Alan Smith
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Yes, a new variant of omicron is spreading on at least four continents. But, no, it shouldn't be a cause for panic, Massachusetts scientists said Tuesday.
Unlike two years ago when everyone was first learning about COVID-19, there are now many tools to combat the disease, and, like its cousin, omicron BA.2 is expected to remain relatively mild.
"I don't think it's going to cause the degree of chaos and disruption, morbidity and mortality that BA.1 did," said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. "I'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to continue to move to a better place and, hopefully, one where each new variant on the horizon isn't news."
'STAYING VIGILANT AGAINST THE VIRUS': Pfizer and BioNTech announce plans to test omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine in adult trials
While COVID-19 cases have begun to decline in places like Massachusetts, where omicron hit hard late last year, cases of BA.2 are on the rise in the Philippines, India, Denmark and South Africa, Lemieux said. Cases have been reported in the United States, too – so far in California, New Mexico, Texas and Washington state.
It's not clear yet whether BA.2 is pushing out the original omicron variant, now referred to as BA.1, he said.
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Here's a link to the paywalled paper.
Raman spectra from electrode surfacesThe Raman spectra of electrochemically deposited HgCl, HgBr and HgO on Hg/Pt substrates have been observed.pubs.rsc.orgIt may be available elswhere.
ETA- this is on Researchgate...
The discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering
- March 2009
- Notes and Records of The Royal Society 63(1):105-109
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We urgently need to look for a transformer for 6 kilovolts, so with these trances it’s a difficult option. Whoever can send a trance for a capacitor at 1000 microfarads and 6000 volts is very necessary
Hi Gennady. I think you need to look in your dictionary to find a better English translation than 'trance'. Trance in English is a strange state of mind in a person, induced perhaps by hypnosis. It is never applied to an inanimate object like a rock or a transformer.
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I've moved some off topic/overtly political posts from here to 'clearance'.
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The 15th International Workshop on Hydrogen Loaded Metals - Assisi Italy 25-29th Sept 2022.
To be held at the Domus Pacis Hotel (again) - the attached document has more details.
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Shane D! Why did you upset me with your stupidity??? I had a different opinion about you .
I would like to remind you that there are no stupid people here. There are only banned people, mistaken people, smart people and very smart people.
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@ GRMattson
Welcome! This paper might answer some of your questions - but it is important to note that the mechanisms by which the Earth gains or loses water is still a topic of study and debate.
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Nano-Engineered Materials for LENR - Google Patents
The energy landscape of these materials is designed to increase a tunneling probability of atoms that participate in a fusion reaction.
I am not surprised this patent was abandoned, since it is almost entirely hyper-physics hand-waving.
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Advanced Energy Concepts Challenging the Second Law of ThermodynamicsAn SSE Symposium in conjunction with the 4th Annual Advanced Propulsion and Energy Workshop on Zoom
Some of the first few days of this meeting online now- I am hoping the rest will follow...
Advanced Propulsion and Energy 2022Advanced Propulsion and Energy 2022 January 18 through January 22, 2022 10:00 to ~5:00 Eastern Time Zoom open starting at 9:30 (links below) Agenda Link We…unlab.us -
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HYDROGEN(H2)This does not add up. How can a 'natural ore' be proprietary?
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A report from Carl Page's UK Venture, Terra Praxis. Thanks to Gregory Byron Goble for soptting the company.
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they delete everything
We delete almost nothing, except for advertising spam and name-calling ad homs. And that only after careful consideration.
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Actually Thomas, I follow the science whereas your continual criticism of early treatment studies leads one to believe that you are anti science!
Actually my heart sinks when I see 'I follow the science'. Think about it, you might as well say 'I follow the politics' In both cases it's a case of 'what science, what politics?'. 'Alchemy? Stalinism?
'We follow the science' was and is a UK political claim. In their case making sure there's someone else they can blame for every snafu,
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Almost 4 years on and not even Russ George's collaborators know how to reproduce his results.
But we do know how to improve on them
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Russ and I calibrated the Theremino GS with several isotopes including Cs137, K40 and Thorium.
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I think Garret Model's presentation will be the most interesting.
ETA- Tajmar slides available here...https://slideplayer.com/slide/6653168/
Experimental Study of the Machian Mass Fluctuation Effect Using a µN Thrust Balance N. Buldrini, K. Marhold, B. Seifert and M. Tajmar Space Propulsion. - ppt downloadMachian Mass Fluctuations ≈ Mass Fluctuation in a Capacitor Capacitor Volume Delivered Powerslideplayer.com -
And is it?
We try to make it so.
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Reminder...
Advanced Energy Concepts Challenging the Second Law of Thermodynamics
An SSE Symposium in conjunction with the 4th Annual Advanced Propulsion and Energy Workshop on Zoom
January 22, 2022, 10am - 6pm EST
10:00 AM – Daniel Sheehan. Beyond the thermodynamic limit: A template for second law challenges
11:00 AM – Paul Thibado. Graphene induces current in a circuit allowing thermal energy harvesting at a single temperature
12:00 PM – Germano D'Abramo. Theoretical analysis of thermionic emission as a way to harvest heat energy at a uniform temperature
12:50 PM – Lunch break
2:00 PM – James Weifu Lee. Energy renewal: isothermal utilization of environmental heat energy with asymmetric functions
3:00 PM – George Hathaway. Fundamental issues in energy harvesting
4:00 PM – Garret Moddel. Extracting zero-point energy: does it violate the second law?
5:00 PM – Panel discussion: Evidence for violations of the second law
5:50 PM – Conclusion
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So the main activity on this website is an ongoing debate about Covid-19 and it is tucked away in a thread called “The Playground” to indicate that it is not an appropriate topic. Who exactly is this subterfuge supposed to be fooling? How about acting like grownups and call this thread “Covid-19 Discussion” or something similar? i’m sure the LENR police will let you slide.
This decision to move both Rossi and Covid discussion into the 'Playground' was taken not lightly, but following a lot of discussion, both internally, and with our external advisors who are scientists working in the field. None of the forum team feel strongly that we have lost anything important by taking this action, even though we knew there would be a few dissenting voices. This is a cold fusion forum, and that should therefore be the dominant topic.