[AaronB]

FF-1 doesn’t work in glow or dark mode. It works in holy-cow-melt-your-socks-off-at-1-mega-amp-at-35KV mode. You can’t be in the room with it when it fires because of all the neutrons it gives off. It depends on a strong arc to produce the pinch effect, which makes conditions right for fusion. As cool as SAFIRE is, it can’t work as a fusion device. I hope they make some neat discoveries, and perhaps some of those findings will be applicable to our work. We’ll see, and wish them luck in the meantime.

[AaronB]

Hi Maya. I review ideas like this a couple of times per year for investors, family, and friends. NDAs aren’t a problem for me. I’d be happy to look over the technology and let you know whether it seems viable or not. Besides being viable, it has to be marketable. I’ll be brutally honest in my assessment, just so you know, but that doesn’t mean I just look for the bad. I look for the potential also. Applying for and receiving a patent is a long and expensive process, and you have to decide whether the technology is worth it. Just send me a private message if you want.

[AaronB]

We’re putting the finishing touches on the new report now.

[AaronB]

That’s great news! Congratulations!

[AaronB]

And here’s an interesting article about the the largest structure just discovered. It’s bigger than it’s supposed to be to fit in the BB model.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/11/largest-structure-in-universe-discovered/

“This is hugely exciting, not least because it runs counter to our current understanding of the scale of the universe.”

“The newfound LQC is composed of 73 quasars and spans about 1.6 billion light-years in most directions, though it is 4 billion light-years across at its widest point.”

“The newly discovered LQC is so enormous, in fact, that theory predicts it shouldn’t exist, researchers said. The quasar group appears to violate a widely accepted assumption known as the cosmological principle, which holds that the universe is essentially homogeneous when viewed at a sufficiently large scale. Calculations suggest that structures larger than about 1.2 billion light-years should not exist, researchers said.”

[AaronB]

Well, the history of fusion development has been pretty rocky, so I understand the author’s skepticism. There have been a lot of hyped claims and false starts. The truth is, fusion is hard. Aneutronic fusion, the kind we’re working on, is even harder. But hard doesn’t mean impossible. Other things have been hard too, like starting a fire, crossing the Atlantic, heavier-than-air flight, putting a man on the moon, decoding DNA, and building a world wide web of computers so people can spout off their opinions about things. Before the Wright brothers made their successful attempt, many other “dreamers, hucksters, and loons” built many variations of gliders with varying degrees of success. The fusion field is in the same situation now, in glider mode with varying degrees of success but without sustained, positive-net-energy output. We know fusion is possible, but we don’t know the best (or any) way to produce useful power with it, yet. To point out the flaws and fakes is one thing, but to dismiss the whole idea is very short sighted.

Heavier-than-air flight is hard but possible. Birds have been doing it for millions of years. Fusion is hard but possible. The sun has been doing it for billions of years. Once we figure out and apply the scientific principles behind something, it can go from theoretically possible to routine occurrence in a relatively short period of time. I applaud the dedicated scientists and researchers who have applied themselves to all of the various challenges and brought us to where we are today. Some people wither in the face of adversity while others endure to find better ways. Who do you think wins the prize?

By the way, the “touted by startup” link referred to Tri Alpha Energy, and they do have a lot of cash to play with. I wish we could say the same for ourselves. 🙂

[AaronB]

I liked the article too. I don’t understand the part about how the sun could be powered by electrical currents running through the galaxy instead of by fusion. Wouldn’t there have to be a side of the sun where the electricity flowed in and a side where it flowed out? Wouldn’t those areas be much brighter, and wouldn’t there be obvious magnetic fields associated with that current? There should be some polarity that could be measured by satellites or visible whenever there is a CME. I just don’t see the evidence for that.

On the other hand, I do think the sun is very electrically active and teeming with magnetic fields, which cause the corona to be so bright. I just think those magnetic fields are generated from inside rather than outside, but with some evidence, I’d be open to other ideas.

[AaronB]

The guys with the cash that I’ve talked to seem fine with it so far. As for our personal security, nobody in the security world cares about fusion. I’ve spoken to them. If we were dealing with radioactive fuels, waste, or enrichment technology, it would be a different story, but as it stands now, we are not even a footnote on the radar scopes of the DoD or DHS. We might as well be smashing cookies together at 180 keV. If you wanted to make a weapon out of the DPF, the best way would be to stick it in a big crate and drop the whole thing, capacitors and all, out the back end of a C-130 on the enemy’s head, but a forklift would be as effective.

As far as going to jail or dying for a cause, we are all under a death sentence already. We just choose how to spend our time and what cause to support before our day comes. Figuring out fusion seemed like a good candidate to me, which is why I’m doing it.

[AaronB]

Those without Inspec could probably start with Google Scholar. For instance, here is a suggested search:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=dense+plasma+focus&as_sdt=0,31&as_ylo=2010&as_vis=0

[AaronB]

Does anybody have any connection with these guys? They need to be aware of our work. We’ve had other posts about sprites and jets associated with gamma rays. Too few scientists are familiar with plasma physics and the basic principles of pinching and the formation of jets. If we can make fusion reactions (and neutrons) with just one MA and 40 kV in FF-1, then surely a bolt of lightning can do it also.

[AaronB]

Maybe I’m a bit too optimistic, but I think the NIF guys will reach “real” ignition pretty soon. It is easy to be critical “based on current understanding and models”. Progress happens when we build on the past and expand into the unknown. Naturally, you can’t ignore the laws of nature, but you can look for stepping stones through them. Airplanes and space travel were impossible until we built the tools to do them. Modifying DNA was impossible until we built the tools. Elements were considered immutable until we mutated them with atom smashers. When one hundred approaches fail, the combined lessons learned plus a new idea will lead to success. It’s technological evolution, and in this case, there are intelligent designers all over the world working on it. Time, effort, money and brains will make it happen. I don’t know how, but it will.

For about four years, I was stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, which houses the Air Force’s Flight Test Center. They have a great museum that shows the history of flight development. It wasn’t a perfect process, and it had many setbacks and deaths. It takes a special kind of person to strap themselves into an untested aircraft and see what happens. You have to be willing to break things and suffer disasters when you’re involved in cutting-edge research. It just happens, but if you watch carefully and study the wreckage, you learn the limits and then find a way around them.

So, whether it is our project or NIF’s, the evolutionary curve will continue to grow, and eventually someone will figure it out. Then, over the next 50 years, we’ll probably see the same kind of development that happened in the aircraft industry.

[AaronB]

This map of galactic magnetic fields shows the prevalence of magnetic fields in interstellar space. Magnetic fields cause the polarity of light to align with the fields. This is called the Faraday effect. The polarity of light is the axis of the angular momentum of the photon. It is my opinion that it takes energy to change that polarity, just like it takes energy to change the axis of a spinning bicycle tire. Since the speed of light is fixed in a certain medium, the only way for a photon to lose energy is in its frequency, or the speed of its spin. Since a photon is essentially massless, it would only lose a tiny bit of energy when its axis of rotation was changed, so it would only experience a tiny redshift with each change. However, a photon traveling for billions of years through many different intergalactic magnetic fields would, it seems to me, experience a significant amount of redshift that would be roughly linear with the distance traveled, depending on the number of magnetic fields it encountered along the way. If this hasn’t been proposed before, we can call it Faraday redshifting. It avoids the scattering problems of other tired light proposals. What do you think?

[AaronB]

“The magnetic field directions above and below the disk seem to be diametrically opposed, as indicated by the positive (red) and negative (blue) values. An analogous change of direction takes place across the vertical center line, which runs through the center of the Milky Way.”

Well, that’s interesting. Sounds a little like an electric motor or generator. I wonder what would happen to plasma and electrons in the arms of a spinning galaxy that has magnetic fields set up like that. Hmmm.

[AaronB]

Good thinking! I don’t think it’s crazy at all because it matches what I think. 🙂 To further your thoughts, the quarks that make up a neutron or proton ARE the superimposed and interacting waves. The waves are caught in a stable, inter-precessing, harmonic grip. To go further, the trapped waves concentrate the space-time fabric, since waves have more surface length than flat lines, which pulls surrounding fabric toward it just a little bit. Therefore, if any two particles exist, the fabric directly between them is shorter and tighter than the surrounding ambient fabric. This creates a gradient, which is or causes the force called gravity. The ratio of that gradient increases as the particles approach each other. To go further, space-time fabric has a natural speed of wave propagation in a vacuum (area without mass particles to mess it up). But in a space where there is a super-concentrated amount of mass, the relative ambient fabric itself is pulled tighter, so the speed of propagation goes up (c is not constant). So, you can have a super-concentrated mass without a singularity (ie. no black holes or other impossible event-horizon craziness). To get a bit more speculative, the chirality of the waves that made the primordial particle set the stage for the matter-antimatter asymmetry since the EMR waves that left the particle to interact elsewhere in space had consistently one-directional angular momentum (polarized light). The primordial particle was the instability that “seeded” the rest of the universe. Instead of a big bang, it was the “little pop” in an otherwise lonely universe that started the subsequent avalanche into what we have now. Gravity eventually concentrated the hydrogen, creating a higher level instability, a star, which led to higher order atoms and energy concentration. The first supernova brought the next instability and even higher-order atoms about. And on and on in a fractal/Fibonacci kind of growth.

To build a matter-to-energy converter, I suppose you’d have to get the quark waves to come out of harmonic precession somehow. Throw a Planck wrench into it and let the gears fly!

Fine print: These are my own ideas and opinions, and do not necessarily represent the opinions or views of anyone or anything else. If someone else already thought of them or wrote about them, I’m unaware of it, but so be it. If these ideas are completely wrong, I reserve the right to change my mind at any future time, or to hold onto them for as long as I want.

[AaronB]

For only $1,295, you can read his report that will (apparently) tell you more about the rice cooker fusion machine and the company behind it. For some reason, I’m a bit skeptical of the second-hand report of the unseen and unconfirmed device.

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