Re: [Vo]:A good analogy for nanomagnetism

2014-08-09 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I gather that the idea is that ... some kind of shell model [is involved]. Another analogy that might be relevant -- there could be different isotopes for protons and neutrons, e.g., bound states with differing numbers of quarks. Eric

Re: [Vo]:A good analogy for nanomagnetism

2014-08-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: That is CODATA. Of course, it is no less accurate than any of the others. Unfortunately, it is no more accurate either. How can it be when quarks have variable mass? Variability in the mass of the quark does not prevent an

Re: [Vo]:A good analogy for nanomagnetism

2014-08-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: ... the proton which will then constitute a normal proton again with 3 quarks. My recollection is that there are three valence quarks which contribute to the charge and spin of the proton, together with a multitude of sea

Re: [Vo]:Elon Musk needs LENR

2014-08-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: If Elon Musk wants to be buried on Mars surrounded by legends of vigorous and healthy pioneering stock ... Perhaps legions of vigorous and healthy pioneering stock? I doubt Elon Musk is aiming quite so high for what can be

Re: [Vo]:NASA Telescope Observes Signal That Can't Be Explained By Known Physics

2014-08-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: In the original article, the line at 3.5 keV, like all spectral lines is a very sharp peak, so sharp as to look like a straight line - as it should found that way in Mills’ theory. I thought that Mills's theory predicts

Re: [Vo]:NASA Telescope Observes Signal That Can't Be Explained By Known Physics

2014-08-07 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I'm reminded of how 1/137 somehow becomes the fine structure constant (=137.035,999,173(35)) in some people's minds. I guess for BLP's purposes, it does not matter. Sorry, that's supposed to be 1/137.035,999,173(35). Eric

Re: [Vo]:NASA Telescope Observes Signal That Can't Be Explained By Known Physics

2014-08-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: In fact, as should be apparent to Mills the radiation seen in several remote galaxies comes from such a great distance that it must be strongly red-shifted, by the time we get it - but RM proposes a value that is LESS than

Re: [Vo]:MARKOV? NOT REALLY// QUANTUM-Transition ENTANGLED sequential MATRIXs Principia is NON RANDOM

2014-08-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM, JackHarbach O'Sullivan alset9te...@gmail.com wrote: In light of this: Markovian Randomness is an absurdity. . . Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification. Eric

Re: [Vo]:2-New LENR Patent Applications via Alain Coetmeur

2014-08-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: *The at least one electron-donor material is selected from the group consisting of: Cs, Ba, Sr, Rb, Li, Na, Ca, K, Fr, Ra, in particular this electron-donor material is Cesium.* (From Piantelli's patent.) I'm not a fan of

Re: [Vo]:2-New LENR Patent Applications via Alain Coetmeur

2014-08-05 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: All of the metals above appear to have low work functions. What is meant by electron-donor in this context appears to be that they're hot cathodes. ... Also note that some of the metals in the list are radioactive, so they or their daughters will give off alphas or betas or fission

Re: [Vo]:Yoshino @ MIT

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Since Yoshino did include slides showing the neutron cross-section of Ni58, the implication is that neutrons have been seen. I think the slides showing the neutron-cross section were hinting at the class of

Re: [Vo]:Yoshino @ MIT

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Two things. Deuterium stripping – if that is one of the operative gain mechanisms would still release lots of neutrons to be detected external to the reactor. Notice that the nickel cross-section for neutrons is basically

Re: [Vo]:Galactic Bubbles

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
Jack, Do you use a Markov Chain-based generator? Eric On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:17 PM, JackHarbach O'Sullivan alset9te...@gmail.com wrote: * * * EINSTEIN'S EPIPHANY ILLUSTRATED:TACHYONIC SUPER-FLUID Transdimensional Relativity EPIPHANY. . . . TACHYONIC SUPER-FLUID is

Re: [Vo]:Yoshino @ MIT

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Maybe it is, as the slides have a purpose - but I doubt that it can be the end-of-story, because even if it is true and the other four ways to disintegrate the deuteron are absent, O-P does not explain the doubling of gas

Re: [Vo]:Yoshino @ MIT

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Slide 47 shows a significant difference. A qualitative increase is seen in M/e=2 species in both the excess heat run and the control on both slides 46 and 47. We only have two trials, so we don't have a sense of what the

Re: [Vo]:Important finding for nanomagnetism LENR

2014-08-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:29 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am asking these questions in an attempt to determine the quantum step energy levels associated with spin coupling. When I think of nuclear spin coupling, I think of a nucleus with different energy levels. Each level

Re: [Vo]:Can the Hydrino explain excess heat in NiH and PdD systems?

2014-08-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I find it difficult to understand a situation where a multi-million dollar company can exist and prosper for a quarter century without the development of a single commercially viable product... Here in California some

Re: [Vo]:Yoshino @ MIT

2014-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: 1) Deuterium does not convert into helium Never since the advent of Bacon and the scientific method did a single experiment or set of experiments overturn a whole body of previous *experimental* results. When there's a

Re: [Vo]:Yoshino @ MIT

2014-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I have a few observations that are not being discussed here (and I may be missing something) from the slides from the MIT Colloquium. - *The report for the control experiment with no excess heat also showed the

Re: [Vo]:Important finding for nanomagnetism LENR

2014-08-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Interesting article. A quote: Recently, however, scientists at University of Strasbourg, France have proposed that this limitation can be addressed by using miniaturized ferromagnetic electrodes to create powerful

Re: [Vo]:Mills hydrinos is not LENR

2014-08-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: We need to distinguish between “nuclear” and “fusion.” The is little evidence of a fusion reaction in any form of LENR, sorry to say, but yes, the gain is nuclear, in the sense of nuclear mass being converted into energy in

Re: [Vo]:Mills hydrinos is not LENR

2014-08-01 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: In PdD and NiH, fast alphas and protons. Make that, In PdD and NiH, fast protons. Fast alphas have also been seen, but to my knowledge not in NiH systems. Eric

[Vo]:Wired: Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive

2014-07-31 Thread Eric Walker
See: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive Eric

Re: [Vo]:Wired: Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive

2014-07-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: NASA has reportedly confirmed an effect of reactionless acceleration with Poher’s device ... I have to hand it to groups at NASA for being relatively independent of the opinion of the physics mainstream. Apparently there

Re: [Vo]:The Little Engine That Could

2014-07-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Steve High diamondweb...@gmail.com wrote: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Free_Energy_Blog:2014:07:28#SHT_provides_video_of_hydrogen_production_during_TRC_3rd-party_test Note that the nuclear binding energy of oxygen is ~ 7.7 MeV (the amount you would need to

Re: [Vo]:Heat dissipation is a MINOR engineering issue in the Suncell.

2014-07-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:57 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: A magnifying glass appears to reduce the effective area by a relatively large amount, although I suspect the concentration is much less that 10,000 to one. It would be easy to believe that the linear size of the

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: One solution could be that there exists another QM theory for hydrinos only, they could simply be a new particle in QM speak or perhaps utilzing some new force or whatnot. Thats it and especially when we

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Try Bechtel/Kresge. You do not need a visitors card there and they have most of the good Journals. Good tip -- I'll take a look. With the guest card I have, I can log onto the Berkeley campus-wide journal site, download

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Mills spectral evidences is pretty thorough and I can't understand that if true, it came from some other mysterious process. Perhaps it would help if we could move beyond generalizations and get concrete.

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: there is critiques stemming from not believing in hydrinos because the feel they must give up on QM, which perhaps is not true. Perhaps hydrinos and QM are not incompatible; for example, maybe they're

Re: [Vo]:Heat dissipation is a MINOR engineering issue in the Suncell.

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Jojo Iznart jojoiznar...@gmail.com wrote: With the hydrino explosion reportedly with 10,000 suns concentration ... I have been trying to get a sense of what 10,000 suns would look like in the lab. I can only imagine it would be bright. I tried to get some

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-29 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I've always been a little uncomfortable with the way the testing done on behalf of BLP at Harvard-Smithsonian CfA is characterized. What I need to come clean with is that I've been a little unfair, here. Because it turns out that the University of California at Berkeley has provided

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Mike Carrell mi...@medleas.com wrote: Arc welders commonly flood t ears wit argon, a cheap inert gas, to avoid oxidation of the metal before it cools. Ionized argon has served as a catalyst in earlier gas phase experiments, but it plays no part in the SunCell.

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Mike Carrell mi...@medleas.com wrote: That light was observed at BLP and confirmed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I've always been a little uncomfortable with the way the testing done on behalf of BLP at Harvard-Smithsonian CfA is

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-28 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: spectroscopy at Harvard CfA showed evidence (and several possible artifacts) of continuum radiation in the 10-30 nm range from low-energy ... There is a further lack of clarity as to the employer of the spectropists. Were they GEN3 subcontractors with no affiliation to Harvard CfA

Re: [Vo]:New Interview w/ Dr. Brian Ahern of MFMP

2014-07-27 Thread Eric Walker
This is great. Note the accumulated charge of pure, life-enhancing energy ... [radiated] into the environment along a plane perpendicular to the direction of flow. Vortex is the wacky overunity devices study group. I did not expect such things to become a personal hobby, or to take such

Re: [Vo]:New Interview w/ Dr. Brian Ahern of MFMP

2014-07-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I am anonymous and as such I avoid the complications and the pitfalls of ego and reputation. Whatever Ed says about me does not stick. Perhaps you are anonymous. But you have left a trail of breadcrumbs as to your identity

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Jul 27, 2014, at 9:51, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I don't really understand what you mean by strong Coulomb field in the background. I'm thinking of a gradient of Coulomb charge off to the side of the oncoming d's which is sufficient to polarize them as they approach

Re: [Vo]:Spin coupling of DDL to 62Ni

2014-07-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: http://iccf15.frascati.enea.it/ICCF15-PRESENTATIONS/S8_O2_Cook.pdf If you have nothing better to do this weekend, here is a 71 page paper which Rossi says gives a correct explanation of gain with Ni-H. I do not have the

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: When you speak of the plasma fusion output channels, I like to think of it in a Bohr-sian way. Presuming plasma, you have isolated deuterium nuclei, with each nucleus spinning around random vectors. When a pair

Re: [Vo]:Is the SunCell a titanium burner?

2014-07-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Are you saying calorimeter measurements can measure sunlilght, UV and soft X-Rays? I didn't think that was the case. Any electromagnetic radiation at these energies that is stopped within the

Re: [Vo]:Wave Powered Design for less than $200/kw

2014-07-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Jojo Iznart jojoiznar...@gmail.com wrote: My design consists of deploying wave powered small pumps. Each pump cost less than $15.. I plan to deploy around 10,800 such pumps to generate between 1.4MW to 5MW of electricity depending on the intensity of the

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't Graneau basically using acoustic principles to time his pulses and engineer their intensity to break atomic bonds -- thereby producing his exploding water? Maybe. I don't have an opinion on whether the water arc

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Why focus on the Coulomb field? Focus on the intense magnetic fields that can polarize nuclei parallel and antiparallel and cause them to spin in harmony. Transfer of mass via spin energy is possible, although it is

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: What happens in the endothermic energy case where energy is delivered to enable the reaction. I'm not sure. Perhaps the force of the incident beam is strong enough to give rise to endothermic reactions that would otherwise

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things about Hagelstein's proposition that bothers me is that the excited nucleus does not want to stay excited for very long - it decays in an incredibly short time. Suppose you are de-exciting a dd* that

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: The strong force is like fly paper - it is so short range (fraction of a nucleon diameter), you have to essentially touch before sticking. So you end up with 3 possibilities of this close approach: ... I used to

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Hagelstein has never been able to find a physical model for his contention, not even one which is remotely close - and it is amazing that he has not thrown in the towel on a losing battle. It simply does not happen in the

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Even a year ago I was persuaded that there must be some kind of high-energy gamma downconversion at play ... Just to clarify -- I do think the full energy of a nuclear transition, when there is one, is being dissipated to the environment, but not through some kind of harmonic

Re: [Vo]:Microwave Transmutation/Blue Eagle Refiners

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Brad Lowe ecatbuil...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms411WCBEZk Is he creating magnetic carbon, or is it fusion? http://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/news/magnetic-carbon/ The article talks about how proton irradiation can make carbon

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: What parameter is limiting the downshift exactly? Ahern has speculated that ferromagnetic collective modes, first explored by Ulam, are at play in LENR. These systems tend to amplify the vibratory modes of a system and then

Re: [Vo]:Karabut and soft x-rays

2014-07-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I posted this on another thread recently. Yes -- I saw that. What you write is interesting. I am still acquainting myself with the relevance of Luttinger liquids, and I'm no fan of BECs in the context of LENR,

Re: [Vo]:Review of Ed Storms book: The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: Yes, data is missing, but there is also ALOT of data available, too. Unfortunately, it is difficult to even agree on what the facts are! Like you mention, it's difficult even to agree on what the facts are. Certainly on this list.

Re: [Vo]:Review of Ed Storms book: The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: What does a near-zero K temperature phenomenon have to do with LENR or the price of wheat? You are talking about a BEC of Rydberg atoms. That BEC is very heavy and can only happen at low temperatures. A BEC of Zero mass or

Re: [Vo]:the fly in the ointment

2014-07-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The most flexible explanation of the LENR reaction is one that entails a powerful bolt of energy impacting on an unspecified but variable pile of atoms that result in any sort of recombination of any number of protons and

Re: [Vo]:Review of Ed Storms book: The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction

2014-07-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If his theory were accurate, there should be plenty of tritium formation in Ni-H. Lots more than is seen. d + p → 3He + ɣ (as seen in scattering experiments) d + n → t + ɣ Are you thinking of 3He? If Ed Storms is

Re: [Vo]:Review of Ed Storms book: The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction

2014-07-22 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Are you thinking of 3He? If Ed Storms is right, and deuterium is being produced in an NiH system, then one might expect 3He from proton capture afterwards (assuming a lot of assumptions). In Ed's hydroton theory, there's no clear reason that neutrons would be involved. Nevermind.

Re: [Vo]:Review of Ed Storms book: The Explanation of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction

2014-07-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: I really like how Ed's theory fits PdD, and you may be right about the more exotic elements of NiH, but lets face it, we don't have much solid experimental work to pull from in NiH. I look forward to reading Ed's book. It

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: I'm curious about one thing. What is it about Mills' orbitspheres that you don't like. Keep in mind I don't understand the math involved. My difficulties start with the shape. I understand an

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The University testing was done with X-rays ... which would serve to reinflate the fractional species. I have heard some proponents claim that hydrinos are the basis of dark matter. If hydrinos can be reinflated with

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly, CQM refers to normal quantum mechanics, which is to be contrasted with hydrinos. Actually, it refers to Randell's unique hybridization of S(tandard)QM and the concept of an orbitsphere ...

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Mike Carrell mi...@medleas.com wrote: Good news for Eric: he doesn’t have to pay $789 for GUTCP. It is available as a free download from the website, like most of Mills’ initial postings. For the 90 journal papers a fee is charged by the journal publishers for

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Sadly, the CQM vs SQM debate, (and now possibly the LENR debate as well, if you get your way) is degenerating into a political battle to protect entrenched pet theories. For me the motivation

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: If BLP can close the loop, well then... maybe... just maybe something like hydrinos do exist in this wacky universe of ours. His closing the loop will not necessarily be evidence for the

Re: [Vo]:Mills' Interview

2014-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: http://pesn.com/2014/07/12/9602517_Landmark-Interview_ with_Randell-Mills_Blacklight-Power/ From the PESN article above: Randell said that the engineering firms they are consulting with say that there are no

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:02 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I hope that the expected report about Rossi's device will clarify the issue. The nuclear ash is critical to our understanding. I too hope it will clarify the issue. I doubt it will shed much light on the PdD system,

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: This is not a fair characterization from a technical standpoint. We can trust the calorimetry – which is the more important detail by far. The 4He measurements have been important in establishing PdD LENR specifically as

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: How much would you bet on helium produced from alpha decay? No specific amount -- the 700 would include all possible sources of 4He: dd fusion, alpha decay, etc. I'm not wedded to PdD LENR being dd fusion, per se. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's competitive analisys

2014-07-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed that the bloggers on Vortex-l are discussing internal conversion through electron capture as a possible LENR producer. The recent thread about internal conversion was asking whether there as a way to quickly

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's competitive analisys

2014-07-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I have noticed that the bloggers on Vortex-l are discussing internal conversion through electron capture as a possible LENR producer. The recent

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In terms of LENR. why is it important to have the spin of the nucleus affect the elections? ... IMHO, the spin of the nucleus must be 0 for LENR to occur in that nucleus. Moving spin from the nucleus to the elections gains

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:27 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Jones makes a good argument that it is unlikely to eliminate all of the gammas and I suspect he is correct. The argument, which says that even if you obtain 99.9 percent efficiency, you would still see a large number

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Aren’t you completely misinterpreting what this article states in trying to shoehorn it in LENR? The article does indeed talk about an effect of one or two electrons on the spin of a nucleus (or nucleon), rather than the

Re: [Vo]:Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: As best I can tell from online sources, the storage metal used in this Hydrofill cartridge is known as proprietary AB5, but in reality is the generic hydrogen storage alloy- LaNi5 which is lanthanum penta-nickel. Whoa...

Re: [Vo]:Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-08 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Note also that lanthanum oxide has a work function that makes it a hot cathode [1]. The possible use of lanthanum hexaboride as the catalyst in the Hot Cat was noted in an earlier thread. To add to this, perhaps the reason it would serve as a catalyst would be that under heating it

Re: [Vo]:understanding the relationship between internal conversion and the far field

2014-07-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:41 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: You can get an idea of this from the HUP where delta E x delta t = h_bar/2. If delta E is the energy of the reaction (about 4 MeV), then you get a time of at least 8E-23 sec. (I think this is the way it is normally calculated.) In

[Vo]:understanding the relationship between internal conversion and the far field

2014-07-06 Thread Eric Walker
I'm in the process of trying to better understand internal conversion and it's cross section vis-a-vis inner shell electrons and sources of charge in the far field. I'm hoping someone (Robin?) can help me to get the terminology right and point me to further reading. Here is my understanding so

Re: [Vo]:understanding the relationship between internal conversion and the far field

2014-07-06 Thread Eric Walker
Interesting proposal, Jones. I'll have to think about it. Thanks for the pointer to the paper. On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If Mizuno is correct we could add a fourth pathway for the dd reaction in LENR. That would be p+p+p+p. It is not clear if this

Re: [Vo]:understanding the relationship between internal conversion and the far field

2014-07-06 Thread Eric Walker
Are there any textbooks you can recommend that touch on some of these areas in some detail? Eric On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:41 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 5 Jul 2014 23:28:13 -0700: Hi Eric, [snip] Here's where my understanding starts to get fuzzy.

Re: [Vo]:understanding the relationship between internal conversion and the far field

2014-07-06 Thread Eric Walker
reaction is not a one reaction fit all solution.” The paper cited above fits Axil’s wish. Jed identified these JCF proceedings as available at: *http://www.jcfrs.org/file/jcf14-proceedings.pdf* http://www.jcfrs.org/file/jcf14-proceedings.pdf Bob Sent from Windows Mail *From:* Eric

Re: [Vo]:A complicated vacuum

2014-07-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:39 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: That the estimates for the time taken in the Sun vary between 1 17 years, then this tells me that such estimates are not on a very sound footing. If the difference is a factor of 17 for a constant star like the Sun, then I'm

Re: [Vo]:A complicated vacuum

2014-07-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:51 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The delay is caused by the photons trying to fight their way through the plasma and gas. Even after the explosion has taken place, some of them still have to fight their way through the expanding plasma cloud ... Note also that in a

Re: [Vo]:Software collision experiment

2014-06-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway how to interpret the electron as a ball going around or really a field is not yet proved even to date. If you look at Mills theory, the electron is a spherical electron charge, so If he is right,

Re: [Vo]:Software collision experiment

2014-06-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Jun 29, 2014, at 14:14, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, mills theory and QED is pretty close in calculating quantities for the hydrogen's atom. They must be dual or approx. Dual. I doubt they are dual. The electron shell model says that with increasing

Re: [Vo]:Software collision experiment

2014-06-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: My thought is the following, if the proton hit the hydrogen atom fast enough the electron field does not adapt fast enough and I would assume that the picture is like a bullet penetrating a shield. Here the

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: it sure looks to me like the protons and neutrons in the input material are being chopped up, blended together, and reformed into a wide range of both light and heavy output elements. ... For example, in the Mizuno reaction,

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The conundrum is that neutrons are NEVER seen in LENR reactions. How can isotopes change without the presence of neutrons, The total lack of neutrons is an important dot to be connected. Yes -- good point. I'm thinking not

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: stripping implies a multiple reaction mechanism where one neutron produced in the first reaction is used by a second reaction. ... We would expect to see loads of free neutrons floating around waiting for the second reaction

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: In the O-P process what disrupts the glueon bonding of the neutron to the proton to allow their separation? It does not happen very often given the concentration of D in the universe. My best guess (perhaps not even a

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Charge density is limited by the Pauli exclusion principle. In order for a load of electrons to concentrate, electron charge must be delocalized. Yes -- I take back my remark about charge density. It is probably higher

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The lack of gamma specks against the Phillips process. The thermalization of the ejected proton would produce gamma radiation which would not be suppressed by the initial LENR reaction. Ego, the Phillips reaction is not a

Re: [Vo]:A new barrier to overcome

2014-06-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great if we could find one mechanism that provides the total set of transmutation produces seen in LENR. ... The Philips reaction is not a one reaction fit all solution. Agreed. The data do not match simple

Re: [Vo]:Say it ain't so, Joe

2014-06-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a little disappointed, but as Daniel and others have suggested, at the very least, this seems to suggest that nuclear levels of excess heat have been measured yet again. Why bother with delaying the report for the sake

Re: [Vo]:Say it ain't so, Joe

2014-06-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: E-Cat world reporting another delay from the TIP testers... I feel that someone should volunteer to write a Vortex beerhall song. We can while away the time to the TIP report by loudly singing the song and clinking beer

Re: [Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:29 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: However a good chunk of the improvement is consumed by the fact that many more UV photons need to be emitted than gamma photons, because the energy is much lower. This is a common strategy in the computer industry these days --

Re: [Vo]:Gamma downshifting

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: The main challenge I've seen so far presented to the attempted explanation in the second type of reaction, where instead of the emission of a gamma we see photons and phonons result, is the question of why something similar wouldn't happen in a radioactive isotope in a metal. I guess

Re: [Vo]:answering the naysayers # 2

2014-06-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: An anapole magnetic field is projected from the entangled and coherent SPP soliton which acts remotely to irradiate multiple target nuclei for transmutation. These target nuclei could be the hydrogen atoms confined in a

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away... to spin or not to spin.

2014-06-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121221233120.htm The 500 phases of matter: New system successfully classifies symmetry-protected phases This example is just one of the 500. This reminds me of the following

Re: [Vo]:Don Hotson has passed away

2014-06-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: That Wiki “report” sounds fishy to me. I sounds like hearsay. I agree. One link in the Wikipedia article that talked about isotopes was to Ethan Seigel's sloppy piece attempting to discredit the E-Cat, and the other was

Re: [Vo]:Superconductors up to 77 Celsius (170F, 350K)

2014-06-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Joe Eck, who is the Jed Rothwell of HTSC - has this theory listed on his site as “PWD theory”. http://www.superconductors.org/pwtheory.htm I suspect he's not the Jed Rothwell of HTSC, but instead perhaps the John Rohner

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