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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Bob Greenyer

Given the UK government wants to introduce electric arc furnaces for smelting / recovering scrap metal as part of “going green”, and given it is an Indian company that owns the steel making facility at Port Talbot this would seem to be a video that would be of interest to the relevant ministers, one of whom is my local MP, so I will once again endeavour to inform the UK government in the hope that, this time, they will listen. Try, try, try again and all that.

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Feb 9, 2023Liked by Bob Greenyer

Obviously this is just one of many arc furnaces producing Ferro silicon. And that begs the question, why are other sites not reporting excess tonnage from their process? Has everyone been hiding the knowledge for 15 years?

Bob, your boldness is appreciated!

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Feb 9, 2023Liked by Bob Greenyer

Such is the magic of the electric arc! Magnetic fields apparently set up assembly line templates for construction of heavier elements under some (high pressure?) conditions, while under other conditions (low pressure or vacuum?) arcing can can reduce elemental nuclei to baser elements. All these reactions require first the plasma state of matter, provided by the arc, a magnetic field in itself, imposed on the materials externally.

This is the precise reason that in situ formation of heavy metals has been proposed as a result of lightning or earth-arcs ionizing otherwise common earth elements and compounds under the right, rare conditions. This remains to be proven, but the excess production of materials in this arc furnace is very suggestive of the possibilities! Electric Arc + Plasma in Magnetic Fields ---> Endo/exothermic nuclear Reactions and new templated elements (like-likes-like templates?).

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Feb 8, 2023Liked by Bob Greenyer

Can the Fukushima Tritium waste be of use here?

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Feb 9, 2023·edited Feb 9, 2023

I propose an interesting hypothetical experiment, which just focuses on the GEET reactor and bubbler minus the IC engine, to gain further insights into its pure operation including further efficiency gains.

By substituting the IC engine with a compressor feeding a standard auto catalytic converter (which could be in an insulated water bath or by using some basic flow calorimetery), the hot high pressure exhaust from the catalytic converter heater would then act as a continuous IC engine exhaust. With the inlet of the compressor thereby acting as the substitute vacuum suction IC engine intake.

One would then be measuring the excess thermal energy vs known inputs at high efficiency, especially without all the highly complex IC engine parameters to deal with on top. With the further addition of a solenoid valve to replicate the pressure pulses produced by an IC engine, if these pulses prove to be a vital part of the process, instead of using a continuous standard manual adjustable valve flow rate if that doesn't cut the mustard.

Plus such a low cost compact and relatively high COP multi air/ water/ fuel heating system as proposed, should be quite awesome for general purpose space and water heating in any situation, if all works out. Effectively creating a hybrid GEET central heating system boiler powered from what ever your locally available liquid waste resources.

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What if the unique shock wave collision-produced plasma within the GEET reactor was not actually coherent, due to no electrostatic or electromagnetic coherence fields being used to drive the process (as in other more coherent plasmoid based transmutation reactors). If so could the GEET reaction be more of an enhanced plasma or non coherent plasmoid based catalytic cracking process of some form. This in theory could also explain the lack of serious excess thermal energy produced in the GEET reactor, preventing the area of reactions in the tube from glowing red and then melting in a very short period of time like in previous BLP and other reactor examples.

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Bob, your idea of remediating rads is intriguing, and I think, easily testable. Simply run GEET fuel through an ICE with a relatively benign (or short half-life) isotope in solution, checking for rads in the exhaust. It may not be that simple, but I think it couldn’t hurt to try!

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