Re: [Vo]:Orchestrated Objective Reduction

fairly is biomass, and to some extent solar, wind and similar 'standard' ones. I am helpless about nuclear, and like Daniel Yergin in "Quest" dont say much about it. What do y'all see as real possibilities in 50 years? regards, ken deboer On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:30 AM Terry Blan

Re: [Vo]: Spider phonons

Hi all, Also of possible interest to many is the recent article in Nat. Materials about manufacturing rather large scale nanolattices, which have some intriguing properties. On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:02 PM, a.ashfield wrote: > Of possible interest to Axil >

Re: [Vo]:Ukrainian Paper on the active particle of LENR

nd phonons and Cerenkov emissions, for one thing (I've attached the little blurb I'm refering to).Also, a related thought: ceramic is a very poor heat conductor, while on the other hand, graphene is a super duper conductor. Also, it has a melting point about 4500 C. Graphene as a container? Best r

Re: [Vo]:Cheap Solar Power (harvard.edu)

Vis a vis this excellent thread, I'd be interested in people's thoughts about a new video by Robert Murray Smith on "The Internet of Energy". This looks to me to be better than Tesla's technology, and in fact, a very significant advance for, especially, widespread solar. ken On Thu, May 5, 2016

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's missing secret or E-CatX description or both?

Hi guys, This discussion gave me a wild general idea for a series of possible experiments. Many folks have talked about the central feature of Lenr maybe involving Casimir cavities, as well as graphene and similar lattice materials. Lots of scientists lately have reported many Casimir like

Re: [Vo]:CNN: The largest U.S. coal company just filed for bankruptcy

That is exactly right, Jones! There are several papers and patents on feasible ways to use coal as high value products, especially CNTs, activated carbon, graphene, quantum dots etc. Here are four examples C. Xiang et al (J. Tour's group at Rice Univ) . Coal as an abundant source of graphene

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Video shows how superior animal intelligence is compared to artificial intelligence

Jed, That movie is terrific. And also hilarious. The reaction of the monkey is exactly the same as all of has seen many times in humans. It is getting absolutely untenable anymore to deny the lack of sentience in some of the animal world with profound implications for humanity. I'm quite

Re: [Vo]:Cellani replication 'flea bitten' lenr radiation NOT

Still wondering if instead of nickel wires or sintered powder etc, it may yet be possible to 3d print various lattices of nickel. The industry blurb from Nano Dimensions from Israel included here is kinda interesting. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Video shows how superior animal intelligence is compared to artificial intelligence

Nice work, Jed, and also the comments of Vibrator are right on. As an old retired biologist,it has been heartening to see the neurosciences admitting to higher neural and mental functioning in animals, including the near-human intellectual and cognitive achievements you noted in the cat.

Re: [Vo]:LENR fuel deployment

Hi Axil et al, This makes me wonder (as many of you probably also have) about some new particular ways to approach manufacturing the reactor from scratch. It seems certain that structure, especially micro- and nano-structure, of the fuel especially is just as important as the material itself.

Re: [Vo]: How many atoms to make condensed matter?

Question: Not sure if it has been discussed before, but could it be that nanoparticulate fuel arrangements are not the ideal? Many workers, most recently JM Thomas (Nature 17 Sept 2015) showed that single atoms, of Pd especially, make better catalysts than nanoparticles. super catalysts, in

Re: [Vo]:The self-charging supercapacitor/battery

Hi Jones, You and others have often speculated on a possible role of magnetism. In that regard I wonder if the recent finding by a Rice Univ. group (Yakobson et al; Nano Lett. Oct 15, 2015 "Riemann surfaces of carbon as graphene nanosolenoids") would be of interest. They found a 1T field induced

Re: [Vo]:Sealing the Dog Bone

I'm not sure if Axil gets credit for first bringing up graphene, but I've often wondered if there weren't a role for it in either the macro- or nano- structure of a device. BTW, graphene can be 3d printed on regular machines, while alumina can be 2d printed (with some difficulty I believe) on

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

Regarding the 'shell' of various LENR reactors, I wonder if someone could recap or comment on what the history has been and what some of the considerations and rational were behind them. Most reactors have been built around steel if I'm not mistaken, and some of glass. The new Rossi model is of

Re: [Vo]:OT: what if everybody got free cash?

extra outlay might not be that far out. Not to mention, of course, the real reason to do this. ken deboer On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:43 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: I did not mean to play the scare card. In fact anybody, no matter their age or health, could wake one morning and find

Re: [Vo]:Punctuated equilibrium

Jojo, Here's one (actually a few ): clymene dolphin plus 2-4% of all flowering plants, inc. many sunflowers, and many crop species. BTW. This whole 'odds' thing is a joke. Julian Huxley, for example, did not state his opinion re; the astronomical 'odds' of a horse, but did ridicule the guy that

Re: [Vo]:Italian minor, sucess in cold fusion... any more info

excuse my ignorance, but isn't this just hydrogen burning in oxygen, and just like the h-cat? ken On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: what is the evidence of cold fusion. I don't see any calorimetry. it seems to be Mizuno electrolysis, buthow do they

Re: [Vo]:New spongelike structure converts solar energy into steam

I wonder is this the same phenonomena as that described by Halas's group at Rice Univ a couple years back?. They simply focused sunlight onto carbon black in water and saw water boiling directly off at apparently low temp. I briefly reproduced her experiment by a fresnel lens focused on a little

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo] Rossi Effect Not Before June--

FUTURE? I'd like to throw in a couple of general comments on the current trend of this Forum and LENR in general (Just as a cheerleader, since I am totally incapable of contributing or even understanding the technical details). Despite no real evidence of any imminent breakthrough, still, we

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo] Rossi Effect Not Before June--

. Who will do this is a critical questiion. I'd rather not buy my lenr energy from Duke Enerergy or BP. Cheers, ken On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Ken Deboer barlaz...@gmail.com wrote: FUTURE? I'd like to throw in a couple of general comments on the current trend of this Forum and LENR

Re: [Vo]:Resonant photons for CNT ring current

Not sure if these recent papers on potential of graphene arrangements would be helpful, but FWItW here are a few: Huang B-L et al 2012. Persistent currents on a graphene ring with armchair edges. J. Phys. Cond. Matter 24: Dubey S. et al 2013, Tunable superlattice in graphene to control the number

Re: [Vo]:Christopher H. Cooper

RE C. Cooper Hi, Found out a little bit about Chris Cooper. He was actually the founder of Seldon Technologies, which is based on his work with CNT's. He was trained in nuclear physics and may have a Ph., D. in it. He ( and maybe his father? William Cooper) have fairly recently written over a

Re: [Vo]:Small business attempts

SMALL Lennart, I couldn't agree more with your take. As a serial biotech entrepeneur, a couple of which went fairly big for a while, the NEED to get rather large too quickly doomed 3 of them. I always said that we had a million dollar appetite on a beer budget. Small is good. ken On Thu,

Re: [Vo]:BLP Video 2hours from January 28th Demonstration

OT: 3D printer Just thought it may be of interest at some point, last week I saw that carbon fibres can now be printed 3D. A related item is that EERE (DOE) is going to fund research into biomass, 'green', production of carbon fibres (think nanotubes, graphene) to the tune of $12 million.

Re: [Vo]:Biofuel from Algae in Minutes

I agree entirely with your assessment, James. 10 years ago I was intimately engaged in biofuels,raising my own and even starting the first Company in the state to get a biofuel production plant up. However, in collaboration with various colleagues in academia and commerce, after a year of

Re: [Vo]:Biofuel from Algae in Minutes

biomass they produce per investment. On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:55 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The biomass production cost problem has been solved. I don't know when the world will wake up. On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ken Deboer barlaz...@gmail.com wrote: I agree

Re: [Vo]: ATTENTION: request for expertise...

Glad to see interest stilll in the very much needed noninvasive glucose testing and wish you all much success. While I didn't work directly with methods for glucose tests or with diabetes particularly, I did work, a long time ago for sure, on related subjects and found maybe some things you

[Vo]:new topic

Perhaps I'm the last person on this planetary orbit to find this out, but I just discovered a new free Journal. Scientific Reports. Authors pay through the nose, but content is open. It's peer reviewed from Nature Pub. Group. A sample title is Direct nitrogen fixation at the edges of graphene

Re: [Vo]:MFMP on a possible independent report of DGT's Hyperion

Re: Bets Nicely put, Steven. RIP. ken On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:28 PM, DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: yes, there is market inefficiency due to risk aversion. Black swans exist. D2 -- From: orionwo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject:

Re: [Vo]:interview re a sensitive subject

, ken deboer barlaz...@gmail.comwrote: our near relatives ... clearly possess ... manifestations of high mental activity, ... even a primitive and undeveloped sense of mysticism or protoreligion. I'm curious in what species this has been discovered. Eric -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj

Re: [Vo]:interview re a sensitive subject

I'm not sure if this is the right way to reply to Peter's recent blog guess I'll find out. Dear Peter, Your little essay was rather nicley framed and appropriate at any time. I especially smiled at your explanation of extremism, which I think has some truth to it. Scientism, mysticism, and

Re: [Vo]:I confess

RE; Font I for one can readily tolerate font EXCURSIONS. Especially since the earlier thread on it was absolutely hilarious. Alan's instant classic like a car full of screaming clowns was itself worth twice the size. Made my day On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:41 AM, DJ Cravens

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat HT shows excess heat from H gas + Ni powder making Cu over days, three cautious multiday runs: Rich Murray 2013.05.22

I'm confused by the title you use, H gas + Ni powder making Cu over days. I'm not aware any copper, or any other transmutation product, was looked for or found. I confuse easily, so please enlighten. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Hi Rich,

Re: [Vo]:MODERATOR: J. Cude, extensive Rule 2 violations

I'd venture to make a suggestion, or request. Not to disparage or discourage all that goes on here, but to encourage also maybe a slight veer to the left (right?). Admittedly, I have not read anywhere near all the papers available (and don't understand most of them very well anyway) but It

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial 2

Sidenote: I'm reminded of one of the great one-liners (and I believe it was uttered by someone on this list if I;m not mistaken: The difference between connecting the dots and conflation is spin On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Rothwell wrote: Cude

Re: [Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

No, Eric, this is not tiresome to us poor unwashed voorts. Except when it occassionaly degenerates into a pissing contest, it is entirely interesting to see ideas (many immediately shot down) spin out. It seems to me that eventually some new useful insight, or synthesis might give either a

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:Serendipity, Hexavalency and E-Cat

greetings all, I would like to echo Fran's comment. As one of the interested, enthusiastic, alert Vort cheerleaders, I'd encourage all you young (ish) players capable of playing the game to keep right on (nicely!). I am a scientist, but an old retired biologist who, like many are Physics

Re: [Vo]:Hydrogen from plant sugar breakthrough reported

Jones, right on in your assesment of the value of this 'breakthrough'. As an early (reformed) biomass fuel worker, I've seen a lot of 'advances' heralded. All suffer from the same basic flaws, the worst of which you correctly noted. On a very small, local scale, I can buy some of these

[Vo]:new topic

Hello all, Many might have missed this recent study on brain transmission between rats. As an old biologist, this is especially fascinating and certainly will have future impact. A summary at aln...@vicon-mail.com Cheers, ken deboer

Re: [Vo]:Tech Predictions

ken deboer New Topic: Just happened upon a new patent , US app 20130044847 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS' by Dan Steinberg of Blacksburg, Virginia. Obviously relevant but I am totally unqualifed to make any useful comments on it. 'Who are these guys?' On Mon, Feb 25

Re: [Vo]:[OT, sort of] To all you researchers and mad scientists

Amen. ken deboer On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:57 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Sunday Sermon ** ** To all of you researchers and mad scientists pouring your best blood, sweat tears into unraveling the mysteries behind the LENR process, please

Re: [Vo]: . . . intellectual embarrassment is tattooed to the naysayers forever . . .

Pretty low bar. ken deboer On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:09 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to James Bowery's message of Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:00:29 -0600: Hi, This appears to be the corollary of my definition of a dictatorship. A country is a dictatorship when it takes measures

Re: [Vo]:Independent validation of Carlos Ortez Web Proceedure

is, of course, the latest Rossi outcome. If ortiz gave that out as his own results, he would be the biggest fraud since Piltdown. If he actually has his own results it would be interesting to know. ken deboer On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-12-07 18:42

Re: [Vo]:Steven Jones: Excess heat is real, but probably not nuclear

Interesting stuff (even to a completely ignorant one like me). Have y'all heard of the work at Rice Univ. by Halas et al vaporizing (cold) water directly in a couple seconds by various nanoparticles. In ACS Nano. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:43 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: I

Re: [Vo]:Bladeless Turbine

Just a note re: bladeless turbines A couple years ago I helped a local inventor test his prototype new bladeless turbine. It was a simple little, hand made, 6 inch deal that we got spinning over 15000 rpm with a little steam boiler. He has a patent on it #7824149, and is building now a larger,

Re: [Vo]:Reasons to be optimistic we will win the political battle

Jed, I agree (almost) completely with all you said here; very well put. However, while I agree the main 'CF' industry will be by mid- and large corps, I do still believe that there will be a rather large, worldwide, 'underground' micro-lenr industry. Not quite cottage, but local full service lenr

Re: [Vo]:Whence Willard?

Thank you so much, lorenheyer, from all us whitey Americans for your numerous stupendously brilliant expositions on how life really is. Now please go back down your sick wormhole, or whatever, for, oh, a hundred years or so. We'll let you know when it's OK. On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:35 AM,

Re: [Vo]:bad news

Dr. Gluck, maybe not all that bad of news. I agree, the idea of growing your own fuel is dead. Ecologically, even economically, impossible under our current world situation. Bioethanol as gasoline additives will become increasingly disastrous. For a few years I grew my own biodiesel for my

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

Jack, I think you went the wrong way with the total BTU inputted. should be 36 wh X ~3 btu/w = ~100 btu. ken On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have pretty high heat loss as it is open to the air. Here are some pretty conservative calculations

Re: [Vo]:Replication of Chuck Sites Nickel/Boron Experiment

Very interesting, indeed. How much water are you using? If everything were 100% efficient, and you were inputting 12 watts/hr = ~40 btu/hr, over 3 hours you would have 120 btu, which theoretically could raise 1 pound of water 120 F. Best regards, kend On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Jack Cole