Re: HeHe three

[Wilfred Chipman]

Jeane,

Well, Jones sure has done it this time. This is the most amazing scenario, not to mention bit of detective work, I have come across in a long time. The science as well as the history is credible. Hot and warm fusion people for years have speculated about He3's value as a component in fusion fuel. I get the chills when ever Bechtel shows up on the horizon. There was a joke going around the international engineering community a few years ago that you could always tell which desks belonged to "company men" by the weird guys wearing government issue sunglasses hanging around them. Never mind MIBs, these guys are hard core spooks, period. Fascinating!

regards and love,

-wilf
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At 01:05 PM 08/08/04 -0700, you wrote:
>Caveat: Some of the following is fact, some tinged
>with conspiracy theory, some closer to Sci-Fi, but the
>result is, hopefully… at least entertaining.
>
>Is it a bit cynical to assume that big swings in
>policy at the highest levels of government have
>usually been designed to benefit the privileged few?
>
>Some times the ‘good of us all’ is the driving
>motivation, true; sometimes it is a factor, true; but
>seldom is it the only consideration, the cynic will
>assert. But even the cynics on this forum were
>reluctant to suggest that the Petro shadow-government
>had anything to do with the proposed DoE re-evaluation
>of LENR phenomenon, or the various hydrogen
>initiatives, or the aggressive space (moon)
>initiative. These disparate initiatives seem to go
>against Big-oil interests … or no?
>
>Perhaps not, as all the relevant information is not
>yet public, and in particular, no one has yet
>connected the dots of these proposed policy changes
>with the 'privatization' of the helium reserves.
>
>…huh?
>
>If that connection seems to be ‘not even’ a
>near-sequiter, here are some further items to
>consider.  About 90% of the world's helium is
>extracted form methane wells from within a small area
>around “The Helium Capital of the World” - Amarillo,
>Texas. Amarillo is also home to Pantax, not too far
>from Crawford, and probably has more hidden wealth
>than any place on earth. We’re not talking black gold
>here… but the radioactive variety. It’s a good thing
>for the residents, let me tell you, as it is probably
>otherwise the most aesthetically unpleasing place I
>have ever had the displeasure of visiting.
>
>Helium is non-flammable, of course, and it's been
>found at such high concentrations in Amarillo methane
>that gas from the well-head won't even ignite until
>the helium is removed! Like the natural gas it comes
>in, helium is a non-renewable resource, and because of
>its older strategic value in light-than-air-craft, it
>was for some time strictly controlled by the Federal
>Government. Once we've used it up, it's gone. It also
>contains a variable quantity of the isotope He-3.
>
>During the 1920s, the United States Oil Industry and
>their subsidiary, the Federal Government, discovered
>and began to produce helium under a monopoly. After
>the Hindenberg went down, the German’s were so
>desperate to get helium for their zeppelin fleet that
>they even attempted the very first LENR reaction, in
>hopes of producing it on a large scale from D2 gas.
>The US later established a facility in Texas to store
>helium for future generations, but after Congress
>amended the Helium Act in 1960, several U.S. companies
>began to produce and sell the valuable gas, mostly for
>such important pursuits as party balloons. Excess
>production was sold to the federal government and
>stored in the huge Texas facility, and probably
>elsewhere in secret.
>
>In 1996, due to cost concerns, and some mysterious
>political influence, Congress directed the Bureau of
>Land Management (BLM) to stop producing helium and to
>begin selling most of the government's considerable
>stockpile by 2005 (the Helium Privatization Act of
>1996 - 50 U.S.C. 167), with primary  administration
>through the BLM’s  Amarillo Field Office However, the
>law also called for the National Research Council to
>review the plan to sell the reserves and determine if
>users would be adversely affected. A key concern
>raised by the scientific community was that selling
>the federally managed helium reserve could threaten
>national security or the interests of the U.S.
>scientific, technical, and biomedical enterprises. So
>far as I know, the NRC did not even consider the
>Helium-3 issue, or why Bechtel was.
>
>Unlike the NRC, the public is most familiar with
>helium gas as the stuff we use to fill blimps and
>balloons. Normal helium has 2 protons and 2 neutrons
>in its nucleus, but if you kick out one of neutrons,
>you get helium-3, which is also a decay product of
>tritium, and ­ far and away, the best candidate fuel
>for nuclear fusion. It is not *coveted* as a resource
>only because we have been led to believe that there is
>so little of it, and that it is a 'second generation'
>fuel, but...
>
>Is it also a prime (maybe the best) candidate for LENR
>fuel ?
>
>He3 is used in a clean, 'hot' reaction with deuterium
>to produce energy. A kg of helium-3 burned with 0.67
>kg of deuterium gives us about 19 megawatt-years of
>energy output. The fusion reaction time for the D-He3
>plasma reaction becomes significant at a temperature
>of about 10 KeV, but the crux of any conspiracy theory
>involving this isotope would be two-fold: the actual
>He-3 content of the Helium Reserve, whether or not
>that content has been intentionally marginalized by
>disinformation, and whether of not He-3 is a good
>candidate for a LENR reaction ­ which will conceivably
>be the beneficiary of major government funding during
>the next Bush administration.
>
>It should be emphasized that He-3 is also “ash” from
>D+D reactions, including the LENR variety… BUT can it
>be used as a fuel in LENR… in an alternative D+He3
>reaction, particularly in “warm” fusion of the
>glow-discharge or sonofusion variety?
>
>Any reactor, LENR or hot, built to use the D-He3
>reaction would be inherently safe. It is really the
>one and maybe the ONLY fuel that almost everyone
>likes, except for its presumed rarity. Some He-3 is
>available from the French/Russian consortium Chemgas,
>at extremely high prices.
>http://www.helium-3.com
>
>It is a by-product of the maintenance of nuclear
>weapons, which could supply us with about 300 kg of
>He3 total. The total supply in the U.S. strategic
>reserves is put at only ~30 kg, and another 200 kg is
>assumed to mixed with the helium we have stored in
>Texas, based on certain assumptions… but the true
>figure could be 10-100 times that amount ­ at least 2
>tons. And it could go real cheap, to the highest
>bidder, if it hasn't already and if the secret can be
>kept out of the public's ear for long enough.
>
>To assign a minimum economic value, suppose we assume
>He3 would replace a portion of the fuel the United
>States currently uses to generate electricity. As a
>replacement for that fuel, that 2 tons of He3 would
>worth on the order of $6 billion today, or $3 billion
>per ton. It would be 100 times more if sold on the
>open market, should demand materialize. But that is
>only the beginning.
>
>Is it too early to assume a longer-term
>perspective?... that by 2008, when Bush can no longer
>stand for reelection and Cheney in on his third
>artificial heart transplant, and the Helium Reserve
>has been privatized and controlled by two particular
>companies, Bechtel and Halliburton, for pennies on the
>dollar...which companies may or may not have ties to
>two former world leaders, soon to be free-market
>entrepreneurs…
>http://tinyurl.com/6edkj
>that the new CEOs of these two firms will be...?
>
>BTW did you know that Bechtel, through its Bechtel
>Nevada is the corporation that also controls Groom
>Lake… not to mention Pantax… etc.?…bottom line: even
>without alien spacecraft and/or alien technology, the
>stage is now being set for aggressive privatization of
>first the Earth's, and then the Moon’s, trillion
>dollar reserves of He-3.
>
>Anyway. All of this more or less depends on a missing
>and/or secret ingredient. And that is where Vortex
>comes in… What is the He-3 link to LENR (NOT as ash,
>but as fuel)?
>
>You may be among the first of the non-elite to know...
>
>Stay tuned for the next installment of the tale - in
>the best "Three Days of the Condor" tradition... that
>is, as long as the MIB do not make a first-call...
>
>Jones
>