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As the smoke cleared, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > > With that said, I should add that gas-phase CF at room temperature, > > which operates without a large external energy source, *might* > > produce enough heat to run a Stirling engine -- but I don't think so. > > As I said, these experiments produce low-grade heat; I don't think > > the heat output of the gas-phase experiments is large enough to do > > that. > > In fact, IIRC the gas-phase experiments start with compressed D2. If > we account for the energy used compressing the gas then they're also > well below break-even (never mind the energy cost of refining the D2, > which is also far from free). > > It will be a red letter day when *any* controlled fusion experiment, > hot, cold, or luke-warm, passes breakeven on the operating energy > budget. (By the "operating energy budget", I mean, not including the > cost of fabricating the system -- just the cost of making the fuel and > operating the reactor). The success of this tek appears to have everything to do with the geometry -- related to the composition -- of the Palladium electrodes. And then how these electrodes get charged with D2 in a dynamical process. Quite a delicate chain of causality there. No wonder skeptikal experimenters come up snake-eyes: they´re not even really trying. But apparently somebody in the U.S. government is not taking their eyes off this ball... - -- grok. - -- ** FULL-SPECTRUM DOMINANCE! **************************************** * BOYCOTT BOURGEOIS * Get your news & analysis * * MASS-MEDIA: * from the Best on the Web * **** Critical endorsement only **** Most sites need donations **** * http://www.newstandardnews.net The NewStandard News * * http://www.btlonline.org Between The Lines * * http://riseup.net Riseup.Net * * http://www.rise4news.net R.I.S.E. * * http://www.wings.org Women's International News Gathering Service* * http://www.wbaifree.org/takingaim Taking Aim * * http://www.wbai.org WBAI Pacifica * *** "Defence" industry is anything but: it is the *WAR* industry *** GPG fingerprint = 2E7F 2D69 4B0B C8D5 07E3 09C3 5E8D C4B4 461B B771 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknJne4ACgkQXo3EtEYbt3HyewCgqw76Yue1/+gPuRy8DHIxvZnP KT0An1O7lITx1PmCJ7ovgEpJgf6S9/gA =japA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
