I will use Richard's call for "new energy forecasts" to update a
previous posting and prediction - concerning a possible way that LENR
(but in the guise of "hydrino tech") is now poised via strange
"Connections" to take-off from its recent stagnation at BLP.
You could call this imagined scenario - "below ground state deuterium
meets the Letts/Cravens effect via the laser nano-diode array." Best of
all, it will be a direct converter (of LENR ash into electricity) and
not a simple hot water heater.
The concept has the (imagined) potential to elevate LENR into the realm
of easy and robust implementation in small energy devices. If you
thought Jed Rothwell's vision of a working LENR device was
pie-in-the-sky, this one reaches the ionosphere !
The energy source will be nuclear -LENR. The enabling technology will be
artificially created "holes" of 40+ nm produced by very brief "cold"
laser pulses, of an exact geometric dimension. The lasers pulses come
from a chip in which millions of lasers are mounted and will irradiate a
membrane of Pd, impregnated with boron, though which D2 gas is passed.
The whole device is placed in a magnetic solenoid, which can be as small
as flashlight - including the fuel! Ions will be collected on one end
using a Miley-type of direct converter.
The idea is that some group - most likely to be a group not associated
with Mills or BLP, nor the CF community, will incorporate recent
advances in nano-laser arrays in order to bring to fruition the
phenomenon of dineutrons - which are the result of deuterium undergoing
shrinkage past the critical point in which EC occurs, resulting in a
very low energy dineutron. These will be able to combine with boron or
other reactants. The result is technically 'fission' of the boron, but
LENR will suffice.
I predict that the geographic location for bringing all of this together
will be either Silicon Valley, or the Austin TX, area (maybe Boston)
where you have an infrastructure of semiconductor manufacturing and VC
(venture capital) juxtaposed with a cadre of bright young entrepreneurs
(a few of whom are Vo-lurkers) looking for the perfect fit for finding
alternative energy.
Recently the "plasmon laser" was introduced. But that is just one piece
of a complex jigsaw puzzle:
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/article_display.html?id=274712
The plasmon laser diode is an etched antenna for light emitting diodes,
using surface-charge oscillations or surface plasmons. This leads to an
intense nanospot of light in the antenna gap. Vast numbers can be etched
onto a chip. The intensity of each irradiated spot is due to a
capacitive effect that creates a huge electric field. In pulsed
operation, the antenna can generate a peak intensity of more than a
gigawatt per square centimeter. A spot sizes of 20 nm should be
possible, but not required for this implementation: where "holes" of
45.58 nm should act as a resonant cavity for 27.2 eV first stage
shrinkage of deuterium - IF the pulse is brief enough to create the
single hole. That required brief ("cold") pulse was the subject of the
previous posting to vortex, included below.
Subject: Forcing Serendipity 24 Jun 2007
Several times on Vortex, reference has been made to the underrated BBC
television science series called "Connections."
One of the surprising messages coming from James Burke's historical
insight is that "progress" in science and technology - when looked at
with 20/20 hindsight - is almost never planned-out very well and usually
depends on a myriad of almost random connections and bizarre
interactions occurring through the years.
For example, perhaps a future episode will look back to 2007 and the
techno-surprise which finally pushes cold fusion into the mainstream of
science - and that surprise will turn out to be something as seemingly
unrelated as a new Tattoo removal process ;-)
It is trendy these days to use the term "stochastic" to describe a
process which is partly random and partly planned. But in reality, the
so-called "educated guess" is often many orders of magnitude more
efficient than purely random choices, and one can possibly built on that
pathway in several unconventional ways.
If this forum has any "larger" societal importance, it may be in the
ability of an assortment of diverse and open-minded observers being able
to spot trends or relevant R&D from a wide variety of sources - which
might be applied by a more single minded and focused experimenter: in
order to push LENR or other alternative energy schemes into fruition at
a faster pace - far in advance of the near-randomness of what would
otherwise happen in a Burkesean future.
Anyway to that end - and premising the following bit of attempted
forced-serendipity on the so-called Letts/Cravens effect - which is the
synergy of a laser pulse to a LENR electrolysis -
... and for the sake of argument, adding in the belief that this synergy
is actually related to the Mills' hydrino (deuterino), by virtue of the
laser pulse creating an electron "hole" which then starts a deuterium
atom into a cascading shrinkage, resulting eventually in a tunneling
nuclear reaction --
...but also the realization that the pulse itself is perhaps very
inefficient so-far, as being way too extended in time ...
...so consequently - there is this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/18/BUGGGQGBSS1.DTL&type=tech
Hey - and if it does not work - then the inventor can, as a last resort,
open up a Tattoo Removal Clinic...
Jones
R.C.Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Vorts,
Lets have your brief forecasts on the potential for advances of new
energy technology for the next 5 years running.
The coal oil lamps in the Dime Box saloon must be replaced because we
can no longer buy replacement glass lampshades.
The old shades were ideal in a barroom fight.. but .. alas.. times change.
Richard
