Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
This was the conclusion I arrived at as well, after reading Lou's many posts. And this was the thought I tried to convey to Guenter in his 600C eCat thread. Basically, if your NAE is a transition metal lattice; i.e. Cracks (Storms), or Patches (WL) or any other structures (Hagelstein), you

[Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Hey Gang, A while back, I was harping on the use of sparks for LENR reactors. I remember quite a vigorous exchange of ideas as to why sparks may be or may not be a critical component. There was discussion as to whether RF or sparks was the important thing. I was speculating that the temp.

Re: [Vo]:Cell resistance drop at initiation of XP burst in the Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:40 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: This is the sort of thing that makes me think that the primary energy release mode is via fast particles, e.g. protons, alphas, or even heavier nuclei (from a clean fission reaction). These don't usually produce much in the way of

Re: [Vo]:Cell resistance drop at initiation of XP burst in the Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: What are ways, known or hypothesized, to preferentially get fast particles? Sorry about this question -- this is sort of the big one, I suppose. There's catalysis of helium by way of fractional hydrogen, for example. You may have even already answered this question. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Bob Higgins
At the WM ILENRS-12 symposium, I was told that what is used by DGT and is shown in their pictures were not spark plugs, but actually were glow plugs. I was also told that DGT was having reliability problems with these devices. If true, how does this change the thinking about what DGT is using to

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Terry Blanton
Doesn't look like glow plugs: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8rh=n%3A15729261page=1 attachment: DGT_Spark.jpg

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Who told you this? Somebody from DGT itself? Or someone else from the outside? Is this one of those hearsay again? And this person who told you this actually saw those devices or is he just speculating like the rest of us? Name Please? or does he prefer to be anonymous? LOL ... Those

[Vo]:termites moving in and climate change

2012-07-15 Thread fznidarsic
When I was a kid I asked my father about termites. He said they were not much of a problem around Johnstown as the climate was to cold. A few days of well below zero weather seemed to freeze them out. He said, Just down the hill and a little south in Antoona they were a problem. They have

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
no spark gap on the photo, seems right. whether a glow or spark plug is a very important detail if a spark plug is needed, there is a needed quantity of energy that have to be electric, and this limit the COP. if only heat is used, that mean that the reactor itself, or another reactor, can

Re: [Vo]:termites moving in and climate change

2012-07-15 Thread Craig Haynie
There is no significant difference in climate between Johnstown and Altoona. http://www.climate-charts.com/USA-Stations/PA/PA364385.php http://www.climate-charts.com/USA-Stations/PA/PA360130.php And Altoona is a little bit cooler, a little bit farther north, and a little higher in elevation,

[Vo]:DCE nanomagnetism

2012-07-15 Thread Jones Beene
This article below is about information storage - not energy, but it is relevant in mentioning the subfield of “superparamagnetism”… which is part of an evolving hypothesis for non-nuclear gain. It can be combined with DCE (the dynamical Casimir effect) to account for net thermal gain in Ni-H

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Let's put this misdirection attempt to rest once and for all. A glow plug requires low voltage to heat. (Usually between a few volts to 6 volts.) A glow plug does not require a tall ceramic insulatior. A glow plug has a long elongated cylinderical tube that contains the heating element

Re: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-15 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
thank You, may I call You 'friends'? There are tough times ahead, and I feel responsible. Building our future on a possible chimera would be one of the worst things we could do. Boneheaded realists, phantasts, artists ... all have their role to play.. Whether we are a self-correcting lot -as

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
I did not even know what a glow plug is, I must admit. It is used to start a diesel engine. I think Terry is right and the photo shows a spark plug. People who were there told me it is a spark plug. They also said Defkalion is having trouble because the spark plugs often fail. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread David Roberson
You mention that the plugs often fail. Could this be due to clogging of the spark gap by particles of nickel metal that get melted by the intense heat of the spark? I assume that an engineering solution to this problem will come soon once identified. If I recall DGT has suggested that

[Vo]:Synchronous Laser Electrons

2012-07-15 Thread David Roberson
The activation of electrons or protons by a laser or similar method begs a question. When these particles are working as a group are their motions synchronized in space? What I refer to in this question is the orientation of the movements that are organized by the outside source. For

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: At the WM ILENRS-12 symposium, I was told that what is used by DGT and is shown in their pictures were not spark plugs, but actually were glow plugs. I was also told that DGT was having reliability problems with these

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Bob Higgins
There was no attempt at misdirection on my part - I was simply recounting what I was told at WM. However, I don't believe that the person who told me had direct first-hand knowledge, and while he may have been mistaken, I don't think he was intentionally trying to mislead me. At first, I didn't

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: ** I wonder what motivation people have in spreading this misdirection? Unbelievable how people can lie to your face nowadays and keep it cool. Unbelievable. Jojo, we don't need a conspiracy to explain this line of

[Vo]:Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy

2012-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/94/41S36/ It is remarkable to watch electrons moving in a crystal evolve into more massive particles as we cool them down, said Ali Yazdani, a professor of physics at

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
If and only if that thing we saw in DGT pictures is a glow plug. It is clearly a spark plug and people still attempt to lie about it. Yes, glow discharge is a legitimate line of research; but that is NOT what we are seeing with DGT reactors. It is clearly a spark plug. - Original

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
BTW, if glow discharge is your goal, you wouldn't use a glow plug. In glow plugs, the heating element is encapsulated in a sheath. I am presuming you wouldn't want that in a glow discharge reactor? Jojo - Original Message - From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent:

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: ** BTW, if glow discharge is your goal, you wouldn't use a glow plug. In glow plugs, the heating element is encapsulated in a sheath. I am presuming you wouldn't want that in a glow discharge reactor? You're seeing pure

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Understood. I got intimately familiar with glow plugs when I tried to use those for my Waste Vegetable Oil conversion for my GM Duramax van. One thing I found out, they don't last very long when used for continuous application of heat. Hence, my initial reaction with Bob's comments of a glow

Re: [Vo]:Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Interesting! We always thought of cold as the absence of heat, darkness as the absence of light, evil as the absence of good, weightlessness as the absence of gravity. Now, you are saying there is something that actually cancels heat instead of just removing it - an anti-heat? Can we

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: You mention that the plugs often fail. Could this be due to clogging of the spark gap by particles of nickel metal that get melted by the intense heat of the spark? That is my guess, but I have not heard that from anyone. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
If misdirection i don't think it is on that side. clearly it is a glow plug, typical for diesel engine, and it is logical since they activate the reactor with heat like Celani did in his experiments with Ni+ZrO . The photo is clear, and it is not melted powder effect, since the surface is round

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-15 Thread pagnucco
Jojo and Axil, First, it does appear that superconductivity (not ballistic conduction) is involved. The new paper involves nickel nanoparticles in MWCNTs. Here is title and abstract: Novel Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Consistent with Ultrahigh Temperature

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Didn't Celani find out the superconductivity correlated with anomalous heat? Superconductivity would seem to jive well with Axil's charge accumulation theory. Metallic SWNTs exhibit long coherence lengths. MWNTs exhibit ballistic conduction. Graphene exhibiting superconductive tendencies at

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
And only if you want to waste your money. Like I said, they don't last very long when used continously as would be the case if DGT were using these to heat their reactors. A heating cartridge would make more sense for heating. I tried using glow plugs in my first generation reactors with

Re: [Vo]:Synchronous Laser Electrons

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
I was wondering about this myself. Is the movement of protons or deuterons thermal (random) or more organized? (I am imagining a cavity, here, and not the confines of the lattice.) If it's more like packed traffic going down the highway way too quickly, the likelihood of an event increases,

RE: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
It could be something as simple as a cultural thing… Do not the Brits use the term glow-plug instead of spark-plug? I do remember a conversation, although many many years ago, wherein a spark plug was referred to as a glow plug… -Mark From: Eric Walker [mailto:eric.wal...@gmail.com]

RE: [Vo]:Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy

2012-07-15 Thread Jones Beene
This fits in with Frank Grimer's notion of comperature as the important physical variable - in which pressure and temperature should be linked as a single continuum, and cannot be considered as useful independent variables. So-called condensed matter is always under substantial (beta aether)

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:59 AM 7/15/2012, Jojo Jaro wrote: This was the conclusion I arrived at as well, after reading Lou's many posts. And this was the thought I tried to convey to Guenter in his 600C eCat thread. Basically, if your NAE is a transition metal lattice; i.e. Cracks (Storms), or Patches (WL) or

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Bob Higgins
After surfing the different glow plugs on the web, I believe that Jojo is correct, that what is shown in the pictures offered by DGT are probably spark plugs. However, might there be misdirection in DGT's pictures? Would a glow plug screw in place of the spark plug in their reactor? DGT could

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
I supposed DGT can replace spark plug for glow plugs to misdirect, but that would still not explain the temp spike. Sparks are the only mechanism that can bring H2 temps that high and then quickly back down again. Glow plugs will not result in a temp spike. When you look at the end plates of

Re: [Vo]:Synchronous Laser Electrons

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I was wondering about this myself. Is the movement of protons or deuterons thermal (random) or more organized? (I am imagining a cavity, here, and not the confines of the lattice.) If it's more like packed traffic going down the highway way too quickly, the likelihood of an event

[Vo]:Karl May vs Rossi

2012-07-15 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
This is a topic I repeatedly had my quibbles with Jed already. I find the analogy  -- May-Rossi -- appropriate and interesting,  he not. Now this is not something to be decided in a duel, but the community at large should and has to. As a boy, aged 11-13, I read read about 50 of May's 60 or so

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
Abd, I apprciate your comments. It seems to me that the smaller the better and SWNTs would be better than MWNTs which would in turn be better than graphene, and Metallic SWNTs would be better than semiconducting SWNTs as they exhibit long coherence lengths. I subscirbe to Axil's charge

RE: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Anyone who has spent time working on internal combustion engines (ICE) knows that when an ICE runs rich (too much fuel) it will eventually foul the sparkplugs with a dry powdery soot, which has a high carbon content. The sparkplug insulator turns black from these deposits and becomes conductive,

Re: [Vo]:superconductors and laser light

2012-07-15 Thread Axil Axil
An approach would be to make a pile of carbon material that includes a wide range of sizes, and add deuterium, say. Does anything unusual happen? Any heating, any helium? Even if heating is not measurable, if it sits there long enough, enough helium might accumulate to be measurable, compared to

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Robert Dorr
I had a look at the multi-page Defkalion press release May of 2012, and on page 18 of the 35 page document there is a picture of one of the spark plugs laying on a table. It is somewhat unusual in that it has a very long threaded body. I did some looking and found a similar plug from Ford

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Robert Dorr
I had a look at the multi-page Defkalion press release May of 2012, and on page 18 of the 35 page document there is a picture of one of the spark plugs laying on a table. It is somewhat unusual in that it has a very long threaded body. I did some looking and found a similar plug from Ford

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Robert Dorr
Sorry for the double post and a correction, I said the part was Ford Motorcraft Number SP-509, but it should be Ford Motorcraft Number SP-507. Robert Dorr

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
what photography are you looking ? [image: Images intégrées 1] this one clearly is imcompatible with a spark plug. see the round end. for the glowplug, the standard diesel one are made to heat quickly to high temperature (few seconds). DGT tell that their control method was to quickly heat the

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Abd wrote: I don't know if Guenter Wildgruber is *his* real name, but Mark_-ZeroPoint most certainly is not a real name. But I'll happily apologize if it is. [ you left the 'I' off 'Mark' ] If you've been on this forum for any significant length of time, its pretty obvious that I'm the same as

RE: [Vo]:Rossi conspiracy. Part III

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Steven wrote: Incidentally, I've occasionally misinterpreted the posting actions of others, so it's not as if I have now decided to torment Abd. If I did, I suspect Abd would simply turn around and bury me in a protracted essay detailing my faults at considerable length. Shame on you,

[Vo]:YAGS: Yet Another Graphene Surprise...

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
FYI: With the placement of a sheet of graphene just one-carbon-atom-thick, the researchers transformed the originally passive device into an active one that generated microwave photonic signals and performed parametric wavelength conversion at telecommunication wavelengths.

Re: [Vo]:Cell resistance drop at initiation of XP burst in the Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect

2012-07-15 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:43:52 -0700: Hi, [snip] On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:40 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: This is the sort of thing that makes me think that the primary energy release mode is via fast particles, e.g. protons, alphas, or even heavier nuclei

Re: [Vo]:Synchronous Laser Electrons

2012-07-15 Thread David Roberson
My thoughts are that if the affected protons march in unison and in one direction vector then a changing magnetic field might be able to vary that direction. I think of these coupled protons as being like bulldozers plowing through the electron clouds of the nickel atoms in the direction of

Re: [Vo]:Synchronous Laser Electrons

2012-07-15 Thread David Roberson
Yes, the hydrogen press visualization is what I am considering as well. At the moment I am hoping that the coupling of the other nearby protons is the main source of the pressure and also determines the line of motion. Your idea of energy being delivered to the protons within this

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Terry Blanton
This is a Bosch iridium/platinum spark plug similar to the ones used in my Scion: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31siZsBbVoL._SL500_AA300_.jpg They are good for about 100,000 miles. They are required replacements in order to meet the California emissions standards. The deep threads are

Re: [Vo]:Karl May vs Rossi

2012-07-15 Thread Terry Blanton
My favorite piccy of Marx and Lennon: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Hcybitpaowynaaa.jpg T (ha! I changed the reply to address)

RE: [Vo]:Karl May vs Rossi

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Luv it Terry! -mi -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:49 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Karl May vs Rossi My favorite piccy of Marx and Lennon: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Hcybitpaowynaaa.jpg

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things! spark glow and conduct

2012-07-15 Thread David L Babcock
This is really unhelpful but I offer it anyway: In my youth I came across spark plugs being used as cheap, rugged, hermetic, high voltage power leads into a vacuum chamber - or was it a pressure vessel - whatever... The spark end was bent straight, welded to a wire. Ol' Bab On 7/15/2012

RE: [Vo]:YAGS: Yet Another Graphene Surprise...

2012-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Read thru this preprint and although much of it is beyond my understanding, there are 2 things that came to mind. 1. the constant use of the terms cavity, and downconverting, and beat-frequency (in the Mhz range mind you!) implies behavior akin to RF/microwave engineering: Thus, perhaps

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Jojo Jaro
I believe you are mistaken. The round white end is the insulating ceramic. If you look closely, you can barely see the protruding electrode. The ground electrode can not be clearly seen. Either it can not be seen in this picture due to its angle or it has been cut off. Cutting off the

Re: [Vo]:Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy

2012-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
I am reconsidering old ontologies, discarded in the middle 19th century, as a jumping off point. This paper published in 1984 describes a little known experiment in radiant cooling done in the late 18th century by Pictet and repeated a few years later by Count Rumford.

Re: [Vo]:Harping on the Right Things!

2012-07-15 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: ** I believe you are mistaken. The round white end is the insulating ceramic. If you look closely, you can barely see the protruding electrode. The ground electrode can not be clearly seen. Either it can not be seen in

Re: [Vo]:Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy

2012-07-15 Thread David Roberson
This line of thought reminds me of the hole-electron way of looking at semiconductors. My mind is stuck on the electron side of the fence. Dave -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Jul 15, 2012 9:52 pm Subject: Re:

Re: [Vo]:Karl May vs Rossi

2012-07-15 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Guenther, I have no idea why you have ignored what I wrote pro Karl May. By the way, forced analogies are a straight way to erronated thinking and this one is very much so. Karl May has created stories and not bad ones, Rossi has created an energy source- and is not very skiled in