>From this recent presentation, I have gained new insight into what motivates LeClair to spend so much time on his fusion/water crystal research. This knowledge that he gains in this area is central to the success of his cavatation business.
LeClair’s business model is built around ultra-high nano-precision based cavitation cutting. He saw that in many cases, there was an unknown factor in cavatation that caused unwanted randomized cutting going on. He could not explain it nor could he control it. Slide 17 shows some of the random results that led him to look into this problem. He saw both circular and straight grooving and strange tracks that he could not explain so he set out to find what was causing this unexplained behavior coming from his cavatation procedures. So that is how he came to find water crystals. Once he realized that these crystals were the causitive factor that was cutting material, he was able to come up with a mathematical model that closely predicted how cavatation cut most types of material. The existing model was an order of magnitude inaccurate in predicting cavatation erosion. This model is very valuable commercially and is closely held by Nanospire. LeClair also realized that the type of transmutation that was going on in cavatation could have massive military implications. He took it onto himself as a duty to humanity to characterize this threat to nuclear controls. This analysis included the formation of a model of the transmutation process. He informed the relevant authorities and they thanked him. >From looking at slide 29, the bomb material U233, 235, and Pu239 at first glance look like to me that they are all denatured with even numbered isotopes which would require difficult isotopic separation procedures to purify them to bomb grade material. In closing, LeClair is an outcast among outcasts. I have noticed that many fringe groups show the same intolerance for new ideas that they themselves are subjected to. I have come to realize this propensity to intellectual intolerance is inherent in human nature; I myself suffer from it. I have accepted this behavior as part of the human condition. But close mindedness does very much slow our acquisition of new knowledge making our learning processes painfully slow. Cheers: Axil On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote: > Mark LeClair has a fantastic story to tell. It should be recognized that > very little of this story has been confirmed, yet some of it should be > rather easy to confirm. I haven't listened to the show, but did review the > slides. > > What I can tell, clearly, is that LeClair is theorizing way beyond what he > has evidence for. First things first. > > He has expertize in cavitation. So it is reasonable that he might find a > way to create bubble fusion. Bubble fusion is hot fusion. > > In slide 39, he presents his work as related to CF/LENR, but he includes > bubble fusion. > > Cavitation Fusion in Other LENR Devices >> •Ultrasonics/Sonofusion:, Stringham, Impulse Devices >> •Pons-Fleischmann Cells, Taleyarkhan, JET >> •Cavitating Rotor-Stators: Griggs Hydrosonic Pump (Hydrodynamics, Inc.), >> Potopov, Energetics, Inc. >> •Brillouin? Defkalion? Rossi? >> > > It's well-known and not controversial: CF/LENR isn't hot fusion. It does > not produce neutrons, except possibly in very small quantities through rare > branches or secondary reactions. Bubble fusion is hot fusion. Talyarkhan's > work involved a claim of detecting bubble fusion through the emission of > neutrons. > > Bubble fusion allegedly works through the generation of very high > temperatures. If neutrons are generated, this is certainly hot fusion, to > distinguish it from cold fusion. > > By lumping all those approaches together, LeClair demonstrates that he > doesn't understand cold fusion at all. He claimed massive radiation > poisoning, which would be from massive neutron generation. His effect, if > he knows how to create it, and he's claimed more than one massive radiation > event, should be easy to demonstrate, plus such a massive event would leave > lots of traces. Material that he claimed to be transmuted was sent to Dr. > Storms, who found nothing unusual with it. > > LeClair's work, if real, has massive military implications. They would be > all over it, and we know that cold fusion scientists with extensive > military connections are aware of his claims. Nobody, other than LeClair > and Lebid -- who is almost completely silent -- has confirmed any of his > story, as to what indicates a massive anomaly. > > It's worse than the situation with Rossi et al. There, at least with > Rossi, there have been public demonstrations. We may argue that the > demonstrations were not conclusive, but at least they happened. > > And LeClair claims no new science. Really? ZPE self-powered flying water > crystals, reaching relativistic velocities? No new physics? > > My point is that LeClair doesn't know what he's doing in his > presentations. He's off the edge. > > If what he's found is real, if he is not literally insane, the path he is > following is to imitate someone who is crazy. > > A small demonstration device, sold with plenty of caveats, would turn this > completely around. It doesn't have to be commercially ready. A device for > the investigation of the effect. But people like LeClair and Rossi et al > don't do that. That would be "giving away" the secret. While the position > is understandable, it's also highly paranoid. Essentially, it defines the > world as not-ready-for-change. > > Because if "they" have the money and power to cheat the inventor if the > inventor reveals the secrets, they also have the money and power to > penetrate any such secret. > > LeClair might seem to have revealed the secret, but he hasn't. You could > not replicate his work with the information in the slide show. All that you > could do is to try to explore cavitation, which plenty of people have been > doing. > > At 11:02 PM 9/20/2012, Axil Axil wrote: > > <http://smartscarecrow.com/wp-**content/uploads/2012/09/** >> 092012_2020_Presentatio1.png<http://smartscarecrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/092012_2020_Presentatio1.png> >> >h**ttp://smartscarecrow.com/wp-**content/uploads/2012/09/** >> 092012_2020_Presentatio1.png<http://smartscarecrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/092012_2020_Presentatio1.png> >> >> >> >> Mark LeClair presented his thesis and supporting evidence(see reference >> above) in a live presentation on 9/20/2012. >> >> This presentation will be available on YouTube shortly. >> >> In slide 39, mark said that the Pons-Fleischmann effect is just a very >> weak version of the LeClair effect. Could the water crystal be the active >> agent in the PF effect. >> >> >> If this equivalency is true, could a tradeoff between the radiation and >> transmutation of cavatation in the LeClair effect be made by using nickel >> or palladium as the target material in the cavatation reactor where proton >> pairs on the surface of these metals might form and thermalize the nuclear >> reactivity of the water crystal(slide 16)? >> >> On Slide 20, LeClair shows how a water crystal had carved a 5 foot trench >> in a coil of copper wire. >> >> >> >> >> Cheers: Axil >> > > Slide 20 doesn't show that at all. It does show a coil of copper wire, > more like 5 cm long than 5 feet. It shows a broken copper wire. Which means? > > From LeClair's last slide: > > • Cavitation reentrant jets generating the LeClair Effect are the key to >> harnessing fusion and producing transmuted material on an industrial scale. >> NanoSpire leads the field in both results and theory >> > > In isolated, unconfirmed results, no controls, and no "harnessing" has > been shown. There has been no conclusive demonstration of transmuted > material. EDX results, without controls, are almost useless, because of how > ubiquitous materials turn out to be when you use these sophisticated > methods of analysis. Anything, almost literally, is everywhere. The issue > is shifts in quantity, and because a process can move stuff around, this > can be tricky. "Before and after" aren't adequate, for example. > Electrolysis is famous for concentrating materials on the surface of the > cathode, they can migrate from impurities anywhere in the cell. > > • NanoSpire’s cavitation reactor generated 2900 watts of hot water flow >> using only 840 watts of electrical input, a coefficient of performance >> (COP) of 3.4 >> > > Unconfirmed. If LeClair saw this, sure, he's excited. But he's also way > over-interpreting and perhaps misinterpreting his results. It does not > inspire confidence. > > • The LeClair Effect correctly explains excess heat and transmutation >> seen in many LENR devices without the need for new physics, such as heavy >> electrons, plasmons or other proposed particles or reactions >> > > So, ZPE self-acceleration of an alleged new crystal form of water, to > relativistic velocities, is not "new physics"? LENR is reported in many > contexts where cavitation fusion makes no sense at all. Gas-loaded > nanoparticle palladium? Not to mention that LENR results, so far, don't > produce neutrons, and only produce transmutations in very small quantities. > LeClair got very sick, he claims, from radiation poisoning. If he was > producing hot fusion, he would indeed get very sick, unless serious > precautions were taken. Cold fusion, no. This claim then shows that LeClair > has no idea what he's talking about. He may have had dramatic experiences, > but he's turning that into his being the scientific genius of the century. > The thinking pattern isn't unfamiliar. > > •The LeClair Effect produces intense fusion >> > > If it works, yes. Hot fusion, intense. Which is unmistakeable. And if he > can do that with cavitation, what he's done is amazing, but more than > amazing. It's dangerous as hell, and the military would be all over this, > and since it's highly likely that the military knows about the claims, and > the military doesn't give a fig about "established theory," that he is > being allowed to publicize this shows a high likelihood that their own > investigation has shown "nothing here." > > If that's incorrect, LeClair could rather easily, if he has done what he's > claimed, refute it. This has been going on for, what, more than a year? > > with many different substrates and most importantly, even without a >> substrate under the right conditions. This means that no electrochemistry, >> lattice-based theories (Widom-Larsen, Brillouin, others), palladium, nickel >> or any catalysts are required to produce fusion >> > > That's right. Just get stuff really, really hot, and you will get fusion. > "Substrate" is something needed in condensed matter, and there is no such > thing as condensed matter at fusion temperatures. That LeClair might reach > fusion temperatures with cavitation isn't intrinsically impossible. So that > he could create hot fusion isn't intrinsically impossible. > > But flying self-accelerated relativistic velocities for a new crystalline > form of water? At one point I asked what the experimental basis was for > conclusing that. LeClair didn't answer with anything clear. > > If LeClair isn't crazy, or maybe even if he is, how about a small machine > that demonstrates the effect? Yes, dangerous, so sold with plenty of > warnings. Lots of things are dangerous and can be sold. Or even a large > complicated machine, if that's necessary. He'd set it up, and demonstrate > it to customers, who could observe it all, having signed an NDA (if some of > the technology must be kept secret, covering the secret). If, using this > machine, which can be a black box, lots of neutrons are generated, that's > valuable all by itself, such machines are currently quite expensive. > > I'm not holding my breath. >
