The problem with capturing any power output from sonoluminescence as generated by current laboratory methods is that the phenomenon always presents as a sequence of single-bubble events. For this reason, no two events can ever be made to inter-react because by definition, by the time one has started, another has finished. Can any two events ever be synchronous?
To quote the internet: "AN EXPLANATION IS EMERGING FOR SONOLUMINESCENCE, the mysterious underwater phenomenon in which air bubbles, compressed by sound waves, implode, releasing 50-picosecond flashes of light which are up to a trillion times more concentrated in energy than the initial sound waves. A new round of experiments and calculations over the last year has done much to elucidate the details of the phenomenon. C.C. Wu and Paul Roberts of UCLA propose (in the 31 May Physical Review Letters) that the mechanism for sonoluminescence consists of spherical shock waves generated in the collapsing bubble. According to the hypothesis, the shock waves travel to the bubble's center at supersonic speeds, compressing air inside the bubble and heating it to such high temperatures (over 5000 K) that a plasma is formed. Electrically charged particles in the plasma release flashes of light in the process of accelerating." (The Sciences, July/August 1993.)
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for further reading see the internet: "sonoluminescence"... for example: -a good
S.L. site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapwas/sl/sono.htmll This is not connected in any way with my site. He says: (excerpt) Sonoluminescence is a little-understood phenomenon
whereby light is emitted by tiny bubbles suspended in a liquid subjected
to intense acoustic fields. The aim of this work was to construct apparatus
to enable the observation of sonoluminescence, to investigate its basic
properties, and leave a kit and instructions to form the basis of a future
final-year undergraduate experiment. It was found that despite the apparent
simplicity of the setup, to obtain successful and repeatable sonoluminescence
required great care in the selection and tuning of system components,
and a good degree of patience. I say: Through my work as a music string mechanic, I believe that I have worked out a way to produce millions, possibly billions of synchronous single-bubble sonoluminescence events in parallel streams that can have the potential to inter-react and thus be made to usefully summate their output energies; prototype development will thus show, once and for always, whether fusion is really involved in the S.L. process; this in a small, extremely portable machine... I've removed the disclaimers, biographical fluff, general conjecture and other side-issues from this site. Enjoy.
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