Let me confess that the real subject of this post is LENR and not Venus per se.
I was struck by the coincidence that Venus has similar size, gravity, and
bulk composition to Earth BUT is so much hotter than any other planet by
far; and the surface temperature is an exact match for 15 THz - which seems
to be correlated to excess heat in some LENR experiments. However, the
causal connection of the planet to this spectrum is beyond slim.
I should also mention that Mitchell Swartz may have preceded Letts and
Cravens with using laser irradiation as a massive boost in LENR gain - and
the contribution of the former is to find this "beat frequency" between two
lasers that are in the visible spectrum.
But is the IR signature of Venus completely unrelated to its great heat - in
addition to the obvious cause: which is increased solar energy retention?
Doubt it - but this premise cannot be written off without understanding the
importance of 15 THz in LENR.
I am now wondering if this IR spectrum <-> temperature equivalent is not
related to the Rossi HotCat somehow? For instance, as wrong as it sounds on
first blush, can any thermal device function in such a way convert a hotter
blackbody surface temperature into a slightly cooler but coherent infrared
interior temperature?
From: ChemE Stewart
I think closer in to the Sun Venus gets the brunt of those
billions of tons of "energetic particles" the Sun is spitting out daily in
all different directions, by the time they reach Earth they have decayed
some more and are at lower energies. I think instead of just bending
spacetime around her the Sun is collapsing it through this continuous stream
of particles.
* Venus is made of the same stuff of Earth, almost twins - except for
water.
Venus is bone-dry and hot enough to melt lead at 836 degrees F (447 degrees
C), and has a thick atmosphere but no water vapor is there. Earth harbors an
enormous volume of water, even if its interior is possibly hotter than
Venus. Venus is closer to the sun, and probably had as much water as earth
at one time but heated up early-on to this temperature and then poof - the
water disappeared, billions of years ago.
Why should you care how hot it is there or why Venus has no water?
Hmmm... well the reason that I found these seemingly unconnected factoids
interesting, was in surfing the internet - in pursuit of 15 THz and LENR.
15 THz could be one key to LENR. If you don't believe me look up the papers
by Hagelstein, Cravens and Letts.
What !?! you ask. Where is the connection?
Well, it seems that 15 THz is 20 micron wavelength. A photon of 20 microns
has a mass energy of .062 eV.
.062 eV is equivalent to 447 C (836 F and 720 K). Curiously this is the
exact temperature of Venus. If you want to experience what 15 Terahertz
looks like, hurry out with a telescope and find Venus in the night sky. It
is in the far infrared and would glow even without reflected sunlight.
And 15 THz is a water resonant frequency ... but catch-22 Venus has no
water. Is there a connection in all of this, or is it coincidence ?
Not sure ... just doing a little googling and angling, so to speak -
throwing out provocative associations like bait. :-)
Hoping to haul in a big one someday...
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