Re: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
sorry charles, didn't mean to offend you... but yes flash is required for that system. my apologies to your iPhone ;) On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 00:12, Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com wrote: Flash is required?! Sent from my iPhone. On Apr 17, 2011, at 17:36, .:.gotjosh

Re: [Vo]:An independent Cat-E exciter is required exclusive of heat.

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
from wikipedia: Nickel is a naturally magnetostrictive material, meaning that in the presence of a magnetic field, the material undergoes a small change in length.[41] In the case of nickel, this change in length is negative (contraction of the material), which is known as negative

[Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene reports that it may be impossible to transfer 16 kW or 130 kW from a 1 L steel cell a flow of water. To test this hypothesis, I looked at two examples of heat transfer, in a tankless water heater, and a nuclear power plant. The tankless heater is Niagara brand 12 kW electrically fired

[Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Iverson
Could the magnetic field generated by the resistive heaters be inducing some other effects that help promote the reaction, or inductively heat the Nickel??? -Mark

RE: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
You are using the wrong criteria, as I understand the situation. The 'volume' of the heater is relatively unimportant compared to the surface area exposed to water flow, the time of exposure and the metal transferring the heat. With a tubular reactor as described in the Rossi patent, there is not

Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
Hey Mark! Axil and I have been dancing around this idea also in a recent thread (http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg45022.html) I have a strong feeling that there are some electro-magnetic effects playing an important role here. and I also found this tidbit on wikipedia:

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: You are using the wrong criteria, as I understand the situation. The ‘volume’ of the heater is relatively unimportant compared to the surface area exposed to water flow, the time of exposure and the metal transferring the heat. Yes, I know. I pointed

Re: [Vo]:Gas Poisoning Unimportant if its Fusion But . . .

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
Dr Gluck, can you or anyone else provide calculations about point b? if a portion of the 100micron particles of nickel powder are coated with a thin layer of NiO (as they would be if baked between 600-1200C in air), how much water are we talking about? and if the water is the result of the O from

RE: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson In the meantime, I suspect Mr. Beene will probably not find Mr. Rothwell's analysis convincing, and I fully expect a counter response. Wow - I realize that this Rossi device could be the most important development in Energy for

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: ... Wow - I realize that this Rossi device could be the most important development in Energy for some extended time ... hmmm, the Neolithic age comes to mind, according to Randy :) ... but this  may be the first time in Vortician-land for having a play-by-play and ongoing

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/18/2011 01:52 PM, Jones Beene wrote: You are using the wrong criteria, as I understand the situation. The 'volume' of the heater is relatively unimportant compared to the surface area exposed to water flow, the time of exposure and the metal transferring the heat. With a tubular

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I was hoping it would be Ines Sainz... You called this moderate? http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/sportatorium/2011/02/ines_sainz_nice_booty_nicer_pe.php I wonder who painted those? T

Re: [Vo]:Gas Poisoning Unimportant if its Fusion But . . .

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Gluck
Just call me Peter please- I am as far I remember one of the founding members of Vortex and I have only friends here. It is easy to make approximate calculations if you tell me how many grams of NiO will be in which space. However I ask you that before continuing to think about NiO (very

Re: [Vo]:Gas Poisoning Unimportant if its Fusion But . . .

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
Are you of the opinion that he doesn't? On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 20:39, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: If Rossi really has an catalyst. Peter

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
On a more serious note, someone who may have achieved some street creed with Rossi might want to pop this interesting heat transfer question to Ross at his blog. It might be interesting to see how Rossi responds. Could be highly revealing. Peter Gluck, comes to mind as the volunteer for his

RE: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell * Similar stainless steel surfaces in teapots transfer heat at roughly this rate without difficulty. Nonsense. Water going thru the Rossi reactor is in contact with the reactor only for milliseconds ! A teapot takes minutes to boil. . or even longer, if you are

[Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I compared the volume and surface area of a nuclear fuel rod to that of a typical 1 liter water bottle. I assume that Rossi's device has at least as much surface area as a cylindrical water bottle. I am hopeless at arithmetic so I cheat with an on-line calculator such as this one:

Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread Axil Axil
The current producing the inductive heating will flow primarily on the outside surface of the stainless steel reaction vessel (RV) wall due to the skin effect. Little or a reduced current will flow on the inside surface of the RV wall. No magnetic field will exist on the inside of the RV where the

Re: [Vo]:Gas Poisoning Unimportant if its Fusion But . . .

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
Regardless of any possible quantity of NiO added to the reactor as am intentional catalyst, i assume that each particle of Ni powder will be coated with NiO, either from standard handling, processing such as baking, or from being heated to 400-500C to start the reactor (with some residual oxygen

Re: [Vo]:Gas Poisoning Unimportant if its Fusion But . . .

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Gluck
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:41 PM, .:.gotjosh ene...@begreen.nu wrote: Are you of the opinion that he doesn't? On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 20:39, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: If Rossi really has an catalyst. Peter By the way, what is in this case a catalyst? What is it's function?

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Ø Similar stainless steel surfaces in teapots transfer heat at roughly this rate without difficulty. Nonsense. Water going thru the Rossi reactor is in contact with the reactor only for milliseconds ! A teapot takes minutes to boil. This assertion

Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
axil, please forgive me if these are ignorant questions: are you sure that the heating elements are inductive? isn't there a difference between inductive heating and resistive heating? Isn't it true that inductive heating will not work with copper? On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 21:05, Axil Axil

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Thus there is at least a 1000:1 error in that anecdotal appraisal, which is not a surprise, given how much of an emotional stake seems to be involved. You can appraise any electrical hot water heater and see that it transfers heat at a higher rate than

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Gluck
I like to ask answerable questions, and I could not formulate this one without touching know how elements. Plus we had some indirect dialogue with Rossi re. the role of Piantelli's work in the area of Ni-H LENR. Rossi has declared that his system is different from Piantelli's. So I have asked him

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell * As I said, the reactor transfers 3 GW with 80,000 rods. That is approximately 37.5 kW per rod. (Previously I estimated per liter of rod.) That comes to 0.030 kW/cm^2. A liter-bottle shaped Rossi cell putting out 130 kW would be producing 0.216 kW/cm^2, an order of

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Whoa the 3 GW is for an entire year, correct? No, gigawatts are a measure of power, not energy. I am forever mixing up MW (power) MJ (energy) and even MB (data storage!) so I understand your confusion here. The other day Brian Josephson mixed up MW and

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
Speaking of leaving it to experts, someone has written to me offline that this very issue of heat transfer was covered at Chennai by NRL - and they may have had similar reservations that this was even possible. Weren't you there, and did they? J. * As I said, the reactor

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Maybe hydrinos improve heat transfer? They should carry more energy in a smaller volume effectively increasing the internal surface area. Just because We never see them at STP doesn't mean they can't exist as a heated plasma inside the reactor. Fran From: Jed Rothwell

Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread Axil Axil
To the best of my knowledge, induction heating is the process of heating electrically conducting object (magnetic types of stainless steel but not non magnetic copper) by electromagnetic induction where eddy currents are generated within the metal and resistance leads to Joule heating of the

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Roarty, Francis X francis.x.roa...@lmco.com wrote: Maybe hydrinos improve heat transfer?  They should carry more energy in a “smaller” volume effectively increasing the internal surface area. Just because We never see them at STP doesn’t mean they can’t exist

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *Speaking of leaving it to experts, someone has written to me offline that this very issue of heat transfer was covered at Chennai by NRL - and they may have had similar reservations that this was even possible.*** Weren’t you there, and did they?

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Axil, both resistive and inductive heaters will produce magnetic fields - A resistive heater can operate on AC or DC but an inductive heater will short out if fed DC. The resistive heater is still equivalent to a conductor which will produce an ac or pulsating dc magnetic field if you choose

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread Axil Axil
Some background... I have heard that Rossi is using a commercial plastic extrusion nozzle. These nozzles all use inductive high-frequency alternating current (AC). I will be looking to verify this from a direct QA from Rossi. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Roarty, Francis X

RE: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Iverson
Giving points made by Jed, Jones and (Steven) Johnson validity, and the fact that Rossi admits to not being a genius but requests people give him some credit for being reasonably bright and competent, I would bet that the heat xfer issue was something that needed to be solved long ago and has

Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
thanks for the clarification. does the patent and/or blog mention induction? or is this an advancement since the patent? i find many references to resistance but none to induction...but maybe i am missing something... On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 21:53, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: To the

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread .:.gotjosh
it makes alot of sense to me, but then why does rossi, repeatedly state in his blog that they can turn off the resistance and keep running, they just don't for safety reasons?? has anyone other than rossi confirmed that the reactor can continue to produce heat when disconnected from both the

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Oops. I wrote: Liter bottle shaped cylinder: 4 cm diameter, 20 cm length Meant 8 cm diameter, 20 cm length. (4 cm radius.) I measured a plastic liter bottle to come up with this. There is no reason to think the Rossi cell is this shape. On the contrary, the machine is long and thin, so I

[Vo]:Ontologies of heat

2011-04-18 Thread Harry Veeder
Until about 200 hundred years ago, there were three competing ontologies on the nature of heat. 1) Only cold is a real entity, so heat is the relative absence of cold. 2) Hot and cold are both real entities, so that heat is a mixture of hot and cold. 3) Only heat is a real entity, so cold is 

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell Speaking of leaving it to experts, someone has written to me offlist that this very issue of heat transfer was covered at Chennai by NRL - and they may have had similar reservations that this was even possible. Weren't you there, and did they? * I was there, but I do not

Re: [Vo]:Ontologies of heat

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Blanton
In the Bizarro world of negative energy beyond the zero point, negative energy is the same as positive energy in our three space. T

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Blanton
If the reactor vessel begins to glow emitting IR photons which are absorbed by the copper jacket, you would have to include radiative energy in the calculation. If. T

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
Well another thing that brings to mind is that the reactor vessel could be emitting electrons (Edison effect) which perform electrolysis on the coolant. That could perhaps get extra heat into the water to boost convective or radiative transfer. I don't know understand why there seems to be such

Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:52:44 -0700: Hi, [snip] You are using the wrong criteria, as I understand the situation. The 'volume' of the heater is relatively unimportant compared to the surface area exposed to water flow, the time of exposure and the metal

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread francis
Gotjosh, I agree that it doesn't make sense - it challenges the assumption that the control loop is keeping the reaction carefully balanced between starving out below threshold or entering runaway while over threshold using the duty factor of the control signal. Fran .:.gotjosh

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Jed Rothwell *Speaking of leaving it to experts, someone has written to me offli**st**that this very issue of heat transfer was covered at Chennai by NRL - and they may have had similar reservations that this was even possible.* Weren’t

Re: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread Charles Hope
Ok that's the sort of possible issue I was referring to in terms of their policies being acceptable. I have a domain already and can have a mediawiki set up there probably this weekend, if others share your concerns. If you would prefer to do it, or can get it up faster, feel free. Sent

RE: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
One connection to a magnetic field could be to magnetostriction, which has been mentioned recently and in the past. So many decent ideas are passing through the forum nowadays, that a few good ones will be overlooked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetostrictive The effect is small but it

[Vo]:Neg Energy and ZPE

2011-04-18 Thread Wm. Scott Smith
Francis and I have discussed modeling virtual photons as oscillating on their time axis so that we only observe their forward-time motion. Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:23:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Ontologies of heat From: hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com In the Bizarro world of

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I don't know understand why there seems to be such resistance to the gain in this device being only in the range of COP 3-6 ? There is resistance because we do not think you can casually throw away calorimetry and pretend that industrial techniques and

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
This is not a question of throwing away good data. It is a question of throwing away junk data and getting good data. Geeze Louise – Rothwell’s fallback argument is his electric teapot - and as for serious science he is content with clamp meters instead of power analyzers and

Re: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread Esa Ruoho
I understand your need to refer to every single thing that Sterling Allan has done over the years. Yes, pushing Mylow was a mistake. Yes, I'd be happy if he never mentioned biblecodes, MIB or conspiracy theories. He sometimes does that, so I switch to the next article. I only really follow

Re: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Angela Kemmler angela.kemm...@gmx.de wrote: Nobody supresses Rossi, even the italian television RAI3 talked about him, there are three Wikipedia articles about the Ecat and the university of Uppsala will perhaps test his device later this week. Later this week? That soon? That's great!

Re: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread Esa Ruoho
Let's just put it everywhere. If someone on VO-list sets up a wiki, it could be there, in addition to elsewhere. The more mirrors, the better. I'm sure http://freeenergytruth.blogspot.com/ would jump at a chance to post that compilation of Rossi's answers all over the place. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I don't know understand why there seems to be such resistance to the gain in this device being only in the range of COP 3-6 ? You'll find no resistance here to any possibility. Since I am not present, I must rely on the

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: This is not a question of throwing away good data. It is a question of throwing away junk data and getting good data. You have given us NO INDICATION how or why this data is junk. All you have done is claimed that you have theory proving that 12 kW

RE: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Jed sez: Nobody supresses Rossi, even the italian television RAI3 talked about him, there are three Wikipedia articles about the Ecat and the university of Uppsala will perhaps test his device later this week. Later this week? That soon? That's great! Where was that reported? University of

Re: [Vo]:A wiki for compiling Rossi's hints

2011-04-18 Thread Harry Veeder
what happened to the alternapedia project? Harry   [Vo]:ALTERNAPEDIA, alt-science friendly 'pedia service William Beaty Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:58:33 -0700 (see also preceding message) From: Pierre Carbonnelle  Together with Bill Beaty, I'm pleased to introduce Alternapedia to the Vortex

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
OK, There is only one way to end this kind of fruitless thread - and that would be a small wager to be based on the upcoming tests in Sweden. Let's see . You say the COP is considerably over 30, based on first demo even though the Feb testing was much higher, is that about right?

Re: [Vo]:Latest radio talk and lectures

2011-04-18 Thread fznidarsic
The megahertz-meter stuff is coming out in a peer reviewed journal. My work with the hydrogen atom extended to the Josephson Junction by co-author Glen Robertson. Things are starting to open up in many places. snip As many of you know, AIP pulled publication at the last moment for our

[Vo]:Neg Energy and ZPE

2011-04-18 Thread francis
Scott, The thread title Neg Energy and ZPE represents a stumbling box for some. We know that energy density is the sum of all vacuum fluctuation wavelengths and that even in deep open space without mass there still remains an energy density background. One would assume that suppression could

Re: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: OK, There is only one way to end this kind of fruitless thread – and that would be a small wager to be based on the upcoming tests in Sweden. I don't bet. I debate technical issues based on experimental evidence, not crackpot theories that predict

Fwd: [Vo]:Latest radio talk and lectures

2011-04-18 Thread fznidarsic
Well what do you know about that. They have made and are selling a transcript of my show. They are bigger and better than I thought. Next on to sci-fi. http://www.bbsradio.com/host/spectrumradionetwork/archives/spectrum_radio_network_archive.php# -Original Message-

RE: [Vo]:Fuel rod surface area versus 1 liter bottle

2011-04-18 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell * I don't bet. I debate technical issues based on experimental evidence, not crackpot theories that predict water heaters don't work. If you will not give us a plausible reason why this calorimetry might be wrong by a factor of 1000 then you lose this debate. This 1000

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Heat transfer in a water heater and nuclear plant

2011-04-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Roarty, Francis X's message of Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:51:49 -0400: Hi, [snip] Maybe hydrinos improve heat transfer? They should carry more energy in a smaller volume effectively increasing the internal surface area. Just because We never see them at STP doesn't mean they can't exist as

Re: [Vo]: resistive heaters not for heating?

2011-04-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:53:18 -0400: Hi, [snip] To the best of my knowledge, induction heating is the process of heating electrically conducting object (magnetic types of stainless steel but not non magnetic copper) by electromagnetic induction where eddy currents