On 3/26/07, Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not too long ago, Jones posted a speculation re: scandium and T. Henry
Moray (or was it Paul Brown or both?). I can't seem to find the post.
Care to recall this Jones or do the MIBs threaten? :-)
Nevermind. Someone else found it (Scandium is one of those REE found
in placers with Neodymium):
Scandium 1.5
Jones Beene
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:16:22 -0700
I received an interesting private communication concerning yesterday's
post about Scandium. It is from a source who does not want his name
mentioned, and that raises some red flags. After all - this is vortex,
not sci.physics, but so be it. However, since the crux of the
information is already online, and does have curious relevance,
actually a double-relevance, I decided to include the public domain
part of it - in an preliminary update of the prior post.
It seems that a fellow named Henry Moray (who previously has been on
many observer's list of highly "suspect" claimants to free energy), 80
years ago found what he called a "Swedish stone" which had "free
energy" properties.
Note that the name Scandium actually derives from its Swedish
discovery, but this connection to Moray has never been mentioned
before now - nor in relation to Moray's "Swedish stone" (AFAIK).
One reason for the vocal suspicion of H.M. (from OU skeptics - not me
- I am neutral on this) is that Moray was on mission with the Mormon
Church to Uppsala, Sweden, when this discovery occurred - indicating
at least that he was strongly inclined to believe in modern-day
miracles, and also the LDS has long tentacles. Anyway, Moray was
claimed to have been able to light a standard 100-watt light bulb
(1925 ) using only this material in his circuitry as the power source
- probably a simple tank circuit. And later he was said to be able
power an electric flat iron, bringing the total power consumed to over
500 watts, but that stress would cause the "stone" to overheat. I can
see a few wry-smiles out there in vo-land. Take it for what its worth
- its an 80 year-old anecdote, recently revived by fringe researchers
- and yet to be validated, even in part.... except....
Granted that this kind of information is also highly suspect, but it
does fit in very tightly with this revised explanation of the "Swedish
stone." It is a supposedly unrelated anecdote of the legendary
"Hubbard Coil", which was claimed to be a powerful free energy
generator invented around 1919. This story is most likely at least
partially true (because of the late Paul Brown's research and the
genuine newspaper coverage of one event ). Not to mention the fact
that Hubbard did have proven access to a large amount of radium, which
went missing from factory where he was working.
There are newspaper & magazine articles online, and Hubbard's patent
for a radium-spark plug, along with R&D notes, & biography. This is
also relevant to the late Paul Brown's battery, but even Brown missed
many important details in this.
http://www.rafoeg.de/20,Dokumentenarchiv/10,Personenbezogenes_Archiv/,Hubbard_Alfred/Alfred%20Hubbard%20Coil%20Generator.pdf
Consequently, the tie-in of Moray to both radium and Scandium is this.
If Moray's "Swedish stone" was a natural (or mixed) mineral containing
both radium and Scandium, both fairly common in that region, then it
would have been far more active than radium alone - which is no slouch
when it comes to radioactivity. I have no opinion on whether or not
Moray actually did harness a natural radioactive mineral or not, but
if Brown could do it in modern times - it is arguably possible. ERGO -
let's say that previous skepticism has now been mediated by the
existence of a hypothetical explanation for all the anecdote, which
hypothesis can explain two prior claims. Whereas before this, it was
all in the realm of bare-anecdote. IOW this will not change the
opinion of any skeptic, but in the event that any experimenter
(outside the USA, where this would be illegal here) has access to
minerals containing radium - then boosting those minerals (and at the
same time making the emission safer "softer") - is possible using
Scandium. If I were in Sweden, with winter fast approaching, I would
be out with a Geiger counter, looking for candidate materials ;-)
The important point for a future where terrorism is not the overriding
issue is - if natural radioactivity can be harnessed at all, the this
rare metal Scandium can take a marginal process and make it
commercial. It may be the one preferred route to take, because it
allows the very strong, hard x-rays of certain emitters, to be both
downshifted and multiplied. The risk/rewards formula is thereby
drastically shifted. And one huge plus - to be covered in the upcoming
Part II of this posting, is that it allow real energy production from
nuclear waste. I suspect, and have some preliminary figures to back it
up, that at some point in time, it will be possible to get more energy
out of spent-fuel, than was ever extracted from it while it was in the
reactor. IOW the so-called "spent fuel" is probably more valuable than
the new stuff, when properly employed. What an absurd boondoggle we
have in Nevada! But, the bad news is that the eventual time frame (for
this possible "rediscovery") will likely have to await dealing with
the issues of terrorism first. Its all about risk vs. rewards.
The production of the first pound of pure scandium metal did not even
occur until 1960, so it is clear that if Moray used a natural mineral,
and his results were able to be replicated (ala Brown) - then pure
Scandium is not required, probably only an enriched mineral ore.
Scandium resembles yttrium and the rare-earth metals (and some hydrino
catalysts) more than it resembles aluminum or titanium. It is a
surprisingly light metal but has a much higher melting point than
aluminum. Scandium is also acid-resistant, which is most unusual for a
pure metal, and not attacked by a 1:1 mixture of HNO3 and 48% HF.
Scandium oxide now costs about $75/g !.... which is far more than
plutonium. But that is a function of limited demand more than anything
else. There is actually more Scandium in surface minerals on earth
than lead, lithium, boron or tin - all of which metals are used in
tonnage at prices which are affordable. About 20 kg of scandium (as
Sc2O3) are now being used yearly in the U.S. (2002) to produce
high-intensity lights and unknown military uses. With an increased
demand (tonnage level), the price would probably drop to about that of
lithium.
The important characteristic of Scandium goes back to the "metastable"
state of deformed nuclei or nuclear isomers. Elements can be
metastable (in the broadest definition) in either their electron or
their nuclear configuration (sometimes called a nuclear isomer).
Metastability is part-and-parcel of high-energy photon release, such
as is seen in fluorescence. The photons in question for IPE are most
often either EUV (extreme ultraviolet) or "soft" x-rays (gammas of
less than 100 eV of mass energy). A photon chain reaction, as here
defined, is a correlate of the nuclear chain reaction, but is always
diminishing slowly and can't be made self-sustaining without an
infinite amount of substrate media. This is because there are no real
"reflectors" for soft x-rays, which are generally limited to induced
auger photon emission from lower electron orbitals at a particular
wavelength, or multiple thereof in an Auger cascade.
Such a phenomenon, but in the extreme ultraviolet, has arguable been
discovered and documented by Dr. Randell Mills, although he describes
it far differently. A similar mechanism may be implicated in other
forms of "cold fusion" as well, and in fact there is ample reason to
believe that Mills' techniques might be better implemented with
deuterium than with hydrogen from the standpoint of energy return.
First - to clear up one point. Soft x-rays are not always appreciated
to have a nuclear origin, except in the Mossbauer situation. Gammas
from the nucleus are usually "hard". However, in certain elements and
isotopes, the nuclear emission can be so tuned to the electron
configuration of that atom, that it is most always captured (very high
cross section) and consequently, instead of a 1 MeV emission, you
will see many in the range of 20-60 keV (typical of Scandium).
More on the actual devices I have in mind later... although with this
Moray/ Hubbard background material, the "realization" as the French
say, might be worth taking a hard (or soft) relook, when framed in the
context of an enhanced radium (or spent fuel)/ scandium (boosted)
power source.
Paul, you left us way too soon....
Jones
