Einstein's Lost Hypothesis

Grajonca said:
Well for my sins I gained a 2:1 honours degree in pure chemistry back in the day!
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Well then, you should know that the energy out per the equation I gave in post #7 holds true here. The change in mass in AMU is the amount of energy out. If that mass is less, the energy is a net loss to the reaction and gain to the 'outside.' That is what happens in fission and fusion. If the change is a gain and the energy out is negative that means you are putting energy into the reaction.

The bonding curve of energy shows the expected output from fusion or fission for any isotope.

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For radioactive decay which is what all of this LENR stuff amounts to, you get a small amount of energy out in the decay process. Trying to force it using something like plasma technology is pretty much a dead end because the energy in is greater than the energy out. A neutron flipping into a proton only gives a net of about .003 AMU in mass loss equating to about 3 MeV in energy (enough to move a pencil about a quarter of an inch maybe).

If you could manage this on the scale of a fission or fusion reactor with say billions of reactions a second, you might have something. But decay rates are governed by half-lives of the isotope, and you have to start with that isotope. Then you need a means to convert that energy into a useful form that can be in turn converted into mechanical or electrical energy.

The big question is where do you get the unstable isotopes from on a continuing basis without putting energy into the system to do it?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Well then, you should know that the energy out per the equation I gave in post #7 holds true here. The change in mass in AMU is the amount of energy out. If that mass is less, the energy is a net loss to the reaction and gain to the 'outside.' That is what happens in fission and fusion. If the change is a gain and the energy out is negative that means you are putting energy into the reaction.

The bonding curve of energy shows the expected output from fusion or fission for any isotope.

500px-Binding_energy_curve_-_common_isotopes.svg.png


For radioactive decay which is what all of this LENR stuff amounts to, you get a small amount of energy out in the decay process. Trying to force it using something like plasma technology is pretty much a dead end because the energy in is greater than the energy out. A neutron flipping into a proton only gives a net of about .003 AMU in mass loss equating to about 3 MeV in energy (enough to move a pencil about a quarter of an inch maybe).

If you could manage this on the scale of a fission or fusion reactor with say billions of reactions a second, you might have something. But decay rates are governed by half-lives of the isotope, and you have to start with that isotope. Then you need a means to convert that energy into a useful form that can be in turn converted into mechanical or electrical energy.

The big question is where do you get the unstable isotopes from on a continuing basis without putting energy into the system to do it?
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I don't know the answer but neither does anybody else come to that. Any way catch you later, I'm waiting in BKK to fly to Saigon.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
I recommend the lizard on a stick from the street vendors. Sure to ward off COVID 19 if you don't die of dysentery... :)
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My daughter in law is from Saigon and has an MBA. Dont know when you were there but it's changed a bit since then! Vietnam is officially free from the virus, everything is open.
 
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Grajonca said:
My daughter in law is from Saigon and has an MBA. Dont know when you were there but it's changed a bit since then! Vietnam is officially free from the virus, everything is open.
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This is what I mean. I was being facetious about this. The street food is usually great, but they don't have like health inspections and stuff...
 
T. A. Gardner said:
This is what I mean. I was being facetious about this. The street food is usually great, but they don't have like health inspections and stuff...
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This is how it works in Thailand and Vietnam, the people there are incredibly fastidious about food. If a foodstall is producing bad food then word gets around very quickly and they go bust. Gordon Ramsay said the best phở he ever tasted was from a little old lady on a barge on the Mekong River. It's now part of the tourist trail and I went there a few years back. She is apparently very rich these days.

 
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