Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:42 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen it claimed by a rather emotionally committed skeptic -- with some background in conducting CF runs with calorimetry -- that an adequate 19th century technology water-bath style calorimetry of the E-Cat HT would

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:38 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I'll ask the question a different way: Is there any explanation offered, even if only in an interview, by the researchers as to why they did not use normal calorimetry? In the December run, the experiment was

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: They used perfectly normal calorimetry. Normal to me means common. But I have not seen calorimetry performed with IR thermometry. Do you have some references for where it has been used? There is not the slightest

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:01 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Dennis, I don't think it would be quite so easy for Rossi to perform the experiment that you propose. It's amazing the excuses true believers contrive to explain why inferior experiments were used. If the thing is to

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:20 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The ECAT will need adjustment depending upon the environment into which it operates. This is what should be expected. Exactly, and controlled cooling provides a way to adjust it. Sitting in the open air does not.

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I have significant experience with flow calorimeters. I would say: 1. It would end up costing much more than a few hundred dollars. True. But not more than 10k for an off-the-shelf unit. That sounds like a bargain for

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Even though I'm still wearing my skeptic's hat (that's the one with the propeller on top) isn't the argument about the need for calorimetry made irrelevant the amount of energy observed to have been generated? In other words,

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Extraordinary claims call for the most ordinary proof you can come up with. That's true for true believers. For everyone else the usual saying represents common sense, and the opinion of great thinkers from Pascal

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I still think that a standalone unplugged demo is the best approach - not high wattage and fancy instruments and lots of wires and computer programs. That would be nice, but evidently that would probably cause the

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Flow calorimetry has much to be said for it but it is more complicated and less believable than this. A lot more can go wrong with it, and usually does go wrong with it for the first several weeks. It is both more

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I have thought about that. During the initial warm up phase you would get an interesting result. After that, when it reaches a steady state, you would maintain the entire body of water at a certain temperature for

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:50 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It will take more than just a generator and an extension cord to close the loop. Some form of energy storage will be required to do the job. To close the loop with electricity, probably yes. But if you used

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:03 PM, DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: They only need to make their sponsors happy not Crude. I hope the best for them. Hey, if you're referring to me, I'm with you all the way on the self-sustaining water-tank heating demo. So the insult is particularly

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I do not understand what you have in mind here. Nature allows us to do some things and not others. We have to work with what nature allows, not what we would wish for in an ideal universe.[...] Obviously with more

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The best proof is one that has the least possibility of error. Or the least possibility of error that favors the ecat, or the least possibility of tampering. An isolated ecat eliminates input tampering. A heated tank of

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Indeed, making steam and using it to, say, drive a car across Italy without stopping would be pretty damn convincing. Nice to see you can envision a demo that would convince skeptics. Unfortunately the actual demos don't

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: There was a time when this field desperately needed a standalone self powered reactor to prove the reaction is real. That is because absolute power was low, ranging from 5 to 100 W. However, now that Rossi has

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Dr. Richard L. Garwin is alive and well and will likely live to have his tea. If you believe Rothwell and Roberson, skeptics will never have to concede, because no application of cold fusion is obvious enough to make

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If the device cannot self-power, it is still valuable with a lower COP, the proverbial hot water or space heater - A COP of 3 is not useful if the electricity was made with fossil fuels at an efficiency of 1/3. That's a

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: If it is real it is the most important advance in technology since the discovery of fire. If the scientific community is convinced it is real, every industrial corporation and university will be hard at work on this.

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: WHY are you so certain that wattmeters do not work?!? You know that's not the objection. There is no chance Rossi can fool one, and if the people doing the test have any doubt about that, they can bring a portable

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: Portable generator is also fine and even better, because it leaves very little room for tricks and doubt. But after 10 or so demonstrations we have had only one portable generator and that also was brought by Rossi.

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing in the recent test was brought by Rossi. This test was a hands-off black box test, exactly what the skeptics have been demanding. It seems you will not take yes for an answer. So much nonsense. The test was

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Leading scam hypothesis does assume that Giuseppe Levi is a scammer and he is as bad as Rossi. And he brought most of the instruments. I see. And these other co-authors

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
- From: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.comwrote: Josh, your entire theory

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:59 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: No reason for any of your issues is given except that there is no reason that you are aware of to do what makes sense to most other engineers and scientists on the list. 3-phase is not needed. He ran higher power

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I admit that I do not believe that the magnetic field is important in this case. I am very pleased to see that some progress is being made. It is not too close to zero with this particular geometry Well, the

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:17 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: If you genuinely want an explanation of how the eCAT is positive feedback, which Dave is trying to do, backed up by his model, then it requires following a line of reasoning. Wrong discussion. The question of COP

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The effects of heat and the use of heat to control chemical and nuclear reactions is well established. Perhaps, but elsewhere I asked for an example where the addition of heat is used to control a positive thermal

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Applying more heat to make it stop is not what he does. He ceases to apply the excess drive heat to make it stop. This is 180 degrees different. The extra drive power to the resistors is added to the internal power

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The group at moletrap has a hobby of trying to debunk anything that they do not understand. You should have realized by now that these clowns can not admit when they are shown in error to keep up appearances of

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:07 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Cude and the others of this group can not accept that LENR is anything except for a scam. Not true in my case. I think most of LENR research is not a scam; it is probably just pathological science. But I don't even

Re: [Vo]: Interesting Information Contained in Output Temperature Curve Shape

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:57 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: There is a wealth of information contained within the shape of the output temperature curve associated with operation of the ECAT. That's total speculative and nonsensical over-interpretation. It's based in the

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:11 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: No problem, I will meet you here in a couple of years and we can compare notes. Good, but I was hoping you'd be able to tell us now if you might get a little skeptical if the hot cat has a similar fate that the steam

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:13 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am attempting to keep you form getting banned since I want to use you to clear up a number of issues. It is hoped that you will go back to the other skeptics and then set them straight. Garbage. You don't need

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:25 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Maybe we are making headway in this discussion. Can I assume that you are now saying that the hot cat can actually produce heat by some unknown process? So far it is not clear that you accept this premise. For

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:08 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Josh, once you understand how the ECAT uses heat for control you will realize that the heat can not be applied continuously. Well, you're gonna have to explain it if you expect me to understand it. And then you're

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ** Yes it was a poor analogy, but so what? Cude’s analysis is wrong no matter how much he obfuscates and by jumping on a poor analogy – he does not gain credibility. ** Which analogy is that? I was suggesting

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: But I think you misunderstood. I was not referring to new science theories there. I was saying that it's common sense that if Rossi's claims

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: No, you don't. Plenty of ICEs (outboards, motorcycles) run without batteries. Car engines would run without batteries too, unless they use some

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: But the ecat just uses electricity to make heat. So if the ecat already makes heat, it should self-sustain on that. Like combustion. I passed

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: There is a third possibility as well. The reaction is localized, and it depends upon an elevated temperature to kick off. But the local region is destroyed by the reaction, so you have apply heat once more to initiate

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 3:22 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Eric, The resistive heating requirement is to be able to reverse the temperature excursion at the proper time by removing the extra input. Constant heat input will result in the destruction of the device when useful

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:10 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Eric, Model 1 appears to be more in line with what I suspect is happening except for the explanation of the lack of external heat for control issue. You need to consider that the peak heat power being generated

Re: [Vo]: DC Meter Cheat Spice Model to be Replicated

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:21 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I have requested that Cude or any others interested in finding the truth construct a similar model and prove me wrong. I never made any claims about dc rectification. I said that the experimental design leaves

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:36 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: This is a good start Josh. I think I can explain that to you since you seem to be a pretty sharp guy. Thank you Mr Roberson for that kind compliment. Unfortunately it also takes an explanation that is realistic and

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:47 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: So, do you need help with that spice model? You're just repeating your arguments and ignoring the responses I've already given to them. Obviously I have no proof. How could I? True believers insist on an explanation of

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The tactic of the obstructionist is to avoid dealing with the case The avoidance here is from the true believers who insist that any alternative explanation must described in detail, whereas they refuse to explain the

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:35 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It is apparent that Mr. Cude does not have a valid case and is not willing to discuss the issues. I've written a lot of words, so obviously I'm willing to discuss. I'm kind of outnumbered here, so it's not possible to

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: Put yourself in the shoes of those 7 scientists who have placed

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Anyway the Farnsworth Fusor is a fusion reactor that many high school level students have built, including Conrad. It involves adding electrical energy in order to achieve LENR reactions. Sound familiar, Joshua? You

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us who have studied cold fusion for the last 23 years have a definition

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician wants you to measure are already exposed. Clever, huh. Too clever by half. This would not begin to fool any

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Ah, so it's OK to argue that Cude is, in effect, hand-waving away Ohm's law and that's indefensible because that law is accepted but it's not OK to argue that Carat's dismissal of

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Mark, you quoted Siegel as saying that CF violated physics because it did not act like hot fusion. Carat simply pointed out that CF was not like hot fusion and this comparison was not valid. She simply made a statement

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The Elforsk web page announcement is better than a signed statement, in my opinion. So was EPRI's statement. A conclusion issued by an organization carries more weight than statement signed by one EE. Along the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: LENR complies with all know physical laws. The problem is that few scientists have a background in this new branch of science. You don't know what you're talking about. LENR is contrary to predictions based on a century of

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Let me quote the specific text from Cude that I discussed: You're just repeating your arguments and ignoring the responses I've already given to them. Obviously I have no proof. How could I? True believers insist on

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:50 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: There is one very very simple truth. Many will never believe right up until a technology is widely available. If so, I think it will be a first. I am not aware of a phenomenon that was widely rejected by the

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: How did quantum mechanics come about? Experimental phenomenon occurred in blackbody radiation that could not be explained by the conventional physical theories of the day. Right, but all the anomalies that led to QM were robust,

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Levi didn't provide pictures of the resistors, but it's reasonable to assume that they had the same structure as showed by Penon. http://coldfusionnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/105322688-Penon4-1.pdf The resistors are

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: He said you need a battery for an internal combustion engine, and so that means it's not self-sustaining. That was what I responded to. My

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-06-01 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: the analogy only goes so far, in that it is harder in Rossi's case to recapture the heat and channel it back into the secondary source. But the ecat just uses electricity to make heat. So if the ecat already makes

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not talking about initiating. I'm talking about sustaining. I have no problem using electricity to initiate the ecat. But if it's a source

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: A match is needed to ignite a firecracker, but once ignited, the explosion sustains itself. A match is needed to start a campfire, but not to sustain it. Cold

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:23 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: There seems to be a serious hangup over why a heat generating device needs some form of heating input to sustain itself. The skeptics can not seem to get their arms around this issue so I will make another short attempt

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: If we are going to do analogies, a more useful one would be to compare the Rossi reactor to an internal combustion engine ICE. With an ICE you have to apply the spark periodically to small portions of the fuel to

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: As dave explains it makes sense if the energy input provides cooling power. Exactly. The whole thing is nuts. If it really needed to be regulated, it would make sense to regulate with temperature controlled cooling.

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: I agree Dave, I have been providing this explanation for several years without any effect. I'm glad you are adding your voice. The critical point at which the temperature must be reduced depends on the degree of thermal

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:52 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Josh, what is common sense now becomes ancient history when the newest theories come out. Yes, I know that happens sometimes. And sometimes things that are common sense remain common sense. But I think you

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Bill Beaty has an excellent quote on this subject, here: http://amasci.com/weird/vmore.html Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:47 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: If someone is looking for an analogy they could look at the behavior of a power transistor mounted on a heat sink. For this exercise assume that the collector is directly connected to a power source. Apply enough base

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: . But my sense tells me that a significant number of scientists are starting to take genuine interest and that they will stay tuned for further details. Read the cold fusion forums for the last 24 years. This has

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, and only in a diesel engine do you not need a battery to keep spark plugs going. Demanding a self-sustaining device is like demanding a diesel engine. ICEs were first developed in the 1860s, and the diesel engine

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is more about who is the gatekeeper to the ideology and business of science rather than any exercise in ethics. The gatekeeper class resents this clique of stiff necked maverick scientists who have the

Re: [Vo]:Comment by Anderson at Forbes

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: I’m a Professor Ameritus in Electrical Engineering ... Everything I read in the 29 page report, and following challenges as answered by the

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: OK -- in fig 6 (Dec) they show a blue-and-yellow CONTROL box and three triacs. They don't have a picture for March, so we don't know if it includes the functionality of the blue-and-yellow box or just replaces the triac.

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: My guess is that he is designing for industrial applications. It's not gonna be useful for industrial purposes with a COP of 3; remember the electricity was made with an efficiency of 1/3. It's gonna have to be

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:39 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: There are advantages to using a three phase power input that have been pointed out. For this application, the disadvantages are greater. Measurements of 3 phase systems are done every day so this is not important.

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: I don't buy it. The reactor is a sealed faraday cage, so it's not going to care about ripple or dc vs ac. It's just a thermal interface

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:32 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Josh: ** ** Eric’s comment about not needing a battery to keep spark plugs going was referring to a DIESEL engine, and diesels don’t have spark plugs. He said you need a battery for an internal combustion

Re: [Vo]:some more information about the december 2012 Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I do not understand what you are saying here. Are you saying that Rossi was present? Or that that he interfered with the experiment? I do not think that Levi or his co-authors has said that Rossi was absent. Only

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:35 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I thought that the DC issue was put to rest. Only according to the credulous true believers. Essen said they excluded it, but he didn't say how. If we're just going to accept what they say without scrutiny, then why

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:40 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Of course it is not the exact same. Positive heat feedback is what we are mainly interested in. You know that, so why bring up the obvious differences? Because it's not positive heat feedback.

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:37 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It is great to see that we are in such close agreement. Let's handle the issues related to positive feedback as I requested and you will improve your understanding. I thought you were keeping an open mind, not a

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:41 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Josh, please refrain from insults. Please refrain from telling me what to refrain from.

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:32 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: With that in mind, please submit for discussion your main reason for discounting my explanation so that it can be properly addressed and everyone who is following this concept can draw their own conclusions. It is my

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
is irrelevant to you and any discussion is a waste of time. Ed Storms On May 31, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Joshua Cude wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:40 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.comwrote: Of course it is not the exact same. Positive heat feedback is what we are mainly interested in. You know

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Even the people here such as Cude cannot come up with anything. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel when they say that three-phase electricity is difficult to measure or there might be a hidden wire under the

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Put yourself in the shoes of those 7 scientists who have placed their reputations on the line. I don't think it's a big risk. They can plausibly claim ignorance. In fact their ignorance is the most plausible

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: What is the best thing about this new demonstration that it excludes definitely steam based tricks from the possible repertoire. So from the beginning it was all about the feeding extra input power via hidden

Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al.

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
demonstrate a lack of understanding of basic EE knowledge. Dave -Original Message- From: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 4:19 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Ekstrom critique of Levi et al. On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:35 PM, David Roberson

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: And I'm not convinced those guys stripped any wires. How does one measure voltage without stripping wires? Watch the cheese video. The ends of the wires that the magician

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Good grief. The resistors are coils, presumably helical solenoids with the axis parallel to the reactor cylinder. The magnetic field is near

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:44 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Josh, your entire theory will be shot if you acknowledge that the COP is greater than 1. Are you now ready to accept this condition? No. The only thing you seem to be able to do is miss the point. The claimed COP is

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:48 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Every one of the points you make are pure speculation. There is absolutely no evidence that Rossi is using 3 phase power to conduct any scam. Right but all the excuses for why he might need them are pure speculation,

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:52 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I suggest that you study the magnetic fields associated with solenoids Josh. Obviously you must not realize that they have an external field much like a bar magnet. This is simple for you to study and realize your

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:59 AM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: If he does not know such a simple thing, I think he can be safely ignored No one's holding a gun to your head.

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-31 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:11 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Lets start with one of your choice regarding the many heat generation issues. How about how a small amount of heat can control a much larger amount? I agree this is possible under certain circumstances. But I don't

Re: [Vo]:Ethics of the E-Cat investigation put into question

2013-05-30 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: The monitoring of the input was comically inadequate, if there is any possibility of deception, the blank run used a different power regimen

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