Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-08 Thread Jay Caplan
What about using a lead pipe with soldered lead discs for cylinder ends for the reactor? The H2 inlet could be 1/8 NPT pipe thread cut into one of the disc ends. Then you get the rad shielding and heat transfer in one structure. Might have to turn the H2 with an elbow and hang more lead over

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-08 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jay Caplan Hi Jay, * * If this thing is actually working at 60 - 100 C., then solder should hold. It is running much hotter than that. There is plenty of evidence that he could be using high temperature (hard or silver) brazing. Wide lap joints and the 'crud' on the

RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-07 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Robin, ... Regarding the hydrino theory, my first impression would be to conclude (with absolutely no math to back this conclusion up with) that not enough hydrogen was consumed (into hydrinos) that would explain the massive amount of heat recorded. I hope someone can clarify whether my

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-07 Thread Jay Caplan
Doesn't the heater surround the copper tubing, and the red power cable attach to the heater? Can't see how the cable would pass through the copper tubing, as the heater is on the outside of the tubing. J Caplan - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-07 Thread mixent
In reply to OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Thu, 7 Apr 2011 07:38:42 -0500: Hi, [snip] Maximally shrinking 0.11 gm of H2 would therefore yield 752 kWh of energy, about ~30 times what was actually measured. Furthermore the calculation of the amount of Hydrogen measured assumes

[Vo]:Re:[Vo]: Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-07 Thread Jones Beene
Something very fishy-smelling here ... You DECREASE the volume by a factor of 20 and the heat only goes down by a factor of 3. And he is just noticing this! LOL. More Rossi BS - let's face it, this guy is deceptive, and could be delusional. He is trying to hide something by this kind of

[Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: SHIRAKAWA Akira Thank you for posting this but for the record, the conclusions of Kullander are wrong. Not just wrong but irresponsible and foolish. First he says: Analyses of the nickel powder used in Rossi's energy catalyzer show that a large amount of

RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Jones: ... ... There is a mundane explanation for both copper and iron so why invent a reaction that does not exist? And that speculated mundane explanation is... Out with it! Hydrinos? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

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2011-04-06 Thread Andrea Selva
Passing to Kullander a well shaked mix of ni and cu powder ? Too easy ? Just mixing ni and cu powder and giving it to *Kullander for the * On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:41 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: From Jones: ... ... There is a mundane

RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
The mundane reason for the appearance of iron an copper is electromigration. This is actually expected. Copper and iron are both found in the apparatus and they migrate to the powder. For it to be otherwise, an isotopic imbalance must be present. Even hydrinos would result in an isotopic

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread P.J van Noorden
On the pictures in the article: http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3144960.ece/BINARY/Download+the+report+by+Kullander+and+Ess%C3%A9n+%28pdf%29 ) it is seen that the copper tubes are corroded from the outside , probably due to the high temperature of the reaction. As Jones says it is very

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The mundane reason for the appearance of iron an copper is electromigration. Where are the electric fields that would cause electromigration? There are no fields in copper pipes as far as I know. Kullander does say . . . it’s remarkable that nickel-58

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/06/2011 08:20 AM, Jones Beene wrote: The Facts: There is evidence of the presence of copper but that is all. If it were formed by transmutation some of it should be radioactive. In fact there is a mundane explanation for the presence of copper Dead on. In fact, as I recall, folks on

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jones: The mundane reason for the appearance of iron an[d] copper is electromigration. Seems like a reasonable conclusion to draw. I must apologize for not being sufficiently clear as to what I was really questioning: What is generating the massive amount of heat? I gather the

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/06/2011 10:23 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net mailto:jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The mundane reason for the appearance of iron an copper is electromigration. Where are the electric fields that would cause electromigration? There are no fields in

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
One of the great things about this is that there is so much new information here, it is taking me all morning to read and understand the reports and photos. Usually, when I get a new paper, it is all stuff that I have heard before. It is either a re-hash of previous reports, or a repetition of

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: He *said* they measured the isotopes. He said, specifically, the ratios for both nickel and copper didn't vary from natural abundances: The isotopic analysis through ICP-MS *doesn’t show any deviation from the natural isotopic composition* of

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread P.J van Noorden
The energy release of the hydrino producing reaction is 50 MJ/mol hydrogen gas. The prefered reactionproduct seems to be H1/4. See http://www.blacklightpower.com/papers/Eng%20Power050410S.pdf So if 25 kWh is produced (90 MJ) this should correspond to 1.8 moles of H2 gas = 3.6 grams. Peter

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
If the reactor vessel is stainless steel, is the Cu migrating through the walls of the vessel to contaminate the Ni? T

RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Steven V Johnson Regarding the hydrino theory, my first impression would be to conclude... that not enough hydrogen was consumed (into hydrinos) that would explain the massive amount of heat recorded. Right on! Steven. You get points for having been

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Essentially this is why I concocted the 'quark power' concept presented recently. I don't think you can sell the quark power theory to Hawking. :-) T

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Stephen ... It's more likely that Levi is in on the gag than that transmutation from nickel to copper produced natural isotope ratios in the ash. The former merely requires the assumption that a few humans are acting unusually stupid (which happens frequently). The latter requires

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Stephen, Urgent Addendum: Just to be clear on this point, my speculation was pertaining to whether you were now suspicious of the HEAT measurements. In truth I must admit the fact that you seem to be questioning the isotopic shifts, not the actual HEAT measurements. My apologies if I have

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
From: Stephen A. Lawrence * * Where are the electric fields that would cause electromigration? There are no fields in copper pipes as far as I know. In the photos I am looking at, from this page - one resistance heater labeled auxiliary goes directly into a copper pipe. You may

RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton If the reactor vessel is stainless steel, is the Cu migrating through the walls of the vessel to contaminate the Ni? That is probably net necessary. It looks to me like a copper pipe, for heat transfer, may go into the reactor itself. Plus, if I

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Dennis
My guess is that the Aux is to pre heat the water flowing into the system and the other external clamp on heater is for control. Put those two seem to be the only external electrical connections (other than the thermocouples) Dennis C From: Jones Beene Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 9:41 AM

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Ron Wormus
Jones, So what causes the electromigration? As far as I can see all he has in there are some resistive heaters. Ron --On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 6:15 AM -0700 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: To be clear: Yes the reaction is NOT chemical, but it is NOT the fusion of nickel and

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jones From: Terry Blanton If the reactor vessel is stainless steel, is the Cu migrating through the walls of the vessel to contaminate the Ni? That is probably net necessary. It looks to me like a copper pipe, for heat transfer, may go into the reactor itself. Plus, if I am not

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Ron Wormus So what causes the electromigration? As far as I can see all he has in there are some resistive heaters. Ron - Possibly it could be related to either low level magnetic fields or emf associated with the heaters, or else galvanic corrosion

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton If the reactor vessel is stainless steel, is the Cu migrating through the walls of the vessel to contaminate the Ni? That is probably net necessary. It looks to me like a

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: ... Wow, gotta luv that the Rossi apparatus does work - apparently - but doesn't it just scream cheap? Off the rack at K-Mart cheap... Heh! It will probably result in an extra month of delays over at DoE getting their s**t in gear... particularly if they deem to look at the

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Ron Wormus
Jones, Yeah, I love that it looks like it could have been made in a garage of spare plumbing parts. It has a much less sophisticated geometry than I expected too; seems too simple even compared to the MAHG I started to replicate (it also had a copper vessel). Keeps life interesting; you are

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 23:01, Alan J Fletcher wrote: prev=_thl=enie=UTF-8layout=2eotf=1sl=svtl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vof.se%2Findex.php Seems new to me. Proper link to the relevant bit: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=svtl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vof.se%2Faktuellt.php%23notis472 Cheers,

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Seems new to me. Proper link to the relevant bit: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=svtl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vof.se%2Faktuellt.php%23notis472 Original article in Swedish: http://www.vof.se/aktuellt.php#notis472 - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
The first paragraph (Google translation) attacks Fleischmann and Pons, saying: No significant similarities with the Pons and Fleischmann flop of 1989 could be discerned. What a jerk! I would send him a nasty note saying he should read the literature, but I am trying to sweet talk him into giving

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Clue: no, it's not the Colonel Mustard with the lead pipe - but the paper's lead researcher is a Polish alloy expert named Romanowski, and you want to look at Fig 9 on page 8 ... Jesus, Jones! F9P8 of which? This:

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Harry Veeder
Indeed from the link provided Akira it says:   The reactor itself, which is loaded with the nickel powder and secret catalysts pressurized with hydrogen, has an estimated volume of 50 cubic centimeters (3.2 cubic inches). The reactor is made of stainless steel.     Harry - Original

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2011-04-06 Thread Dennis
the Cu would have to go through the water and then through the stainless steel to get to the powder. Dennis C -- From: Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:11 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:RE:

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Well. The one problem is that the paper is not accessible except by fee. Copyrights and all that. You can read the abstract http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la981339q Romanowski is a nickel alloy expert. This finding is not new but was

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: IN SHORT - the migratory copper itself appears to be the secret catalyst, but only after it alloys with the nickel to form this super catalytic alloy - which almost splits the hydrogen molecule on contact. Unbelievable !

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: IN SHORT - the migratory copper itself appears to be the secret catalyst, but only after it alloys with the nickel to form this super catalytic alloy

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
It looks to me like the water inlet goes through the center of the reactor. This would likely be a copper pipe along the axis, surrounded by the nickel powder. Copper ions would immediately start to migrate when heat was applied to the outside of the reactor. Did you enlarge the pictures? There is

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: It looks to me like the water inlet goes through the center of the reactor. This would likely be a copper pipe along the axis, surrounded by the nickel powder. Copper ions would immediately start to migrate when heat was

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Dennis
that is also the way I see it. Otherwise you would need two copper components - inner Cu tube, stainless and then the outer Cu tube - A stainless reactor chamber inside a widen part of one copper component would be much easier to machine. Dennis C

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Because that is not what I envision.  I envision a SS reactor vessel enclosed within a copper sphere attached to a copper pipe.  The reactor vessel is suspended inside the copper and the water passes outside the SS

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jones Beene
Has anyone seen such a sphere? Nothing seen by me indicates that level of sophistication. Small spheres are tricky to make and the outward of H2 pressure would possibly be more of a problem than a central tube. An axial copper tube, even having lost mass to migration, would withstand a fairly

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
Watson, bring me my Dremel tool! T

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Has anyone seen such a sphere? Nothing seen by me indicates that level of sophistication. Small spheres are tricky to make and the outward of H2 pressure would possibly be more of a problem than a central tube. An axial

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Dennis
The patent drawings sure looks like cylinder type vessel containing Ni and surrounded by flowing water. Dennis C -- From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:53 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Swedish

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Dennis den...@netmdc.com wrote: The patent drawings sure looks like cylinder type vessel containing Ni and surrounded by flowing water. Yeah, and that is probably similar to the 12 kW reactor; but, the heat variance over that amount of material required 5 heaters

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, and that is probably similar to the 12 kW reactor; but, the heat variance over that amount of material required 5 heaters to control. The much simplified single heater with a smaller output is actually an ingenious

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Dennis
yes, I would think that a practical design would be to have a single large flow system with several of the stainless reactors down inside the flow instead of having a hundred widen copper tubes to make. I also think that the additive is something that keeps the Ni surface reduced and supports

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
All this being said, how do you avoid the isotopic ash in a true N reaction as Mr. Beene originally points out? T

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: For a 50 cc volume, the internal sphere would have a radius of about 1 inch (2.8 cm). That should be 2.3 cm internal radius. Sloppy math! T

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: It looks to me like the water inlet goes through the center of the reactor. This would likely be a copper pipe along the axis, surrounded by the nickel powder. I gather Ed Storms also thinks that is the configuration, with the water flowing through the

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Dennis
Oh no I agree with Jed. Notice if it is just a SS cylinder inside some flowing water, it would be very easy to scale up. Just a bigger pipe or even a pond with lots of Cylinders down inside . D2 From: Jed Rothwell Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:38 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/06/2011 11:28 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: From Stephen ... It's more likely that Levi is in on the gag than that transmutation from nickel to copper produced natural isotope ratios in the ash. The former merely requires the assumption that a few humans are acting

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
In the Essen report, Fig. 3, you see the hydrogen pipe at the top of the cell, and the power lead for the resistance heater at the bottom (the red wire). I am assuming both of pass through the outer copper sleeve, and then into the inner cylindrical stainless steel container. Granted, that might

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:09:13 -0700: Hi, [snip] Even hydrinos would result in an isotopic imbalance. Actually, the ratio of Ni62/Ni64 is about the same as the ratio of Cu63/Cu65, so adding a proton to Ni62 to give Cu63 and to Ni64 to give Cu65 would automatically

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:23:32 -0400: Hi, [snip] Where are the electric fields that would cause electromigration? There are no fields in copper pipes as far as I know. ...different metals form junctions. Two junctions at different temperatures will form a

RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Ron Wormus
The write up says: the reaction chamber is made of stainless steel so I would assume that the water flows around the outside of it. Ron --On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:17 PM -0700 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: It looks to me like the water inlet goes through the center of the

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:25:21 -0400: Hi, [snip] OTOH I suppose we can assume that lots of copper migrated, a little The problem with this is that the actual container holding the Ni is made of steel, not copper. The Copper is a second outer container

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread mixent
In reply to OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson's message of Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:30:21 -0500: Hi, [snip] Regarding the hydrino theory, my first impression would be to conclude (with absolutely no math to back this conclusion up with) that not enough hydrogen was consumed (into hydrinos) that would

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread mixent
In reply to P.J van Noorden's message of Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:46:27 +0200: Hi, [snip] The energy release of the hydrino producing reaction is 50 MJ/mol hydrogen gas. The prefered reactionproduct seems to be H1/4. See http://www.blacklightpower.com/papers/Eng%20Power050410S.pdf So if 25 kWh is

Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:59:15 -0700: Hi, [snip] When you compare the amount of hydrogen lost compared to the energy released, it works out to something like 100 keV per proton (but that can vary depending on which Rossi quote you have) ... which is far less than