[Vo]:New research describes newly-identified electron spin-coupling with angular electromagnetic moments

2015-10-12 Thread Robert Ellefson
Dear Vorticians, I just came across this reference to some new research showing previously-undescribed electron spin-coupling modes that I thought folks here might find interesting. I don't have access to the full article yet, but I did find some related work by the first author.

RE: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android

2015-09-03 Thread Robert Ellefson
From: Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:20 AM FORTH is an interesting RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programming language. Quite primitive, but deceptively powerful once you get a handle of it. I already liked RPN from using and programming my

[Vo]:New research reveals undescribed coupling between photons and magnons

2015-08-25 Thread Robert Ellefson
I thought the spinsters in this crowd would find the following article rather interesting: http://phys.org/news/2015-08-magnon-phonon-magnetoelastic-magnetic-photoexci tation.html They describe anomalies involving interactions of spin-domain boundaries and photonic energy. Here is a relevant

RE: [Vo]:melted alumina tube

2015-03-17 Thread Robert Ellefson
Jack, Fantastic! I’m really stoked to hear of your progress. I think your powder recipe sounds very interesting, and I would love to know more about the details of the reactants. It sounds like you’ve come up with a mixture which may contain one or more key ingredients not yet identified

RE: [Vo]:About iron and cobalt in Rossi's fuel

2014-11-12 Thread Robert Ellefson
(Cross-posted from e-catworld ) Axil, Although some aspects of this reaction may be occurring, I suspect that the large crystal sizes for both the iron and lithium aluminum hydrate suggest that this fuel does not have sufficiently dispersed nano-scale reactants, which this article

RE: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-29 Thread Robert Ellefson
There was some discussion last week about these reactions, based on newly-released papers, on this thread: “[Vo]:Is the E-Cat reaction a plasmon-driven instance of a metastable innershell molecular state (MIMS) mediated neutron exchange?”

RE: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-28 Thread Robert Ellefson
I agree that the reactions I am proposing are extremely unlikely to occur in an unconstrained system, such as a gas or plasma in three-space. However, you must consider that these reactions are occurring in the midst of *intense* interactions driven by EMF, SPP, and phonon energies that are

RE: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-28 Thread Robert Ellefson
produced from fusion reactions and others injected by megawatt beams used to heat the plasma to fusion temperatures. New experiments are shedding light on one of the major mechanisms by which fast ions can be ejected from plasma. -Bob From: Robert Ellefson Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 2:25 PM

RE: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-26 Thread Robert Ellefson
Occam's Razor is a tool used by enfeebled minds to construct paper houses out of tree bark shavings. Real thinkers use chain saws and portable lumber mills to build their houses. -Bob -Original Message- From: Kevin O'Malley [mailto:kevmol...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 26,

RE: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-25 Thread Robert Ellefson
From: Roarty, Francis X Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:18 AM are you implying this reaction can occur without gas loading? If your theory does require gas atoms what function do you assign them? Dear Fran, Bob Cook, and vortex-l, My interpretation of the evidence is that the

RE: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-25 Thread Robert Ellefson
Oops, I see at least one significant typo in the reaction table. The first line should read: Li-7 + Ni-58 + Li-7 + stimulus - 2Li-6 + Ni-60 + sr-gammas This is the first step of the enrichment cycle. -Bob -Original Message- From: Robert Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 5:29 PM

[Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-21 Thread Robert Ellefson
Dear Vortex-L, Stimulated by Jones Beene's thoughts on a coherent lasing system based on a Dynamical Casimir Effect (DCE) from his postings earlier today, I hope to encourage further discussion along these lines of thought. In reference to the characteristic morphology of the nickel ash grain

[Vo]:Is the E-Cat reaction a plasmon-driven instance of a metastable innershell molecular state (MIMS) mediated neutron exchange?

2014-10-17 Thread Robert Ellefson
Dear Vortex-l, I found these papers from Young K. Bae, published recently in Physics Letters A and Results in Physics, to be of tremendous interest and potential relevance to the phenomena we are witnessing in the E-Cat and possibly other LENR reactions. (I note that these whole papers can be

RE: [Vo]:Testing fuels without a reactor

2014-10-15 Thread Robert Ellefson
then, I'll just presume this to be artifact. -Bob From: Robert Ellefson Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 5:29 PM Subject: [Vo]:Testing fuels without a reactor Given the results of the SIMS analysis from the Lugano report, particularly as detailed in this posting: http://www.mail-archive.com

RE: [Vo]:E-cat : Minimum COP assuming worst mistakes possible

2014-10-14 Thread Robert Ellefson
McKubre’s point about the value of the implications of the input power step response is very important, and I entirely agree. In terms of systems analysis, when you have an input step function, the derivative of that input then becomes an approximation of the Dirac delta function, otherwise

[Vo]:Testing fuels without a reactor

2014-10-14 Thread Robert Ellefson
Given the results of the SIMS analysis from the Lugano report, particularly as detailed in this posting: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg98596.html I believe that it is possible to evaluate the nuclear activity of candidate fuel samples simply by sputter-cleaning them as

[Vo]:Does species 69 evolve in-situ during fuel sputter-cleaning within SEM vacuum chamber?

2014-10-13 Thread Robert Ellefson
Looking closely at figures 5-8 of appendix 3 of the Lugano report, I believe we can see evidence for the evolution of a mass 69 species during sputter-cleaning of the samples while undergoing ToF-SIMS analysis in a scanning electron microscope. Figure 5 provides what amounts to a control run

RE: [Vo]:Does species 69 evolve in-situ during fuel sputter-cleaning within SEM vacuum chamber?

2014-10-13 Thread Robert Ellefson
peak. -Bob -Original Message- From: Robert Ellefson Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:37 AM Looking closely at figures 5-8 of appendix 3 of the Lugano report, I believe we can see evidence for the evolution of a mass 69 species during sputter-cleaning of the samples while undergoing

Isotope conversion completeness, was RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
David, I strongly disagree with the conclusions you have expressed regarding the ash sample isotope fraction. First, as I explain in this (rather-long-winded) mail from yesterday, the ENTIRE ASH SAMPLE BULK was analyzed by ICP-MS as consisting of 99.3% enriched Ni-62. ( see:

[Vo]:Further thoughts regarding ash isotope fractions

2014-10-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
The surface analysis of ash residue using ToF-SIMS showed 98.7% Ni-62 enrichment, while the bulk ash contents were found to have 99.3% enriched Ni-62. Similarly, the surface-layer enrichment of Li-6 is 92.1%, while the bulk contains 57.5% Li-6. If these figures are accurate, then there exists

RE: Isotope conversion completeness, was RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
. Jones From: Robert Ellefson First, as I explain in this (rather-long-winded) mail from yesterday, the ENTIRE ASH SAMPLE BULK was analyzed by ICP-MS

RE: Isotope conversion completeness, was RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
pure sample - which would indicate one neutron at a time? Surely you are not suggesting multi-body? _ From: Robert Ellefson Jones, I

RE: Isotope conversion completeness, was RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
was faked by commercially available enriched isotopes? On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Robert Ellefson vortex-h...@e2ke.com mailto:vortex-h...@e2ke.com wrote: Recall that the bulk results show 57% Li-6 enrichment, vs. 92% surface enrichment. I believe the higher fraction of Li-6

RE: [Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear to be absent

2014-10-10 Thread Robert Ellefson
On Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:45 PM, Eric Walker wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Robert Ellefson wrote: Given that the ash sample was taken at an arbitrarily-defined time point ... then I believe this indicates that the reaction is a cyclic one, which decays to the measured ash

RE: [Vo]:[Rossi TR#2] Reactor close down : all Li and Ni converted. Coincidentally?

2014-10-09 Thread Robert Ellefson
I don’t consider this a crazy idea at all. In fact, there is my nearly-identical conclusion from yesterday: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg98021.html -Bob From: Robert Dorr [mailto:rod...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:31 AM To:

[Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear to be absent

2014-10-08 Thread Robert Ellefson
One observation that I'm noting in reviewing the data is the remarkably complete conversion of nickel isotopes to Ni68, (from 3.9% in the starting fuel to 98.7% in the ash) and the corresponding nearly-complete transition of lithium-6 from 8.6% fuel to 92.1% ash abundance ratios. Given that the

RE: [Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear to be absent

2014-10-08 Thread Robert Ellefson
Er, s/Ni68/Ni62/g :-) -Original Message- From: Robert Ellefson [mailto:vortex-h...@e2ke.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 5:02 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear to be absent One observation that I'm

RE: [Vo]:Intermediate products of isotope shifting reaction appear to be absent

2014-10-08 Thread Robert Ellefson
Is this a typo? There is no Ni68. Half life is less than 30 seconds -Original Message- From: Robert Ellefson One observation that I'm noting in reviewing the data is the remarkably complete conversion of nickel isotopes to Ni68,

RE: [Vo]:Pomp weighs in

2014-10-08 Thread Robert Ellefson
My speculation has been that the elements not present in the ash but seen in the fuel may be the result of evaporation and subsequent deposition outside of the sampled ash volume, such as on the vessel walls, rather than being subject to transmutation. However, this would not seem to account for

[Vo]:Al Gore is aware of recent LENR developments

2013-06-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
Good News! In a google hangout that just occured, Vice President Al Gore said that there have been VERY interesting developments in cold fusion recently, and he used significant tonal inflection to emphasize his point. He also explained that the term LENR was preferred now, indicating he is

RE: [Vo]:Al Gore is aware of recent LENR developments

2013-06-11 Thread Robert Ellefson
it, clearly, he just didn't actually say it. -Robert From: Harry Veeder [mailto:hveeder...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:29 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Al Gore is aware of recent LENR developments On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Robert Ellefson vortex-h

RE: [Vo]:Over 40 messages posted by Joshua Cude posted on June 4

2013-06-04 Thread Robert Ellefson
... at what point does this incessant (IMO) kind posting behavior considered a nuisance and hindrance to on-going Vortex discussions? Now, if Cude is genuinely making a good contribution I'll have nothing more to say on this matter. But it would be interesting to hear a consensus on how

RE: [Vo]:Caveats to using SPICE for thermal analysis

2013-06-03 Thread Robert Ellefson
From: Alan Fletcher Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Caveats to using SPICE for thermal analysis David has been concentrating on the control aspects, I have been doing RC modelling similar to that described in your very helpful paper. I did a detailed mesh model of a

[Vo]:Caveats to using SPICE for thermal analysis

2013-06-01 Thread Robert Ellefson
involved in SPICE thermal modeling, but I do recall a number of warnings from experts about divergences, subtle and not. Hope this helps, Robert Ellefson