ZPEnergy.com - Cold Energy from Radiation

In the free_energy yahoo group "ali_bali_gumba" writes:
Cold Energy from Radiation > BetaVoltaic.com - long duration power cells convert radioactive materials to inert. (See review by AmericanAntigravity.)

"A stimulated decay betavoltaic power-cell with power enough to run for the lifetime of the product under constant load conditions is coming soon. The theory behind the artificial stimulation and acceleration of an isotope is known to only a handful of top physics and mathematics professors and their students world wide."

Interesting these guys are STIMULATING beta decay. Maybe they know something but aren't sharing it but Beta decay is a Nuclear event and the Nucleus is very resistant to stimulation. That why we can measure the age of minerals after billions of years, because the rates of decay are not affected by any ordinary environments nor any chemical reactions no matter how nasty.

Now we can do lots of stimulation with an atom smasher, but are you going to carry around a van de graff generater weight 10 tons? A portable Linear accelerater that needs 10,000 watts to operate?

I'd say what they aren't sharing is that they are a pure play scam outfit.

IN general stimulated emission of radiation as predicted by Einsten and used in practical inventions like Lasers and Masers needs a population of atoms or molecules that are pre-excited to an unstable high energy state. Because Bosons can all be at the same energy level and not cancel each other out like electrons do, it is more likely that an exited atom will be stimulated to emit radiation at exactly the same energy state as a passing photon of the same frequency.

IN the case of Beta decay, this is not true. There is no population of exited atoms as the radiation is generated by TUNNELING and the radiation emmited is an electron (fermion) and a neutrino (boson). Stimulating a neutrino is very iffy proposition because they don't react to anything including each other very well. You can't stimulate an Electron because it is a Fermion and a passing electron of the same energy would cancel it out and make it not get emitted.

So apparently this guy has not even taken elementary quantum mechanics and not any nuclear physics to boot. Quantum mechanics is not about to get overthrown soon, as it is good to 15 decimal places.

Electroweak theory,

the theory that describes both the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force. Superficially, these forces appear quite different. The weak force acts only across distances smaller than the atomic nucleus, while the electromagnetic force can extend across substantial stretches of space (e.g., as observed in thunderstorms), weakening only with the square of the distance. Moreover, within the nucleus, the weak force is some 1,000,000 times weaker than the electromagnetic force. Yet, one of the major discoveries of the 20th century has been that these two forces are different facets of the same, more fundamental force. (See also fundamental interaction.) The electroweak theory arose principally out of attempts to produce a self-consistent theory for the weak force, in analogy with quantum electrodynamics (QED), the successful quantum theory of the electromagnetic force developed during the 1940s. The two basic requirements for the theory of the weak force are, first, that it should be gauge invariant (i.e., it should behave in the same way at different points in space and time) and, second, that it should be renormalizable (i.e., it should not contain nonphysical infinite quantities).

During the 1960s Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg independently discovered that they could construct a gauge-invariant theory of the weak force, provided that they also included the electromagnetic force. To mediate the interactions, the new theory predicts the existence of four massless "messenger" particles, two charged and two neutral. The short range of the weak force indicates, however, that it is carried by massive particles. This implies that the underlying symmetry of the theory is hidden, or "broken," by some mechanism that gives mass to the particles exchanged in weak interactions but not to the photons exchanged in electromagnetic interactions. The assumed mechanism involves an additional interaction with an otherwise unseen field, called the Higgs field, that pervades all space.

In 1971 Gerard 't Hooft proved that the unified electroweak theory proposed by Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg was renormalizable, and the theory gained full respectability. Later, experiments revealed the existence of the weak messengers, the neutral Z particle and the charged W particles; the masses of these particles were as predicted by the theory. See also standard model.