At 02:15 PM 10/29/2010, Jones Beene wrote:
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From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Getting back to the important details - there are the 3 patents:
http://www.google.com/patents?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=%22Mark%20L%20Leclair%22&b
tnG=Search%20Patents&rview=1
And the old one from 1994 seems to have been overlooked, but could be
important IF there are "trade secrets" being left out of the account.
He's said that his interest is getting the information out, but he
has not described all the details, for sure. It's sketchy. Very sketchy.
Why ? Well this patent combines nanoparticles and cavitation in a way that
would not be obvious if you are assuming that this work was only about
sonoluminescence and not about hybrid energy techniques.
If we can assume that there are trade secrets; and that LeClair is basically
an honest man; then this work is extremely important.
I wrote this from the beginning. This is very unlikely be a simple
mistake, i.e., calorimetry error, some glitch with contamination,
etc. It simply doesn't read that way. It reads like a science-fiction
story. Is truth stranger than fiction? Could be, I just don't expect it.
(The story begins ... on a web site with user-generated content,
there appeared an article about an obscure company in Maine,
NanoSpire. A few minutes later, the CEO of this company posted his
story to an also-obscure mailing list for reseachers in condensed
matter nuclear sciece, a field long regarded as fringe or worse. ...)
There is a wealth of information on the acceleration of catalysis during
cavitation in the field of sonochemistry. One way to look at this would be
as a process that uses cavitation and sonochemistry and nano-technology - to
produces either pycnodeuterium and/or fractional hydrogen and/or LENR
(perhaps step-wise) using a hybrid approach, some of which is NOT being
disclosed by the inventor, so far.
Sure. Could be about anything.
If there is any way that Mark LeClair is for real - then this hybrid
approach could be extremely important as it shows how to go from
nanoparticles, let's say something like the Arata nanopowder alloy, and to
apply mechanical energy to a colloid of that powder in such a way that
nuclear reactions are massively accelerated.
It appears that Mark LeClair is real, though I've seen no *proof*
that it is Mark LeClair of NanoSpire who has been corresponding on
the list. Someone could confirm this with a phone call to NanoSpire, I assume.
However, that science fiction story could have a very complex plot
and layers of twists, impersonations at various levels, etc. It would
still be believable on some level. It could be very dark, (Where is
the real Mark LeClear? Where is the real Sergio Lebed?) or it could
be a story of courage and persistence, and both tremendous hope and
tremendous danger for humanity.
Given that Arata claims helium, and after what is essentially zero power
input (after triggering) - think of the implications of increasing the rate
of helium production by a factor of 10e6, which not an uncommon ratio for
such known increases in sonochemistry.
I find that unlikly. He's got every reason to think that he's reached
hot fusion temperatures, assuming his report is accurate. He's using
a brute force technique, i.e., very high velocity jets. (They are
very precise, so "brute" force could be misleading, rather, I'm
pointing to the very high velocity and pressure asserted (0.5 c, so
many gigapascals.)
Twenty years ago, the question was cynically asked by skeptics about the
whereabouts of the "dead graduate assistant" and now we could be seeing a
partial answer to the reality of that assumed risk.
Well, the dead grad student was mentioned because if the reaction had
been hot fusion, with the reported excess heat, the neutron levels
would have been fatal. But the F-P reaction was not hot fusion, it
was cold fusion, and not simply a new catalyzed d-d fusion, because
that would have also produced the neutrons, MCF has the same branching ratio.
What we call cold fusion is very different from bubble fusion; cold
fusion appears to depend upon the possible arrangements available in
condensed matter, where group quantum effects can produce unexpected
phenomena. Bubble fusion, if it works, depends on developing very
high temperatures/pressures when the bubbles collapse.
While some hybrid is possible to conceive, I won't detail it. Mark
has said that the apparatus contained only aluminum and pure water.
You've followed a red herring.
If Mark LeClair is genuinely honest.
And sane. There is a book I stumbled across yesterday with the title
Cold Fusion, written by a woman who fell into paranoid schizophrenia.
I have a little experience of this myself, a fugue when I was in my
early twenties. It was not as dramatic, I'd say, as the woman, nor as
what Mark is reporting. But it's certainly possible. A person can
report experiences, strung upon a net of real sensory perceptions,
that are, shall we say, not independently verifiable. Having had such
an experience is humbling, let me tell you.
It is possible to be completely certain, i.e., "I saw this with my
own eyes," and to be totally wrong.
And it can get even worse. There is a great story in one of the NLP
books, about a woman who believed that she could not be hypnotized.
So, in a seminar, they put her into a trance, and it was videotaped.
She showed typical trance phenomena. Then they returned her to normal
consciousness. "See," she said, "I told you it wouldn't work." She
had no memory of it. So they showed her the videotape. After watching
it, she said the same thing, "See! It didn't work." Apparently, if we
take this story as true -- some people don't think that Bandler was
always honest -- the woman would go into trance when observing
herself going into trance.... I do testify, from personal experience,
that some of the NLP techniques work. But maybe I'm just hypnotized....
What makes me suspect the hallucination theory is the intense *story*
being told. What was experienced has great *meaning.* More meaning
than one would be able to derive, I suspect, from the limited time
and resources that they had.
And without more investigation, it's impossible to distinguish
between all these stories. I'll just note that if the security
agencies are not aware of this story, they are asleep on the job. And
if we are hearing it, it doesn't mean what it seems on the surface.
Let me help the process along a bit.
