New Energy News - Continued
VOLUME 10, NUMBER 10 ISSN 1075-0045
October 2003 Part 2 of 3
Editor: Patrick Bailey
Web Page: www.padrak.com/ine/
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LETTERS AND EMAILS - Continued
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Subject: Surfin For TV Stations
From: LeRoy Pea <>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:33:19 -0700 (PDT)
Welllll, I cancelled my cable tv subscription and went with SBC DSL.
In the meantime, I don't get anymore cable TV.
Soooo, I went surfing for TV stations on the Internet and got these...
http://www.bananatv.com/ BANANA TV, Australia. Good taped programs. Check out the UFO Channel.
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi Live 365, listen to internet radio stations.
http://www.wfmz.com/ WFMZ-TV CH69 news, sports, weather, school closings
http://www.wral.com/index.html N. Carolina, WRAL CH5 News.
http://www.webtvlist.com/ Web TV Listing, large listing of Internet Channels
http://www.nbc11.com/index.html KNTV CH11, SAN JOSE news
http://www.wtvh.com/ WTVH CH5, Syracuse, NY news
http://www.abc24.com/ ABC ch24, Memphis, TN news
http://www.theautochannel.com/cybercast/tachmr/index.html The AUTO Channel, archived videos
http://www.channelafrica.org/english/video.shtml SABC Johannesburg, S. Africa, news (English)
http://www.bcctv.ca/index.jsp CTV, Burnaby, B.C., Canada news CH9
http://www.wwltv.com/ WWLTV CH4, New Orleans, world news
http://www.saudiembassy.net/mainpage.html Saudi Aradia, Embassy News
http://www.wkbw.com/ WKBW CH7 Buffalo, NY news
http://www.kvia.com/ KVIA CH7 El Paso, TX news
http://www.kltv.com/ KLTV CH7 Tyler, TX news
http://www.scola.org/ SCOLA International TV home page
http://www.ktvb.com/ KTVB CH7 Boise, ID news and weather
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1 NASA videos
http://www.spinner.com/getspinner/getspinnerhome.jhtml?_requestid=168302
FREE internet radio SPINNER for W2k98XP or Mac
http://www.live-radio.net/info.shtml Live radio from around the world
http://www.live-radio.net/us.shtml 2000 live radio broadcasts in the USA (whoa, lots of inactive streams)
http://www.streamaudio.com/radiostations/ Streamin Audio, listen to radio by music format or by State
(way too manay adds)
Last of all, winmedia player9 has My Radio built in: http://windowsmedia.com/radiotuner/MyRadio.asp all types of background music.
[Thanks LeRoy! Always, you are a pleasure! Ed.]
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Subject: Fwd: New Propulsion
From: Academy For Future Science <>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:51:32 -0700
Delivered-To:
From: "paul toomer" <>
To: <>
Subject: new propulsion
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:34:15 +0100
Dear Sir,
Please take a look at this new web site on how to challenge Newton's third law of motion at.....
http://magnetic.propulsion.mysite.freeserve.com
Yours Paul..
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Subject: Laser Ignition For Internal Combustion Engines
From: RemyC <>
To: ETList <>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:16:57 -0400
From: http://www.netl.doe.gov/newsroom/backgrounder/mb-0006.html
(Click link for photo and diagram)
Laser spark ignition for lean-burn natural gas reciprocating engines
CONTEXT
Engines would run much cleaner if they could run leaner: in other words, use less fuel and more air. When a typical internal combustion engine runs, it burns fuel and air. The heat of combustion turns the nitrogen in that air into nitrogen oxides. These oxides are the precursors to what we call urban smog (www.howstuffworks.com/ozone-pollution.htm). Running lean (lean-burn) lowers the combustion temperature and significantly reduces the amount of NOx produced. As the demand for higher engine efficiencies and lower emissions drive reciprocating engine combustion to leaner air/fuel operating conditions, increased spark energy is required to maintain stable combustion and low emissions.
PROBLEM
Delivering increased spark energy negatively impacts spark plug durability and the effectiveness of the spark plug in transmitting adequate energy as an ignition source. The lack of spark plugs with the required durability is quickly becoming the limiting factor for developing ultra low emission, high-efficiency natural gas engines. Laser ignition delivers the high energy required to ignite ultra-lean mixtures and eliminates the need for spark plugs.
PROCESS
NETL Researchers designed a laser ignition system and coupled it with a fully-instrumented internal combustion engine. Focusing a 10 nanosecond, 1.06 micron, laser pulse into the cylinder through the spark plug port generates a laser ignition spark. The laser pulse comes from a Quanta Ray DCR-2 Nd:YAG laser directed to the cylinder with high energy laser mirrors. A two-meter focal length lens is placed 1.7 meters from the final focusing lens to reduce the diameter of the laser beam before entering the lens tube. The laser is focused into the cylinder with a 6 millimeter diameter, 36 millimeter focal length lens through a 3.2mm thick sapphire window. The lens is positioned on a 20 cm long, 7.9 mm diameter lens tube aligned radially to the crankshaft axis of the engine. The final mirror directing the laser beam to the lens is positioned directly above the tube and 45 degrees to the tube axis such that the beam incident on to the mirror is perpendicular to the laser plug axis and tangent to an arc centered on the crankshaft. A schematic of the laser ignition system experimental setup is shown, followed by a photo of the actual setup in operation.
A comparison of engine emissions and combustion using a Ricardo Proteous, single-cylinder, 4-stroke, spark ignited natural gas engine using both a conventional spark system and a laser spark system was conducted. The engine was operated at a constant speed of 1200 rpm and at moderate load conditions. The emissions and combustion performance data for each ignition system at three equivalence ratios and three timing conditions were compared.
The NETL research provides the first lean-burn natural gas engine data using a laser-spark ignition source and the first laser-spark ignition engine operation since the effort of Dale et al*, in which gasoline was used as the test fuel
* (Dale, , J.D., Smy, P.R. and Clements, R.M., "Laser Ignited Internal
Combustion Engine - An Experimental Study," SAE Paper 780329, 1978)
MEDIA CONTACT
Damon Benedict damon.
benedict@ netl.doe.gov
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Dr. Mike McMillian
michael.mcmillian@ netl.doe.gov
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From: http://www.netl.doe.gov/newsroom/briefs/rb-0008.html
Laser ignition for lean-burn engines
Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory have successfully operated a laser-spark lean-burn natural gas reciprocating engine. Development of lean-burn engines is driven by demand for higher efficiencies and lower emissions, but delivering the high energy required to ignite an ultra-lean mixture destroys even the hardiest spark plugs. Plug durability is rapidly becoming a barrier issue. According to team leader Mike McMillian, laser-spark ignition solves heat loss problems and provides focused energy capable of ignition even under ultra-lean conditions unignitable with conventional systems.
Media contact: David Anna
412/386-4646
david.anna@ netl.doe.gov
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From: http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-7-360
Vol. 9, No. 7 September 24, 2001 Page: 360 - 372
Visualization of laser-induced breakdown and ignition
Ying-Ling A. Chen and J. W. L. Lewis, Univ. of Tennessee Space Institute
Abstract
Laser-induced gas breakdown and ignition of atmospheric pressure NH3/O2 mixtures are investigated. The nanosecond-pulsed, 1064-nm Nd:YAG laser is used to create the cascade-type optical breakdown. The post-breakdown plasma and ignition are studied using spectroscopic techniques that include spontaneous emission and NH planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF). These time-resolved two-dimensional images provide not only radiative and gas dynamic information but also the space-time loci of the temperature and transient species concentrations. The results provide an understanding of the plasma kernel dynamics and the flame development that is essential to verify on-going simulation modeling of laser-ignition.
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Classifications
(140) Lasers and laser optics (140.3440) Laser-induced breakdown
(190) Nonlinear optics (190.1900) Diagnostic applications of nonlinear optics
(300) Spectroscopy (300.6500) Spectroscopy, time-resolved
(280) Remote sensing (280.1740) Combustion diagnostics
History
Original Manuscript: August 10, 2001
Revised Manuscript: September 23, 2001
Citation
Y. A. Chen and Lewis, "Visualization of laser-induced breakdown and ignition," Opt. Express 9, 360-372 (2001),
http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-9-7-360
References
1. A. H. Lefebvre, Gas Turbine Combustion (Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, New York, 1983), pp 221-256.
2. B. Lewis and G. von Elbe, Combustion, Flames, and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition, (Academic Press, Orlando, FL) pp 333 - 361.
3. D. R. Ballal and A. H. Lefebvre, "The influence of flow parameters on minimum ignition energy and quenching distance," In 15th International Symposium on Combustion, (Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1974), pp.1473-1480.
4. P. S. Tromans and R. M. Furzeland, "An analysis of Lewis number and flow effects on the ignition of premixed gases," in 21st International Symposium on Combustion, (Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1986), pp.1891-1897.
5. G. G. DeSoete, "The influence of isotropic turbulence on the critical ignition energy," in 13th International Symposium on Combustion, (Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1970), pp. 735-743.
6. F. J. Weinberg and J. R. Wilson, "Preliminary investigation of the use of focused laser beams for minimum ignition energy studies," Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Series A 321, 41-52, (1971).
7. G. F. Carrier, F. E. Fendell, and M. S. Chou, "Laser-initiated conical detonation wave for supersonic combustion. III," AIAA, 28th AIAA/SAE/ASME/ASEE joint propulsion Conference and exhibit, (Nashville, 1992), paper 92-3247.
8. R. G. Kingdon and F. J. Weinberg, "Effect of plasma constitution on laser ignition energies," in 16th international Symposium on combustion, (Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1976). pp. 747-756.
9. J. A. Syage, E. W. Fournier, R. Rianda, and R. B. Chen, "Dynamics of flame propagation using laser-induced spark initiation: ignition energy measurements," J. Appl. Phys. 64, 1499-1507, (1988).
10. J. H. Lee and R. Knystautas, "Laser spark ignition of chemically reactive gases," AIAA J. 7, 312-317, (1969).
11. H. M. Thompson, J. W. Daiber, and R. G. Rehm, "Two-dimensional growth of laser-driven waves in a hydrogen free jet," J. Appl. Phys., 47, 2427-2432, (1976).
12. V. F. Klimkin, R. I. Soloukhin and P. Wolansky, "Initial stages of a spherical detonation directly initiated by a laser spark," Combust. Flame, 28, 61-66, (1977).
13. B. E. Forch, and A. W. Miziolek, "Ultraviolet laser ignition of premixed gases by efficient and resonant multiphoton photochemical formation of microplasma," Combust. Sci. Tech. 52, 151-159, (1987).
14. B. E. Forch, and A. W. Miziolek, "Laser-based ignition of H2/O2 and D2/O2 premixed gases through resonant multiphoton excitation of H and D atoms near 243 nm," Combust. Flame, 85, 254-262, (1991).
15. M.-S. Chou, F. E. Fendell, and H. W. Behrens, "Theoretical and experimental studies of laser-initiated detonation waves for supersonic combustion," Proc. SPIE, 1862, 45-58 (1993).
16. R. A. Hill, "Ignition-delay times in laser-initiated combustion," Appl. Opt. 20, 2239-2242, (1981).
17. D. H. Plemmons, "Laser-spark ignition and the NH radical," (PhD thesis, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, 1996)
18. J. D. Few and J. W. L. Lewis, "Gas turbine engine photon ignition system," (U.S. Patent number 4,947,640, Aug. 14, 1990)
19. J. D. Few and J. W. L. Lewis, "Laser-initiated non-linear fuel droplet ignition," U.S. Patent number 5,485,720, Jan. 23, 1993, Patent number 5,404,712, April 11, 1995, Patent number 5,497,612, March 12, 1996, Patent number 5,524,429, June 11, 1996.
20. Y.-L. Chen, J. W. L. Lewis, and C. G. Parigger, "Spatial and Temporal Profiles of Pulsed Laser-Induced Air Plasma Emissions," J. Quant. Spectr. & Radiat. Trans. 67, 91-103, (2000).
21. Y.-L. Chen, J. W. L. Lewis, and C. G. Parigger, "Probability Distribution of Laser-Induced Breakdown and Ignition of Ammonia," J. Quant. Spectr. & Radiat. Trans. 66, 41-53 (2000).
22. I. G.Dors, C. G.Parigger, and J. W. L.Lewis, "Fluid Dynamics Effects Following Laser-Induced Optical Breakdown," 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, paper AIAA 2000-0717, (Reno, NV 2000).
23. R. J. Kee, J. F. Grcar, M. D. Smooke, and J. A. Miller, A FORTRAN program for modeling steady one dimensional flames (Technical Report SAND85-8240, Sandia National Laboratories, 1985).
24. R. G. Root, "Modeling of the post breakdown phenomena," in L. J. Radziemski and D. A. Cremers, editors, "Laser-induced plasma and applications," (Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York, 1989).
25. D. H. Plemmons, C. Parigger, J. W. L. Lewis and J.O . Hornkohl "Analysis of Combined Spectra of NH and N2," Appl. Opt. 37, 2493-2498 (1998).
26. E. Sher, J. Ben-Ya'ish, and T. Kravchik, "On the birth of spark channels," Combust. Flame 89, 186-194, (1992).
27. T. Kravchik and E. Sher, "Numerical modeling of spark ignition and flame initiation in a quiescent methane-air mixture," Combust. Flame 99, 635-643, (1994).
28. J. O. Hornkohl, C. Parigger, and J. W. L. Lewis, "On the use of line strengths in applied diatomic spectroscopy," in Optical Society of America for presentation in the conference on Laser Applications to Chemical and Environmental Analysis, (March 1996).
29. J. O. Hornkohl, C. Parigger, and J. W. L. Lewis, "Computation of Synthetic diatomic spectra," in Laser Applications to Chemical Analysis, OSA 1994 Technical Digest Series, 5: 234-237, (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1994).
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More: http://cpl.usc.edu/Laser_Ignition
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Subject: OPENS FRIDAY - A MOVIE ABOUT THE DALAI LAMA AND TIBET
From:
Date: 18 Sep 2003 06:14:58 –0700
[I included this, as it pertains to government control and overt secrecy… Ed.]
Ten years in the making, TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION is a provocative look at the Tibetan people's struggle for freedom. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are chronicled through a powerful combination of personal stories and undercover footage.
The film takes audiences to the long forbidden "rooftop of the world" with remarkable imagery captured during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India, and Nepal.
Narration by: Martin Sheen
Voiceovers by: Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Ed Harris, Frank Christopher, Edward Edwards, Shirley Knight, Lynn Marta
OPENING DATES
San Francisco - October 3rd - Landmark Opera Plaza
and Landmark Shattuck Cinema
Boston - October 17th - The Coolidge Corner
Tickets & times @ Yahoo Movies
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Subject: Re: Flying Saucer Physics
From: ISEP <>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:44:47 -0700
[Once again the INE states that the INE is not interested in antigravity or UFOs. These technologies may be in the subject domain of other organizations. The INE position on UFOs, flying saucers, and ET technologies is stated here: http://www/padrak.com/ine/NEN_8_9_1.html. Ed.]
Actually I am back in London at Starbucks on Queensway Rd Sat Nite invited to Trinity College, Cambridge first part of this week More on Up and In Rome, Paris and London The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful
Anon
Work in progress
Einstein’s Gravity and Dark Energy/Matter as Macro-Quantum Emergent Phenomena
Report on the 2003 Vigier IV Conference in Paris
Jack Sarfatti
Internet Science Education Project
San Francisco, CA
Abstract
A brief synopsis of some of the papers presented in Paris September 15 ¡V 19 at Pierre et Marie Curie University is followed by the author’s new theory of the exotic virtual off-mass-shell¡¨ macro-quantum vacuum that is in accord with the new observations of precision cosmology¡¨ that our large scale spatially flat accelerating expanding universe is approximately 3/4 anti-gravitating dark energy¡¨ and 1/4 gravitating dark matter¡¨ with ordinary real on-mass-shell¡¨ lepto-quarks and gauge force bosons a miniscule top of the iceberg¡¨ not more than 4% of the total and possibly less. The lepto-quarks are extended spatial structures with negative zero point energy density of positive quantum pressure that form strongly attractive dark matter cores. These dark matter cores, are the Abraham-Lorentz stresses¡¨ that confine the electric self charge. They are analogous to superfluid vortex rings, perhaps, in the sense of the Regge Trajectory¡¨ Kerr-Newman/D Brane metric-string model of Alex Burinski and also the extended electromagnetic soliton model of Bo Lehnert. The lepto-quarks appear as approximate point charges less than 10-17 cm across in deep inelastic electron scattering from the strong spatial curvature warping of the zero point energy density induced dark matter cores. The Kerr-Newman ring singularity at the Compton radius a = h/Mc ~ 10-11 cm has a vortex dark matter exotic vacuum core for the spatially extended electron at the classical electron radius m = G*M/c2 ~ e2/Mc2 ~ 1 fermi ~ Lp* = Lp2/3(c/Ho)1/3 << a. The Newtonian Planck scale is Lp and the cosmological Hubble parameter is Ho. This model is in accord with the t’Hooft-Susskind world hologram¡¨ generalization of Beckenstein’s black hole thermodynamics¡¨ in which the bounding area of a volume is quantized in renormalized Planck areas Lp*2 for the BIT content of the enclosed volume. Our equations agree with the Blackett relation¡¨ discussed by Saul-Paul Sirag in the ISSO-funded Berkeley Vigier Conference in 2000 where G* is the renormalized strong short-range Abdus Salam effective zero point energy density induced gravitational coupling.