[Vo]:OFF TOPIC Lunar eclipse in Atlanta tonight

9:36 pm Sun, Jan 20 Penumbral Eclipse begins 10:33 pm Sun, Jan 20 Partial Eclipse begins 12:12 am Mon, Jan 21 Maximum Eclipse

[Vo]:U.S. coal consumption in 2018 expected to be the lowest in 39 years

See: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37692 Worldwide, demand for coal rose slightly in 2017. 2018 data is probably not available yet. See: https://www.iea.org/coal2018/

[Vo]:Robert Godes podcast

See: https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/ I was disappointed in this presentation. I think it is misguided. Godes' business strategy makes no sense. He makes absurd assertions such as: he must produce a finished product, and he has to reach a manufacturing level where fewer than 1% of the

Re: [Vo]:Slaughterbots

I think it may be possible to prevent the development of this technology, at least for several decades until countermeasures can be devised. The microprocessors in cell phones are inexpensive and can be mass-produced by the millions, but there are only a few factories where they are fabricated.

Re: [Vo]:Slaughterbots

Alain Sepeda wrote: Our work would be to develop counter measures. > If there is sword, there is shield. > That is not true. There are no effective counter-measures to many weapons such as swords, guns, anthrax or smuggled nuclear weapons. Shields do not work well against swords.

[Vo]:Slaughterbots

In my book, I predicted that small autonomous robot killers might be developed. I regret to say that a great deal of progress has been made, and some leading AI experts are alarmed at the prospects. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA They do not need cold fusion, but cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:Reorganized ICCF indexes

This is all done with SQL (structured query language) which IBM invented in the 1970s. There is nothing to it. For example, to make a table of JMNS 15, the commands are: SELECT Recnum,(Record number) Author, AllAuthors, YearPublished, Title, Description, (The title as

Re: [Vo]:Reorganized ICCF indexes

Okay, I now have all ICCF proceedings indexed except ICCF-13, June 2007. I do not have a copy of that book. I did not attend the conference. I guess the proceedings are not available in electronic form. If someone has a printed copy, and you are willing to sacrifice it, please send it to be

[Vo]:Reorganized ICCF indexes

All of the indexes on one page, organized: https://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=2130

[Vo]:How Does Your State Make Electricity?

Very good graphs. See: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-electricity-generation-changed-in-your-state.html

Re: [Vo]:New LENR-CANR.org indexes

PM wrote: In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:41:37 -0500: > >*ScriptCase* > > > >https://lenr-canr.org/index/Papers/ > > This one make much better use of the screen real-estate. (Display uses full > width of screen available.) > Good p

Re: [Vo]:New LENR-CANR.org indexes

The index system I am using costs $36 a month, so I am replacing it. I am testing two different database presentation programs, ScriptCase and wpDataTables. The latter costs practically nothing, so I recommend it to people with tight budgets. Here are links to example screens. Please have a look

Re: [Vo]:Old news: Conversion of hydrogen into helium in palladium

cience. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

H LV wrote: I was was imagining some sort of record that could withstand a wide variety > of conditions. > DNA is incredibly resilient. Stored in proper conditions it is expected last for hundreds of thousands of years. Hundreds of years with today's techniques, which require that it be kept

Re: [Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

H LV wrote: I've been thinking, that if one really wants information to last at least > millions of year then it should be fossilized. > Prof. George Church (Harvard) is developing methods of storing digital data in DNA. He has stored up to 700 TB per gram so far. He stored his own biology

Re: [Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

PM wrote: >I put everything in the clouds. It will survive forever. > > ...on the NSA servers, where they have faster access to it than you do. ;) > If the NSA would take an interest in my website, I would be thrilled. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

or Acrobat). Authors should make every effort to preserve the original computer files of papers, data, photos and anything else. Send them to me if you want them preserved, even if you do not want me to upload them. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

hey used to because there are now trillions of documents preserved in Acrobat format, so people will remember the standard far into the future. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:New LENR-CANR.org indexes

t more bother. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:New LENR-CANR.org indexes

I added two new search fields: First author name or partial name: Any author: Word(s) in title: Word(s) in any field: https://c0acn980.caspio.com/dp/357d61a0bcdff714438d90e1 Unfortunately, it is going to cost me $36 a month. So I will migrate it to another database in the next few months.

[Vo]:New LENR-CANR.org indexes

.org/wordpress/?page_id=1081 I think I will add: Search by coauthor Search any field including abstract Sort by publication Sort by most recent JCMNS index . . . and the indexes for the various proceedings. Suggestions are welcome. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

Nigel Dyer wrote: I have also had to digitize an old graph recently, and used the > following webpage very succesfully > > http://arohatgi.info/WebPlotDigitizer/app3_12/ That works pretty well, doesn't it? About the same as GetData. - Jed

[Vo]:Digitizing an old graph from Fleischmann

I am digitizing an important old graph from Fleischmann. The process is illustrated here: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5782-digitizing-an-old-graph-from-fleischmann/?postID=98837#post98837

[Vo]:David French died

/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedy.pdf#page=103 - Jed

[Vo]:Seven documents improved with the latest version of Acrobat

I spent $180 for a one-year subscription to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat. It seems overpriced to me. Anyway, since I paid all that money I thought I would improve some documents. I reprocessed the Proceedings that I recently uploaded. The new versions look about the same, but the internal

[Vo]:Kitamura paper attracting some attention

in the mass media: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/scientists-in-the-us-and-japan-get-serious-about-lowenergy-nuclear-reactions - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Need help with Savvatimova Table

Ah, ha. I may have found her e-mail address. Ain't the internet wonderful? - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Need help with Savvatimova Table

nr.org/acrobat/Savvatimovinfluenceo.pdf http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Savvatimovinfluenceo.pdf They are linked by the sample numbers, such as 1666, 1667, 1668 . . . - Jed

[Vo]:Need help with Savvatimova Table

I recently purchased a new copy of Adobe Acrobat. It does a better job converting old documents. They look better and the underlying text has fewer OCR errors. I decided to rescan some of the large books. I am working on ICCF-5. When I prepared this book I retyped several papers from scratch and

Re: [Vo]:ICCF-2 book uploaded

I wrote: > There were many promising studies that fell by the wayside, > Such as the molten salt studies, especially Liaw et al.: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SIFthescience.pdf#page=70

[Vo]:ICCF-2 book uploaded

tagged the first one incorrectly, so the LENR-CANR.org filename is wrong. I will leave it as is.) This book was scanned non-destructively. That costs a lot more and the quality is not as good as destructive scanning. I do not recommend it. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:off topic - This could be where it all began

LV wrote: As with photos of celebrities from decades ago, one wonders if these old > galaxies are still around and how they look. ;-) > They are ready for their close-up. - Jed

[Vo]:JCMNS 27 uploaded

J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci., Vol. 27, November 2018 is here: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedz.pdf

[Vo]:ICCF-7 index is finished

//www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did - Jed

[Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Japan's leading crime syndicate gives out Halloween candy

Here's a news story that could only come from Japan. Japan's leading crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi gang, has a tradition of holding an open house and giving out candy to children every year on Halloween. Except in 2015 they didn't because they were in the middle of gang war. Can you imagine

[Vo]:Yokose et al. report 3 kW peak power from Cu-Ni-Zn composite

.pdf - Jed

[Vo]:ICCF-7 book uploaded

See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ENECOtheseventh.pdf I uploaded many individual papers previously. They are fully converted so the text quality is better. They are listed here: http://lenr-canr.org/index/ICCF7/ICCF7.php - Jed

[Vo]:The easy way to enter scientific symbols into Microsoft Word documents

list of the Math AutoCorrect symbols from on old version of Word. Here is the download link: https://users.wfu.edu/yipcw/atg/microsoft/office/word2007/mathautocorrect/word2007-math-autocorrect-converted.docx - Jed

[Vo]:ICCF-21 videos, slides and abstracts

See: https://www.iccf21.com/videos-oral-presentations https://www.iccf21.com/slides-oral-presentations https://www.iccf21.com/abstracts-oral-presentations

[Vo]:EndNote basic

R-CANR.org database. I use it to maintain the database. I wrote a program to convert from the EndNote format to the online relational database. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Need someone to draw wiring diagram

Okay, we have a volunteer for this. Thank you!

Re: [Vo]:Need someone to draw wiring diagram

Any circuit drawing program will do, by the way. - Jed

[Vo]:Need someone to draw wiring diagram

this. That would be a waste of effort. - Jed

[Vo]:Upcoming paper by Mike Staker

See: http://coldfusioncommunity.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ICCF21_Staker_2_Oct_2018.pdf I am big fan of Staker. There is quite a lot to digest in this paper. This is linked to: http://coldfusioncommunity.net/sav/sav-as-nae/ Abd: thanks for uploading this.

Re: [Vo]:Carbon Engineering

cells, this would be a method of storing wind energy. It might be inefficient compared to batteries. It might be less cost effective. I wouldn't know. I think you would have to build up a fairly large infrastructure and see how prices fall before you would know. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Carbon Engineering

ll of the oil coming out of Middle East. (The potential energy when built up; not present-day wind energy.) - Jed

[Vo]:Szklarczyk paper

See: Szklarczyk, M., R.C. Kainthla, and J. Bockris, *On the Dielectric Breakdown of Water: An Electrochemical Approach*. J. Electrochem. Soc., 1989. *136*: p. 2512 http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Szklarczykonthediele.pdf I do not know what this has to do with cold fusion, but Bockris sent it to

Re: [Vo]:CFL lamps and radioactivity

As do I. His brother gave him 50 as a birthday present, expecting some to be left over a few days later. They weren't. That's how Mike told the story. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:CFL lamps and radioactivity

JonesBeene wrote: > BTW – the fatal dose for radiation poisoning is about 200 bananas in one > day. Fortunately, the 40K which is the culprit - is rapidly excreted. > Only 200?? A chimpanzee might eat that many. Mike Melich might munch that many. He ate 50 when he turned 50. Maybe not in one

[Vo]:Woodford Patient Capital rallies as cold fusion play heats up

Woodford Patient Capital rallies as cold fusion play heats up Share 10:08 21 Sep 2018 Industrial Heat is now worth US$112.9mln, or a 357% rise compared to its previous valuation

Re: [Vo]:Fleischmann critique of N.H.E. Paper by Saito et al.

en you apply a reasonable heat transfer coefficient, they were getting a half-watt. - Jed

[Vo]:Fleischmann critique of N.H.E. Paper by Saito et al.

In which Fleischmann eviscerates the N.H.E.: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmancritiqueof.pdf

[Vo]:Mizuno offers a prepared reactor

en looking for someone in Japan but he has not had much luck. It is hard to find someone who will make a serious effort. Anyone interested should contact him (or me). - Jed

Re: [Vo]:GoFundMe page set up for Mizuno

t big cities such as Sapporo. Perhaps real estate values and rent are not as high as they used to be, but they are still high. Anyway, you wouldn't want to move into a building that is no longer in use. The building he is in is a dump, but now it is literally falling apart. Abandoned buildings are even worse. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:GoFundMe page set up for Mizuno

I posted some photos of the damage to Mizuno's lab and building: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5700-tadahiko-mizuno-earthquake-recovery-fundraiser/?postID=93165#post93165 It doesn't look so bad, but if it were bad enough to see, the instruments would be a complete write-off. They

[Vo]:GoFundMe page set up for Mizuno

See: https://www.gofundme.com/replace-mizuno039s-lab

[Vo]:Gofundme might be a better option to help Mizuno

See: https://www.gofundme.com/ Perhaps we would get a larger audience and more donations with Gofundme. I don't know how it works. I asked Mizuno for photos of the damage. We could upload them with links to his papers. "Please help a cold fusion researcher whose instruments were destroyed by the

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports earthquake damage

Some people are trying to arrange a way to contribute to Mizuno, with Paypal or Gofundme. I don't know anything about either of those, but anyway, if the arrangements are made I will report them here. I will also contribute $1,000. - Jed

[Vo]:Mizuno reports earthquake damage

it (using the English word). - Jed

Re: [Vo]:A brief history of the ICCF conferences

Let me know if you find mistakes, dead links, etc. in this paper. Or in any paper. Mike is going to make some corrections in a few days. - Jed

[Vo]:A brief history of the ICCF conferences

McKubre, M.C.H., *A Brief History and Introduction to the International Conference Series*. 2015, ICCF-19 Website. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHabriefhist.pdf Lots of pix.

Re: [Vo]:ICCF-6 books improved. ICCF-1 will be uploaded soon

Here is an index of the papers in the book, including ones that have already been uploaded separately: http://lenr-canr.org/index/ICCF1/ICCF1.php

Re: [Vo]:ICCF-6 books improved. ICCF-1 will be uploaded soon

The ICCF-1 book is now uploaded: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NCFIthefirstan.pdf

[Vo]:ICCF-6 books improved. ICCF-1 will be uploaded soon

I fixed a number of errors in the ICCF-6 books, including a duplicate page and some missing pages. I made several pages easier to read. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NEDOthesixthin.pdf http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/NEDOthesixthina.pdf I will upload the ICCF-1 book soon, probably this

Re: [Vo]:A 10-page limit for a conference proceedings paper is too low

I suggest the limit should be 15 pages of text and 15 pages of figures, graphs, tables and photos. It is very easy to measure these two categories separately. Or, you could make it 10 pages of text and 15 pages of figures etc. We should encourage authors to include more figures. - Jed

[Vo]:A 10-page limit for a conference proceedings paper is too low

interests, since I am one of the people who has to read these papers several times, slogging through looking for subject-verb agreement. (Not content, mind you. Who cares about the content? Gamma rays, schmamma bays, it's all the same with me.) - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Namedroppers, Inc

JonesBeene wrote: This is curious… > > > > https://synthestech.com/science_en > > > > Their purpose appears to be investment “advice” on new energy …. > > > > Perhaps we are seeing the remnants of a new kind of “fallout” from Sochi. > > > > This particular group professes to be better connected

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR list of ICCF conferences updated and simplified

I wrote: > You have to have the EndNote program to do it. > I should add: it is a great program, but a pain in the butt to learn. A little difficult to use at times. You wouldn't want to get it just to enter a few hundred items. - Jed

[Vo]:Mainstream product for academics who want to steal papers

I have no business criticizing this product but . . . I am a little surprised to find it is marketed by a mainstream company. This is the company that makes EndNote. The product is called "Kopernio": https://kopernio.com/?utm_source=endnote_medium=web_campaign=kopernio_clarivate_related_products

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR list of ICCF conferences updated and simplified

CB Sites wrote: Hey Jed I'd be more than happy to help you out on that. Just drop me an > e-mail on what you need transcribed and I'll give it to go. I would be more > than happy to help. > You have to have the EndNote program to do it.

[Vo]:LENR-CANR list of ICCF conferences updated and simplified

The screen is much improved. See: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=501 Not all of the Proceedings are available. ICCF-6 is still not fixed. I plan to upload ICCF-1 eventually. Some of the papers are not individually added to the index. I do not plan to add them. Because . . . I don't

Re: [Vo]:The potential weaponization of LENR

Brian Ahern wrote: The 1993 SRI explosion was likely due to RECALESCENCE. > It was caused because several fail-safe devices all failed, in a very unlikely tragic coincidence. The recombiner failed, a relief valve failed, and the researchers did not realize there was built up pressure from

Re: [Vo]:The potential weaponization of LENR

Axil Axil wrote: LENR will not produce an explosive weapon . . . > Are you sure about that? You must think you understand the physics of cold fusion better than Martin Fleischmann and Edward Teller did. That comes across as rather arrogant. Since I just told you Fleischmann and Teller thought

Re: [Vo]:The potential weaponization of LENR

steam, you could not have ironclad warships with large, modern cannons. They would be too heavy. (Granted, there were lighter steel-hulled sailing ships in the late 19th and early 20th century.) - Jed

[Vo]:Downloads at LENR-CANR.org still falling

I regret to say that downloads at LENR-CANR.org fell to 10,346 in July 2018. This is the lowest they have been since 2003. A graph of Google Trends for the term "cold fusion" shows a similar decline. See: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1213

[Vo]:Law360 article about Swartz USPTO lawsuit

Google Alerts brought me this: https://www.law360.com/articles/1064060/fed-circ-backs-uspto-nix-of-cold-fusion-patent-apps Fed. Circ. Backs USPTO Nix Of Cold Fusion Patent Apps By *Tiffany Hu * Law360 (July 17, 2018, 7:46 PM

[Vo]:"Brief Introduction to Cold Fusion" video views exceed 100,000

The other day, the total number of views of the video exceeded 100,000. The number of files downloaded from LENR-CANR.org has been decreasing. That is discouraging. See: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1213

[Vo]:My comments about Shanahan in the Fleischmann Miles correspondence

ever said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Zimmerman's piece could be scarier than we can imagine

xpect > more like 2 tons. > I think that was deliberate. They did not want a big explosion because the rocket only flew a few miles. Modern fusion bombs have variable yield ("dial-a-yield") meaning they waste fuel at the lower yields. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Zimmerman's piece could be scarier than we can imagine

H LV wrote: The smallest nuke was the Davy Crockett weighing 76 lbs with an explosive > yield of 20 Tons of TNT. > That's small! The critical mass of Pu is around 20 lb. 56 lbs of other hardware. What an idiotic weapon.

[Vo]:David slides and poster uploaded

David, F. and J. Giles. Alternatives to Calorimetry (PowerPoint slides and poster). in The 21st International Conference for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ICCF-21. 2018. Fort Collins, CO http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DavidFalternativ.pdf

Re: [Vo]:All ICCF-21 Abstracts in one document

Brian Ahern wrote: > Martin said they stopped using bulk cathodes to avoid explosions. The > cathode he gave to Biberian was 20cm long and 2mm OD. > Yes. Biberian still has it. He discussed it at ICCF-21, and showed a photo of it. He has cut off small segments from it and subjected them to

[Vo]:Why venture capitalists are unlikely to help at this stage

>From time to time, people tell me that if only we had a practical device, cold fusion research would be funded. McKubre and many others have pointed that a practical device is the end-point of research, not where you start. People don't seem to realize this. Over at lenr-forum.com someone wrote:

[Vo]:Wildcat Discovery Technologies

This is the kind of thing we need for cold fusion cathode testing. http://www.wildcatdiscovery.com/technology/high-throughput-workflow/#hs1:

[Vo]:Uploaded ICCF-21 slides from Miles

See: Miles, M. *Excess power measurements for palladium-boron cathodes (PowerPoint slides)*. in *The 21st International Conference for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ICCF-21*. 2018. Fort Collins, CO http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesMexcesspowe.pdf

[Vo]:Uploaded Beiting report from The Aerospace Corporation

=7 - Jed

[Vo]:N.Y. Times: Trump wants to bail out coal and nuclear power

. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Recipes for cold fusion

I wrote: Storms, E., *How to produce the Pons-Fleischmann effect*. Fusion Technol., > 1996. *29*: p. 261. > Correct link: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEhowtoprodu.pdf

[Vo]:Recipes for cold fusion

Metals*. 2004. Asti, Italy http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LettsDcathodefab.pdf This file includes the paper, the PowerPoint slides, and another set of PowerPoint slides describing the dual laser cell fabrication technique. - Jed

[Vo]:All ICCF-21 Abstracts in one document

I combined all ICCF-21 Abstracts into one document, because why not? Because it is more convenient. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ICCFabstracts.pdf They are downloaded from: https://www.iccf21.com/submit-abstract

[Vo]:ICCF-21 slides and preprint uploaded

Higgins, R. and D. Letts. Modeling & Simulation of a Gas Discharge LENR Prototype (PowerPoint slides). in The 21st International Conference for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ICCF-21. 2018. Fort Collins, CO. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/HigginsRmodelingsi.pdf Higgins, R. and D. Letts. Modeling

Re: [Vo]:I think this was the best ICCF conference in a while

redible, but you are not a nuclear > engineer > People who are nuclear engineers and nuclear physicists don't think so either. The main reason I know of is that if there were lots of muons, they would cause harm, and there is no sign of harm. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Uploaded Mizuno's ICCF-21 PowerPoint slides

I just now added the poster with the two data tables.

[Vo]:Uploaded Mizuno's ICCF-21 PowerPoint slides

. The papers will eventually be published in the JCMNS, and I will upload them when that happens, but that takes a long time. If you would like to see your paper at LENR-CANR.org now, send it. I suggest you write: "PREPRINT" at the top. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:I think this was the best ICCF conference in a while

tor Using Pd/D Codeposition Pamela A. Mosier-Boss, Lawrence P. Forsley Patrick J. McDaniel Space Application of a Hybrid Fusion-Fission Reactor Lawrence P. Forsley, Pamela A. Mosier-Boss I do not think there is any evidence for muons in cold fusion. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:I think this was the best ICCF conference in a while

Axil Axil wrote: Paul Anderson > Ah, it is here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sp71necll4mfv2w/AABLXuUL0v3NrkY7BPYPKDA_a?dl=0=Anderson-Paul-1.pdf It is not in the printed book, where I made my notes. I have no opinion, but people who understand astrophysics say the authors are wrong, and the

Re: [Vo]:I think this was the best ICCF conference in a while

Axil Axil wrote: > How did the SAFIRE project presentation go...anything interesting? > Which author was that? I have lost track. - Jed

[Vo]:I think this was the best ICCF conference in a while

Here is something I wrote at lenr-forum.com: In my opinion, this was the best ICCF conference in a long time. The number of participants was up. The number of young researchers was up. The number of experiments was up, compared to past meetings dominated by theorizing and rehashing old

[Vo]:Yoshiaki Arata dead

Cold fusion researcher Yoshiaki Arata died on June 5, 2018, at age 94. See: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20180607/k00/00m/060/072000c

Re: [Vo]:Beiting paper at ICCF-21

g to quibble, I would add that this comparison neglects the mass of oxygen needed to burn the chemical fuels listed. - Jed

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