Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:04:50
-0600 The huge cartel (of both industry
and science) for building hundreds of new nuclear power plants, at a
cost to the taxpayer of more than a trillion dollars, is being
strongly pushed. One of the objectives has been to suppress cold
fusion, while either duplicating in easy hot fusion the cold fusion of
two deuterium ions into a He4 nucleus/ion (i.e., an alpha particle).
Last year it was discovered at
UCLA that clever use of a pyroelectric crystal in deuterium gas could
induce deuterium fusion into He4 without an external neutron source.
However, it was still awkward because one had to cool the crystal to
cryogenic temperatures.
Recently that process has been
much improved at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in a little tabletop
accelerator using two opposing pyroelectric crystals, without
cryogenic cooling being required. The crystals may be heated or cooled
in order to produce a very strong electric field between them. The
energy can add sufficient energy to deuterons to cause their collision
to fuse pairs of deuterons into He4 nuclei (alpha particles). All
while the overall apparatus is at room temperature and without
cryogenic cooling. See the paper in the Jan. 27 issue of Physical
Review Letters.
So the big nuclear power advocates
now have a process that conceivably can produce the helium the large
number of pebble bed reactor nuclear power plants will require, and
without using huge, terribly expensive large accelerators and
cryogenics. So the cartel can run with this one as still being
hot fusion, while they
also continue to suppress the field of cold fusion.
The cartel has also successfully
convinced the U.S. President that building those hundreds of new
nuclear power plants is the only means the U.S. has of reducing its
critical dependence on oil and other hydrocarbon fuels, and thus the
only way to prevent a disastrous national economic collapse as
conventional energy sources further dry up and energy prices escalate
off the chart.
And yes, cold fusion does have
lots more things in it. Much of it really uses the natural negative
entropy fluctuations in a given fluid under proper conditions, as we
discussed in our book, Energy from the Vacuum: Concepts and
Principles, 2002. Production of negative entropy in such a
fluctuation means that the second law of thermodynamics is temporarily
violated and “reversed” in such fluctuations. It has been proven
experimentally that such negative entropy fluctuations can exist in
cubic micron volumes for up to two seconds. This means that, in the
fluctuation negative entropy volume,
momentarily many chemical reactions
are reversed – and also that
like charges can momentarily attract.
Thus in a deuterated solution, two deuterium ions can actually attract
sufficiently for each to penetrate into the strong force region of the
other. In that case, when the fluctuation reverses and entropy
returns, the two ions just draw closer together by the strong force,
binding them into a real He4 ion. That is why so many cold fusion
experiments do yield excess alpha particles (He4 ions).
We point out that the deuterium
gas used in the new table-top accelerator is in fact a statistical gas
having strong negative entropy microfluctuations statistically. As
Maxwell pointed out in 1878,
Well, it doesn’t matter how you
get that excess “energy density” (negative entropy) in there. You can
do it by adding lots of kinetic energy to a beam, and just “smash” the
speeding deuteron into another so energetically that each penetrates
to the strong force region of the other, resulting in fusion. It
doesn’t matter how one gets the excess energy (the negative entropy):
Letting the microfluctuations do most of it is what is important.
That way, you can call it either
“hot” fusion or “cold” fusion as you wish, and the result will still
be the same.
So now the cartel has their
necessary adaptation of the cold fusion discovery of generating lots
of alpha particles, and doing it in a tabletop apparatus without
cryogenics or high external heating.
Best wishes, Tom Bearden
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