Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-28 Thread Damon Craig
Does your psychoanalyst know what you are doing on the internet? Are you currently institutionalized? Do you still see you analyst? I hope so. If you are not seeing your analyst I think you should. Because you should tell him how it makes you feel to mimic him when he whispers into his littlte

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-27 Thread Damon Craig
Keep going Lomax. You are in over your head, and far out classed. When I arrived at Vortex-L you were stumbling around in the dark stuck on a humidity meter. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 04:06 PM 7/26/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Try to keep

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Damon Craig
The by mass and the by volume jargon that has evolved here--or where ever--to describe steam quality is a bit screwy. In each case a volume is examined and by mass and by volume are both unitless values. by mass units: m/dx^3 / MdX^3 by volume units: dx^3/dX^3. In no manner will there ever be

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Damon Craig
Corrections: by mass units: int(m dX^3) / int(MdX^3) = unitless by volume units: int(dx^3)/int(dX^3) = unitless We can't just drop the integral out of the units equations and examine the characteristic vectors. This would be a little pretensious dividing a tensor by a tensor to get a scalar. On

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:22 AM 7/26/2011, Damon Craig wrote: The by mass and the by volume jargon that has evolved here--or where ever--to describe steam quality is a bit screwy. Not when you know what you are talking about. Each way of expressing steam quality has its value. In each case a volume is

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Damon Craig
Try to keep up. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 07:22 AM 7/26/2011, Damon Craig wrote: The by mass and the by volume jargon that has evolved here--or where ever--to describe steam quality is a bit screwy. Not when you know what you are

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:06 PM 7/26/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Try to keep up. Try not to fill this list with posts with no new content except useless statements plus what's been copied from before. However, to provide some utility here, I will reproduce part of a multiplication table, in case Damon needs it

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Harry Veeder
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 04:11 PM 7/22/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: It would be more accurate to say the reaction depends on a temperature difference between the reactor and the water rather than on the temperature of the reactor. No? Probably not true. The reaction, on the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-25 Thread Damon Craig
Yeah, your right. What was I thinking?? My boyancy argument is just wrong. Thank's for straightening that out to me. (And, darn it, don't I look stupid.) As such, I can't see any way to solidly determine if the bulk of the liquid water exits the device suspended in vapor, or simply pours out

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-25 Thread Damon Craig
Joshua Cude, and other astute observerse: We could model an exothermic reactions with unlimited (over the course of the experiment) heat generation as a simple bump function. A simple bump function for this is p = p_o / {1+[(T-T_o)/T_w]^2 }. At T=T_o the power, p is maximal. T_w is the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-25 Thread Damon Craig
Very well said. There is no obvective measuring stick to measure burden. I was attempting to reveil the hidden hypocracy in the burden of proof argument. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Essentially, burden is a social construct, it doesn't exist

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:55 AM 7/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: The key word is boyancy. What is the densest thing you have ever seen floating in a vapor of steam, Joshua? I'll answer that, I've never seen anything

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-24 Thread Damon Craig
Yeah, maybe i'm confused. When I get my brain back I'll be capable of thinking about it--maybe. the fucks im working for are working me to death. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-24 Thread Damon Craig
Josh: I don't think you read what I wrote. Maybe I didn't get it, Josh. I'll try to get back. My poor brain is too fried at this time. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: I think

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 07:56 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet. One

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 11:58 AM 7/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.com de**cra...@gmail.com decra...@gmail.com wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Damon Craig
I think I'll have to take this one step at a time. Do you all realize that you could swim up into the sky in steam containing 90% by mass water? It is not a part of our life experiences to have witnessed steam at anytime having this anywhere near this liquid water content. Keep the eyes open to

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Damon Craig
The steam temperature is not measure at the location of evolution but futher along in the device toward the exit. For those of us adhering to the Water Flow-though Hypothesis, the thermometer is further toward the water surface at the height of the outlet where the pressure is less than that

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Damon Craig
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: I don't get that. If it takes one unit of power to bring the temperature up to the ignition threshold, and then the thing generates 6 or more units of power on its own, I can't see how removing the first one could

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Craig, indeed that is true, liquid water does not contribute to the pressure at all, because water does not gently flow out of the E-Cat, but is spilled due to rather violent boiling at kW range in closed container. Only thing that contributes for the pressure is steam flow pressure out of the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Damon Craig
I don't know how to visually estimate the wetness of steam. Why do you think it's less than 5%? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Damon, This is what I tried to explain before. Discussing about wetness of the steam is a moot point. The mass of liquid

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Damon Craig
Do you have an online reference or text reference to the 1-2% value for typical wetness of steam? I would like to have a reference source. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: It was well established that wetness of the steam was something in order of

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Damon, little two sec googling with cell phone gave me this link: http://brewery.org/library/SteInjCS1295.html It says that all boiling chambers produces about 98% dry steam. Therefore wetness measurement that was 1.4-1.2% feels very reliable. I think that wetness depens slightly on temperature

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Damon Craig
the burden of proof lies with the claimant it does? 1) prove it. 2) in having made the burden-of-proof argument, are you obligated to me to prove it? 3) what is your burden/penalty if you decide not to oblige me? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I'll have to take this one step at a time. Do you all realize that you could swim up into the sky in steam containing 90% by mass water? I don't think you read what I wrote. The density of water vapor at 100C is

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joe Catania
Yes its not measured but it follows that it must be higher due to the increased pressure. - Original Message - From: Damon Craig To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement The steam

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joe Catania
: Joe Catania To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement Yes its not measured but it follows that it must be higher due to the increased pressure. - Original Message - From: Damon Craig

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: It is not a part of our life experiences to have witnessed steam at anytime having this anywhere near this liquid water content. It depends on your life experience. It is certainly part of Mitra et al's experience as

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:06 AM 7/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: It's plausible as a control method, depending on the temperature response of the active material. The active material will presumably have an

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:48 AM 7/22/2011, Damon Craig wrote: I think I'll have to take this one step at a time. Do you all realize that you could swim up into the sky in steam containing 90% by mass water? Absolutly not. You are thinking, Damon, of 90% by volume.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:59 AM 7/22/2011, Damon Craig wrote: The steam temperature is not measure at the location of evolution but futher along in the device toward the exit. For those of us adhering to the Water Flow-though Hypothesis, the thermometer is further toward the water surface at the height of the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:24 AM 7/22/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Craig, indeed that is true, liquid water does not contribute to the pressure at all, because water does not gently flow out of the E-Cat, but is spilled due to rather violent boiling at kW range in closed container. No, that's an error. The E-Cat

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:48 AM 7/22/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Damon, little two sec googling with cell phone gave me this link: http://brewery.org/library/SteInjCS1295.htmlhttp://brewery.org/library/SteInjCS1295.html It says that all boiling chambers produces about 98% dry steam. Therefore wetness

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:48 AM 7/22/2011, Damon Craig wrote: the burden of proof lies with the claimant it does? 1) prove it. 2) in having made the burden-of-proof argument, are you obligated to me to prove it? 3) what is your burden/penalty if you decide not to oblige me? Arguments like this assume

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/22 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: However, claims that the data is contradictory, on the basis of steam pressure calculations, seem to fail. Thanks for these calculations – they sound reasonable. For me it seems that E-Cat worked properly only in Mats Lewan's hands where

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 04:06 AM 7/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I don't get that. If it takes one unit of power to bring the temperature up to the ignition threshold, and then the thing generates 6 or more units of power on its own,

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/22 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: Essentially, burden is a social construct, it doesn't exist aside from human conventions. There is no burden meter. Again you are on a roll! This burden of proof argument is silly and widely spread pseudoargument. Usually it works, because

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Harry Veeder
]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 04:06 AM 7/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I don't get that. If it takes one unit of power to bring the temperature up to the ignition threshold

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Harry Veeder
22, 2011 4:11:42 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement It would be more accurate to say the reaction depends on a temperature difference between the reactor and the water rather than on the temperature of the reactor.   No? Harry From: Joshua Cude joshua.c

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: It's like opening a can of spaghetti and finding that half of the pasta is actually worms. Gee, it looked like pasta to me! Hey, that's an insult to us pastafarians!

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Damon Craig
Look, guys. If no one is pursuing the really wet steam theory anymore the steam wetness issue is pretty much moot. Sorry if I didn't realize that. Originally, you may recall, numbers caste about were as high as 97% liquid by mass. This is dense enough a chunk of oak would float in it. Even 10%

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Damon Craig
OK. Excuse my caution. I am simply not comfortable helping witch hunters hunt witches. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 04:55 PM 7/19/2011, Damon Craig wrote: In my more-or-less last communication with Krivit, I told him the wet steam

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Damon Craig
Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet. One presumption is that an auxillary source of heat energy, such as resistive heating, is capable of controlling an exothermic reaction

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Rocha
Damon, This is what I tried to explain before. Discussing about wetness of the steam is a moot point. The mass of liquid in any of those video is visually less 5%, if that much. More than that, the liquid hose would pour bubbles. But forget about it, people won't listen to this. It seems they

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Rich Murray
Wherever the input power resistor is, its gradual surface deterioration and fractal cracking will accelerate the flow of electric current along the outside of the resistor, increasing the direct transfer of heat energy into the input cooling water, 2 cc/sec into a perhaps 200 cc interior volume,

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: Look, guys. If no one is pursuing the really wet steam theory anymore the steam wetness issue is pretty much moot. Sorry if I didn't realize that. What gives you that idea? To my mind, really wet steam is still the most

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet. Evidence is the responsibility of the guy making the claim.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: The mass of liquid in any of those video is visually less 5%, if that much. You should get a job working for turbine manufacturers. They go to a lot of trouble to evaluate steam quality, when all they need is for you

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:22 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Look, guys. If no one is pursuing the really wet steam theory anymore the steam wetness issue is pretty much moot. Sorry if I didn't realize that. I have to say that really wet steam is not implausible, Joshua has made a decent case for it. However,

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:56 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet. One presumption is that an auxillary source of heat energy, such as resistive heating, is

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:55 AM 7/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: Originally, you may recall, numbers caste about were as high as 97% liquid by mass. This is dense enough a chunk of oak would float in it. Please. 97%

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:58 AM 7/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Joe Catania
. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement At 06:22 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Look, guys. If no one

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Joe Catania
. - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement At 06:22 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Look, guys. If no one

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Damon Craig
I was under the presumption that there a few here that understood elementry physics. Good Grief! On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: Look, guys. If no one is pursuing the really wet

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-20 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: This is probably correct analysis. I think that this is possible to calculate fairly accurately, if we know the diameter of opening for the hose. As boiling point of water inside E-Cat is what is measured with the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-20 Thread Damon Craig
Or, to ask a little more precisely: How wet does steam get? I don't know the answer to this. However, it takes energy to overcome volumetic tension (commonly called surface tension). How much water will break off a boiling surface into small suspendable droplets, and how many of these will be

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-20 Thread Damon Craig
If all you had were small bits of various density styrofoam and various means to boil water, I think some of you could eventially come up with the answer to: how wet does steam get under conditions X? On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: Or, to ask a little

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:50 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I wouldn't call it an overflow issue, but a lot of people were wise to only a small fraction of the water being vaporized a long time ago. I certainly didn't invent that idea. You could be correct with your idea that there would be a lot of froth.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-20 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: The overall question is How much of the water is actually vaporized? And there isn't an answer. No steps were taken to demonstrate this critical aspect of the demonstrations. On this, we are in complete

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Damon Craig
Here's a bone for you and Krivit, Lomax. Do you believe a cork will float on stream saturated with water vapor? Thinking about it sorta makes the saturated steam theory look stupid, doesn't it? Why don't you find a piece of cheap, light styrofoam packing and see if it will float over a boiling

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:24 AM 7/19/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Here's a bone for you and Krivit, Lomax. Arrggh. Classified with Krivit! Ah, well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. This is once for me, I still get to be right once more Do you believe a cork will float on stream saturated with

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Damon Craig
In my more-or-less last communication with Krivit, I told him the wet steam hypothesis, inspired by an abused humidity meter, was a red herring, and the water was simply flowing through it. Then you turn up using the same phrase. Krivit has his wall of shame on his blog--a trophie wall of photos,

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I expect it is well mixed from the heat alone. There are gradients in a pot of hot water and it is hot near the bottom, but the water moves around pretty quickly. There are gradients in pure water, sure. Always below

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Why don't you find a piece of cheap, light styrofoam packing and see if it will float over a boiling pot of water. Extra question answered, free of charge. I won't bother trying it, because it won't float,

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:55 PM 7/19/2011, Damon Craig wrote: In my more-or-less last communication with Krivit, I told him the wet steam hypothesis, inspired by an abused humidity meter, was a red herring, and the water was simply flowing through it. Then you turn up using the same phrase. I've been using it

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:42 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Why don't you find a piece of cheap, light styrofoam packing and see if it will float over a boiling pot of water. Extra question

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Sure, if you sufficiently obstruct the flow, you could lift styrofoam easily. I was referring to a *piece* of styrofoam, presumably small. And the question was about bouyancy, not about flow. You can support a

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Abd ul-Rahman wrote: My conclusion is that there is very likely *some* overflow water, but it might be small. I have no way of telling how much there is, the demonstrations were not set up to make it possible to tell. This is probably correct analysis. I think that this is possible to calculate

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Rich Murray
/90 [ you may have to Copy and Paste URLs into your browser ] https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=enshva=1#drafts/1311fbb2b67e473f [Vo]: Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement Vortex-L@eskimo.com discussion group Thanks, Joshua Cude, for your clear, earnest interpretations. What

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I do not argue with ghosts. I don't blame you, after the pathetic wet steam is not possible salvo. Ah yes, those ghosts which grab splashy

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Jed, this is dead wrong. This is obvious. Suppose you have *almost* full vaporization, not all the water is boiling, so water level in the E-Cat will rise. Almost full vaporization is a degree or two below boiling. That's my point. Eventually, some will spill out.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Jed, this is dead wrong. This is obvious. Suppose you have *almost* full vaporization, not all the water is boiling, so water level in the E-Cat will rise. Almost full vaporization is a

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:46 AM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Jed, this is dead wrong. This is obvious. Suppose you have *almost* full vaporization, not all the water is boiling, so water level in the E-Cat will rise. Almost full vaporization is a degree or two below boiling. That's

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Mmmm... this gets pretty complicated. Water at the inlet would obviously be cooler, much cooler. So there would be a temperature gradient in the E-Cat, with cooler water near the inlet and hotter water near the outlet. Only water rising to the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:29 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Well, Rossi is changing the power when he twiddles the controls. Maybe he is trying to keep it stable. But anyway if it overflows I am pretty sure he turns up the power. How does he know when it overflows? You've been assuming that the temperature

RE: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Joshua: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson; My perception on the reactor core has always implied that the volume of water entering the reactor core could vary. Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken. Rossi uses a pump designed to maintain a constant flow, and all

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua apparently wrote: Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken. Rossi uses a pump designed to maintain a constant flow, and all his calculations (including Krivit's video of him calculating the power) assume constant flow rate. And if the flow is constant at 5

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua apparently wrote: Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken. Rossi uses a pump designed to maintain a constant flow, and all his calculations (including Krivit's video of him calculating

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: From my POV it is conceivable that Rossi, while monitoring the January demonstration, might have occasionally adjusted water inflow to help maintain a consistent volume of water within the

RE: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:10 PM 7/17/2011, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Joshua: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson; My perception on the reactor core has always implied that the volume of water entering the reactor core could vary. Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken.

RE: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Jed: No, he adjusts the power. Same thing then. The key point being Rossi was constantly monitoring and manually adjusting the power according to current conditions. (Seat-of-the-pants adjusting, that is.) 100.1 C steam output could then still be possible without violating the laws of

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:13 PM 7/17/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Joshua apparently wrote: Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken. Rossi uses a pump designed to maintain a constant flow, and all his calculations (including Krivit's video of him calculating the power) assume constant flow

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Cude may be making an obvious error, assuming power figures from one test apply to another. He is. Partly my fault, since I quoted 17 kW without specifying which test I meant. People should look here for the numbers:

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Jed, it's important to read statements from critics like Cude very carefully. No can do. He is in my kill file. I only see snippets when other people quote him. Life is

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:54 PM 7/17/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: However, just right in terms of exact full vaporization is difficult to reach, from an engineering perspective . . . Naa. It is a piece of cake. Just listen to the boiling

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Cude may be making an obvious error, assuming power figures from one test apply to another. No. I'm objecting to Rothwell making exactly that assumption. I have no problem with Rothwell arguing that the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jed, it's important to read statements from critics like Cude very carefully. No can do. He is in my kill file. I only see snippets when other people quote him. Life is too short to read such blather and nonsense.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I do not argue with ghosts. I don't blame you, after the pathetic wet steam is not possible salvo.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-16 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:50 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: My perception on the reactor core has always implied that the volume of water entering the reactor core could vary. Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken. Rossi uses a pump

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Damon Craig
You're right. Someone of the group of seven attendees had placed an ammeter on the line. The line voltage is either assumed or measured to be 220 VAC. (Levan reports ~236 VAC.) At least once, the ammeter was read. The quoted phrase referring to start up: The electric heater was switched on at

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I don't know what it is about this, but Jed seems to have lost his ability to read and understand Of course, it could be me, I suppose. Aren't we always the last to know? I think that it is both, because you speak different language. You

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And this has been said to you many times, Jed, and you keep repeating that this is nonsense. It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. The Lewan video proved that the smaller cells are

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Damon Craig wrote: 1) How often the ammeter was observed is unreported. People have done any number of cold fusion experiments, including Ni-H ones, in which input power was recorded on computer. If you don't wish to believe this particular experiment then I suggest you look at some of

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam should have been a few hundred degrees C in the January test, and not

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed and Josh: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam should have been a few hundred degrees C in the January test, and not 100C. But of course it doesn't prove anything other than

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Jed and Josh: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam should have been a few

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Rich Murray
[ duplicate from parallel discussion } Well, since now it is pretty clear to many of us that none of the demos provide proof of excess heat, then the judgement call is whether to decide that there is no Rossi excess heat. I came up intuitively, out of my sensitive vapors, with the scenario that

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: ** JC stated: ...and the heated walls are at a higher temperature. So, it must get hotter. What makes you think that the walls of the vertical section (i.e., the 'chimney') are at a higher temperature than the walls

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:53 AM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And this has been said to you many times, Jed, and you keep repeating that this is nonsense. It is all nonsense and bullshit. Sure, with proper specification of the it. Nice to be able to agree. The 18-hour tests with

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