Re: [Vo]:My current views on the 'Rossi's process'

2014-03-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.comwrote: 1. The ß+ decay energy of Cu(x) Ni(x) + e+ + ve (2 -4 MeV) of each decay step in the chain, causing the Ni/Cu powder to heat up. I think the electron-positron annihilation photons from the radioactive decay

[Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
The COP of the Fleischmann Pons Effect appears in two primary modes: Barely Measurable (COP perhaps 10% or so over unity). Obvious (COP frequently infinite and long-duration). I've never seen a breakdown of the literature into these two categories, yet it seems this is important for 2 reasons:

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf Cravens experiment was ongoing at infinite COP for 2.5 months before NI Week, and he indicated that he would keep it going (that needs to be confirmed). If true, this one has been ongoing for almost 10 months at infinite COP.

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
How expensive is it to replicate? On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf Cravens experiment was ongoing at infinite COP for 2.5 months before NI Week, and he indicated that he would keep it

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Alain Sepeda
it looks like the evidence that proved Radium ? 2014-03-22 15:14 GMT+01:00 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net: http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/NIWeekCravens.pdf Cravens experiment was ongoing at infinite COP for 2.5 months before NI Week, and he indicated that he would keep it

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
James, The thread about the H-Cat, as an inexpensive but meaningful experiment in its base-level incarnation - raised the possibility that an automotive catalytic converter ($40 -$100) - filled with hydrogen. It could show a steady temperature gain over ambient of more than Cravens' ongoing gain

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I've made this point before but it bears repeating that in a resource starved field that is beset by inquisitorial true believers holding positions of power . . . Who are these inquisitorial true believers?!? What constitutes holding power in this

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
Caveat: There is no present indication that an automotive catalytic converter (CC) will show thermal gain in an unpowered hydrogen experiment, similar to Cravens work - but essentially there is a valid expectation of this result, based on experiments going back to Arata... and it is easily

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I've made this point before but it bears repeating that in a resource starved field that is beset by inquisitorial true believers holding positions of power . . . Who are

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: James, The thread about the H-Cat, as an inexpensive but meaningful experiment in its base-level incarnation - raised the possibility that an automotive catalytic converter ($40 -$100) - filled with hydrogen Don't you

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, let me try to simplify this suggestion. The LENR process requires a special condition that is difficult to create in a material. Unless this special condition is created (I call the NAE) no treatment will cause LENR. This what 25 years of study of the effect has demonstrated and what

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Jones etal-- SPIN IS THE CONTROLLING PARAMETER. At page 3 of the Craven/Gimpel paper on their demonstrations at the NI 2013 convention, they state the following: Notice the metal nano particles are held within 9 nm pores within carbon particles matched to the expected blackbody radiation.

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: James Bowery The thread about the H-Cat, as an inexpensive but meaningful experiment in its base-level incarnation - raised the possibility that an automotive catalytic converter ($40 -$100) - filled with hydrogen

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Consequently, a kit or test is useless unless the material has been made active. We do not know how Rossi does this. We do not know how Cravens does this. Until this knowledge is revealed and a material can be treated in a way to make it active,

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Alain Sepeda
I agree that scientifically the affair is done since 1991-1992. Since then there is effort to progress in reliability, intensity, understanding... the denial will only be resolved by mass adoption, of a working technology. Turkey reality can only be proven on thanksgiving. I know that LENR is

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Jed-- Getting Cravens AND Gimpel is a good idea. Do you know where Gimpel lives in Washington. He may be a neighbor of mine. Bob - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
On Mar 22, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Consequently, a kit or test is useless unless the material has been made active. We do not know how Rossi does this. We do not know how Cravens does this. Until this knowledge is revealed and a

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
Ed, Sorry, but once again, you are only half-right. It is fairly clear to anyone who is paying close attention that you fear and will lobby against positive results from any kind of democratic experimental effort - since it will further marginalize your own theory if successful. Ed's theory is

[Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
I just ran into trouble because I used the phrase true believers properly. This is because the true true believers have captured the phrase true believers to refer to scientists. This kind of hypocritical projection is standard operating procedure in religious and political circles. To

Re: [Vo]:2014 Cold Fusion Colloquium at MIT

2014-03-22 Thread Steve High
Greetings from the MIT colloquium. As far as I know I may be the only Vortex follower here so I will provide updates as long as my iPhone battery holds out Saturday morning started with Dr Ahern. He presented the bittersweet tale of a garage tinkerer from New Hampshire who called him up to

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat experimenters take note

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
I know what metals I want, but I don't know how to get ahold of monoatomic hydrogen gas. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat experimenters take note

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Not for sale in California. Well, that sucks... for me. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Once again Jones, you make the discussion personal by arrogant descriptions of what you think I believe. My description does not involve a theory, at least not at this stage. It is a simple description of what has been observed by hundreds of experiments. You are free to accept this

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat experimenters take note

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
Install an electric arc or spark plug in one or both ends of the closed and pressure sealed catalytic converter and proceed to spark as required. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: I know what metals I want, but I don't know how to get ahold of

[Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Steve High
The event is well attended. I would estimate 150 heads about 90 % grey. Ruby Carat and Alien Scientist are here recording the proceedings. Curiously Hadjichristos was on the agenda but his name has been stricken, leaving a void as far as the kilowatt output performers are concerned. Celani had

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Caveat: There is no present indication that an automotive catalytic converter (CC) will show thermal gain in an unpowered hydrogen experiment, similar to Cravens work - but essentially there is a valid expectation of this

RE: [Vo]:E-Cat experimenters take note

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: Kevin I know what metals I want, but I don't know how to get ahold of monoatomic hydrogen gas. The nature of any spillover catalyst, and any CC is loaded with them, is to convert H2 into monatomic nuclei. It will not be a gas per se, but proton will attach to the catalyst. BTW

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Edmund Storms Once again Jones, you make the discussion personal by arrogant descriptions of what you think I believe. From my perspective, arrogance was not intended- and if seen, then it must have been a result of mirroring of the initial comment, which as

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Alain Sepeda
does anybody know who is the angel? 2014-03-22 18:05 GMT+01:00 Steve High diamondweb...@gmail.com: The event is well attended. I would estimate 150 heads about 90 % grey. Ruby Carat and Alien Scientist are here recording the proceedings. Curiously Hadjichristos was on the agenda but his

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Steve High
On Friday we had Dr Yasuhiro Iwamura. He's sucking deuterium gas through a membrane containing palladium and a surface splotching of other elements lets say cobalt. After the run he can demonstrate the presence of other elements four eight or twelve atomic numbers above said cobalt, depending

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Caveat: There is no present indication that an automotive catalytic converter (CC) will show thermal gain in an unpowered hydrogen experiment, similar to Cravens work - but essentially there is a valid expectation of this result, based on

RE: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
A good guess would be STM. He mentions them often. From: Alain Sepeda does anybody know who is the angel?

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Based on my theory, the active material are nano-cracks. Making these at the require size is the challenge. Cracks can be made many different ways, but getting the right size is the problem. Might there be a

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Let me say this again as simply and as unambiguously as possible. LENR has been studied for 24 years. Hundreds of papers describing the behavior and the required conditions have been published. This data set shows what is required and what does not work. My comments are not a theory. I'm simply

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Terry, you need to now that Arata explored many sources of palladium black before be found one that worked. He never revealed his source or what made the particular batch active. Dissociation, loading and liquids are not the essential requirements. An essential requirement exists in a

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Alain and Jones-- I thought of STM also. I own 1000 shares of that stock even though it is Swiss.. Bob - Original Message - From: Jones Beene To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:27 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:MIT colloquium A good guess would be STM. He

RE: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Steve: Just want to thank you, as I think all Vorts do, for providing the updates from MIT... The 150 attendance is good to see... B Well, -Mark Iverson -Original Message- From: Steve High [mailto:diamondweb...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:05 AM To: Vortex Subject:

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
There, there... Terry pat, pat, pat It's all gonna be ok... :-) -Mark -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:10 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Jones Beene

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
James-- I agree. In fact that may be desirable to make a metal lattice with differing size voids so that close by reactions do not damage the overall lattice by adding too much heat in one spot. I other words designing the lattice with a low percentage of potentially active voids. Bob

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Yes, getting a wide variety of sizes is easy. Getting enough of the right size in this distribution is the problem. Only a few of the right size will not give enough energy to be detected. When radiation or tritium is used to detect the occurrence of LENR, the effect can be seen using fewer

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Steve High
Angel described as a private financier. No word on wings Steve High On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: does anybody know who is the angel? 2014-03-22 18:05 GMT+01:00 Steve High diamondweb...@gmail.com: The event is well attended. I would estimate

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Steve High
First Saturday afternoon presenter was Mizuno being represented by a young Japanese scientist. Their reactor : nickle mesh surface prepped by exposure to plasma discharge. Reactor consists of prepped nickel mesh heated by resistance with pressurized deuterium gas. The device able to measure the

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
If you are running a Cravens style simultaneous, colocated control experiment with infinite COP your odds of detecting a tiny temperature difference economically are vastly improved. Basically you just integrate the voltage out of a bimetallic (thermocoupling) wall separating the treated material

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
James, I feel much more comfortable using a calorimeter design I can trust and that has been used in the past. The Cravens device is a nice demonstration but it proves nothing. I have made calorimeters that do the job much better and give absolute values for power. No need exists to reinvent.

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
Ed, I'm attacking a different problem: Cost. Since we're in a quasi-Edisonian phase of scientific research, keeping the cost per experiment as low as possible seems to be the bottleneck to getting a protocol that has reproduces the FPE to any statistically significant degree. Developing a

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
Perhaps I can illustrate by avoiding thermal detection and going with tritium: Since tritium production is inherently time integrated, setting up a Cravens style dual experiment with a one treated to have a wide range of crack sizes, and both identical in all other respects, puts the primary cost

[Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Ed-- Engineering resonances associated with any given crack characteristic associated with LENR activation may help expand the useful crack population. Rossi seems to use temperature as a control. Bob From: Edmund Storms Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:46 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc:

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
So am I. A person gets what they pay for. It proves nothing if a person claims to see heat using a method that no one will accept as showing excess energy no matter how cheap the method. That has been a major problem in getting LENR accepted in the first place. If heating power is sought, it

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Tritium can not be detected easily using a beta detector. The best way is to convert the gas to water and measure the tritium using the scintillation metaod. The allows the sample to be studied over a period of time by many people if they wish. Ed Storms On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:02 PM, James

[Vo]:Re: MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Steve High
Nikita Alexandrov. Looks to be 27 and president of permanetixcorp. Has a scheme for mass screening of sputtered potential LENR materials. His company has a device that can be placed inside a reaction vessel to capture in real time soft ionizing radiation. Take home: exactly the kind of young

Re: [Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Bob, temperature is not the source of cracks or have any role in their function. Temperature changes the rate at which hydrogen is delivered to the crack. It is important to understand the role of each variable. You can find an explanation at http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEexplaining.pdf.

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
Is there a paper describing the technique(s) for generating a wide distribution of crack sizes? On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Tritium can not be detected easily using a beta detector. The best way is to convert the gas to water and measure the

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
I know of no single paper that describes how cracks are formed. However, a huge literature exists that describe how cracks are produced in materials and how this destructive process can be avoided. I have 69 papers in my collection that address this issue. Unless you are prepared to do a lot

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
I may have inadequately expressed what I was looking for: A technique to generate, in a single sample, a wide and relatively flat (very low kurtosis) distribution of crack sizes (and a large number of such cracks of course). This, as opposed to a wide array of techniques, each of which generates

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
If I had such a method, I would first write a patent. Unfortunately, that is the method we are trying to find. I can make cracks anytime I want but I can not make the most effective distribution at will, although I get lucky sometimes. Ed Storms On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:58 PM, James Bowery

Re:[Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread a.ashfield
Someone asked about crack formation. What work I have done was to prevent them rather than make them. Basically you heat the object up and then cool the surface sufficiently rapidly that a tensile stress is created that exceeds the tensile strength of the material. Much easier to do with

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Ed, The most dangerous aspect of the addiction of CF to cracks is that caracks are destroying the active material, so technologically speaking the crack theory is a death sentence. It can be true for palladium, but less noble transition metals are working hopefully in a different way. PdD

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_metal On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 3:45 PM, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Someone asked about crack formation. What work I have done was to prevent them rather than make them.

Re: [Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
There is more than one way to skin a cat. LENR active cracks can be produced in more than one way. The way Rossi produces NAE is different than the way Ed Storms produces NAE, and Rossi is far more productive and robust at it. Rossi produces NAE with his mouse which is a nano-particle

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Perter, what you say is not true based on my understanding. Cracks can be made stable. However, LENR does have a lifetime problem that will limit the upper temperature and/or the time before the active material has to replaced. Yes, I know that some people including yourself think PdD and NiH

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
Regarding this post: There is more than one way to skin a cat. LENR active cracks can be produced in more than one way. The way Rossi produces NAE is different than the way Ed Storms produces NAE, and Rossi is far more productive and robust at it. Rossi produces NAE with his mouse which is a

Re: [Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Axil, how do you know how I produce the NAE. I do not know this and neither of us knows how Rossi does this. Your guesses are not useful. I can comprehend the process you describe. I just do not believe it. Do you see the difference? Ed Storms On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Axil Axil wrote:

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Alain Sepeda
beyond cracks , maybe is there some topological defect, longitudinal defects, crystallographic-phase change planes... is there document about hydroton. naively among possibilities I imagine a circular hydroton ring and thing about a superconductor.. to explain magnetic fields. maybe stupid...

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread a.ashfield
James Bowery http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=from:%22James+Bowery%22 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:14:49 -0700 http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=date:20140322 It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. Yes, I imagine

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Alain, you can find the description of the Hydroton at http://coldfusionnow.org/iccf-18-presentation-videos-monday-july-22/ http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEexplaining.pdf Ed Storms On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Alain Sepeda wrote: beyond cracks , maybe is there some topological defect,

Re: [Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
Yes, a guess but a good guess. Rossi's mouse is stimulating the Cat with something that floats on a hydrogen gas current and whose production is controlled through the application of heat. Rossi solved his control problem by separating dust bunnies production in one unit that has a very low Q and

Re: [Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
More... The Rossi reaction is a two step operation where the mouse produces NAEs and the Cat consumes these NAEs that are mobile one currents of hydrogen. How else can it work??? On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, a guess but a good guess. Rossi's mouse

[Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Axil and Ed— I do not admit to understanding the effect of temperature in detail. However, I do consider temperature will change the magnitude of magnetic fields in the lattice and the vibrational frequencies of the lattice depending upon local geometry. The latter would effect how the

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
...@verizon.net wrote: James Boweryhttp://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=from:%22James+Bowery%22 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:14:49 -0700http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=date:20140322 It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. Yes

[Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Ed— I did not say temperature was the source of cracks. I said it may help expand the useful crack populational. This could happen by changing the vibrational frequency of any given crack structure closer to its resonant frequency, making LENR at that crack likely. Bob From: Edmund Storms

[Vo]:Re: 2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Ed-- What about crack orientation; is it more important than size when a magnetic field is present? Bob From: Edmund Storms Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 1:05 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Subject: Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE If I had such a method, I would first write a

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
2014 14:14:49 -0700http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=date:20140322 It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. Yes, I imagine abrasion would cause lots of surface cracks on an amorphous metal - if it behaves like glass. I had wondered

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steve High diamondweb...@gmail.com wrote: First Saturday afternoon presenter was Mizuno being represented by a young Japanese scientist. Their reactor : nickle mesh surface prepped by exposure to plasma discharge. I believe this is a continuation of the work described here:

RE: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell Steve High wrote: First Saturday afternoon presenter was Mizuno being represented by a young Japanese scientist. Their reactor : nickle mesh surface prepped by exposure to plasma discharge.

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
2014 14:14:49 -0700 http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=date:20140322 It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. Yes, I imagine abrasion would cause lots of surface cracks on an amorphous metal - if it behaves like glass. I had wondered

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
This method produces nanoparticles by bombarding the electrodes with electrons during ~30 hours of glow discharge. The nanoparticles are created *in situ *in electrodes. The electrodes have already been cleaned and purified... The particle size and number of particles is controlled by varying the

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Of course nanoparticles have unusual chemical and physical properties. The question is , Are these properties able to initiate a nuclear reaction? A huge ignorance exists about the difference between a nuclear reaction and a chemical change. You would do well to actually study some nuclear

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
=date:20140322 It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. Yes, I imagine abrasion would cause lots of surface cracks on an amorphous metal - if it behaves like glass. I had wondered in the past whether the surface preparation of the palladium electrodes

Re: [Vo]:MIT colloquium

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
10s of watts, 100s of watts, 100s of watts watts watts everywhere but not an input so I guess we're talking infinite COP because no one would report just output alone unless the input was zero, would they? On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:

RE: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: Edmund Storms Of course nanoparticles have unusual chemical and physical properties. The question is , Are these properties able to initiate a nuclear reaction? A huge ignorance exists about the difference between a nuclear reaction and a chemical change. You would do well to actually

[Vo]:Bose-Einstein condensation of quasi-particles such as excitons, polaritons, magnons

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140311/ncomms4452/full/ncomms4452.html Abstract* Bose-Einstein condensation of quasi-particles such as excitons, polaritons, magnons and photons is a fascinating quantum mechanical phenomenon. Unlike the Bose-Einstein condensation of real particles (like atoms),

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
This is tantamount to portraying the scientific method as a belief on the same par as someone who is impervious to experimental evidence. ***Yup. Scientism, which is rapidly becoming a world wide religion. The crazy thing is, when LENR breaks out, huge swaths of populations (fueled by the

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Ed stated: Of course nanoparticles have unusual chemical and physical properties. The question is , Are these properties able to initiate a nuclear reaction? A huge ignorance exists about the difference between a nuclear reaction and a chemical change. You would do well to actually study

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Kevin-- This is what is called the 100th monkey principle. Bob - Original Message - From: Kevin O'Malley To: vortex-l Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks This is tantamount to portraying the scientific method as a

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread ChemE Stewart
[image: Monkeys] On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Kevin-- This is what is called the 100th monkey principle. Bob - Original Message - *From:* Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Saturday, March

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
[image: Monkeys] On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:39 PM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: [image: Monkeys] On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.comwrote: Kevin-- This is what is called the 100th monkey principle. Bob - Original Message - *From:*

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread H Veeder
Suppose only 2% of the material in a catalytic converter has the NAE capable of producing the putative excess heat. Since a catalytic converter contains so much more potentially NAE than a familiar CF cell it is like running a thousand CF cells at the same time of which only twenty produce excess

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms
Bob, I know very well about muon fusion. If you took the time to read my papers, you would understand not only do I understand but you have no idea what you are talking about. The muon produces hot fusion, not cold fusion. The process has no relationship to cold fusion. I have tried to be

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2014-03-22 Thread Edmund Storms

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/22/5535022/stanford-opening-new-lab-to-study-bad-science Stanford opening new lab to study bad science An epidemiologist famously wrote in 2005 Why most published research findings are

Re: [Vo]:unsubscribe

2014-03-22 Thread James Bowery
A true loss. I doubt anything I said contributed to his departure because I was genuinely seeking his guidance since he, unlike many here, seemed willing to discuss the economic particulars of experimental tests of his direction. No matter what you may think of his direction, his willingness to

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Bob: Not even close. The story as told by Watson and Keyes is popular among New Agehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Ageauthors and personal growth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_growth gurus and has become an urban legend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend and part of New Age

Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Look what kind of trouble you caused -- Ed Storms just unsubscribed, on Vortex-L it shows up in this thread. What did you or any of us say that pissed him off? On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Kevin-- This is what is called the 100th monkey

Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: James Boweryhttp://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=from:%22James+Bowery%22 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:14:49 -0700http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=vortex-l@eskimo.comq=date:20140322 It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat experimenters take note

2014-03-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Jones: Thanks for the informative heads up about spillover. What I would need is to know how much H1 monoatomic gas I'm feeding into the system. It would not have to be exact, it would just have to be within 3 to 5%. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:

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2014-03-22 Thread Terry Blanton
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Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks

2014-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
Kevin-- I guess my characterization of Scientism was a little unCooked. My apology, Bob - Original Message - From: Kevin O'Malley To: vortex-l Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:True Believers and Belief Networks Bob: Not even close. The

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane balls, RAR and high-Q factor

2014-03-22 Thread H Veeder
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* H Veeder ...two steel ball bearings welded together ... are a metaphorical cooper-pair, so to speak... raising another weird question: is there something about spherical-pairing alone, which is special - at