Re: Solid Hydrogen, Sonofusion

From: Thomas Lee Elifritz (crackpots_at_everywhere.net)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:14:57 GMT

October 31, 2004

Franz Heymann wrote:

> There are more properties than charge and momentum conserved in the
> process of which you speak.
>
> >It's an analogy. Nature is like that, you know.
>
> It is a quite useless analogy.
> You might as well have used me walking as an analogy. That also
> proceeds as in your exposition in the first sentence.

Charge, momentum, mass and energy are the conserved quantities I am particularly
concerned with here on Earth.

I agree, but it's enough of an analogy for me, to enable me to determine that solar
energy, photolysis and electrocatalysis win, hands down, as the preferred route of
energy conversion of the photons that the pp chain so adequately provides us with.
Thus is the relevance of Francis Muguet and his collaborators work which I have
provided. Given the energy, flux and rate constraints of these various fusion
processes, it seems foolish to rely on reproducing them in small reactors to solve our
large scale energy conversion problems here on Earth, considering we already have a
perfectly good one in the sun. There will always be people that want to blow things up
and burn things, I suppose, and there are uses for things that burn and blow up and
dissociate, like stars and radiation, as long as they are far removed from the energy
scales and material needs of everyday life, which happens to be 3 eV and below, which
also happens to be the enthalpy of the dissociation of water. I always find that
remarkable.

Some people see patterns in nature, others don't, because they have destroyed them.

Thomas Lee Elifritz
http://elifritz.members.atlantic.net

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