posted 03-22-2001 08:57 AM            

>>Laroussi's research since his arrival at Old Dominion from the
University of Tennessee a little over a year ago. The Air Force has
supported Laroussi's work since 1996.
Barker is drawn not just by Laroussi's plasma-creating prowess, but his
ability to make low-temperature plasma inexpensively, in bulk and
without the need for hulking equipment.
"What's intriguing about Mounir's work is the large volumes of plasma
he's been able to generate," Barker said. "He's making very good
progress in keeping costs and weight low. His approach gives the best
power figures for practical, large-volume generation of cold plasma we
have to date."
Power-hungry plasmas
Poke a finger inside Laroussi's tabletop plasma-generating apparatus and
all you'll get from the bluish, pilot-light-like ionized gas is a slight
tingle. But the harmless sensation is misleading, since it doesn't give
a complete picture of plasma's power. Depending on how a plasma is
"tuned," or how it is made more dense by increasing its frequency, it
could ward off microwave bursts and discharges from ground-based,
energized sources of potential damage and disruption.
Swirling in and around one another, a plasma's charged particles
interact constantly, giving rise to localized attractions or repulsions.
External energy splashing against the plasma --- say, from a potentially
disabling, concentrated burst of microwaves, or perhaps even from
certain varieties of particle-beam weapons fired from military bases on
Earth --- could be caught up within the plasma's complex electromagnetic
fields and dissipated completely or deflected into space.
Hotter plasmas, while dense, don't appear immediately practical as a
defensive shield because of destructive temperatures and high power
requirements. <<
http://www.rhfweb.com/hweb/shared2/ffield.html

JANUARY 8, 2001

NEWS ANALYSIS

Hot Prospects for Cold Plasma
This blue fog-like gas could have important commercial uses as a biological decontaminant
During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the Pentagon feared that a desperate Saddam Hussein would unleash biological weapons on U.S. soldiers. Although that threat never materialized, the U.S. military decided after the war that the conventional method of decontaminating tanks and rifles -- a dousing with water and bleach solutions -- was insufficient. Decontamination of infected soldiers was even more problematic.

The result was a Pentagon-funded research effort to focus on a technology called cold plasma. No, not the plasma found in human blood. This plasma is actually a fourth state of matter, a soup of positively and negatively charged atomic particles and molecules. A bluish substance that resembles a foglike gas, cold plasma can destroy the deadliest microbes lodged on the skin, weapons, or clothes. <<
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2001/nf2001018_024.htm
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970707/7weir.htm

The Pentagon's quest for nonlethal arms is amazing. But is it smart?
BY DOUGLAS PASTERNAK

Here's a snip:

From 1980 to 1983, a man named Eldon Byrd ran the Marine Corps Nonlethal Electromagnetic Weapons project. He conducted most of his research at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Md. "We were looking at electrical activity in the brain and how to influence it," he says. Byrd, a specialist in medical engineering and bioeffects, funded small research projects, including a paper on vortex weapons by Obolensky. He conducted experiments on animals--and even on himself--to see if brain waves would move into sync with waves impinging on them from the outside. (He found that they would, but the effect was short lived.)

By using very low frequency electromagnetic radiation--the waves way below radio frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum--he found he could induce the brain to release behavior-regulating chemicals. "We could put animals into a stupor," he says, by hitting them with these frequencies. "We got chick brains--in vitro--to dump 80 percent of the natural opioids in their brains," Byrd says. He even ran a small project that used magnetic fields to cause certain brain cells in rats to release histamine. In humans, this would cause instant flulike symptoms and produce nausea. "These fields were extremely weak. They were undetectable," says Byrd. "The effects were nonlethal and reversible. You could disable a person temporarily," Byrd hypothesizes. "It [would have been] like a stun gun."

Byrd never tested any of his hardware in the field, and his program, scheduled for four years, apparently was closed down after two, he says. "The work was really outstanding," he grumbles. "We would have had a weapon in one year." <<
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970707/7weir.htm

This is some info on the pineal gland that is said to be affected by Electromagnetic energy..this link has alot of info..ms

The Pineal Gland
>>The pineal gland was called the "third eye" by ancient people. It was thought to have mystical powers. This may be why the French philosopher Descartes decided that the pineal gland was the seat of the human soul, the location of what we call the mind. The pineal does contain a complete map of the visual field of the eyes, and it plays several significant roles in human functioning.<<
>>The second reason for interest in the pineal gland is that it contains magnetic material in birds and other animals. It is a center for navigation. This, of course, is important for blind individuals. If the pineal gland turns out to contain magnetic material in humans (researchers are looking), then it may be involved in navigational processing. Magnetic processing is subtle and may be part of the bodies unconscious navigational system. Mobility specialists are aware of this possibility, but we have yet to use it to train students.

Studies done mostly with birds strongly suggest that the pineal gland is a center for navigation. Scientists believe that the pineal body is a magnetoreceptor, capable of monitoring magnetic fields, and helping to align the body in space. Changing the direction of magnetic fields around the heads of birds alters their ability to orient.

Electromagnetic fields (EMF) suppress the activity of the pineal gland and reduce melatonin production. EMF activity therefore disrupts the bodies circadian rhythms.
http://isd.saginaw.k12.mi.us/~mobility/pineal.htm

Post from cttusa:
kansas city is targeted, very many chemtrails every week. last september in my neighborhood there were hundreds of dying blackbirds falling from trees and slow death in 24-48 hours laying on sides, city animal control unconcerned and uninterested, neighbors perplexed. I at first thought they must have eaten poisened feed, but so many affected...do not know why ::

..all the symptoms seem to be present in these articles..the point in posting the shield and biological effects was to point out that this type of weaponry/shield does affect the brain and brain wave patterns..could that possibly be the reason for misfolding proteins as in mad cow..those articles also pointed out the ability to initiate disease basically anywhere they wanted..all the reports of birds falling out of the sky and stated that they were "drunk"..bees,mammals also affected..What type of particle do you feel could be sprayed into the atmosphere to block this type of weaponry, it did mention "chaff" in the first article...any thoughts? ms

THE TESLA SHIELD--

Of particular interest is the hemispherical shell of energy which years
ago was dubbed the "Tesla Shield."

Two scalar hemispherical surfaces are created, using multiple frequency
transmitters and truncated Fourier series expansions. Interference of the two
scalar hemispheres creates a great, glowing hemispherical shell of ordinary
electromagnetic energy. In the shell, the energy density is sufficient to
lift Dirac matter from the Dirac sea of vacuum. The shell is thus filled with
a glowing plasma<<
>> The bottom line is that photons themselves can carry death and disease
patterns between cells. Scalar EM technology allows synthesis of the actual
potential pattern (which after all represents total control of charge and
charge distribution, hence biochemistry in the cell) of a particular
disease or death mechanism. Symptoms (and cellular death from them!) of
nuclear radiation, chemical poisoning, bacterial infection, and other
mechanisms were induced by the Kaznacheyev experiments.

Dr. Popp of West Germany has published an analysis of the virtual
photon master control system of the cells. Since scalar EM represents the
deliberate ordering of virtual particle flux into deterministic patterns,
the master control system can readily be entered with scalar techniques to
induce disease and disorder at will...snip
http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/text/teshield.txt

The other:
>>Israeli scientist Rafael Elul found that strands of protein protrude from membranes into water between brain cells. In the 1960s Ahron Katchalsky, biophysicist at MIT's Neurosciences Research Program, found that calcium binds to the end of these protein strands. Calcium ions are very prevalent in brain tissue, and transmit nerve impulses.

These protein-calcium strands sway in response to electric currents, like visible brain waves. Dr. Ross Adey says they're "senstive to electrochemical breezes blowing across cell membranes -- like wheat waving in wind. Rhythmic waves aren't just noise, but intercellular whispers." <<

>>To understand this secret life of cells, we must know how cells are constructed. Critical elements are the outermost membrane surface and innermost nucleus of genetic material. DNA's coiled structure expresses a clear magnetic imprint; replication occurs at radio frequencies, but little is known about DNA's EM activities. However, recent studies shed light on EM action in cell membranes. <<

By 1976, Adey had proven that weak EM directly affects the central nervous system, and theorized that ELF oscillations of protein-calcium strands are cell-to-cell communication. Weak ELF EM alters calcium movement in cell membranes to change neural chemical action.

posted 03-22-2001 09:01 AM            

PI: Mounir Laroussi
(423) 974-5866
Contract #: F49620-97-C-0074 THE UNIV. OF TENNESSEE
404 Andy Holt Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996
(423) 974-3466

ID#: 97AFO-007
Agency: AF
Topic#: 97-002
Title: Sterilization and Decontamination of Matter with a One Atmospheric Glow Discharge
Abstract: The sterilization and decontamination of matter plays a very important, and sometimes vital, role in various industrial processes, and health-related applications. In many civilian and military situations, the capability to sterilize tools, liquids, foods, etc., in a rapid and effective way, could make the difference between life and death. In this context, we propose to design, build, and test a sterilization/decontamination device which out performs existing methods, in terms of effectiveness, speed, and safety. Our method is based on the generation of a uniform glow discharge at atmospheric pressure. This discharge plasma is generated by low frequency R.F. power, applied between two insulated plate electrodes. This plasma is a source of active free-radicals, charged particles, and U.V. radiation. These agents interact with microorganisms at the atomic and molecular levels, and induce lethal chemical changes in the cells. Total sterilization can be achieved in few seconds to few minutes. Since the plasma power density is relatively low, no damage occurs to the supporting medium where the unwanted microorganisms live.
http://www.dodsbir.net/awardlist/sttr1_97.html

MONTEC ASSOC., INC.
P.O. Box 4182; 1850 Four Mile Vue Road
Butte, MT 59702
(406) 494-5555

PI: Lawrence C. Farrar
(406) 494-5555
Contract #: F49620-97-C-0076 TEXAS TECH UNIV.
Office of Research Services, 203 Holden
Lubbock, TX 79409-1035
(806) 742-3884

ID#: 97AFO-008
Agency: AF
Topic#: 97-002
Title: Plasma Destruction of Battlefield Chermical and Biological Warfare Agents
Abstract: The innovative application of plasma is proposed for the destruction of deadly chemical and biological warfare agents. The technology approach consists of employing an electric arc to establish a plasma forming gas to efficiently heat a plume used to kill the harmful agents. The proposed approach will result in t heir rapid destruction, e.g., within a few seconds. The Phase I objective is to demonstrate that the technology can effectively destroy surrogate chemical and biological warfare agents. In Phase I will evaluate three different plasmas for their effectiveness to destroy harmful agents and establish durability of the plasma arcjet technology for this application. The approaches to be evaluated are a nitrogen plasma, an air plasma and a novel water plasma arcjet. The Phase II project will result in a prototype system suitable for field application of the proposed technology. Anticipated benefits include the development of an effective system that will allow rapid and effective decontamination of surfaces that have been contaminated with chemical and biological warfare agents. No harmful byproducts will be produced.

posted 03-22-2001 09:04 AM            

"We are tanning the bacteria to death," said Mounir Laroussi, an electrical engineering research professor at Old Dominion University.

Laroussi and Fred Dobbs, associate professor of oceanography at Old Dominion, worked for a year to create a reactor built around a specially designed UV lamp. They work in a laboratory at the Applied Research Center next to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

They have done tests with a tabletop prototype on organisms including E. coli, Bacillus subtilis and dinoflagellates. All perished in the UV light.

Source: Discovery/January 2, 2001
http://www.sletten.dk/index.cgi?msgtype=22&wholemsg=877

posted 03-22-2001 09:16 AM            

In February, 1985 a China Airlines Boeing 747 aircraft enroute to Los Angeles suffered anomalous engine flameout. The jetliner fell 32,000 feet, and the pilot finally managed to restart the engines and make an emergency landing in San Francisco. In the incident, different instruments apparently disagreed with each other, and disagreed with the observations of the pilot and crew. This is a direct indication of the test of one type of scalar EM weapon detailed in Fer-de-Lance. Only a "mild" test was conducted, as the Soviets apparently did not yet wish to actually destroy the aircraft.*

*Scalar interferometry (endothermic mode) causes electrostatic cooling in the internal combustion gases of the jet turbines. This reduces the pressure, and the thrust. When cooled sufficiently, the engines flame out and fail. They cannot be restarted until the scalar charge has time to drain away.

We mention in passing that, in 1972, at a secret meeting of the leaders of the communist parties of Europe, Brezhnev named the year 1985 as the target year that the Soviets would be free to do as they will, anywhere on the globe. He stated that by that year the Soviet Union would control the oceans, the atmosphere, and 90% of the land area. We accent that he said control, not invade, conquer or occupy. [In 1960, Khrushchev also laid out a time schedule that focused on readiness, with technical superiority, in 1985.]

In latter April, 1985, Frank Golden discovered the rather sudden Soviet activation of 54 powerful scalar EM frequencies (27 pairs, each pair 12 kilohertz apart) transmitted into the earth and utilized to stimulate the earth into forced electrogravitational resonance on all 54 frequencies. These represented 27 giant "power taps" into the earth, each tap extracting enormous energy from the molten core of the earth itself, and turning it into ordinary electrical power. Each giant tap is capable of powering 4 to 6 of the largest scalar EM howitzers possessed by the Soviet Union.

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project233.html

Statement of William R. Graham, Ph.D.

RESUME’
1965-1971: Member, Professional Staff, Physics Department of the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California. While there he developed the theory of the nuclear weapon-generated EMP near the surface of the ground in the high overpressure region, including the Graham-Schaefer effect subsequently observed on underground nuclear tests, and developed a method for increasing the EMP output of high altitude nuclear explosions. He also conceived and designed the large-scale ARES high altitude nuclear EMP simulator that is still in use at Kirtland Air Force Base. He left to form RDA.

Developed the method used by DNA to generate and measure EMP phenomenology and effects on underground nuclear tests. He left RDA to become Deputy Administrator of NASA.

1997-Present: Chairman of the Board and President of National Security Research, Inc.

1998-1999: Served as a Commissioner on the Congressionally-established Commission on the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (The Rumsfeld Commission) and is a former Chairman and current member of the Department’s Ballistic Missile Defense Advisory Committee.
"The Electromagnetic Pulse Generated by A High Altitude Nuclear Explosion (EMP)

I would like to begin with a few examples of the circumstances in which another nation might wish to employ a nuclear weapon-generated EMP effect against the United States, and the benefits sought through such use." More:

posted 03-22-2001 09:29 AM            

PI: Helen Greiner
(617) 629-0055
Contract #: DAAH0197CR222 SANDIA NATIONAL LABS.
1515 Eubank NE, Mail Stop 1176 P.O.5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185
(505) 844-2552

ID#: 97ST10023
Agency: DARPA
Topic#: 97-009
Title: Micro Unattended Mobility System
Abstract: The goal of this program is the development of Micro Unattended Mobility SYstem as a complement to existing unattended sensor packages. A typical unattended sensor strategy consists of air dropping sensor packages into a target terrain fro remote observation and intelligence gathering. Existing and planned unattached systems have no contrtol over their location after the drop is complete. We propose to augment the capability of these packages by giving them a degree of local mobility. The envisioned device is the Micro Unattended Mobility System or MUMS. The device will be small (3" in diameter) mobility system capable of carrying a suite of sensor devices such as a modular GPS antenna, communications antenna, seismic sensor, microphone, EM detector, and possibly chemical detection sensors. In the Phase I effort, we will define the operational requirements, identify the critical components, and produce conceptual layouts of the system. Phase II will fabricate, test, and evaluate this prototype. <<

QUADRANT ENGINEERING, INC.
107 Sunderland Rd.
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 549-4402

PI: James B. Mead
(413) 549-4402
Contract #: N00014-97-C-0303 UNIV. OF MASSACHUSETTS
North Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-2514

ID#: 107100918
Agency: NAVY
Topic#: 97-001
Title: Ultra Compoact Millimeter Wave Radar for Cloud and Precipitation Research from Remotely Piloted Aircraft
Abstract: In recent years, airborne millimeter-wave radars have played an increasing role in remote sensing the distribution, dynamics and particle properties of clouds and precipitation. The ability of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs) to make such measurements over long time periods (typically 24 hours) makes them attractive platforms for studying the evolution of weather systems. This proposal describes an effort to merge the latest developments in Millimeter-wave Monolithic Integrated Circuit (MMIC) technology with proven millimeter-wave radar techniques to design a lightweight, compact radar for cloud and precipitation research from an RPA. The University of Massachusetts Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory, a recognized leader in the area of millimeter-wave devices and techniques, is now actively developing MMIC's for a wide variety of millimeter-wave receiver applications. Recently developed MMIC low noise amplifiers operating at W-band (typically 95 Ghz) have sufficient performance to allow direct signal detection at W-band. This design requires less than half the components used in previous millimeter-wave cloud radars, a reduction that is critical for use on small, unmanned aircraft. Combined with a 35 W solid-state power amplifier and compact lens antenna, the proposed radar will target the rigorous packaging constraints necessary to allow use on virtually any RPA.
http://www.dodsbir.net/awardlist/sttr1_97.html

posted 03-22-2001 10:32 AM            

I haven't read it all yet, will take some time. I find the plasma/fog very interesting indeed.
This research seems to be right on target with what is going on at the present time, and what my notes show.

As I said earlier, we are seeing a new or prefected phase, for whatever purpose, to this assualt on America

I have spoken to many many people on the illnesses that they are suffering and find too much likeness in each to be just a coinciedence. The flu like symptoms (but no flu) nausea headache, diorientation etc., all point to EMP invasion.

Also of note is the orientation of the "lead" clouds in the very start of a white out condition.

My first thoughts have run something like this:
The white out is at a relativly low altitude and covers completely all of the "target" area.
This cover is used to contain the next ingrediant to a low level insuring that it does not escape or disapate into the upper air.
In this way a complete saturation of the "target" area will be achived.

The EMP is used to guide the white out mass to its target location, and in the process effects the areas of the brain mentioned, causing most people to have the flu like symptoms, nausea, disoriention, etc....

During this time the EMP plays two distinct roles,1. To guide the cloud mass and 2. to basicly befuddle the mind so less and less questions arise from the targeted people making us more suseptible to manipulation and accepting of the goings on.

I belive that for the past several years, the spraying has been an attempt to build/place this "Guided Mass" (whiteout) into the atsmophere.

posted 03-22-2001 11:12 PM            

The enormity of this IS staggering.

posted 12-05-2001 12:17 PM            

The award, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will support the research of Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Professors Robert Stark and Mounir Laroussi, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors Ravindra Joshi and Karl H. Schoenbach and Chemistry Professor John Cooper. The award brings the total external support for pulse power and cold plasma research at Old Dominion to nearly $1 million per year.

"The MURI award strengthens Old Dominion's College of Engineering and Technology's position as a worldwide leader in pulsed power and cold plasma research," said Dean William Swart.

In a recent Business Week article, "Hot Prospects for Cold Plasma," both Schoenbach and Laroussi are named as experts in cold plasma (ionized, or electrically charged, gas), which has come to be known as the "fourth state of matter," along with solid, liquid and gas. Arc welding, fluorescent lighting, the Northern Lights and the sun are all instances of plasma.

In the article, Schoenbach predicts that new biological uses of cold plasma could be tried out by some of the food or medical industry giants within a year. For instance, cold plasma could be used to sterilize fragile, plastic medical instruments that are destroyed by heat sterilization, ensure that foods are free of dangerous Salmonella bacteria, and create food packaging that resists microbe growth.

posted 12-10-2001 07:18 AM            

Air Plasma Ramparts Program (APRP)

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
(MURI)

To significantly reduce

the net power budget

for creating and maintaining a

free electron density of 1013 per cm3

in sea level air

I am not exactly what that means,that is why I need help...the following will be some snips I have taken from the study so far that I found very interesting...lots of very familiar names in this study and the long range goals of what they are trying to achieve....

ram·part [rám prt ] noun (plural ram·parts)
fortified embankment: a defensive fortification made of an earthen embankment, often topped by a low protective wall
[Late 16th century. From French rempart , from remparer , literally "to defend again," from Old French emparer "to defend," from, ultimately, assumed Vulgar Latin parare "to prepare" (source of English prepare).]

snip>>Research Summary

We have been working on the theory of Coulomb crystallization of dust grains in plasmas and gases. These Coulomb lattice structures of highly charged, micron-sized dust grains are referred to as Coulomb crystals or “plasma crystals”. While plasma crystals of negatively charged grains have recently been produced in the laboratory by a number of groups, we have theoretically investigated the formation of a different type of Coulomb crystal when the grains are charged positively by UV (ultraviolet)-induced photoelectron emission. As a spin-off of these studies, we realized that dust grains or aerosols in a gas might be useful as a source of seed electrons generated as a result of a charging process such as photoemission or thermionic emission. It is interesting to note that the use of photoemission or thermionic emission from low work function dust grains to increase the electron density and thus the conductivity of the working gas of MHD generators was suggested some thirty years ago. The object of this research would be to investigate the physics and consequences of these dust ionization processes in high pressure gas environments. A goal would be to evaluate the feasibility of using dust grains or aerosols of low work function to generate seed electrons in a small volume of gas (< cubic meter).

snip>filaments:
snip>>The second thrust of this program will be to examine the plasma stability issues and explore the possibility of generating and stabilizing nonuniform volume-filling plasmas using metastable molecules. Since a stable uniform plasma is exceptionally difficult to sustain in atmospheric pressure air, controlling the plasma nonuniformity is an attractive alternative. If, for example, the plasma breaks down into a volume-filling array of filaments rather than an arc, it may continue to have plasma rampart properties characteristic of a uniform volume-filling plasma. If these filaments can be controlled, the plasma may be made to have additional properties which would not be feasible to achieve with a volume-filling plasma. For example, if the filaments are arrayed at regular intervals, the plasma can be made to act as a diffraction grating, or, in a manner equivalent to a multi-layer dielectric reflector or absorber, to increase its efficiency as a plasma rampart device. The energy required to sustain a filamentary plasma may be significantly less than that required to sustain a volumetric plasma. Controlling a plasma in this manner may be achieved using lasers, electron beams, or other devices to produce metastable molecules which guide the discharge.

snip>>AFOSR
Air Force Office of Scientific Research

APRP
Air Plasma Ramparts Program

MURI
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative

USAFR
United States Air Force Reserve

AF
Air Force

DoD
Department of Defense

Research Plan Summary (Tasks and Timing)

Year 1: Ionization, recombination, and attachment experiments in high pressure laser-sustained plasmas in carbon monoxide and carbon monoxide/air mixtures. Studies of enhanced ionization in vibrationally excited oxygen and nitrogen. Development of flowing afterglow experiment and associated diagnostics.

Year 2: Recombination and attachment studies in high pressure flowing afterglows. Electron density measurements in optical pumped apparatus and in the flowing afterglow. Experimental studies on the control of plasma filamentation. Kinetic model development for pulsed ionized air plasmas.

Year 3: Ionization studies in carbon/CO clusters and additional seedants. Experimental and analytic studies of diffusion-controlled oxygen attachment processes in seeded flows. Determination of optimum configurations for sustainable high pressure air discharge.

Year 4: Design and setup of large scale metastable flow apparatus. Measurements of electron density and plasma decay rates. Continued analysis and modeling of flowing plasma with metastable kinetics and imposed laser pumping.

posted 12-10-2001 07:39 AM            

snip>>The work functions of certain materials such as some oxides, carbides, or borides can be quite low, of the order of about 2-5 eV. If the solid particles are dispersed in a gas, the density of electrons produced by either of these ionization processes depends on the interplay between the production process and loss processes such as recombination onto grains or reactions with the gas such as the formation of negative ions.

posted 12-10-2001 10:50 AM            

>>In many experiments, plasmas are confined and modified by externally applied electric and magnetic fields. The particles in the plasma respond to these externally applied electromagnetic fields in a manner to generate variations (gradients) in the plasma density, plasma potential, and ion and electron temperatures. These changes in the plasma parameters can lead to perturbations of the plasma - altering the transport of particles and energy in the plasma.
http://www.physics.auburn.edu/~plasma/basic/

Additionally, because a plasma is composed of freely interacting charged particles, ions and electrons, there is a great deal of free energy available in the electric and magnetic fields that are self-generated by the particles themselves. This can lead to the formation of short lived non-resonant instabilities in the density, temperature and/or potential of the plasma. In some cases, these perturbations can be resonant and lead to the growth of waves (e.g., Alfvén waves or ion acoustic waves) in the plasma.

posted 12-10-2001 10:51 AM            

To discover physical mechanisms for significantly reducing power needed for cold air plasma generation

To develop a method to make practical the use of such air plasmas for the protection of future DoD systems & personnel

Scientific/technical approaches

External ionization: high efficiency, suppressing plasma instabilities

Optical pumping: production of molecular metastables to reduce the electron loss rates (recombination and attachment), and to produce additional ionization

Accomplishments

Efficient generation of optically pumped, stable, cold, atmospheric air plasma

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:r86EmqcHW_Y:www.acq.o sd.mil/ddre/research/muri/f97-2.ppt+air+plasma+power&hl=en

posted 12-10-2001 12:35 PM            

Emphasis

Focus on the central scientific problem of significantly reducing the net power budget for creating and maintaining a free electron density of 1013 per cm3 in sea level air...Establish an APRP Central Test Facility as soon as possible (by 1 January 98 ?).

...avoiding the use of harmful chemicals increases the likelihood of future acceptance into an operational military system...however, where there is a choice between environmental concerns (avoiding unfriendly means) and power budget reduction, power budget considerations will take precedence at this stage...

posted 12-10-2001 02:23 PM            

Got Plasma?

posted 12-14-2001 07:52 PM            

Deliberate environmental manipulations during wartime fall into two broad (and perhaps somewhat overlapping) categories: (1) those that involve massive and extended applications of disruptive techniques; and (2) those that involve relatively small disruptive actions which in turn release relatively large amounts of disruptive energy, so-called 'dangerous forces', or become self-generating. The first of these approaches would by some be considered a 'crude' form of environmental warfare, the latter a more 'elegant' form.
Moreover, intentional hostile disruption of the environment could, at least in principle, involve manipulations of any of the five following environmental domains: (1) the biota (flora and fauna); (2) the land (including fresh waters); (3) the ocean; (4) the atmosphere; and (5) the celestial bodies and space. I shall discuss, at least briefly, each of these five environmental domains in turn.<<

posted 01-13-2002 10:22 AM            

US Patents- A number of interesting US Patents that are related to the atmospheric and ionospheric plasma applications.
1- US5041834: Artificial ionospheric mirror composed of a plasma layer which can be tilted: http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US05041834__

2- US4686605: Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere : http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US04686605__

3-US4712155: Method and apparatus for creating an artificial electron cyclotron heating region of plasma : http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US04712155__

4-US5038664: Method for producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the earths surface: http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US05038664__