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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    You really do spout a load of bullshit!
    Almost as much as you do!

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    I thought his best hypothesis was proving relativity by that talking to a beautiful woman over dinner where an hour passed like a minute as opposed to sitting on a hot stove where a minute passed like an hour.

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/24/hot-stove/

    Hey, the guy had a wicked sense of humor...

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Why? They're just trying to find out the process by which neutrons switch properties to become a proton. It doesn't appear to have any "sustainable energy" applications. That is implied in the label Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.
    Well it seems to be getting a fair bit of attention now, I am prepared to keep an open mind you clearly are not.

    https://brillouinenergy.com/science-technology

    https://lenr-energy.info/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    Well it seems to be getting a fair bit of attention now, I am prepared to keep an open mind you clearly are not.

    https://brillouinenergy.com/science-technology

    https://lenr-energy.info/
    Maybe that's because I was in the Navy's nuclear power program and took an engineering degree in college... I know quite a bit about things nuclear...

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    Maybe that's because I was in the Navy's nuclear power program and took an engineering degree in college... I know quite a bit about things nuclear...
    Well for my sins I gained a 2:1 honours degree in pure chemistry back in the day!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    Well for my sins I gained a 2:1 honours degree in pure chemistry back in the day!
    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.



    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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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    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.



    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?
    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.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    I recommend the lizard on a stick from the street vendors. Sure to ward off COVID 19 if you don't die of dysentery...
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Grajonca View Post
    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.


    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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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post

    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...
    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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    I found this paper on Research Gate, makes for fascinating reading

    https://www.researchgate.net/publica..._Proof_of_LENR
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven VanderMolen View Post
    Hey AProudyLefty
    Do you understand this? I've majored in mathematics/CS with a minor in Physics with GR classes. I don't understand it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Do you understand this? I've majored in mathematics/CS with a minor in Physics with GR classes. I don't understand it.
    Nope, it's all Greek to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven VanderMolen View Post
    Nope, it's all Greek to me!
    Yeah but he claimed that it's "overlooked". It has been so many years and scientists overlooked it? I've studied GR and understood and never heard of this.

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