Re: [Vo]:News from Japan
Sorry for the late post, but I am now about 400 articles behind on my reading. On Jun 14, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Jones Beene wrote: [snip] 5) There is a mystery ingredient which needs to be replenished periodically. Unlike the gallium-aluminum process from Purdue University, recently announced which does split water: http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/05/16/purdue-professor-on-the- aluminum-enabling-hydrogen-economy/ this one (reportedly) does not rapidly consume the secret ingredient. ... which could be a catalyst for redundant ground states ... or not. It will be interesting to see what happens... Jones The above article states: Woodall says that the reaction of aluminum with water has the same energy content per unit weight of oil, about 20,000 BTUs or about 6 kWh per pound That's a fairly rapid consumption rate, and reminds me of a post I made here in 2002, which follows. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [From the initiating article of the thread: Down with hydrogen economy, up with aluminum economy] On Feb 6, 2002, at 4:22 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: Here is some fuel for thought! 8^) The CRC Handbook gives the Gibbs energy of formation for Al2O3 and H2O in kJ/mol as follows: Al2O3: -1582.3 kJ/mol H2O:-228.6 kJ/mol Given atomic weight of Al is 26.98, and H is 1.007, we have the following output per gram of input for the two fuels: Al2O3: (-1582.3 kJ/mol)/(2 * 26.98g/mol) = 29.32 kJ/g H2O:(-228.6 kJ/mol)/(2 * 1.007g/mol) = 113.5 J/g Though only about 1/4 as efficient as hydrogen for energy storage by weight, aluminum is far easier and safer to store and transport, and 29.32 kJ/g, or 30 MJ/kg, is very acceptable. At 7.14 g/cm^2 density, Al provides (30 kJ/g)/(7.14 g/cm^3) = 4.11 kJ/cm^3, or 4.11 MJ per liter of Al, a very acceptable amount. That's 1.14 kWh, or 1.52 hp hours, enough to run a 1.52 hp motor for an hour. At a typical 7 hp cruising speed that is a fuel consumption of (7 hp)/(1.52 hp h/l) = 5 l/hr. If the vehicle maintains 50 mph, then the fuel consumption is (50 mi)/(5 l) = 10 miles per liter of fuel. A 100 mile fillup would consist of 10 liters of fuel, or 71.4 kg of fuel. If we obtain the energy from the aluminum by pyrolisis, then we have the side benefit of obtaining hydrogen for either immediate recombination with air, or for temporary high pressure storage. Electrolysis, a bit mysteriously, seems to work just as well, or even better, in terms of mol/amp and mol/J, at high pressures as at low pressure. Using pyrolisis also permits us to more directly obtain energy from breaking and to convert it to heat, which can be used to drive a motor for charging a battery, and to produce high pressure hydrogen for storage. Since the pyrolisis of Al removes the oxygen from water, the hydrogen is evolved at the rate of 3 mols of H per mol of Al, thus 3(-228.6 kJ/ mol) is produced for each (-1582.3 kJ/mol) of Al, or an extra 685.8 kJ per 1582.3 kJ produced from Al oxidation, or an about 43.3 percent extra energy from the evolved hydrogen. This raises the apparent energy output of the Al to 41.93 kJ/g. All the heat produced in a well insulated pyrolisis cell, including resistance heat from the electrolysis current, is converted to either steam or evolved gas. If effective use of the steam can be made to drive an engine, then the process should be very efficient for transportation purposes. Energy tapped off the output to drive the pyrolisis would be fed back to the input side. The vehicle efficiency then depends fully on the efficiency of the steam engine or sterling engine employed. The powdered aluminum oxide effluent that is produced can be filtered and collected for recycling at fill-up stations. Magnesium would work too, but is toxic, and berylium would provide more kJ's per gram, and the largest MJ/m^3 of any chemical fuel, but is toxic. Aluminum is common. Even aluminum cans can be recycled into fuel. Up with the aluminum economy! Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:irrational thinking
The plot thickens. Apparently, the inmates are getting desperate to do their worst before Bush et al. leave office. After that, the adults take over and perhaps things might calm down. I would think all Jews should fear the consequences of what would follow an attack on Iran. People, no matter what they think about God's gift of Israel or a future threat by Iran, will be very unhappy when gas goes to $6/gal in the US and the price of food follows. Such people are not going to be happy with what the Jews have done once the smoke clears even though the blame should fall on a few crazy people in Israel. Ed Israeli Warns: War Party In Last-Gasp Push For Iran Attack as found in Lyndon Larouche PAC web article JUNE 20, (LPAC)--A senior Israeli source warned yesterday, in discussions with Executive Intelligence Review, that an intense policy brawl has erupted in Israel, over the issue of Israeli preventive strikes against Hezbollah, and bombing raids against Iranian nuclear sites, including the enrichment facility at Natanz. The source reported that the Cheney circles in Washington have been putting tremendous pressure on the fragile Olmert government in Tel Aviv, to carry out preventive strikes against sites in Iran, and against the Hezbollah security infrastructure in southern Lebanon. These pressures come at the same time that progress has been made on a number of key peace negotiating fronts, involving Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria. The source, a U.S.-based Israeli with strong ties to the present Olmert government, reported that top officials of the Israeli Defense Force, including the current Chief of the General Staff, Gen. Gabriel Ashkenazi, strongly oppose both of the military schemes. At a recent security cabinet meeting, the source reported, Gen. Ashkenazi bluntly warned of the dire consequences for Israel of strikes against either Hezbollah or Iran's nuclear facilities, calling such schemes madness. Nevertheless, hardliners in Israel, including Likud Party chairman and former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, Olmert's current deputy prime minister, are pressing for Israeli military strikes against Iran. The source reported that when Prime Minister Olmert was recently in Washington to address the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention, he met privately with Bush and Cheney, and came under intense personal pressure from the Vice President to take action against Iran. He claimed that Israeli pilots are now covertly training on state-of-the-art U.S. fighter jets at locations in the Nevada desert, in preparation for an Israeli bombing of Natanz and other Iranian sites. Today, the New York Times reported that, in early June, Israel conducted large-scale military exercises, involving more than 100 F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, as well as helicopters, over Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. The exercise covered a distance of 900 miles, which is also the distance between Israel and the Natanz enrichment facility in Iran. The day after the exercises were completed, Mofaz gave an interview to the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, warning that if Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack... Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable. In response to the New York Times report of the Israeli Air Force maneuvers, and the threats from Mofaz, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on June 20, warned against the use of force against Iran, and chastised both the United States and Israel for ``matter-of-factly” claiming that Iran was working on a nuclear weapon, when no evidence exists that their nuclear energy program is aimed at building a bomb. While some U.S. military analysts have insisted that Israel does not have the capability of destroying the Natanz facility, unless they use nuclear weapons, a recent report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a rightwing Zionist Lobby think tank, claimed that it didn't matter whether a bombing attack succeeded or failed. The effect, either way, of an Israeli or American attack on Natanz and other sites, would be to deter Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Senior retired U.S. military officers, contacted by EIR and asked to comment on the WINEP report, denounced it as extremely dangerous. Harry Veeder wrote: On 23/6/2008 12:05 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: On 23/6/2008 8:14 AM, Taylor J. Smith wrote: Hi All, Now Mohamed ElBaradei follows in the footsteps of Admiral Fallon. Jack Smith Ed Storms wrote on 6-20-08: ``If you would like to understand the irrational thinking that drives the policy with respect to Iran and Israel, read this article.'' http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/06/iran-neocons-sa.html ``NEWS ARTICLE from The Los Angeles Times, 6-19-08, IRAN: Stop nukes by bombing oil wells, neocons
[Vo]:bose condensate question
I do not know who to credit as the first to mention a quasi-BEC mechanism for LENR, but am aware that it goes back a long ways. Frank Z may know. This is the paper I have referenced?on my paper to be delivered at the propulsion conference. It is still a go.? I'm still waiting for the hammer to come down. I you would like to review a preprint send an email to fznidarsic at aol com Do not publish the preprint. Papaconstantopoulus D. A. and Klein B. M., Superconductivity in Palladium-Hydrogen Systems, Phys. Rev. Letters? (July 14, 1975) , Frank Znidarsic
[Vo]:Toast!
http://tinyurl.com/3ser7d http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080624/ global_warming_080624/20080624?hub=SciTech Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Toast!
Pass the butter, please. On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/3ser7d http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080624/global_warming_080624/20080624?hub=SciTech Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:bose condensate question
On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not know who to credit as the first to mention a quasi-BEC mechanism for LENR, but am aware that it goes back a long ways. For what it is worth, below is the earliest posting on the subject that I can find that I made to vortex. It resulted in: http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BoseHyp.pdf From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:vtx: A Bose Condesate hypothesis for CF Date: January 30, 1996 12:06:12 PM AKST To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Reply-To: vortex-l@eskimo.com BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND ARGUMENTS The recent creation of a .002 inch 3000 atom Bose condensate by Carl Weiman and Eric Cornell may provide a possible insight to some cold fusion phenomena. The rubidium atom condensate was created with much difficulty and ingenuity at the extreme temperature of 20 nanokelvins, which was created by applying an RF field to atoms in a magnetic trap. The RF field was tuned to resonate with higher energy atoms, and thus caused these rubidium atoms to flip and then be shot out of the trap, thus leaving only those atoms with no significant energy. Though this was a difficult and amazing feat, demonstrating the Heisenberg uncertainty principle relates to a true physical state of matter, not just experimental uncertainty, perhaps nature readily accomplishes it in a small way in metallic lattices. It is a much less difficult feat to create an overlap of two hydrogen nuclei in a 1 A condensate than it is to create an overlap of 3000 rubidium atoms in a 500,000 A condensate. The rubidium atom overlap was sustainable for more than 15 minutes. To be significant to CF, a condensate of two protons or deuterons in a lattice site need only be formed a very short time, if formed often enough. It seems that the Weiman-Cornell experiment, supported by the Pritchard slit experiments, clearly demonstrates the reality of the wave nature of matter. Perhaps it is the only form of matter. The particle nature of matter might be explained strictly by wave function collapse, which is not a characteristic of ordinary waves, but clearly is a characteristic of quantum waveforms. For example, looking at the photoelectric effect, suppose a huge photon waveform from a distant star impacts via it's own random selection process at a particular point on a metal surface, ejecting an electron, why do we have to say the photon is a particle at the point of the electron ejection? It could just as easily be considered (called) a collapsed photon waveform as it could be considered a particle. A waveform collapse consists of an instantaneous change in wave form center and distribution. Such a collapse also clearly accounts for tunneling effects as well. Where is the need for a particle model at all? If matter is totally wave like, it seems inescapable that charge must be therefore be distributed in the waveform, as there exists no point to carry it. This has the benefit, as Richard Feynman pointed out, of conservation of energy, because a point charge could generate an infinitely intense field, as you approach the point, requiring an infinite amount of energy to create the field. THE HYPOTHESIS Wavefurm collapse occurs probabilistically on the relative approach of two or more quantum waveforms. One quantum waveform can collapse to the location of the other. If two overlapped, i.e. relatively to each other slow, waveforms in a Bose condensate are penetrated by a high velocity waveform, a condensation can occur. Also,a kind of paradox occurs. All motion is relative. Assume the condensate is two protons, and the high velocity waveform is an electron. From the point of view of the proton condensate, the wavelength (size) of the electron is small. From the point of view of the electron, though, the condensate must be very small, and more importantly, since the waveforms of the proton condensate are phase locked and co-located, the condensate must appear located in a small volume. Thus, if there is an interaction, it would seem there would be a high probability that the interaction would be a 3 body interaction. That is to say the phase locking tendency of a condensate would greatly change waveform co-location probabilities. Given two protons jammed into a lattice site, the Schroedinger Equation predicts that they will tend to be instantaneously found in opposing locations within the site. However, should they form a Bose condensate, it is logical that their locations would appear to be the same to a fast moving particle. The hypothesis is that a Bose candensate, when stimulated by an incident particle, will tend to cause the simultaneous collapse of constituant waveforms at the same location. This hypothesis provides some explanation for various effects. One is the Kasagi experiment, where deuterated titanium is bombarded with
Re: [Vo]:Toast!
On Jun 24, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: Pass the butter, please. Jam, please! Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
[Vo]:NASA Scientist: Put CEOs On Trial for Global-Warming Lies
http://tinyurl.com/6hl6xq http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370521,00.html Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Toast!
NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance' http://tinyurl.com/3ts7px http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NLY5naFMJIsbKHNeiWIKMTsEiQD91G3IBG0 Another viewpoint on the issue: http://tinyurl.com/46u6kq http://blog.acton.org/archives/2378-Global-Warming-Consensus-Alert- Crimes-Against-Humanity!!!.html Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:Toast!
On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:15:27 -0800: Hi, If the temperature at the poles remains low enough for most of the additional precipitation to fall as snow, then the world may become top heavy and fall over (i.e. precipitate a pole shift). Indeed, this could easily happen, beginning with mountainous regions. It is difficult to predict what will happen when a dynamic system moves into chaos. Even now, many mountainous regions near the coast of Alaska typically obtain more than 10 feet of snow in a season. This kind of heavy snow fall is one of the reasons some glaciers now go rogue, flowing at more than 100 times normal speed. As the seas warm up and ice melts, there will be a lot more precipitation, even in winter, especially in mountainous regions. As I speak, I see snow capped peaks that were clear by this time of year when I moved to Palmer 20 years ago. If a significant portion of land is snow covered year round the balance toward at least a brief glacial age will be tipped. I think it is an open question as to whether greenhouse gas release due to global sea temperature change will overtake glaciation this time around. Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
Re: [Vo]:irrational thinking
Howdy Ed, I have looked but I am having a difficult time identifying adults in Washington. Perhaps after the election some can be imported from the political pool of the city of San Franscisco. Richard Ed Storms wrote. The plot thickens. Apparently, the inmates are getting desperate to do their worst before Bush et al. leave office. After that, the adults take over and perhaps things might calm down.
Re: [Vo]:irrational thinking
Thanks for the offer, Richard, but it seems to me San Francisco does not have any adults to spare. :-) In any case, the adult population of Washington has been kept low thanks to Bush. Obama might import a few he knows. Ed R C Macaulay wrote: Howdy Ed, I have looked but I am having a difficult time identifying adults in Washington. Perhaps after the election some can be imported from the political pool of the city of San Franscisco. Richard Ed Storms wrote. The plot thickens. Apparently, the inmates are getting desperate to do their worst before Bush et al. leave office. After that, the adults take over and perhaps things might calm down.
[VO]: THe Maji of this century
Howdy Vorts, Jones Beene mentioned this subject awhile back listing Newton and others. Question ? Has a Maji appeared as yet this century? Richard
