Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Parkhomov starts with a 10mm OD alumina tube with a 5mm ID bore (so the wall of the tube is 2.5mm thick). He plugs both ends with an alumina rod and cement with the fuel inside. He hasn't said what cement he uses to hermetically seal the plugs in the tubing, but he does say that it is a hard

RE: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Jones Beene
Yes that is a probably too much thickness to see soft x-rays. However, if all of the excess energy, let’s say it is over a kilowatt - originates as soft x-rays, then that is a very intense flux, and moving the window progressively closer could turn up a signal which is statistically

RE: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Jones Beene
Ø Worth mentioning. If soft x-rays were being downshifted to visible light, this could account for some of the brightness observed in the photos of Lugano. Is the light emission more intense than it should be for an incandescent wire embedded in cement? If so the COP was even higher than

[Vo]:Fwd: Predictions 2015, I just saw more

2015-01-01 Thread Frank Znidarsic
1. There will be no commercial cold fusion products. The one predicted for this July will never materialize 2. There will be many more cold fusion papers. Frank Znidarsic will write one on the velocity of sound in the nucleus. Jones will not give it much credence. Frank will go to

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
Bob-- How does Parkhomov get a uniform thickness of alumina cement, whatever that is, between the 2.5mm alumina tube (reactor tube in previous correspondence) and the alumina dogbone with the electrical heater wires? It may be that I do not understand the physical arrangement of the various

[Vo]:Predictions 2015, I just saw more

2015-01-01 Thread Frank Znidarsic
1. There will be no commercial cold fusion products. The one predicted for this July will never materialize 2. There will be many more cold fusion papers. Frank Znidarsic will write one on the velocity of sound in the nucleus. Jones will not give it much credence. Frank will go to

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Parkhomov's alumina tube has a wall thickness of 2.5mm and then he has 4-8 mm of alumina cement on top of that. I don't think any 3.6keV photons, if produced in the reaction, would make it though that mass at a measurable level above background. Parkhomov uses an SI-8B pancake tube with a large

[Vo]:predictions 2015

2015-01-01 Thread Frank Znidarsic
1. There will be no commercial cold fusion products 2. There will be many more cold fusion papers. 3. Jed will get tired of cold fusion and start writing cell phone apps. He will use Android Studio to do this. 4. Horace Heffner will awake from hibernation and come back. 5. The stock

Re: [Vo]:Why smart people defend bad ideas

2015-01-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Yuko Ogura looks to be about 16. But according to Wikipedia she was born November 1, 1983, making her well over 30 years old. She still looks like jail bait to me. When was this song videoed? 2004. She was 21, going on 14. As

[Vo]:is lack of leadership our main problem?

2015-01-01 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Friends, I hope you have started the year 2015 well! I wrote this, a bit sketchy: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/01/lenr-needs-leaders.html My best greetings to you all! Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Having worked with STM in the past, I can tell you they are a high quality, high volume IC design and manufacturing company. I believe their primary interest is for self-powered ICs. I believe they are interested in LENR at a micron scale as block to put on future ICs for electrical power.

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- It is my understanding that the IR camera only judges temperature based on the spectrum AND intensity of the light coming from a unit area, the smaller that area the more accurate the local temperature determination. I think you are correct to assume some energy may not be captured by

RE: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Jones Beene
I doubt that STM could have obtained effective IP coverage, based on the very loose specifications in the wording of their document, unless they have added something at a later date. If they intended to use microlithography techniques for facilitating the formation of SPP layers, and they

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
Axil-- I bet that the US government has already accomplished those experiments at one or two of its better atomic labs. There may even be competion between labs to see who gets the answer first. I know such things have happened in the past. Bob - Original Message - From: Axil

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Nick
Does this have anything to do with this topic? http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/09/23/st-microelectronics-files-lenr-patent/ ST Microelectronics patent, (US20130243143), From the Patent; These technologies may include, in particular, deposition techniques and photolithographic techniques

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Nick
I’m way out of my zone of expertise here, as a speaker builder/designer, I am familiar with resonant frequencies of boxes, cavities, or spaces. Has the possibility that Rossi is optimizing the reactor design so the reactor cavity resonates at specific frequencies? Has this been considered?

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Jack Cole
According to the specs, it requires 24 hours to cure at room temperature. Do you think it is not hermetic because it's not capable of that, or because it wasn't cured? On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: The first attempt did use a Cotronics Resbond 919,

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
Thanks for that explanation. Bob - Original Message - From: Bob Higgins To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry Parkhomov starts with a 10mm OD alumina tube with a 5mm ID

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2015-01-01 Thread David Roberson
Can any information be gathered from the third party demonstration since they had to seal that device before the test run? Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Jan 1, 2015 12:39 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:The

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Axil Axil
If money was no object, I would be interested in two tests to be run on a successful dog bone reactor. Test 1 Take a complete temperature based spectral analisys of the light an RF coming from the dog bone in successful operation including emission and absorption lines Test 2 After a

Re: [Vo]:Re: The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2015-01-01 Thread Axil Axil
Doing science inside the dog bone can be like doing science inside another universe. There is no certainty that physics or chemistry works that same inside the dog bone as it does in the real world. Maybe different physical rules apply. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 4:07 PM, CB Sites cbsit...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
The first attempt did use a Cotronics Resbond 919, I think. These alumina cements are not hermetic. That's why glass frit seals are being examined - they are hermetic. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bob, I wonder about this Thermeez Ceramic putty.

Re: [Vo]:Re: The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2015-01-01 Thread CB Sites
Just doing a search, here is an article discussing hydrogen permeation of Alumina at high temperatures. http://www.academia.edu/7323157/GAS_PERMEATION_PROPERTIES_OF_HYDROGEN_PERMEABLE_MACROPOROUS_ALUMINA_CERAMIC_MEMBRANES_AT_HIGH_TEMPERATURE Of course this is about porous alumina membranes to

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Jack Cole
Hi Bob, I wonder about this Thermeez Ceramic putty. http://www.cotronics.com/catalog/51%20%20%207020%20%20901.pdf It cures at room temperature, so that removes the issue of hydrogen off gassing during curing. What I don't know is if it will be effective against holding in the hydrogen. I

[Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Jones Beene
The dogbone seems like a relatively simple reactor, but it could be rather complex in operation if it depends on SPP formation and positive feedback. SPP would be expected to form in two main places - the interface of the resistance wire with ceramic outside the tube, or also on the interior wall

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Axil Axil
As I have stated in another thread: Doing science inside the dog bone can be like doing science inside another universe. There is no certainty that physics or chemistry works that same inside the a functioning dog bone as it does in the real world. Maybe different physical rules apply. On Thu,

RE: [Vo]:Predictions 2015, I just saw more

2015-01-01 Thread Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson
I like Frank's predictions. I thought a lot of thought went into them. I wunder what Jed has to say about some of them. I have only one personal prediction I'd like to make a layman's stab at: . Before the end of 2015 Dr. Mills BLP's financial backers will reluctantly realize the

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in what keeps the Rossi micro powder from sintering/melting at high surface temperatures when the reactor is in operation. We call this weird behavior the melting miracle. This is an interesting question. If

[Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Axil Axil
The dry run MFMP dogbone test has indicated the existence of some very weird behavior in the Rossi dog bone experiment. The MFMP dog-bone reactor places a theromcoupe both at the core and on the outside of the reactor. These thermocouples in the MFMP test shows us that the core of the dog bone

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
Bob Higgins-- I agree with your evaluation of STM. I bought STM stock about a year ago as a speculation in LENR. Bob - Original Message - From: Bob Higgins To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
I think the size of the nano Ni is important in creating resonant conditions to support LENR reactions in a magnetic field. This may include cavity sizes. Bob - Original Message - From: Nick To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2015 6:06 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Cook
I would say the surrounding alumina is the seal that is important, and I do not think it is an hermetic seal. Its porosity allows some leakage, particularly at the temperatures of 1000 degrees C. Thermal stresses in non-ductile materials are bad when it comes to hermetic sealing. Glass which

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Axil Axil
There was a large amount of carbon in the element analysis of the fuel load. Could it be that Rossi used a organic sealant to stop hydrogen leakage? From the report: Besides the analyzed elements it has been found that the fuel also contains rather high concentrations of C, Ca, Cl, Fe, Mg, Mn

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Axil Axil
I think this is what you re saying using nano silver http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/131029/srep03066/full/srep03066.html?message-global=removeWT.ec_id=SREP-639-20131101 Airtight metallic sealing at room temperature under small mechanical pressure On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
I cannot claim to be a ceramic cement expert. Some cements are multiphase - they include a chemical bond to start, a glass phase that melts and bonds at higher temperature, and a ceramic forming phase that kicks in at at higher temperature still. Most are not intended to form a hermetic seal -

Re: [Vo]:Lithium aluminum thin film and the Kretschmann geometry

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Ceramics, including aluminas, that are proton conductors are intentionally doped in the grains with metals designed to provide a chemical transport of hydrogen ions through the body, primarily at the grain boundaries (as I understand it). The CoorsTek AD-998 alumina is not designed for proton