THE USEFUL BOOK THREAD

One of the things that Mizuno replicators are going to have to get to grips with is Vacuum systems. I must confess that my experience has been limited to 'roughing pump' territory and I found this free book (which is around $150 on Amazon) really helpful.

http://dmf.unicatt.it/~gavioli…cience_and_Technology.pdf

Particularly useful perhaps is this section.

The Measurement of Low Pressures 257
3.1.1 Overview 258
3.1.2 Direct Reading Gauges 260
3.1.3 Indirect Reading Gauges 265
3.1.4 Calibration of Vacuum Gauges 286
References 288
3.2 Mass Analysis and Partial Pressure Measurements 290
3.2.1 Overview and Applications 290
3.2.2 Inlet Systems 300
3.2.3 Ion Generation and Ion Sources 303
3.2.4 Ion Separation Analyzers 308
3.2.5 Detection of Ions 323
References 326
3.3 Practical Aspects of Vacuum System Mass Spectrometers 335
3.3.1 Historical Insight 335
3.3.2 Expected Gases in a Vacuum System 336
3.3.3 The Ion Generation Process 340
3.3.4 Techniques for Analysis 351
3.3.5 Calibration of Vacuum System Mass Spectrometers 364

Semi-retired LENR researcher Ed Lewis asked me to post this little article about his book- also available here. It's pretty much off topic for LENR, but interesting as a sideways look at cycle theory. Members who wish to bring other interesting or useful books to the forum;s attention are welcome to do so here.

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Book Offer: The Periodic Production of Rationalized Phenomena and the Past Period Depressions by Edward Lewis 1992/1993 (update to Chapter 1 in 2010).

I wrote a book about 30 years ago. In it, I explained a lot of philosophy and history of science ideas that are important for plasmoid scientists to understand in order to understand why and how the current plasmoid paradigm is developing. I also describe my model about why scientific paradigm shifts in physics happen at 80 year intervals and why these paradigm shifts causes the Kondratieff wave of economic depression/deep recession periods happening about every 40 or 50 years. I wrote up the History of Science section of it in the 1990s, so it shows my first hand view of how the cold fusion/plasmoid field was developing and why it was developing in the 1990s. I talk about my plasmoid paradigm basic hypotheses too.

For those interested in economics, it will help you understand the current economic crisis the world is in but masked over or temporarily relieved by trillions and trillions of dollars of debt in the last 12 or 13 years. Exponential debt explosion. It will also give you important ideas for understanding how and why this current depressionary/deep recessionary era started in the last years of the decade of the 2000s. It also explains the economic boom of the 2000s and will help you understand how this plasmoid paradigm, if it happens, will enable industrial revolution.

I'm offering a book that was first written in the early 1990s for 19.97 USD.

You can use the Pay Pal link to read the book online and download it in html format. When I get the order, I'll send the password by email. Or contact me, Edward Lewis,[email protected]. I'll send you the password for reading the book online or maybe I can email the whole book for you if you want me to. When you get the password, you can enter it in the Sign In page.

What is the Book About?

The book explains that there is an 80 year periodicity of scientific revolutions in physics and that this causes the Kondratiev wave that is the 40 or 50 year timing of major econonomic depression and recession periods. I wrote most of this book from about 1989 to 1993. The model of economic depressions described in this book predicated the starting date of this current depression period that started in 2008 to within a year though I first wrote up the theoretical model described here in 1989.
The chart shown below was mostly made about 2001, and the Abstract and summary of the book was written in the middle 1990s. So though it was written in the early 1990s, this model of economic depressions correctly predicted a depression period for this decade of the 2010s and the early 2020s preceeded by an economic boom starting about the year 2000. So the book I wrote almost 30 years ago predicted the major economic and scientific events well including the current 2010s depression period and when it would begin.
Something like 10 trillion dollars of debt in the US alone and then about a trillion extra a year in the US from about 2012 until now made the US maintain a level of standard of living. But the world economy is still in a depressionary era, and the spending has staved off the effects until now. Otherwise, the 2010s would have been more like the 1920s. I still think that for many countries, the severe effects of the recession/depression will take effect soon.
I started editing and updating the book about 10 years ago and edited Chapter 1 about 2010. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 explains the theory for why the field of physics has an 80 year periodicity of paradigm change. Chapter 2 has a summary of the development of the current plasmoid paradigm that I wrote in the 1990s. The general theory when applied to economics in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 explains why the long wave of economic depressions happens. It also explains whytwo different types of depressions alternate every 40 or 50 years.
When I first started blogging and writing about this idea on the early internet in the 1990s, people who believed in long-waves couldn't see it. In the late 1990s, some people were predicting that the long wave depression was imminent (that it would start in the year 2000 or so) based on their ideas about a 50 or 60 year cycle. They thought that since the Great Depression started in 1929, a deep depression period was due to happen by 1999. They didn't understand that the deep recession of the 1970s was a Kondratiev dip, and that the timing between the long wave troughs is usually about 40 years unless something unusual happens.
Something unusual did happen in the 1700s, and that made the timing between the depressions longer between the 1790s, 1830s to 1860s, and 1890s depression eras. During the 1800s, depressions were about 50 years apart instead of 40 years apart. This is explained in the book.
Long-wave theory as it was developed historically didn't differentiate between high-productivity growth and low-productivity growth depressions. The cause of the approximately 80 year waves of productivity growth is important to understand. It is explained in this book.
Depression Chart

Barriers for People To Understand This Work

Philosophy and History of Science



One barrier is the lack of knowledge of economists and people in general about the history of science and how science develops. It may surprise people that few professional economists know much about physics or its history. It is outside their field of training.

Few people understand what physics paradigms are. So they can't understand the idea that paradigm shifts in physics happen about every 80 years. Few people understand the general philosophy of science underlying this assumption. Relatively few people have even read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. This work is partly based on that.

Since no well known philosopher of science has ever written about 80 year intervals between physics revolutions, it takes a good knowledge about the history of physics to understand this theory.

The Cold Fusion Field

Another barrier is the lack of general knowledge about the field of cold fusion and other generally not accepted physics work and about the discovered anomalies. Professional economists know little current research in the field of physics or about cold fusion and plasmoids.

Cold fusion/plasmoid researchers don't care much about or understand economics theory either. So in general, few people can appreciate this theory. This field was widely labeled a hoax about 28 years ago by some media spokespeople, some physicists, and some government officials.

Plasmoids and cold fusion phenomena are not new. They've always been around, but the development of good quantum mechanics based electronics equipment is enabling people to detect them and study them more thoroughly. However, few people even know they exist.



If you want to learn more about the field, read my book and my papers. Some are on the LENR-CANR Library. My book is available on my site: scientificrevolutions.com

Evidence for This Theory To Think About

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This theory is 30 years old, and based on the prior timing, I predicted 30 years ago in 1989 that technological acceleration would start about the year 2000 (it started in 1998 or 1999) and that afinancial crash like the 1929 crash would happen in 2009 or so (it happened in 2008). See my old articles and information I put online more than 20 years ago.

This economics model predicts a long depression period lasting into the 2020s. I think the theory is right, but the something like 2 trillion US dollars that has been added to the US debt each year kept the US (and the world) afloat temporarily. Tens of trillions of dollars in bank lending, derivatives, and money creation since 2008 temporarily kept the stock markets inflated. I think many of the world economies will feel the effects of the deep recession/depression soon though the US and some other countries might profit from this due to recent changes in the world. This is unavoidable for most countries simply as a result of their debt creation and the nature of development of industry now that is primarily driven by process innovation, automation, robotization of production, and shifting away from the use of human labor for manufacturing and service work.

Economics and the Economy

The real unemployment rate in the leading industrialized areas of the world reached high levels in the early years of the 2010s. During Trump's tenure, the US is experiencing an economic boom now. Leading media spokespeople kept saying that the recession is over and never call this decade a depressionary era, but the real evidence points to that this would have been a severe depressionary period were it not for the unprecedented astounding debt creation and hundreds of billions given out to the public and companies and banks and etc.

Economists in general don't understand the economic situation. There isn't a generally accepted theory of economic depressions. I started to writing about a 1929 style financial crash happening around 2009 in 1990. In 2007, few people wrote that a financial crisis that could cause a depression was going to happen. I tried to warn people by publishing Letters to the Editor in magazines and journals, but the only magazine that published it was Infinite Energy who published it right before the crash happened in the fall of 2008. (Economic Depression or Deep Recession Likely Soon, Infinite Energy Magazine, Issue 79, p. 7, May, 2008.)

Among professional economists, the "long-wave" or Kondratiev cycle isn't accepted. They have a general belief that technological change, unemployment, and depressions/recessions don't really have much to do with scientific advancement. They don't accept that depressions/recessions, the waves of productivity growth, and industrial revolutions are directly due to physics paradigm shift.

Members will I am sure noticed that Dr. Edmund Storms has posted some observations on Mizuno's experiment in our forum based on his huge experience in the cold fusion field. It occurs to me that Ed's book on the 'nuts and bolts' of LENR might be of interest. Now only available as a $22 Kindle book, (or an $800 paperback!) it covers a lot of ground on the topic.

One reviewer who bought the Amazon Kindle version said:- 'Not a light read, but a thorough examination of the experimental evidence for a new form of energy. It is not hot fusion at a lower temperature, but a different reaction altogether.
Storms then goes on to look at existing explanations and goes on to expand his own possible explanation. If you seriously want to know more about this subject, settle down to read this, with pencil and paper to make notes.'

In the book’s Foreword, Dr. Michael McKubre, (Formerly) Director, Energy Research Lab at SRI International, writes: “The opportunity to learn directly from the most knowledgeable person in arguably the most important emerging field, and to share his concise and well considered condensation of a difficult and scattered literature, are not the only or primary reasons to comprehend The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction. Laid out clearly and gently in Chapter 5, ‘Description of an Explanation,’ is the first physical science based description of a potential explanation for cold fusion.”

https://www.amazon.com/Explana…+energy+nuclear+reaction#

Ed has asked me to point out that his other book, also now only available in Kindle format (The Science of LENR) needs to be ordered from World Scientific

Pam Mosier-Boss & Larry Forsley have made this compendium of LENR information available - very densely packed with info on co-deposition, patents links to other papers and to video footage. A great read for the beach.

Condensed_Matter_Nuclear_Science_October (1).pdf

Nagamitsu Yoshimura Vacuum Technology Practice for Scientific Instruments. Springer 2007

A free pdf.

Many scientific instruments for analyzing specimen surface such as the electron
microscope and the Auger electron spectrometer require clean, ultrahigh vacuum.
The electron microscope and Auger electron spectrometer need fine electron probe,
requiring a field emission emitter which can well work under ultrahigh vacuum. In
the electron microscope and the ion microscope, microdischarges due to applying
high voltage to electrodes sometime occur, resulting in deterioration of image quality. Microdischarges are related with the gas molecules on the surfaces of insulators
and electrodes.
For many scientific instruments such as the electron microscope, a very clean, ultrahigh vacuum is necessary in the vicinity of the specimen and the electron emitter.
So, ultrahigh vacuum technology is essential for microscope engineers and microscope users.
This book consists of the following chapters:
Chapter 1 Designing of Evacuation Systems
Chapter 2 Vacuum Pumps
Chapter 3 Simulation of Pressures in High-Vacuum Systems
Chapter 4 Outgassing
Chapter 5 Phenomena Induced by Electron Irradiation
Chapter 6 Vacuum Gauges
Chapter 7 Microdischarges in High Vacuum
Chapter 8 Emitters for Fine Electron Probes
Some important articles on the subject of every chapter are reviewed, and their discussions and conclusions are presented in rather high detail. The author believes
that Chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 would help the engineers who engage in designing the
vacuum systems of ultrahigh vacuum scientific instruments such as electron microscopes. Chapters 7 and 8 will help the users of the scientific instruments using
electron probes to understand the key technology intrinsic to electron beam systems,
like high-voltage discharge and narrow electron beam emitter.

http://www-eng.lbl.gov/~shuman…EFs/Vacuum-Technology.pdf

SPAWAR Systems Center-Pacific Pd:D Co-Deposition Research: Overview of Refereed LENR Publications. A synopsis of 20 papers collected (and presumably re-edited) by Jack Dea.

https://www.academia.edu/83360…ublications?auto=download

Abstract
Scientists at the US Navy SPAWAR Systems Center-Pacific (SSC-Pacific), andits predecessors, have had extraordinary success in publishing LENR papers in peer-reviewed journals. This success hasn’t come easily and is due to severalfactors. One key reason for this success was the courage of the SSC-Pacific upper management in allowing scientists to conduct research and publish results in acontroversial field. The few journal editors, who had the fortitude to consider our work, also contributed to this success. This contrasts with the majority of their peers who, taking the path of least resistance, ignored our work out of hand andreturned manuscripts with, ‘the subject matter is not in the purview of the journal’.The reviewers also played a role in the successful publication of LENR-related papers. A multitude of reviewers, many outside the LENR field, had to put asidetheir biases and look objectively at our data. In turn, the reviewers’ relentlessconcerns forced us to tenaciously address their issues. Ultimately, the SSC-Pacificteam published 21 refereed papers in seven journals and a book chapter, spanning19 years beginning in 1989. This paper is a brief synopsis of those publications.

Modern Nuclear Chemistry (7.5Mb-thanks to Rends for help in preparing this document)

Second Edition

Walter D. Loveland

Oregon State University

David J. Morrissey

Michigan State University

Glenn T. Seaborg

University of California, Berkeley

Modern_Nuclear_Chemistry small.pdf

Rand corporation - Metallic and Molecular Hydrogen.

hydrogen rand corporation.pdf

Christian Iliadis Nuclear Physics of Stars.

Star nuclear physics book.pdf

A book for our times perhaps...THE FATE OF ROME: Climate, Disease, and the end of an Empire.

.....to understand the prolonged episode we know as the fall of the Roman Empire, we must look more closely at a great act of self-deception, right at the heart of the empire’s triumphant ceremonies: the undue confidence,

enacted in the bloody ritual of staged animal hunts, that the Romans had tamed the forces of wild nature. At scales that the Romans themselves could not have understood and scarcely imagined—from the microscopic to the global—the fall of their empire was the triumph of nature over human ambitions. The fate of Rome was played out by emperors and barbarians, senators and generals, soldiers and slaves. But it was equally decided by bacteria and viruses, volcanoes and solar cycles.

Only in recent years have we come into possession of the scientific tools that allow us to glimpse, often fleetingly, the grand drama of environmental change in which the Romans were unwitting actors....

The Fate of Rome_ Climate, Disease, and th - Kyle Harper.pdf

A fun read for some.

Edwin Vincent Gray

(1925 - 1989)

Edwin Gray was born in Washington, DC in 1925. He was one of 14 children. At age

eleven, he became interested in the emerging field of electronics when he watched some of the

first demonstrations of primitive radar being tested across the Potomac River. He left home at

15 and joined the Army, attending their advanced engineering school for one year before he

was discovered and honorably discharged for being under age. After the attack on Pearl Harbor,

he re-enlisted in the Navy and served three years of combat duty in the Pacific.

After the War, he worked as a mechanic and continued his studies in electro-magnetics.

After experimenting for years, he learned how to "split the positive" in 1958 and had his first

Electric Magnetic Association (EMA) motor model running in 1961. His third EMA prototype

was successfully tested for 32 days straight before it was torn down for analysis. With this report

in hand, Gray started looking for serious funding. After being turned down by every major

corporation and venture capital group he approached, he formed his own limited partnership in

1971. By early 1973, EVGray Enterprises, Inc. had an office in Van Nuys, California, hundreds

of private investors and a new (# 4) EMA motor prototype. Ed Gray had also received a

"Certificate of Merit" from Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California.

By the summer of 1973, Gray was doing demonstrations of his technology and receiving

some very positive press. By later that year, Gray had teamed up with automobile designer, Paul

M. Lewis, to build the first fuelless, electric car in America. But trouble was brewing.

On July 22, 1974 an unprovoked Los Angeles District Attorney's Office raided the office and

shop of EVGray Enterprises, and confiscated all of their business records and working

prototypes. For 8 months, the DA tried to get Gray's stockholders to file charges against him, but

none would. Gray was eventually charged with "grand theft," but even this bogus charge couldn't

stick and was finally dropped. By March 1976, Gray pleaded guilty to two minor SEC violations,

was fined, and released. The DA's office never returned his prototypes.

In spite of these troubles a number of good things were happening. His first US. Patent, on

the motor design, issued in June of 1975, and by February 1976, Gray was nominated for

"Inventor of the Year" for "discovering and proving a new form of electric power" by the Los

Angeles Patent Attorney's Association. Despite this support, Gray kept a much lower profile

after this time. In the late 1970's, Zetech, Inc. acquired Gray's technology and EVGray

Enterprises ceased to exist. In the early 1980's, Gray offered the US. Government his technology

to augment Reagan's SDI program. He actually wrote letters to every member of Congress, both

Senators and Representatives, as well as the President, Vice President, and every member of the

Cabinet. Remarkably, in response to this letter writing campaign, Gray did not receive a single

reply or even an acknowledgment! During the early 1980's, Gray lived in Council, Idaho, where

he wrote and was granted his other two US Patents. By 1986, he had a facility in Grande Prairie,

Texas, where a number of new prototype EMA motors were built. By 1989, he was working on

propulsion applications of the technology, and maintaining his residence in Council, Idaho, as

well as shop facilities in Council, Grande Prairie, and Sparks, Nevada.

Edwin V. Gray died at his shop in Sparks, Nevada, in April 1989, under mysterious

circumstances. He was 64 and in good health.

Lindemann__Peter_A__Free_Energy_Secrets_Of_Cold_Electricity__2000-compressed.pdf

Phenomenology of Ball Lightning.

A good read especially for Safire fans.

Ball lightning book Lozneanu.pdf