Posted on 03/30/2015 9:43:40 AM PDT by Normandy
One doesn’t cure cancer, but the patient.
That said, many types of cancer, if treated
early enough, are curable, are they not?
(At least before ObamaCARE).
Of current interest:
LENR in space, that would be awesome, almost as good as Muslim outreach. I assume they would use the same thermoelectric generators (the electrical part) that they currently use PU for.
I like the people doing the work, I didn’t exactly go through all their bios but this looks like a serious endeavor.
I nominate you to restart the LENR ping list. It’s a great honor!
That was, I think, the original plan, and probably is still the current main area of focus......but I also think that with the potential availability of higher power levels (10's of kilowatts), that other "heat-to-electricity" means will become desirable (i.e. Stirling generators).
This could revolutionize "deep space" work.
"I like the people doing the work, I didn’t exactly go through all their bios but this looks like a serious endeavor."
Well, Miley is certainly legitimate, as is the university he works for.
"I nominate you to restart the LENR ping list. It’s a great honor!"
Wish I had the time....but I didn't even when Kevmo was doing most of the work. But there is SO MUCH new information coming out, that it is just about impossible to keep up with.
Most heaters (I design and sell heaters for industry) are indeed a coil of wire but not an electronic coil and have no usable inductance or reluctance, they are straight resistance. Any wire has some inductance but it is not used or calculated for any but the most demanding instrumental calculations. To be what most would consider a “Coil” there should be either a core, a frame or other wound material next to the coil in question. A heater coil is a “one” turn coil. The electromagnetic force generated in that “coil” has a one cycle and one turn effect. When you have many turns in a coil that counter electromotive force collapses through all of them so that the effect is greatly exaggerated. In a heater “coil” even when using alternating current the collapsing field is about the same effect as a straight wire, the coils are so separated or stretched by distance as to not be a true coil. It really is something in this case to be ignored.
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