On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> National Ignition Facility made history with record 500 terawatt shot, but > the pulse duration is just a few picoseconds. > > > No it's about 4 ns. That corresponds to about 1.8 MJ of energy. It's not that hard to look these things up. > The power produced by a nanoantenna is almost as powerful as that > generated by the National Ignition Facility, but that power level is > maintained for an extended period of time and might even be constant. > > > That's a complicated paper, but you could at least get the dimensions and the units right. What they claim is TW/cm^2. The NIF laser produces 500 TW. Apples and oranges. Or apples and apples per acre. As for the time and dimensions of that energy density, it would take some time to digest the paper, and some of the citations, but it seems to me that the time scale is sub-picosecond which gives energy in the eV range on the atomic dimension scale. That's consistent with the statement that "TW/cm^2 may be enough to trigger ionization effects" (eV range), and that is far too low to trigger nuclear effects. > The ability of a nanoantenna to concentrate power in the terawatt range > should be used to explore the effects of intense power concentration on > nuclear matter. > > > Even Joshua Cude should back this LENR effort. > I'd need to understand what they're claiming first, but if my superficial reading is right, then no.
