At 10:31:04 on Wed, 18 Aug 2004 Jones Beene wrote: >:Subject: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly >by Ken Shoulders
>This recently posted file can be downloaded from: >http://www.svn.net/krscfs/ >Abstract >Electron clusters, or EVOs, are shown to be ideal candidates >for electrical power generation using easily available methods >for manipulation of electronic charge. The work to be done is >described as manipulation of the exotic vacuum in a way that >takes advantage of the ability to move the EVO against an >electrical load using only a fraction of the input power >usually used, resulting in an energy gain. However, the high >intensity of the process and ease of applying it to.....etc Having gone on to read the full paper (who could resist such a title <g>) I then read CHARGE CLUSTERS IN ACTION at, http://www.svn.net/krscfs/Charge%20Clusters%20In%20Action.pdf and I made one of those James Burke "Connections" (see http://tinyurl.com/4ggg4) In our work on concrete we realised that as on moved from a constant strain to a constant stress condition (from failing concrete with steel platen pressure to failing concrete with some kind of fluid pressure in other words) the strength of the concrete fell progressively. Indeed we developed The Indirect Tension Test where a concrete cylinder was surrounded by a metal jacket and axisymmetric fluid pressure applied till the specimen failed as though it had been pulled apart in tension. Of course, in essence it had been pulled apart in tension because the essence of tensile failure is to reduce the Beta-atmosphere pressure on the ends of the specimen until the pressure difference between the ends and the sides is sufficient for the Beta-atmosphere to fail the concrete in compression. By using water (or air which gives essentially the same result) we were simply adding a partial pressure to the Beta-atmosphere pressure to achieve the same end. Now one might say that all fluids are equal but some fluids are more equal than others ;-) We used an intermediate fluid of small ball bearings for applying the jacket pressure and as expected we got a strength result mid way between the compressive platen strength 100, say, and the compressive water/air strength, 10 say. At the time I wondered what would happen if we could get an even finer fluid. Would we get an even lower strength? If we could pump electrons into our jacket and increase the electron fluid pressure we might be able to crack the specimen apart with hardly any stress at all. Reading CHARGE CLUSTERS IN ACTION I realised that this is precisely what ken is doing with his drops of electron fluid. The easiest way to understand what is going on is to use clay as model. It's not called modeling clay for nothing, eh! 8-) Clay derives its strength from the pressure difference between the Beta-atmosphere outside the specimen and the Beta-atmosphere inside the pore water. Free water is at a Beta-atmosphere pressure of many thousand of Alpha-atmospheres (bar) as Chaplin's results show. When water hides away between the tiny clay particles the Beta-atmosphere pressure is transferred from the water to the clay skeleton (cf. human skeleton and muscle system). In conventional terms which ignore the existence of the Beta-atmosphere (in the same way that the housewife ignores the existence of the Alpha atmosphere when she talks about her hoover "sucking up the dust") the pore water is in a state of tension, of high suction, of high pF. Now if we fire a drop of water at a lump of plastic clay, what happens? The clay liquifies and a splash of mud pops out. You want to see a mud splash? Well, figure 5 of CHARGE CLUSTERS IN ACTION is a wonderful example - a slash of metallic mud - and Ken has given it a most appropriate description, a SPLOSH. It is evident that clay, qua system, is the same as a metal. It exhibits the same kind of properties, ductility brittleness toughness, etc. The metal electron fluid which is at a ultra high pF is the exact analogue of the pore water. So it is clear that the best description that can be given to what is taking place is that the metal is being liquified by a drop of electron water. The high pF of the internal electron pore water is being reduced to external pF by contact with the drop of electon water at ambient Beta-atmosphere pressure. Cheers Grimer
