dmaster wrote:
> On Jul 1, 12:48 pm, "Mike E. Fullerton" <inforequ...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> remove-techie.com> wrote:
>> MarkA wrote:
>>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:50:21 -0700, HVAC wrote:
>>>> "Mike E. Fullerton" <inforequ...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>> in messagenews:6U7ak.44258$Jx.43096@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> HVAC wrote:
>>>>>> Cough, cough (bull****) cough, cough.
>>>>> Is your statement based on anything resembling fact or merely
mindless
>>>>> belief?
>>>>>> ""߃-- ¹¹"" <W...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:
>>>>>> 536-48650B38-...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>> Rory Johnson's Magnetron Motor, as he named it, was a
revolutionary
>>>>>> new
>>>>>> source of power derived from the chemical reaction / fusion of
>>>>>> deuterium
>>>>>> and gallium.
>>> ..."chemical reaction / fusion of deuterium and gallium."??? Which is
it?
>>> Chemical reactions are not nuclear events. If you can't tell which
you
>>> are seeing, you don't know what you are looking at.
>> And this is a problem because...? If I obtain a reaction with excess
>> heat that can't be explained I might surmise its from a chemical or
>> nuclear reaction. Why should I care? I've got a bloody (heavy) water
>> powered car.
>
> He didn't say it produced heat. He said it produced electricity.
You're right, the article writer mentioned chemical reaction not Johnson.
> Nuclear reactions produce energy in the form of radiation. Chemical
> reactions produce energy in the form of heat. We know of a couple of
> ways to produce electricity - photo-voltaic and bi-metalic junction -
> but those aren't chemical or nuclear. Still the guy does mention
> light and prisms. One of his materials, gallium, has been used in a
> lot of semi-conductors. Deuterium is of course hydrogen and deuterium
> oxide is water. Heavy water was used in the process of developing
> fission reactions, though not in the reaction itself. Fusion
> reactions use hydrogen. So the whole thing sounds like a complete
> mishmash of science words related to energy. I suppose if you don't
> really understand any of the science and you turn off your BS
> detector, you could swallow this as another wonderful free energy type
> story, but I hope you don't.
Many cold fusion cells use heavy water as a source of hydrogen. Liquid
gallium can theoretically be used to contain the heat involved in
plasma fusion environments due to its wide temperature range and low
chemical reactivity. Our fusion reactions typically use hydrogen but any
atoms could fuse to form a heavier nucleus. Did Johnson even call it
fusion or was that some re****ter? In some accounts he described it as
blending which is not the same thing.
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Skeptopathy (pathological skepticism)
the unscientific belief that unusual phenomena are bunk.
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