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In the ” Open – Minded Thinking Outside the Box ” topic title, I also posted this link :

Once again, here’s that website link about stubborn opposition to cold fusion, and vindication of it by recent finds by the U.S. Navy Laboratory, and etc. Very good reading ! ! !

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2009/04/cold-fusion-vindication-heralded.html

Definitely a very good must read ! ! ! This website covers everything I’ve said about the arrogance of mainstream science in the ” Open – Minded Thinking Outside the Box ” topic title.

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Also enter Ken Shoulders into a google search. He has done research with charge clusters for years. According to charge cluster theory, these clusters of electrical charge somehow temporarily neutralize the coulombic electroststic charge barrier and act as a catalyst for quantum tunneling fusion.

In fact, some people have even said that all three of these guys : Fleishmann, Pons, and Shoulders……all deserve a long overdue Nobel Prize for their work.

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This may or may not be the case. Cold fusion may be some kind of ultra – clean aneutronic fusion that in most cases produces very little neutrons or X – ray emissions. In that case, your grad students might survive.

Like I’ve said before, the biggest psychological mental block is the coulomb repulsive charge barrier and the dogma that it must necessarily always require extreme pressure and temperature to overcome it. This is typical of some of the closed – minded arrogance of the mainstream science establishment. Truth is, cold fusion has already been confirmed by literally hundreds of laboratories all over the world for many years. And now we have highly credible evidence from the labs of the U.S. Navy.

How much more proof and evidence is needed for closed – minded conservatism ? And what good is any amount of proof or evidence when dealing with closed – minded conservatism ? Especially when such hypocrites stubbornly refuse to go by evidence themselves, anyway ?

Like I’ve said many times before, evidence is often in the mind of the beholder. It often takes a leap of open – minded faith first before the stubborn are willing to even acknowlege and accept the overwhelming evidence.

It has already been observed by some astute researchers since the late 1950’s and early 1960’s that fusion is a phenomena of quantum wave mechanics……that there is no exact threshold temperature in which it begins to take place……that fusion reactions gradually increase over a wide range of temperatures. This can only be explained by quantum transition tunneling past the electrostatic barrier : quantum jump from point A to point B. It’s that extremely simple. I don’t know why it’s taking skeptics so many years and decades to figure – out what others had done already figured – out long before.

Just type Singularity Technologies, Skybolt Reactor or Charles Cagle into a google search. He has plans for a direct alpha conversion reactor similar to Lerner’s focus fusion……except that his reactor will operate with low temperature plasma in the tens of thousands of degrees……instead of millions or billions like most reactors. Charles Cagle claims that his reactor is not the same as cold fusion, but it is relatively speaking, when compared to most hot plasma reactors. In fact, hot plasmas tend to work against quantum tunneling past the coulomb barrier, requiring even more brute force sledge – hammer methods.

Don’t ever get into a political discussion with Charles Cagle, though. Because Cagle himself is a highly opinionated, extremely arrogant, radical right – wing extremist ass to the pale. He can be downright caustic and nasty to other people. So long as the discussion with him is physics and not politics, he’s not too bad though.

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By the way, Rematog, I love your purple alien creature with orange glowing eyes. Does he already use focus fusion on the planet where he comes from ? Perhaps he can give Lerner some design and engineering pointers on how to make the DPF operate better ! ! ! LOL. 🙂

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I made an error in my previous statement about how the goal by Barack Obama and others is 80 % reduction of CO2 emissions by 2020. But instead, it’s 80 % reduction by 2050.

This may actually be a more realizeable goal, provided we have the motivation and enough will to carry it out. But unfortunately, alas, America seems too complacent and lame – brained these days to get off the sofa and switch – off the t.v. It wil take nothing less than something on a scale like Manhattan or the Apollo kind of a crash program for nuclear fusion.

And even if successful, deeply entrenched interests like the oil and coal industry may fight it. Unless the oil industry themselves hop onto the fusion bandwagon and start using fusion to assist in their production of fusion oil.

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I’ve heard about this. It’s sort of like a hybrid battery / capacitor that combines the advantages of both. Batteries can deliver longer sustained power. An ultracapacitor is better at delivering greater power in short bursts……like fast acceleration or climbing hills, etc. The EEStor Ceramic device combines both of these desirable traits, plus long range.

Such a device will also last longer than a battery, and can take the merciless punishment of rapid charging and discharging many more cycles……which is also perfect for regenerative braking to recycle waste deceleration energy.

Make a hybrid vehicle by combining the EEStor with an alcohol fuel cell. This would give it the unlimited range of an internal combustion engine and allow all kinds of flexibility and versatility of energy sources. In addition to renewable alcohol fuel for unlimited range trips, anything 500 miles or less could run on solar, nuclear, wind, geothermal, and etc.

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By the way, exactly how is cap and trade going to work simply by selling and swapping off your greenhouse pollution credits off onto somebody else ? When reducing CO2 emissions, it all seems like a complete joke and a lot of inconvenient paperwork to me. As if everybody isn’t already completely snowed – under by too much red tape.

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Brian H stated that :

” But zero out the global warming concerns and motivation. “

You are indeed correct in that the so – called overwhelming ” consensus ” does not really exist. For the most part, the jury is still out on global warming as to how much drastic effect it will really have on anything. Jolly Roger and I already had a discussion about this on the global warming thread.

Fossil records indicate an unusually warm period about 30 million years ago when the average climate was about 5 degrees celsius warmer than now. Sea levels were only six feet higher. Instead of total collapse of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, there was only a warming of the Antarctic Penninsula with some grass and trees growing there. Current global warming trends indicate a similar trend : only a warming of the Antarctic Penninsula……not a total collapse of highly stable ice sheets.

And although a six foot rise will still eventually wreak havoc to lowlands and shipping ports for ships, it will not happen overnight. It will happen gradually over several centuries, so that we can slowly adapt to the change (New Orleans and Houston may be eventually abandoned in another hundred years, or become like Venice, Italy).

Asteroid impacts, tsunamis, and super volcano eruptions are a far greater concern, however. Those are the real worries that could really do us in.

However, if global warming does become a major problem, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Realistically, there’s just no way we can make the transition fast enough. Not without collapsing the entire economy. No matter how much you tax industry to death for CO2 emissions, they can only make the transition to other technology just so fast.

As for people like Barack Obama and Al Gore, thier ambitious goals are far too unrealistic. Although I’m all for small – scale, decentralized production from wind and solar, there’s just no way it can reduce CO2 emissions 80 % by the year 2020. That is a complete fantasy. Especially when China, India and all the rest of the world are rapidly ramping – up their output. And cap and trade is nothing but a big ponzi scheme that will do absolutely nothing to reduce emissions except possibly open – up the potential of endless abuses by crooks, etc. the way well – intentioned goverment programs often do……and will probably just cause all kinds of distortions of the free marketplace that otherwise would not occur.

And if you tax industry to death before it can change to something else, it’s like burning down your bridge before you can cross it. Or like killing the goose before it lays the golden egg. Does Barack Obama think that all these windmills and solar panels will simply construct themselves without any fossil fuel consumed or CO2 produced during their manufacture ?

So while we’re at it, I guess it probably wouldn’t hurt to use cheap nuclear fusion as an energy extraction aid…… for going after fusion oil and gas from tar sands, oil shale, coal, methane hydrate, and etc. ……in addition to all the renewables we can bring online.

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In fact, one scientist even went as far as to say that : ” Cold fusion only goes to show us that the atom is still unexplored territiory. There’s still a lot we simply don’t know about it. “

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I always thought explosions were somewhat more destructive than constructive……LOL ! ! ! :cheese:

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Speaking on the subject of natural background static in many natural (and sometimes manmade) systems :

In many electronic circuits you have a static background hiss that sometimes prevents even the most well desgined audio equipment from being immune to the problem. This is caused by turbulence and eddy currents in the flow of electrons through various electronic components.

Could this rationalize the preposterous idea that a solid – state electronic stereo amplifier blew – up and exploded itself into existence ?

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I have always liked to rock the boat and make waves against established dogma when thinking outside the usual paradign of scientific thought. I have oftentimes been ridiculed as being some kind of ignorant and naive crackpot for it. Although I never recieve recognition for anything, I’m occasionally correct about these so – salled ” crackpot ” notions.

And I can think of no better example than my own questioning of the big bang. It never did ever sit well with me. It’s almost like getting roasted at the stake by mainstream science’s 14 th century witchcraft inquisitors for having the courage to question such a darling sacred cosmological cow.

One of the phony arguements for the longest running time has been the CBR (cosmic background radiation) that was discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, using their sensitive microwave horn antenna. I have always believed that a more plausible explanation is simply all the general background static from the entire universe…… light from stars, galaxies, planets, and etc. …… all being red – shifted down to the radio portion of the spectrum by some particular means.

I have always been a big fan of the never ending, ever – lasting, steady – state universe myself. Although many in mainstream science today consider this to be an outmoded, quaint theory that’s lost it’s sexiness appeal.

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Once again, here’s that website link about stubborn opposition to cold fusion, and vindication of it by the recent finds by the U.S. Navy laboratory, and etc. Very good reading ! ! !

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2009/04/cold-fusion-vindication-heralded.html

Definitely a very good must read ! ! !

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The main point is, how many more times must evidence be provided for a new (very old) discovery like cold fusion before it gains acceptance ? A million more times ? Ten million ? 100 million ? HOW MUCH MORE EVIDENCE ?

Some like to argue that science is a hide – bound enterprise that is not open – minded……nor should it be. But I don’t completely agree with that. Being open – minded is just as crucial and important to science and reason as being skeptical.

If science is not open – minded, it is only because arrogant conservative mediocrity within mainstream science made it that way…… and greatly stagnated and impeded it’s advance in the process.

Not to mention the fact that closed minds and pessimist type of thinking has an innate, built – in tendency for becoming a self – fullfilling prophecy. If people say we can’t…… THEN WE CAN’T…… just as simple as that.

And I can think of no better example than the history of things like cold fusion.

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Indeed, an enormous body of scientific knowlege has been lost over the centuries. Things have been repeatedly discovered and forgotten again many times. Wars, conquest, revolutions and all the destruction it entails didn’t help matters, either. Such as the destruction of the anchient library of Alexandria, Egypt.

Many of these civilizations of antiquity were far more advanced than modern people give them credit for. So that archaeologists are constantly astounded by new discoveries about the anchient world that prove otherwise. Such as the art of Egyptian beer making that is equivalent to any modern commercial brand of beer. Or evidence of electric batteries and possibly an Egyptian lightbulb (long before Edison’s time ! ! !), or how about a Greek navigational computer full of gears almost as sophisticated as a Swiss watch ?

Not all the anchients were ignorant or dumb. Not any more than some individuals today. It would indeed be arrogant to think otherwise.

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