Sorry for the mixup on the patent number as I am away from home and feel like being in a straight-jacket - trying to compose posts in one-quarter-time on a borrowed Mac (much slower than any PC) and the world's slowest Wi-Fi. Oh well, what can one expect from Star-yucks, for free?
---Terry reference the document: http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/EDL/projects/pde/pde.html Which appears to relate to the Aurora pulse-jet engine - but also has relevance to the Aurora Borealis and Alfven waves. Hmm... The experiment which begs to be done, for more earthly use, is to compare the spectrum of radiation from a normal Alfven wave, initiated by a small flash steam explosion, to one in which the gas is mostly Argon. If there was substantially higher UV (and correspondingly higher net energy - which is my suspicion) then that outcome might suggest the almost unthinkable....(to the mainstream outside of JPL) The most advanced jet engine in the world is being fueled primarily with an inert gas ! That is beyond bizarre. To my knowledge, no one has ever suggested that Aurora may be carrying three liquid fuels - H2, O2, but mostly Ar <g> ! ... although certainly the Ar and O2 would be a mix of mostly Ar, in order that there are only two cryo-tanks. Somebody call Jane's in for the scoop-of-the-day ... or did I just see that being picked-up by a considerate Lhasa Apso owner outside of Star-yucks... <G> Jones
