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THHuxleynew Replied to the thread Detailed treatment of Maxwell's errors.
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The Prins experimental work was anomalous but not conclusive or even strongly indicative of superconductivity. There are weird results everywhere which no-one has worked out an exact mechanism for - if this were superconductivity… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread Detailed treatment of Maxwell's errors.
Johan Prins claimed diamond was a superconductor in 2003.
https://physicsworld.com/a/can…-now-be-a-superconductor/
This was met with skepticism but also much interest.
The experimental evidence was poor.
In his experiments, Prins measures the current that… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread NASA’s updated Lattice Assisted Nuclear Fusion revamped site (Have Fleischmann and Pons been finally vindicated?).
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NS does not normally do articles on weird not fully understood scientific lacunae. (It would do articles on ball lightning - which is weird not entirely understood but a long-standing and very visible pop-science phenomenon).
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THHuxleynew Replied to the thread NASA’s updated Lattice Assisted Nuclear Fusion revamped site (Have Fleischmann and Pons been finally vindicated?).
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Maybe just LENR that works? -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread LENR vs Solar/Wind, and emerging Green Technologies..
Gravity batteries needing the right location (mines etc)?
Not all of them.
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THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The Playground - No more Covid Games Please..
It is only in the free-energy-device world that a Maestro giving tips on Physics (however - in the case of Rossi - incoherent and just plain wrong) could attract a devoted following.
I mean - Elon Musk loves twitter (maybe not so much now) - but he does… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread CleanHME: new EU-funded LENR research project.
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Either LENR is nuclear reactions - or it is a collection of other stuff none of which is useful fusion.
If the former, then the theory and experimental evidence will join up - and each will help the other.
I agree that experiments that… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread LENR vs Solar/Wind, and emerging Green Technologies..
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When thinking about long-term (> 5 years) solutions we should, I think, usually ignore problems about raw material supply. Higher commodity prices lead to more exploration and mining lead to higher supply volume and lower prices.… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread LENR vs Solar/Wind, and emerging Green Technologies..
Another spinoff from hot fusion research money:
gyrotrons for ultra-deep drilling!
https://newatlas.com/energy/qu…al-millimeter-wave-drill/
Indeed, gyrotrons capable of generating continuous energy beams over a megawatt in power are now becoming available,… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread LENR vs Solar/Wind, and emerging Green Technologies..
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What is needed is much better long-term and short-term grid storage.
The technologies for this (big batteries + various non-battery alt storage methods) are in very active development, and getting better all the time. In principle… -
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to ZenoOfElea’s post in the thread The Playground - No more Covid Games Please..
On this topic;
Quanta have an excellent article on Alzheimer's research.
What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer. | Quanta Magazine
This shows how the Alzheimer's research community and their funding pipelines became focused on the… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The Playground - No more Covid Games Please..
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THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The Playground - No more Covid Games Please..
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He realized that these exclusive groups of believers subscribe to a far-fetched notion under the premise that they are privileged to know it while outsiders will only recognize its truthfulness in the future. When evidence… -
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THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The 2006 Z machine experiments, a mostly overlooked major science hit, and the potential link to LENR.
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Right - but what matters is the future of ICF. NIF jutst happened to have bigger lasers than anywhere else that could also be used to investigate fusion. Based on these results (and the slightly silly PR got from teh Q> 1 thing) we… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The 2006 Z machine experiments, a mostly overlooked major science hit, and the potential link to LENR.
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(1) What evidence do you have that laser array output energy over the 10ps or so time needed cannot be increased?
(2) Regardless - ICF now has COP=2.5. better than current DPF approaches, so given there is significant fusion the… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The 2006 Z machine experiments, a mostly overlooked major science hit, and the potential link to LENR.
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Curbina - I'm happy for you to detail what that I say is wrong. However just saying "you did not read this essay" is a cheap way to rubbish what somone says without bothering to see what (if anything) is wrong with it.
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THHuxleynew Replied to the thread Helion Energy Raises $1.5 Million for Fusion Reactor.
Helion has a neat idea - but little technical evidence that what they hope will to work will work.
They claim they will (patent) breed 3He from D - and the 3He-3He reaction produces high energy p suitable for this - but note that the breeding reaction is… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The 2006 Z machine experiments, a mostly overlooked major science hit, and the potential link to LENR.
Basically - it is only this site that equates hot fusion to ITER and dismisses it. Everyone else looks to small private companies that are using the ITER science and other stuff to try different "promises to be much smaller and work" concepts.
That, for… -
THHuxleynew Replied to the thread The 2006 Z machine experiments, a mostly overlooked major science hit, and the potential link to LENR.
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Only this site could come to that conclusion from the Z machine experiments!
The kinetic energy in is estimated - and the conclusion the Z-pinch guys come to is that those estimates are wrong - with plasma effects allowing longer mean…