Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

[ChemE Stewart]

You guys are ignoring all of the mechanical and structural challenges of
pointing 350,000, 30 foot mirrors at the ground using worm gears and
stepper motors that have just lost power due to a storm and/or lightning
strike.  No motor power, no movement.  The fuel source (the sun) keeps
moving up and then down towards the west, so the focal point(s) of all of
that incident power is constantly changing.

It is not like a typical boiler where the flame safety system can cut the
source of fuel.  It is more like a cross between fukushima and the towering
inferno :)

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 10:46 PM,  wrote:

>
> In reply to  Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sat, 28 May 2016 17:18:24
> -0400:
> Hi,
> [snip]
> >It ought to be possible to build the things with a fail-safe mode
> >wherein loss of power results in the mirrors defocussing.  Shouldn't be
> >hard; the /hard/ thing, presumably, is getting them all pointing at the
> >_same_ spot.  Making them /not/ do that should be easy.
> >
>
> Just turn them all upside down so they point at the ground.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robin van Spaandonk
>
> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
>
>

Re: [Vo]:Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project

[mixent]

In reply to  Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sat, 28 May 2016 17:18:24 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
>It ought to be possible to build the things with a fail-safe mode 
>wherein loss of power results in the mirrors defocussing.  Shouldn't be 
>hard; the /hard/ thing, presumably, is getting them all pointing at the 
>_same_ spot.  Making them /not/ do that should be easy.
>

Just turn them all upside down so they point at the ground.

Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk

http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html

Re: [Vo]:Neuglu - the newly discovered boson

[H Ucar]

Assuming the boson is made of e- and e+, their kinetic energy would be
equal to mass of the boson minus the pair. This condition might
prevent the anhilation which explain the absence of the gamma. About
e- e+ pairing different from positronium there is a paper of A. O.
Barut titled THE ELECTRON-POSITRON SYSTEM AT SHORT DISTANCES
available from http://library01.ictp.it.

On 5/29/16, Jones Beene  wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: H Ucar
>
> ... I had speculated about possibility of a bound state of e- and e+ at a
> short distance through magnetic interaction different from para/ortho
> positroniums and if the bond will be stable this would be a candidate for
> dark matter (WIMP).
>
>
> The lack of the characteristic gamma is the most problematic feature of this
> boson, and the same with Holmlid's muons. Why is it missing? Don Hotson had
> an answer - there is no real annihilation event. This explanation is moving
> into the EPO/Epola territory of Hotson/Simhony where the electron and
> positron are the actual makeup of the vacuum, and annihilation events are
> not favored and rare. It would be analogous to ordinary salt crystal
> lattices where ions oscillate in and out but do not convert substantial mass
> to energy when they neutralize into the crystal. But with epos, the
> "crystal" is the background state which is hidden from sensory perception.
>
>

RE: [Vo]:Neuglu - the newly discovered boson

[Jones Beene]

-Original Message-
From: H Ucar 

... I had speculated about possibility of a bound state of e- and e+ at a short 
distance through magnetic interaction different from para/ortho positroniums 
and if the bond will be stable this would be a candidate for dark matter (WIMP).


The lack of the characteristic gamma is the most problematic feature of this 
boson, and the same with Holmlid's muons. Why is it missing? Don Hotson had an 
answer - there is no real annihilation event. This explanation is moving into 
the EPO/Epola territory of Hotson/Simhony where the electron and positron are 
the actual makeup of the vacuum, and annihilation events are not favored and 
rare. It would be analogous to ordinary salt crystal lattices where ions 
oscillate in and out but do not convert substantial mass to energy when they 
neutralize into the crystal. But with epos, the "crystal" is the background 
state which is hidden from sensory perception.

[Vo]:BEING AND ACTING IN FAVOR OF LENR

[Peter Gluck]

http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2016/05/may-29-2016-being-and-acting-in-favor.html

after settling the actual conflict there will be many means of doing good
for LENR, its great future..

Peter
-- 
Dr. Peter Gluck
Cluj, Romania
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Neuglu - the newly discovered boson

[H Ucar]

Few weeks ago in a private mail I had speculated about possibility of
a bound state of e- and e+ at a short distance through magnetic
interaction different from para/ortho positroniums and if the bond
will be stable this would be a candidate for dark matter (WIMP).

The new boson has only 10^-14 second lifetime meanwhile authors wrote:
"Such a boson might be a good candidate for the rela-
tively light U(1)d gauge boson [2], or the light mediator
of the secluded WIMP dark matter scenario [3] or the
dark Z (Zd) suggested for explaining the muon anoma-
lous magnetic moment [5]. The coupling constant (ǫ
2) of the dark Z having a mass of 18 MeV is predicted to be in
the 10−6 range for explaining the g-2 anomaly [5], which
could fairly well explain the boson to γ-decay branching
ratio measured in the present work. The lifetime of the
boson with the above coupling strength is expected to be
in the order of 10−14 s [4]. This gives a flight distance of
about 30 µm in the present experiment, and would imply
a very sharp resonance (Γ ≈ 0.07 eV) in the future e+e−
scattering experiments."


On 5/26/16, Jones Beene  wrote:
> Imagine a previously unrecognized bosonic nuclear force, somewhat like a
> gluon - but which has an associated force which is "protophobic" meaning
> that it attracts and binds neutrons, and repels protons. By analogy - this
> new force acts like a magnet for neutrons and a diamagnet for protons.
>
> The new force/particle has received little attention . and since we are
> among the first to consider it in all its newfound glory, let's name it
> "neuglu" for the obvious reasons. It has a lot of mass-energy - nearly 17
> MeV, and possibly can provide the lost mass needed to account for the
> thermal gain seen in LENR.
>
> The neuglu-boson is thus a range force which can arise between neutrons and
> electrons or between small groups of low Z nuclei if the neutron alignment
> is correct, since the above description of "protophobia" is eliminates it
> from large nuclei. Even so, these groups must present exposed contact zones
> of only neutrons, and possibly it adds stability. Plus, it is not easy to
> account for why the neuglu boson has been completely unrecognized all these
> years - but if SLAC says is so, then I am not going to argue with SLAC.
>
> To continue, if neuglu is real and it can act between exposed neutrons when
> groups geometrically favorable, then it will be found in predictable
> circumstances. Such a particle would carry a force that acts over distances
> only several times the width of an atomic nucleus and could temporarily
> bind
> atoms like deuterium ***without fusion*** into agglomerations which mimic
> other atoms and provide excess energy on decay.
>
> Now, imagine a cluster of four deuterons arranged in a tetrahedron, such
> that all the four neutrons pointed inward to the focal point of the
> arrangement, where the neuglu boson is spatially active. The four protons
> point outward - giving a rather pronounced positive near field. We can call
> this species beryllium-8, and it is short lived, but ironically the neuglu
> may prohibit fusion. Yet, this isomer does not need to decay to alphas and
> may instead sequentially form and reform from only UDD.
>
> Moreover, other neuglu bound nuclei are possible which are longer-lived,
> including 10B, 12C, 14N, 16O. Thus - here is a prediction which will
> provide
> some falsifiability to the premise that neuglu can bind deuterons in a way
> that mimics low Z elements.
>
>
> --
> One way that the "fifth force" (or sixth, since the fifth force is already
> spoken for) could be relevant to LENR relates to Takahashi's TSC theory, or
> a revised version of it. This involves a Tetrahedral Symmetric Condensate .
> which, of course, has four vertices, or four active components - normally
> four deuterons. This is a very stable platonic solid form, and it can look
> very much like beryllium-8.
>
> This is sometimes called cluster fusion since more than two particles are
> involved. Four deuterons in the ultradense UDD state could react giving the
> fusion product or else the appearance of a 8Be atom which the Hungarians
> base everything on. If we want to go beyond Takahashi, fusion is NOT
> required -- merely the temporary formation of the tetrahedron, which has
> binding energy, followed by its energetic breakup back to deuterons -
> courtesy of the fifth force. Implied is asymmetry.
>
> That is one way to avoid the problem of lack of gamma radiation. Of course
> no one knows the expected ash, but if helium is found, then it is real
> cluster fusion - but this is highly unlikely IMO and otherwise, there would
> be a new type of gain based on 5th force dynamics.
>
>
>