Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
There is no violations here. Experimentation defines the principles that the theories as based on. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with such theories it is that they violate their own principles. 2013/6/3 Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
oops I meant How about LAFPHER Lattice Assisted Fleischmann Pons Heat Effect Reactor On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2013 7:07:32 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
How about LAPFHER Lattice Assisted Pons Fleischmann Heat Effect Reactor On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have a new post up where I explore the issue of the language used to describe LENR. I would be interested in the views of others here

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky saying, that violates the law of gravity. There's nothing good nor bad about it. It's simply an experimental result. On

RE: [Vo]:Caveats to using SPICE for thermal analysis

2013-06-03 Thread Robert Ellefson
From: Alan Fletcher Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Caveats to using SPICE for thermal analysis David has been concentrating on the control aspects, I have been doing RC modelling similar to that described in your very helpful paper. I did a detailed mesh model of a

Re: [Vo]:OT: scrabble challenge

2013-06-03 Thread Alain Sepeda
you forget the L... off topic: anyway It remind me a remarks about innovation: Fleischmann is born in Czechoslovakia, moved to Netherlands, then England, then worked as electrologist in US, when having trouble because of his discoveries, he get funded by Japanese corp to work in France... what

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Alain Sepeda
Last year the same question was raisedhttp://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?454-Choosing-the-name-Cold-Fusion-LENR. My first longitudinal hair cutter opinion was to use LENR (beside being precise and popular, that term is easy to search in google). however after discussing with businessmen,

[Vo]:Affordable geiger counter modules

2013-06-03 Thread Teslaalset
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Re: [Vo]:Caveats to using SPICE for thermal analysis

2013-06-03 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: Robert Ellefson vortex-h...@e2ke.com Sent: Monday, June 3, 2013 12:05:18 AM I did a detailed mesh model of a heat exchanger ... but gave it up because it was too sensitive to the parameter for heat transfer from water to metal. See http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_oct11_c.php and

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Jack Cole
Good points Alain. I suppose it may all become a mute point as more positive results roll in, and if there is a running reactor that the public can visit. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: Last year the same question was

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Daniel Rocha
I wish Abd was here. Would you like to carry this conversation to his nVo? 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com Then let's get back to your original statement: That's not good. It violates the 2nd law of thermo. How is that not good? That's like watching a rock hovering in the sky

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
No thanks. Why don't you just answer the question? It is pretty straightforward. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: I wish Abd was here. Would you like to carry this conversation to his nVo? 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com Then let's

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Daniel Rocha
You don't need new physics to explain cold fusion. Nor violate any statistical physics. You just need to look for ignored solution in the literature. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com No thanks. Why don't you just answer the question? It is pretty straightforward. On Mon, Jun

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
I think I understand now. In your viewpoint, an actual experimental result which challenges that stance would be something you'd call not good. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: You don't need new physics to explain cold fusion. Nor violate any

RE: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Jones Beene
Neologisms-R-us. What is the take-away message from any designer name? First - it should point to the most attractive feature, and second it should be fairly unique. The underlying reaction is almost certainly Quantum Mechanical - as opposed to thermonuclear. The least we can do is put a Q

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Edmund Storms
I suggest you all read Quantum Weirdness? It's all in your mind In Scientific American, June 2013, page 47. According to the author, QM has been made complex and increasingly out of contact with reality. The success in fitting behavior has been used to justify increasingly complex

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: I agree that it doesn't matter to us who have looked into the research, but do you think it would make a difference with the broader population of scientists, general public, and the patent office? No, that is a forlorn hope. That is the reason people

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Daniel Rocha
No, for me an actual explanation that challenges that stance I'd call 'not good'. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com In your viewpoint, an actual experimental result which challenges that stance would be something you'd call not good. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a theory. It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Neologisms-R-us…* * What is the take-away message from any “designer name”? First - it should point to the most attractive feature, and second it should be fairly unique. Or maybe it should simply be kewl:

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Alain Sepeda
even if commercially Cold fusion seems the best (brand is known, with good layman image assumed it works), the fact that it sahre the name with adobe technology, and with many other sentense like jaz fusion or cold drink is a problem for tech-watcher like me... LENR is not shared by any other

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
But upthread you have already called this actual experimental result not good. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: No, for me an actual explanation that challenges that stance I'd call 'not good'. 2013/6/3 Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com In your

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: ***Then as long as those theories can explain this experimental result, everything is in good shape. Why would you say That's not good? This is an experimental finding, not a

[Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread James Bowery
I've seen it claimed by a rather emotionally committed skeptic -- with some background in conducting CF runs with calorimetry -- that an adequate 19th century technology water-bath style calorimetry of the E-Cat HT would cost a couple hundred bucks maybe Obviously if this is true then the

Re: [Vo]:OT: scrabble challenge

2013-06-03 Thread Harry Veeder
A sign of something to come or a sign of something that was missed !? ;-) Harry On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Craig Brown cr...@overunity.co wrote: FRENCH Original Message Subject: [Vo]:OT: scrabble challenge From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com Date: Mon, June 03,

Re: [Vo]:A Language Upgrade Needed for LENR?

2013-06-03 Thread Harry Veeder
frigorific! Harry On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Good points Alain. I suppose it may all become a mute point as more positive results roll in, and if there is a running reactor that the public can visit. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Alain Sepeda

Re: [Vo]:OT: scrabble challenge

2013-06-03 Thread Brad Lowe
French and Flench http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/flench are the longest valid scrabble words. But I missed the point... - Brad On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: With the seven letters LENR CF H make a word. Harry

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
I was going to write this post, but you beat me to it. Your post is more elegant and persuasive than mine would have been. This common flaw in the reason and logic that most people use, this 2nd law of thermodynamics hangup, is going to make the experimental revelation showing BEC activity in

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
From the get go, when you come to think in more simple terms, isn’t seeing a glowing pipe pumping out six time more energy than is going in a de facto violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to write this

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Edmund Storms
Axil, you show that you have no understanding of the second law. The laws of thermodynamics simply define how energy must flow in a system and how the system must behave as a result of the energy. The laws do not address the source. In the case of Rossi, he has an obvious source that

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
If the device was in the 1 to 5 kW range, then a simple hot tub should work. A typical 6 foot spa heats at about 1 degree F per hour at 1 kW. That, some copper tubing coils, and a utility pole meter should be enough. If you really wanted to be sure no extra wiring/power was going into it,

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread James Bowery
I don't think a couple hundred bucks would cover the spa-based system you describe. On the cheap is relative. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:29 PM, DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: If the device was in the 1 to 5 kW range, then a simple hot tub should work. A typical 6 foot spa heats at

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread James Bowery
OK, I'll ask the question a different way: Is there any explanation offered, even if only in an interview, by the researchers as to why they did not use normal calorimetry? On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think a couple hundred bucks would cover

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4827v1.pdf *Two coupled Jaynes-Cummings cells* ** We develop a theoretical framework to evaluate the energy spectrum, stationary states, and dielectric susceptibility of two Jaynes-Cummings systems coupled together by the overlap of their respective longitudinal field

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Edmund Storms
Axil, I have no idea what your comment means in the context of the subject we are discussing here. Please explain. Ed Storms On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Axil Axil wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4827v1.pdf Two coupled Jaynes-Cummings cells We develop a theoretical framework to evaluate

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any explanation offered, even if only in an interview, by the researchers as to why they did not use normal calorimetry? They used perfectly normal calorimetry. There is not the slightest chance output is any less than 3 times input. There is

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread David Roberson
Dennis, I don't think it would be quite so easy for Rossi to perform the experiment that you propose. The recent tests were conducted in the open air and the thermal resistance that the ECAT works into has a very strong influence upon its operational parameters. If Rossi were to place his

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread James Bowery
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any explanation offered, even if only in an interview, by the researchers as to why they did not use normal calorimetry? They used perfectly normal calorimetry. There

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: If Rossi were to place his device into a tank of water much more heat would be conducted away from the core. I think the plan by Brian Ahern is to put the device in an air filled box with a copper pipe wound around the outside or the inside wall, and

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
I would think that most of the $20K went to airfare, hotels and meals. you can't expect the scientists to work for free. -Mark From: James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 9:42 AM To: vortex-l Subject: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe... I've seen it

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
The atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate follow the Jaynes-Cummings model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynes%E2%80%93Cummings_model Jaynes–Cummings model More to the point, when a Ni/H system get going after state up, the systems becomes totally entangled. This type of system is described

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing for them to explain. That may be the case and if so one would not expect to see an explanation in the paper itself. On the other hand, given the controversial environment they might reasonably be expected to say something like the

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread David Roberson
I see what you are referring to. If the ECAT is allowed to operate in air of roughly the same local temperature, then it should behave the same. I understood that Dennis was suggesting a configuration with much tighter coupling to the coolant. The ECAT will need adjustment depending upon

Re: [Vo]:OT: scrabble challenge

2013-06-03 Thread Harry Veeder
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovation by Roger van Oech book review http://www.creating.bz/our-reading-circle/whack.html Oech identifies ten mental blocks which limit creativity: The Right Answer That's Not Logical Follow the Rules Be Practical Play Is

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread James Bowery
Do the arithmetic, Mark. Although it is true that a couple hundred bucks is only 1% of $20,000 and that it is ridiculous think of the other 99% as going into technical aspects alone, even if 90% of the budget were for overhead that would still leave a budget of $2,000 for the technical aspects,

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Although it is true that a couple hundred bucks is only 1% of $20,000 and that it is ridiculous think of the other 99% as going into technical aspects alone, even if 90% of the budget were for overhead . . . I have significant experience with flow

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
I found a great paper that might lay all this stuff out. I have not read it yet but it looks real good after doing a quick scan. http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~pelster/Theses/nietner.pdf Quantum Phase Transition of Light in the Jaynes-Cummings Lattice On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM,

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: It is not good because the laws of thermodynamics are probably right and therefore this experimental result is probably wrong. ***Sounds a lot like the entire field of LENR. Cold fusion does not challenge the laws of thermodynamics; it challenges

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Yes.. [snip] The ECAT will need adjustment depending upon the environment into which it operates. This is what should be expected.[/snip] Perhaps it is just me but too little seems to be said about the heat sinking.. It is obviously part of the control loop even if passive in ambient air but

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread James Bowery
OK, so the take-away messages is: No, the authors of the paper have not provided any rational for choosing their form of calorimetry -- not even informally. Moreover, the claim that adequate flow calorimetry for the E-Cat HT would cost 'a couple hundred bucks' likely indicates pseudoskepticism.

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
I did not envision them submersing the cat into the water. More like passing water/steam through as they did in their earlier tests with a flow system. It is very difficult to measure air heating. (note, I have also been able to do flow cal with racing car brake fluid at higher temps (you

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Just being realistic James. A simple 'couple hundred bucks' calorimeter is NOT going to satisfy the skeptics; they will pick it apart and another test would have been wasted. Getting a quality data-acquisition system and multiple thermocouples/RTDs so there is redundancy in the measurements

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:40 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: OK, so the take-away messages is: No, the authors of the paper have not provided any rational for choosing their form of calorimetry -- not even informally. I do not see why they need to provide a rationale. The choice

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
R. W. Emerson wrote: Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage..Do not go

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: It is not precise, but it is reliable, and accurate enough to prove the point. The point is, this is a huge effect. It runs at high temperatures and it is at least three times input. McKubre needed a high precision flow calorimeter because he was trying to measure an effect that

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cold fusion does not challenge the laws of thermodynamics; ***Yup. A lot of people have the IMPRESsion that it challenges the 2nd law, but that isn't the case at all. In fact here, this accusation that BECs absorb

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
do not try to take the quote out of the obvious intended context. I was obviously referring to the pioneering efforts of a new field of understanding. example just because you make a new path does in no way mean you cannot use existing shoes... You missed the entire point. I still think

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
Notice I did not say flow calorimetry was needed. Just heating a container of water - pool, spa, teapot You do not need to measure flow rates if the effect is significant. It avoids all the % steam questions, the emissivity numbers, the air flow, the cameras.. It is about the

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Gibbs
Even though I'm still wearing my skeptic's hat (that's the one with the propeller on top) isn't the argument about the need for calorimetry made irrelevant the amount of energy observed to have been generated? In other words, even with more precise measurements the exact energy output couldn't

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: How many replications does it take for a rational scientist to accept the finding? It used to be just 2 or 3, but in this field it seems to be hundreds or thousands. I think for most claims it used to be five or 10 good replications. It depends on

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com Sent: Monday, June 3, 2013 10:29:52 AM For smaller units (1 to 100W), perhaps heating a tea pot would be reasonable. Unfortunately, I think that the person who made the cup of tea bet has passed on. (My forgetory will produce his name in about 10

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: do not try to take the quote out of the obvious intended context. Sure, we get that. I was just ragging on extraordinary claims claim, which I despise. I still think that a standalone unplugged demo is the best approach - not high wattage and fancy

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Alan Fletcher
Unfortunately, I think that the person who made the cup of tea bet has passed on. (My forgetory will produce his name in about 10 minutes while I'm doing something else) It wasn't tea .. it was a bet by a professor that would be paid off when a cold fusion device delivered 1 kWh to the grid,

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jones Beene
The reputed gain is so high - Rossi would be wise to forego calorimetry and go directly to conversion of heat to electricity. Here is the device that could do that - ORC in a small format. This device is perfect for the HotCat. http://www.infinityturbine.com/ORC/IT10_ORC_System.html

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
yes, calorimetry is not needed IF you believe the claims, methods, and the effect. As you may know, I don't doubt the reality of CF/LENR in general. However, if you goal is to convince non-believer then it is best to avoid systems where you have to know the exact waveforms, cables,

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Even though I'm still wearing my skeptic's hat (that's the one with the propeller on top) isn't the argument about the need for calorimetry made irrelevant the amount of energy observed to have been generated? Yes. But power, not energy. If the difference

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Alan Fletcher
From: DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com Sent: Monday, June 3, 2013 1:22:05 PM And no, I don't think that they were over unity by more than an order of magnitude- Only a factor of perhaps 6. I need to go back and check that. The COP was 6 (Dec) and 3 (March). The order of magnitude was

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
bob park Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:16:16 -0700 From: a...@well.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe... Unfortunately, I think that the person who made the cup of tea bet has passed on. (My forgetory will produce his name in about 10 minutes while

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Axil Axil
You do not yet appreciate this yet, but a knew field of science that is interested in the theory of quantum computers, atomic imaging, and invisibility clocks are developing the theory that also covers LENR. In this way, every day a half dozen papers are written advancing LENR theory. This

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: yes, calorimetry is not needed IF you believe the claims, methods, and the effect. As you may know, I don't doubt the reality of CF/LENR in general. However, if you goal is to convince non-believer then it is best to avoid systems where you have to

[Vo]:Wiki on E-CAT

2013-06-03 Thread a.ashfield
Having tried to edit something on the wiki E-CAT page and having it immediately deleted, I ended up writing this on the Topic Talk page. It probably won't do any good but if enough people do this (anyone can) They say there are 1000- 7000 hits per day on the E-CAT page. This discussion

Re: [Vo]:OT: scrabble challenge

2013-06-03 Thread Alain Sepeda
the position of nassim nicholas taleb, is that what prevent innovation is planning the result. take good option, with cheap failure and rare huge success, and when it produce the unexpected, try to adapt to what you have, and not to make it fit in your plan. intelligence is not in the

Re: [Vo]:Wiki on E-CAT

2013-06-03 Thread Berke Durak
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:31 PM, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Having tried to edit something on the wiki E-CAT page and having it immediately deleted, I ended up writing this on the Topic Talk page. It probably won't do any good but if enough people do this (anyone can) They

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: Notice I did not say flow calorimetry was needed. Just heating a container of water - pool, spa, teapot I have thought about that. During the initial warm up phase you would get an interesting result. After that, when it reaches a steady state, you

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread David Roberson
It will take more than just a generator and an extension cord to close the loop. Some form of energy storage will be required to do the job. Dave -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Jun 3, 2013 4:20 pm Subject: RE:

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
That is not what I want to hear. that is what I am working toward. standalone and a cup of tea for NI I doubt I will have it by then just a small 1:3 if I am lucky. But if I can encourage one person to do experiments, I will be happy and can crawl back under my rock. But perhaps

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: You do not need to measure flow rates if the effect is significant. You don't need to measure it now. You have to depend on Drs. Stefan and Boltzmann being right. As for convection, you just gotta look up the numbers in an HVAC textbook. I confused the issue a little here.

Re: [Vo]:Wiki on E-CAT

2013-06-03 Thread a.ashfield
Berke Durak, My interest was to get Wiki to correct their entry. Not clear to me how Reddit can help that.

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread DJ Cravens
You may want to refigure that if you want to run for extended times- an Olympic pool (likely overkill) has a volume of 2.5 million liters and some are indoors and have covers. ( I would just use bubble wrap) You could easily go long enough to be an order of mag or two above chemical. The

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: That is not what I want to hear. You do not want to hear that the cell will go out of control and melt? It will though, whether you want to hear that or not. It has already melted. I do not understand what you have in mind here. Nature allows us to

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: You may want to refigure that if you want to run for extended times- an Olympic pool (likely overkill) has a volume of 2.5 million liters and some are indoors and have covers. That would be extremely noisy, to say the least. Changes in air temperature,

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread David Roberson
Dennis, The best proof is one that has the least possibility of error. Every complication that is added to the setup results in many more issues to question by the skeptics. The technique used by the testers of the ECAT is good enough for any reasonable scientist to accept and all this non

[Vo]:What if Neutrinos don't really exist?

2013-06-03 Thread Leonard Arbuthnot
What if Neutrinos don't really exist? I've always felt uncomforatble about the discovery of the Neutrino (or rather the 3 neutrino siblings - as they currently are).  The particles seem to fulfil most (if not all) of the criteria for being products of pathological science. On one hand they are

Re: [Vo]:Wiki on E-CAT

2013-06-03 Thread Berke Durak
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Berke Durak, My interest was to get Wiki to correct their entry. Not clear to me how Reddit can help that. The idea is that pro-LENR people could collaboratively work on a wiki where they have editorial control, whose

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It will take more than just a generator and an extension cord to close the loop. Some form of energy storage will be required to do the job. Correctomundo. This will complicate matters. It probably means they need batteries and inverters. As sure as

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:22 PM, DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: yes, calorimetry is not needed IF you believe the claims, methods, and the effect. The claims are that the device produces significantly over unity, the methods have been alluded to but Rossi is definitely not public with

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Indeed, making steam and using it to, say, drive a car across Italy without stopping would be pretty damn convincing. Not really. The skeptics would come up with a hundred reasons why that was faked. They would say this was actually two identical electric

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Ah, now we have it ... it's the questions of reproducability and controlability, But these questions have no bearing on whether the effect is real or not. During the Vanguard era of US rocket development in the 1950s, rockets were extremely difficult to

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Unfortunately, I think that the person who made the cup of tea bet has passed on. Dr. Richard L. Garwin is alive and well and will likely live to have his tea.

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Dr. Richard L. Garwin is alive and well and will likely live to have his tea. I'm hoping we can do something more dramatic, on a larger scale. Something like what the Japanese authorities did to the notorious criminal Ishikawa Goemon in 1594 would be

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jones Beene
Dave, It would be nice to get Infinity Turbine to donate a few weeks of testing time on their ORC device which had been modified with a DC generator driving a bank of Ultracaps. The caps would be sized so that there is maybe 15 minutes of cushion in the energy storage – but no

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: It would be nice to get Infinity Turbine to donate a few weeks of testing time on their ORC device which had been modified with a DC generator driving a bank of Ultracaps. This would be nice. It would be a lot of fun. I personally would feel gratified

RE: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell This would be nice. It would be a lot of fun. I personally would feel gratified and pleased to see this. However, it would not convince a single skeptic. They would simply say that all this equipment is fake or there is a hidden wire or some other trick. Frankly I

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm hoping we can do something more dramatic, on a larger scale. Something like what the Japanese authorities did to the notorious criminal Ishikawa Goemon in 1594 would be ideal, but I guess that's out. Raising the

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Ah, now we have it ... it's the questions of reproducability and controlability, But these questions have no bearing on whether the effect is real or not. We're talking about

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: If Rossi can make devices that demonstrably and reliably work and don't blow up, he proves the E-Cat is real. If they reliably blow up, he's in the armaments business. LOL! Proving the reaction to be HIGHLY OVER UNITY!

Re: [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything.

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: . The world has not grown more irrational. ***I have no proof, but on this point I simply beg to differ. We only need a small number of supporters to win this fight. The thing is, we need people who have lots of

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread David Roberson
Mark, It might take a little time for Rossi to gain total control over his device. How would you like to have been the pilot of the first plane built by the Wright brothers? I have little doubt that great progress will be achieved over the next couple of years with Rossi's device and

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: We're talking about Rossi's device and whether it works, not whether CF/LENR/LENR+/Pixie-Mediated-Power/Whatever is real. If it is real it is the most important advance in technology since the discovery of fire. If the scientific community is convinced it

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: And yes, there is a significant qualitative difference between COP of 6 and COP of 2.5 in terms of market value. The HotCat could be on either end of that spectrum, based on what the last report indicated. I am certain that you can have any COP you

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