Have you see The Stuff? 2012/2/7 Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net>
> Antarctica's buried Lake Vostok has supposedly been breached by a Russian > team, following an arduous and very expensive effort. > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57372465/russian-team-reaches-antarctica > s-buried-lake-vostok-say-reports/ > > Hold the presses. Here is a prediction on what they will find ... and if > true, this little detail may uncover why the Russians spent so many > petrodollars on what appears to be "science only", ostensibly with no > commercial impact. > > Now, it is true that Russia does and has done meaningful basic scientific > research over the years - defined as that which is not aimed at immediate > financial success. However, it is easy to see why one would be a bit > cynical > of the ultimate motivations of Putin & Co - in recent years. The New Russia > is essentially closer to a criminal enterprise than to a democracy, No? > > Anyway, onto the cynical prediction. Lake Vostok, which about the size of > Lake Ontario contains water that is roughly 1 to 20 million years old at a > temperature that that would freeze all the way down - were it not for the > high pressure and a small amount of interior heat from the core of earth - > heat that is filtering up in a way that keeps the lake liquid at the > bottom, > even with two miles of solid ice above it. This dynamic mechanism can be > described as a "cold reflux" conditions, and it is why I predict that they > Russians will discover that the lake contains heavy water in a high > percentage! > > There is a known method for low temperature enrichment of heavy water, that > would be slow - but a million years minimum is long enough to make a this > kind of thing happen. Depending on the level of enrichment, the value of > the water in the lake, based on the present cost of heavy water could be > over $100 trillion if the demand were there. > > Of course, that never happens - since supply and demand would lower the > price by many orders of magnitude. However, if there were a large market > for > heavy water at a hundred times less per gallon, the Russian effort could > still be a winner and Putin's new company will take your order now. > > Deuterium oxide is about 11 % denser than H2O and freezes at 3.8 °C, 277 K, > 39 °F, following which it sinks. That's right - deuterium ice sinks at a > rapid rate in cold water, as is often demonstrated in first year physics. > The column of ice above lake Vostok is not solid and is always in a state > of > a slow-motion version of this dynamic effect, since the ice is under > pressure. > > Importantly, deuterium will also gradually "jump around" to replace protium > in adjacent water molecules to form heavy water (D2O) preferentially over > DHO in a process of self-enrichment, due to QM and other factors. But the > fact that D2O ice "sinks" preferentially, even in the mixed solid, provides > a possible mechanism to enrich in a pressurized cold environment, over > millions of years - where heavy ice is denser and has a bosonic nucleus. > > The slight affinity of bosons for absorbing IR over fermions could be the > final piece of the puzzle - one that will only be apparent when we see the > Russians constructing a pipeline to get the heavy water to market :-) > > You heard it first on Vo... > > Jones > > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
