Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:05:18 -0400: Hi, [snip] Did you ever think about all the people who make a living in the energy business? All of today’s energy workers: the coal miners, oil workers, gas station attendants, gas drillers, pipeline workers, sycophant

Re: [Vo]:principles of DGTG 's technology

2012-07-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Peter Gluck's message of Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:39:41 +0300: Hi, [snip] The team is working very hard on this and they will publih the data soon. I have noticed your wish and will try to let you know at least the spirit of the results- they say about the first real theory. Peter

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
LENR will not kill jobs by itself, and robots will be even more needed for more expensive energy sources like wind turbines... that is not specific to LENR. The more expensive it is, the more the automation is needed. as any productivity increase it will challenge the social organization, whether

Re: [Vo]:principles of DGTG 's technology

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
about danger I notice in wikipedia the following facts for 30-500keV The most biological damaging forms of gamma radiation occur in the gamma ray windowhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gamma_ray_windowaction=editredlink=1, between 3 and 10 MeV, so we are ut of the worst danger zone The

[Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
In an earlier post I speculated on the possibility of a current of electrons flowing along a hollow, superconducting wire inducing a current of protons within the wire (via Lenz's law, although I did not know that this was what I was invoking). I have since read descriptions to the effect that

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

2012-07-18 Thread Jojo Jaro
Understood. You have the right to be wrong. :-) One thing you can do to convince yourself. See if you can find a glow plug for any purpose that looks like what you saw in those pictures. See if you can find a glow plug with a white heating end. $100 says you can't find a glow plug that

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

2012-07-18 Thread Jojo Jaro
Sorry. Double Post. I did not mean to repost this since I've already said it. This is the BS of this retrograde Mailing System. If this were a forum, I could have simply edited the post or deleted it. This email explaining that I double posted should have been unneccesary. Jojo

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
LENR will make jobs mostly uneeded. That's simple. You can have a closed structure to make crops and get you food for free. If you want any luxury, just some freelance will make the required money.

Re: [Vo]:CNBC and Advertisements for Cold Fusion- Hot Again

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Did anybody watch this last night? Was it just a rehatch or any new stuff? Or did everyone sign an NDA and can't say anything... On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Ron Kita chiralex.k...@gmail.com wrote: I live in

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread pagnucco
Eric, Yes, that happens. So do various other wire deformations. See - Stability of Metal Nanowires at Ultrahigh Current Densities http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411058 The authors have other papers on the topic. You can find them by clicking on their names. I am also interested in how much

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: LENR will kill jobs by the millions. The LENR production factory will be completely automated. Only robots will populate these places. True. The sales of products will be done on Amazon.com. I doubt that. I think most cold fusion devices will be built

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Ah! It's soapbox time! Let me step on top of mine! I suspect that if the prospects of robotics and LENR, or one of the LENR cousins, pans out in the near future the concept of what money represents to individuals, companies, and government circles will also have to evolve with the times. Perhaps

RE: [Vo]:CNBC and Advertisements for Cold Fusion- Hot Again

2012-07-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Yep, it was a rerun of the April 2009 program with a 10 second 'update' made at the end of the segment.. The 'update' was (paraphrasing): Dr. Duncan and 8 scientists at the University of Missouri are working to understand the processes involved. -Mark From: Chemical Engineer

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Axil Axil
These plutocrats will strongly resist their fall from power; maintaining their position is their agenda. And how can economics functions without money? I will all be interesting to watch. Cheers: Axil On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:CNBC and Advertisements for Cold Fusion- Hot Again

2012-07-18 Thread Axil Axil
There was nothing there to awaken the sleeping giant. Cheers: Axil On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Yep, it was a rerun of the April 2009 program with a 10 second ‘update’ made at the end of the segment…. The ‘update’ was (paraphrasing):

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
This is an interesting thing, which I also thought about some time ago, I also think z-pinch is involved. Even more, the extreme pressure could cause the formation of metallic hydrogen, an allotrope of hydrogen, (diamond and graphite are allotropes of carbon) ich is conjectured to be

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
just to guive data I've made some quick computation http://www.lenrforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=3t=27p=1139#p1139 since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10%, that you can interpret as productivity increase. The replacement of world energy source is estimated

[Vo]:Stand-by power generators tied into house wiring

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
For those unfamiliar with backup generators let me explain this comment . . . in the first world you need to tie a generator into the house wiring, so you need an electrician. You do not actually need to do this, but it is a good idea. It is easier and cheaper than it used to be. My sister lives

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: It will be important shock, but not so huge. at most 10% of course you can expect that the technology will become even cheaper, but even if LENR get to zero, the turbines, cooling and alike will stay as expensive (and I have under estimated their

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I do not think this message went through . . . Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com mailto:janap...@gmail.com wrote: LENR will kill jobs by the millions. The LENR production factory will be completely automated. Only robots will populate these places. True. The sales of products will be

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
LENR will create lots of new products and create industries where there are none today. Money is just a vehicle for goods and services to change hands and as long as capitalism remains that won't change. Just cooling off the oceans and removing CO2 from the atmosphere will be one new industry...

RE: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Alain wrote: since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10% maybe I miss the point? Did you consider the following??? Energy is to economies as physics is to science. it is FUNDAMENTAL, and everything is built on top of it. A significant change to a

[Vo]:CNBC-60 Minutes- CF- Feedback via Facebook

2012-07-18 Thread Ron Kita
Greetings Vortex, IF anyone wished to leave a comment on CNBC Facebook concerning the Cold Fusion Program: http://www.facebook.com/cnbcsmart Ron Kita, Chiralex I have posted a few comments on an update.

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Long term deflation? Harry On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Alain wrote: “since energy is $5-7Tn and GDP is $70Tn, the potential saving on energy is around 10%” “maybe I miss the point?” Did you consider the following??? Energy is to

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
The flame of capitalism will be extinguished by sustained deflation. harry On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Long term deflation? Harry On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:23 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Alain wrote: “since energy is

Re: [Vo]:Stand-by power generators tied into house wiring

2012-07-18 Thread Terry Blanton
Tell your sister she can back feed the power panel with a double plug extension cord. Be sure to open all the breakers first, especially the main. Wired generators should have an interlock between the gen and the main to avoid back feeding the distribution transformer and possibility killing a

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
In order to keep the flame of capitalism burning the deflation will need to be counteracted with inflationary measures. Harry On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: The flame of capitalism will be extinguished by sustained deflation. harry On Wed, Jul 18,

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Harry Veeder
In order to keep the flame of capitalism burning the deflation will need to be counteracted with inflationary measures. Harry On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: The flame of capitalism will be extinguished by sustained deflation. harry On Wed, Jul 18,

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Randy Wuller
Deflation is a concept based on the money supply, as it chases goods and services. If the money supply is constant and the goods and services chased increase, prices deflate. If the money supply is constant and the goods and services decrease, prices inflate. If you change the money supply

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Alain Sepeda
I hope so, and I feel that today energy cost is felt as a master parameter. It is just that it seems that it is only 10% of the produced good value... It is just a confilt between what my eyes see, and what the consensus seems to be... In that domain my intuition is not good enough to have a

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Much of our quality of life in the developed world has been enchanced tremendously due to fossil fuel usage: Fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and oil, were not used as a source of energy until the latter half of the 19th century. Prior to that, wind and water power were used for

[Vo]:Report on ILENRS-12

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://coldfusionnow.org/cold-fusion-symposium-at-williamsburg-lenrs-12-1-3-july-2012/

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
In any event, the current notion of austerity is nonsense and is tied to a tired and outdated concept that money is real or has some intrinsic real value which it doesn't. Austerity = Stupidity and I think every so often we as a society have to go through stretches of it before we remember

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread David Roberson
Interesting idea. Are you thinking of the protons being ejected from the CNT like toothpaste as the outer surface is compressed? I assume you are referring to the large current as being a large time changing current instead of a DC one. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
No, not like a toothpaste, nothing expelled. Compress, as an extremely strong anvil, a pressure of 10 million bar. Such pressure is only possible in planets with higher masses than Neptune. It really doesn't matter if it is continuous or not. For the purpose of the collapse, which should be

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread David Roberson
I must be confused about the process. Daniel, are you suggesting that the pressure of 10 million bars is going to cause the hydrogen within the tube to fuse? I was thinking more of the case where the fusion was with a nickel atom. Perhaps it is hydrogen fusing with hydrogen within the CNT.

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
No! That pressure is still too low to achieve fusion. You'd need 10^4 more. That's what is required to achieve the metallic hydrogen, stable and superconductive at room temperature, up to ~700K. The TSC is a self compressive molecule of hydrogen, in tetrahedral form. It self compresses until it

Re: [Vo]:principles of DGTG 's technology

2012-07-18 Thread David Roberson
The proton-proton reaction is fundamental to the way stars such as the sun operate since most of the material drawn together from the space nearby is raw hydrogen with no neutrons. It is interesting to notice that there is a lack of neutrons available in the initial stages. Your point is

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread David Roberson
You mention small spots of superconductivity. Does that suggest that each tiny metallic hydrogen group must maintain its conductivity separate from the others? Why are they not able to contact each other to result in much lower overall resistance? Dave -Original Message- From:

[Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Andre Blum
according to http://lenrnews.eu/?p=113, DGTG is considering to leave Greece. Source is unclear and we are used to better English from Xanthoulis. Maybe this is a translation by someone from a Greek letter. Andre

Re: [Vo]:Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Randy Wuller rwul...@freeark.com wrote: In any event, the current notion of austerity is nonsense and is tied to a tired and outdated concept that money is real or has some intrinsic real value which it doesn't. Austerity = Stupidity . . . I know little about economics, but I agree. It

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-07-18 23:01, Andre Blum wrote: according to http://lenrnews.eu/?p=113, DGTG is considering to leave Greece. Source is unclear and we are used to better English from Xanthoulis. Maybe this is a translation by someone from a Greek letter. Wording aside (it appears it's a translation

Re: [Vo]:principles of DGTG 's technology

2012-07-18 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Jed, ...This is a nuclear reactor... we do not differ by much. This (non)-demonstration would show how far they are wrt regulations. Not far, I guess. The regulatory procedures are quite different in say 100 countries, 30 of them maybe akin to 'first world'. Who does it? DGTG? Probably not, up

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Randy Wuller
Seems to me, Peter Gluck may be the one to ask. - Original Message - From: Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?) On 2012-07-18 23:01, Andre Blum wrote:

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com wrote: To put it bluntly, it looks like a last call for potential investors, implicitly urging them to hurry and take advantage of this opportunity before DGTG will go elsewhere. This statement gives me a bad impression as well, for two reasons: 1.

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Jojo Jaro
If DGT really had a reactor that is close to commercialization; that produce commercial level power and temps, don't you think people will rush to license their technology. What happened to those groups that tested the reactor. Why aren't they rushing to invest? Xanthoulis' statement seems

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Frank Acland
Jed, on your point 2 -- to me they seem not be saying they base their claims on the cold fusion experiments of others. They said NASA, US Navy, publicly traded companies from America, Canada, Germany and England and universities abroad* have visited us and have turned their attention to our

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Frank Acland ecatwo...@gmail.com wrote: Jed, on your point 2 -- to me they seem not be saying they base their claims on the cold fusion experiments of others. They said NASA, US Navy, publicly traded companies from America, Canada, Germany and England and universities abroad* have visited us

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: My conclusion is: This company is getting ready to abscond. Correct me if I'm wrong and argue from facts, not opinion. I am willing to be wrong about this. No one outside the company can know whether you are right or wrong. None of us has any facts to go

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread David Roberson
I have to question their earlier statements that they have hundreds of investors in as many countries. Why do they not have sufficient funds if this is true? Something is rotten in the state of (fill in the state). Someone correct me if I have their statement mixed up with another entity.

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Just tell Defkalion to setup a US Company of which the Greek company will be a subsidiary, call Stephen Chu and apply to the US Dept of Energy for a $1.6B loan guarantee for independent green power production in California (equivalent to 40, $40M license agreements). Spend at least 5% of that

RE: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Craig Brown
How much longer can this continue until there is some proper 3rd party validation. Original Message Subject: Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?) From: David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com Date: Thu, July 19, 2012 10:03 am To: vortex-l@eskimo.com I have to question

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Craig Brown cr...@overunity.co wrote: How much longer can this continue until there is some proper 3rd party validation. Until Standard Oil of NJ approves. :-) T

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
Yes, for the 1st question. To the second question, there is nothing against it, but a a pinch is rare occurrence, so, it is unlike that they will happen all close to each other. Small clusters are in general less bound than lattices. Metallic hydrogen is less bound. So, after you form these nano

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
*Metallic hydrogen is even less stable than usual metallic bounds. 2012/7/18 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com *Metallic hydrogen is less bound. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Is a hydrogen pinch equivalent to a bubble collapse in the Leclair cavitation fusion? Two glasses of wine led me to that conclusion. On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: Yes, for the 1st question. To the second question, there is nothing against it, but a a pinch is rare

Re: [Vo]:defkalion considering to leave Greece (?)

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
They are still busy deciding on the electric car's future... On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Terry Blanton wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Craig Brown cr...@overunity.cojavascript:; wrote: How much longer can this continue until there is some proper 3rd party validation. Until

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
Not sure about Leclair. In that case, the excess power could be due to a reduced resistance of the liquid. Cavitation creates bubbles of vapor that might decrease the shear of the flux layers in the pipes. I think it is more likely to be related to sonofusion:

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Leclair claims it is the collapsing of the bubbles (created in his case by cavitation from an impeller or laser) that triggers the fusion so I think the end result is the same as in sonofusion. I think we should all share the nobel prize, next problem? On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Daniel Rocha

Re: [Vo]:principles of DGTG 's technology

2012-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Are you considering an additional fusion reaction to follow up on the initial one discussed to use the hydrogen fuel more efficiently? If there is anyway to end up with helium 4, that problem would vaporize. That's

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
Cavitation is common in very turbulent streams, there are indeed some reasonable qualitative explanations for it. http://www.turbulence-online.com/Publications/Journal_Papers/Papers/AG78.pdf Sonofusion is a bit different. It might involve the high pressures, not sure how high. But the

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Bubbles feel the heat Mar 3, 2005 Physicists have seen a region of plasma in a single-bubble sonoluminescence experiment for the first time. They have also found that the temperature inside the bubble can reach up to 20,000 K (D Flannigan and K Suslick 2005 * Nature* *434*52). 20,000 K seems

Re: [Vo]:principles of DGTG 's technology

2012-07-18 Thread David Roberson
That would be a good plan to end up with helium 4. The binding energy released once you get to that element is enormous. The proton-proton reaction does not leave me with too much concern since the strong nuclear force is far dominate over the coulomb force. The only reason that I see for a

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
For hot fusion, what is needed is 100 million K! 20K is only 2eV. It doesn't even ionize H properly. 2012/7/19 Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com Bubbles feel the heat Mar 3, 2005 Physicists have seen a region of plasma in a single-bubble sonoluminescence experiment for the first time.

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Interesting idea. Are you thinking of the protons being ejected from the CNT like toothpaste as the outer surface is compressed? I assume you are referring to the large current as being a large time changing current

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Chemical Engineer
Ok, I am off by the normal amount that Rossi is, and people still believe him! On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: For hot fusion, what is needed is 100 million K! 20K is only 2eV. It doesn't even ionize H properly. 2012/7/19 Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
I rather believe in you! Not Rossi :) 2012/7/19 Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com Ok, I am off by the normal amount that Rossi is, and people still believe him! -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
I think the smallest CNT cannot do it, but a small cavity of 0.8nm within a lattice, with a few dozens of H can do it. 10 million bars is not out of the realm o chemical energy if you synchronize the movement a few hundreds of Ni atoms, to compress that cavity. 2012/7/19 Eric Walker

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: But when it appears, you would get a z-pinch effect, as happens in a lightening rod, and the walls of the containing wire would violently collapse in on the cavity. What happens to a lightening rod is fairly dramatic:

Re: [Vo]:z-pinch compression

2012-07-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
What you have is a resonant cavity, with phonons. The compression will be done by mechanic waves, coupled with EM waves. The infrared waves are 4 order of magnitude bigger than the cavity. So, you could have quite a few billion of atoms in phase due the relatively large infrared waves. 2012/7/19