Re: [Vo]:Stimulated Beta decay of resonant nuclei?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: > It is interesting to think about in light of our recent measurement of > high energy emissions from the Ni-H reaction. If the Ni-H reaction really > does generate MeV class electrons, they could be useful in the

Re: [Vo]:Simple upgrades for the Glow-Stick

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Jones Beene wrote: If you feel like brain-storming today, please list any suggestions for > low-cost improvements to the typical glow-stick experiment, such as the > one of MFMP - and say why your suggestion could work in theory. I suggest

Re: [Vo]:Stimulated Beta decay of resonant nuclei?

I wrote: This one talks about transmuting thorium and radium ... > Sorry, that's thorium and uranium. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Stimulated Beta decay of resonant nuclei?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Chris Zell wrote: I believe the Barker patent suggested that you could transmute silver into > rhodium if you could come up with a couple million volts (DC) for a number > of hours. Perhaps you're thinking of another patent by Barker.

Re: [Vo]:Stimulated Beta decay of resonant nuclei?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Stephen Cooke wrote: Has stimulated beta decay been considered here already? I found this old but interesting patent application by Rugerro Santilli > from 2003 on line. > http://www.google.com/patents/US20030016774 > Is it

Re: [Vo]:Big surprise or big dud ?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: The detection count was not as low as you seem to believe. In spectrum 07 > there were almost 300,000 counts in a signal that we believe probably > lasted only a minute or two. Suppose it was 2 minutes or 120 seconds.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Big surprise or big dud ?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Mark Jurich wrote: The Geiger Counter was essentially brain dead during this part of the run > and also with a post Ba calibration on the low end... The detected > radiation wasn’t shown to be sourced from the active cell. I am a big fan of

Re: [Vo]:Re: MFMP "crude calorimeter"

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Mark Jurich wrote: Not sure what you mean by “full-blown calorimetry”, but I can tell you this > (having been assisting Alan rather closely for the last several months). By "full-blown calorimetry," I have in mind mass flow calorimetry,

Re: [Vo]:Big surprise or big dud ?

I wrote: Although I do not find Ed Storms's theory persuasive, I suspect I know how > he would reply to this. He might say that what MFMP have observed in the > NaI detector is a hot-fusion side channel, which he makes allowances for. > Note that although MFMP believe that the signal is strong,

Re: [Vo]:Big surprise or big dud ?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: There is presently no description in a hydroton theory for MeV+ electron > emission. > Although I do not find Ed Storms's theory persuasive, I suspect I know how he would reply to this. He might say that what MFMP

Re: [Vo]:Re: Big surprise or big dud ?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Mark Jurich wrote: Right now, we are working on beefing up the Geiger Counting Sensitivity, > Coincidence Detection and obtaining another detector to confirm. It’s only > one instrument, we need another to confirm. Temporary High Voltage >

Re: [Vo]:MFMP "crude calorimeter"

I get the impression the Glowstick 5-2 test did not use full-blown calorimetry, and instead just used two thermocouples, one for the live tube and one for the blank. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Something big is happening

I wrote: Electron capture is not what you would choose for a energy release, as all > of the energy of the decay departs with the neutrino. > That should be, "electron capture is not what you would choose for a large energy release ..." Eric

Re: [Vo]:Something big is happening

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: 1h Thermal > x/β- emissions > Pb > IR/THz > 5h (SSM) > One possibility is induced electron capture in nickel and aluminum: - For 58Ni (68%), double beta plus decay is energetically allowed (electron capture

Re: [Vo]:the expected LENR Surprise Rossi's long time test over!Re:

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Jones Beene wrote: The Lugano reactor did not produce nickel-62 as ash, which is what AR wants > the world to believe. The nearly pure isotope was there from the start. What you say may be true. Bob Higgins's interpretation of the strange

Re: [Vo]:Heat and electricity

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 1:30 PM, H LV wrote: > In my question I said if you only had an LED. That implies a resistor is > not available. > One thought is to surround the LED by a material that emits a blackbody spectrum. That 10 W that goes to light the LED will be

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Alain Sepeda wrote: Someone in france, Gaspard Koenig support an interesting view on liberalism. > the system should support autonomy, meaning that people should be secure > enough to dare to behave autonomously and not to depend on

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent Robots??

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: Here is Bill O'Reilly's rebuttal, which I haven't fully read, but include > for anyone who is interested: > Sorry! That's Tim O'Reilly, not Bill O'Reilly. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent Robots??

Here is a piece by Paul Graham, beloved of the startup crowd for his involvement in Y Combinator: http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html In this piece, Graham advances the depressing thesis that the post-WWII period of middle-class prosperity was a historical moment, and that what we are seeing now

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent Robots??

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Chris Zell wrote: My God, military/prison robot applications signal a world rushing headlong > into a Terminator/Skynet situation. Ray Kurzweil seems to think an Age Of > Spiritual Machines awaits us but that looks as naïve as every other

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs

About education -- in a future in which the economic difficulties being discussed are worked out to some extent, there will be a lot of free time. Furthering one's education seems like a good way to spend some of this time. I suspect that education will change significantly in the next 200 years,

Re: [Vo]: Orbo power packs

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Vibrator ! wrote: So while i've considered interpretations that would invoke free electrons > from nowhere, i think free EMF of some kind is the more consistent > likelihood. If surplus electrons would explain the anomaly, another

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: If the experiments go well, I would not mind if a number of present-day > welfare programs, such as food stamps and workers' comp, were gradually > consolidated into it. > That should have been "unemp

Re: [Vo]:Intelligent robots threaten millions of jobs

I agree that the argument that the threat of starvation and economic marginalization can be useful for motivating people to do something with their lives is unpersuasive now, if it ever was persuasive. I don't think people should face starvation, or even go without dental care, as a result of

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:​Researcher illegally shares millions of science papers free online to spread knowledge

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:57 AM, H LV wrote: A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - > almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available > online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court >

[Vo]:OT: trolling taken to a new level

On Reddit, there's a subreddit that follows the exploits of "Ken M", who comments on Yahoo! News and similar forums that focus on general news. https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/ http://i.imgur.com/8h8sgrq.png http://imgur.com/QpSJ5Og Sometimes he can be uninformed in several ways, all in the same

Re: [Vo]:DCE for SPP

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:38 PM, wrote: >It's what is needed to do negative work. > > Is that work, that once having been done, requires even more work to fix > up the > result? :) > I was wondering what it was myself. :) It was fun to think about. Now I see why the

Re: [Vo]:LIGO Gravity Waves... So what?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: By the way, gravitational waves were the topic of my dissertation so feel > free to ask any question about the topic. It is very fascinating. > Given enough time, development and resources, will it be possible to

Re: [Vo]:DCE for SPP

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:36 PM, wrote: I'm always a bit suspicious of theories that make use of "negative energy". > It's what is needed to do negative work. Eric

Re: [Vo]:at your mercy: please explain what BackEMF/Lenz Law is - and what would happen if a motor/generator could be built that is not subject to them?

I wrote: I followed your presentation, ... > The presentation was a little more opaque than I at first appreciated. "As with Newton's 3rd law, many people miss why conservation of energy should be dependent upon equal and opposite reactions." "Inertia is velocity-independent." "Essentially,

Re: [Vo]:at your mercy: please explain what BackEMF/Lenz Law is - and what would happen if a motor/generator could be built that is not subject to them?

Hi, On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:05 AM, Vibrator ! wrote: So an effective N3 violation would allow you to create energy by > effectively towing your reaction mass along for free. Consider two > adjacent 1kg masses in free space connected via a perfectly elastic slack >

Re: [Vo]: BLP demo video

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:18 PM, wrote: I don't think he needs to introduce Hydrogen at all. > Electrolysis/radiolysis/photolysis of the water should produce enough. > I was thinking about this, too. For anyone who's curious, water can be split into hydrogen and oxygen at

Re: [Vo]: BLP demo video

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: So this drop needs 119 J to vaporize and heat to ~2500K (good estimate, > Dave). > To put this into context, this is the amount of power that runs through a 100 W bulb for a little more than 1 s. If you look at the

Re: [Vo]: BLP demo video

I wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Bob Higgins > wrote: > > So this drop needs 119 J to vaporize and heat to ~2500K (good estimate, >> Dave). >> > > To put this into context, this is the amount of power that runs through a > 100 W bulb for a little more than 1 s.

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: If there was any evidence that Mills was producing something other than > resistive plasma heating, *perhaps* the spectrum was some evidence. > This is a question I'm interested in -- (a) for the latest prototype, are

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

Hi, On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Russ George wrote: Well we can only hope… I think when he looks as I have he will see which > silver isotope is peculiar. Whether that adds insight or confusion is > another question. In your own case, what isotope changes have you

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:47 PM, wrote: 32Si has a half life of only 100 years, so there isn't any in nature. > According to Wikipedia, it's a trace element. I wonder whether it arises from cosmic rays and how much of it there is in relation to stable isotopes of silicon.

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:10 PM, wrote: Maybe it gets produced by the high current discharge of a lightning bolt? ;) > Just to clarify, I was thinking of something to explain the sulfur smell in ball lightning; 36Cl is another possible source for this, perhaps from salt found

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: If you think that Mills is an empty bag of promises then why don't you > challenge some of his academic work, like the experiments leading to EUV > spectra. Non have step up and claimed that those results

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: Mills talked about the source voltage being "only 10V", but 10V has at > least the potential to deliver 10eV of energy. 10eV of energy is the > energy of a photon at 124nm in the extreme UV. His "only 10V" statement >

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

I wrote: I think Mills also mentioned soft x-rays early on, which are in the low > keV. And the spectrum he spent time discussing had an endpoint somewhere > above 100 eV. Such photons would presumably come from the excitation of > inner shell electrons in heavier elements such as silver. > I

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: But, but, but ... Mills showed the spectrum and it was full of spectral > lines - not broadband blackbody. Yes, I remember that later in the video -- it was kind of characteristic and kind of not. I don't know what

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo video

Here is where a demo of the open device starts: https://youtu.be/R0PYe-4090g?t=53m13s Just prior to that, Mills says: "Now there's no microwave here. There's no high voltage. This is plasma being created in atmospheric pressures, that's filling that entire chamber. That is an enormous amount of

Re: [Vo]:Rubidium-87 as an ideal alkali for LENR

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Jones Beene wrote: LOL! Well, in a game of “who do you trust” follow the buck, and it is > looking like someone with strong motivation was knee-deep in deception; and > sadly that hasn’t changed… kinda like the “public demo (by invitation >

Re: [Vo]:On Arxiv censorship

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM, wrote: It time flows forward outside a black hole, and stops altogether at the > event > horizon, does it flow backwards inside the black hole, or is it just > constant at > zero? > Here's another thought: a black hole might be a special

Re: [Vo]:Rubidium-87 as an ideal alkali for LENR

Hi Jones, On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > R. T. BUSH and R. D. EAGLETON, “Experiments Supporting the Transmission > Resonance > Model for Cold Fusion in Light Water: I. Correlation of Isotopic and Elemental > Evidence with Excess Heat,” Proc. 3rd Int.

Re: [Vo]:Rubidium-87 as an ideal alkali for LENR

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Jones Beene wrote: The answer to that could lie in induced radioactivity. Mills is > fully-invested in a non-nuclear explanation for thermal gain, so he tends > to avoid anything nuclear. He avoids all talk of nuclear energy like the >

Re: [Vo]:On Arxiv censorship

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:40 PM, wrote: Once again, ALL real breakthroughs are initially "manifestly outlandish". > Hence > nothing really valuable will ever get published. Apparently nothing paradigm-challenging, at any rate. There is someone on LENR Forum who does not

Re: [Vo]:On Arxiv censorship

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:40 PM, wrote: BTW, as I have said before, black holes are empty. All matter is converted > to energy at or before the event horizon, and circulates as EM energy at > the event horizon, warping spacetime into a circle. ;) What kind of energy? The

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Pluto is alive—but where is the heat coming from?

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Axil Axil wrote: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/pluto-alive-where-heat-coming > > Pluto is alive—but where is the heat coming from? LENR > > http://www.space.com/29968-pluto-charon-photos-active-icy-worlds.html > > New Photos of Pluto

Re: [Vo]:dense plasma seen in sonoluminescence experiments

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 12:05, H Veeder wrote: > > Perhaps the energy of the collapsing bubble is channeled ( with the help of > the dense plasma) into the isotope's​ nucleus converting it into an unstable > isomer which triggers prompt beta decay. This is along the lines

[Vo]:dense plasma seen in sonoluminescence experiments

See: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15876145 This is a 2011 article that discusses a proposal by Seth Putterman, a professor well-known for investigating sonoluminescence. The proposal is that in sonoluminescence, a plasma is created that is hundreds of times more dense than

Re: [Vo]:Orbo- Battery _Steorn and Lockheed- Bushman Battery Patent

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: Jones, > > A Faraday cage requires no ground. It just requires a continuous metal > box enclosure. The Orbo test would be simple. Put the Orbo and the phone > inside the box with its charging cable connected

Re: [Vo]:Orbo- Battery _Steorn and Lockheed- Bushman Battery Patent

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Perhaps they got lucky (they are Irish, after all) but in the end – Orbo is > not overunity, even if it could be a valuable advance. I'm curious -- is Steorn claiming overunity? Eric

Re: [Vo]:Orbo- Battery _Steorn and Lockheed- Bushman Battery Patent

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Esa J. Ruoho wrote: "Never charge battery". > That sounds like an easy statement to wiggle out of if you're harvesting RF, while having the benefit of catching people's attention. The natural conclusion one draws is that it means perpetual

Re: [Vo]:Fact or fiction: Irish firm invents everlasting battery

Hi Robin, I understand you to be suggesting that ions in the air might restore the state of the Orbo by removing electrons from one plate through de-ionization. An ion comes along and picks up an electron, becoming electrically neutral and restoring the original potential by a small amount. On

Re: [Vo]:Fact or fiction: Irish firm invents everlasting battery

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: Electrets have been made for hundreds of years. These electrets, if > shorted, and then opened will have the charge return and a high electric > field will once again be present. In the shorting, charge was conducted

Re: [Vo]:Fact or fiction: Irish firm invents everlasting battery

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Esa Ruoho wrote: Quite a few people on the web have ordered these and will give them a > whirl. Including a few Finns who are taking them to an university and > having scientists look at them. > This is the way to deal with any claim from an

Re: [Vo]:Fact or fiction: Irish firm invents everlasting battery

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Esa Ruoho wrote: The result is that a permanent electric field is "frozen" into the gel > material, with positive and negative poles. This polarized electric field > then interacts with the two dissimilar metals to generate an electric >

Re: [Vo]:Re: DoE Funds Two Advanced Nuclear Programs

Am I mistaken in thinking that the disposal of fuel waste is an issue that is shared by all fission reactor designs? It seems to me that after Fukushima, passive safety and simplicity of design are no-brainers for fission power. Perhaps the pebble-bed reactor has critical issues. I wonder how

Re: [Vo]:DoE Funds Two Advanced Nuclear Programs

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Bob Cook wrote: X-Energy is a pebble bed reactor designer. > As I read about pebble bed reactors, the approach seems fundamentally more sane than current reactor designs, which appear to have low tolerances for error and catastrophic

Re: [Vo]:Re: Nuclear Isomers (2005 article in Nature)

I wrote: I did not intend the earlier description to preclude the possibility of > some kind of electromagnetic stimulation coming along and nudging the > isomer out of its excited level into a lower one. I'd be interested if > someone knows of something like this. > In the paper that Harry

Re: [Vo]:Iron oxide, hydrogen and a mechanism for densification

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:57 PM, wrote: I suspect that most of the He4 on Earth comes from alpha decay reactions, > hence > the ratio. > My suspicions are similar (the original thread suggested alpha decay was being induced when the fracking water was pumped into the earth).

Re: [Vo]:Re: Nuclear Isomers (2005 article in Nature)

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:57 PM, H Veeder wrote: Eric, your precise analysis suggests to me that the conventional picture of > an isomer is lacking. > This is entirely possible. Also, my description might be lacking. All the literature I have read depicts the formation

Re: [Vo]:quantum knots accomplished!

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:03 PM, wrote: No. Mills proposes a pseudo charge that is different for different sized > orbitspheres, but is constant for any given size. IOW it only changes when > the > orbitsphere changes in size. However he also states that radiation can > occur

Re: [Vo]:quantum knots accomplished!

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, David Roberson wrote: The bottom line is that it is easy to produce a non radiating structure of > any degree of complexity as long as the currents flowing within that > structure are constant. An orbitsphere such as Mills appears to refer

Re: [Vo]:Re: Nuclear Isomers (2005 article in Nature)

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Bob Cook wrote: I have always considered any excited nuclear state to be a nuclear isomer. > I do not know what the elevated energy nuclear state which is due to spin > energy as established during an NMR energy addition would be called.

Re: [Vo]:quantum knots accomplished!

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:39 AM, David Roberson wrote: An sphere can be constructed from a large number of individual toroids. As > I have mentioned many times before, this toroid type of structure would not > radiate provided the current is constant at every point within

Re: [Vo]:Iron oxide, hydrogen and a mechanism for densification

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: When the hydrogen gets loaded into the iron as a monatomic species and > encounters a void/dislocation/vacancy, it may hang around in there long > enough for it to encounter another monatomic hydrogen and then it forms

Re: [Vo]:Iron oxide, hydrogen and a mechanism for densification

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:14 PM, David Roberson wrote: Eric, is there any reporting of excess Helium being detected during these > events? It would seem plausible that this would occur if enough is > released to make a significant difference to the geology. This is

Re: [Vo]:Epitrochoidal oscillations

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:51 AM, H Ucar wrote: I don't want to play with larger magnets because when they become > unstabilized can fly away in random directions and when meet iron > furniture, materials or other magnets it get damaged. Yes, this is a real danger. I

Re: [Vo]:quantum knots accomplished!

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Fermions cannot form a bose condensate. Only photons can. > Indeed. Eric

Re: [Vo]:quantum knots accomplished!

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:51 PM, wrote: How is this the topological opposite? I think you just want to be defiant. > ;) I've heard that Mills posits "orbitspheres," which are spherical shells of current, whereas what's shown in the article is a toroid. Eric

Re: [Vo]: Are nuclear isomers ubiquitous?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: How do we determine that an element's nucleus is an isomer or is in its > ground state? Chemically they would behave the same. We cannot > conveniently distill the atoms and look at the spectra of the total energy >

Re: [Vo]: Are nuclear isomers ubiquitous?

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Axil Axil wrote: It is strange that even when a meltdown occurs, that there is no unstable > nuclear residue left over to produce gamma radiation after reactor's > destruction. > Not infrequently I read of short-lived activity in experiments,

Re: [Vo]:Re: Nuclear Isomers (2005 article in Nature)

Hi Bob, On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Bob Cook wrote: I agree with your thought about the role of isomers in the natural > abundance of elements. I think you accidentally mistook the quote I was quoting from Harry's article for something I myself said. I was asking

Re: [Vo]:new CF experiments?

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Jack Cole wrote: Good find. Reading the translated comments, there are some good points. > Specifically, the hydrogen conducts heat at a much higher rate to the > quartz outer tube. Thus, the nickel wire is not as bright under hydrogen. > I

Re: [Vo]:new CF experiments?

Jack, On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Jack Cole wrote: The same amount of power must be dissipated in both conditions assuming the > same input power. The only path I see to a false result is that there are > different heat conduction paths comparing the hydrogen to air

Re: [Vo]:Nuclear Isomers (2005 article in Nature)

The opinion piece says this: Finally, isomers play a significant role in determining the abundances of > the elements in the universe. In hot astrophysical environments, an > isomeric state can communicate with its ground state through thermal > excitations. This could alter significantly the

Re: [Vo]:The New Energy World Symposium

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: As it says, they never got a chance to check. No one knows if this is > correct or not. But this is a lot more than a hunch coming from Miles. He > is an expert in electrochemistry and metallurgy. > It is not more than

Re: [Vo]:The New Energy World Symposium

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I think you mean the second paper. The first one is only 16 pages long. > > Do you mean Table 5 on p. 35 of the second paper? > Yes -- the second paper, not the first paper. On p. 34, Miles speculates that the helium

Re: [Vo]:The New Energy World Symposium

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: It produces ~23.8 MeV per D+D reaction, as closely as anyone has been able > to measure it. Admittedly that is not very close. See p. 8: > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinnewphysica.pdf > This is an inference

Re: [Vo]:The New Energy World Symposium

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is an inference that has been made, using a lot of assumptions, >> including an assumption that it's a stable ratio. >> > >

Re: [Vo]:The New Energy World Symposium

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Pd-D produces helium in the same ratio as plasma fusion reactors do, so > obviously it is a d-d reaction. > This is incorrect on two accounts. First, PdD does not produce helium in the same ratio as plasma fusion

Re: [Vo]:The New Energy World Symposium

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesMcorrelatio.pdf > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesManomalousea.pdf > Thank you for the papers. I'm pretty interested in this question, so I'll read through all three. Tritium

Re: [Vo]:Return of incandescent light bulbs more efficient than LEDs

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:08 PM, H Veeder wrote: ​Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than > LEDs > Not speaking to the article you link to, I'd just like to mention that the LED lights I got for my house have been interesting to use. The

Re: [Vo]:Water, helium and earthquakes in Oklahoma

I wrote: I would like to take Yamomoto's suggestion and modify it, by proposing that > when the water is injected into the ground, it induces alpha decay in alpha > emitters in the soil to a significant extent. > Sorry -- I did not mean "soil," which probably means topsoil if it means anything.

[Vo]:Water, helium and earthquakes in Oklahoma

I would like to put forward an idea that came to me after reading Hiroshi Yamamoto's ICCF-12 paper entitled "An Explanation of Earthquakes by the BlackLight Process and Hydrogen Fusion." Yamamoto suggests that injecting water into wells in Japan and the US might have been triggering earthquakes

Re: [Vo]:Speculation on how the E-Cat X works.

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Jones Beene wrote: However, if the LENR fuel (by this time) has reached strong self-sustain > mode, with its own ability to produce heat without electrical input, then > this device could be made to function almost like a self-powered

[Vo]:isoperibolic calorimetry

I know very little about calorimetry. When I see reports along the lines of "using isoperibolic calorimetry, we saw 200 J of excess heat," etc., I think to myself "perhaps there were 200 J of excess heat. I wouldn't know for sure." Recently there has been an analysis purporting to show that

Re: [Vo]:[Vo] X-rays in LENR

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: Peter Hagelstein discusses the Karabut results in -- > "Directional X-ray and gamma emission in experiments in condensed matter > nuclear science" > >

Re: [Vo]:Whopper of the Week

Re the jet engine claim, if Rossi is seeing prompt charged particles, this could have led him to speculate about the possibility of a jet engine. If the Papp engine was real, it is not difficult to imagine that it was powered by having prompt charged particles (e.g., alpha particles) momentarily

Re: [Vo]:Whopper of the Week

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: Piantelli's measurement of the Ni-H reaction shows prompt charged high > energy protons. > Indeed. As well as "heavy particles" (my vote: alphas) [1]. In saying that little in the way of prompt charged particles has

Re: [Vo]:Re: Whopper of the Week

Hi Bob, Your experience in the nuclear energy sector is no doubt relevant here. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Bob Cook wrote: My experience is that any fast charged particles creates x-rays which would > be observed and correlated with the ejection of electrons from

[Vo]:new drone video

Here is a new drone video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIXCpQPa6OA I submit that small, fast drones like this will change law enforcement and warfare (not a pleasant prospect, but one to be mentioned). Eric

Re: [Vo]:Essay: The cold fusion horizon

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-scientists-dismiss-the-possibility-of-cold-fusion > I like the essay by Huw Price a lot. He has a great attitude. Philosophers of science and sociologists are in a good position to light a

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli's group gets its act together

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: It [the H- anion] quickly decends the electron shells to close proximity to > the nucleus, wherein something nuclear happens. This produces a Ni > transmutation reaction branch and a high energy (6 MeV as I recall)

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli's group gets its act together

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: How close would the hydrogen nucleus have to get to the Ni nucleus to > release 6 MeV in Coulombic repulsion? It would be an interesting > calculation. > This is the typical energy of a particle that is expelled

Re: [Vo]:Piantelli's group gets its act together

I wrote: This is the typical energy of a particle that is expelled from a nucleus. > That suggests that the hydrogen anion would have to attain nuclear > separations, e.g., ~ 1 fm. > In addition, there is an interesting calculation that can be done which gives the maximum charge density that

Re: [Vo]:Wendt and Irion

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:21 PM, wrote: (I hope you can, because I can't ;). > If you were to try to explain the mercury, on the assumption that it is not contamination, what would be your guess? Eric

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