[Vo]:Re: LENR patent covering nanotubes

2013-11-01 Thread Mark Jurich 
 Axil Axil wrote:
 
  |  What makes this Nanoplasmonic LENR reaction different is the use of 
carbon nanotubes and more surprising an incoherent light source.

  |

  |  The other Nanoplasmonic reaction types similar to this one used gold 
nanoparticles and laser light.





  I don’t find the use of an incoherent light source that surprising.  The 
Coherence Length of a Light Source is inversely proportional to its Bandwidth.  
A White Light Source with a UV Filter would have a Coherence Length in the 
vicinity of 0.5 microns or 500 nm; quite adequate when attempting to illuminate 
quasi-particles on a structure of the order of 10 to 50 nm.  This also allows 
relaxed Energy Matching (coupling) to an excitation such as a Surface 
Plasmon-Polariton (I’m not pinning the quasi-particle excitation to Surface 
Plasmons; Carbon Nanotubes have exhibited a rich array of excitations) by 
illuminating the Nanotubes with Photons of a wide array of energies.  For 
example, see:



  http://www.opticsinfobase.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-13-2470



  Sorry, I don’t have a more direct link, right now.



  To efficiently couple to such a quasi-excitation, one must match the energy 
and momentum of the particular excitation.  As noted in the patent, red laser 
light works but doesn’t give as strong a response, which seems to fit this 
thinking...



  ... The heavy water (D2O) tipped at 45 degrees could act as a “prism” and 
slow down the photons for proper momentum (wave vector) matching to the 
excitations; rotating ensures proper orientation of many more nanotubes than if 
it wasn’t rotated...



  I suspect that in this patent/demonstration, one would have to use the 
highest power halogen light source available and illuminate the Rotating Glass 
Beaker for very long periods of time.  This might be a very simple experiment 
to replicate, but take some time.



- Mark Jurich

Re: [Vo]:Re: LENR patent covering nanotubes

2013-11-01 Thread pagnucco 
Mark,

I agree with your observation -

 This might be a very simple experiment to replicate, but take some time.

If it's real, it should be much easier to explore the experimental
parameter space than with other approaches, and less expensive.

Also, broadband incoherent e-m sources might be better at finding
resonances and also provide higher amplitudes sporadically.
Swept frequency sources and signals like Energetics' Superwave which
provides superoscillation amplitudes might be worth trying.

- Lou Pagnucco

Mark Jurich wrote:
   I don't find the use of an incoherent light source that surprising.
 The Coherence Length of a Light Source is inversely proportional to its
 Bandwidth.  A White Light Source with a UV Filter would have a Coherence
 Length in the vicinity of 0.5 microns or 500 nm; quite adequate when
 attempting to illuminate quasi-particles on a structure of the order of
 10 to 50 nm.  This also allows relaxed Energy Matching (coupling) to an
 excitation such as a Surface Plasmon-Polariton (I'm not pinning the
 quasi-particle excitation to Surface Plasmons; Carbon Nanotubes have
 exhibited a rich array of excitations) by illuminating the Nanotubes
 with Photons of a wide array of energies.  For example, see:

   http://www.opticsinfobase.org/aop/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-49-13-2470

   Sorry, I don't have a more direct link, right now.

   To efficiently couple to such a quasi-excitation, one must match the
 energy and momentum of the particular excitation.  As noted in the
 patent, red laser light works but doesn’t give as strong a response,
 which seems to fit this thinking...

   ... The heavy water (D2O) tipped at 45 degrees could act as a
 “prism” and slow down the photons for proper momentum (wave vector)
 matching to the excitations; rotating ensures proper orientation of many
 more nanotubes than if it wasn't rotated...

   I suspect that in this patent/demonstration, one would have to use the
 highest power halogen light source available and illuminate the Rotating
 Glass Beaker for very long periods of time.  This might be a very simple
 experiment to replicate, but take some time.
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