I am not looking to create a sample of the metastable isotope. I just want to push a stable isotope into a metastable state, and the faster it decays to the final state (which should have a much lower energy than the initial state) the better.
The problem (as I understand it) is that one has no...
Actually, this is useful information. I am looking for a metastable state that is reachable from a nearly stable isotope with a small amount of energy, that then decays with the release of a large amount of energy. So, what you are telling me is that I would do better looking for short-lived m...
When looking at the energy level diagram of Al26, I see a meta stable state 2.836keV higher that has a half life measured in seconds compared to the half life of the ground state measured in megayears.
Would it be possible to push a sample of Al26 to the Al26m state by irradiating it with the...
In the cold fusion literature there was an article on an experiment by the USNavy that showed pitting of an electrode presumably caused by DD fusion. The current theory of why lithium batteries ignite during charging is the formation of a metal microspike that shorts the electrodes. If a muon...
That is exactly the question i was asking.
There is a phenomenon called "muon catalyzed fusion". If a muon wandered into LiH at the density of the electrode surface of a charging battery, could it cause enough localized heating to cause a short that can then result in an explosion/fire driven...
Just wondering what would happen if a muon entered the LiH dense environment of a lithium battery. Could it explain the instances of spontaneous combustion of the battery in electric vehicles?
Li + H => He
You should look at GE work on using supercritical CO2 as the working fluid of high temperature heat engines for power generation.
(I also participated in the HeroX competition for a clockwork rover for Venus, and ran across the GE work)
This diagram describes what happens to the radiation that leaves from the Earths surface.
But you have to remember that the CO2 in the atmosphere radiates too.
From space the radiation in this band all the way from the ground is not detectable;
what is detectable comes from CO2 high in the...
As posted in another thread, that is a tough list of constraints, and probably unnecessary for your purposes.
Liquid nitrogen can be used as a "free energy" distribution fuel. I put it in quotes, because you would not be distributing "energy" in the academic physical sense. But most of the...