Posted on 07/07/2012 7:25:43 AM PDT by Kevmo
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles
Keywords: ColdFusion; LENR; E-CAT; CMNS business, news, extended, tech
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Well,,,,, it was interesting,,, up to this sentence;
“Even wind farms and other emerging alternative energy technologies could not compete economically with LENR.”
“In 1989 at the University of Utah, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced they had discovered a cold fusion process that would ultimately result in cheap, limitless energy.”
Hmmm.... as I recall Fleishmann and Pons announced that they had discovered a curious phenomena that should be studied and explored by those with deeper pockets.
They were vilified by the scientific community and ridiculed in the press.
The research only assumed the mantle of respectability when the USN started digging into it. Credit for their findings was awarded to a woman (name escapes me) with no attribution to Fleishmann and Pons.
Screw humanity; they are undeserving of your independent efforts.
What Jethro Tull was to Y2K, Kevmo is to crackpot energy schemes....
Sounds like great qualifications for an energy expert.
Jethro Tull the band, or Jethro Tull the plough advocate?
Too bad some of the millions wasted on worthless “green” boondoggles like Solyndra weren’t directed toward this research.
Stated another way, assuming a 42 gallon barrel of oil yields 33 gallons of gasoline, one ounce of nickel would yield the energy equivalent of 33 gallons of gasoline. Awesome if true.
I like that - give ‘em some Federal Guaranteed Loans, and see if they go belly up... IF they don’t, it might be the real thing.
Of course, then Obama will ban it...
Sometimes schooling just gets in the way of ability and creativity, but it does seem like he’s better trained to run scams that to work on energy sources...
This is where it starts to become technobabble. There is a lot of stringing together of unrelated concepts to make it sound flashy. First, the weak interaction occurs at the nuclear level and primarly involves radioactive decay modes (e.g., beta decay), so heating at the macroscopic level would not influence it. Then there is the inference of a chain reaction, but no credible mechanism to explain it. Chain reactions in uranium and plutonium fission depend on the release of particles from the nucleus (neutrons) during the fission process. There is nothing here to indicate what the initiating particles are in this postulated process.
Transmutation of nickel to copper involves the gain of a proton, either by bombardment with protons or conversion of a neutron into a proton. You can get the latter by neutron bombardment of nickel to create a neutron-rich form of nickel, which will beta decay to copper, but there is no mention of this process and how you would do it (i.e., neutron source).
My thoughts to a tee. A person struggling to be either relevant or credible.
Nagel, maybe. Leach Probably not.
I’ll go with Thorium and LiFTR technology for $200.
I wouldn’t hold my breath on either of these for transportation fuel as in cars, trucks, tractors, airplanes etc.
This stuff would be wonderful if true, but the likelihood of it turning out to be a useful source of energy is lower than the likelihood that it not a scam, and that is lower than the likelihood of 2 chemists with no nuclear physics training finding a whole new nuclear effect at very low energies that is real - and that probability is pretty damn low.
I made a mistake .... make that 924 gallons of gasoline.
Yup! I couldn’t agree more. Now if someone wanted to talk subcritical thorium reactors or something else under consideration, I would be all ears and would happily engage in witty conversation. It is amazing that scientists continue to stray from the scientific method and enter into the world of alchemy in pursuit of funding.
Yup! I couldn’t agree more. Now if someone wanted to talk subcritical thorium reactors or something else under consideration, I would be all ears and would happily engage in witty conversation. It is amazing that scientists continue to stray from the scientific method and enter into the world of alchemy in pursuit of funding.
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