At 08:13 am 12/06/2006 -0700, Jones wrote:
>
>A second message is more subtle, requires thinking
>'outside the box' and would mean little to other
>observers, outside the current threads on vortex
>related to polywater and WaterFuel.
>
>Indeed, that message may be a 'missing link' in some
>of what has only been suspected: re polywater -->
>waterfuel. The LLNL team measured water flow rates up
>to 10,000 times faster than would be predicted by
>classical equations -i.e. through the pores or a
>membrane, which as mainstream science suggest: flow
>rates through a pore will slow to a crawl as the
>diameter drops. That slowing is not progressively
>linear - it has now been discovered and at a certain
>level actually reverses itself and becomes faster than
>expected - by a factor of 10,000.
...
>"It's something that is quite counter-intuitive," says
>LLNL chemical engineer Jason Holt, whose findings
>appeared in the 19 May issue of Science. "As you
>shrink the pore size, there is a huge enhancement in
>flow rate."
...
>Jones
Hi Jones,
I think you will agree the key paragraph is,
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Indeed, the LLNL team measures water flow
rates up to 10,000 times faster than would
be predicted by classical equations, which
suggest that flow rates through a pore will
slow to a crawl as the diameter drops.
"It's something that is quite counter-intuitive,"
says LLNL chemical engineer Jason Holt, whose
findings appeared in the 19 May issue of
Science. "As you shrink the pore size, there
is a huge enhancement in flow rate."
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That's not just huge, that's BLOODY ENORMOUS! and it
shows existing theory is 4 orders of magnitude up the
creek without a paddle.
A nanotube is a 2-dimensional Casimir plate. I reckon that
they have got down to the dimensions at which huge
Beta-atmosphere negative pressures (Beta-atm. vacua) are
showing up - in other words the 8th power law is kicking in.
If you reduce Beta-atmosphere pressure to that extent you
might expect the viscosity to drop and the material to
completely restructure itself. Reimpose the pressure and
we are left with something far more viscous than the
original which contains enormous built in strain energy.
We have here a phenomena well known to material scientists
and concrete heads. It's called HYSTERESIS.
Frank Grimer
And thanks again to Colin for sending us that article.
