Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Michele Comitini
Harry, right: vapour is a gas. As it is O2. IMHO the probe of Dr Galantini detects the liquid phase of h2o or other liquid conductor capacitor. It is not a chemical reactant that binds to any h2o molecule that comes around. Conductivity of gases is very low compared to liquids. When you ask

[Vo]:RD contract between Rossi and the University of Bologna finally signed

2011-06-22 Thread Akira Shirakawa
Hello group, I guess this must mean something, other than its timing has been probably carefully chosen (as most of you know, tomorrow there's a Defkalion press conference in Greece). While we are still discussing how the evidence seen in videos can be consistent with the info provided by

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity -- A common misconception [...] -- Reading this makes me think Galantini used the probe correctly. Harry That probe uses a capacitance

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread aieie brazof
Dear all, *this is my guess. I hope it’s correct, but thank you very much in advance for correction if necessary.* -The stated probe only measures relative umidity. If liquid phase is present, then R.U. is always 100%. what follows only applies for vapour-air mixture - knowing the temperature

[Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread todd
Hi All,I have two Toyota Priuses, one has a 1000W inverter hooked up to the battery, the other has a 1500W inverter. My water heater unit used to make coffee/tea requires 1.27 kW to operate via a standard outlet, roughly twice the input power of the E-Cat/Rossi unit. In Krivit's video

[Vo]:Submission to Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum

2011-06-22 Thread todd
The following was submitted to the Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum (http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360cpage=22#comments)this morning:PSCI-NETYour comment is awaiting moderation.June 22nd, 2011 at 8:53 AMSeehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-8QdVwY98E– the steam generated by the E-Cat

Re: [Vo]:Submission to Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
If your theory it is that he is a scammer, you can bet he has connections with high governmental entities in Greece. And, indeed, he is a friend, or at least strongly associated with, of a former minister and father of the actual prime minister of Greece.

RE: [Vo]:Submission to Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Leguillon
The argument of, Our home electric water kettle has a measured input power of 1270 watts, and the amount of steam generated by the water kettle exceeds the amount of steam shown in the video linked above is ridiculous. Legitimate arguments came be made from the expected volume of gas produced

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Todd: You really shold take some time and fully verify your facts before accusing someone of fraud... I believe that the e-Cat Krivit saw was only 2.5kW, not 10. -Mark _ From: t...@wonksmedia.com [mailto:t...@wonksmedia.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:55 AM To:

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
Yes, that is true. But the steam is way too low for 2.5KW. If someone can provide me a mathematical example refuting that, I will be happy.

RE: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
EE: Yes, you're on the right track... see my posting at 6/21 at 9:04pm. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg48242.html I would bet that Galantini is making an indirect measurement of the liquid water content as explained in my posting. -Mark _ From: aieie brazof

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
The only way to guage whether the steam flow is adequate is at the outlet of the chimney, NOT at the end of a 10 foot hose that has condensation going on inside it. That condensation will REDUCE the steam volumn and therefore the flow rate of what steam makes it out to the end of the hose. I

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread todd
Yes, that's why I said 'supposed to be', which implied I didn't know whether it was one 2.5 kW unit, or all four running for a total of 10 kW. In either case, we're still short steam...that's the point. And the quality of the steam should be clear based on how it is exiting the hose - it's wet

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Driscoll
Yes, you're on the right track... see my posting at 6/21 at 9:04pm. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg48242.html I would bet that Galantini is making an indirect measurement of the liquid water content as explained in my posting. -Mark no, there is no way to make an

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
The vortex-l discussion group has been around for decades, and most here aren't really interested in 'pitching' anything other than careful analysis and discussion and debate -- something you should at least try before shouting 'fraud'. As explained in a posting I made a few minutes ago,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread vorl bek
but I think the jury is still out as to whether we are witnessing what is claimed, or human error, or fraud. -Mark The discussion about the steam from the first demo may be interesting, but I keep remembering Joshu Cude's remarks about the video display of the power input that was shown during

[Vo]:Novel Thermoelectric Conversion Material

2011-06-22 Thread Ron Kita
Greetings Vortex-L Presented is an interesting thermoelectric conversion material. Perhaps useful in a Focardi Rossi LENR Cell: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-source-green-electricity.html Respectfully, Ron Kita, Chiralex

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread todd
Fair enough - I'll check back in six months to see if anything has changed beyond determining who's the smartest person in the forum.The 3 minute tea kettle youtube video is available viahttp://psci.us/gold.htm(select 720p resolution). Not that the three masters degrees under my belt matter (one

RE: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Jeff, Mass of water in = mass of water out It doesn't get any simpler. Everyone is assuming (wrongly) that they are using the instrument to measure the liquid content directly, which the instrument clearly cannot do. That is NOT what they are doing. You obviously didn't read my posting

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Veeder
Joshua, I hope you read this post by Mark. Harry - Original Message From: Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 1:42:07 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:relative humidity Jeff, Mass of water in = mass of water out It doesn't get any

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Driscoll
no, the instrument gives the mass of water in air at some temperature, so it is grams of water per kg of air, how do you get steam quality from that? steam quality is grams of vaporized water per gram of liquid and vapor. for example, they need steam quality for measuring how much liquid

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: The only way to guage whether the steam flow is adequate is at the outlet of the chimney, NOT at the end of a 10 foot hose that has condensation going on inside it. . . . That is correct. I believe that the demo for Essen and Kullander did make

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Driscoll
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: The only way to guage whether the steam flow is adequate is at the outlet of the chimney, NOT at the end of a 10 foot hose that has condensation going on inside it. . . .

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: This looks like ~2 kW, used to clean an automobile interior: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_pcOgkRbfQfeature=related Yup. It appears to be a Vapor Chief 16 amp 120 VAC unit. 1.8 kW. See: http://www.therma-kleen.com/vapor_steam_cleaners/vapor_steam_cleaners.html You don't want

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Driscoll hcarb...@gmail.com wrote: yes, the meters measure the humidity of air, not steam quality. Galantini used the wrong instrument So you say, but Galantini and the manufacturers say differently. It is clear that Galantini is an expert in this subject and you not. I suggest you stop

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Todd, Did you see Robert Leguillon’s response to your comparison? http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg48252.html He makes a good point about the energy required to heat a fixed quantity of water in a kettle as opposed to a constant “stream” of cold water from a

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Jeff, You still did NOT read my posting and the simple algebra that is needed... I can't spoon-feed you knowledge Jeff; I have pointed you at the explanation and you refuse to read it. You obviously aren't interested in learning... You stated AGAIN: yes, the meters measure the humidity of air,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Driscoll
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Jeff, You still did NOT read my posting and the simple algebra that is needed... I can't spoon-feed you knowledge Jeff; I have pointed you at the explanation and you refuse to read it. You obviously aren't interested

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.netwrote: The instrument DOES provide a (calculated) value for the mass of water which is in the form of vapor... No. It certainly doesn't do that. And that means your simple algebra is all wet. The device gives the mass of

Re: [Vo]:Submission to Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
That vapor is a water gas. It is being produced at about 2g per second. 18 grams of water have about 30 liters (1 mol at 373K) at 100C. So, 2 grams of water fills 3 liters or 3,000 cm^2 passing through an opening with an area of 2 cm^2. So, you need to pass a cilinder of 1500 cm in 1 second to

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Driscoll wrote: no it doesn't give the mass of water as vapor because it only works for measuring the mass of water of vapor in AIR. NOT in a mixture of vapor and microscopic water DROPLETS All air has microscopic water droplets in it. Sometimes they are macroscopic, for example, when it

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Hi Terry, Life is so much more interesting when one ponders the implications behind the obvious facts! I have no doubt that your granddaughter's life is much more enjoyable because of her grandpa T... -Mark -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat proven to be a hoax?

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:20 PM 6/21/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: ABD wrote: Rossi held up the hose, Krivit had also mentioned this. He didn't want to allow this to continue, he said it was dangerous. Really? How? I think its quite obvious and simple... yes. That was a rhetorical question. It showed that there is

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Hi Terry, Life is so much more interesting when one ponders the implications behind the obvious facts! I have no doubt that your granddaughter's life is much more enjoyable because of her grandpa T... Thanks! I

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Many people have asserted that the two meters used in these studies do not measure by mass, or that they cannot combine this measurement with the temperature to measure

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Driscoll hcarb...@gmail.com wrote: yes, the meters measure the humidity of air, not steam quality. Galantini used the wrong instrument So you say, but Galantini and the manufacturers say differently. The

Re: [Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:02 AM 6/22/2011, Jeff Driscoll wrote: http://www.testosites.de/export/sites/default/datalogger2011/en_INT/local_downloads/brochure_EN.pdf yes, this device, and its probes, measure the relative humidity of *air* . It does not measure steam quality. What is Galantini doing? I

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Driscoll wrote: no it doesn't give the mass of water as vapor because it only works for measuring the mass of water of vapor in AIR. NOT in a mixture of vapor and microscopic water DROPLETS All air has

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Putting aside who is the pre-eminent expert (you, or the guy who designed the meter), you cannot argue with the second test. Then why did they bother with the 3rd, 4rth, 5th, and 6th demo? I suppose because different people wanted to see it. It is nice of Rossi

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:52 AM 6/22/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity -- A common misconception Often the notion of air holding water vapor is presented to describe the concept of relative humidity. Stop right there. You are citing Wikipedia as evidence?

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: THE INSTRUMENT DOES PROVIDE MASS OF WATER AS VAPOR, AND SUBTRACTING THAT FROM THE MASS OF WATER GOING IN WILL GIVE YOU THE MASS OF LIQUID WATER THAT IS COMING OUT!! No. It determines the mass of water vapor

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:16 AM 6/22/2011, Michele Comitini wrote: Harry, right: vapour is a gas. As it is O2. IMHO the probe of Dr Galantini detects the liquid phase of h2o or other liquid conductor capacitor. It is not a chemical reactant that binds to any h2o molecule that comes around.Â

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Even if it gave the mass of water vapor per unit volume of steam, you'd need to know the volume to get the mass. For that you'd need a flowmeter. But if you had a flowmeter to measure the flow rate of the steam, you wouldn't need the RH meter. They do not need a flow

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Even if it gave the mass of water vapor per unit volume of steam, you'd need to know the volume to get the mass. For that you'd need a flowmeter. But if you had a flowmeter to measure the flow rate of the steam, you wouldn't need the RH meter. They do not need a flow

[Vo]:Revolutionary new aircraft engine.

2011-06-22 Thread Dr Joe Karthauser
Jed, Here's one for you! (if you've not already seen it.) http://www.gizmag.com/d-dalus-uav-design/18972/ I've not found any video footage of it yet. I bet it's something to behold. Joe -- Dr Joe Karthauser

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Even if it gave the mass of water vapor per unit volume of steam, you'd need to know the volume to get the mass. For that you'd need a flowmeter. But if you had a flowmeter to measure the flow rate

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Breaking the mold, I'm agreeing with Cude here, in part. At 05:29 AM 6/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: In any case, if the device is to be used to determine liquid content in steam, it would at least have to be calibrated for that purpose. There is no indication such a calibration was performed.

Re: [Vo]:Submission to Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:56 AM 6/22/2011, t...@wonksmedia.com wrote: The following was submitted to the Journal of Nuclear Physics Forum (http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360cpage=22#commentshttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360cpage=22#comments) this morning:

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:12 PM 6/22/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: Yes, that is true. But the steam is way too low for 2.5KW. If someone can provide me a mathematical example refuting that, I will be happy. *What steam?* Understand that 2.5 KW of steam being generated at the E-Cat is not going to be 2.5 KW of steam

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: If they did not measure the weight of the water, you would be right. The RH meter reading alone is not sufficient. The RH meter reading is not enough even with the input flow rate. You need the output flow rate. Nope. All you have to know is how dry the steam is,

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:00 PM 6/22/2011, Jeff Driscoll wrote: no, the instrument gives the mass of water in air at some temperature, so it is grams of water per kg of air, No. The meter reads in grams per cubic meter. But the question stands how do you get steam quality from that? steam quality is grams of

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Michele Comitini
2011/6/22 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: The problem with this is that water would condense on the probe. You would always see 100% liquid water, if this is how it's being detected, unless you preheated the probe. Tricky. There are descriptions on-line of how to measure steam

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:58 PM 6/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: They measured the steam quality at the chimney with the meter. I do not think they actually saw the steam emerge directly from the chimney. Bummer. You sure? Many people have asserted that the two meters used in these studies do not measure by mass,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:12 PM 6/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Jeff Driscoll mailto:hcarb...@gmail.comhcarb...@gmail.com wrote: yes, the meters measure the humidity of air, not steam quality. Galantini used the wrong instrument So you say, but Galantini and the manufacturers say differently. No, the

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 3:35:32 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:relative humidity At 12:52 AM 6/22/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity -- A

Re: [Vo]:Novel Thermoelectric Conversion Material

2011-06-22 Thread Axil Axil
It seems to me that this new Multiferroic material could best be utilized in a cold fusion reactor using a rotating turbine wheel made from the stuff and connected to an electric generator. Since the magnetic transition temperature is 135C, one side or quadrant of a veined turbine wheel could

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:25 PM 6/22/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: AS I ALREADY STATED, I AGREE THAT THE INSTRUMENT DOES NOT MEASURE STEAM QUALITY! YOURE TOTALLY MISSING THE POINT! IT DOES GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO CALCULATE IT THOUGH! THE INSTRUMENT DOES PROVIDE MASS OF WATER AS VAPOR, AND SUBTRACTING

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:58 PM 6/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Jeff Driscoll wrote: no it doesn't give the mass of water as vapor because it only works for measuring the mass of water of vapor in AIR. NOT in a mixture of vapor and microscopic water DROPLETS All air has microscopic water droplets in it. Sometimes

RE: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Michele wrote: Condense on the probe? What is the temperature of the probe? 100° C or less? Galantini would not make such a mistake... Exactly... As soon as the probe was placed in the steam flow, some condensation would occur on it, but within seconds the probe would heat up and the

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I have no idea what Galantini is expert in. Do you know? Yes. The second test proved beyond any doubt that he is an expert in identifying dry steam, and it proved that all of the objections raised here are bunk, including yours. In science, you are supposed to

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Abd wrote: I have no idea what Galantini is expert in. Do you know? Yes, chemistry. -Mark

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: ** Joshua Cude wrote: If they did not measure the weight of the water, you would be right. The RH meter reading alone is not sufficient. The RH meter reading is not enough even with the input flow rate. You need

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Nope. All you have to know is how dry the steam is, what the temperature is, and what the total mass of the steam is. You can derive the steam flow rate from that. Right. But how do you get the total mass of the steam? Even in your interpretation of what

[Vo]:I retract 90% of my skepticism towards the e-cat.

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
Hmm, I just notice a mistake here (in GoatGuy's post he did 1.03g/s * 12.7 m/s = 13.1N) : 1.03g/s * 12.7 m/s = 0.00103kg/s*12.7m/s= 0.0131N. You forgot to convert to SI, which is based on kg, not on grams. That's the typical force and speed of the the wind of when  you blow a candle on a cake. 

Re: [Vo]:I retract 90% of my skepticism towards the e-cat.

2011-06-22 Thread Esa Ruoho
Can you let GoatGuy know his mistake? It'd be really good to see how he responds. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: Hmm, I just notice a mistake here (in GoatGuy's post he did 1.03g/s * 12.7 m/s = 13.1N) : 1.03g/s * 12.7 m/s = 0.00103kg/s*12.7m/s=

Re: [Vo]:I retract 90% of my skepticism towards the e-cat.

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
Sure: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/steven-b-krivit-of-new-energy-times-has.html#comment-232178721 But as I said, it is useless to use the vapor of an e-cat to blow a turbine. Unless if one used that to heat another gas and use that in cycles. Anyway, that would be a large scale project.

Re: [Vo]:I retract 90% of my skepticism towards the e-cat.

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: Hmm, I just notice a mistake here (in GoatGuy's post he did 1.03g/s * 12.7 m/s = 13.1N) : 1.03g/s * 12.7 m/s = 0.00103kg/s*12.7m/s= 0.0131N. You forgot to convert to SI, which is based on kg, not on grams. What did I tell you?! Always include the units. That's what I

Re: [Vo]:I retract 90% of my skepticism towards the e-cat.

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
About using it as a power source: Living and learning. ;) I never did any calculation on exhaust speed of a boiler before 2 days ago.

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Driscoll
It would take a long time for water to evaporate out of any crevices, so the liquid would stay around a long time, any probe measuring steam quality has to do it from below 100 C and above 100 C. but this is all moot. Galantini used the wrong instrument. I can't find the amount of grams per kg

[Vo]:What did Galantini actually say?

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
There certainly is plenty of confusion to go around here. Were measurements by volume or by mass? -- the whole Krivit/Levi/Rossi flap. The meter in question measures a number of variables, I believe the relevant ones here are temperature, pressure, and relative humidity. It does not seem to

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: ** Joshua Cude wrote: Nope. All you have to know is how dry the steam is, what the temperature is, and what the total mass of the steam is. You can derive the steam flow rate from that. Right. But how do you

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: If the meter is giving mass per unit volume of the output, you need to know the *volume* of the output to get the mass of the steam. Ah. Here is what you overlooked. It also says that it gives mass of water per unit of mass. That is degree of humidity (g/kg), partial

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
RE: Abd's comment about, the instrument does not provide mass of water as vapor, unfortunately, that's not what it shows. It reads in g/m^3. To convert this to mass we'd need to know the volume, eh? NO, you do NOT need to know the volume to calculate the mixing ratio if you have measurements

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
More frustration than confidence! Jeff kept on insisting that there is no documentation that the instrument (actually sensor) can measure the liquid content of steam, to which I AGREED, but I requested twice that he read my proposal of a very easily understood method that one could calculate

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: It would be possible, just from the experiments performed, to determine if the RH probe were of any use. If the RH readings were *monitored* on a continuos basis, like the temperature, and *reported*, we could

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Joshua: STOP THINKING ABOUT VOLUME! Yes, you're right in that the extreme volume change complicates the measurements, and thats why I and others including Krivit, are focused on MASS. Think in terms of mass. That eliminates the complication of the 1700:1 change in volume that you are stuck

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: If the meter is giving mass per unit volume of the output, you need to know the *volume* of the output to get the mass of the steam. Ah. Here is what you overlooked. It also says that it gives

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: ** Joshua: STOP THINKING ABOUT VOLUME! Yes, you're right in that the extreme volume change complicates the measurements, and thats why I and others including Krivit, are focused on MASS. Think in terms of mass.

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jeff Driscoll
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: More frustration than confidence!  Jeff kept on insisting that there is no documentation that the instrument (actually sensor) can measure the liquid content of steam, to which I AGREED, but I requested twice that

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Oh well, I'll run the errand tomorrow... As a start, go read about the gas laws and partial pressure and how humidity is calculated from partial pressure... In order to understand how Galantini can ESTIMATE the liquid water content of the steam, you need to think several steps ahead as in

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: So, what specifically do you think that g/kg means in the context of a 2-phase mixture of steam and water? What do you use for the denominator to calculate the total mass of the steam? If it means the mass of water vapor per unit mass of water

[Vo]:Brian Josephson on Rossi

2011-06-22 Thread Jones Beene
A bit of street cred . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJnZZi41YA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJnZZi41YAfeature=player_embedded feature=player_embedded

[Vo]: liquid water contains dissolved air...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
I've also got another bone to pick with Jeff... Let's please not claim that there is NO air (i.e., O2 and N2) in the steam... --- ever hear of a dissolved oxygen meter? --- ever been in the hospital when they put an oximeter probe on your finger? --- ever hear of the term, 'blood

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:21 PM 6/22/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: I don't know if her life is more enjoyable, but her path to the theatre is longer. Quoting: Eeew, that's nasty! Normal girl. I found a large spider dead on my bathroom floor, and showed it to my two young daughters. Both of them recoiled. It

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Iverson
Quick-freezing would probably be the 'cleanest' way to get it off the concrete... Works for gum on clothes! -Mark -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:41 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re:

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:21 PM 6/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jed Rothwell mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.comjedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Iverson mailto:zeropo...@charter.netzeropo...@charter.net wrote: Many people have asserted that the two meters used in these studies do not

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:24 PM 6/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Jed Rothwell mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.comjedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Driscoll mailto:hcarb...@gmail.comhcarb...@gmail.com wrote: yes, the meters measure the humidity of air, not steam quality. Galantini used the

Re: [Vo]:Brian Josephson on Rossi

2011-06-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: A bit of street cred … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJnZZi41YAfeature=player_embedded Judy didn't have a brush in her purse? BJ looks like Dr. Brackish Okun. I guess that lends credibility with some. For those who

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:32 PM 6/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Putting aside who is the pre-eminent expert (you, or the guy who designed the meter), you cannot argue with the second test. Then why did they bother with the 3rd, 4rth, 5th, and 6th demo? I suppose because different people

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: I found a large spider dead on my bathroom floor, I found a palmetto bug on our office floor and pointed it out to our HR director. Her response, When will all you engineers understand that NO PETS ARE ALLOWED IN

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:19 PM 6/22/2011, Michele Comitini wrote: 2011/6/22 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: The problem with this is that water would condense on the probe. You would always see 100% liquid water, if this is how it's being detected, unless you preheated the probe. Tricky. There are

RE: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:34 PM 6/22/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: Michele wrote: Condense on the probe? What is the temperature of the probe? 100° C or less? Galantini would not make such a mistake... Exactly... As soon as the probe was placed in the steam flow, some condensation would occur on it, but within

Re: [Vo]:relative humidity

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:24 PM 6/22/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: - Original Message Stop right there. You are citing Wikipedia as evidence? Are you saying that it is wrong and that your conception of RH is right? No. That would be stupid unless I spent a lot of time with that article, read and

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:38 PM 6/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I have no idea what Galantini is expert in. Do you know? Yes. The second test proved beyond any doubt that he is an expert in identifying dry steam, and it proved that all of the objections raised here are bunk,

RE: [Vo]:Brian Josephson on Rossi

2011-06-22 Thread Jones Beene
Terry, What 'endorsements' has Brian Josephson missed-out on, specifically? He is an LENR advocate for sure, but the factuality of LENR is still pending, so one cannot call him out on that. He may have picked other tech losers (on the fringes) - which I do not know of - since he is open-minded,

Re: [Vo]:Brian Josephson on Rossi

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Veeder
It is a shame the sound quality isn't better. Harry - Original Message From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 9:52:43 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Brian Josephson on Rossi Terry, What 'endorsements' has Brian Josephson missed-out on,

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:41 PM 6/22/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: Abd wrote: I have no idea what Galantini is expert in. Do you know? Yes, chemistry. -Mark It is *claimed* that he is expert in chemistry. However, he may be expert in other things. If his only expertise is in chemistry, per se, he would not be

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:22 PM 6/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: Nope. All you have to know is how dry the steam is, what the temperature is, and what the total mass of the steam is. You can derive the steam flow rate from that. Right. But how do you get the total mass of the steam? Even in

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Robert Leguillon
Let me reiterate what I mentioned before. In the Kullander test, they used the Testo 650. Their site report says that they used a probe rated up to 550 degrees. If you looks at the accessories for the testo 650, the only probe rated for 550 is a temperature probe. All of the humidity probes

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:34 PM 6/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I accept that the input flow rate is constant. But the output *volume* flow rate is very different because at least part of the water changes phase. If the meter is giving mass per unit volume of the output, you need to know the *volume* of the

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