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This video brought – up some very interesting points which I agree with. However, I have noticed there are times when the scientific community themselves have often fallen into some of these same traps and flaws in their reasoning ability. A case in point is the heater making the so – called ” lamp ghost ” move. All too often an arrogant, dogmatic scientific community can dismiss out of hand so – called pseudo – science when there may be other more credible phenomena behind it which they refuse to investigate further.

Let’s take U.F.O. sightings, for example. Now, I don’t really believe in it in the interpretation context of little green men flying around in a flying saucer. Alien visitations to planet Earth are remotely possible, but unlikely. This is due to the velocity of light constraints and the fact that the nearest intelligent civilization may be an incredible amount of light years away. However, such sightings should not be completely dismissed outright, because science may miss the opportunity to investigate other credible phenomena behind it …. such as the rare phenomena called ball lightning …. a very rare form of electrical activity.

Another example : crackpot perpetual motion getting a free energy lunch. For some time now, inventors all over the world have been claiming to get more energy out than put into it. But what if there’s something else besides perpetual motion taking place in some of these instances? Some scientists think that there may be the possibility that some exotic, as yet undiscovered nuclear reaction may be converting the mass of the magnets according to E = MC2. Some claim that a slightly heavier isotope of iron may be stimulated to decay into a slightly lighter isotope of iron. However, these people still need more EVIDENCE, I must certainly admit. Until then, we’ll just have to have more faith in Lerner and his group of researchers for pB11 reactions harnessing more practical nuclear energy.

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Hmmm …. all very interesting there, Jolly Roger. I may be wrong, but I always thought that the solar wind of charged particles also exerted pressure, same as sunlight. And that a sail could be used for either/both. I know that when the Apollo astronauts visited the Moon on one of their missions, lunar dust was observed being kicked – up by the solar wind. Due to the Moon’s lack of atmosphere, it did not make dust clouds, but almost immediately settled back down again. But the magnetic bubble idea for utilizing solar wind as a possible supplement to an onboard fusion – powered thruster also sounds interesting. Both the thruster and the magnetic field bubble could perhaps all be powered by focus fusion.

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My contemplation of various hybrid fuel mixes seems to go nowhere. Somebody once mentioned adding bismuth as a fusion catalyst. But such larger atoms would probably only cause too much X – ray loss and cooling. If any assist is to work, it has to be a small atom without too many nuclear protons (so as to minimize X – ray loss). But boron still seems to be the best compromise for a slightly larger atom with 5 protons, but forms 3 energetic alphas.

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Sort of what I suspected. The three energetic alphas from pB11 reaction still seems the best candidate for getting far more energy out than in.

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I still don’t think most people in this country have been able to wake – up and realize the sheer magnitude of the fossil fuel dependence and how much effort, will – power and determination is going to be required to overcome this problem. They simply don’t comprehend the sheer urgency or scope of it all. Eventually, every car on the road will have to be replaced by an electric or hybrid electric. Literally thousands (millions?) of new nuclear electric powerplants would have to be built to replace oil. Just to build all this new infrastructure will require more fossil fuel consumption for just a while longer until it can all be built. And because the DEA has suppressed renewable industrial hemp so long, it will take forever to put enough acres into cultivation to even put a dent in the problem.

And then you have the deeply entrenched interests. Will any coal mining company, oil company, or fuel – thirsty jet airline industry just simply volunteer to go out of business to save the planet? Not hardly. If Jimmy Carter could have had it his way back during the 1970’s, we would probably be well on our way by now. But you know how that turned – out. When Reagan became President, the entrenched interests and business as usual got things their way. The operating budget for Carter’s DOE was severely slashed until it became a virtually worthless and ineffective government agency. So now we’re playing catch – up on the problem and lagging decades behind. Even if Lerner’s research team gets focus fusion on the fast track to development, will big business try to suppress focus fusion and electric cars that run off it?

Because the bridge to the future and all the necessary infrastructure will require more fossil fuel consumption in order to get there, I sincerely hope President Obama and his good intentions don’t burn down that bridge with too much taxation and caps on CO2 emissions before we get there. The goose must lay the golden egg first. Only then is it O.K. to go ahead and kill the goose. He doesn’t expect all these windplants, photovoltaic solar panels and other things to just build themselves without fossil fuels being consumed, does he?

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To answer the question proposed by Transmute, I think that the waste heat leftover …… after X – rays and alpha particle energy has been tapped …… can be tapped by helium gas as the circulating medium flowing through the hollow electrodes and other areas of the FF reactor. It would more than likely be a completely closed – cycle loop. It could be used for space heating …… or to grow things in a grenhouse in colder climates …… or to generate electricity using a high – tech turbine like one used for natural gas.

Lerner is indeed correct about how the solar energy we get from the Sun is 10,000 times greater than current human consumption by civilization. That’s why I have also been an avid solar energy enthusiast for years. But while solar is great for small – scale power and decentralized independece from the grid (i.e., residential use), it is not all that environment friendly in that it is spread thinly across the Earth’s surface and takes – up lot’s of good real estate. It is very wasteful in acres of land to capture and collect into a concentrated form useful for energy intensive industrial processes. Not to mention something that fickle and intermittent requiring expensive storage does not make for good and reliable baseload power. That’s why although I’m still a big fan of the enormous potential of solar energy, only a big nuclear power windfall can break the grip of fossil fuel depletion and global warming quickly.

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Or for greater versatility of propulsion, you could use a combination of focus fusion techniques, instead of just one. I still don’t know exactly what advantages such a system might have right off – hand, but what if you employed both a focus fusion laser for solar sailing, as well as an additional onboard focus fusion rocket or ion engine?

Every time your solar sailing craft wandered out of the path of the fusion – powered laser beam, onboard fusion thrusters could also propel it back into the laser beam for additional thrust.

Also, in sailboat sailing, there’s such a thing called tacking, where you can actually propel a craft upwind and against the wind. To do this, the sailboat has to travel in a zig – zag fashion back and forth. In a similar way, onboard fusion engine thrusters might be able to propel a craft back and forth in such a way as to catch the solar wind easier for travelling upwind against it. This way, you would have two methods of propulsion working together and assisting each other.

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I think that adding heavy ions to the plasma does indeed poison the fusion process. This is due to greater energy loss from the plasma in the form of X – ray emissions. And it’s not just the number of nuclear protons, but the square of them. With boron, it’s still not all that bad: 5 X 5 = 25 times more than a single proton of hydrogen.

This is one of the reasons (plus others) why I abandoned the idea of a hybrid fission/fusion like as in an H – bomb, where heavy actinide fission would help to kick – start pB11.

I also considered the blacklight reaction Randall Mills claims to have discovered as a way to make pB11 a lot easier to start. According to Randall Mills, atoms of calcium and phosphorus in the hydrogen plasma act as a catalyst for the reaction. Once again, such larger atoms might cause too much X – ray loss, which would probably cause too much plasma cooling rather than heating.

This is probably why Lerner has the vacuum chamber evacuated of as many impurities as possible before each experimental testing.

To remediate nuclear waste with the DPF, it is probably preferrable to not inject it directly into the plasma focus, but to keep it separate while being irradiated with X – rays or alphas or whatever from a distance. I could be wrong, but at least that’s the only way it seems workable so far as I can tell.

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Sooner or later (preferrably sooner), we’re still going to have to deal with and solve the same problem: that planet Earth’s natural deposits of carbon in the form of coal, oil and gas are limited and finite …… and that it’s a major waste to burn it all up, leaving nothing for other purposes. Even if Al Gore and much of the scientific community turned out to be wrong, and the global warming skeptics were right, it’s still a big waste of resources to burn anything that has carbon in it.

We need hydrocarbons for other things like petrochemicals, rubber and plastics. And although there’s other ways to make steel without coal, it’s been the only way known so far to make it in cheap enough commercial quantities. It’s no exaggeration by any means to say that the entire industrial revolution was made possible only by coal. (Although in the future, a high temperature plasma torch driven by focus fusion may be able to convert iron ore to steel without any use of coal).

But Rezwan brought – up a very good question: how do you make the switch to something else without harming oil companies, coal mining companies and energy exporting countries? Perhaps there’s some way these businesses and nations can gradually diversify into other things before it all runs out?

One possibility is if there was more diversification into growing renewable hydrocarbons like industrial hemp and algae. But it will take time for the enormous scale – up due to the landspace involved. In the past, oil companies have fought against such things, which I think is a mistake. Instead, they should embrace change, and even jump on the bandwagon of change.

And of course, we need more nuclear power in place of conventional fuels, whether it be focus fusion, or whether it be vastly improved fission, such as using thorium instead of uranium. But the Bush Administration has always been paranoid about letting Iran develop it’s nuclear capability. Perhaps forms of nuclear that is inherently safer will allay a lot of fears and paranoia? I think that every nation needs more nuclear energy if we are to solve many problems of economic development throughout the world. More nuclear power would even free – up more petroleum for export.

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FINAL CONCLUSION : WHICH IS ALL THE MORE REASON RESEARCHERS SUCH AS LERNER NEED TO GET TO CRACKING ON THINGS LIKE FOCUS FUSION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE ! ! !

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You have a manmade forcing of climate with the steady buildup of anthropogenic CO2 …… and then you have all the other unexpected, random and unpredictable factors superimposed upon it. Such as a volcanic explosion here on Earth …… or an explosion on the surface of the violent Sun.

Take for example, the dust bowl years of the 1930’s. They had some of the hottest years on record. American agriculture simply dried – up and blew away, further compounding the severity of the Great Depression. The CO2 levels in ppm (parts per million) were certainly much lower then than they are now. What caused the severe heat waves and drought back then? Solar output variability? Changes in jet stream? Alteration of El Nino?

We are looking at a truly monumental task of trying to make the switch to non – carbon emitting sources of energy. Especially considering how wasteful and inefficient U.S. infrastructure is …… and the fact that some people have to commute to a job everyday as much as 100 miles from their home.

Even more daunting is how to drastically reduce CO2 emissions without harming the global economy. The energy appetite of humanity has reached far too much forward momentum to put the brakes on CO2 very fast anytime soon. And in spite of any efforts by the United States …… China and India and many other developing countries are still rapidly ramping – up CO2 emissions. The population of cars in Asian countries is growing even faster than people these days. Not to mention that China and India complete construction of another coal – fired plant just about every two or three days. Absolutely phenomenal growth.

Having said all that, I still don’t think we should just throw our hands up in the air and give – up the good fight. The continual, ongoing manmade forcing of climate by CO2 emissions will eventually reach a tipping point far greater than all the other random, intermittent natural causes. I think we should at least try to mitigate the damage so as not to be as severe (if we can’t stop it). Many developing countries will do nothing unless the United States sets an example for the rest of the world to follow

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Perhaps you’re right, Brian. The laser – powered solar sail might have more limited applications for travel within our solar system …… rather than travel outside it. Such a powerful laser might have other uses in space like extracting metals from lunar ore …… or to divert asteroids from hitting the Earth. Although this is getting a little off the original subject, I’m still curious how well a free alpha laser might work …… like a free electron laser …… if powered by the energetic particle beam coming out of the FF device. It could have some really nasty military applications, but could also perhaps find some kind of peaceful use. Hopefully, the latter kind of application.

As for the original subject this topic is about, I don’t know much about the DREAD Weapon system, but the last thing the world needs is more of them. All the countries of the world already have more than enough for total annhiliation many times over.

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Sorry I can’t get the link to work. I don’t know exactly how credible these Cincinnati researchers are or how much peer review to back them up. But it sure is pretty weird and bizarre how it would fission into copper and titanium atoms like that (a nuclear reaction !) without hardly releasing any energy. Quite unique and interesting, indeed.

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Jolly Roger you are correct in stating that not all scientists have reached a consensus the way some people claim. Although I don’t get quite as nasty and nutty in bashing Al Gore the way the extreme right – wing sometimes does. There’s no scientific doubt whatsoever that CO2 is indeed a greenhouse gas and contributes to warming. What is still questionable, however, is the fact that there are so many other factors and variables in a more complex equation that can influence the final outcome. Just as scary (if not more so) …… is the fact that a super volcano eruption like Yellowstone National Park could still cause an ice age …… and put the remaining survivors of humanity back into the stone age …… regardless of how much manmade warming we have.

Although the concept by Professor Alfred Y. Wong of UCLA to use the Earth’s own magnetic field to accelerate CO2 molecules into outer space sounds far – fetched, it is based on sound principles of physics. Although some people have considered the harmful environmental implications of such a large manmade construction project like that situated in polar regions of either arctic or antarctic.

To read more about this seemingly bizarre concept for CO2 removal by Professor Wong, check out this website :

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/venting_our_problems_away.php

It’s definitely an unusual and interesting approach to the problem regardless of whether it’s all that workable or practical or not.

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Hmmm …… you’re absolutely right. Don’t know why. Might want to try entering words like ” unique thorium fission Cincinnati Ohio ” into a google search.

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