosphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory Presented here more for amusement than a legitimate theory. Terry Chemtrails, if they exist, *are* contrails of a kind, true? Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
[Vo]:What are the best papers on cold fusion and their web links?
What are the best papers in cold fusion and what are the web links to them? Preferably web links that won't change over long periods time. Base it on the reputation of the researcher (even if that is subjective) and the quality of the work. I've listed one below. Can people find others that they think are good and briefly summarize the paper? I'd like to see responses to this email have a lot of good information as opposed to short, unhelpful comments. Here is one of my choices: Anomalous heat from atomic hydrogen in contact with potassium carbonate. Robert Shaubach at Thermacore wrote this paper sometime in the early 1990's. In it, 6 meters of nickel tubing is wound into a coil, pressurized with 1030 psi of hydrogen, submerged in a solution of 0.6 M potassium carbonate and heated to steady state with 35 watts. They measure 50 watts of excess heat over 5 hours and they only measure 3 watts of excess heat using sodium carbonate as the liquid surrounding the nickel tube. http://www.hydrino.org/Labs/Anomalous-Heat-from-Atomic-Hydrogen.pdf What happened with this experiment? Is Shaubach still doing this type of research?
Re: [Vo]:What are the best papers on cold fusion and their web links?
Jeff, I suggest you get a copy of my book The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction available from World Scientific. I spent 6 months providing an answer to your question, which is not worth repeating. Ed Jeff Driscoll wrote: What are the best papers in cold fusion and what are the web links to them? Preferably web links that won't change over long periods time. Base it on the reputation of the researcher (even if that is subjective) and the quality of the work. I've listed one below. Can people find others that they think are good and briefly summarize the paper? I'd like to see responses to this email have a lot of good information as opposed to short, unhelpful comments. Here is one of my choices: Anomalous heat from atomic hydrogen in contact with potassium carbonate. Robert Shaubach at Thermacore wrote this paper sometime in the early 1990's. In it, 6 meters of nickel tubing is wound into a coil, pressurized with 1030 psi of hydrogen, submerged in a solution of 0.6 M potassium carbonate and heated to steady state with 35 watts. They measure 50 watts of excess heat over 5 hours and they only measure 3 watts of excess heat using sodium carbonate as the liquid surrounding the nickel tube. http://www.hydrino.org/Labs/Anomalous-Heat-from-Atomic-Hydrogen.pdf What happened with this experiment? Is Shaubach still doing this type of research?
[Vo]:Article on the Chevy Volt
This is the url to a good free article with a surprisingly realistic and up to date report on the Chevy Volt project and some of the GM people that have been working very hard to keep it a on a very optimistic timeline. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/general-motors George Holz Varitronics Systems
[Vo]:OT: Mind your dates
Even if it is Friday the 13th... There is the apparently true news story of a 2000 year old seed, which was found at the famous citadel of Masada, and was germinated into a perfectly normal date palm ... or ... is it normal? Maybe not, if you are into the genre of magical realism. Most 'true believers' are, whether they admit it or not ;-) but that is another issue. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/06/13/2008-06-13_jesus_tree_2000_yearold_date_palm_uproot.html If you have ever read the magical fiction of Janet Frame, and that is most unlikely ... i.e. that any vortician has ... since she is not well known ... anyway, if so - then you might be inclined to make the connection of this news story to her theme in The Carpathians. That would make a strange transposition - the date palm to the Puamahara, with implications that have been explored in other guises. That novel, along with A Confederacy of Dunces has been called the best novel of all times that nobody has ever heard of. In both cases, there is a certain catchiness and cadence of writing style ... and if it happens to be your cadence (like an earwig) then you will forgive any absurdity and look deeper. In the case of these two, little needs to be forgiven. Frame was a brilliant Cuckoo-candidate, so to speak in the big nurse tradition, who was perhaps best-known for having narrowly escaped a frontal lobotomy - due to her first book having been awarded a national literary prize (New Zealand). Talk about good timing. It is likely that Kesey, Toole and Frame were triplets separated at birth... metaphorically ;-) since all explored (and lived) on that knife-edged thin line between creative genius and what your nosy neighbors may consider to be madness. Anyway, The Carpathians is the story of a memory flower, called Puamahara. The flower has a special power in that it releases with its fragrance memories of the land, linking with the past with the future. Many holy relics, in many religious traditions, are said to do this very thing. Thus the importance of the 'grail' in myth etc. Speaking of which: about the time Dan Brown stole the plot for DVC, there was a trio of books (not cleverly written) but equally shocking in the speculation that modern science could revive the truth about the religious past. This is actually silly in a way, because that kind of truth transcends factuality. Here is a mini review of those novels (none recommended): http://www.baptiststandard.com/2003/2_24/pages/cloned.html The curious thing about reality and obsessive desire, is that it is generally a let-down, much of the time. Was it Freud who opined that what we seek from sex and romance (assuming you are older) is not really present fulfillment or sensory gratification, but mostly to relive that vivid memory etched into our essence- of when that kind of thing really did matter. It's all in the mind, dates notwithstanding... Jones BTW - A Swift old scat-man once observed, When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
[Vo]:News from Japan
Not to be outdone by the GMs Volt Could be a major breakthrough ...or not http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/genepax-shows-off-water-powered-fuel-cell-vehicle/
Re: [Vo]:News from Japan
This blogster apparently is taking a comical view of it: http://icantseeyou.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/genepax-unveils-a-car-that-generates-electricity-with-only-water-air.html However, other sources say the output is only 300 watts, and that the power unit was shown openly at a trade show recently. A reactive metal is used to split the water - but is consumed very slowly. Very confusing... and they do NOT claim overunity, so do not get too excited. Consumable metals will not be a viable way to get hydrogen, if that is what it is. That would mean that even if your let it charge for 23 hours plus out of every day, that the ~7 kW is not much to use - and you could barely get to the corner grocery store and back before draining a battery. --- Jones Beene wrote: Not to be outdone by the GMs Volt Could be a major breakthrough ...or not http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/genepax-shows-off-water-powered-fuel-cell-vehicle/
Re: [Vo]:News from Japan
Jones sez: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This blogster apparently is taking a comical view of it: http://icantseeyou.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/genepax-unveils-a-car-that-generates-electricity-with-only-water-air.html http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/genepax-shows-off-water-powered-fuel-cell-vehicle/ Good Grief! Jayson is driving the car! Be afraid. Be very afraid! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
