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Energy Localization The key to Understanding Energy in Nanotechnology & Nature

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Page 1: Ahern LENR theories

Energy Localization

The key to Understanding Energy in Nanotechnology & Nature

 

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Nature assembles ordered structures out of chaos without a temperature gradient or energy

input.

Systems generally go from ordered to chaotic.

How does nature go from the chaotic to ordered?

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Atoms in most solids vibrate at high frequency and low amplitude

Atoms’ nuclei generally reside in parabolic potential wells.

The nuclei undergo simple harmonic motion as if they were connected by springs.

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Some Materials have non-parabolic potential wells

They produce nonlinear vibrational modes

Large Amplitude, Low Frequency Vibrational modes

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superconductors have very large amplitude vibrational modes

Levitating magnet

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Ideal Springs obey Hooke’s Law F= -k1X

M1 M2 Mn

Equipartition of Energy

Every mass has the same vibrational energy

Enrico Fermi, 1954 Los Alamos MAINIAC I

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Non ideal Springs• F = -k1X + k2X2

• Energy is not equally Shared

• Energy is Localized

Vibrationally cold

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Fermi & Ulam found that Energy is Localized when there is:

1. A countable number of elements

2. Nonlinear coupling between the elements

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Energy Localized vibrational modes are so large that they can break and reform bonds.

Locally, the vibrations act like very hot regions with active chemistry.

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Nanoparticles in the 3 - 12 nm size regime have both properties:

1. A countable number of atoms

A large fraction of the atoms are near the surface and reside in shallow, non-

parabolic potential wells

2. Nonlinear Coupling

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Energy localization at the nanoscale circumvents the 2nd

Law of Thermodynamics

Nature evolved to take advantage of these energy exchange mechanisms available only at this size scale.

Ordered structures can be assembled from Chaos

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Light EmittersSolar Cells

Enzyme operational control

Nanomagnetism

Energy Localization Controls the Efficiency

Critical features for any nanodevice should be processed in the 3 - 12nm size regime.

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Yashiaki Arata 2006

Japan’s most decorated scientist

Order of Cultural Merit

Deuterium gas added to

5-10nm palladium powders

spontaneously produces heat via nuclear reactions.

George Miley

No energy input is required.

Limitless clean energy is now a realistic possibility.

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Takahashi reported no excess heat with 20-100nm powder

Energy Localization was explained

PdD - PdH is a superconductor

H /D in palladium is anharmonic

Hydrogen in nano Pd is chaotic

Kitamura and Takahashi succeed at 5-10nm

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Rossi and Piantelli

• Both describe nanoscale nickel particles with hydrogen to produce heat

• Piantelli says the nickel must be free of any NiO coating and the feature size must be below 70nm

• Rossi & Piantelli report self sustained operation• George Miley reported similar action last week

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Nano-magnetism

• Ferromagnetism is a cooperative phenomenon• Ferrites processed at 3 – 12nm have cooperative

oscillations• Magnetic vortices arise at that dimension

• Vortex interactions extract energy via energy localization

• Ferrites run cold as a result• Energy source is undetermined