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

2014-06-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.superconductors.org/News.htm I am please to be the first to post that Superconductors.ORG reports high Tc has been advanced to 77 Celsius (170F, 350K) Who are Superconductors.ORG? It seems that they have made

Re: [Vo]:LENr debate on scienceforum.net

2014-06-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/83658-low-energy-nuclear-reactions-cold-fusion-thread-hijack-split/ If serious people with good reference can participate Note the hijack in the original URL (

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-06-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I believe it is fair to say that in quantum mechanics probabilities actually exist in the physical sense (assuming the theories are correct). This is the predominant interpretation of quantum mechanics, but one that is

Re: [Vo]:Low cost minimal Rossi-effect experiment

2014-06-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The first big issue is the catalysts. ... the reaction with carbon monoxide creates tetra-carbonyl nickel, which is highly toxic. Copper is illegal because of the formation of dioxin. In light of these points about

Re: [Vo]:Low cost minimal Rossi-effect experiment

2014-06-08 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: In light of these points about tetra-carbonyl nickel and dioxin, the hobbyist attempting to carry out an experiment involving a reaction between H and nickel adsorbed onto the surface of a catalytic converter should be careful about dealing with the offgas, especially if copper turns

Re: [Vo]:An article more documented than usual on Cold Fusion early hisory

2014-06-06 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: My impression of the field is that it has become a little rarified, and its practitioners are tangled up in debates not unlike those of rabbinical scholars. To these debates I should also add those of Islamic theologians and medieval schoolmen (i.e., nothing specific to rabbinical

Re: [Vo]:An article more documented than usual on Cold Fusion early hisory

2014-06-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Danny Ross Lunsford antimatte...@yahoo.com wrote: the people who ignored it or actively blocked it and suppressed its researchers are exposed for the charlatans they are. Their record will be empty string theory, vapid cosmology, multidimensional hallucinations,

Re: [Vo]:eCat Portfolio

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: be sure all the people will consider cold fusion as a black swan event, while it is predictable in principle since 1990, and more or less planned since 2010. I think the spread of cold fusion will be a black swan

Re: [Vo]:An emerging diproton plus halo hypothesis

2014-06-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: However, the MRI absorption and emission of energy may not be called EM radiation the way you are using the term. Nevertheless MRI does entail nuclear emission of low energy quanta IMHO I'm wading into a thread that I

Re: [Vo]:eCat Portfolio

2014-05-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote: If we decide the report is fully credible and those graphs make historical highs, I think that's a good time to short. I'm less confident on getting the timing right for a breakout development than you. Even if

Re: [Vo]:eCat Portfolio

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote: Start shorting any of the alt energy plays. The challenge with short selling is when to start? Immediately? A few weeks or months after news of cold fusion is starting to spread? (Note that rumors already appear

Re: [Vo]:eCat Portfolio

2014-05-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***What rumors are those? Is this the same X prize popularity contest that I submitted was exactly the same as my FQXI essay about the LENR incentive prize? I had in mind this quote from a link you shared [1] two

Re: [Vo]:BlackLight's Second Test of Automated Ignition System

2014-05-28 Thread Eric Walker
What I don't get is how this footage would impress anyone. Perhaps my lack of appreciation is due to my lack of knowledge. No doubt if you're an expert at microcalorimetry and allied fields, you would know, on the basis of your extensive experience, merely from seeing and hearing this footage,

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:52 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: (However if you include the Ni mass in the energy density calculation and assume 1 H/Ni, then you get about 21640 eV / H atom which is beginning to stretch the friendship a bit.) Do your calculations make assumptions about the

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli's recent EU patent

2014-05-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:09 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I think my main takeaway from Piantelli's patents is that he's seeing sufficient fast protons (e.g., in his cloud chamber) to put up the cost of a patent application to capitalize on them. I would be surprised if they are the primary

Re: [Vo]:Anomalous heat production validated by a Young Dude

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: I do not think you could detect this, even with the best mass spectrometer and a tightly sealed cell. Helium is ubiquitous and after strenuous efforts to remove it, the background would probably be far higher than the

[Vo]:Piantelli's recent EU patent

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Walker
I just read through Piantelli's recent EU patent: http://www.google.com/patents/EP2368252B1?cl=en It was an interesting read. The publication date on the patent is January 16, 2013, and it was given priority on November 24, 2008. I don't know whether you'd refer to it as Piantelli's 2008 EU

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli's recent EU patent

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: There is a detail in the middle of the description that was unclear -- the patent seems to be saying that there is an energy release through mass defect *before* the proton is ejected, as though the electrons in the H- ion are somehow being consumed. I'm not sure what Piantelli has

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli's recent EU patent

2014-05-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: This is a waste of time. The fast protons lose most of their energy ionizing surrounding atoms. Only one in thousands will undergo a further nuclear reaction. Thus the original reaction must be seen as the primary energy generating

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If we must choose between the two major non-nuclear hypothetical sources for power density in LENR – some version of the Dirac sea (ZPE) seems to beat out electron shrinkage by a country mile ... I rather like the imagery

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:52 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I assume that by 10E7 you actually mean 1E7 , i.e. 10 million ;). Yes -- it would be nice for my argument if it were 10E7, but really it's 1E7. :) (However if you include the Ni mass in the energy density calculation and assume 1

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:52 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: (Still not impossible, as the maximum energy you can get from Hydrinos is 137^2 x 13.6 eV ~= 255 keV (actually precisely half an electron mass) from each Hydrogen atom.) This is to full redundancy? I think there's an effect that is

Re: [Vo]:Interview with the CEO of Defkalion

2014-05-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In procurement of systems, it is the buyer's responsibility to do due diligence: This argument seems to be a different one than one in which DGT is held to be basically sound but misunderstood. In this line of reasoning, it

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: In consideration of the recent posting regarding converting light into mass, the upper limit of energy density is set by the speed of light at 2.5 x 10^13 Wh/kg. Although the scientists have not actually converted

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: For instance, relativistic electron pumping via Dirac mechanics would not be nuclear. Is this a Dirac sea mechanism? Aside from a nuclear source, we have as possibilities f/H shrinkage, something coming out of the Dirac

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Since many observers seem wedded to a fusion scenario, despite the lack of any relevant indicia of a nuclear reaction, this insight from Cyril may be limited to those on the fringe of the fringe. There is at least one

Re: [Vo]:Cyril Smith Paper may have relevance to LENR

2014-05-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If you think about that logically for a while, you will probably realize that your conclusion is false for reasons related to the incompleteness of the chart. Far from the conclusion that the location on the Ragone chart

Re: [Vo]:An emerging diproton plus halo hypothesis

2014-05-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Instead, the diproton plus halo explanation sees EUV coming from electrogravitational collapse of transient halo neutrons into a diproton core. Is gravity integral to this halo neutron explanation? Eric

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Europe (DE) was a joint venture

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: They were the ones who insisted that Gamberale set up the system that way. When he tried to install additional equipment to confirm the flow rate, they ordered it removed without discussion. They stopped him from doing

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:10 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I agree, however I think the claim was that they do lose a significant portion of their own mass, though I'm not at all clear on how that is supposed to happen. This is how I understand Ed's theory. The mass-energy that is converted

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Europe (DE) was a joint venture

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It Defkalion did not prevent these tests, I think it is up to them to publish a statement explaining why the tests were not done until after ICCF18. Let them tell their version of the story. If they do not respond, I

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear isomer

2014-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:57 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: If your description of the process is accurate then one must assume that the nucleons become attracted and bound to each other as the fusion progresses. Personally, I do not set much store in Ed's theory. I'm no

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-05-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: Then are we now adding the condition that the temperature needs to be above 800C in order to determine that Rossi is real??? I was addressing the question of whether a Stirling engine would be necessary or useful; I was

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-05-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: ***Does that mean you think it's a 51% probability that Rossi is real? I don't know if I can quantify the feeling with so much precision. I'm on the fence about the underlying premises of prediction markets. Perhaps

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion looked promising at first

2014-05-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: I called Alexander Xanthoulis and asked for a comment. He didn’t dispute the result of the report but pointed out that the calorimetric set-up at the Milan demo was not made by Defkalion but by Mose. Gamberale confirmed

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-05-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: From many experts in engine I've heard that stirling engine are not a realistic solution... If the temperature of a device approaches 8-900 C, as seen in the Elforsk test, a simple steam engine should be adequate. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Blockbuster Big Bang Result May Fizzle, Rumor Suggests

2014-05-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:57 AM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2014/05/blockbuster-big-bang-result-may-fizzle-rumor-suggests From the article: Part of the problem is that the Planck team has not made the raw foreground data available, he says.

Re: [Vo]:Kudos to Jed

2014-05-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: We have to be careful. Without regard to DGT, specifically, I think there is a recurring lesson here. In the LENR and free energy fields, more than any other fields I have followed, there is a certain type of amped-up

Re: [Vo]:Nickel and Palladium prices

2014-05-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: if deuterium works well with nickel electrodes, as Mizuno indicates - then why would anyone want to pay hundreds of times more for palladium? Perhaps for the tritium. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

2014-05-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.comwrote: Decreasing the probability to 35% based on shattering news of the Defkalion demo being completely worthless. I hesitate to say it, but It almost sounds like fraud is being implied.

Re: [Vo]:Vector Potential Wave Radio

2014-05-11 Thread Eric Walker
Stewart, I have glanced at your web site. I have not taken a close look at your research, but I would not be surprised if you ended up being onto something about doppler radar being a source of hypoxia, oxygen free radicals and the death of nearby animal and plant life. You also have a theory

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:nice essay Jed

2014-05-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: This photo is based on a piece of core from one of Roger Stringham’s sono-fusion devices. You are failing for this propaganda that Brillouin energy is using to support their theory. This is BS. I have heard from someone

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:nice essay Jed

2014-05-10 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I have heard from someone who has done business with Brillouin in the past that one should be wary of the claims they make. I should add that I do not know the person well and cannot vouch for the accuracy of the claim of having done business with Brillouin, so take this detail for

Re: [Vo]:A different use for your brain

2014-05-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:05 AM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Proessor Roger Bowley unlocks his car from various distances, using waves from his key, brain and a big bottle of water. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uqf71muwWc Nice. Professor Bowley: The only way to find [about

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:nice essay Jed

2014-05-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, helium is not hydrogen, but still, it does indicate there is trapped gas. For palladium and deuterium, where we know 4He is produced, 4He is immobile in bulk palladium, while deuterium will escape over time.

Re: [Vo]:nice essay Jed

2014-05-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: If Ed is right and the reaction occurs only at the surface, then there would be rapid exchange with hydrogen in the water. What I do not understand about that hypothesis is: Why is high loading important, in that case?

Re: [Vo]:Electron Repulsion Versus Distance

2014-05-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2001/0040434.html I assume you are familiar with Lawrence Nelson's patents in regard to screened electrons. Here is a copy of the patent with less moving images:

Re: [Vo]:Electron Repulsion Versus Distance

2014-05-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:56 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: One observation that appears valid is that electrons certainly occur in pairs around nuclei. This is an interesting thought. But note that the electrons in shells around a nucleus are probably not in pairs due to some

Re: [Vo]:Oxygen to hydrogen?

2014-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Steve High diamondweb...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't that be a rather endothermic procedure? If you could get a process going that efficiently splits oxygen nuclei into protons (and neutrons), Robin's calculations suggest the device would make a fantastic freezer.

Re: [Vo]:Ever-vigilant Wikipedia editors

2014-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be darned. They have a page for Mizuno, and one for the ICCF conferences too. The ICCF page was there years ago but someone deleted it. It is back. The ICCF page was put up for deletion a year or so ago. I voted

Re: [Vo]:Is the CMB leakage from Dirac's Sea?

2014-04-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: A thought just came to me while considering alternate explanations for the CMB. Another thought -- we assume that because conservation of energy is borne out experimentally on the local scale that it also applies to the

Re: [Vo]:World of Warcraft Macros

2014-04-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That is a stupid thing for a politician to say. Most elections are close. That means half the voters are Democrats. A politician should never insult voters. The method of some politicians and radio show hosts is to

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC iRobot Ava 500 virtual presence robot

2014-04-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Someday there will be a meeting at which everyone attending is embodied by one of these things. People will wonder why they did not simply make it a fully electronic. My guess is that these things will never be

[Vo]:Gmail continuing to mark some Vortex messages as spam

2014-04-26 Thread Eric Walker
Just a heads up that Gmail continues to move some Vortex messages to the spam folder. If you use Gmail, an easy way to find them is to go to the spam folder and search for Vortex. Nearly everything in the results will be legitimate Vortex mail. I suspect the filter they're using to send

Re: [Vo]:[OT] But not entirely: Book: CAPITAL in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty

2014-04-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:05 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: A book recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/067443000X/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1398126885sr=1-1keywords=capital+in+the+twenty-first+century

Re: [Vo]:RE: Co-Netic AA and the Dirac sea

2014-04-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: … and given the recent Mizuno results – where a former proponent of helium is now (effectively) recanting - we may be seeing a major change in outlook. I did not read that into Mizuno's recent slides. I doubt he is

Re: [Vo]:Blood Moon rising

2014-04-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ... this bone-headed RD that Dutch virologists have been doing (also reported recently): http://www.vox.com/2014/4/12/5605950/why-did-scientists-just-make-bird-flu-m ore-contagious One concern I have is about what bath

Re: [Vo]:Thermal inertia

2014-04-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:43 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I hope this short description of how I model the ECAT operation helps to clarify the process. If you have additional questions please feel free to ask. When you were modeling the thermodynamics of the reaction, did

Re: [Vo]:Lewan describes Rossi's many failed tests

2014-04-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I do not trust Rossi's evaluations of his own work. I only trust independent verification. Fortunately, there have been some good independent verification test, by Ampenergo, Elforsk, and others. According

Re: [Vo]:Lewan book

2014-04-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: What’s good for the goose is also good for the gander. ... you may also be at risk of being an another tool of Defkalian’s maskirovka. Where do you get these idioms and turns of phrase? If there is a good Web site out there,

Re: [Vo]:Lewan book

2014-04-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: This is not true. That's what I can say. And why are you calling Peter Gluck and Yianni's son a nobody? I don't think anyone would call Peter a nobody. I'm curious -- what is the name of Yianni's son? Is it Aris

Re: [Vo]:Rossi long term test

2014-04-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: It is located in a Country that is not Italy and is not USA. Maybe China? I am reading Mats Lewan's book right now and am about a third of the way through it. It is well worth reading for the backstory, although I sometimes

Re: [Vo]:Mats Lewan book : An Impossible Invention

2014-04-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Ahern seems to believe magnetic effects are at the heart of LENR phenomena. Each experimentalist and theorist has a pet theory about what is going on. What is important is whether one is able to subjugate one's personal

Re: [Vo]:Is Mizuno poining at Ryberg matter or not?

2014-04-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: What is your understanding of the energy transfer mechanism involved in the evanescent coupling (non-radiative) phenomena? I have heard that Mills's claim is that it is Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) [1]. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Is Mizuno poining at Ryberg matter or not?

2014-04-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: One way to successively remove the energy in such a hydroton configuration may be the progressive conversion to an ever more fractional state, and when Mills' minimum size of 1/137 is reached, fusion occurs. I think

Re: [Vo]:Erdos CTL - a Communist success story? with implications for Rossi?

2014-04-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: China looks at this technology as a great success of State sponsorship, where an efficient enterprise is doing something that no capitalist in the USA has accomplished and is making both a huge profit and saving the economy

Re: [Vo]:US Examiner Addresses Andrea Rossi US Patent Application

2014-04-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: But they did have patents! But Rossi doesn't have anything. His ecat secret will be cracked within days or just a few weeks, given the importance of the invention, the greatest since the domestication of wheat and rice

Re: [Vo]:US Examiner Addresses Andrea Rossi US Patent Application

2014-04-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The Rossi opera – soapy or riveting, will not end until the technology is shown to be a complete bust, since it does not exist out there alone. Both riveting and weighed down with some longueurs. When the news comes in,

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: There would be a net decrease in gas quantity under any scenario in which D2 reacts with nickel – never wound an increase be expected, even small - much less a ~2:1 increase in gas quantity. Amazing. I think the lead that

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: - The p+Ni lead appears to align with the thoughts of the experimenters themselves, who included graphs of the neutron capture cross sections for nickel in their slides. I wrote p+Ni, but I meant d+Ni. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I wrote p+Ni, but I meant d+Ni. The d+Ni reaction would have to be the Oppenheimer-Phillips version, to be statistically relevant. Here is a blip on Passell’s O-P theroy. I have not found it as a separate

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I just discovered that you wrote concerning the OP angle back in 2010 (and Abd Lomax replied): https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com That second link above, where Jones and Abd Lomax discuss

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: The claim I will egregiously ignore for the moment as either being artifact or something that is different from what we currently understand it to be is the idea that there were twice as many gas molecules after the experiment had run than at the time it had started. I think I found

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: There is no indication that any atom larger in mass than deuterium had been generated. See the yellow arrow for species of mass 3 on pp. 38, 39, 41 and 42 of the slides (according to Chrome):

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:55 AM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Going from D to H should be endothermic. Exciting slides. I do not have the wherewithal to assess their calorimetry, so I will assume it is accurate. Here are some exothermic reactions involving generation of H from D:

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:20 PM, torulf.gr...@bredband.net wrote: I se you was quicker with neutron capture. But the should look for He4 in the Ni metall. Good idea. 4He does not migrate in palladium, so it may not migrate in nickel either. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-27 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: What is interesting in the above scenario is that we are looking at the possibility not of proton capture but of neutron capture. The Oppenheimer-Phillips process (mentioned by Jones) becomes quite interesting in the context of a d+Ni reaction. Given the very strong repulsion of the

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno slides coming

2014-03-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: You may have missed one huge detail. Did not the gas quantity in the reactor actually increase significantly after 30 days compared to initial conditions ? Yes. Interesting detail. I hope they give out more

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:31 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It seems odd that they would work toward enhancing a jet engine instead of producing the power plant directly. Why carry the jet fuel along if you can make sufficient power to keep the air craft in the sky for an

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

2014-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.comwrote: Eric, on the little info I could find in public domain, I understand that ß+ decay happens within the nucleus. Are you saying that there are quite some exceptions? Perhaps Robin or Bob can correct me if I'm wrong,

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

2014-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Until they get to real low energies they mostly move in a straight line. Thus even shielding will not destroy the coincident events that detectors will record. Interesting; I didn't realize that. Somewhere I got the

Re: [Vo]:Stimulate embrittlement--ideas for production

2014-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.comwrote: Celani holds a patent application that combines oxidation and adding a silicate layer to significantly speed up absorption of Hydrogen. His process also includes rapid cooling, creating small grain sizes during

Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation

2014-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ...not to mention the validation of Rossi - who may have already witnessed the higher power and higher COP, but we cannot be sure of Rossi - whereas this looks solid and professional. I'm glad to see that Mizuno might be

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

Re: [Vo]:HHO welding is LENR

2014-03-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: In the case of HHO ... I'm not convinced that there even is an HHO distinct from H2O, although I do get a guilty pleasure out of following some of the accounts of what it is supposed to be able to do. Eric

[Vo]:evidence for several oceans' worth of water in the earth's interior

2014-03-12 Thread Eric Walker
See: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26553115 There has been a question among geologists about whether hydrogen is an essential element in the earth's makeup, or whether it was brought in from elsewhere (e.g., from comets). The new finding suggests that hydrogen has been here from

Re: [Vo]:Newly published US20140034116A1 patent application regarding LENR

2014-03-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Ni-62 and Ni64 are not a big constituents of natural Ni--Ni-58 is the largest at about 68.3%. However, they both provide about 4.5% of the natural Ni isotopes. Both Ni-62 and Ni-64 would transmute to stable Cu -63 and

Re: [Vo]:Newly published US20140034116A1 patent application regarding LENR

2014-03-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: A key question is how easy it is to enrich Ni. This should be easy to answer. Note in my comment I suggested that particular organic Ni compounds may be selectively sensitive to tuned laser based on the isotope they

Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2014-03-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Ironically. the longer people wait to bring serious funding into the effort, the more basic ideas will become public knowledge and unavailable for patent protection. Eventually, only the lawyers and China will make

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:24 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Eric, if the photons were to be emitted in random directions by the excited He4, then little kinetic energy would be imparted upon the nucleus.I suspect this is what you are referring to. Perhaps; I'm not sure. I

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Bob, you fail to take into account the known and well documented bonding energy that can exist in a chemical system. This bonding is limited to no more than about 10 eV ... Is this the energy required for a

Re: [Vo]:a length contraction paradox

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:54 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Only by changing the thought experiment and incorporating that signal can an observer in the rest frame declare the events to be non-synchronous in his frame. This is an interesting thought experiment. I'm curious how the

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Eric Walker * This is yet another reason, one of many - why consideration of all the evidence, giving no preference to Pd-D, points to many different routes to gain in LENR

Re: [Vo]:Disproofs of Relativity

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:24 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to believe it is settled science as many do, you are welcome to do so. But I question it because no one is able to answer some very important questions such as how a photon can be explained to be C unless we

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: No, it’s not opinion when 100% of the available proof is on your side. That's a pretty strong assessment of the merits of your position. :) It is fact that LENR is not and cannot be a known fusion reaction, since it

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: I have had a similar notion relative to the Pd-D system. Specifically two D come together to form a virtual excited He particle with high spin energy that fractionates its high spin energy to electrons and other coupled

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: I think there is a large number of particles involved in the fractionation of energy resulting from LENR. Otherwise the structure would be damaged so as not to produce LENR anymore. I like this line of approach. It

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: When alpha particles pass through material, a series of nuclear reactions can occur that emit radiation. In addition, bremsstrahlung radiation is emitted as the alpha slows down. Hagelstrin describes these processes in

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

2014-03-05 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: If an alpha is born from a [dd]* resonance in which the mass energy is fractionated among a large number of sinks (e.g., nearby electrons and ion cores), the 4He daughter would have no or almost no energy. This was stated incorrectly. To the extent that there is binding between the

Re: [Vo]:Disproofs of Relativity

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, D R Lunsford antimatter3...@gmail.comwrote: No one will ever take cold fusion seriously if they come here and read nonsense about how relativity is wrong. You are no doubt correct about all of the nonsense going over this list about relativity being wrong. I

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