Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-22 Thread Bob Cook
: Saturday, March 21, 2015 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: I agree Axil. If I were to design this, I would work out a constant power supply algorithm for each unit. I think it would

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread David Roberson
...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 10:13 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Dave, I don't understand how that could be if he has not been showing excess heat with any temperatures below 1050-1070C. If the reaction doesn't

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Axil Axil
In the Lagano experiment, the resistance of the heater decreased to one third of its initial startup value. Riddle that one batman. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Alberto De Souza alberto.investi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bob, On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Axil Axil
from the Lagano report: Another matter for consideration that stands out from the analysis of the results regards the trend of net production vs. that of consumption. There seems to be an anticorrelation between the two behaviors, which stands out as a decrease in average consumption values

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Alberto De Souza
With two reactors in series it is easy to compute the resistence of each reactor. One just need to measure the current, which is the same for both reators, and the voltage on each reactor. I would be very much surprised if the resistence of the Khantal A-1 wire changes more than that on its specs

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Jack Cole
@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 10:13 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Dave, I don't understand how that could be if he has not been showing excess heat with any temperatures below 1050-1070C. If the reaction doesn't start until those temperatures are reached, how

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Alain Sepeda
LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components is the same, and the voltage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage across the circuit is the sum

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Axil Axil
The heat generated by any section of the wire that does not come into contact with the reactor core to transfer heat to the reactor must be subtracted from the total power consumed by the heater. This includes any inter reactor wire runs between the null and active reactor cores, The power

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Jack Cole
I agree Axil. If I were to design this, I would work out a constant power supply algorithm for each unit. I think it would be difficult to wire them in series and have them behave the same. A control system that adjusts the power level to each cell with changing resistance seems like it would

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread mixent
In reply to Alberto De Souza's message of Sat, 21 Mar 2015 01:33:55 -0400: Hi, [snip] Actually, the resistence of heating wires varies very little with temperature. In the case of Kanthal A-1 (that MFMP was using), it increases by a factor of only 5% from 100 to 1400 degress Celsius (see

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:23:03 -0400: Hi, [snip] The heat generated by any section of the wire that does not come into contact with the reactor core to transfer heat to the reactor must be subtracted from the total power consumed by the heater. This includes any

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Alberto De Souza
You just need to ensure that the voltage measurements are taken at the connections to the reactors themselves. This measurement is used both for the measurement log, and in the control of the power level. Because modern voltmeters have very high input resistances, the current drain they

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Alberto De Souza
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The heat generated by any section of the wire that does not come into contact with the reactor core to transfer heat to the reactor must be subtracted from the total power consumed by the heater. This includes any inter

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-21 Thread Alberto De Souza
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: I agree Axil. If I were to design this, I would work out a constant power supply algorithm for each unit. I think it would be difficult to wire them in series and have them behave the same. A control system that adjusts the

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alain Sepeda
Your prudence seems the fruit of experience ;-) The calorimetry is to be improved to convince. it seems to be a single thermometer... It won't convince GSVIT ;-) Anyway we have not enough data on the calibration, not even to criticize. As I understand Alexander is working to improve the

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Jack Cole
*To:* vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Axil Axil
]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components is the same, and the voltage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage across the circuit is the sum

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread David Roberson
Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., In thinking more about Parkhomov's most recent experiment, there is one piece of information that would put to rest my doubts. Did he have to use nearly 1KW of power to bring the reactor up to 1100C and was then able to back off

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Bob Cook
and hence its temperature together with the current to determine power applied to the fuel. Bob - Original Message - From: Alberto De Souza To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., If we put

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Jack Cole
:40 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., In thinking more about Parkhomov's most recent experiment, there is one piece of information that would put to rest my doubts. Did he have to use nearly 1KW of power to bring the reactor up to 1100C and was then able to back off

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Lennart Thornros
@eskimo.com *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components is the same, and the voltage

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread torulf.greek
or even predictable, the resistances of the coils along their length as a function of temperature should be known. This bit of information is not trivial. Bob - Original Message - FROM: Axil Axil [3] TO: vortex-l [4] SENT: Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM SUBJECT: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Axil Axil
@eskimo.com *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components is the same, and the voltage

RE: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Jones Beene
From: Alberto De Souza I meant To my knowledge, no one in history have yet presented an experiment showing large excess heat side by side with its null hypothesis. That’s true, simply because the side-by-side configuration has not been done very often in the past, with the notable

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alberto De Souza
of information is not trivial. Bob - Original Message - *From:* Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alberto De Souza
The only calorimetry that the skeptics would accept is savings on heating bills; I'm with Rossi on that one. That's why I'm proposing examining this binary hypothesis: A reactor loaded with LENR fuel produces excess (non-chemical) heat. To test this hypothesis one has to run an experiment to test

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alain Sepeda
I read skeptic discussion, and running parallel reactor, or the same in sequence, is judged as not being a reliable calibration because reactor may be different, change emmisivity, radiate more or less... any complex calorimetry is rejected because hard to understand and frone to fraud any

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread David Roberson
...@gmail.com To: Vortex List vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 11:02 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., I read skeptic discussion, and running parallel reactor, or the same in sequence, is judged as not being a reliable calibration because reactor may be different

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Daniel Rocha
Alain, all of these difficulties can be overcome by a self sustained system. 3.2x system can vaporize, condense at certain hight, and use the fall of water to generate power.

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alberto De Souza
Hi Bob, On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Alberto-- You are correct that voltage and current gives integrated power in the section of the coil between the voltage drop measurements. However, if your are interested in local power generation in the

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Axil Axil
Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components is the same, and the voltage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage across the circuit is the sum of the voltages across each component.[1]

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Bob Cook
. Bob - Original Message - From: Axil Axil To: vortex-l Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alain Sepeda
hidden wire, RF supply, solar cell, can explain an apparent self-sustain. David have a good idea, that skeptic do the experiment themselves. some have done in their time and now they are here ;-) accused of fraud an delusion. moreover most skeptic refuse to experiment, and when experimenting

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alberto De Souza
Alain, you are right in your analysis. A skeptic may point out all the problems you have mentioned. But we have something new now: MFMP and their live science approach. If they show (live) the complete process of puting the two reactors in series and the reactor with fuel shows significantly

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Axil Axil
Would we not want to wire the reactors in parallel to avoid a voltage drop between the two reactors if they were connected in series? On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Alberto De Souza alberto.investi...@gmail.com wrote: Alain, you are right in your analysis. A skeptic may point out all the

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alberto De Souza
their length as a function of temperature should be known. This bit of information is not trivial. Bob - Original Message - *From:* Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-20 Thread Alberto De Souza
vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Friday, March 20, 2015 1:57 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc., Series and parallel circuits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_and_parallel_circuits In a series circuit, the current through each of the components is the same

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Jack Cole
Without all the details, it may be hard to fully evaluate this. If the thermocouple was on the inside of the cell (and only one was used), it opens the possibility of differences in heat conduction. Imagine a thermocouple in the air in the center of the tube versus touching the nickel fuel in

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Alberto De Souza
Any COP higher than 2 would be easy to detect with the setup I have proposed. Also, it will silence one argument of the skeptics, that there is no control in the LENR experiments (i.e. an easily verifiable null hypothesis). One can always find problems with calorimetry... With two reactors

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread torulf.greek
If there are some air in the reactor the oxygen will oxidise Ni an possible other compounds then the temperature becomes high enough. This binds the oxygen and it will lower the pressure. It will also make some heat, but only until the oxygen are consumed. Torulf On Thu, 19 Mar 2015

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Peter Gluck
The main player is hydrogen. LIALH$ contains ` 10% in weight H2, i.e. 6mgr. 2 gr H2 is 22410 mL in standard conditions; ergo 6mgr hydrogen makes 67 mL gas. This is disappearing during the process adsorbed in the melt and...? Peter On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:22 PM, torulf.gr...@bredband.net wrote:

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Jack Cole
Great work Peter. The fact that he has repeated the results using a method alternative to his calorimetry is very encouraging. In addition, the fact that he was able to run for such a long time easily rules out chemical effects. Hopefully, it will keep on running for more days to weeks. I was

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Alberto De Souza
I would suggest running two identical reactors in the same room (one without fuel) with heating resistances (identical) in series. If the fueled reactor becomes hotter, we have excess heat. One can film (MFMP style) the measurement of the resistance of the heaters before, and the voltage on them

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Jack, This morning - 8 hours ago, the reactor was still working. Nothing was announced till now. I am sure Alexander will work out a proper calorimetry system, not easy - if no sufficient cooling (as in his older system) risk of overheating and burnout. I have searched for the new sort of

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread Jack Cole
It is impressive even without calorimetry. He would have to make a severe mistake on input power measurement to be off that far. To be more specific, he would have to make a mistake on input power measurement on the run with fuel that he did not make on the run without the fuel (very unlikely).

Re: [Vo]:fast LENR news about Parkhomov, etc.,

2015-03-19 Thread ChemE Stewart
That's awesome! On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: It is impressive even without calorimetry. He would have to make a severe mistake on input power measurement to be off that far. To be more specific, he would have to make a mistake on input power measurement on