Re: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
So I understood, but then the flip side: why the questions about the calorimetry? Again, what am I missing? On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: He did it... 2012/8/18 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com Good calorimetry is difficult, but comparisons are

Re: [Vo]:Additional paper have been posted on Krivet's site

2012-08-18 Thread Moab Moab
Several papers name the New York Community Trust as the grant giver. Is there a significant increase in grants for research ? That would be an clear indication of a turning point: more grants, more and better research, more exposure, more credibilty. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Jed

RE: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
I’ve a bit concern about the total radiation. But I’m not expert in calorimetry, neither in heat transfer. Radiation is emission of IR (infrared) from a warm surface. The Boltzmann’s law give the energy radiated from a surface at a given temperature and kind of material. Inside the

Re: [Vo]:Re: ProdEngAssemble.avi

2012-08-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
Fast Recomb? What the hell is that? Matter collapse? What was the chemical reaction? On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: That death was from a chemical explosion. SRI, recombiner gunked up, researcher picked up the cell, gunk fell off, fast

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes -- Fully reproducible

2012-08-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
Right, they made up a new state called Inverted Rydberg State that has ultra high density. Don't they really mean collapsed? Axil, I really don't think we are that far off. In both my theory and Miley a cluster of ultra high density matter is shredding it's environment and leaving a host of

[Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
They are proposed to range from the largest of 6.6 billion solar masses down to 23 micrograms, the planck mass, about a grain of sand, but collapsed. I propose that they are not really stable they are always emitting some form of Ultra Low Momentum Radiation (see I can event my own terms also!)

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: Papp Noble MisheGas Engine

2012-08-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
Also, I forgot to mention that Jim Patterson's grandson who was helping him develop a commercial product from his cell, died at age 31 from some type of brain anuerism or hemmorage (not sure still checking). We all know what this reaction is doing to the matter in a wire or lattice, what if

Re: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Robert Lynn
Is there any way to guesstimate – assuming the best reasonable kind of insulation is added to retain heat, something like aerogel, etc – how much more mass of active wire (if any) would be necessary to get close to a nominally self-sustaining system? ** ** Jones That would be

Re: [Vo]:Re: ProdEngAssemble.avi

2012-08-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:40 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Fast Recomb? Fast recombination of the H2 and O2 back into water and heat. T

Re: [Vo]:Re: ProdEngAssemble.avi

2012-08-18 Thread Robert Lynn
Our IC engine testing euphemism for fires and explosions was a thermal event On 18 August 2012 14:49, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:40 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Fast Recomb? Fast recombination of the H2 and O2 back into water and heat.

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-18 Thread Jojo Jaro
CE, I think you need to gather your thoughts in one place, write a comprehensive paper and flesh out many lacking details to your theory, instead of repeating yourself ad nauseam here in Vortex, and interject your theory at every post. Your theory as posted in your blog is glaringly

RE: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Robert Lynn * Bigger problem is stopping it from over-heating. Ideally need to surround it in a heat sink with a controllable temperature - eg 120°C so that as the reactor gets hotter than that it will rapidly start to transfer heat to the heat sink. Want the heat sink close to the

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes -- Fully reproducible

2012-08-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Aug 18, 2012, at 5:53, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Axil, I really don't think we are that far off. In both my theory and Miley a cluster of ultra high density matter is shredding it's environment and leaving a host of products. I think a black hole is somewhat different than

RE: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:30 AM 8/17/2012, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: I think AR is smarter than this. He said Ni+p - Cu when it knew it was not the case. With this statement, he was sure that Cu will not be taken as a potential catalyst and only a by-product. Note that this could be parallel with Jospeh Papp. Papp

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Aug 17, 2012, at 18:28, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: Widom Larsen postulate that the neutrons are produced when a proton captures an electron. The process is endothermic (energy must be supplied or it will not occur) so the neutrons initially have extremely low energy (cold). As

Re: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:54 AM 8/17/2012, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2012-08-17 17:43, Jones Beene wrote: Why do you say that 3W/cm² is not enough for a commercial product ? We are talking about an alloy that costs only $20/kg (US) in large volume lots. The treatment (not known in detail yet - but Celani said

Re: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
I think the invention was real, powerful and very uncertain and unreliable, prone to failures, malfunctions and explosions, nature of the beast. On Saturday, August 18, 2012, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 10:30 AM 8/17/2012, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: I think AR is smarter than this. He said Ni+p

Re: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:27 AM 8/17/2012, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2012-08-17 18:03, Daniel Rocha wrote: Beware that the extra heat/g. And that's the up limit. Generally, it's around 40W/g and 50/g. You'd have to use some complicated scheme to get an electrical feedback and self sustain. True, actual average

Re: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Axil Axil
This is a certificate of an independent and legally witnessed test of the Papp engine by two independent witnesses in 1983. http://www.plasmerg.com/_files/Cert.pdf On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 10:30 AM 8/17/2012, Arnaud Kodeck wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 10:30 AM 8/17/2012, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: I think AR is smarter than this. He said Ni+p - Cu when it knew it was not the case. With this statement, he was sure that Cu will not be taken as a potential

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Fermi Acceleration

2012-08-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Actually, I tend agree with Robin that measuring cannot increase the energy of the particle. My question reflects my own attempt to understand why it is so. Now that I have thought about it, it is because one doesn't measure energy per se. Most measurements are really the result of calculations

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes -- Fully reproducible

2012-08-18 Thread pagnucco
Hello Akira, I can't see any bad news. If I'm correct, Miley's team reports a much more robust reaction than previously seen, along with a variety of extremely anomalous transmutations. Certainly, any fusion reaction will require enough energy to surmount high potential barriers between

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Fermi Acceleration

2012-08-18 Thread pagnucco
Hello Harry, To be really precise, though, an energy measurement of a particle in a superposition of energy eigenstates might find it in one of the states higher than the weighted average energy of its wavefunction. So, you might say that the measurement increased its energy, but over many such

[Vo]:Rossi FIRST?? 1MW : gas-fired COP = 3 minimum 6 maximum

2012-08-18 Thread Alan Fletcher
Strange Rossi posts : a) COP = 3 to 6 ? Andrea Rossi August 18th, 2012 at 7:34 AM http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=695cpage=2#comment-304432 Dear Ing. Benedetto Schiavone: 1- Our industrial plants are based on the modules of 10 kW of power. We are already manufacturing them, and

Re: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Is there any way to guesstimate – assuming the best reasonable kind of insulation is added to retain heat, something like aerogel, etc – how much more mass of active wire (if any) would be necessary to get close to a nominally self-sustaining system?

Re: [Vo]:Rossi FIRST?? 1MW : gas-fired COP = 3 minimum 6 maximum

2012-08-18 Thread Axil Axil
The efficiency of a gas electric generator is about 33%. If the Cop of a Rossi reactor is 3, that means that the Rossi plant is about the same cost wise as a straight up gas burner. When gas is used to fire the Rossi reactor, the overall efficiency of that reactor goes up a few times but it is

RE: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
I never trusted all the claims of Rossi. His paranoia is understandable with his history (Petroldragon and so) and the matter of topic here. This attitude doesn't help LENR in the short term. But what is a few years regarding the long story of the mankind? It is always too short, but man is a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi FIRST?? 1MW : gas-fired COP = 3 minimum 6 maximum

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I think the point of (b) in the original message was that today's posting by Rossi talks about a 1MW plant using the future tense. Which seems to conflict with some prior statements by Rossi. Jeff On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The efficiency of a gas

Re: [Vo]:Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net (or is it Joro Jaro?) wrote: . . . For this and many other reasons, I stopped paying attention to Rossi some time ago, due to this propensity for dishonesty and trickery. I think that is a big mistake. I recommend you pay close attention to him * despite*

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:06 PM 8/17/2012, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 01:17 PM 8/17/2012, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Unreadable for me. Full paper : http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Godes-Controlled-Electron-Capture-Paper.pdf Appendix A just lists a bunch of reactions ... with NO

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:58 AM 8/17/2012, Jones Beene wrote: Further on this point (with some rewording): IMPLICATION - there are 20+ years of positive experiments with palladium-deuterium, most of them using hydrogen as a control. Hydrogen does not seem to work at all in pure palladium. If H

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On 17 August 2012 19:58, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: 5) Helium ash is often seen with Pd-D but no helium is seen with Ni-H. But have we looked for helium in Ni-H systems? I would doubt that because Ni-H is rather new way to produce excess heat and it is not well established.

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Fermi Acceleration

2012-08-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Hi LP, I haven't read the paper, but I don't disagree with claim. In fact it should not be unexpected. Even in a macroscopic system a concentration energy can come about as a result of energy being transferred from the measuring system to the system being measured. Of course, such a measuring

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I am curious about the weak and erratic comment. What about evidence like this - http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Dash-Effect%20of%20Recrystallization-Paper.pdf This doesn't look that hard to reproduce - the main problem is access to the spectrometer-equipped SEM,

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Thanks for writing this, I was also scratching my head trying to figure out whether Godes and W-L were saying the same thing or not. Minor comment: I think you typo'd 782MeV when meaning 782KeV. Jeff On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 03:06 PM

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Eric Walker
Le Aug 18, 2012 à 4:28 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com a écrit : But have we looked for helium in Ni-H systems? I would doubt that because Ni-H is rather new way to produce excess heat and it is not well established. When I looked for helium as an ash from the Ni-H systems sometime

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Or, they are two totally different, unrelated reactions. That would violate what McKubre calls the conservation of miracles principle. Okay, that's just a rule of thumb, or a gut feeling. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Certain electrical inputs to the cell were changed deliberately in a proprietary manner effecting Q frequency content. In other words, we aren't being told enough information so that this finding could be independently replicated. Is the

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I saw this too. It's a quote. The word proprietary actually appears 6 times in the Godes document, in relation to this and other aspects of the work. It seems unlikely to be an accident or temporary. Celani also describes the large help of an unnamed Italian company with respect to processing the

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Fermi Acceleration

2012-08-18 Thread Harry Veeder
BTW, I appear to contradict myself when I said measuring cannot increase the energy of the particle vs I agree with the claim that measuring can concentrate energy in a system. In the former, I mean I don't accept the idea that measuring can somehow increase the energy the particle without the

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose that if this work all holds up, the mainstream scientific community may get what it deserves for shunning the discipline: all the key results may be locked up behind an impenetrable veil of trade secrecy. That subject came up in the panel

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That would violate what McKubre calls the conservation of miracles principle. But not the call to maximize miracles! T

[Vo]:McKubre clarifies his view of the Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I sent Mike a copy of the message I posted here, along with Robert Lynn's analysis. He responded: It would be fair to say that I have some concerns and am working with others to see if these can be resolved. I also think that the core of the experiment is a very clever idea and look forward to

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-18 Thread mixent
In reply to ChemE Stewart's message of Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:09:52 -0400: Hi, [snip] They are proposed to range from the largest of 6.6 billion solar masses down to 23 micrograms, the planck mass, about a grain of sand, but collapsed. I propose that they are not really stable they are always

Re: [Vo]:Rossi FIRST?? 1MW : gas-fired COP = 3 minimum 6 maximum

2012-08-18 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:39:47 PM I think the point of (b) in the original message was that today's posting by Rossi talks about a 1MW plant using the future tense. Which seems to conflict with some prior statements by Rossi. Jeff Trying to

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
This is a very refreshing response. I certainly hope you are correct. Jeff On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose that if this work all holds up, the mainstream scientific community may get what it deserves

[Vo]:Nano-particle sodium borohydride encased in nickel shells

2012-08-18 Thread Eric Walker
Nano-structures to realise hydrogen's energy potential http://phys.org/news/2012-08-nano-structures-realise-hydrogen-energy-potential.html It seems they're seeing remarkable improvements in the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of their material, including a significant energy release at 350

[Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-18 Thread ChemE Stewart
I agree. Basically I am talking about collapsed matter as the primary trigger for all of the secoondary reactions which Abd is working on figuring out. In quantum mechanics this is effected by the strength of quantum scale gravity and also the hoop effect caused by a void. Once matter

Re: [Vo]:Nano-particle sodium borohydride encased in nickel shells

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
On the one hand I think there may be some bad science reporting at work here - the abstract (as opposed to the phys.org summary) doesn't use the term energy release, only hydrogen release and hydrogen absorption/desorption. On the other hand, I recognized hydroborate from the ICCF papers on

[Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
If you open this link: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Vysotskii-Stimulated-LENR-Paper.pdf It turns out that the PDF contains three separate and unrelated LENR papers stuck together end to end. The second of the three papers is analysis of the applicability of W-L to

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
Better save it before Krivit purges that! 2012/8/19 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com If you open this link: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Vysotskii-Stimulated-LENR-Paper.pdf It turns out that the PDF contains three separate and unrelated LENR papers stuck

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
grin right, the author has nothing nice to say about W-L. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: Better save it before Krivit purges that! 2012/8/19 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com If you open this link:

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel Rocha
The problem is Rossi :D 2012/8/19 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com grin right, the author has nothing nice to say about W-L. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: Better save it before Krivit purges that! 2012/8/19 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com If

RE: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Robin stated, Other factors to take into consideration are that a neutral black hole would oscillate back and forth through the planet Funny, that's exactly how electrons behave in my physical model... with the electron 'hole' being the other half of the electron. So whatever is oscillating is