[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity indeed

2007-11-13 Thread Jones Beene
One further refinement of the cold electricity theme, now to be called SEC or spatial energy coherence. Horace Heffner wrote: ZPE is not carried by real photons. If ZPE consisted of real photons then film would automatically expose at a phenomenal rate. Real radiometers, the kind built to

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-31 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:44:16 -0700: Hi, [snip] No one knows what the effective input power is, and in one incarnation of the circuit - yes - it may come via the ground wire, but surely in Fig 16, the scope image which shows a peak current to ground from the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Jones Beene
I am really surprised that all of the RF-expertise here on Vo seems to be fixated on capacitive coupling when the initial photo on that page shows a battery driven isolated circuit with its own signal, where capacitive coupling is impossible. As mentioned, RF from AM has been eliminated now

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: I am really surprised that all of the RF-expertise here on Vo seems to be fixated on capacitive coupling when the initial photo on that page shows a battery driven isolated circuit with its own signal, where capacitive coupling is impossible. The circuit under discussion

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Jones Beene
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The circuit under discussion was the one with a single ground wire attached and no input. It is based on the circuit shown in video #7. It is described farther down on that page. The one with a battery is yet something else again. The circuit is FAR from

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:58 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity It seems to me that the commentators here have been too quick to assume that the effect is conservative. Only

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The circuit under discussion was the one with a single ground wire attached and no input. It is based on the circuit shown in video #7. It is described farther down on that page. The one with a battery is yet something else again. The

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Jones Beene
Stephen, How can you possibly think a circuit with a battery in it provides a more clear-cut case of OU than a circuit which lights LEDs with no input power at all? Once again - let me repeat that no one has ever claimed that there is NO power input. No one has ever claimed that there is

RE: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread DDMasters
everyone seems so sure about on this list? I would like to know as it does seen very cool and a neat way to do very low power lighting. DM -Original Message- From: Horace Heffner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:10 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Horace Heffner
What a dodgy mess this is! 8^) On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Stephen, How can you possibly think a circuit with a battery in it provides a more clear-cut case of OU than a circuit which lights LEDs with no input power at all? Once again - let me repeat that no one

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Horace Heffner
What a dodgy mess this is! 8^) Second try to send this. On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Stephen, How can you possibly think a circuit with a battery in it provides a more clear-cut case of OU than a circuit which lights LEDs with no input power at all? Once again -

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-29 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to John Winterflood's message of Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:54:55 +0800: Hi, [snip] Robin van Spaandonk wrote: ... Note that Tesla lit light bulbs 25 miles away, with no wires, using only the ground as common medium. ... As I understand it there were two conductors - the earth and the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-28 Thread John Berry
On 10/28/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this patent 6798329 you are referencing ? Two of the inventors have the first name of Osamu, so this may not be the one you are referencing. No, try JP55082505, *GB2075755* Also - Coler: where is the diamagnetic material there? Silver

Fwd: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-28 Thread Terry Blanton
-- Forwarded message -- From: Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 28, 2007 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity To: vortex-l@eskimo.com On 10/28/07, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You said the forum would be set up so the messages would be readable

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-28 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, John Berry wrote: but he did inform me of someone else (In Italy IIRC, which I very well may not) who had replicated the effect and that is the same basic device here. That's different! (And by replication, do you mean the stand-alone operation, with no DC supply, no sig

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-28 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
William Beaty wrote: It's either the nobel prize, **OR** it's just tapping into the AM radio station. Or something else. Horace pointed out figure 22 on this page: http://www.drstiffler.com/ce4.asp I think that page deserves a very careful reading, and then I think we really, really

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-27 Thread John Berry
Terry, you have shown just enough interest so let's give this a go eh? (ie. Any at all) The crux of this is that it is possible to suck in fields by propper manipulation of space-time. (which is fluid) I can't say for sure if this relates to radio but it likely does, but now I'm going to have to

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-27 Thread R.C.Macaulay
John Berry wrote.. Did I waste my time typing this? (if you read this in interest please say so) Howdy John, Discussion among Vorts is never a waste of time. Bill Beatty's challenge to Ron Stiffler began a most healthy dialogue much needed as the search goes on. It was unfortunate that Ron

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-27 Thread Jones Beene
Interesting post, John. Lots of ground covered, but returning to one point: 6. Osamu, a patent where 2 magnets sandwich a diamagnetic material with a coil wound over) produces stronger reception of signal, much. (lots of correlations with joining of diamagnetic materials with magnetic ones...

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-27 Thread Jones Beene
There is already a crude replication on Hartmann's site. Details sparce, but the core is not radioactive, at least. I had hoped by now that there would have been some published replications. Maybe this weekend. If and when, or should I say 'as soon as' this happens, then people will be

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
On 10/27/07, John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry, you have shown just enough interest so let's give this a go eh? (ie. Any at all) Whew, what a summary! Yes, I am familiar with most of your examples. Okay, my wife is laid up with cosmetic surgery and I have some time between the bell

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-27 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, John Berry wrote: According to Mr. Beaty the reason energy sucking antennas work is not because the field of the transmitter is actually sucked into the receiving element, but because the field of the receiving element enhances the voltage induced. Probably my article

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:12 PM The only remaining thing to do is this. Given the proximity of AM broadcast, not only at his lab in particular - but in any metro area- he will eventually find the time, in order to

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread Esa Ruoho
is there any way we could arcihve everything that ron has said, in unedited form, so that we can all keep up-to-date as regards what he says, etc. it seems many are falling out of the loop now and becoming confused. im sure some really organized person could do this well :) On 25/10/2007,

RE: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, EnergyLab wrote: So lets see, If I place a picture of the readings on my TriField meter and my Ham RF field strength meter what a large can of worms that will open up. May I guess? You have it positioned in a dead spot of the lab, do a test over every square foot. You

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread Terry Blanton
: Harry Veeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:36 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity On 25/10/2007 7:08 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:54 PM, John Winterflood wrote: The important thing about a Faraday cage

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread John Berry
On 10/26/07, William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, EnergyLab wrote: I don't think big RF sources are common. Once you're far from the AM tower, I doubt that there's much chance that you'll accidentally get close to another major transmitter. So carrying your device to

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread Terry Blanton
On 10/26/07, John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I have studied many different (and yet I believe similar) Free Energy devices and not a single one has a ground, indeed some go to lengths not to have a ground. Newman would certainly agree. Terry

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-26 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 26, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On 10/26/07, John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I have studied many different (and yet I believe similar) Free Energy devices and not a single one has a ground, indeed some go to lengths not to have a ground. Newman would

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread John Winterflood
thomas malloy wrote: ... I thought that grounding was part of the definition of a Faraday Cage. Not really. The important thing about a Faraday cage is that inside it you cannot tell anything about electric fields or electric potentials that exist outside. You can't tell (in theory at

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: John Winterflood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Robin van Spaandonk wrote: ... Note that Tesla lit light bulbs 25 miles away, with no wires, using only the ground

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:54 PM, John Winterflood wrote: The important thing about a Faraday cage is that inside it you cannot tell anything about electric fields or electric potentials that exist outside. You can't tell (in theory at least) whether the cage you are in is grounded, or

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:54 PM, John Winterflood wrote: The important thing about a Faraday cage is that inside it you cannot tell anything about electric fields or electric potentials that exist outside. You can't tell (in theory at least) whether the cage you are in

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Horace Heffner wrote: ... Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 25, 2007, at 5:30 AM, Michel Jullian wrote: I think it has been stated in a variety of ways by a variety of people (Terry, Bill...) that the Faraday cage should be grounded, I can hardly believe this hasn't been tried yet... There is a considerable difference between just

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Horace Heffner wrote: ... Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage at the entry point using an alligator clip. It the lights go out

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Harry Veeder
On 25/10/2007 7:08 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:54 PM, John Winterflood wrote: The important thing about a Faraday cage is that inside it you cannot tell anything about electric fields or electric potentials that exist outside. You can't tell (in theory at least)

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Harry Veeder
] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Horace Heffner wrote: ... Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage

RE: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread EnergyLab
in the interest of experiment it is worthwhile going down that road. Thank you all -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:36 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity On 25/10/2007 7:08 AM, Horace Heffner wrote

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Harry Veeder
, October 25, 2007 12:36 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity On 25/10/2007 7:08 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:54 PM, John Winterflood wrote: The important thing about a Faraday cage is that inside it you cannot tell anything about electric

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, John Winterflood wrote: thomas malloy wrote: As Jed pointed out, a pair of heavy iron frying pans might make a superb Faraday cage. Yes, and they solve the problem of shielding low-freq magnetism. For example, to well shield the magnetic component of 60Hz you'd need many

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage at the entry point using an alligator clip. It the lights go out

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Horace Heffner wrote: ... Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
EnergyLab wrote: In truth the reason I am no longer participation on the thread is it is in my view pointless. Yes indeed, Ron, you already made your views quite plain when you said, three days ago, None of you deserve to see anything. 'Nuf said, eh?

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
William Beaty wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, John Winterflood wrote: thomas malloy wrote: As Jed pointed out, a pair of heavy iron frying pans might make a superb Faraday cage. Yes, and they solve the problem of shielding low-freq magnetism. For example, to well shield the magnetic component

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread OrionWorks
Hi Ron, To be honest I don't know what to make of your prototype. It seems prudent from my point of view to remain as neutral as one can under the circumstances. Nevertheless, I'm both fascinated and encouraged by what I've seen so far. I'm sure there are many (myself included) who wish to be

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:45 AM, William Beaty wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage at the entry

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
William Beaty wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage at the entry point using an alligator clip. It

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: William Beaty wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, John Winterflood wrote: thomas malloy wrote: As Jed pointed out, a pair of heavy iron frying pans might make a superb Faraday cage. Yes, and they solve the problem of shielding low-freq

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Harry Veeder wrote: You don't care about the earth ground, if you have already made up your mind that a conventional explanation is good enough. Now hold on right there. All of us on vortex are SUPPOSED to assume that it's a conventional effect. If we did not, then we'd

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: William Beaty wrote: But Ron DID report that the lights go out if you ground the cage. And then there apparently was a bunch of flaming going on about whether a Faraday cage is still a shield if not grounded. He did? I sure missed that!

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread OrionWorks
Bill sez: Now hold on right there. All of us on vortex are SUPPOSED to assume that it's a conventional effect. If we did not, then we'd become true crackpots: the kind who are so in love with Weird Discoveries that we stop questioning our own assumptions, stop critiquing our own work, and

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:45 AM, William Beaty wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Good point. Another option along the same lines might be to simply strip a section of the ground wire and connect the ground wire to the faraday cage at the entry

RE: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
-Original Message- From: William Beaty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:44 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, John Winterflood wrote: thomas malloy wrote: As Jed pointed out, a pair of heavy iron frying

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread John Berry
: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, John Winterflood wrote: thomas malloy wrote: As Jed pointed out, a pair of heavy iron frying pans might make a superb Faraday cage. Yes, and they solve the problem of shielding low-freq magnetism. For example, to well shield

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, OrionWorks wrote: Well said. It's one of the most difficult lessons to learn in a life time. The lure of fame and fortune are both seductive and addictive. Without a properly grounded sense of neutrality the seductive lure of fame and fortune will inevitably skew one's

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread OrionWorks
Bill sez: The other side of fooling ourselves is the Scoffers' delusion, where all phenomena are well known, and Weird Discoveries are impossible by definition. After seeing many examples of this, I suspect that it's not driven by ego, but by fear. Fear of the unknown, and worship of the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: William Beaty wrote: Yes, and they solve the problem of shielding low-freq magnetism. For example, to well shield the magnetic component of 60Hz you'd need many inches thick of copper. I've heard this statement, or others very much like

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-24 Thread Michel Jullian
didn't tolerate probing? Michel - Original Message - From: William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, William Beaty wrote: For enormous Q-factors

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-24 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Michel Jullian wrote: I heard that some people living close to the Eiffel tower manage to derive their electrical heating

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-24 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity EDF should be told about this!-) Electricité De France don't care, they sell the missing energy to the broadcasters

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-24 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Michel Jullian wrote: Couldn't a real radio receiver be used to see if the lab receives significant emissions at 18MHz? Certainly! But seeing his LED results, the signal would have to be many watts per square meter, so it might overload a radio. A simple RF

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-24 Thread thomas malloy
William Beaty wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Harry Veeder wrote: On 22/10/2007 10:48 PM, William Beaty wrote: Small resonant coil-antennas behave as if they were extremely large, like long-wire antennas. But any unknown transmitter that's supplying the power would have to be fairly

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: On 22/10/2007 10:08 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: In reply to E Lab's message of Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:55:55 -0500: Hi Ronald, [snip] Lets talk apples and no lemons. The only time ANY measurements have been made, because it is not possible

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
I know little about electrical engineering, but surely we can resolve all questions about this device fairly easily. If the device can be scaled up a little, and power can be ramped up to a few watts that will rule out things like radio tower transmissions as the source of energy. We would

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Jones Beene
Good post, Jed. Let me add some new information from DrS: Last night he took a Luxton light meter and singled out one LED and took a measurement. He recorded the reading and then took that same LED from the circuit and placed a 1K series resistor to it and connected it to a variable DC supply.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread OrionWorks
On 10/23/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Now remember he can drive many LEDs with this circuit-- the actual limit is unknown, as the more he adds, the more it seems to want BUT catch-22 this is tedious to do, since matching voltage drop per diode is necessary. There is too

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: This is looking to me like a non-issue, but YES we all agree that the next step, when time permits, will be to take the setup to a remote area with very little RF. That seems like an extreme expensive step. I think that increasing the power output or using a Faraday cage

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread John Winterflood
Hi Jones, Glad to see that someone has Ron's ear! It certainly seems a remarkable circuit that can drive several LEDs to reasonable brightness with power apparently drawn through the resistance of ones body and fingers (video #7) without feeling a tingle! I doubt if Bill would be willing to

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity Good post, Jed. Let me add some new information from DrS: Last night he took a Luxton light meter and singled out one

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Winterflood wrote: If a pie dish lid matching the lower one is clipped with crocodile clips on the top (with a hole to see if the LEDs are shining) then we have a pretty good Faraday cage with a single wire entering it. Heck, you could use a heavy iron frying pan. Just darken the room

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Jones Beene
--- Hi Jack Thanks for the suggestions. I will pass them along, although Ron is still subscribed here and replies to postings, when he has time. Many of my secondhand postings may be misleading for several reasons. One, they are often put together from a number of messages spread over several

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Michel Jullian wrote: I heard that some people living close to the Eiffel tower manage to derive their electrical heating power from its radio emitters, but it may be a legend. And I've heard that you guys don't really get winter over there, so it's not saying much to say they can heat

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Jones Beene
--- Michel Glad I was of some help. Belated thanks to you, Michel, as you seldom get enough credit for the little things you do, even if they had already been underway ;-) 3V per LED, is this correct? That is ~ what it works out to, which is slightly less than the spec for the part, but as

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:23:50 -0700 (PDT): Hi, [snip] The low powered AM radio station business nearby is not a very likely power source. If the near field is about a 1/3 wave length, taking the broadcast band, figuring the wave lengths and then the uV per meter

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Terry Blanton
On 10/23/07, Robin van Spaandonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a tangent, at what frequencies does HAARP transmit? 2.8 to 10 MHz Terry

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Harry Veeder wrote: On 22/10/2007 10:48 PM, William Beaty wrote: Small resonant coil-antennas behave as if they were extremely large, like long-wire antennas. But any unknown transmitter that's supplying the power would have to be fairly close and not miles away.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Jed Rothwell wrote: I know little about electrical engineering, but surely we can resolve all questions about this device fairly easily. If the device can be scaled up a little, and power can be ramped up to a few watts that will rule out things like radio tower

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Jones Beene wrote: Last night he took a Luxton light meter and singled out one LED and took a measurement. He recorded the reading and then took that same LED from the circuit and placed a 1K series resistor to it and connected it to a variable DC supply. He adjusted

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, William Beaty wrote: For enormous Q-factors such as with superconductors, the effective aperture is about a quarter wavelength, and such an antenna absorbs RF energy in an area of 1/8 wavelength squared. Oops, that should be 1/16 wavelength squared. For 18MHz, that's an

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread Harry Veeder
On 23/10/2007 9:55 PM, William Beaty wrote: All this stuff is part of well-accepted antenna theory, and is taught in some fields/waves courses for EEs. But it isn't generally known in other disciplines. Physics students have a hard time understanding why some subatomic particles have a

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-23 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Harry Veeder wrote: Would Ron's apparatus cast such a shadow? It might, but the effects would only appear several wavelengths away (like hundreds of feet at 18MHz) If the power source is really RF he could look for the shadow by making a second apparatus and moving it

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
William Beaty wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: William Beaty wrote: I totally missed any announcement that self-acting or closed-loop operation was achieved. WHOA slow down, that's not what was said. That's exactly what was said. Or at least strongly implied...

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 1:21 AM, William Beaty wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: William Beaty wrote: I totally missed any announcement that self-acting or closed-loop operation was achieved. WHOA slow down, that's not what was said. That's exactly what was said. That

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I've lost my sound again on this system If you are running on a Mac and the sound loss is a software problem relating to video playback then running any track from Garage Band may restore your sound for the videos. Horace Heffner

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Jones Beene
--- Horace wrote: If you will notice there is no mention of closing the loop or self running in the video. Dr, Stiffler will not make such a comment until he can float the system, with zero input. As I stated, and the video demonstrates, the signal can be disconnected now after startup,

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I've lost my sound again on this system If you are running on a Mac and the sound loss is a software problem relating to video playback then running any track from Garage Band may restore your sound for the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: --- Horace wrote: If you will notice there is no mention of closing the loop or self running in the video. Dr, Stiffler will not make such a comment until he can float the system, with zero input. And he is correct in that decision, of course. As I stated, and the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Cranking the volume can fix a bad connection in a speaker (if the power amp can put out enough volts), at least for a while, but how can playing Garage Band fix a software issue? I don't know. I had the problem of losing sound for

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Jones Beene wrote: --- Horace wrote: If you will notice there is no mention of closing the loop or self running in the video. Dr, Stiffler will not make such a comment until he can float the system, with zero input. As I stated, and the video demonstrates, the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: Well, I was interested in doing a replication, but Ron Doesn't seem to actually want replications. I've lost interest in this at this point, so no need to worry about negative posts. However, I would point out that any earnest effort to analyze this, e.g. Bill

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Jones Beene
--- Stephen If searching for a conventional explanation for an apparent COE violation in a simple system is considered unreasonable or closed-minded, then we have entered the realm of religion. You are way off-base here. No one is suggesting a COE violation, nor trying to limit criticism.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: --- Stephen If searching for a conventional explanation for an apparent COE violation in a simple system is considered unreasonable or closed-minded, then we have entered the realm of religion. You are way off-base here. No one is suggesting a COE violation, I'm

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Jones Beene
--- Horace As I stated, and the video demonstrates, the signal can be disconnected now after startup, but not both the ground and the signal. Nonsense! Only with the connotation that this experiment defies traditional understanding...then yes, it is nonsense to the mainstream.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Jones Beene
--- Stephen I'm sorry; your posts have seemed to me to suggest very strongly that Ron is on the verge of closing the loop. If that's not suggesting COE violation then I don't understand the term. Apparently not. Ron has stated that the power in was insignificant, vis a vis the power out.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Harry Veeder
Somehow this quote seems apropos. ;-) harry Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Michel Jullian wrote: Dear Jones, why not trust Horace and Steven's honesty and EE- competence at least as much as Ron's? Honestly they made helpful sensible contributions. Besides Ron doesn't even claim to be particularly competent in EE I don't think, do

[Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Michel Jullian
Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 7:48 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity --- Stephen I'm sorry; your posts have seemed to me to suggest very strongly that Ron is on the verge of closing the loop. If that's not suggesting COE violation

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Jones Beene
--- Michel Dear Jones, why not trust Horace and Steven's honesty and EE- competence at least as much as Ron's? Averting Skeptastrophe ? Jones Seriously, Michel -- one would have to be a fool NOT to value the honesty and competence of all three of these individuals, all of whom I consider

Re: [Vo]:Re: Cold electricity

2007-10-22 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 22, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Jones Beene wrote: This is all supposition. No actual power measurements have been made. What? Bullshit. That is nothing less than arrogant stupidity on your part! OK, show me power measurements that were either posted or on the web site. That does not

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