Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
I don't think there is any RF generator. My understanding of how the process works is this First, the nano sized powder is cleaned of impurities by being baked and perhaps exposed to chemicals. Second, the nano sized powder is bathed in chemicals and baked repeatedly. This makes it able

RE: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Jones Beene
Yes. That's right. If you are old enough, you learned the hydrogen line in school as 1420 megacycles. Giga was not in student's vocabulary then. This is what we call the hyperfine structure today. -Original Message- From: Mark Iverson Jones: Did you have the right units on that RF

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/20/2011 01:29 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Would weighing the entire apparatus before and after reveal a concealed chemical reaction? I don't think so. The sort of reaction proposed here replaces the reactants with solid ash, which remains on the spot, so the weight of the apparatus won't

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Deuterium kills the reaction? Amazing if true. You have to hand it to Rossi: he finds things out. He discovers things others do not. Like Mizuno. - Jed

[Vo]:Physorg reports on Rossi

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-italian-scientists-cold-fusion-video.html This is generating a lot of traffic at LENR-CANR.org. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Playing devil's advocate in situations like this serve a useful purpose. Honoring our skeptical bones hopefully help keep our feet firmly planted on the ground, particularly when our wings would love to start flapping right now! ...to soar into the stratosphere is everyone's dream.

RE: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Jones Beene
From: noone noone * I don't think there is any RF generator. The purpose of the Rossi black box is said to be a secret, but if it were merely a DC power supply for a resistive heater, then you would be implying a planned intent to deceive the audience, which is not impossible, but

[Vo]:The RH meter was the wrong type for this temperature

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Pierre Carbonnelle wrote to me: Macy's report talks of a Delta OHM # HD37AB1347 Indoor Air Quality Monitor, whose specifications are here http://www.deltaohm.com/ver2010/uk/st_airQ.php?str=HD37AB1347. Could this invalidate the dryness measurement ? Maybe. I don't know enough about the

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Jones, Randy Mills would not agree with your assertion. He is waiting for the scientific analysis (that of Bologna professors) to make an opinion of the demonstration and the generator. If hydrinos have played a role, they can be found with the method described e..g. in this paper: RL Mills

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Rich Murray
Rossi on his blog explains that the heat output during the demo came from the nuclear reaction of several picograms of Ni -- about 3 X 10E-12 gm ... a millionth of a microgram, while the mass of the nuclear reacting H would be 1 atom of H for each atom of Ni reacting, with the most common isotope

Re: [Vo]:The RH meter was the wrong type for this temperature

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/20/2011 10:08 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Pierre Carbonnelle wrote to me: Macy's report talks of a Delta OHM # HD37AB1347 Indoor Air Quality Monitor, whose specifications are here http://www.deltaohm.com/ver2010/uk/st_airQ.php?str=HD37AB1347. Could this invalidate the dryness

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/20/2011 10:48 AM, Rich Murray wrote: Rossi on his blog explains that the heat output during the demo came from the nuclear reaction of several picograms of Ni -- about 3 X 10E-12 gm ... a millionth of a microgram, while the mass of the nuclear reacting H would be 1 atom of H for each

RE: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Jones Beene
Dear Peter, Do you know the phrase specchietto per le allodole? It is often what happens publicly, after a furious inventor has had a heart-to-heart talk with his attorney: Stay cool and maintain dignity, let me handle the dirty work Jones From: Peter Gluck Dear Jones,

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Gluck
Yes, but it is about a kind of trap. What does it mean in the context of our discussions- re Randy? I e-knew one of the attorneys of Randy- it was some dispute with an Englishman re a patent. Peter On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Dear Peter, Do you

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
I found this comment. Dear Pierre, Thank you for your important questions, here are the answers: 1- the Ni powder I utilized were pure Ni, no copper . At the end of the operations in the reactor the percentage of copper was integrally bound to the amount of energy produced. A charge which has

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
He admits on his website that they have not tried components from other suppliers. From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 10:37:28 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents On 01/20/2011 09:57 AM,

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
Then why does BLP not produce a product? They seem to have had a rock solid easily to replicate technology for a decade. From: Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 10:30:34 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Gluck
They have a complex technology, needs a lot of development, can be replicated but no easily. Take please a look to the papers at the BlackLightPower website. They will demonstrate later this year their CIHT technology- it generates electricity. I have worked 40 years in the chemical industry nad I

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
The information about the ceramic comes from the following: Dr. Brian Ahern presented the tenth talk, “Inverse Capillary Discharge for Amplifying LANR.” Ahern has been very intrigued by the recent work by Rossi and Focardi (http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FocardiSanewenergy.pdf) involving

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
Do you have Skype? Could we talk on there? From: Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 12:39:13 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction? They have a complex technology, needs a lot of development, can

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Gluck
No, I am rather deaf- not completely anyway- I enjoy good music. You can write me at peter.gl...@gmail.com and I will answer immediately, with pleasure. Peter On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:41 PM, noone noone thesteornpa...@yahoo.comwrote: Do you have Skype? Could we talk on there?

[Vo]:Coax ?

2011-01-20 Thread Jones Beene
Did anyone who watched the video closely notice a coax cable coming from the black (actually blue) box? If there is no coax there is no RF, so this hypothesis could be dead in the water. Unfortunately the resolution is not very high on any of the stills - and I am not going to view the vids

[Vo]:How is the BlackLightPower effect different from Rossi's effect?

2011-01-20 Thread noone noone
Hello Everyone, I am not a scientist. But I have been following alternative energy for a while. For the past week I have been digging for hours trying to find additional information about Rossi's technology and comparing it to BLP's effect. I have came to the conclusion from what we know right

Re: [Vo]:How is the BlackLightPower effect different from Rossi's effect?

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Gluck
Too many unknown unknowns mainly on Rossi's side to answer now. The role of transmutation not known, how much % of the heat released during those 6 months can it explain. Are hydrinos formed in the Rossi cell? Peter On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:26 PM, noone noone thesteornpa...@yahoo.comwrote:

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Noone, Thanks for the references regarding the ceramic and the 30% transmutation of Ni to cu after 6 months of operation (guilty of not doing my homework). I will google these further to see if I can find any additional support. As far as my comment on the need for asymmetry I am simply

RE: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Coax ?

2011-01-20 Thread Roarty, Francis X
In P powered Ham radio the DC is supplied out to the antenna and RF generated locally - extremely efficient and no need for shielding as you are essentially modulating the aerial and want it to radiate. From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:07 PM To:

[Vo]:Popular Science as weighed in on Focardi and Rossi: Dubious

2011-01-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
See: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/italian-scientists-claim-dubious-cold-fusion-breakthrough http://tinyurl.com/4c768rx After casting dispersions they had the following to say: But the duo does have something going for them in the fact that they’ve demonstrated their device

Re: [Vo]:On a lighter note.

2011-01-20 Thread Terry Blanton
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Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Erm -- Rossi, not Rossi and Focardi.  I haven't read anything indicating Focardi knows what the secret ingredient is -- as far as I know, only Rossi knows. Focardi stated that he indeed did not know the nature of the

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:27 PM, noone noone thesteornpa...@yahoo.com wrote: Then why does BLP not produce a product? I think Jones has pointed out why. They generate radioactive ash. T

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/20/2011 03:44 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Erm -- Rossi, not Rossi and Focardi. I haven't read anything indicating Focardi knows what the secret ingredient is -- as far as I know, only Rossi knows.

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread mixent
In reply to Rich Murray's message of Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:48:32 -0700: Hi, [snip] Rossi on his blog explains that the heat output during the demo came from the nuclear reaction of several picograms of Ni -- about 3 X 10E-12 gm ... a millionth of a microgram, while the mass of the nuclear reacting

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread mixent
In reply to noone noone's message of Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:11:47 -0800 (PST): Hi, [snip] Also, I do not see how the reaction runs away when the device is turned off. The Papp engine also exploded when the power was removed. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk

Re: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:57:15 -0800: Hi, [snip] Again, the need for RF is NOT as a heater, but as a means of spin flipping hydrogen to attain negative temperature in this (highly speculative) hypothesis. Rossi cannot mention RF as an input in the patent, since RF

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Is Rossi honest? If he is, it's for real. As of Friday, Jan. 14, this question no longer hangs on Rossi's honesty. Thank goodness! If he isn't, then a chemical scam, using thermite or some other high-energy-density fuel, hasn't been ruled out. Furthermore, in

RE: [Vo]:Deuterium kills the reaction?

2011-01-20 Thread Jones Beene
Hi Robin, Surely that [RF] would only preclude him from getting a patent if it were the only claim? Many patents include aspects of other patents. Well, maybe not - but I am backing off the RF possibility anyway without more evidence for it. It was offered as a an effective way to stimulate

RE: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Iverson
Stephen wrote: In the latter case, one can assume there will be delays and unexpected problems with continuing to create the effect on demand a few months down the road... I think that is what happened with his grant with the DOD... perhap's Jones might know more about this, but I started

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: That was in previous tests, not in this particular one-hour run. I do not know whether Levi et al. observed any long-duration runs, but other people have. In that case, the public demonstration on Jan 14 was unnecessary -- right? Au contraire,

[Vo]:Nagel recommendations revised

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Nagel revised this document a little, in response to conversations with various people and unfolding developments: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NagelDJchecklistf.pdf - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Nagel recommendations revised

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
By the way, Nagel addresses the hidden chemical scenario: 5. The test should be repeated at least three times, with each conducted for a continuous period of sufficient duration to strongly exclude the possibility of the measured exit energy being from chemicals stored within the device and then

[Vo]:Rossi addresses RH probe issue

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here are some recent messages from: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360#comments Apparently there is a high temperature probe available for this model. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian Josephson January 20th, 2011 at 11:32 AM Some queries have been raised regarding the meter

RE: [Vo]:Rossi addresses RH probe issue

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Iverson
In Jed's posting of comments between Josephson and Rossi, Rossi says of the dry steam test, I was terrorized of that test, because should something go wrong I would have been killed, but I accepted the test because I had total and full trust in the Scientists. He doesn't mean he would have been

Re: [Vo]:Rossi addresses RH probe issue

2011-01-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: He doesn't mean he would have been physically killed! I hope you are right about that. I hope he does not fear getting blow up. He is well aware of the reason for doing the test, and that a finding of wet steam could seriously jeopardize his

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:31:38 -0500: Hi, [snip] But we knew all along there has to be a control factor somewhere, because the reaction manifestly does turn on, turn up, and turn off, sometimes quickly. It must be responding to some stimulus. [snip] According to

Re: [Vo]:Rossi addresses RH probe issue

2011-01-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/20/2011 09:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Thanks for your clarification re the humidity instrumentation, Mr. Rossi. I see in theinformation sheet that there is indeed a probe available with 'application range' up to 150 deg. C (though confusingly it says below it sensor operating

Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 01/20/2011 01:29 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: Would weighing the entire apparatus before and after reveal a concealed chemical reaction? I don't think so. The sort of reaction proposed here replaces the reactants with solid ash, which remains on the spot, so the