Two interesting emails on this, one saying it is
probably experiental error and we should all wait
for it to be in Wall Street Week and other mainline
publications, the other that it is yet another
brainfart (wicked sense of humor this guy) indicating
we shouldn't get TOO crazy at this point (a
characteristic of optimists and fools).
Here is an excellent caveat about the negative
resistance terminology that was posted on the vort list;
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Be careful of terminology here. In common physics,
resistance expresses the ratio between current and
voltage in a conductor. You use voltage to push a
current through a conductor, expressed by Ohm's
law E = IR.
There are many well-known devices, primarily a glow
discharge, which show negative resistance by the
above definition, for the voltage drop decreases
rapidly with increasing current, which is why you
need ballasts for fluorescent lamps, to limit the
current.
The reason is that as the current increases, many
more ions are created, further reducing the
effective resistance, until total ionization is
produced.
Glow discharges are not energy sources, with the
exception of the Correa Pulsed Abnormal Glow
Discharge device, and that is quite another
phenomenon.
This negative resistance is also seen in
semiconductors. And lightning strokes.
If an effective zero resistance can be produced
at room temperature in carbon fibers, it is as
shocking as the LENR phenomena.
Mike Carrell
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