From: Bob Cook
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* The following is a link to a description of a nucleus-electron spin
couple.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/uob-hea021114.php
Bob, It is nice to know that this kind of coupling is proved, but don’t you
hate studies where the desired effect is only possible at extremely low
temperatures - so low in fact, that there is little hope of pushing it higher:
“At temperatures above 10 kelvin, the quantum wires … were not ordered.
However, when the researchers used liquid helium to cool the wires to a
temperature below 100 millikelvin….”
Whoa. There are only a handful of Labs in the world that can do this.
Since – to make the spin coupling effect useful as a portable power supply –
which essentially means: to bypass the thermal cycle - we are looking for
something which can happen at 300-500 kelvin, is there any chance of getting
ordered spin under far different circumstances ?
Maybe.
I think it depends on whether an extreme magnetic field would substitute for
low temperature. There are reasons to suggest a high field (multi-T) would
substitute. When you think about it, either cryogenics or high field would
“lock-in” polarization, which is what we want.
But to make magnetism work in a small portable device, it would need to be a
high field from a permanent magnet instead of an electromagnet and these only
go to about 1 T today using NIB. And also, to make that 5 T field useful in a
smart phone, it would have to be shielded … wow … daunting challenge.
Lot of work to be done … but the one “enabling technology” which would make
portable LENR (1 watt level) possible within a short time horizon, and at the
same time could make the process independent of the thermal cycle, is HTSC.
High Temperature Superconductivity. This could be the enabler allowing one to
go from nuclear spin anomalies – all the way to useful electrical current,
without the problems of heat conversion.
HTSC – at least for use in a commercial setting, is a goal which has proved
almost as elusive as LENR.
Jones
