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A bit more on galactic magnetic fields, and research into them

2012-02-06T04:31:14+00:00

(PhysOrg.com)—Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of the magnetic field within our own Milky Way galaxy.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-scientists-high-precision-milky-magnetic-fields.html

IIRC, the BBNH book leaned on magnetic fields as a mechanism for the formation of large structures in the universe. It’s good to see that research into large-scale magnetism is ongoing, and I await results from such research.

Pat

FFS Newsletter Protocol: Feedback please!

2012-02-01T01:28:07+00:00

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Interesting entry in Do The Math Blog about Fusion.

2012-01-31T22:16:19+00:00

Perhaps somebody could explain in the blog a bit of Focus Fusion Technology.
As I can see the posts are very biased…

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/

NASA LENR Cold Fusion

2012-01-31T11:16:09+00:00

Hello all, I am new to the FFS forums. Currently working my way through all the posts trying to get myself up to date on everything!

A bit about me: I think that achieving net power from nuclear fusion is the most important thing that could be done at this point in time, bar none. LPP and DPF are my favourite contenders for achieving this! I am not a scientist although I wish I was. I want to see the world in a much better state than it is currently in.

Having said all of this it would seem that my first post on these forums is going to end up being slightly heretical. A friend has just sent me a youtube video from NASA which he has tracked back to their website.

In the video they claim to have ‘demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation…’ etc.

Video: http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/media/CC/lenr/lenr.html (see 00:48)

Can anybody comment on the significance of this information or point me to anywhere it has already been discussed. Many thanks

Edit: related info link was a copy of the video link

New developments?

2012-01-29T00:22:44+00:00

Hi,

any new developments in the last month?

What are the problems you’re facing now and how is your timetable for this year?

break

Fusion laser on track for 2012 burn

2012-01-28T11:58:49+00:00

http://optics.org/news/3/1/37

Mike Dunne, the National Ignition Facility’s director for laser fusion energy, is expecting the giant laser system to generate fusion with energy gain, or “burn”, by the end of 2012.

Deputizing for NIF director Ed Moses in a Photonics West 2012 plenary talk, Dunne said that the ignition campaign was now in its latter stages. “We are now in a position to say with some confidence that ignition will happen in the next 6-18 months,” stated the former head of the HiPER European laser fusion project, adding that he felt personally that the breakthrough was likely to happen in around nine months.

There’s also a little bit about LIFE in the article, which is supposed to use 10-meter long diode-pumped laser units (rather than flash lamps, as NIF uses) and, as I’ve read from other sources, lead (rather than gold) hohlraums. LIFE is projected to begin operations in the mid-2020s, with the first commercial power plants around 2035…assuming something better doesn’t come along first.

A speculation about mass energy equivalent and frequency

2012-01-24T16:51:18+00:00

Thank you everyone for letting me bounce my crazy ideas off you.
Please add another contender to the craziness parade.

The mass equivalence to energy:
E=mc^2

Frequency equivalence to energy:
E=h*f (where h is plancs constant)

Can we combine into:
h*f=mc^2
f=(mc^2)/h Frequency equivalence to mass

Looking at the EM spectrum you can see that the right side cuts off at about:
10^21 hz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EM_Spectrum_Properties_edit.svg

I assume that beyond this point photons materialize into sub-atomic particles due to amount of energy they have.
Although I do not have enough understanding to evaluate this in the framework of quantum mechanics,
but this helped me to accept the concept that sub atomic particles are standing waves,
assuming that waves can “stop” when the reach super-high frequency.
Maybe reducing the frequency would make the waves “go” again.

So the idea is:
Make a matter to energy convertor, by reducing the frequency of standing waves (subatomic particles).
This is left as an exercise to the reader =]

Plasma focus education

2012-01-23T22:47:31+00:00

I have been talking to someone on the board and we started talking about the parts that make up a plasma focus and their limitations. I offered to start putting together some information on the plasma focus such as the pulse power methodology, electrode design and some of the basic plasma physics that governs the device and if there is interest, the differences between what is considered mainstream and the LPP approach. My thought was to incorporate some math which is vital to better understanding the device and the plasma inside it. My goal is to provide information on the plasma focus to help the enthusiastic person that has little background in plasma or pulse power technology.

I can start on whatever topic but I am seeking two things: level of interest and where to start.

Editorial comments would be welcome.

An example for the pulse power topic questions would be:

What is pulse power?
Why use it?
What are the components of a plasma focus?
What are typical specifications and limitations of these components?
Is there more than one way to build a plasma focus pulse power system?
Can current technology support a working Fo-Fu power plant?

The mainstream “competition” to aneutronic is…

2012-01-20T22:26:18+00:00

They are advancing the kabuki now…

TEPCO just stuck an industrial-grade endoscope, one specifically designed for extreme radiation environments, into a hole drilled into the Daiichi #2 reactor in order to look for the corium- the melted mass of fuel and core structures that used to be the reactor core.

This is months overdue and the oligarchs responsible for this delay should be required to spend a decade in jail for every day they refused to do it.

So TEPCO tried to find the corium or at least confirm the water level. What they found was high heat, massive amounts of steam and an equally massive radiation flux… this in a reactor that is supposedly in a state of “cold shutdown.”

It will be no surprise to FFS readers that they couldn’t find the corium amidst the steam and radiation “dazzle”.

They couldn’t even find the water level.

They can’t find it because the core isn’t there. It hasn’t been there since the day of the quake.

The <1% already knew this, of course, but I’d guess that they are trying to “break the news gently”... or rather, they have begun trying to sync up the fantasy of lies they’ve been spinning with the reality of what they’ve actually done to the Japanese people.

This isn’t going to end well…

F.I.C.S. Fusion

2012-01-15T00:10:52+00:00

Hi Guys,

I just created a video for my friends at fusor.net, talking about the fusion concept I am working on.

It relates to a specific type of IEC, and might be of interest to some of you.

http://youtu.be/YKbbKNt7jq8

Steven Sesselmann