Comments on: Trial backs criticized ‘fusion in a jar’ effort http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/07/25/trial-backs-criticized-fusion-in-a-jar-effort/ General interest observations and true web-log. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Floyd http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/07/25/trial-backs-criticized-fusion-in-a-jar-effort/comment-page-1/#comment-61773 Floyd Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:51:32 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2409#comment-61773 I went to Purdue as a [for Dvorak] Chemical Engineering student. They're pretty rigorous there about both their science and engineering (and computer science). Still, I would expect the researchers to detail their setup and results of their experiment enough that others could duplicate the results. That is usually the litmus test that a controveresial experiment really is delivering as promised. Next step--enough energy out of the experiment to reach breakeven. Step after that--enough energy out that the reactor is self sustaining. Then, scaleup to commercial production. Finally, "Mr. Fusion" from Back to the Future....heh. I went to Purdue as a [for Dvorak] Chemical Engineering student. They’re pretty rigorous there about both their science and engineering (and computer science).

Still, I would expect the researchers to detail their setup and results of their experiment enough that others could duplicate the results. That is usually the litmus test that a controveresial experiment really is delivering as promised.

Next step–enough energy out of the experiment to reach breakeven.

Step after that–enough energy out that the reactor is self sustaining.

Then, scaleup to commercial production.

Finally, “Mr. Fusion” from Back to the Future….heh.

]]> By: site admin http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/07/25/trial-backs-criticized-fusion-in-a-jar-effort/comment-page-1/#comment-61669 site admin Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:35:36 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2409#comment-61669 I wouldn't get acetone anywhere near the car....one drop on the paint and you'll be sorry! If you want to dump weird stuff in the car..put in straight toluene. What are you trying to accomplish? Using acetone for this sounds like the gag about using butter to shave with/ It does work, but the unexpected aspect is, well, funny. That whole website looks nuts. Use acetone and you get "better shifting?" Please! Little known Dvorak fact, I actually was a petroleum chemist for Union Oil. I wouldn’t get acetone anywhere near the car….one drop on the paint and you’ll be sorry! If you want to dump weird stuff in the car..put in straight toluene. What are you trying to accomplish? Using acetone for this sounds like the gag about using butter to shave with/ It does work, but the unexpected aspect is, well, funny.

That whole website looks nuts. Use acetone and you get “better shifting?” Please!

Little known Dvorak fact, I actually was a petroleum chemist for Union Oil.

]]> By: Jim Dermitt http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2005/07/25/trial-backs-criticized-fusion-in-a-jar-effort/comment-page-1/#comment-61660 Jim Dermitt Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:14:09 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2409#comment-61660 "Onto the scene on March 23, 1989 came two world-class electrochemists, Professors Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, who were boldly claiming on international television that they had already achieved break-even in some form of nuclear fusion, but in a humble jar of heavy water—without lethal attendant radiation! This was an instant prescription for controversy." Source http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf Page7 of 57 PDF “Onto the scene on March 23, 1989 came two world-class electrochemists, Professors Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons,
who were boldly claiming on international television that they
had already achieved break-even in some form of nuclear
fusion, but in a humble jar of heavy water—without lethal
attendant radiation! This was an instant prescription for controversy.”
Source
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/mitcfreport.pdf
Page7 of 57 PDF

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