The Choice, Part One: The Technology, by Robert Gore
I usually keep my life and personal details out of my blog posts. However, the story of Dr. Arnold Kelly and electrostatic dispersal (ESD) technology is a fascinating one. It also reveals much of what is wrong with today’s world and crystallizes the economic, political, and philosophical issues underlying humanity’s most critical choices: achievement or destruction, life or death. This article is longer (three parts) than the usual SLL article and is somewhat of a departure, but I believe those who read it will find it enlightening and rewarding. I found writing it more interesting than another grind through the issues that currently serve as grist for the blogosphere.
This is an excerpt. For the full article, please click the above link. This article involves a real life demonstration of the issues examined in Dale Halling's article "The 'Great Ideas are Dime a Dozen' Myth," featured on Galt's Gulch (https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...) and The Savvy Street (http://www.thesavvystreet.com/the-gre....
This is an excerpt. For the full article, please click the above link. This article involves a real life demonstration of the issues examined in Dale Halling's article "The 'Great Ideas are Dime a Dozen' Myth," featured on Galt's Gulch (https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...) and The Savvy Street (http://www.thesavvystreet.com/the-gre....
I too, have observed corporate behaviors called: "The White Collar Hoax" and I observed in my book that most, high up in the corporate ladder, are only concerned with the perpetuation of business, not the creation of business.
I'll read the other two parts tomorrow, it's getting late.
Fact check: one Calorie = kilocalorie = 2.611e+22 electron volts. So, say that your breakfast is 200 Calories = 200 kilocalaries, then your body would use something like 40 Calories = 40 x 2.611e+22 = about 1.04e+24 electron volts for digesting the food, which is nowhere near 2 or 3 electron volts. Also 54.4 electron volts is a very very small amount of energy as is the Rydberg unit. Though at the molecular level that would be plenty of energy to ionize the stuff.
Where are the other parts of the article?
If the improvements give a better technology, then it is more than just seeing a way to jump on the gravy train with a patent monopoly. I don't see how placing a charge on an aerosol will do any more than disperse the spray unless the destination of the spray has an opposite charge to attract the charged stuff as has been done for decades in spray painting? Could mix positively and negatively charged stuff so that the spray stays together with less dispersion.
Parts 2 and 3 will be posted within the next week.
Are you just showing your calculations, or are you saying 54.4eV is too high or low?
My question was for Irshultis. :) I understood what you said. Irshultis answered my question, but I don't know enough about electric charge when it's not moving through a wire or semiconductor to evaluate it.
Not really understanding the science, I figure maybe it's just like existing painting technology. As an engineer I say it's easy to dismiss it as "nothing new" but hard actually to get a new implementation working. Maybe something really cool will come from it. It's not a new invention, I say, but if they keep trying things they may find some great new applications. dbhalling would say, "CG, you are a total idiot. A new way of putting things together that solves a problem in a new way is a new invention." He's probably right about the second part.
Since the electric charge is not moving, I really don't anything about it, but it sounds like something that may lead to something cool.
I would think that one could charge insecticides and spray them on surfaces.
The gun has to be charged, and the recipient grounded for this to work.
The particles dont stick tightly to the intended surface by themselves at all. Something would have to keep the particles on the surface, like some sticky liquid or gel.
With powder coating, quite a bit of voltage is required to impart the proper charges to make the process work. Not sure how this inventor is getting the charges onto the particles, or how the recipient surface is grounded.
No doubt the alphabet agencies in cahoots with existing companies in the field would want to slow this down to give the existing spray can people time to somehow compete against this technology. They call this cronyism in my book.
Get rid of new ways of doing things if you can, otherwise slow them down so maybe it takes them longer to gain a foothold or they go out of business.
on a side note, i have had the same experience with "bell curve" findings in training pilots (Air Force and commercial...American Airlines) and individuals learning to trade the stock market (i was an instructor in all three situations)...some individuals can simply look at a trading chart and "see" the trades...when questioned about "how" they see the trades, they cannot describe how they see it...they just do...
BTW, The TLA ESD is already taken: electrostatic discharge (ESD). I'll never be able to think of it as anything else. :)
Fascinating. "Their uses are almost endless." :)
Looking forward to part two.
Regards,
O.A.
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