Re: [Vo]:MIT Sunday Morning

2014-03-25 Thread Alain Sepeda
2014-03-24 22:15 GMT+01:00 George Holz geh...@optonline.net: misunderstood about the possibility that neutrons may be ignored because of coincidence, we should remind the unavoidable proof by the intern if people survived beside LENR cells, even if there is no working neutron detector, they

[Vo]:Cold Fusion Now audio files of MIT meeting

2014-03-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://coldfusionnow.org/2014-cflanr-colloquium-at-mit-audio-files/ Regarding Yoshida's presentation of Mizuno's results, I still do not have the slides. It is difficult to follow the lecture without them. I gather they are getting 70 W excess. They are building two new reactors, a 1 kW

RE: [Vo]:Who has the best Stirling Engine?

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
From: Kevin O'Malley All of them would need to convert heat to electricity. That means a Stirling engine, unless you believe the guys at Deuo Dynamics who have a direct thermoelectric conversion in their LENR diode. Which Stirling Engine is the best? Cyclone Power? They have Dr.

Re: [Vo]:Who has the best Stirling Engine?

2014-03-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I think a small steam turbine would be a better choice for the first generation cold fusion devices. Such as: http://www.greenturbine.eu/en/product.php Later, perhaps much later, thermoelectric devices will be the best choice. Stirling engine technology never seems to mature. NASA was

RE: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
David Roberson wrote: It seems odd that they would work toward enhancing a jet engine instead of producing the power plant directly. Dave - Not really odd when you follow the buck. DoE takes time to fund. And politics are involved. Even the best idea is a year away with many

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Now audio files of MIT meeting

2014-03-25 Thread Steve High
Morning Jed. It just occurred to me that Ruby and Jeremy from Coldfusion Now were capturing images of all the slides with a camera or video recorder. You might contact them and get to the bottom of this faster Steve High On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Hunt for an 'unidentified electron objects'

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
snip produced via external pumping that keep the quasiparticle excited. Such pumping can create remarkably high effective temperatures in a narrow spectral region of the lowest energy states in a quasiparticle gas, resulting in strikingly unexpected transitional dynamics of Bose–Einstein

RE: [Vo]:Who has the best Stirling Engine?

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
ORC makes more sense than steam. There are small ORC systems (Organic Rankine cycle) which are available now from several suppliers. This is both a short and long term solution for application to LENR. From: Jed Rothwell I think a small steam turbine would be a better choice for

RE: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
Here is Krivit’s interview but it happened back at the end of 2011, so it may not be relevant to that possibility (that Rossi switched to a jet engine in order to get rapid funding from DARPA) http://newenergytimes.com/v2/government/Intel/Krivit-LENR-Interview-For-IARPA.pdf It seems

[Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread David Roberson
We hear so much chatter about the Coulomb barrier and how difficult it is to overcome for fusion events to occur. Perhaps we should consider it as an electromagnetic barrier instead. There is plenty of reason to suspect that a magnetic component of force is active along with the electric

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
Some in this list believe that spin coupling has a large impact upon the rate of LENR activity and there may well be other magnetic interactions associated with nano particles and their large local magnetic fields. I tend to think that these couplings are a key concept that needs to be

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread H Veeder
electromagnetic moat Harry On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:39 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: We hear so much chatter about the Coulomb barrier and how difficult it is to overcome for fusion events to occur. Perhaps we should consider it as an electromagnetic barrier instead.

RE: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
From: David Roberson We hear so much chatter about the Coulomb barrier and how difficult it is to overcome for fusion events to occur. Perhaps we should consider it as an electromagnetic barrier instead. There is plenty of reason to suspect that a magnetic component of force is active along

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
Thats a common mistake. We cannot reduce the Coulomb barrier. The static force fields are conserved and cannot be reduced in a two body problem. The static force field can, however, be bypassed by a force with longer range. The magnetic component of the strong nuclear force is called the spin

Fwd: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
-Original Message- From: fznidarsic fznidar...@aol.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Mar 25, 2014 1:00 pm Subject: Fwd: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier Nuclear physicists limit themselves to two bodied problems and don't seem to understand collective motions. Electrical

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
- Original Message - From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:31 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It seems odd that they would work toward

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- I think that the first step is to marry the reactor to an existing jet engine that could operate without the LENR boost. Once the reliability of the LENR is established then the technology could evolve into a LENR only power source. The redundancy would be desirable from a safety

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread David Roberson
I understand that a steady magnetic field can not add energy to a charged particle. It can redirect the velocity vector of that particle but can not directly add energy to it somewhat like the behavior of an electron beam that is bent by a magnetic field so that it moves against a fixed

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Rossi came up with his hot cat design pretty quick. It seems from my recollection that there was never a significant lead up to the announcement. Available bucks could have been the answer. Bob - Original Message - From: Jones Beene To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Dave-- You're preaching to the choir. Bob - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 8:39 AM Subject: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier We hear so much chatter about the Coulomb barrier and how difficult it is to overcome

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Now audio files of MIT meeting

2014-03-25 Thread Terry Blanton
Ruby's vids are showing up on her youtube channel. Two so far.

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Dave-- Is your concept of coherence changing? Frank is providing a cause for expanded scope (size) of coherence in my mind. Thanks Frank. Bob - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:28 AM Subject: Re:

RE: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
Good point Bob. BTW – as to further HotCat possibilities – how many remember one of the original drones which goes back 50 years ? … and which design could be notable for this thread since it was a ram-jet configuration. Only a few of the Lockheed D-21 were built. It would fly very high

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Now audio files of MIT meeting

2014-03-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ruby added some photos of Mizuno's slides: http://coldfusionnow.org/2014-cflanr-colloquium-at-mit-audio-files/ One of them says -- Summary: Excess Heat Produced excess heat * Using Nickel nano-particles and D2 gas * For over 1 month * Excess Heat = 75 Watt (COP = 1.9) * Excess Energy = 108 MJ

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Axil Axil
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.1593.pdf *Experimental study of the two-body spin-orbit force* This field is on the cutting edge of research. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Frank-- You noted: The magnetic component of the strong nuclear force is

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread David Roberson
Bob, I do not understand your question. I still believe that a large magnetic field is interacting with the individual small NAE in a manner that results in positive feedback among them. The actual manner in which this interaction occurs is evading me. As Frank indicated, a steady magnetic

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Jones: Jed, Ruby etal.-- Jones, as you point out the left out details are more important than what's presented in a paper. My experience is that this happens often in Science. In nuclear reactor design and operation as regulated by the NRC, leaving out information or knowledge from

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Ian Walker
Hi all I think Rossi's reference to Jet engines may be with regard to matters that came up in the NASA seedling presentation, particularly the Brayton Cycle. It took up a big chunk of the NASA report: http://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/SeedlingWELLS.pdf I think a cloak of

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Axil-- This is a great find--It appears there is not institution involved in this the United States! It must be nonsense if the Hot Fusion folks do not consider itSMILE. Everyone interested in LENR effects should read it. It is not too complicated. Bob - Original Message -

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
Imagine this. What if the magnetic component of the electromagnetic field was ignored. We would VanderGraphs, Winhurst motors, and fur rupped rods emitting jumping sparks. We would not have employed the very strong magnetic force. No generators, motors, electromagnets, or speakers would

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Dave- The note from Frank: The net effect is a growing field and energy release that work together. The growing field involves a larger volume and coupling for release of small packets of energy. Is this not a coherent system? The coherency occurs as a characteristic of a bigger and bigger

RE: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
From: Ian Walker I think Rossi's reference to Jet engines may be with regard to matters that came up in the NASA seedling presentation, particularly the Brayton Cycle. It took up a big chunk of the NASA report: http://nari.arc.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/SeedlingWELLS.pdf

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
No! I did not say this. I am speaking about the magnetic component of the strong nuclear force the spin orbit force. It is NOT electromagnetic, It does not attract metal. It flips nucleons. I only used the electromagnetic force in an analogy to show that the magnetic field conserves

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Alain Sepeda
note that in NASA presentation by Doug Wells, they mostly proposed Brayton cycle turbine (jet) and not Rankine (steam/ORC)... an engineer in turbines sould give his opinion here ... I know some don't like Stirling... 2014-03-25 15:50 GMT+01:00 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net: Here is

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: aero-porn Maybe a bit naive ... Current airport fueling systems could be removed

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread David Roberson
Bob Now I understand what you mean by a coherent system in this case. I tend to think of coherent systems in a different manner but can accept your definition. We seem to be in agreement that a large guiding magnetic field enables the long range coupling between NAE. I am still seeking how

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

2014-03-25 Thread mixent
In reply to Bob Cook's message of Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:49:12 -0700: Hi Bob, When a fast electron interacts with other electrons it does so through a repulsive force, and imparts energy to them through collisions, knocking them away from their host atoms, and leaving them with some kinetic energy.

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

2014-03-25 Thread MarkI-Zeropoint
Bob, et.al.: AFAIK = As Far As I Know -mark On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Bob Cook wrote: By the way what does AFAIK stand for? Bob

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Dave-- In the paramagnet materials like Ni and Pd an external magnetic field induces a much larger B field in the material. It is also aligned in one direction. An oscillating external magnetic field would change the B field in some way, increasing and decreasing it or reversing its

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

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
I should have guessed. Thanks Mark and Robin. You can tell I am an old timer. Bob - Original Message - From: MarkI-Zeropoint zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:My current views on the 'Rossi's process' Bob, et.al.:

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
The hot fusion people know that the spin orbit force is there. They consider it to be like the electromagnetic moment of the electron. Not of much use as its range is too short. They to not consider that the nuclear spin orbit force is not conserved and it can increase in range and strength

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Axil Axil
This area of coulomb screening begs the question about how and why screening happens. I say that the magnetic field affects the vacuum, what happens to the vacuum depends on how strong the magnetic field is. At its maximum intensity, an intense magnetic field will break the vacuum down and

RE: [Vo]:MIT Sunday Morning

2014-03-25 Thread George Holz
Alain Sepeda wrote: about the possibility that neutrons may be ignored because of coincidence, we should remind the unavoidable proof by the intern -if people survived beside LENR cells, even if there is no working neutron detector, they would be sick, if the branching ratio was usual free space

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

2014-03-25 Thread Lennart Thornros
Hello Robin, I am not good at magnetic forces and spin effect it is way above my paygrade. However, when reading your latest comment I saw your link and followed it. http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html I think this is a concept worthy as a starting point. I have no idea about where you

RE: [Vo]:MIT Sunday Morning

2014-03-25 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: George Holz One other point of interest. Tom Claytor's talk on Recent tritium production from electrically pulsed wires and foils showed the highest outputs when he used NiFe foils made for magnetic shielding applications. I think he mentioned Co-Netic material.

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread fznidarsic
The barrier is still there. Its like a rabbit trying to get over you garden fence. The barrier stops it. You just step over it because the length of your step exceeds that of the barrier. Over you go, no thump. The ONLY way the Coulomb barrier can be crossed without emitting radiation,the

Re: [Vo]:Electromagnetic Barrier

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Cook
Frank-- I am somewhat confused by this comment: I am speaking about the magnetic component of the strong nuclear force the spin orbit force. It is NOT electromagnetic, It does not attract metal. It flips nucleons. I only used the electromagnetic force in an analogy to show that the

[Vo]:Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners lunatic charlatans

2014-03-25 Thread Axil Axil
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/03/wikipedia-founder-calls-alt-medicine-practitioners-lunatic-charlatans/ Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners lunatic charlatansWales to activists who want new rules for Wikipedia: No, you have to be kidding me. Ars contacted Sanger about the

[Vo]:The prospects for LENR deployment

2014-03-25 Thread Axil Axil
There seems to be a confluence of events that provide LENR with an unprecedented opportunity to gain wide acceptance and deployment. Just as war simulated the initial development of nuclear energy, a new commercial and cold war between Russia and the West will stimulate the rapid deployment of

Re: [Vo]:The prospects for LENR deployment

2014-03-25 Thread David Roberson
I hope they do not resort to covert activity to prevent the deployment. This should not be initiated unless LENR devices begin to show up in large numbers. I suspect that the window will be relatively small and may not have any serious impact. After all, how much more effective can those

[Vo]:zoomable infrared color mosaic image of our entire galaxy, scanning all directions, 20,000 MPx data showing half the stars, viewable on Net: Rich Murray 2014.03.25

2014-03-25 Thread Rich Murray
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