So yet another morning of generating reports has gone by, I came across IEC based Fusion in my last post, Electron Power Systems.
Then I thought, why not look into that idea? it's a viable form of low cost fusion, so what the hell right?
In my mind physicists are people that have energy complexes, they love putting huge amounts of energy into tiny spaces; say like a macho man that drives a really nice car, although science won't let you afford a nice car, but it just might save the planet. (tm)
Enter the Google talk with Doctor Robert W. Bussard, available here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606
If you have the hour and thirty six minutes as well as a good command of the English, engineering and physics languages you may just understand what he's saying.
I'm not even going to attempt to digest it at the moment because I am still digesting what he means by B-fields (H/B magentic feilds?) and gyro-radii (radius of rotation of an electron?), of course this could be old time cyclotron & gyrotron & thyratron speak with a hint gaseous electronics experimentation creeping into it. I'm a layperson and this man reminds me of how lay of a layperson I am when it comes to real hardcore physics.
Symantecs aside, he has in essence proven that there's a cheap alternative to Tokomaks, now EPS the guys I posted about earlier are using an electron tube you know things we acclerate neutrons with in large radius cyclotrons to smash atoms? Dr. Bussard goes into the limitations of that configuration in this video (and his paper) due to "Force Equinoxes" as he calls them, with their relation to actually fusing hydrogen, however he uses the same hydrogen boron mix.
The Paper's here:
http://www.askmar.com/ConferenceNotes/2006-9%20IAC%20Paper.pdf
I also found this guy:
http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/2007/05/polywell-making-well.html
Whom is also on the same quest to understand polywell based IEC's however he mentions this paper on his site:
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/aesj/division/fusion/aesjfnt/Yoshikawa.pdf
Basically this is a huge ass source of neutrons on a small scale, however that device might be able to scale up to power generation standards.
The device itself is simple, based on the orginial design a sphere with a cage inside it to accelerate the ion's into a well utilizing current.
The EMC2 device (bussards company) utilizes magnetic fields to accomplish the "sphere".
I just thought I'd mention it here since Dr. Bussard died in August 2007 but his company EMC^2 has recieved funding, they need 200 Million to produce a radiation free form of sustainable fusion, he even left us with a list of people to do the job.
It's sad to think that had we taken all the money spent on war over the past decade and put it towards this technology, and say oncology we may just have saved the inventor of the worlds most efficient fusion device.
Once he is proved correct I hope that his children will accept his Nobel prize.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Grow your gas!
In the millions of ideas that plague my clouded and hectic mind I've wondered about a lot of things. One of them is our ongoing energy crisis.
A good friend once told me that If i could find a way to access the frozen methane under the continental shelf I'd be rich a few billion times over since this is the worlds largest deposit of natural gas, it's just below a thousand feet of water a few hundred meters of rock and frozen.
Then there's the psudeo science crowd claiming that Maxwell, Planck and Einstien were wrong and that Tesla was right and that we can pull energy from static charges or the zero point.
ZPE does exist and it is real, the only effect that has been measured by physicists is the Casimir one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
This force is more akin to gravity than anything else, the brilliant folks at the university of St. Andrews in the united kingdom figured out how to levitate things with it, I posted about it earlier last year.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ulf/levitation.html
Here's their page, above and some cool photography (not doctored) below.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/physicists-use-.html
In the world of science theoretical physics reigns king, I came across this site in the search of interesting reproductions of ball lightning:
http://www.electronpowersystems.com/
The sad part is their e-mail does not work, or needs to be changed since I wanted to start a dialouge with the owner, I seriously hope he's not a fake, for someone trained at westpoint I'd hope he's still around and that he's getting funding.
They claim to have found a way to blend toroidal plasmas to facilitate fusion. As in the only "Holy grail" of energy physics that promises to help humanity cease being Dependant on deposits of sunlight. Anyhow let's hope he gets his products to market and that he's not another "scientist-ion". They have enough weight to be examined by NASA's group for advanced concepts (NIAC) for a potential award. His method claims to have produced a self contained torrid of plasma utilizing an aerosolized form of Boron and Hydrogen, and that he stumbled upon this in 1992 as a result of studying ball lightning.
The truth is gas, oil, jet fuel the backbones of our daily lives are in the current form being exhausted. Whilst exhausting this we are also raising the global temperature, any fan of Al Gore and the inconvenient truth knows that the ecosystem and biosphere is tiny and fragile and we are choking ourself to death. Oddly enough the NREL in the united states has spent millions studying Algae, one of the funny aspects of this is that the following algae may be responsible for our current deposits of sunlight.
Algae and phytoplankton over the period of the lives of the seas from the pre-historic age have produced stored and left the energy that we currently use today . It's a natural bi-product of photosynthesis of various strains.
Botryococcus braunii - This slow growing algae traps phosphor and produces up to 805 of it's weight in hydrocarbons, it grows best at 23 degrees centigrade and at 60W/Meter square of sunlight. This algae doubles every 72 hours (that's slow for algae) and traps a number of rather toxic substances from the air, it's an excllent candidate for carbon sequestering, you can even process it into Kerosene, Benzine (Gas) Diesel and Low Pressure gas, it would be like a NO Sulfur content crude. It's just not economically viable to do this yet, when Crude hits $110 / barrel you'll see the green houses going up everywhere. A lot of current biologists believe that this algae is what made all of the oil so many years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botryococcus_braunii
Now you can't make your car run on this unless you have a cracking and refining plant close by and no one has made any of those since the 60's. in fact I have hear rumors that current oil producers and sales companies in North America pay people off that wish to produce more refineries, since that would increase supply and reduce their profit margins.
Heres something everyone can do though, bio-diesel can be made from algae ponds, they are the most cost effective way to produce bio-diesel, the best method of production in my mind is to enclose raceway ponds in green houses. One acre of green houses (or one acre of ponds) would produce around 100,000 L of algal oil which may be tansesterfied into diesel (B100) and glycerin. The strains that are ideal for this are listed in many places but I like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel
According to them it would take around 3 Belgums or somthing a little larger than the state of Maine in aquaculture space to meet the current demand for fuel, it's only going to get worse.
Enter my favorite problem from Texas, Prymnesium Parvum. Or "Toxic Gold Algae" as it's called, due to it's inadvertent killing of fish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prymnesium_parvum
According to the guys at Oilalgae, it's got 22% to 38% lipid content, however the cautionary note is that it produces DMSP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylsulfoniopropionate
This is actually beneficial to aquaculture when all you want is the fatty lipids from the algae, since the algae kills everything around it that way bio-reactor contamination is not an issue, and it has a high lipid content to boot, it has a bit of sulfur but nothing close to toxic levels when compared with crude pulled from Alberta.
Once you've got that your 1 Acre of green house could produce up to 100,000L of bio diesel / year. Raw biomass and algal oil can be cracked just like raw crude, in fact after processing you could actually use the algal cake left over (after removing the sulphur) as a feed, that is pelletize whatever isn't turned into glycerin or B100.
This brings me to my next question, why isn't anyone doing this? (they are actually) but it's happening very quietly and behind the scenes and the companies that are starting it are big.
A good friend once told me that If i could find a way to access the frozen methane under the continental shelf I'd be rich a few billion times over since this is the worlds largest deposit of natural gas, it's just below a thousand feet of water a few hundred meters of rock and frozen.
Then there's the psudeo science crowd claiming that Maxwell, Planck and Einstien were wrong and that Tesla was right and that we can pull energy from static charges or the zero point.
ZPE does exist and it is real, the only effect that has been measured by physicists is the Casimir one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect
This force is more akin to gravity than anything else, the brilliant folks at the university of St. Andrews in the united kingdom figured out how to levitate things with it, I posted about it earlier last year.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ulf/levitation.html
Here's their page, above and some cool photography (not doctored) below.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/physicists-use-.html
In the world of science theoretical physics reigns king, I came across this site in the search of interesting reproductions of ball lightning:
http://www.electronpowersystems.com/
The sad part is their e-mail does not work, or needs to be changed since I wanted to start a dialouge with the owner, I seriously hope he's not a fake, for someone trained at westpoint I'd hope he's still around and that he's getting funding.
They claim to have found a way to blend toroidal plasmas to facilitate fusion. As in the only "Holy grail" of energy physics that promises to help humanity cease being Dependant on deposits of sunlight. Anyhow let's hope he gets his products to market and that he's not another "scientist-ion". They have enough weight to be examined by NASA's group for advanced concepts (NIAC) for a potential award. His method claims to have produced a self contained torrid of plasma utilizing an aerosolized form of Boron and Hydrogen, and that he stumbled upon this in 1992 as a result of studying ball lightning.
The truth is gas, oil, jet fuel the backbones of our daily lives are in the current form being exhausted. Whilst exhausting this we are also raising the global temperature, any fan of Al Gore and the inconvenient truth knows that the ecosystem and biosphere is tiny and fragile and we are choking ourself to death. Oddly enough the NREL in the united states has spent millions studying Algae, one of the funny aspects of this is that the following algae may be responsible for our current deposits of sunlight.
Algae and phytoplankton over the period of the lives of the seas from the pre-historic age have produced stored and left the energy that we currently use today . It's a natural bi-product of photosynthesis of various strains.
Botryococcus braunii - This slow growing algae traps phosphor and produces up to 805 of it's weight in hydrocarbons, it grows best at 23 degrees centigrade and at 60W/Meter square of sunlight. This algae doubles every 72 hours (that's slow for algae) and traps a number of rather toxic substances from the air, it's an excllent candidate for carbon sequestering, you can even process it into Kerosene, Benzine (Gas) Diesel and Low Pressure gas, it would be like a NO Sulfur content crude. It's just not economically viable to do this yet, when Crude hits $110 / barrel you'll see the green houses going up everywhere. A lot of current biologists believe that this algae is what made all of the oil so many years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botryococcus_braunii
Now you can't make your car run on this unless you have a cracking and refining plant close by and no one has made any of those since the 60's. in fact I have hear rumors that current oil producers and sales companies in North America pay people off that wish to produce more refineries, since that would increase supply and reduce their profit margins.
Heres something everyone can do though, bio-diesel can be made from algae ponds, they are the most cost effective way to produce bio-diesel, the best method of production in my mind is to enclose raceway ponds in green houses. One acre of green houses (or one acre of ponds) would produce around 100,000 L of algal oil which may be tansesterfied into diesel (B100) and glycerin. The strains that are ideal for this are listed in many places but I like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel
According to them it would take around 3 Belgums or somthing a little larger than the state of Maine in aquaculture space to meet the current demand for fuel, it's only going to get worse.
Enter my favorite problem from Texas, Prymnesium Parvum. Or "Toxic Gold Algae" as it's called, due to it's inadvertent killing of fish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prymnesium_parvum
According to the guys at Oilalgae, it's got 22% to 38% lipid content, however the cautionary note is that it produces DMSP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylsulfoniopropionate
This is actually beneficial to aquaculture when all you want is the fatty lipids from the algae, since the algae kills everything around it that way bio-reactor contamination is not an issue, and it has a high lipid content to boot, it has a bit of sulfur but nothing close to toxic levels when compared with crude pulled from Alberta.
Once you've got that your 1 Acre of green house could produce up to 100,000L of bio diesel / year. Raw biomass and algal oil can be cracked just like raw crude, in fact after processing you could actually use the algal cake left over (after removing the sulphur) as a feed, that is pelletize whatever isn't turned into glycerin or B100.
This brings me to my next question, why isn't anyone doing this? (they are actually) but it's happening very quietly and behind the scenes and the companies that are starting it are big.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Another interesting piece of software
Well then,
In my travels as a consultant determining critical application support paths and their limitations is how I make my daily bread, sometimes.
Apparently I too may now be replaced with software, once someone makes software that can get my clients Timmys I'm out of a high paying relatively comfortable job. :/
http://www.akorri.com/products-overview.htm
Let me know what yall think, I`m hoping to start re-selling it to the federal sector.
In my travels as a consultant determining critical application support paths and their limitations is how I make my daily bread, sometimes.
Apparently I too may now be replaced with software, once someone makes software that can get my clients Timmys I'm out of a high paying relatively comfortable job. :/
http://www.akorri.com/products-overview.htm
Let me know what yall think, I`m hoping to start re-selling it to the federal sector.
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