Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:06:49PM -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: I doubt it. Here are some mass produced devices similar to a cold fusion cell. An ordinary person at home cannot make them with off-the-shelf components: NiCad battery Computer CPU chip Catalytic converter Fuel cell All of

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: First of all, all data requires interpretation. Of course, but review papers generally report interpretations of the authors, rather than perform primary interpretation, especially on data communicated privately, at

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Nevertheless, when many people report seeing the same behavior, the reality of this behavior grows. You take the approach that none of the claimed behavior has been observed, consisting instead of bad interpretation

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude is reminiscent of the old geezers who righteously proclaimed from their wheelchairs that man would never fly, set in their sclerotic attitudes pressed into their brains through years behind the reins of their

[Vo]:Hydrometeors, Cosmic Rays and Lightning

2013-05-07 Thread Terry Blanton
http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.185005 After centuries of observation, lightning is still a puzzle: it is not yet fully known how thunderclouds acquire electrical charge and what initiates the discharge. Two factors are thought to be important: small water or ice

[Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread Alain Sepeda
citing cold fusion as usual example. Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen http://theconversation.com/scientific-fraud-sloppy-science-yes-they-happen-13948

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is a shame. Once a false narrative becomes widespread it is difficult to erase it from the mass media and the popular imagination. Years ago I hoped that the Internet would make it easier for people to learn the truth, but that has not happened much. Mythology and distorted versions of

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
My response: This article is an excellent example of the confluence of sloppy journalism with sloppy science. The journalistic investigators of cold fusion were beset by problems similar to those besetting the scientific investigators. The most prominent and early example was Jerry E. Bishop,

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Although they were not able to have his award rescinded, they were able to get the AIP, in their award statement, basically censure Mr. Bishop even as they awarded him. Bishop himself seemed conflicted about cold fusion. He did not want to hear anything

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
TEST The title of this discussion seems to have the conniptions. If anyone would like to comment on this again I suggest you create a new thread with a different title - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Edmund Storms
Joshua, cold fusion is either a real phenomenon in Nature or it is not. You argue that it is not real, but simply the result of many mistakes made repeatedly by many well trained scientists. Regardless of what is suggested as evidence, you will find a way to reject it. While this approach

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
After his treatment by the AIP, who can blame Bishop for being conflicted about cold fusion both because we're all conflicted about it because virtually none of us are the true believers the shit-for-brains pseudoskeptics make us out to be, and because there is tremendous value demanding

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Scientific fraud, sloppy science – yes, they happen

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
That won't work. The problem is at your end, Jed. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: TEST The title of this discussion seems to have the conniptions. If anyone would like to comment on this again I suggest you create a new thread with a different

[Vo]:Test thread heading

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Test. Please ignore.

Re: [Vo]:Test thread heading

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Test response. Let's see if James Bowery is right and this is something at my end. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Test thread heading

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Nope. No recursive explosion of Re: Re: Re: It must be something like the dash in the title. The Eskimo.com mail system is bonkers. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Test thread heading

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
The reason I said it is at your end is that when I responded to the same threads, no explosion happened whereas when you responded, it did happen. At least that's the way it appeared at this end. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. No recursive

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Regardless of what is suggested as evidence, you will find a way to reject it. This is often stated, but of course it's nonsense. Who could reject a phenomenon that replaces fossil fuels? That powers a car without

[Vo]:Test message reproducing the – problem

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
This is a test to determine whether the problem with response prefix explosion was caused by funny windows characters such as – which appeared in the title of the prior thread.

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Test message reproducing the – problem

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
A test response. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: This is a test to determine whether the problem with response prefix explosion was caused by funny windows characters such as – which appeared in the title of the prior thread.

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Test message reproducing the – problem

2013-05-07 Thread James Bowery
Yep. Thank you, world's richest man. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: A test response. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: This is a test to determine whether the problem with response prefix explosion was caused

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Randy wuller
Cude would argue that there isn't a newly discovered (new is of course relative) phenomenon and that everyone investigating it is deluded, incompetent or both. What he can't explain is why anyone would run around the internet trying to stop people from investigating a phenomenon. It makes no

Re: [tt] [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Joshua Cude wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Regardless of what is suggested as evidence, you will find a way to reject it. This is often stated, but of course it's nonsense. Who could reject a

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jones Beene
Well said, Randy. It is a mystery why someone with considerable talent would indulge in this kind of negativity, when at best the greatest satisfaction that can be derived from it - is far exceed by the risk that the questioned effect is real, but can be understood - but the peer pressure and

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Test message reproducing the – problem

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Yep. Thank you, world's richest man. Probably not Microsoft's fault. But hey, let't blame 'em! They are guilty of a lot of things. - Jed

Re: [tt] [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: This is often stated, but of course it's nonsense. Who could reject a phenomenon that replaces fossil fuels? That powers a car without refueling? This is precisely my problem with claimed evidence for CF/LENR. Read history and you will see that many

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Edmund Storms
Thanks for the response, Ransom. I agree, interacting with Cude is not useful. If you have any questions, I would be glad to respond. Ed Storms On May 7, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Randy wuller wrote: Cude would argue that there isn't a newly discovered (new is of course relative) phenomenon and

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Axil Axil
“If man ever flies, it will not be within our lifetime, not within a thousand years.” - Wilbur Wright to his brother Orville Not only did Wilbur have a most difficult problem to solve, he also had to contend with negativity from all sides, incompetence in his field, and the cynics that are

Re: [tt] [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Edmund Storms
On May 7, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Joshua Cude wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Regardless of what is suggested as evidence, you will find a way to reject it. This is often stated,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: That the size of the claimed effect has gotten smaller ... which is consistent with pathological science. ***Hagelstein wrote this editorial shortly after having his latest LENR experiment run for several MONTHS in his lab.

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: LENR+ is so 2011. I think the future is in LENR++ or maybe objective LENR. Nickel and light water are certainly easier to obtain than Pd and heavy water, but you still have to mine nickel, and refine it. LENR++ uses

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Cude wrote: You should keep an open mind to the possibility that cold fusion is not the Wright brothers' airplane. Maybe it's Blondlott’s N-rays. It’s Fedyakin’s polywater. These things were never replicated. Only one lab briefly claimed to replicate polywater, and it soon retracted. These

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Hagelstein wrote this editorial shortly after having his latest LENR experiment run for several MONTHS in his lab. How has the size of the claimed effect gotten smaller . . . It has not gotten smaller. Especially considering the fact that the

Re: [tt] [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: CF/LENR is not a giant effect. It is a phenomenon of Nature that is not understood well enough to make large yet. On rare occasions it has been large, when people used very large cathodes. Mizuno observed several days of heat after death at about

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com viahttp://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=enctx=mailanswer=1311182 eskimo.com 7:48 AM (2 hours ago) to vortex-l Joshua, ...You argue that it is not real, but simply the result of many mistakes made repeatedly by many well trained scientists. ***In

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Gluck
I sincerely do not understand this collective exercise in masochism based on discussion with a bravo as Joshua Cude. He simply makes intentionally the error that considers CF's temporary problems as a sign that. CF does not exist Let's better concentrate on the problems of reproducibility and

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Edmund Storms
Nice argument, Kevin. Of course, that is why science demands replication. No two scientists will likely make the same mistake. As a result, the behavior, if repeated many times, becomes real. That threshold has been passed by cold fusion. Now the challenge is to do studies that show why

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Since there have been more than 14,700 replications (see below) . . . This is a tally of individual test runs. I believe it was done by a grad student I believe, at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. However, they did

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: I sincerely do not understand this collective exercise in masochism based on discussion with a bravo as Joshua Cude. It is not a bad idea to clarify the facts from time to time, for the benefit of people such as Eugen Leitl. People should read the

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Edmund Storms
Peter, the response to Cude is for educational purposes, which you of all people should understand and support. Many readers of Vortex share Cude's views. We need to educate them. Cude is their spokesman. The other people might learn by having some of the challenges answered. Nevertheless,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: In Storms' book I think there are 180 positive excess heat studies. Each one typically reflects several excess heat events. A few were based on dozens of events. Note that the number of failed tests within a study is not relevant. If anything, some failed tests should give us

Re: [Vo]:prediction?

2013-05-07 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=esrc=sfrm=1source=webcd=40ved=0CHYQFjAJOB4url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.29.695%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdfei=81IkT-zMDYr10gGU0LzsCAusg=AFQjCNF5SQt3JVNF_ecKuWA6uwMNrthKgQsig2=155KUMofVJ27VAps7p8Pxw Gas Mixture with an

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Ed, Cude is- in the best sense of the wording a paid killer. It is possible he pays but this does not change much. I was always open to discuss about those two critical problems. also with low success rate (BTW Mizzou has said they have 20% success rate with their Pd-D electrochemical

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Thanks for the reference, Jed. In that paper by Johnson, they quote Craven Letts. Do you think it was this paper that National Instruments proceeds from when they reviewed the literature and cited more than 180 replications? D. Craven and D. Letts, “The enabling criteria of electrochemical

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Axil Axil
DGT tells all as stated as follows in their paper TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS PERFORMANCE OF THE DEFKALION’S HYPERION PRE-INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT Rydberg State Hydrogen (RSH) atoms are short lived, even though their size is relatively big, and they form special bonds with each other. Usually acting

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: In that paper by Johnson, they quote Craven Letts. Do you think it was this paper that National Instruments proceeds from when they reviewed the literature and cited more than 180 replications? I do not know. However, that is approximately the

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com mailto:kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: In that paper by Johnson, they quote Craven Letts. Cravens and Letts is here, by the way: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CravensDtheenablin.pdf This is an important paper. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
* Acknowledgments * We would like to acknowledge and thank JED ROTHWELL, Ed Storms, Dieter Britz, Bill Collis and Steve Krivit for their diligent archival/historical work in preserving the record of CMNS. Our review was based largely upon their work. ***Come on, Jed, admit it. That's why you

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: We would like to acknowledge and thank JED ROTHWELL, Ed Storms, Dieter Britz, Bill Collis and Steve Krivit for their diligent archival/historical work in preserving the record of CMNS. Our review was based largely upon their work. ***Come on, Jed,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Alain Sepeda
This is the greatest point that proved me that is was a psychiatric problem. Not the least student may dare to use that argument seriously. it is clear it is not an honest critic... or they should get back to the college, to learn science. I know that is violent, but i find no excuse for a

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
It's not that often that one can engage with someone who is demonstrably off by 4400 orders of magnitude. That's like saying a flea can fly fast enough to knock over an elephant. Oops, scratch that, the flea would need to be able to destroy 8 or 9 planets in a row. Well, actually, it's more

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: It's not that often that one can engage with someone who is demonstrably off by 4400 orders of magnitude. That's hilarious! As they say, you win the internets today. You have pwoned Cude. That's like saying a flea can fly fast enough to knock over

[Vo]:Ages of optimism and pessimism

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Randy wuller wrote: What he can't explain is why anyone would run around the internet trying to stop people from investigating a phenomenon. It makes no sense and is probably a symptom of the very negative period (I would describe it as the age of pessimism) we find ourselves living

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: either a generation of scientist get their PhD in cereal box, or they hide an inconvenient fact. that they cannot find a definitive reason not to accept LENR . Or they suffer from cognitive dissonance having invested

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Kevin O'Malley
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck Max Planck: A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: Science advances one funeral at a time. Attempts to accelerate advancement requires a capital crime. (assonance and alliteration)

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Roarty, Francis X
And your post was the 666th email in my outlook/vortex folder... who's funeral spell were you casting? From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 7:36 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:16

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Roarty, Francis X francis.x.roa...@lmco.com wrote: And your post was the 666th email in my outlook/vortex folder… who’s funeral spell were you casting? LOL! I suppose someone should pay astute attention. (alliteration and assonance) ;)

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Randy wuller rwul...@freeark.com wrote: ** Cude would argue that there isn't a newly discovered (new is of course relative) phenomenon and that everyone investigating it is deluded, incompetent or both. What he can't explain is why anyone would run around the

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Fletcher
Rossi interview (Stirling Allen and Frank Acland) Main news : A Early in the interview, Rossi explained that the 1 MW plant that I saw demonstrated on October 28, 2011 was not delivered to the confidential military customer. There were many glitches that needed to be worked through first:

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: . . . there appears to be little to be lost in pushing out criticism that later turns out to have been unfounded nonsense. Some appear to feel empowered to say whatever negative things they please without worrying that they might turn out to be wrong

Re: [Vo]:pictures of 1mw E-cat plant shipping

2013-05-07 Thread Alan Fletcher
Interview with Andrea Rossi About 1 MW E-Cat Plant Delivery http://pesn.com/2013/05/07/9602310_Interview_with_Andrea_Rossi_About_1-MW-E-Cat-Plant_Delivery/

[Vo]:New oilprice.com article from Brillouin Energy

2013-05-07 Thread pagnucco
Scientists must Study the Nuclear Weak Force to Better Understand LENR - David Niebauer http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Scientists-must-Study-the-Nuclear-Weak-Force-to-Better-Understand-LENR.html

[Vo]:Lattice Energy on anomalous temps in Li-battery failures

2013-05-07 Thread pagnucco
Lattice Energy LLC- Technical Discussion-NTSB Logan Dreamliner Runaway Data Suggest High Local Temps-May 7 2013 http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-technical-discussionntsb-logan-dreamliner-runaway-data-suggest-high-local-tempsmay-7-2013 The discussion of the energetics of