Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away
Hi Terry, Thanks for the two links to Hotson's papers, but I'm having trouble with the second link. I get two pages - the first of which is the tail end of an unrelated article and the second page is the beginning of Hotson's harmonic paper. Can you provide a link which covers the whole of the harmonic paper? Thanks, Andy. On 18/06/14 12:47, Terry Blanton wrote: Wow. Mark and Jones posts are both time stamped at 11:51 pm. Great minds . . . Here is the compilation of Hotson's three signature papers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mt4mJOTGvBNEg4T25LS0FQM3c/edit?usp=sharing And a fourth on harmonics: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mt4mJOTGvBSmpTaUdZLXllT0U/edit?usp=sharing These are non-public documents shared with list members for their personal use only. Some are in the public domain, others might not be.
Re: [Vo]:Ever-vigilant Wikipedia editors
Note also, that the first external link on the Mizuno page actually names the lenr-canr site: External links Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion - LENR-CANR Plasma Electrolysis Atomic Energy Society of Japan Japan Society of Applied Physics Regards, Andy. On 01/05/14 19:37, Jed Rothwell wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Notice that the last 2 external links are to your website. Huh. I never noticed. Perhaps no one has clicked on them lately. I wasn't looking for links back to Wikipedia. Clearly, the blacklist has been lifted. Works by or about Richard Oriani in libraries (WorldCat catalog) http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-8826 This one does net work. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:They're finally catching up!
Thanks for that, Terry. I wasn't previously aware of this and it looks interesting. Cheers, Andy. On 25/04/14 13:20, Terry Blanton wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Hotson’s essays move around. Most of my old links are dead. I have combined all three of Hotson's papers into a single .pdf file. The link provided here is for list members' use only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8mt4mJOTGvBNEg4T25LS0FQM3c/edit?usp=sharing
Re: [Vo]:Rossi Publishes His Theoretic Notes vis Focardi
I'm getting a 403 Forbidden when I try to follow that link - can anyone send me a copy of the pdf? Thanks, Andy. On 19/11/13 20:10, Bob Higgins wrote: This is likes a Schaum's outline math reference in Italian. I don't think there is anything useful here, but I could be proven wrong. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:00 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Math%20Lessons%20-%20Prof.Sergio%20Focardi.pdf
Re: [Vo]:Rossi Publishes His Theoretic Notes vis Focardi
Thanks to both Brad and Ian - I've got it. Andy. On 19/11/13 22:16, Brad Lowe wrote: Perhaps hot-linking is not allowed on the server.. Or it was changed to a zip file. Go to this page, and click the download link button. http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=821 - Brad On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Andy Findlay andy_find...@orange.net wrote: I'm getting a 403 Forbidden when I try to follow that link - can anyone send me a copy of the pdf? Thanks, Andy. On 19/11/13 20:10, Bob Higgins wrote: This is likes a Schaum's outline math reference in Italian. I don't think there is anything useful here, but I could be proven wrong. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:00 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Math%20Lessons%20-%20Prof.Sergio%20Focardi.pdf
Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Hi Mark, Possible typo alert: I think you meant to say 'wavelengths', not 'frequencies'. Andy. On 17/05/13 18:22, MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: Closely spaced, parallel conducting plates will ONLY exclude vacuum frequencies LARGER than the spacing between the plates.
Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Hi Jack, I had the same idea a couple of years ago. It gets even more interesting when you realize that the NiAl + NaOH reaction produces Raney Nickel (google it - it is a nano-porous material) which has very interesting properties. The reaction effectively pre-loads the Raney Nickel 'metallic foam' with Hydrogen. I wonder if anyone has looked for anomalous heat in this process. I suspect not. Andy. On 16/05/13 17:21, Jack Cole wrote: Since either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide react with aluminum to produce hydrogen, I wonder if NiAl wire in electrolysis with KOH or NaOH might prove interesting. Any thoughts? Perhaps even simpler would be adding this wire to a solution of KOH or NaOH without electrolysis. I don't know if the hydrogen produced would load into the lattice. Best regards, Jack
Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
HI Ed, Yes, I should have mentioned the dangers involved but for some reason or another I was assuming people would read up on it before trying anything. I am curious to know, though, whether you were looking at heat during the production of Raney Nickel, or how it behaves in a Rossi type setup? Andy. On 16/05/13 19:11, Edmund Storms wrote: I studied Raney Ni and found no evidence for extra heat. The material is actually an Ni-Al alloy that contains a small fraction of Al. It is very reactive to oxygen, unreactive to water and unreactive to H2. It is dangerous to use without care. Ed Storms On May 16, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Andy Findlay wrote: Hi Jack, I had the same idea a couple of years ago. It gets even more interesting when you realize that the NiAl + NaOH reaction produces Raney Nickel (google it - it is a nano-porous material) which has very interesting properties. The reaction effectively pre-loads the Raney Nickel 'metallic foam' with Hydrogen. I wonder if anyone has looked for anomalous heat in this process. I suspect not. Andy. On 16/05/13 17:21, Jack Cole wrote: Since either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide react with aluminum to produce hydrogen, I wonder if NiAl wire in electrolysis with KOH or NaOH might prove interesting. Any thoughts? Perhaps even simpler would be adding this wire to a solution of KOH or NaOH without electrolysis. I don't know if the hydrogen produced would load into the lattice. Best regards, Jack
Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Hi Fran, Raney Nickel would indeed appear to be perfect territory for Casimir effects to be taking place. But I'd need some therapeutic maths counselling to comment sensibly on any relativistic effects. Andy. On 16/05/13 19:58, Roarty, Francis X wrote: Also skeletal catalysts like Rayney nickel are an inverse form of Casimir geometry with pit sizes in the same sweet spot for strong suppression of virtual particles as casimir plates. This was the first clue that lured me in to believing these claims regarding powders and skeletal cats like those used by Mills are all related to the same underlying environment...supression of longer vacuum wavelengths. All the claims regarding modified half lives and relativistic energies leads me to believe the suppression is actually relativistic and that the longer vacuum wavelengths remain unchanged to a local observer in the pit of a skeletal cat or cavities formed between powders grains or cracks in lattice of Casimir geometry. Fran -Original Message- From: Andy Findlay [mailto:andy_find...@orange.net] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 2:01 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl) Hi Jack, I had the same idea a couple of years ago. It gets even more interesting when you realize that the NiAl + NaOH reaction produces Raney Nickel (google it - it is a nano-porous material) which has very interesting properties. The reaction effectively pre-loads the Raney Nickel 'metallic foam' with Hydrogen. I wonder if anyone has looked for anomalous heat in this process. I suspect not. Andy. On 16/05/13 17:21, Jack Cole wrote: Since either potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide react with aluminum to produce hydrogen, I wonder if NiAl wire in electrolysis with KOH or NaOH might prove interesting. Any thoughts? Perhaps even simpler would be adding this wire to a solution of KOH or NaOH without electrolysis. I don't know if the hydrogen produced would load into the lattice. Best regards, Jack
Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Yes, Terry, but note I was talking about anomalous heat. On 16/05/13 19:12, Terry Blanton wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Andy Findlay andy_find...@orange.net wrote: I wonder if anyone has looked for anomalous heat in this process. Whether they look or not, they often find heat considering that the material is flammable.
Re: [Vo]:Nickel Aluminum (NiAl)
Thanks, Ed. The implied question in my response to the original post was really directed more towards the actual process of producing Raney Nickel than what you can do with it thereafter. The chemical reaction is apparently strongly exothermic (in and of itself) and progresses faster at higher temperatures, so any anomalous heat could easily be overlooked - or dismissed as being the heat of combustion due to contact with O2. Might be worth a look though, I think. Andy. On 16/05/13 21:22, Edmund Storms wrote: Hi Andy, I heat it with H2 and looked for heat and radiation. I saw nothing unusual. I did not explore this in depth because I did not expect it to be active. Nevertheless, it might be active under other conditions I did not explore. I was more interested in other materials that were active. Ed
Re: [Vo]:Papp's gas mixer/purifier
On 10/01/13 21:36, Axil Axil wrote: The Papp formula may well act as follows: Add electrons and x-rays through spark discharge and the noble gas clusters expand in volume. Remove electrons and the noble gas clusters shrink in volume An alternating power supply at the frequency of the engine's cycles? Well, if the electrical circuit was resonant at that frequency, much of the power would be recycled on the next time round. This would help with efficiency, but we still need something to overcome losses due to friction You've got a plausible explanation for the 'push' and the 'pull' on the piston, but why should one be greater than the other? This is a requirement if you aim to achieve over-unity, even if you ignore friction. Or did I miss something? Andy.
[Vo]:[OT] It's a sad situation...
Greetings Vorts! Although it goes against my general principles, I have set up a filter to remove from my inbox any email containing a particular four-letter word in either the subject, from, or body fields. I am not a particularly prudish type, but when over fifty percent of one's emails from the Vortex contain the offending word something must be done. It is deeply regretted that I will miss some well thought out and worthwhile communications that, perhaps innocently, include the four-letter word as a result of replying to posts that included it. This is a shame and I sincerely hope that I will be able to remove the filter soon. Sincerely, Andy Findlay.
Re: [Vo]:Wigner effect?
Thanks, Eric, Yes, that fits within my conceptual view of what is possible for hydrogen. I think Stewart has got things a bit muddled. Andy. On 28/11/12 08:29, Eric Walker wrote: I wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Andy Findlay andy_find...@orange.net wrote: I wasn't aware that hydrogen was capable of beta decay. Beta minus decay is possible under extreme conditions. But you would need to temporarily place the hydrogen you wanted to decay on a core-collapsing star. On second thought, β- decay isn't correct. I'm having a hard time saying for sure exactly what kind of beta decay it is. I don't imagine it's the normal inverse beta decay (inner shell electron capture), since there are probably few inner shell electrons hanging around. But β+ decay implies positron emission, and I don't see evidence of that. Wikipedia refers to it as "reversed beta-decay" in one place. The reaction seems to be: p + e- → N + v Eric
Re: [Vo]:Wigner effect?
Thanks, Jed, You are implying that you don't believe that the stored Wigner effect energy per gram could be many orders of magnitude higher in Palladium (or Nickel, for that matter) than in graphite because of the 4eV per atom limit. Correct? Please don't get me wrong - I am hoping that I can rule out the Wigner Effect as the source of the anomalies (to my own satisfaction). It would be very disappointing if CF/LENR turned out to be just an unreliable energy storage device. Andy. On 28/11/12 01:54, Jed Rothwell wrote: Accumulation of energy in irradiated graphite has been recorded as high as 2.7 kJ/g, but is typically much lower than this . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner_effect Cold fusion cathodes of roughly 1 g have produced more than that in many cases, and in a few cases 50 to 150 MJ. In the debate between Fleischmann and Morrison I linked to, the cathode produced 1.1 MJ. As I recall it was small, probably ~1 g. Most of FP's early cathodes were small. The Wigner effect appears to be a form of mechanical storage, as near as I can tell. Generally speaking, when you talk about chemical or mechanical energy storage -- with electron bonds, in other words -- the upper limit is about 4 eV per atom of material. Store more than that and the molecules fall apart. You get plasma, I suppose. Cold fusion devices have produced hundreds to thousands of eV per atom, and the upper limit is unknown.
[Vo]:Wigner effect?
Does anybody know of a sensible counter-argument (or maybe even a peer reviewed refutation) to the idea that the anomalous heat of cold-fusion/LENR might just be due to a Wigner-(like)-Effect? I had never heard of the Wigner Effect until a couple of days ago when I was reading about the Windscale fire (sorry about the use of Wikipedia links). It got me thinking about whether the documented swelling of palladium during loading could lead to a similar Wigner (like) Effect deformation of the palladium lattice which could then release stored energy abruptly - as happened in the graphite moderators in the Windscale fire. Following up on this, I found Douglas R.O. Morrison's Cold Fusion News article on NET which includes the following paragraph: "Prof. Bockris of Texas AM give a talk entitled "Seven Chemical Explanations of the Fleischmann-Pons effect" where he estimated the heat excess produced but always got values much less than the early claims of F-P and of Huggins of the order of 10 Watts - the highest he calculated was 0.9 W for the Pauling suggestion of PdH2 formation. He was asked about the Wigner effect, but had not considered it [ comment - this is a favourite explanation of many people. It was responsible for a large release of radioactivity in about 1957 at Windscale - the neutrons absorbed by the graphite had stored a lot of energy in the graphite by changing its structure and the subsequent release of this energy caused the trouble. It had previously been predicted by Wigner. Similarly the absorption of hydrogen or of deuterium by palladium causes the palladium to swell and this stores a lot of energy in the cathode. When the loading stops (e.g. the current is switched off or the level of the electrolyte falls and exposes part of the cathode), then this Wigner energy can be released]." Obviously I missed out on part of the cold fusion story. So, counter-arguments? Andy.
Re: [Vo]:Wigner effect?
Thanks for the link, Jed. I've only skimmed it (so far), but it has given me some insight into Morrison's stance on the issue. And yes, I also get annoyed by people who confuse power with energy (Rossi, conspicuously). However, the pdf does not mention the Wigner effect. You state that the Wigner effect cannot produce megajoules per mole - well that is the sort of information I'm looking for but could you point me to a paper (or even an idiots guide) that shows this to be so? After all, it did manage to overwhelm the cooling system at Windscale. Incidentally, congratulations on the new look lenr-canr site. A great improvement! Andy. On 27/11/12 22:50, Jed Rothwell wrote: The Wigner effect cannot produce megajoules per mole. Morrison never understood that concept. That is why he failed to see the significance of a cell that produced 1,700 more energy than any chemical source of energy could. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf Perhaps he did not know the difference between power and energy. He seems to be confusing them in this Report, No. 14-28. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Wigner effect?
I wasn't aware that hydrogen was capable of beta decay. Andy. On 27/11/12 23:03, ChemE Stewart wrote: If billions of neutrinos are flowing through all matter all of the time, if you pack enough hydrogen in a concentrated area you are bound to get a head on collision now or then leading to beta decay. Probably also leads to hydrogen embrittlement over time and maybe the gravitational acceleration we all experience when we stand on our dark matter nucleus planets... We humans are just the beta decay frosting on the cake. http://theta13.lbl.gov/neutrinos_universe/neutrinos_01.html Stewart Darkmattersalot.com On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Andy Findlay wrote: Does anybody know of a sensible counter-argument (or maybe even a peer reviewed refutation) to the idea that the anomalous heat of cold-fusion/LENR might just be due to a Wigner-(like)-Effect? I had never heard of the Wigner Effect until a couple of days ago when I was reading about the Windscale fire (sorry about the use of Wikipedia links). It got me thinking about whether the documented swelling of palladium during loading could lead to a similar Wigner (like) Effect deformation of the palladium lattice which could then release stored energy abruptly - as happened in the graphite moderators in the Windscale fire. Following up on this, I foundDouglas R.O. Morrison's Cold Fusion News article on NET which includes the following paragraph: "Prof. Bockris of Texas AM give a talk entitled "Seven Chemical Explanations of the Fleischmann-Pons effect" where he estimated the heat excess produced but always got values much less than the early claims of F-P and of Huggins of the order of 10 Watts - the highest he calculated was 0.9 W for the Pauling suggestion of PdH2 formation. He was asked about the Wigner effect, but had not considered it [ comment - this is a favourite explanation of many people. It was responsible for a large release of radioactivity in about 1957 at Windscale - the neutrons absorbed by the graphite had stored a lot of energy in the graphite by changing its structure and the subsequent release of this energy caused the trouble. It had previously been predicted by Wigner. Similarly the absorption of hydrogen or of deuterium by palladium causes the palladium to swell and this stores a lot of energy in the cathode. When the loading stops (e.g. the current is switched off or the level of the electrolyte falls and exposes part of the cathode), then this Wigner energy can be released]." Obviously I missed out on part of the cold fusion story. So, counter-arguments? Andy.
[VO]: More support for variable radioactive decay rates...
From New Scientist (needs free registration): Half-life strife: Seasons change in the atom's heart Nothing is supposed to speed up or slow down radioactive decay. So how come the sun seems to be messing with some of our elements? The evidence keeps accumulating... Andy Findlay
