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There’s really nothing new about the idea of fusion oil. I had done already arrived at the idea (and possibly many others) years ago that some non – fossil energy source such as nuclear could assist in making renewable hydrocarbons. In fact, I made a post some time ago about how many other energy sources could come riding in on the back of focus fusion : cheaper solar cell manufacture, greater agricultural production of biomass, and etc.

There are many different versions of how nuclear power can do this, from processing recycled garbage, to biomass crops grown specifically for that purpose, to seawater extraction of CO2, and etc. The possibilities are endless.

Several years ago, I came – up with the idea of how thorium nuclear reactors could provide the process heat for more economical large – scale pyrolysis of industrial hemp into renewable petroleum products. If a non – fossil fuel nuclear source is used to provide the process heat, it greatly improves the economics of the entire operation. Because you no longer have the law of diminishing returns, where you have to burn – up hydrocarbons in order to produce them.

Just substitute the thorium reactor for focus fusion and you have thermal pyrolysis of hemp, algae, switchgrass, municipal trash and garbage, etc. by way of endless fusion power. The permutations of the same basic idea are endless, and would radically change the whole economic equation to cellulosic alcohol production and just about everything else.

There is also a company called Startech Corporation. They are already using a high temperature plasma torch to recycle municipal garbage into renewable fuel. It also burns – up toxic chemicals and immobilizes toxic metals in an insoluble glassy material similar to obsidian volcanic rock. The extra glassy rock byproduct can be used as a building and construction material, and also a superior type of asphalt road pavement. Such a plasma torch method could all be powered by nuclear fusion.

And while hydrogen alone in itself is bulky and not very economic to store, it can be added to things like garbage or biomass to increase the amount of renewable diesel fuel and other hydrocarbons produced. It makes the fisher – tropsch synthetic fuel process much more efficient when a higher proportion of hydrogen is added to the synthesis gases. And electricity generated by focus fusion can supply plenty of additional hydrogen to the chemical reaction by way of electrolysis.

And although it would not help the global warming problem any, nuclear energy can also assist in producing more hydrocarbons from things like conventional oil wells, oil shale, and coal. But to avoid global warming, I would prefer the renewable methods as much as posible.

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But then again, there’s a certain degree of uncertainty to reality itself. Which can sometimes make truly valid things and truly nonsense things difficult to distinguish the difference between the two. Only if you know all knowlege and information that exists……both known and unknown yet to be known……which is impossible……can you have any absolute certainty about any claims you make.

That’s why some of today’s crackpots may become tomorrow’s visionaries. Like the discovery of cold fusion, for example. In the future, it may be as accepted as an everyday fact of life as television, cellphones, and airplanes are today. It’s always easy to accept something as a part of everyday life when it’s already post – invention rather than pre – invention.

And then you have things that in all likelihood and probability are truly cracked in the truest sense. Such as a real Santa Claus, fairies, werewoles, vampires, and etc.

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I’ve heard about these guys before(I think the society is located somewhere in Illinois, if I’m correct). I first heard about them over 20 years ago, and I couldn’t believe that in the modern era of education some people still cling to such beliefs. Which sort of goes back to your quote about being skeptical of even some skeptics. I was at first skeptical that some people could be skeptical of a round Earth.

Closed – minded arrogance and ignorance against truly valid, real ideas and such is one thing……but some things are just truly idiotic to the point where even the most open – minded should not be open – minded about them. There’s a big difference between the two.

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But then again, if a fuel that first ignites at lower temperature helps to further preheat the fuel prior to boron ignition……then might that possibly extend the available nuclear reaction time longer than only 6 picoseconds ?

If so, it might open a window of whole new possibilities for many more sucessive reaction events to take place.

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One of the big physics questions that I have always pondered upon is this one : How does the very existence of mass contribute to this weaker form of electromagnetism (gravity) in another mathematical / geometrical dimmension of space – time ?

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As far as the human mind and it’s contribution to the progress of science and technology is concerned, many arrogant, mainstream science conservatives think that science and reason has nothing to do with maintaining an open mind or thinking outside the main paradign…… nor should it…… and that science has always been a hide – bound enterprise.

There is a certain ring of truth to it. But that’s only because the closed – minded arrogance of conservative mediocrity within mainstream science has made it that way for the most part…… and drastically stagnated and impeded it’s advance.

Such as when it comes to things like trying to find a catalyst to help facilitate low temperature quantum mechanics tunneling fusion, and etc. Could such a substance be the palladium so often used in cold fusion experimentation ? Could that be the catalyst material that helps facilitate the quantum transition leap past the electrostatic coulomb charge barrier ?

Closed – minded pessimist type of thinking has a built – in, innate tendency to become self – fullfilling. I’ve seen evidence of how this negative connection between science and mind works time and again. If people say we can’t all the time……THEN WE CAN’T……just as simple as that. If there ever was a very negative and defeatist connection between mind, spirit and science that SAPS SCIENCE OF ALL IT’ S SPIRIT…… especially the pioneering spirit…… I’d say it’s most certainly this one. Let the mind and spirit be free to go ahead and fantacize all sorts of unlimited crazy crackpot ideas…… along with a few workable good ones. I’m fully confident that science and reason will eventually prevail in sorting out all the rest.

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AaronB said :

” I would agree that everything is energy in some form, but not all energy is electrical. Further, gravity is a very weak force, and it seems to be linked only to mass, not electromagnetism, so an absolute link is difficult to establish “

There is a certain amout of both truth and falsehood to all this, depending on your perspective and how you interpret it. Everything is somehow the same thing on some kind of complex fundamental level which we still do not quite comprehend. This is one of the main paradoxical conundrums of physics : how does the same thing on some basic level manifest itself as everything different all around us ? The main underlying striving force behind the history of physical understanding is in trying to make sense of it all…… to find unity and order in all the disunity and choas.

Albert Einstein strived unsuccesfully to the rest of his dying days to try and find some kind of simple, unified theory that would unite everything in this complex cosmos and explain it all. Unification of both the electric force and the magnetic force was relatively easy. But trying to unify the connection with other things are still giving physicists headaches and fits even to this day. Some theoretical mathamaticians have proven, for example, that the force of gravity may be the same as magnetism in some other dimmension of space – time. They are still striving to come – up with a theory of everything to explain all the cosmic confusion even to this day. Such theories as Super Strings and Super Symetry and everything else your fertile mind could possibly imagine.

But aahhh……when that occasional breakthrough or new insight comes……such as Einstein’s miracle year in 1905 when he intuitively realized the mathematical beauty in the famous equation E = MC2…… and how it all beautifully connects the relationships of time, mass, energy, and the velocity of electromagnetic energy waves in space to one simple, concise equation.

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Breakable said :

” It’s good to be skeptical……even of the skeptic. “

Excellent quote ! ! ! I’ll have to remember that one. Especially since I believe critical thinking in science and the scientific method should entail a combination of both open – mindedness to new ideas and ways of thinking…… as well as the skeptical analysis to test such things out as to their validity.

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Brian H stated that :

” Your brain is actually not aware of anything. It just thinks it is “

How true. When you scientifically rationalize it in all it’s full depth, you come to the conclusion that consciousness is all just an illusion that your brain creates.

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Woooo ! ! ! This is really fun reading:

Here’s an excellent website that covers cold fusion, the arrogance of the mainstream science establishment, and just about everything I’ve discussed so far. Provided it doesn’t take 100 Million more future generations to read it all, the time and effort to read it all is definitely well worth it…… because it’s so well written in getting the point across. Here’s the website link :

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

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The pulse duration in picoseconds may indeed present a problem, however. These multi – step reactions helping to kick – off the next reaction all have to occur within only 6 picoseconds or less.

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I have also raised the possibility of using lithium as fuel. But skeptics such as Jimmy T and others like to point out the fact that p-B11 is the so – called ” Holy Grail ” of fusion. There’s no doubt that the p-B11 reaction has it’s advantages, which is why Lerner chose it above all other aneutronic reactions. However, I was thinking more along the lines of lithium as a partial supplement rather than a complete substitute for boron. If fuels like He 3 or Li 6 can be made to ignite at lower temperature and pressure, it may help to preheat the plasma and give p-B11 a little extra more energy boost than the electric power supply alone can provide.

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Boron availability ? Shortage ? You kidding ?

Focus fusion should have no problem with that over the next millions of years or so. Not only can it be extracted in virtually unlimited quantity from seawater if the price is high enough and we’re desperate enough, I don’t even think we would even necessarily need to do that. There are vast volcanic deposits created by volcanoes in Chile and many other parts of the world that have a very high boron content to them. And when considering how much energy can be cheaply produced from a single gram of decaborane, I don’t think focus fusion will have any problem. And furthermore, we have not even begun to thoroughly explore all the rich volcanic deposits right here in the Western part of the United States. And if unlimited cheap focus fusion can operate a plasma torch to reduce rocks, dirt, throwaway trash and garbage and everything else to their basic atomic elements for separation……then even the smallest trace amounts of boron could theoretically be extracted economically along with other valuable trace elements. Virtually unlimited energy chasing after more boron ! ! !

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Jimmy T on the ignoble copy machine microscope award :

Obviously, there is somthing wrong with this idea. But what exactly ? Why wouldn’t this work ? Like I said, makes you think.

Lik I’ve already said many times before……If nothing else, the impractical ideas sometimes help to provide food for thought, and also to narrow things down by process of elimination to what few things that will work.

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breakable stated that :

No offense tasmodevill44, but it seems you like to speak (write) alone a lot.

I guess this means that some people get too extremely bored, impatient or closed – minded to take the time to even bother to read all the lengthy posting I do. Oh well……then perhaps somebody else will someday. 😉

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