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- From: jr@ksr.com (John Robinson)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Electrolyte gases as an overlooked variable
- Message-ID: <JR.93Jan5115110@gilligan.ksr.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 11:51:10 EST
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- In-reply-to: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca's message of 3 Jan 93 19:40:56 EST
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- Well, I can't resist this, so this naif (me) steps up to:
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- In article <19199@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:
- To speculate, the level of nitrogen in the headspace (and thus in the
- electrolyte) may affect anomalous heat production if it is proceeding via
- sonofusion.
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- Sonofusion is a fascinating idea (as is the Mills-Farrell suborbital).
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- But if nitrogen correlates to excess heat, and oxygen is present, are
- we simply finding a way to catalyze nitrogen burning? Nitrogen is
- plentiful, but oxides of nitrogen aren't so wonderful to the planet.
- But trading some NOx or NxO production for fossil fuel burning might
- be a win.
-
- This could be tested in a closed cell by flushing with nitrogen...
-
- (Of course I don't even know for sure that oxidizing nitrogen is
- exothermic).
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