Yes, the Hilsch/Rankin tubes are fascinating, that you could heat or cool
from simply air and this separator unit...you can buy them off the shelf
for about $200 and I've seen plans posted on how to build them...
The main problem as I understand it, is they take a lot of air to keep
them producing the hot/cold separation.
Now that you mention it.....let me run something by you (and everyone
else)....
Many years ago, I was curious about the claim of TUMO...which is supposed
to be a way to control temperature mentally, normally associated with
Yogic studies....well, I've always thought we should be able to produce
gross results that at least mimic these Yogic abilities until we figured
out how to produce the real thing, driven exclusively from the
mind....biofeedback training...etc...that's another topic.
Well, the claim is a Yogi would sit naked in snow and freezing climates,
on a mountaintop yet....not only was he perfectly warm but a circle of
melted snow surrounded him....all from his mastery of TUMO...this
mysterious internal force...
So, I found a comment years ago saying that the bonding angle of the
hydrogen to oxygen in the water molecule varied with temperature. I've
been looking for the hard science data on this, but never found it (yet).
As I understood it, water at room temperature had a bonding angle of
about 120 degrees....when it is frozen, the bonding angle was 118
degrees, and when in steam form, the bonding angle was 122 degrees...
If this is so and has been measured (I don't see how they'd measure
steam), then if we could instantly or even gradually alter the bonding
angle using phase conjugates, we could produce controlled heating and
cooling of water....this means a personal body climate control system...
Since the body is 98% water, we simply produce a biasing field to control
the bonding angle for a given temperature....I know, it sounds very spacy
and thats why I am not comfortable with it at this point because I can't
find the bonding angles and their associated matter phase state (ice,
water, steam)....
Does anyone know where to find this bonding angle or have any thoughts on
this? It would make a helluva product if we could determine
it...imagine, a NUDE world...<g>.....
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