Re: [Vo]:How can the Wikipedia process be so good if does not work?

2012-09-11 Thread Moab Moab
The rules/policies are absolutely ok when applied by editors with
common sense or for non-controversial articles.

For articles on controversial topics a group of editors will feel that
they have to protect the article from evil POV pushers. They have a
mission: Wikipedia must not expound fringe ideas

In some cases they do the right thing by deleting really bad sources,
but they have simply lost any form of perspective, they overshoot,
some willingly, some unwillingly. They turn the article into a dark
alley where only they rule. There is no way to evolve an article in
such atmosphere.
Those who tried all got blocked or banned, as there will always be a
reason to ban an editor. polite POV pushing is suffient.
Uninvolved editors who really enjoy working on wikipedia stay away
from controversial articles.

Wikipedia is based on consensus and just as crooks in a dark alley the
editors will have reached a consensus to misuse the rules/policies.

Example:
The indian scientific journal current science was dismissed by one
editor as not reliable source, because they had published a paper by
Steven Krivit and it was argued that their peer review is not done
properly and that the journal is not significant. The atmosphere is
already so devoid from common sense that such a argumentation is
simply accepted by fellow editors, just to keep a paper from being
mentioned in the article.

Wikipedia fails with the set of editors that make up the consensus.

POVbrigand


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com, an expert in Wikipedia, wrote
 descriptions that seem contradictory to me. First he says the policies are
 great, then he says they are not followed:


 If you are interested in helping with Wikipedia, do register, but be aware
 that it can be an abusive community, the policies and guidelines are
 fantastic, and commonly not followed. They are not followed because the
 users who understood them gave up pushing the boulder up the hill and
 watching it roll back again. . . .


 I do not see how a set of rules can be fantastic when they are routinely
 ignored. A rule is only fantastic when it is enforceable.

 The rules lead to many problems:

 Users who persisted in insisting on policy, against the desires of any
 kind of cabal or informal collection of editors pushing a particular point
 of view . . .


 That is, the Arbs know how to be administrators, they all come from that,
 but they don't know how to *manage* administrators. They are chosen by
 popularity, not for management skills, and Wikipedia overwhelms even the
 best of them.


 It seems to me you need rules that people can live with and that do not
 overwhelm even the best administrators. Rules that result in people being
 overwhelmed need revision.



 The larger community *does* support the guidelines and policies, the
 cabals attempt to subvert them and even sometimes openly oppose them.


 If the larger community supports these things, why are they not enforced? Is
 there no enforcement mechanism? In that case the rules are inadequate.



 Look, want to accomplish something on Wikipedia?


 No, I hope it withers away.

 Maybe what Abd has in mind here is that the rules are good and with a little
 tweaking they would work.

 It seems to me these rules were invented for Wikipedia. They do not work
 well because they are novel. I am conservative. I think it is better to
 apply old rules that were invented for conventional media and for
 conventional academic forums, such as the rules used to run physics
 conferences. Rule number one should be everyone has to use his or her real
 name.

 - Jed




Re: [Vo]:OT: Gene-Doping

2012-09-11 Thread Terry Blanton
Not to diminish the work done by ARPA-E, take a look at this from DARPA:

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/09/10.aspx

It really gives me the creeps.

T



Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a conspiracy

2012-09-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote:

Yes you did say. You said that hot fusion researchers are trying to
 'suppress' it and indeed hot fusion research is operating with extremely
 big money.


As noted that was Abd, not me. However, it is true that the plasma fusion
scientists played a leading role in suppressing cold fusion. I suppose they
did this mainly to protect their budget. There is no doubt they played a
leading role. They did it quite publicly, in the mass media. They are proud
of what they did.

I suppose plasma fusion funding is big money. It is far bigger than most
academic funding. But I take the expression big money to mean businesses,
Wall Street, the DoD or political parties. Academic funding is microscopic
in comparison.

The opposition to cold fusion is caused by academic politics, in two ways:

1. Scientists tend to be conservative and unwilling to believe new
information. Most of them know nothing about cold fusion but they are
certain it must be wrong.

2. Academic funding may be small, but it is how these people make their
living. If cold fusion is funded many academic researchers in other areas
related to energy will lose their livelihoods. So they will fight it tooth
and nail. I suppose I would too, if I were in their place.

- Jed


RE: [Vo]:OT: Gene-Doping

2012-09-11 Thread Jones Beene

... brave new world, indeed ... and they chose not to show the version with
the ray gun (high powered semiconductor laser array) ...


-Original Message-
From: Terry Blanton 

Not to diminish the work done by ARPA-E, take a look at this from DARPA:

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/09/10.aspx

It really gives me the creeps.

T





Re: [Vo]:OT: Gene-Doping

2012-09-11 Thread ChemE Stewart
Not exactly stealthy...

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:


 ... brave new world, indeed ... and they chose not to show the version with
 the ray gun (high powered semiconductor laser array) ...


 -Original Message-
 From: Terry Blanton

 Not to diminish the work done by ARPA-E, take a look at this from DARPA:

 http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/09/10.aspx

 It really gives me the creeps.

 T






Re: [Vo]:OT: Gene-Doping

2012-09-11 Thread Ron Wormus

Maybe they should just go back to horses  mules .. much cheaper.

--On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:07 AM -0400 Terry Blanton 
hohlr...@gmail.com wrote:



Not to diminish the work done by ARPA-E, take a look at this from DARPA:

http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/09/10.aspx

It really gives me the creeps.

T









Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a conspiracy

2012-09-11 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:

 Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes you did say. You said that hot fusion researchers are trying to
 'suppress' it and indeed hot fusion research is operating with extremely
 big money.

 ...
 I suppose plasma fusion funding is big money. It is far bigger than most
 academic funding. But I take the expression big money to mean businesses,
 Wall Street, the DoD or political parties. Academic funding is microscopic
 in comparison.


This is a perfect case-in-point for the situation described in Institutional
Incompetence, Conspiracy Theories and Pol
Pothttp://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2011/07/institutional-incompetence-conspiracy.html
:

Part of the problem is that almost all institutional incompetence derives
from faulty incentive structures, so it is easy to impute to the critic the
claim that such incompetence is not incompetence at all but, rather, is
self-interest. The critic is hard-pressed to deny this (except insofar as
such self-interest is unenlightened hence incompetent in that meta-sense)
and is thence imputed to theorize a conspiracy of self-interested
individuals as the basis for the maintenance of the institutionalized
incompetence. Again, the critic may not have put forth nor even have
thought of such a theory but he is hard-pressed to disprove that a
conspiracy -- in some sense -- is at work so he cannot very well
vigorously deny such a theory. This vulnerability of the critic is then
viciously attacked. This all goes on within a subtext of the conversation
so it is a rare critic that recognizes how the burden of proof has been
shifted from the institutionally incompetent needing to prove that the
critic has theorized a conspiracy (which, of course, would require
defining conspiracy) to the critic needing to prove that such a
conspiracy (the definition of which is, after all, in the mind of the
institutionally incompetent) is clearly out of the question despite the
vagueness of the term multiplied by the lack of information with which to
support or deny even a clear definition.

So, the institution of Critics are crazy people. successfully defends all
institutional incompetence.


Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a conspiracy

2012-09-11 Thread Guenter Wildgruber





 Von: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
An: vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Gesendet: 16:12 Dienstag, 11.September 2012
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a 
conspiracy
 

Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote:


Yes you did say. You said that hot fusion researchers are trying to 'suppress' 
it and indeed hot fusion research is operating with extremely big money.
As noted that was Abd, not me. However, it is true that the plasma fusion 
scientists played a leading role in suppressing cold fusion. I suppose they did 
this mainly to protect their budget. 

There is no doubt they played a leading role. 

 not over here (Germany).  As far as i know, the MPP, which is the biggest 
 May-Planck-Institute, tried to replicate F/P and failed. so the issue was 
 settled.

They did it quite publicly, in the mass media. They are proud of what they did.

 Not really over here. This was a standard scientific issue of failure of 
 replication.
Maybe erroneous and for the wrong reasons, as it now seems to be the case.

I suppose plasma fusion funding is big money. It is far bigger than most 
academic funding. 

It is big money, yes, but is PURE government money.
Per 2010 16 Billion Euro, with 6.6 european money.
But I take the expression big money to mean businesses, Wall Street, the DoD 
or political parties. Academic funding is microscopic in comparison.

The opposition to cold fusion is caused by academic politics, in two ways:

1. Scientists tend to be conservative and unwilling to believe new information. 
Most of them know nothing about cold fusion but they are certain it must be 
wrong.

 this is Kuhnian Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
nothin new here.
 
2. Academic funding may be small, 
 it is not.

but it is how these people make their living. If cold fusion is funded many 
academic researchers in other areas related to energy will lose their 
livelihoods. 

 Ofcourse.

So they will fight it tooth and nail. I suppose I would too, if I were in their 
place.

 No, they do'nt.   It is sufficient to ignore the issue.

The fusion guys have a lot of problems with their own design, and them to even  
CONSIDER cold fusion as a relevant contender,  is outside of any reasonable 
consideration.

So to even consider a Rossi as a significant contender wrt funding-money, 
is so far out, that one safely can consider this irrelevant.

To my experience, the direction of funding and its possible redirection to 
competing fields is an EXTREMELY slow process, and can be measured in decades, 
not years.

Guenter

- Jed

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a conspiracy

2012-09-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote:


  not over here (Germany).  As far as i know, the MPP, which is the
 biggest May-Planck-Institute, tried to replicate F/P and failed. so the
 issue was settled.


I do not know about this test, but it would be ridiculous to reject cold
fusion based on one test in 1989, especially after 100 other labs
replicated successfully. In any case, in 1990 the Director of the Max
Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry wrote that he was certain the
effect is real. See:

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GerischerHiscoldfusi.pdf

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a conspiracy

2012-09-11 Thread Guenter Wildgruber





 Von: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
An: vortex-l@eskimo.com 
Gesendet: 20:23 Dienstag, 11.September 2012
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a 
conspiracy
 

Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote:
 
 not over here (Germany).  As far as i know, the MPP, which is the biggest 
 May-Planck-Institute, tried to replicate F/P and failed. so the issue was 
 settled.

I do not know about this test, but it would be ridiculous to reject cold fusion 
based on one test in 1989, especially after 100 other labs replicated 
successfully. In any case, in 1990 the Director of the Max Planck Institute for 
Physical Chemistry wrote that he was certain the effect is real. See:


http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GerischerHiscoldfusi.pdf 

- Jed

This is a completely different institute, and one probaly has to know the 
intricacies of the Max-Planck organization.
Max-planck Directors are basically completely independent feudal lords, and the 
institute is resumed, when the 'master' retires.
at least this was the idea when the Max Planck Institutes  were termed 'Kaiser 
Wilhelm Gesellschaft'.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft_zur_Foerderung_der_Wissenschaften#Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute

Never mind.

The IPP  is different, in that it is so large that the old concept does not 
apply anymore. It -the old concept- applies to budgets of several millions, and 
not hundreds of millions.
The IPP is the biggest of all Max-Planck institutes, and therefore has 10 
Directors., which form a collective, and is alien to the original -as said- 
feudal conception of a scientific lordship.

PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE THOSE!
Foreigners naturally do not understand the fine-print of such a delicate 
institution. 
I can understand that.

Wikipedia does not tell the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_of_Plasma_Physics.
The German wikipedia  neither, btw.

in German it reads like this:
...
Im Mai 2010 teilte die Europäische Kommission mit, dass laut einer aktuellen 
Kostenschätzung ihr Anteil an den 
Baukosten von ehemals geplanten 2,7 Milliarden Euro auf 7,3 Milliarden 
Euro steigen wird. Daraus errechnen sich Gesamtkosten in Höhe von 16 
Milliarden Euro.
...
Die EU deckelte daraufhin ihren Anteil bei 6,6 Milliarden Euro. Sie will die 
Kostensteigerungen durch Umschichtungen aus dem Agrar- und dem 
Forschungsetat decken.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Finanzierung

You do not need to be a native german speaker to know from where the wind blows.
This is BIG money, and it is government money!

Guenter

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion has been suppressed -- no evidence for a conspiracy

2012-09-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote:


 This is a completely different institute, and one probaly has to know the
 intricacies of the Max-Planck organization.


The same or different, you would think that the Director's opinions might
have weight when it comes to accepting or rejecting a important claim. Cold
fusion is not the sort of thing you should try once and the put aside. In
view of the fact that hundreds of other labs successfully replicated, it is
incumbent upon any scientific organization to look carefully, and not to
jump to conclusions.




 PLEASE DO NOT COMPARE THOSE!


I am not comparing them. I am pointing out that German's leading
electrochemist endorsed cold fusion.



 Foreigners naturally do not understand the fine-print of such a delicate
 institution.
 I can understand that.


Altogether too delicate. Subject to fainting spells, no doubt. They can't
bring themselves to take a second look at the most important breakthrough
in the history of technology. Poor dears!

- Jed


Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine. New idea!

2012-09-11 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 there was some discussion about this alleged perpetual motion machine. It
 was elegant, perhaps too elegant, and therefore it is probably a fake.

 Evolution of perpetual motion
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqG-TL0WnjE

 The idea is however simple and understandable and I refuse to believe that
 it is impossible, because I do not see how it could violate the quantum
 mechanics and the conservation of information.

what is the conservation of information?

 As we know, that it based on improved version of SMOT
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Magnetic_Overunity_Toy). SMOT itself is
 a failed perpetual motion machine, because no one has managed to return the
 iron ball back to the starting square. Therefore, no energy is created and
 friction will win.

 However I developed a magnetic switch that can be applied to weaken the
 starting point magnetic field by 20%. Therefore rotational energy should be
 enough to overcome the sticking point. And when sticking point is behind,
 magnets are again switched on by heating and new revolution is started with
 full force.

 As we discussed earlier, it takes about 360 mJ energy to align dipoles and
 magnetize 1 cm³ neodymium magnet. On the other hand, when magnet is
 demagnetized 360 mJ heat is released. The alignment process itself is just
 normal information processing that does not consume energy more than is
 required to account entropy.

 We can demonstrate that demagnetization is exothermic reaction if we are
 heating magnet to curie temperature, because it will take 360 mJ less energy
 than heating similar non-magnetized body to curie point. Demagnetization
 does not take energy, but it releases energy.

 Therefore we can use cooling as rudimentary switch mechanism. Neodymium
 magnets loses about 20% of magnetism when magnet is cooled from -150°C to
 -250°C. With other alloys this kind of 'phase transition' could be more
 prominent that changes the crystal lattice structure so that dipoles get
 even more misaligned. And when magnet is heated back above transition
 temperature (-150°C with neodymium magnet), magnet is again magnetized as
 dipole structure realigns. Hence this alignment and misalignment cycle can
 be fully reversible.

 This way we could get also SMOT-derived perpetual motion machine working
 continuously, if we turn off the magnets when wheel is approaching the
 sticking point. Therefore, as magnetic field is temporarily weakened with
 flash-cooling, rotational energy of the wheel would be sufficient for
 overcoming the sticking point (and friction).

 This cooling and heating cycle does not bring external energy to the system,
 because permanent magnets do not store energy. Therefore this cooling and
 heating idea will not nullify the idea of perpetual motion machine, because
 we do not use that heat energy for doing the work as a heat engine. This is
 also where magnetism differs from nitinol spring based heat engine.


Permanent magnets do not store energy contradicts your earlier
statement that demagnetisation releases energy.

 —Jouni

 For neodymium magnet behavior at cryogenic temperatures, see:
 http://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=temperature-and-neodymium-magnets

Harry



Re: [Vo]:How can the Wikipedia process be so good if does not work?

2012-09-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote:

No, I hope it withers away.


I appreciate the sentiment.  But I'll place myself on record for thinking
that Wikipedia is incredible.  It is one of the handiest things to come
about in the last ten or so years.

Obviously readers must beware.  It is not good for the unlucky junior high
school student who reads it uncritically.  And there are articles, such as
the one on cold fusion, that are guarded by ignorant trolls.  But if one
can apply a filter to everything one reads, Wikipedia is a trove of
valuable information.

Eric


[Vo]:New paper on cavitation/sonofusion

2012-09-11 Thread pagnucco
Cavitation-Induced Fusion: Proof of Concept - Max I. Fomitchev-Zamilov

Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has
been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit
incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the
theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the
experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years. Based
on
the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the
cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for
commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research
and disclose a
commercial reactor prototype.

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1209/1209.2407.pdf





Re: [Vo]:Compressed spring - what happens to the stored energy at different temperatures?

2012-09-11 Thread Harry Veeder
For my own edification I continued to think about the issue of
potential energy gain and loss and I realise it depends on the
interatomic forces within the spring.

Cooling the compressed spring reduces the vibrations of the atoms in
the spring, and allows the interatomic forces to strengthen bonds
among atoms and therefore shift them into lower energy states. As a
result the atoms collectively act to make the spring more rigid so the
potential energy stored in the compressed spring increases.

Warming the compressed spring increases the vibrations of the atoms in
the spring, and works against the interatomic forces to weaken bonds
among atoms and therefore shift them into higher energy states. As a
result the atoms collectively act to make the spring less rigid so the
potential energy stored in the compressed spring decreases.

This doesn't mean I think the principle of conservation of energy is
universally true, but I try to understand what I don't accept.

Harry



[Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-11 Thread pagnucco
Low Energy Neutron Reaactions (LENRs)

http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen
-- or at --
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14256059?hostedIn=slidesharereferer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2Flewisglarsen#

- proposes that high temp superconductivity may develop in surface
plasmons when very high (10^11 V/m) E-field gradients develop at the
interface between collectively oscillating electrons and collectively
oscillating protons.

Perhaps this is testable using laser pulses, as described in -

Surface plasmon enhanced electron acceleration with few-cycle laser pulses
http://www.szfki.hu/~dombi/DombiLPB27_291.pdf

- since they can create field gradients of at least 3.7 X 10^11 V/m (p.293)

-- Lou Pagnucco




Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-11 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Lasers not necessary? Hasn't Celani been reporting a negative temperature
coefficient of resistance that appears about the time his processed wires
begin producing heat? I might have this wrong ...

Jeff

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:59 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:

 Low Energy Neutron Reaactions (LENRs)

 http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen
 -- or at --

 http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14256059?hostedIn=slidesharereferer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2Flewisglarsen#

 - proposes that high temp superconductivity may develop in surface
 plasmons when very high (10^11 V/m) E-field gradients develop at the
 interface between collectively oscillating electrons and collectively
 oscillating protons.

 Perhaps this is testable using laser pulses, as described in -

 Surface plasmon enhanced electron acceleration with few-cycle laser
 pulses
 http://www.szfki.hu/~dombi/DombiLPB27_291.pdf

 - since they can create field gradients of at least 3.7 X 10^11 V/m (p.293)

 -- Lou Pagnucco





Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-11 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
To answer my own question: yes, here
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CelaniFcunimnallo.pdf on page 3, in item (3)
of the numbered list.

Of course, it could be some unrelated effect; but decreasing electrical
resistance with increasing temperature is very odd, and it certainly is an
interesting coincidence.

Jeff

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote:

 Lasers not necessary? Hasn't Celani been reporting a negative temperature
 coefficient of resistance that appears about the time his processed wires
 begin producing heat? I might have this wrong ...

 Jeff


 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:59 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:

 Low Energy Neutron Reaactions (LENRs)

 http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen
 -- or at --

 http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14256059?hostedIn=slidesharereferer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2Flewisglarsen#

 - proposes that high temp superconductivity may develop in surface
 plasmons when very high (10^11 V/m) E-field gradients develop at the
 interface between collectively oscillating electrons and collectively
 oscillating protons.

 Perhaps this is testable using laser pulses, as described in -

 Surface plasmon enhanced electron acceleration with few-cycle laser
 pulses
 http://www.szfki.hu/~dombi/DombiLPB27_291.pdf

 - since they can create field gradients of at least 3.7 X 10^11 V/m
 (p.293)

 -- Lou Pagnucco






Re: [Vo]:New paper on cavitation/sonofusion

2012-09-11 Thread Axil Axil
Doesn’t LeClair’s cavatation patent take the Quantum Potential Corporation
out of the fusion from cavitation business?

Cheers:   Axil

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:46 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:

 Cavitation-Induced Fusion: Proof of Concept - Max I. Fomitchev-Zamilov

 Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion) has
 been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit
 incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the
 theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the
 experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years. Based
 on
 the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the
 cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for
 commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research
 and disclose a
 commercial reactor prototype.

 http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1209/1209.2407.pdf






Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-11 Thread pagnucco
Jeff,

The reports cited in the presentation are of hi-temp superconductivity (I
believe), rather than just non-monotonic resistivity vs. temp phenomena.

It may be worth looking at the recently reported hi-temp superconductivity
seen in fractal materials - e.g.,

High-temperature superconductivity: The benefit of fractal dirt
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7308/full/466825a.html

Fractals make better superconductors
http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=39593

Fractals promise higher-temperature Superconductors
http://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Fractals_04.pdf

X-rays control disorder in superconductor
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/aug/31/x-rays-control-disorder-in-superconductor

Fractals boost superconductivity
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2010/aug/13/fractals-boost-superconductivity

-- Lou Pagnucco



Jeff Berkowitz wrote:
 To answer my own question: yes, here
 http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CelaniFcunimnallo.pdf on page 3, in item (3)
 of the numbered list.

 Of course, it could be some unrelated effect; but decreasing electrical
 resistance with increasing temperature is very odd, and it certainly is an
 interesting coincidence.

 Jeff

 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote:

 Lasers not necessary? Hasn't Celani been reporting a negative
 temperature
 coefficient of resistance that appears about the time his processed
 wires
 begin producing heat? I might have this wrong ...

 Jeff


 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:59 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:

 Low Energy Neutron Reaactions (LENRs)

 http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen
 -- or at --

 http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14256059?hostedIn=slidesharereferer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2Flewisglarsen#

 - proposes that high temp superconductivity may develop in surface
 plasmons when very high (10^11 V/m) E-field gradients develop at the
 interface between collectively oscillating electrons and collectively
 oscillating protons.

 Perhaps this is testable using laser pulses, as described in -

 Surface plasmon enhanced electron acceleration with few-cycle laser
 pulses
 http://www.szfki.hu/~dombi/DombiLPB27_291.pdf

 - since they can create field gradients of at least 3.7 X 10^11 V/m
 (p.293)

 -- Lou Pagnucco









Re: [Vo]:New paper on cavitation/sonofusion

2012-09-11 Thread pagnucco
Axil,

Good question.  Does anyone know the patent attorney, David French?
I believe he specializes in these issues.

-- LP

Axil wrote:
 Doesn’t LeClair’s cavatation patent take the Quantum Potential Corporation
 out of the fusion from cavitation business?

 Cheers:   Axil

 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:46 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote:

 Cavitation-Induced Fusion: Proof of Concept - Max I. Fomitchev-Zamilov

 Cavitation-induced fusion (also known as bubble fusion or sonofusion)
 has
 been a topic of much debate and controversy and is generally (albeit
 incorrectly) perceived as unworkable. In this paper we present the
 theoretical foundations of cavitation-induced fusion and summarize the
 experimental results of the research conducted in the past 20 years.
 Based
 on
 the systematic study of all available data we conclude that the
 cavitation-induced fusion is feasible, doable, and can be used for
 commercial power generation. We present the results of our own research
 and disclose a
 commercial reactor prototype.

 http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1209/1209.2407.pdf