Steven,
You are asking the right questions and your ideas look promising. I am making an effort to understand exactly how sound is trapped within one of the active approximate spheres of Rossi's and others. The final powder would not be in the form of exact spheres due to the difficulty of producing them of this size and the diameters would vary over a wide range. I suspect that the trapped shock waves are rebounding time and again at a significant amplitude and, as you predict, must establish some form of steady pattern at their resonant frequencies. As additional reactions occur at the high amplitude nodes I believe that the impulses from these new reactions would then add new components to the total wave. I hope that the overall result of such a system results in something that behaves more like a bell instead of a drum! I feel confident that ultrasonic waves will be generated by each reaction that occurs due to the conservation of momentum. In this case, when a large amount of motion (heat energy) is released within the metal framework, it must result in a balanced momentum release in opposite directions. If this were not the case momentum would not be conserved since movement of particles, atoms, etc. carry momentum in their direction of travel. I have put together a crude model of Rossi's spheres to obtain some idea of the number of reactions taking place per second as a function of the mass of the total system and the particle sizes. A first pass calculation suggests that each 10 micrometer sphere undergoes about 1/2 million reactions per second on average. I plan to release additional information as time permits and my confidence level rises. Other interesting calculations concerning the number of reactions per centimeter of area and per number of surface atoms of nickel have been obtained that offer unusual insight. I have a rough estimate of the instantaneous temperature rise averaged throughout the metal sphere, which is significant at the required reaction rate. The thermal power exiting each square centimeter of surface area is well within reason when 10 micrometer material is used and should not cause a meltdown according to preliminary figures. With such a large number of reactions per second within each sphere to work with I feel confident that some form of ultrasonic coupling will be found to exist between the active sites and that might be one of the key parameters needed to control the process and allow for adequate power release. We need to understand each individual reaction, but we also should devote adequate energy toward understanding the overall system behavior. Dave -----Original Message----- From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 8:39 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Sound in a Vacuum Interesting thoughts, David. It made me wonder if strategically induced harmonics fed into the material could be used to increase the amplitude of generated heat of the target material. I would assume controlled frequencies within the ultrasonic range would be used. Could one control or focus where the heat was being generated within the material? Based on harmonic frequencies that might possibly be induced into the material I would speculate that one would end up with interesting vibration patterns, where fixed maximum and minimum vibration (or heat and cold) nodes would be generated in specific locations within the material. Could this technique be used to some kind of LENR advantage? I dunno. Based on the shape of the material used combined with the frequencies induced - I'd also speculate that certain locations within the material could end up with highly focused or magnified "waves". Again, could this be translated into highly concentrated stationary heat waves to LENR advantage? Again, I dunno. Someone with a tad more physics under their belt needs to answer such questions. This reminds me a little of bubble fusion research. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
