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by WizWom
Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Mach Effect progress
Replies: 2707
Views: 1466465

On the Nature of "Hidden Momentum"
http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.jsp? ... n+momentum
or rather, its non-existence.

Photons carry momentum. So do all other field mediators that I have heard of.
by WizWom
Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:18 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169668

http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/04/whispers-from-italy/
I know other entrepreneurs without adequate funding: it is VERY hard in this climate to get venture capital.
by WizWom
Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:47 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169668

The heat of fusion of water is 241.83 kJ/ mole. 1 MW is 1000 kJ/sec, so 4.135 moles/sec. This would be just over 8 grams of hydrogen, and some 65 grams of oxygen per second. The design I have seen, though, has the nickel in a hydrogen atmosphere, that is, it should have a pressure of hydrogen, but n...
by WizWom
Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
Replies: 3678
Views: 1159179

This paper appears to offer some insights to a mechanism for cold fusion. At least the theory comes from some experimental evidence. ref http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Cold%20nuclear%20fusion.pdf The paper is interesting, but not applicable to the Rossi reaction, since it deals wit...
by WizWom
Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:51 am
Forum: General
Topic: A responce to CoolbruceLong
Replies: 54
Views: 14087

You are an idiot. I have funded myself, as have all the other people I know in the Tea party. I read so far as "Koch brothers" and didn't bother to read the rest. Interesting piece fantasy ranting isn't it. I find it amazing that lefties always have to try to find the bogeyman leaders even when the...
by WizWom
Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:45 am
Forum: General
Topic: The Drug War Is a Spiritual Problem
Replies: 1
Views: 1279

Most drug users are not junkies, but ordinary folks who happen to like that recreation.
Decriminalization would "fix" 95% of the drug "problem" overnight, and then the remaining 5% who are junkies would be destigmatized and able to get rational, sane help.
by WizWom
Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:37 am
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169668

Betruger wrote:It ain't over till we see inside Rossi's black box..
Well... no - if Rossi can make energy with inputs that would be unable to make that amount, I don't care if he has a black box and people who disassemble one can't figure it out.
by WizWom
Fri Aug 05, 2011 7:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: China cracks down on wi-fi in public spaces
Replies: 21
Views: 8203

The good thing about LINUX is that a sufficiently motivated person CAN make a change to the OS to correct a security risk, on their own. I just don't see the everyday user ever doing this though and I don't blame them, this is a ridiculous request for an everyday user. That just means the everyday ...
by WizWom
Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Persia delenda est.
Replies: 14
Views: 4349

Anything that can reach orbit, of necessity, can de facto be used to do a ballistic or semi-ballistic trajectory to anywhere on the planet.

Are the Iranians going to claim they have the technology to make the sky blue now, too?
by WizWom
Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: China cracks down on wi-fi in public spaces
Replies: 21
Views: 8203

The good thing about LINUX is that a sufficiently motivated person CAN make a change to the OS to correct a security risk, on their own. But the concept of an OS as a monolithic block is wrong: there are multiple programs, multiple modules, all likely written by different entities, often not even fr...
by WizWom
Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: Total Binding energy for all isotopes.
Replies: 66
Views: 19327

We have been arguing apples and oranges. When I say 62Ni has the highest binding energy per nucleon, I am also saying that 62Ni has the highest binding energy per mole. Not apples and oranges at all. A mole is just a number, the number that happens to turn nuclear mass into grams. No added data pla...
by WizWom
Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:45 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR demonstrator (new thread)
Replies: 6351
Views: 2169668

I also saw a lot of this with the "Global Warming" scientists. ... This is not science, if it ever was originally. Would you say these people are biassed? If so which way? http://berkeleyearth.org/objectives The Berkely group is trying to answer the charges of poorly manipulated data being leveled ...
by WizWom
Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Total Binding energy for all isotopes.
Replies: 66
Views: 19327

Really, Dan, please stop. Wait until you have taken a modern physics class to contribute again. You are showing confusion.

There is a "ballpark estimate" stability formula, or atomic mass formula, which is the same thing. This was worked out in the 1950s, the term is "liquid drop model."
by WizWom
Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:03 pm
Forum: Design
Topic: Using atmosphere as propellant
Replies: 151
Views: 151880

DeltaV wrote:
WizWom wrote:However, the total output of the 747-8's engines is 66500 lbf
That's the single-engine thrust. GEnx can produce about 75,000 lbf max, for a four-engine total of 300,000 lbf.
Yes, of course. I'll fix my older post.
by WizWom
Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:58 pm
Forum: News
Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
Replies: 3678
Views: 1159179

http://www.furryelephant.com/content/radioactivity/binding-energy-mass-defect/ Pushing protons together increases potential energy [edit- in an unbound system]Using mass defect to see whether a nuclear reaction can happen spontaneously We can use the idea of mass defect to work out whether a nuclea...