Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-06 Thread Andrea Selva
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote: I mean that no sane person would simply insert a probe into a hole without checking where the probe ended up, and also checking to be sure it is properly positioned and leak-tight. You don't just insert a

[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
Hello group, A detailed and quite long (even too much to post here completely) english article on Rossi's Energy Catalyzer has been posted today on Ny Teknik. Here's its summary: In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian

[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
Ah! Piccys of naked ECats! Thanks! T

[Vo]: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 SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 13:51, Terry Blanton wrote: Ah! Piccys of naked ECats! In the technical report itself there are even more pictures of them: http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3144960.ece/BINARY/Download+the+report+by+Kullander+and+Ess%C3%A9n+%28pdf%29. http://tinyurl.com/68wqoyy Cheers,

[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

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 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

[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 03:01 AM, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Kullander: Both measurements show that the pure nickel powder contains mainly nickel, and the used powder is different in that several elements are present, mainly 10 percent copper and 11 percent iron. The isotopic analysis through ICP-MS

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Andrea Selva andreagiuseppe.se...@gmail.com wrote: Jed, I don't understand if you ever saw any of the pictures of the two test assets or any of the clips of the January one. If your answer is yes maybe your eyes are note telling you the truth. Everybody can easily see that the output probe

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

[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 Dennis
Looking at the pictures, it seems to be fairly simple mechanically. The chamber is 50cc and not 1 liter as we were made to believe. My question is: does the water pass through the bed of Nickel? I don't see anything in the pictures that would indicate that there is a separate path for 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 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

[Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, A *very* interesting (revealing many previously unknown details, to tell the truth I'm not sure if he was supposed to disclose them all) three-part audio interview in italian to Sergio Focardi by a local web radio has been submitted here:

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]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: “It’s a nuclear reaction” / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread Finlay MacNab
The copper isotope ratios reported here contradict those from Rossi's blog published data. In his blog post titled Experimental Results he states the Cu63/Cu65 ratio is 1.6 after transmutation. The isotope results reported by the swedish observers seems very suspicious to me.

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Akira, ... - Focardi doesn't know the exact composition of the catalyser used in the reactor (in addition to nickel powder) or what it does exactly but he suspects that it's a chemical compound promoting nickel's adsorption of hydrogen in atomic form rather than molecular. Maybe

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 18:58, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Maybe something got lost in the translation here, but find it surprising that Focardi apparently doesn't know the composition of the catalyzer used in Rossi's reactor. Are we to assume Rossi hasn't told him? I'm quite sure Focardi told

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

2011-04-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I'll update my Proof paper shortly. Not much that can happen in 50cc, though .

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread Mattia Rizzi
Confirmed. Focardi doesn't know the composition. -- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 6:58 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Akira On 2011-04-06 18:58, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: I'm quite sure Focardi told that he doesn't know the composition (nor he wants to know - he added). By catalyzer I mean the unknown compound which enhances the nickel-hydrogen reaction. Really! Does he say why he doesn't

[Vo]: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
This is a smaller version of the ECat: 4 kW vs 12 kW. It appears to have a single heater. Rossi says he will make 300 of these for his MW generator. It is simpler and safer according to the inventor. Allegedly, in 2.5 months, a version of the ECat consumed (transmuted, whatever) 100g of Ni

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]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 19:10, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Really! Does he say why he doesn't want to know? The only speculation that makes any sense to me might be for personal safety reasons. He doesn't, and I don't think he seriously means that either, but maybe he simply doesn't want to

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

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]: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 Jeff Driscoll
As far as I can see, they are still making mistakes by using a humidity meter to test for the mass fraction of vapor to liquid water - also known as steam quality from their technical paper:

[Vo]:Nickel and Copper

2011-04-06 Thread Harry Veeder
Has it ever be explained, using stellar nucleosynthesis theory, why naturally occurring nickel and copper have the isotopic distribution that they have?  Harry From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 10:33:19 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:RE:

Re: [Vo]:Nickel and Copper

2011-04-06 Thread Esa Ruoho
This question made me check out Walter Russell's Periodic Chart of the Elements, and in there, Nickel and Copper are right next to eachother in the 7th octave, listed as isotopes. On top of Nickel there's Cobalt, and below Copper there's Zinc, Gallium and Germanium.

[Vo]:Wet steam controversy

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jeff Driscoll wrote: As far as I can see, they are still making mistakes by using a humidity meter to test for the mass fraction of vapor to liquid water - also known as steam quality As everyone here remembers, this was disputed after the first test. I would not know, but I have found

Re: [Vo]:Wet steam controversy

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
I pushed send too soon. I meant to add a critical point: The 18-hour test proved that the device does, in fact, output 15 kW, so I do not see how people can still argue that the first test was actually putting out far less than that because of wet steam. I think the second test proved that the

[Vo]:How small Rossi devices might be ganged together

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
A few weeks ago I mentioned that I think ganging together many small Rossi devices will call for some complicated engineering. Perhaps it will slow down the development of the 1 MW reactor. I'm sure that 100 units can be coordinated but it may take a team of engineers some time to design such a

Re: [Vo]:How small Rossi devices might be ganged together

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
I meant to say the screw holes would be used to admit hydrogen into the cells, or evacuate them. Maybe they would be used to admit nitrogen to shut the thing down. 100 individual hydrogen pressure hoses running to 100 cylinders would be an engineering headache but I suppose something can be

Re: [Vo]:How small Rossi devices might be ganged together

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 22:06, Jed Rothwell wrote: A few weeks ago I mentioned that I think ganging together many small Rossi devices will call for some complicated engineering. Perhaps it will slow down the development of the 1 MW reactor. I'm sure that 100 units can be coordinated but it may take a team

Re: [Vo]:How small Rossi devices might be ganged together

2011-04-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
SHIRAKAWA Akira shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com wrote: According to Rossi's latest plans, the megawatt reactor is going to be made of not 100, but 300 smaller units similar in size to those seen in photos . . . Yup. But I started writing that text before I learned that. Besides a 10 x 10 array 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 Alan J Fletcher
I don't remember having seen this (March) report by Essen from the Swedish Skeptics Society (Discusses the NYteknik interview) http://translate.google.com/translate?js=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8layout=2eotf=1sl=svtl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vof.se%2Findex.php (Sorry if it's a duplicate)

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]:Nickel and Copper

2011-04-06 Thread Harry Veeder
oh it is not surprising that they are claiming copper is produced, since even on the standard peoridic table nickel and copper are neighbors. Stellar fusion can account for the lighter elements up to and including iron, but how the heavier elements arose is not so clear. Indeed, most of 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 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

[Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread francis
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:53: SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote [snip]Focardi doesn't know the exact composition of the catalyser used in the reactor (in addition to nickel powder) or what it does exactly but he suspects that it's a chemical compound promoting nickel's adsorption of hydrogen in atomic form

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

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 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]:FAKES NOT ALL ELIMINATED : Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction

2011-04-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_v314.php Preliminary Conclusion: Because the horizontal arm was NOT inspected unwrapped, we have to assume it contained FAKE material. The 6 hour test was NOT long enough to eliminate all of the fakes.

Re: [Vo]:FAKES NOT ALL ELIMINATED : Swedish physicists on the E-cat: It's a nuclear reaction

2011-04-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 03:34 PM 4/6/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Because the horizontal arm was NOT inspected unwrapped, we have to assume it contained FAKE material. The 6 hour test was NOT long enough to eliminate all of the fakes. What on EARTH is THAT supposed to mean? 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 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 francis
Dennis, that is also how I interpreted the new paper but Jones then indicated there may also be copper inside the reactor. In either case I am convinced the initial Reaction is due to changes in nano geometry which causes change in suppression level that disassociates any molecular hydrogen or

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 Terry Blanton
Maybe the catalyst isn't so very secret. T Keep your powder dry, men.

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
I thought of it as a stainless steel cylinder (easier to machine) inside the widen part of the copper tubing with water flowing around it. From the temperature curves, I think that the external heater gets the system up to around 60C where the reaction starts to proceed. My guess for 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 Terry Blanton
It's probably something like nanonickel and buckyballs. :-) 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 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 Jed Rothwell
Dennis den...@netmdc.com wrote: I thought of it as a stainless steel cylinder (easier to machine) inside the [wider] part of the copper tubing with water flowing around it. Yes, that is my understanding. In Fig. 4 you see a bulge in the copper pipe. Inside that bulge is a second, stainless

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
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-stainless-steel-made-of.html Harry - Original Message From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 7:55:58 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: \It\'s a nuclear reaction\ / 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 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 Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-stainless-steel-made-of.html This does not say how much copper impurity is found. It must be less than 0.15% I guess. Allowable Impurities for stainless steel are listed in ASTM A276 but you gotta pay for that. - 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 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 Harry Veeder
I wonder if any of the other components of stainless steel might facilitate the reaction harry From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 8:26:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: \It\'s a nuclear reaction\ / The used

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 8:46 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: I wonder if any of the other components of stainless steel might facilitate the reaction Dunno. But the SS pit could contain any radioactivity from isotopes. This could allow Rossi to say that the ECat is 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 Terry Blanton
What do you want from life? Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to: a heated kidney shaped pool, a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook, . . . 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 9:19 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: What do you want from life? Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to: a heated kidney shaped pool, a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,  . . . I am turning in for 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 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]:Nickel and Copper

2011-04-06 Thread Harry Veeder
It worth noting that nickel and copper are often found together in mineral deposits. Harry From: Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 5:08:27 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nickel and Copper oh it is not surprising that they are claiming copper is produced,

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

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