Jones Beene wrote. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Frederick Sparber > > "Positron emission of Potassium-40 (in all naturally occurring > Potassium) converts the nucleus to the (99%) abundant Argon-40 > atom. Indigenous Electronium in Argon-40?" > > > Nice addition to Joe's Down-Home Diner, Fred - we seem to be > getting somewhere. I hope it is towards a nice meal. I propose > that we call it the Spargone Blue-Plate Special > Maybe Fargone Argon, Perhaps? > > We have now managed to combine 4-5 far-out ideas: electronium, the > Joe_Cell, the Larson reciprocal system (and below) "efficient" > Argon emission, the Auger cascade and the Papp engine into > something completely unexpected. The catch-of-the day ... on > Vortex > You left out the Canadian "Lawn Mower Man", Jones. Microwave oven magnetron pulsed into a lawnmower engine,wasn't it? > > ... along with a concluding Sunday-morning anti-mainstream homily. > Perhaps it is all closer to SciFi than to HighSci. Time will tell. > > And if it turns out (first of many "if") that the electronium > triad (e-)* is being formed following a 40K decay, then that entity > will very likely take up residence in the k-shell of the resultant > Argon, due to its higher mass. This would be expected, no? /even > if the triad is transitory. > The deepest totally stripped Regular Electron affinity for any atom is 13.6 * Z^2 eV. Thus for totally stripped Argon 13.6 * 18^2 = 4406 eV. OTOH, Electronium could be anywhere in cloud, or is it crowd, if you're a visitor from the far east? > > However, I think the most likely modality for the overall > mechanics of the situation in the Joe_Cell is this - when a > hydronium ion encounters the approach of a heavy-Ar atom (one with > an electronium substituted for a k-shell electron) - the proton > from the hydronium ion is occasionally drawn into the inner orbit > of the Ar by the Coulomb-well of the Argon outer electrons - and > into the outer reaches of the k-shell where it can sometimes > capture the electronium which is plodding along in comparative > slo-mo in that locale. Following which, an Auger cascade results. > Possible. > > > In the few milliseconds available - this can even happen more than > once. The ultimate source of energy is Puthoff's ZPE which in > theory maintains the stability of the k-shell and all the others > "as well". > Red Herring on the side? > > For this modality to provide kinetic energy it must take place in > the combustion chamber itself - and there the added compression, > plus the spark-advance is what starts the process of forcing the > hydronium's proton into the Argon k-shell. > Anywhere the proton gets into the Argon's electron cloud will do. > > Microwave energy would probably work better than the spark. > That was the "Lawnmower Man's claim. > > That is probably one reason why the BLP process works as well as it > does. If Mills were to use heavy argon - as defined above, who > knows but he might get a rather substantial explosion. > > The auger cascade of Argon will give about 5000 times more energy > than hydrocarbon combustion - per unit of molecular weight. Again > the prime source of energy is ZPE -operating though the k-shell. > 1000 times would be spectacular. > > Obviously, very little of this speculation above is now being > optimized in the operation of a normal Joe_Cell and that is (could > be) why some of them work and some do not - often depending on > "the water." > Or weather? > > I would suggest that proper charging of the water should be done > in potassium-laced cell in order to guarantee the maximum amount > of heavy-Ar is dissolved. Argon can be added from a tank in > addition (see below). > Etch the Stainless with dissolved CO2 - Carbonic Acid first. > > Another improvement would be a totally "closed" system (recycled > gases). Since there is no combustion anyway in these systems > (reportedly) and since most of the heavy Ar will not fully > participate on a single pass - it would be far better to operated > the engine in a closed-cycle mode... then the extra Argon added > from a tank is not wasted. > Yes. > > Hmmm.... > Wankel engine Mazda's do Hmmm. :-) > > Kind of reminds one of the Papp engine - no? > Feynman didn't win them all.
Fred > > Jones > > Hmmm... sound to me that the only reason the Papp engine may have > worked on occasion is when he got some hydrogen contamination in > the argon. Argon was always there in his mixes, it seems - or else > if the "radioactive" plug (often mentioned) contained 40K, or > another beta emitter, as the radioactive species - so that (e-)* > was present.... > > ... well, as a historical footnote: its too bad that R. Feynman > was such as dufuss do-gooder-turned-killer (at a Papp > demonstration). He could have probably figured this modality > himself out some time ago, had he been possessed with a more open > mind... QED notwithstanding. > > For those who do not remember - and Feynman's apologists are quick > to try to rewrite history: there was a public display of the Papp > engine in a parking lot in Torrance, California in 1968 - which > attracted none other than Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman. The > modified four cylinder Volvo engine on a test stand in the parking > lot was controlled by engine electronics run from a 120 volt > extension cord plugged into the building 100 feet away. > > Feynman saw the extension cord and, genius that he was, decided > that he knew the source of the hoax he was so convinced it was a > hoax that he pulled the plug, but the engine continued to run !! > > And for some time. > > After about two minutes, the engine had not slowed down (running > about 3000 rpm, as evidenced by the fan left on the engine to > produce a visible effect) but started to run rough. > > Papp grew nervous and argued with Feynman to plug it back in. > Feynman refused, so Papp yanked the cord from Feynman and plugged > it in. The engine exploded, killing one bystander. Feynman accused > Papp of placing explosives in the engine so it would be destroyed > before legitimate testing could be done, in order to keep the hoax > alive. Since a fatality occurred, the FBI got involved. No > evidence of explosives was found. Papp sued Feynman and Feynman > and Caltech settled out of court for what would today be in the > millions of dollars. Caltech, of course, had liability insurance > and not only that, the reputation of their "star" to uphold. > > If it were a hoax, there is no way Caltech would have settled out > of court. It was done so Feynman and Caltech could save face. > > IF - and this is a huge IF - the Papp engine is ultimately seen to > have been the solution to the present energy crisis. And even > bigger IF - if the tenets of QED are involved in its operation - > then one wonders what history will remember of the "genius" > Feynman ? > > Will a fraction of the body count in Iraq be added (in a rewriting > of history) to the genius-Feynman's present death toll of 1... in > the quashing of Free-energy ?? > > Hmmm... Sorry for the rant... is it a full moon again ?
