Re: [Vo]:NyTeknik reports on Rossi patent

2011-05-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 10 May 2011 15:38:31 -0700: Hi, Good work Robin! However, would you not agree with me that this reaction, however desirable, is unlikely due to VB finding zero gammas? Jones Little less likely than a n-B10 reaction. It has the additional benefit that

Re: [Vo]:News from Mizuno

2011-05-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Local radioactivity in Sapporo has risen significantly above normal background, sometimes an order of magnitude. Not enough to be dangerous but enough to measure easily. I should have said local radioactivity has at times risen . . . It is not permanent. I think it is back to

RE: [Vo]:Coulomb suppression without electron screening

2011-05-11 Thread Jones Beene
Harry and all, One more point regarding a hypothetical proton-only energy release mechanism, in the context of Rossi - one where we want to find an energetic reaction that produces no radioactivity; but we know that actual proton fusion would not fit the measurements, and that the proton does not

Re: [Vo]:22 Steps of Love -- UoB to report?

2011-05-11 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:29 PM 5/8/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: Our favorite blogger implies today that UoB is about to speak . . . or, at least, that's how I interpreted it. http://22passi.blogspot.com/ If it purrs like a duck . . . No hint of a University of Bolgna report at

[Vo]:Andrae Rossi Energy Catalyzer News Part1-3:

2011-05-11 Thread Esa Ruoho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURJGTEyNAgfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxejzUCeSYofeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqa2fbDjwhw Kind of nifty to have someone highlight sentences from the articles and whatnot.

[Vo]:Rossi/Levi assuming 1 atm pressure @ E-Cat water outlet?

2011-05-11 Thread Akira Shirakawa
Hello group, On a thread about Rossi-Focardi's Energy Catalyzer in the Italian forum EnergeticAmbiente.it [1], skeptic users are puzzled by a statement coming from people involved in the latest E-Cat calorimetry measurements (it's assumed it's from either Rossi or Levi), which in English

[Vo]:Minor eCat details -- blog is only communications channel

2011-05-11 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Andrea Rossi May 10th, 2011 at 3:57 PM http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=488cpage=2#comment-38124 Dear Mr Fabian Schifter: You can write to this blog, I read it more times a day. Warm regards, A.R. - - - - Gilbert Schmidt May 10th, 2011 at 7:00 PM Starting last week, I have

[Vo]:Re: MAJOR eCat plans : 1MW USA Customer ?

2011-05-11 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I skimmed that one too quickly : I due time we will make a press conference, when the 1 MW plant in the concern of our USA Customer will be in operation. Does that mean a 1MW USA plant? Or that the

RE: [Vo]:Slow Neutrons

2011-05-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:05 PM 5/10/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: Abd wrote: Well, if it were that easy to make neutrons, we'd be making them all the time. Perhaps not... Spectroscopy is everywhere and its only specific wavelengths of light that are absorbed/emitted. What if the conditions in the lattice are such

Re: [Vo]:Re: MAJOR eCat plans : 1MW USA Customer ?

2011-05-11 Thread Craig Haynie
From memory only, I thought I had read a couple of months ago that Rossi is making a 1 MW plant for Defkalion, and then one for a customer in Florida. Anyone else remember something like this? Craig Haynie Manchester, NH On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:30 -0700, Alan J Fletcher wrote: I skimmed that

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Can Rossi generate steam hotter than 110 °C ?

2011-05-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:52 PM 5/10/2011, you wrote: The same personality trait which shows up as sloppiness is also what makes him say low level heat is useless! Forget about anything less than a kilowatt! He does not want to fool around with difficult-to-measure reactions that are only of scientific interest.

Re: [Vo]:Re: MAJOR eCat plans : 1MW USA Customer ?

2011-05-11 Thread Andrea Selva
As far as I remember R. stated that he is assembling the 1MW plant in USA and then he will ship it to Greece. But who knows ? Day by day he seems to change his mind. It's quite hard to keep track of the story Just out of curiosity ... what is the current count of e-kitties built so far ?

Re: [Vo]:Energy REMOVALl causes e+P fusion.

2011-05-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:36 AM 5/11/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Wm. Scott Smith mailto:scott...@hotmail.comscott...@hotmail.com wrote: Bohr orbit. It takes energy -- a lot of energy, apparently, -- to bring an electron and a proton into close proximity. Actually it takes the

Re: [Vo]:Re: MAJOR eCat plans : 1MW USA Customer ?

2011-05-11 Thread Peter Gluck
I think itb is even more interesting how many E-cats were combined were linked together and tested for continuous operation-successfully? The maximum number of e-felines in a *clutter of cats*. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Andrea Selva andreagiuseppe.se...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I

Re: [Vo]:Re: MAJOR eCat plans : 1MW USA Customer ?

2011-05-11 Thread drowningtrouts
I thought the plc control (blue box) were being built in Florida, and the 1 mw unit would also be tested in Florida then shipped to Greece. All from memory so this information could be incorrect On May 11, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: From memory only, I

[Vo]:The Myth of the Boiling Point

2011-05-11 Thread Harry Veeder
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/chang/boiling/index.htm   The Myth of the Boiling Point Hasok Chang Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London 18 October 2007 Introduction We all learn at school that pure water always boils at 100°C (212°F), under normal

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Can Rossi generate steam hotter than 110 °C ?

2011-05-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Both, yes. I've argued Smaller is Better, but only for exploratory research. Once you have something that you can reproduce, then making it bigger and stronger becomes the new goal. You *start* with the small system and explore the hell out of it, you don't just

Re: [Vo]:The Myth of the Boiling Point

2011-05-11 Thread Harry Veeder
BTW the page The Myth of the Boiling Point http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/chang/boiling/index.htm was created when Hasok Chang worked at University College London. He now works at the University of Cambridge. http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/chang/ Harry   - Original Message From:

[Vo]:Glueball Power or Quantum flubber ?

2011-05-11 Thread Jones Beene
For the absent-minded amongst us - Quantum flubber would be a hypothetical ball of very small radius which bounces higher and higher on every iteration for a few femtoseconds and then disappears. Some years ago, physicists at IBM demonstrated a version of it in a famous computer model... well...

Re: [Vo]:Boron fission (fusion)

2011-05-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 9 May 2011 11:49:36 -0700: Hi, [snip] However, it still needs energy to tunnel into the boron nucleus - which, in QM terms, is ?borrowed in advance? from the large amount available in the end. This makes it true LENR, not hot fusion. It is the best of

Re: [Vo]:Rossi bets the farm on Ni62?

2011-05-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 9 May 2011 16:25:38 -0700: Hi, [snip] Rossi has clearly lost that bet. There is NO SUCH THING as stable copper-62 !! Obviously another typo. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html

Re: [Vo]:Rossi bets the farm on Ni62?

2011-05-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Roarty, Francis X's message of Mon, 09 May 2011 19:11:08 -0400: Hi, [snip] WOW! Am I reading this patent right? Rossi’s patent seems to bet everything on Ni62 to cu as THE important reaction. Note All the other Ni isotopes, on the other hand, will generate unstable Cu, and,

Re: [Vo]:cu pipe is sealed inner reactor not Stainless steele

2011-05-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Roarty, Francis X's message of Mon, 09 May 2011 19:42:20 -0400: Hi, [snip] So Rossi let us go ahead and think the cu was outside the SS reactor while it was actually the sealed inner reactor filled with Ni powder and a resistive heater. Water flows around the copper reactor inside a

Re: [Vo]:cu pipe is sealed inner reactor not Stainless steel

2011-05-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Drowning Trout's message of Mon, 9 May 2011 19:13:05 -0500: Hi, [snip] Could a copper reactor tube even be able to handle the heat (1100F?) and pressure (25 bar?) of H2? I don't think that would be an issue if the outer tubes are strong enough, since it is all of them together that

[Vo]:Glueball Power or Quantum flubber ?

2011-05-11 Thread Roarty, Francis X
To put my relativistic spin on this I would say the coulomb barrier exerts less of a barrier to an approaching proton that is offset on the time axis - In my working man's model we all share the fabric of space time where our electrons approach the surface of this space fabric while the

[Vo]:Philadelphia Tesla Science Conference July 7 - 10, 2011

2011-05-11 Thread David Rosignoli
The following is an announcement for the Philadelphia Tesla Science Conference to be held on July 7 - 10, 2011. The schedule of talks is listed below. For more details please visit www.teslasciencefoundation.org. Thanks, David Rosignoli *Registration is only $100 ($50 for students or for