Thermodynamics and Nuclear FUSION 

Just when I was trying to slow down at 90 and getting ready to stand at the bus stop and wait for 'Godot' 'along comes Mr Chris Wright in an interview on the BBC, telling the World how President Trump appointed him as the 'United Sates Secretary of ENERGY.'  

This blog is really a congratulations Letter to Mr Wright and our common interest in Nuclear FUSION.

Dear Mr Wright

I am a product of the then, Graduate School of Thermodynamics  and Related Studies at the University of  Birmingham, England. An Iconic year 195 9!  .Out of it came an extraordinary diverse group of people, who contributed to  to our world of engineering in a ground breaking way.   My blog of 1916  www,thinktrue2008.blogspot.com  says it all, well maybe most of it.(1916-January Engineers and the Human Condition/.) Most of them have passed on and its a bit lonely with no one to discuss my thoughts on FUSION.

Way back in the early fifties there was  a Particle  accelerator in the physics department ,of Birmingham University, where my future mother in law worked as a very harp eyed lady examining photographic plates for what she called EVENTS. Computors now of course.

The European collider, was established and they have been wasting millions ever since, when the money should have been allocated to the French Project---- Fusion research.

I am ,but a Grain of Sand trying to get my ideas out, against the Winds off the Desert. You sir can be the Wind of change of thought, on the matter of FUSION Developement. A joint USA/ French  project would be a good way to go. 

One of the problems appears to gettng the temperature up , high enough/for long enough to get the reaction stable. My thought has always been nuclear FISION. There may be work to be done on Neutron radiation. .

Change of subject : For my 9()th birthday I hoped to start up the Thermodynamics Institute. I wrote to Birmingham and Cambridge Universities for help--No reaction, maybe I should approach the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . I will try.

Please go for Fusion in our lifetime.

Yours Sincerely       

 

Malcolm E Mason

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All the best in your demanding new position-- It was a great interview, on BB, it certainly woke me up to times past and present. 

cc Blog list December 28 2019     Engineers and the Human Condition  January 2016

Ah my particle of matter---- in memory of Primo Levi and Tutllio Reggie. Who actually agreed with me.  

 a long time agoe.

Now where is that fello GODOT 

 

 

Silence of the Wolves continued, through to Attack Dogs

My annoyance really began before Covid 19, when a high ranking Chinese Military man, was shown around our most secret facility near Canberra, I don't know where it is exactly, but they do!!. 

Covid19, arrived, almost certainly from China.The Virus that has spread Worldwide and caused the devastating number of deaths (Over One Million) and illness's, World Wide. I wrote the blog 'Silence of the Wolves'-Covid 19, 29 April 2020.

At that point I decided, that enough was enough, and since then China has insulted Australia on a number of occasions, followed by sanctions or outright banning of Australian goods and services .

I began, my series of tweets, calling for the World to bring China to account. 

Here we go.------------ May I quote  Ver Batum, my tweet of 7 July 2020.

"World- Australia.  I requested our Australian Gov: assemble WORLD leaders of Countries affected by  Covid 19 Deaths to bring Chinese Pres: & Gov: to account.-For starters 70 Trillion Dollars and sanctions on Coal;Gas;Cereals and Iron  ore. ASAP. Fin"

I progressed to another important one, recently

World- With one explosive launch of 19, China has created Governance IN ITS IMAGE. Caused Unpresidented Power to Politicians/Police/Military, to control and divide Countries & States. Australia-back to 1901, infiltrated;Industries;UNIVERSITY's;DEFENCE;NTPort.-- 2021?

What do you know!, China, was quite quick to know,about how to deal with 19. And goodness me, also in quick time Australia had Hand Cleaning fluid and Masks in super stores here and charity shops. Made in CHINA. I know not what medical standards they have had to pass. there are Australian products, now,but many, business's, still have Chinese ones them on their counters.These imports must stop immediately. 

Like the Chinese say,in stopping Log imports, what parisites etc ,are there on them, so, it could be,  with their Masks and Sanitising fluids. What Contagious, nasty Bateria, may there be in these, and all, sanitary products from there.

Now, I say it again. 'Silence of the Wolves'- Covid19, as in my  blog Wednesday April 29 2020, Bring China to account.

I appear to be alone, in my call for, China to brought to account. There are Wolves and Attack Dog's, but they remain silent, when it comes to China, as we have seen , China always gets on the Front Foot, snarling, particularly, at Australia.

On the 21 July 2020 I wrote to our (Australian) Prime Minister- The Honorable Scott Morrison, with copies to UK, PM Boris Johnson and to the NZ PM Lucinda Ardern. I requested that he organise, what I called "The International Coalition for a Virus Free World".  I hessitated to get President Trump, involved as he was so unpredictable. 

That was an under statement wasn't it.

PM Lucinda Ardern's  office thanked me for sending a copy of the letter, which was nice. My expected wolves, were silent. Leading me to wait for Mr Biden, to take up office, before I broaden my project to a larger number of PM's and President's, of Countries affected by this Covid 19and it's varients.

I now come to President Trump. Since his taunghting of  "The Rocket Man", I used the word Perfidy (my Word) for him. Remember----Tweet USA Sept 29 & other references.  USA My word Perfidy-I Percieve & take to mean "Demi Treason". President Trump fits the bill perfectly & I have said it a number of times. "A Head of State who by his/her Words or Actions, endanger the Security of that State" True Oui!.

We come to Dear Mr Trump. 

What is about to happen, you will, understand perfectly. Security will enter your office and ask you to clear your desk. They will escourt you out of the building, to a waiting Helicopter to take you were ever you wish to go, out side of Washington DC.

Good bye, Mr Trump, may your God go with you, its the American Way, isn't it.

I ave worked with US Corporations, UK and Switzerland and witnessed such scenes .

As soon as President elect Mr Biden takes office,I will re boot my project, for a virus free World.

On this Sunday morning, deep in a forest, there is a blue sky and all is calm. So down to the river where our Great Dane will bark at the people, passing in their canoes, (he is no attack dog) though, then I will know, life goes on,and the World will recover, from you Mr Trump and Covid19.

Bye for now. 

Malcolm E Mason

motor industry

Blog 09 May ------- Motor Industry
The Motor Industry and me -a short memoir
I have started again to read the aoutobiography, 'Spy Catcher' by Peter Wright and published in Australia by William Heinemann in 1987. It opens with something like 'It all began in 1949, on a spring day that reminds us of winter'
Goodnes me, hang on a bit, now fourteen years old on to 1935 and its 1949 again and the year of my first association and real interest in the Motor Industry. It was announced at schoolassembly, that a visit to the Austin Motor Company, was coming up. - Thats me I said Im going – no you are not Mason said the Principal,there will be lot of walking and you Mason would not be able to keep up, having had polio at eleven – Rubbish I insisted.
The 'Pricipal' one Mr Duckworth, had the last say and my threats of his extinction was ignored – you see, he was a cricketer, was it him or his brother who played for Worcestershire. Anyway a fello girl prefect talked me out of hitting him with his cricket bat – I'm forever greatful to her for so doing.
On with life at 15, I decided that Mechanical Engineering was me, so onto a one year pre-apprenticship course, OK but more please, four years to the Higher National Diploma and later a Degree by association of further academic studies to come. Ah, ah The Austin Motor Company at Longbridge just south of Birmingham UK came into view again, nothing will stop me now, so off to see the training manager. At first he did'nt know how he could help, but with a little prompting he came up with a Graduate training program, goodness Engineering; Production or Commercial.
Two years long, where I became representative of 'Overseas Trainees',most of them sons of distributors and so a network of International associates began a true worldwide club if you like and I am sure was replicated in most western Motor companies. Time was spent in Design, Development, Sales and numerous training courses all fasintating to me at twenty years of age. The interesting one was the ,Research Department' at the time worki ng on a Gas Turbine – Centrifugal compressor tied to the turbine with impossibly small blades , which I was sure I could do better, bugger off Mason , still I must have struck a cord somewhere and they had a rethink, I was not included of course. The engine did run in the end in a Austin Sheerline at a Austin open day.
There were of course other sections, like a cold room, overspeed room, gear development and general engine reseach in cluding rotary. Looking at other manufacturs products power trains and complete vehicles. In the engine section we had a ferrari four cylinder and others , but most significant in these early sixties was a Chrysler V8, a beutifully engineered and built plus easy to assemble to bout. Fuel consumption was enormous to us, however the specific fuel consumption figures were good (non dimentional) .This was my first encounter with excelent American engineering and not to be my last.
It was at this moment that the telephone rang and you know good people, occasionaly you just know it call is not going to be good news. It was Samantha our daughter ' Daddy' and then a pause, I have bad news-- Grandad immediately thinks of grandchildren and family members in an accident or something. Samantha then said Anthony is dead , followed by the always difficult explanation of the tradegy. Anthony had gone over a sea cliff near his home at Copocabana a small seaside town not far north of Sydney.
The matter was then put into the hands of the local coroner, who has still not produced a report, however Anthonies remains were released and the funeral set for Friday 26 June at a memorial gardens near where he had lived. Caravan quickly commissioned out of its winter position and Patricia and I were off to a family gathering and meeting of most of his freinds- he had three sisters and six brothers. It was to be the kind of gathering Anthony had been trying to achieve for years , as he was the link man in life, the family member who visited all in turn , over the years.
Always a bit of a mistery when people go off a cliff, this one some ninety metres high by a chap veryfamiliar with the bush ; heights and dangerous places like bush fires. Anthony was an employee of the state Parks and Wildelife Service, a fully licienced civil machine operator and trained Fire Fighter of a kind that jumps out of helicopters near a fire in the middle of nowhere ,a brave lot who know what they are doing, for which the public are ever thankful.
Being forthright person of course has its dangers and I gather he on acasion did not agree with senior management on the level of work effort and prcedures in the workplace and was subjected to harrasement by trying to get him to resign. Being the shiney boot brigade they enacted the procedure of wearing him down to the point of difficulty in dealing with it all and volunteered to a phycriatric assessment ,which was ongoing ,when parting company with a clifftop occurred. I had for some time said to him that he would be better placed in forestry where they get their boots dirty, full time, and put in a full days work for a full days pay,,clearing plus hassard reduction plus logging with contracters . An inviroment work ethic in the forestry industry and not one of meeting, note pads and inaction on important matters like hassard reduct by clearing and backburning.
Just look what happened in the State of Victoria where because of the neglegence of the Victorian Parks and Wildlife Service in carring out hasard burning, on that Saturday the seventh in February, Properties burned, People burned and died including firefighters and the very enviroment they are supposed to protect burned animals and fuana. Now we have a commission looking at the dissaster, with not a mention of the failings if the department or their Government Dept for the enviroment.
This was Anthonies fight ,ending in a fall from a cliff near his home. What drugs was he given by the hospital , apparanty an anti depressant plus an anti smoking precription, I have yet to check
this. We all said goodbye at the service and Patricia wrote and spoke ' How do you say fare well to a friend'
How do you say fare well to a friend, a man who was caring and loving, who thought about other people, loved what he did working with nature. A physical and spiritual man, one you could respect admire, for he did things from the heart. In my book thats the way to live.
His life has been cut short,I am sad about that, for he was loved and I feel sad that I did not say it. So please say what is in your heart, What you feel. Fare well Anthony.Hope you find peace and happiness whereever you are. Love from your family, Patricia etc . Amen.
Just as I was thinking about the address by Patricia at the service, the telephone rang again and again the strained voice of a lady, this time a good friend of ours. The terrible news was that their twenty somthing son had been killed in a motor accident in Perth, Western Australia . Ann and Jarda were of course devastated and because we were attending Anthonies funeral we did not know 0f the rememberance service for Robert this side of the Country.
Goodness me,I do hope my next edition can be more cheerful, .Ah the motor industry and me , thats it . See you next time. Malcolm E Mason.