Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Dennis wrote: I am not too good at looking at Electron microscope pictures perhaps someone here can help me understand Rossi's pictures in his patents. us20110005506A1 http://www.google.com/patents? id=84vwEBAJpg=PA1lpg=PA1dq=us20110005506A1

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
Correction. I just noticed the two Ca creating Cs + H reactions do not produce initial negative energy, thus should produce an immediate strong force reaction. Production of potassium from this is unlikely, though calcium should dominate the reaction products. Also the radiation (34

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 04:31 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: You are arguing with a straw man, Joshua. You're call yourself a straw man? It's obvious that many scientists do not accept cold fusion. So people write to explain

RE: [Vo]:OT: Collective bargaining

2011-02-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
I have to be careful about not performing specific union activity while at work. This brief reply was sent from home. I'm sure there are corrupt union officials, just as I'm sure there are corrupt corporate executives. As the old saying goes power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

RE: [Vo]:Is there a SONO connection to the Rossi Demo?

2011-02-24 Thread Jones Beene
Peter, No, ultrasound would not turn up on any video as the microphones only go up to about 10 kHz. Lower harmonics are doubtful due to the lead shielding. Some few people are annoyed by ultrasound, and can tell if it is present - even if they cannot exactly 'hear' it. From: Peter

Re: [Vo]:Is there a SONO connection to the Rossi Demo?

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Gluck
I have already asked. My suggestion was that somebody should bring a dog to the next demo (official or mot) poor dogs hear the ultrasound and are repelled by it, get panicked. Postmen use such devices to protect themselves against dog biting. Waiting for an answer. Peter On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at

[Vo]:Symantec Email Proxy Deleted Message

2011-02-24 Thread Symantec
Symantec Email Proxy deleted the following email message: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Non-standard kinds of nuclear fission

[Vo]:COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC News topix photo of maiko (geisha-in-training)

2011-02-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://photo.sankei.jp.msn.com/highlight/data/2011/02/24/maiko/ I can't decide if this looks grotesque or beautiful. As you see, they still have a few maiko (geisha-in-training) in Japan. The women shown here are training for a dance, I gather, Kyo-odori (Kyoto Dance), in Kyoto,

[Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote: During a long meditation today, I wondered about the floor under Rossi's demo -- is there a space under it that could allow wires or thin metal tapes to carry 15 KW electric power from public electric power on a different meter than that for the

RE: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Jones Beene
One other comment on Rossi's patent application. It probably is a smoke screen (well-planned strategic diversion). By that I mean that it is clearly poorly drafted and almost worthless, and moreover I think he knows this - and indeed has actually planned it this way. There are likely

Re: [Vo]:COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC News topix photo of maiko (geisha-in-training)

2011-02-24 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I can't decide if this looks grotesque or beautiful. It is indeed classic. T

RE: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:30 AM 2/24/2011, you wrote: Not being able to concede a point is a clear sign of someone with an ulterior motive, or a pathological skeptic who simply can't accept things which challenge their understanding of things. Not surprising... He reminds me of some of the worst editors on

[Vo]:PiezoFission or K-capture ?

2011-02-24 Thread Jones Beene
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23803/ Do the Italians believe in 'coincidence' ? (i.e. that aligned events which are apparently unconnected are not truly random but are meme-influenced) The title of one of the papers is Can Pressure Waves Speed Up Nuclear Decay? by Fabio Cardone in

Re: [Vo]:propellantless propulsion

2011-02-24 Thread Roarty, Francis X
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:24: Horace Heffner wrote [snip] The following 1993 article includes my quantitative treatment of this approach: http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf Horace, I was able to follow your paper and agree with your results but have some

Re: [Vo]:COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC News topix photo of maiko (geisha-in-training)

2011-02-24 Thread Michael Foster
--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Subject: [Vo]:COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC News topix photo of maiko (geisha-in-training) To: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:20 AM See:

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Charles Hope
It seems like the field needs a new improved experiment showing helium/heat. Joshua, can you specify some parameters that would convince you? Sent from my iPhone.

Re: [Vo]:PiezoFission or K-capture ?

2011-02-24 Thread Terry Blanton
Greco-Roman

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:05 AM 2/24/2011, Rich Murray wrote: Abd, Thanks for your generous, civil response to Terry's idiot -- uh, naturally, it increases my confidence in you when you show up as the only one to fully understand and support my simple The Emperor has no clothes... critique about the error by

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: The key that something was really off was, though, that he'd make sweeping statements that were clearly false, such as no peer-reviewed confirmation of heat/helium after Miles in 1993. I cited the

RE: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Iverson
Charles wrote: Isn't it more likely that the skeptics simply think the field is a joke, rather than that they're intimidated by the weight of the positive evidence? Yes, given the ridicule that CF has received over the years, that is certainly a good possibility... We're very complex beings and

[Vo]:Non-Standard Reactions

2011-02-24 Thread Jones Beene
This is a resend, with a different subject heading, as apparently the first posting triggered an ISP filter in cyber-space. In addition to the three usual suspects in nuclear fission: 1) thermal neutron induced fission 2) fast neutron induced fission which happen via

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:PiezoFission or K-capture ?

2011-02-24 Thread Roarty, Francis X
The Greco- Hol-e-y Roman Empire -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:46 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:PiezoFission or K-capture ? Greco-Roman

Re: [Vo]:Non-Standard Reactions

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Jones Beene wrote: This is a resend, with a different subject heading, as apparently the first posting triggered an ISP filter in cyber-space. Say, I got a message to that effect,Symantec Email Proxy deleted the following email message:: Resent-From:

RE: [Vo]:Non-Standard Reactions

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Iverson
Because of the multiple uses of words like nuclear and fission and fusion, the message was FWDed to the Department of Homeland Security... Jones, warm up the tea and crumpets... you'll be having some expected, but uninvited, visitors soon... :-) -Mark _ From: Horace Heffner

Re: [Vo]:propellantless propulsion

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Roarty, Francis X wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:24: Horace Heffner wrote [snip] The following 1993 article includes my quantitative treatment of this approach: http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf Horace, I was able to follow

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
Hafnium reactions, Hf + H reactions, like Cs reactions, do not produce initial negative energy, thus should produce an immediate strong force reaction. Production of both potassium and Ca from this source is likely, though calcium should dominate the reaction products. Also the radiation

[Vo]:Researchers should scale up experiments, if they can

2011-02-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
I think one of the lessons of Rossi's success so far is that researchers should aim to produce a larger reaction, if they can. 12 kW is too large in some ways. But I suppose a typical experiment produces a fraction of a watt. 10 W or more would be more persuasive. It has emotional appeal. It shows

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:47 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:35:03 -0900: Hi, [snip] This 270kWh per 0.4 g if hydrogen is obviously well beyond chemical if the consumables actually are H and Ni. The energy E per H is: E =

Re: [Vo]:Non-Standard Reactions

2011-02-24 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Because of the multiple uses of words like nuclear and fission and fusion, the message was FWDed to the Department of Homeland Security... Jones, warm up the tea and crumpets... you'll be having some expected, but

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-24 Thread Peter Gluck
Robin, I don't understand- excuse where is the pressure of hydrogen measured? It is adsorbed absorbed in the nanometric nickel, the temperature increases there up to say 400 C- I don't think the reactor has a manometer on it. Peter On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Horace Heffner

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread mixent
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:56:08 -0900: Hi, The reaction Ni-60 + 4 H (cluster) = Ca-40 + Mg-24 + 13.5 MeV readily produces Calcium. Hafnium reactions, Hf + H reactions, like Cs reactions, do not produce initial negative energy, thus should produce an

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:34 AM 2/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Rich Murray mailto:rmfor...@gmail.comrmfor...@gmail.com wrote: During a long meditation today, I wondered about the floor under Rossi's demo -- is there a space under it that could allow wires or thin metal tapes to carry 15 KW electric power from

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-24 Thread mixent
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:39:36 -0900: Hi, [snip] ..we also don't know how much of the H remained in the Ni after the reaction was finished. Yes, very true. The 25.4 keV is a *minimum* energy per hydrogen atom. However, if 30% of the Ni was converted to

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-24 Thread mixent
In reply to Peter Gluck's message of Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:48:52 +0200: Hi, [snip] Robin, I don't understand- excuse where is the pressure of hydrogen measured? It is adsorbed absorbed in the nanometric nickel, the temperature increases there up to say 400 C- I don't think the reactor has a

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'm not understanding how one would need 130 KW to get, what was it, a 10 KW demo? It produced 130 kW for a while. QUOTE: Initially, the temperature of the inflowing water was seven degrees Celsius and for a while the outlet temperature was 40 degrees Celsius. A

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:50 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:56:08 -0900: Hi, The reaction Ni-60 + 4 H (cluster) = Ca-40 + Mg-24 + 13.5 MeV readily produces Calcium. Good point! I ignored cluster reactions because I considered

Re: [Vo]:List of Rossi 18-hour test parameters

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 24, 2011, at 12:19 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:39:36 -0900: Hi, [snip] ..we also don't know how much of the H remained in the Ni after the reaction was finished. Yes, very true. The 25.4 keV is a *minimum* energy per

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:50 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:56:08 -0900: Hi, The reaction Ni-60 + 4 H (cluster) = Ca-40 + Mg-24 + 13.5 MeV readily produces Calcium. Good point! I ignored cluster reactions because I considered

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Note that when the machine initially started up, it had ~80 W input, a liter per second flow, and the outlet temperature was 40°C. This continued for a while. I take that to mean long enough for someone to put his hand on the outlet pipe to confirm that the tap water was coming out at body

[Vo]:compilation of recent articles about Rossi's E-Cat

2011-02-24 Thread Harry Veeder
A compilation of recent articles about Rossi's E-Cat: http://www.aesopinstitute.org/cold-fusion.html Harry

Re: [Vo]:Abd being censured?

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:58 AM, William Beaty wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Horace Heffner wrote: I have seen responses to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax in my vortex-l email, but have seen no original email from him since 26 Jan, 2011. I just discovered that I can see that he is posting if I go to the

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread albedo5
I just had to chime in here, after reading this entire thread. I am amazed at how many of you have been so patient. Then again, I had a few cough that were that patient with me when I first paid attention to weird science too. My experience with septicism goes back a few years. I am not

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
I wrote: I still think Cs and Rh provide more likely explanations for the generation of K and Ca and little else, but that is just a not even strongly held opinion. SHould have said: I still think Cs and Hf provide more likely explanations for the generation of K and Ca and little else,

Re: [Vo]:Abd being censured?

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:46 PM 2/24/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: I don't think the problem is with eskimo.com. I am getting no email from Abd from two different lists, and I sent a personal message to Abd asking for a reply. I didn't get a reply, so I assume it got swallowed up somewhere as well. Swallowed by

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:44 AM 2/24/2011, Charles Hope wrote: It seems like the field needs a new improved experiment showing helium/heat. Joshua, can you specify some parameters that would convince you? I'm not sure that the field needs this, not as a priority. Improved heat/helium would make a nice grad

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:56 AM 2/24/2011, Charles Hope wrote: Isn't it more likely that the skeptics simply think the field is a joke, rather than that they're intimidated by the weight of the positive evidence? I don't think anyone is intimidated by the weight of the evidence. Most skeptics simply don't know,

Re: [Vo]:Researchers should scale up experiments, if they can

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:38 PM 2/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I think one of the lessons of Rossi's success so far is that researchers should aim to produce a larger reaction, if they can. 12 kW is too large in some ways. But I suppose a typical experiment produces a fraction of a watt. 10 W or more would be

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:09 PM 2/24/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: The assertion that a determined con artist can do this or that strikes me as inadequate. A con artist is not a magician capable of changing the laws of physics or magically influencing instruments. Uh, Jed, a con artist is indeed a magician, that

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni material

2011-02-24 Thread mixent
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:24:21 -0900: Hi, [snip] On Feb 23, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Dennis wrote: I am not too good at looking at Electron microscope pictures perhaps someone here can help me understand Rossi's pictures in his patents. us20110005506A1

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-24 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Most of those things are tools, and I believe in them like I believe in hammers. But no matter how much you believe in hammers, it doesn't mean you can build a house. Let me spell out what you

[Vo]:Leaking o-ring on Discovery Booster?

2011-02-24 Thread Horace Heffner
Look the photo of Discovery here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8346780/Discovery-space- shuttle-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-Nasas-shuttle-programme.html http://tinyurl.com/4ozgo86 Looks like an o-ring is leaking in the lower section of the starboard booster. Best regards,

Re: [Vo]:Leaking o-ring on Discovery Booster?

2011-02-24 Thread Harry Veeder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUl93gGz- watch this video of the ascent. I think it is just the way the light from the exhaust or the sun illuminates the structural details on the booster. harry - Original Message From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: Vortex-L

Re: [Vo]:Leaking o-ring on Discovery Booster?

2011-02-24 Thread Harry Veeder
oops the url was incomplete it should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUl93gGz-8 harry   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUl93gGz- watch this video of the ascent. I think it is just the way the light from the exhaust or the sun illuminates the structural details on the booster. harry