Dale.
#1 The fact that all of you are in Hawaii and we are in the mainland is going to bring up issues beyond normal team type issues.
#2 Ransom is a really good person and your approach to him is unwarranted. I could say the same about your comments of my lack of information. So please get yourself in order.
#3 What is the other LENR thing you are working on? I was told by you it was not a conflict of interest so Ransom and I are confused.
#4 Why on earth did you call the multi-core design a Heat Exchanger? It may be exchanging heat but that is not what it's called. Because of this I never bothered to look at it as it has nothing to do with what we're trying to build. I thought it was part of something else I wasn't aware of. My wife just went through the stomach flu, we're having twins, and we have a two year old, plus I have classes and work full time. I have to be picky with what I read.
#4 What does Roy think of the design?
#5 If I had known you were doing this multi-core design a lot earlier I would have steered you to a different design.
Here are some notes about the multi-core design.
1) It is not clear how you are going to thermally isolate them. For example if one core at some point gets to 200C and the one next to it is just at 25C it's not obvious what their temperatures really are and in steady state they will all be the same temperature.
2) I think the RF isolation is fine if we wanted to do a concept like that but that's the only thing that may work.
3) What you want to do is probably better designed if you turn the sparkplugs by 90 degrees so they are in parallel with the "wheel" design edge. Then place a seperate chamber at the end with seperate everything except maybe hydrogen loading. BUT this is still not going to thermally isolate you very well. In fact I don't know of a good way to thermally isolate something built on the same chunk of metal without getting fancy.
4) I think that we should concentrate on a single core design and if we want to do more than one test we simply make more.
5) Both Focardi and Celani reported higher than normal background gamma rays. This means lead shielding may be needed but how much depends on the gamma ray energy which I'm not privy to. I think we're safe on Neutrons. Your design will further trap heat and redistribute it so that it's impossible to tell which reactor core worked.
6) Using the spark plug as the waveguide is a great idea but we may also want to inductively couple an RF signal meaning a solenoid design, it's not clear how we would do that here.
Although the design I put on the powerpoint is simple that's because this truly does not have to be any more complex than that.
Our next step should really be to construct the core just as I outlined in the ppt. One of the issues we may want to explore is if we want to weld shut the reactor or do something like I think you were trying to do here, which was screw seal the core so that it can be reopened and closed.
All these things are things I wanted to talk to Roy about via this board or email or something because they are variables that are driven by ease of design, but I haven't yet heard from him???
What's going on with that and are you now machining the core independent of him, I'm confused. |
