RE: [Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion

2012-09-02 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
; it will not be governments nor large corporations - they will only regulate it, or refine it. -Mark Iverson From: Axil Axil [mailto:janap...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 11:45 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion Dear Eric, Satire and flame

Re: [Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion

2012-09-01 Thread Eric Walker
Le Aug 31, 2012 à 6:23 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com a écrit : The noble gas reaction that underpins the Papp engine is the most likely reaction that works and the most promising. It must receive priority in future LENR RD funding. Axil, your satire and flame baiting are funny. People

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2012-09-01 Thread Axil Axil
Dear Eric, Satire and flame baiting is one of the most difficult ambitions for a writer to achieve. The reader almost always assumes that you are serious. It is always wise the say what you mean and mean what you say. But sometimes the opposite happens. When a serious posit is taken as

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2012-09-01 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
We don't know what it is. When we do, maybe resonant fusion? proton absorption? BEC fusion Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: It's a question with many nuances. I generally agree with Jed about the realities and the regulatory issues.

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2012-09-01 Thread Harry Veeder
Apple is probably secretly working on 'ifusion'. Harry On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: We don't know what it is. When we do, maybe resonant fusion? proton absorption? BEC fusion Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Jeff

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2012-09-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: Yet at the same time, we have an example: the terminology change from NMR to MRI. It was significant from perspective of consumer acceptance, and therefore it was economically significant. If we believe LENR will be incorporated in consumer products,

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2012-09-01 Thread Jones Beene
Jeff Berkowitz wrote: Yet at the same time, we have an example: the terminology change from NMR to MRI. It was significant from perspective of consumer acceptance, and therefore it was economically significant. If we believe LENR will be incorporated in consumer

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2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
This paragraph makes no sense to me: So, the LENR term is problematic due to such serious scientific reasons. But there is one more problematic effect from the use of such wrong definition: Certification of products based on such technologies when named “nuclear”, will result the involvement of

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2012-08-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
Jed, I totally agree. Our firm designs industrial ASME certified vessels to handle high temperatures and pressures. These vessels also have to confirm to API and NFPA guidelines. If a customer came to us with a reactor design that they could not define what the exact reaction kinetics were

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
In the field of politics and public relations, the words that are used are tools to influence perceptions. Some words are good and some words are bad in forming impressions and connections in people’s minds. LENR and CANR are acronyms and contain bad words in themselves. These terms should not

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2012-08-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
If a piece of metal/wire just sits there and generates long term anomalous heat while slooowly losing mass, which is what this is doing, let's just call it evaporation like we do with water, sounds soothing. We might even have RossiSauna franchises very soon. On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:38 PM,

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2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In the field of politics and public relations, the words that are used are tools to influence perceptions. Some words are good and some words are bad in forming impressions and connections in people’s minds. This will be 0.0001% as important as the

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
I imagine a discussion along these lines: Chemically Assisted Transmutation Reaction (CATR) expert: Yes, certain chemical reactions are known to produce tritium. Those reactions should be regulated by the NRC or band. Those reactions use the hydrogen isotope deuterium. Chemical reactions

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2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Chemically Assisted Transmutation Reaction (CATR) expert: Yes, certain chemical reactions are known to produce tritium. Those reactions should be regulated by the NRC or band. Those reactions use the hydrogen isotope deuterium. A chemical reaction cannot

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
Chemical transmutation, is what is going on. The physics commumity must come to terms with this reality. Chemically Assisted Transmutation Reaction (CATR) reactions are produced through the action of electrons not neutrons. The NRC regulates the use of neutrons not electrons. If no neutrons are

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission The NRC is the Federal agency responsible protecting the health and safety of the public and the environment by licensing and regulating the civilian uses of the following radioactive materials: - Source material

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2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Chemical transmutation, is what is going on. The physics commumity must come to terms with this reality. They all have to agree with you. Because . . . Why exactly? Chemically Assisted Transmutation Reaction (CATR) reactions are produced through the

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
*They all have to agree with you. Because . . . Why exactly?* Because it is a truth of nature and the way the universe works. The NRC does regulate X-Ray machines but only to insure that the radiation produced is below the statutory limits. If the LENR reactor is well shielded, and produces no

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2012-08-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
Byproduct material http://www.nrc.gov/materials/byproduct-mat.html (material that is made radioactive in a reactor, and residue from the milling of uranium and thorium) I would think that any byproducts, even only unstable for seconds, would trigger this. I am just guessing On Friday, August

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
If those byproducts decay and stabilize either while the reactor is in operation, while the reactor is cooling down, or otherwise when those byproducts are inaccessible to the operator then those byproducts will have been considered stable upon radiological analysis and not subjest to regulation.

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2012-08-31 Thread Alain Sepeda
terms are important for public perception, and today politician behavoir is more related to poling than to experts... of course LENR should be checked as not explosive, not radioactive. it seems so, and with the unknown we could add radiation detectors to shutdown in case of black swan... job

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2012-08-31 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:49 PM 8/31/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: The physics establishment is not going to throw away the definitions of chemistry versus nuclear physics, and accept unconditionally that there is such a thing as chemical transmutation, and that we should not worry about the effects of that

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2012-08-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: As I said at ICCF17, in the whole history of the field, we have spent roughly as much money as people spend on semiconductor RD in a single day. I repeat: by the standards of industrial RD, cold fusion is one day old. Brilliant comment, Jed.

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
Keep Your Eye on the Doughnut, not on the Hole! Any time or money spent on Pd/D2O system is a waste and counterproductive, yet most of the old guard cold fusion workers persist in their opinions about Pd/D2O. It produces tritium, neutrons and is energy poor. Relative to cool fusion, a minuscule

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2012-08-31 Thread Terry Blanton
blush Don't forget the crater in the floor in Salt Lake City and the explosion in Tadahiko Mizuno's experiment. Key on explosion in the LENR-CANR.org search window. We think we know what is going on. Do we? One must remain open. T

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2012-08-31 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: One must remain open. When I say open, I mean that we are here assuming a single process is in play. It is indeed possible that we see multiple quantum reactions now that we can operate in the nano world. It is almost

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2012-08-31 Thread David Roberson
pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: One must remain open. When I say open, I mean that we are here assuming a single process is in play. It is indeed possible that we see multiple quantum reactions now

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2012-08-31 Thread David Roberson
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Aug 31, 2012 8:30 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion blush Don't forget the crater in the floor in Salt Lake City and the explosion in Tadahiko Mizuno's experiment. Key on explosion in the LENR-CANR.org search window. We think we know what

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2012-08-31 Thread Axil Axil
*We think we know what is going on. Do we?* * * * * * * *One must remain open*. I agree, being open minded is important. It's important to not permit the SCAMS of yesterday to effect the LENR systems of tomorrow. The noble gas reaction that underpins the Papp engine is the most likely

[Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion

2012-08-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
I tend to agree with Axil, i think the nanopowder is a distraction if you want to generate power. Powder may be mainly good for transmutations and maybe heat transfer. I think both a Papp type engine and possibly the Terrawatt Research magnetic drive are an impulse/shock type drive with charge,

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2012-08-31 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
It's a question with many nuances. I generally agree with Jed about the realities and the regulatory issues. Yet at the same time, we have an example: the terminology change from NMR to MRI. It was significant from perspective of consumer acceptance, and therefore it was economically significant.