Re: Solid Hydrogen, Sonofusion

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:10:11 +0000 (UTC)

"Thomas Lee Elifritz" <crackpots@everywhere.net> wrote in message
news:4184D6BB.B50F7AF2@everywhere.net...
> 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.

Good for you.
There are more which interest physicists.
>
> 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.

Do you make a habit of ending with bon mots?

Franz

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