[Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Andre Blum
Latest defkalion post: Tests with the presence of high level Government officials have been concluded. Opinions and results were very positive. Announcements will be made upon mutual agreements, at a time yet to be defined. Tests continue with international Authorities in the coming

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
I must admit that the forecasts from Path/Pseudo Skeptics are becoming more and more accurate... heh... That makes me really, really sad. 2012/2/28 Andre Blum andre_vor...@blums.nl Latest defkalion post: Tests with the presence of high level Government officials have been concluded.

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Andrea Selva
WOW ! That sounds very impressive! 2012/2/28 Andre Blum andre_vor...@blums.nl Latest defkalion post: Tests with the presence of high level Government officials have been concluded. Opinions and results were very positive. Announcements will be made upon mutual agreements, at a time yet

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Bruno Santos
Is Rossi working for DGT now? :-) Em 28 de fevereiro de 2012 09:51, Andrea Selva andreagiuseppe.se...@gmail.com escreveu: WOW ! That sounds very impressive! 2012/2/28 Andre Blum andre_vor...@blums.nl Latest defkalion post: Tests with the presence of high level Government officials

RE: [Vo]:WIRED: Race for cold fusion: Nasa, MIT, Darpa and Cern peer through the keyhole

2012-02-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
our dream becoming reality? can it really be? I'd like to see detailed accounts of independent replications of anomalies, which then would have to granted the status of paradigm shifting data... Me too, Richard. Me too. We shall see... Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com

RE: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Andre, WOW! That sounds very impressive! Tests with the presence of high level Government officials have been concluded. Opinions and results were very positive. Announcements will be made upon mutual agreements, at a time yet to be defined. Tests continue with international

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Andre Blum
Personally, I don't have a big problem with them taking some more time. Their silence over the past days just confirms that they have been busy hosting. And I can imagine that it takes a while to put the results in writing in a way that pleases both DGT and the government officials. That is:

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Gluck
I think they have a first things first politics. Authorities are influential people who take decisions. We at Vortex are just curious people, kibitzes, electronic paper tigers, with low impact. In the best case- kind of consultants. Can we come and say: Guys, we have perfectly solved the problems

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Alain Sepeda
what did you expect from a corp... a video of the tests ? preliminary results on rough paper with units errors ? it is annoying for us, but that is the rule of regular corp communication ... no comment before all is checked. their short message is already at the limit of what is allowed

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Andrea Selva
what did you expect from a corp... Let us know at least who attended the tests ? Too hard ?

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Gluck
I think the results - in essence- are much more important than the testers- at least this time. Say it were the Greek Ministers for Industry, Energy and Environment - each with three consultants plus the Vice-President for Technology of the Greek Academy. What can we do with this information?

Re: [Vo]:defkalion post

2012-02-28 Thread Andrea Selva
What can we do with this information? Maybe just ask them if they really attended the tests. 2012/2/28 Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com I think the results - in essence- are much more important than the testers- at least this time. Say it were the Greek Ministers for Industry, Energy and

[Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Jones Beene
Did you ever think you would hear MIT bragging about overunity? Thermoelectrically Pumped Light-Emitting Diodes Operating above Unity Efficiency http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.097403 Parthiban Santhanam, Dodd Joseph Gray, Jr., and Rajeev J. Ram

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
Pay attention at this: Experiments directly confirm for the first time that this behavior continues beyond the conventional limit of unity electrical-to-optical power conversion efficiency. It is above the conventional, not that it produces energy out of nothing. This is just a way of saying

RE: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Jones Beene
From: Daniel Rocha Pay attention at this: Experiments directly confirm for the first time that this behavior continues beyond the conventional limit of unity electrical-to-optical power conversion efficiency. It

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Veeder
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Pay attention at this: Experiments directly confirm for the first time that this behavior continues beyond the conventional limit of unity electrical-to-optical power conversion efficiency. It is above the

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
I don't think it is a matter of protecting position because of crazy claims. What they did was not unusual in the sense that there is no surplus of energy, but more efficiency then expected. 2012/2/28 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net From: Daniel Rocha Pay attention at this:

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
Why do you think it would violate the 2nd law? I don't understand. 2012/2/28 Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Pay attention at this: Experiments directly confirm for the first time that this behavior

RE: [Vo]:Over unity - Joseph Yater

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Goldes
Joseph Yater did substantial work in the diode conversion arena. See: http://www.rexresearch.com/yater/yater.htm See also what I believe was his last Patent: US 5,889,287 Unfortunately, he was unable to raise sufficient funds to commercialize his work and has passed on. I believe his

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Veeder
According to the second law you can only get a system to do work if parts of the system are at different temperatures. In this situation the system is a diode and it does work by converting heat into light. It is hard to tell from the description, but I am guessing the entire diode is at an

RE: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
The key wording is here: A heated semiconductor light-emitting diode at low forward bias voltage VkBT/q is shown to use electrical work *to pump heat from the lattice to the photon field.* It is converting *heat* energy to light. not electricity-to-light!!! Thus, as they *lower* the

Re: [Vo]:The Smith LENR Prize

2012-02-28 Thread LORENHEYER
Does anyone know of anyone, Org, Co, etc, who is either interested-in and/or willing to fund a working prototype of the 'one' 'only' propulsion system that is enabling extremely Advanced Civilizations to not only travel interstellar space w/o trouble or fail, but live among the stars (and our

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
The diode is working as a cooler. 2012/2/28 Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com According to the second law you can only get a system to do work if parts of the system are at different temperatures. In this situation the system is a diode and it does work by converting heat into light. It is

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Veeder
Some months ago I speculated that LENR might one day be used as a heat source to generate light directly using a thermophotovoltaic effect. This work suggests it might be feasible. I even mentioned it to Rossi, on his blog but he just saw it as a means to generate electricty from the light

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
What about heat -electricity - light? 2012/2/28 Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net The key wording is here: ** ** A heated semiconductor light-emitting diode at low forward bias voltage VkBT/q is shown to use electrical work **to pump heat from the lattice to the

RE: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Jones Beene
On the CoE balance sheet - we have light emission, which can be converted into watts equivalent. If the electrical input were to be 60% of that value, and the rest is assumed (correctly) to come from ambient heat, then there is no CoE violation. This would be ultra high efficiency in the same

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Veeder
If it is a cooler, it appears to violate the first law. If it is an energy converter, it appears to violate the second law. I guess the question is: what is it? Harry On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: The diode is working as a cooler. 2012/2/28

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Nigel Dyer
The paper says that it is working at a temperature of 135 C, which is relatively elevated. I agree that this does violate the second law, in that it is doing work but there is not a heat source and sink. However, as my son, who knows more about physics than I do says, the second law is not

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
That's right. The 2nd law is not valid for very simple systems or open systems, which is the case above. 2012/2/28 Nigel Dyer l...@thedyers.org.uk The paper says that it is working at a temperature of 135 C, which is relatively elevated. I agree that this does violate the second law, in that

RE: [Vo]:Over unity - Joseph Yater

2012-02-28 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Mark Goldes Joseph Yater did substantial work in the diode conversion arena. See: http://www.rexresearch.com/yater/yater.htm See also what I believe was his last Patent: US 5,889,287 Unfortunately, he was unable to raise sufficient funds to commercialize his

RE: [Vo]:Over unity - Joseph Yater

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Goldes
Jones, Yater produced Proof of Concept devices. As far as I am aware, he felt that practical systems were only limited by the lack of finance for such controversial work. Mark Mark Goldes Co-founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute 301A North Main Street Sebastopol, CA 95472

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread David Roberson
I think that systems have always radiated heat energy by the blackbody method. That is one way for a diode to act as a cooler, but this only works if the radiated energy is directed toward a cooler region of space. In one way of looking at it: All of the electrical energy dissipated by an

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: [why should undisturbed matter? Does making a connection to ZPE require some kind of local stability?] Jones, Maybe this is somehow related to the Aspden Effect? http://www.haroldaspden.com/ T

[Vo]:The Aspden Effect

2012-02-28 Thread Terry Blanton
This is worth repeating from years ago: http://www.haroldaspden.com/lectures/30.htm T

RE: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Jones Beene
Terry - Not sure I follow. Are you saying that virtual inertia comes from being undisturbed for a time? Please elaborate. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [why should undisturbed matter? Does making a connection to ZPE require some kind of local stability?] Jones, Maybe this

[Vo]:Tungsten?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Goldes
I've copied this from ecat news. A very interesting Comment on the e-catworld.com Blog from a user called “Fluffy”. It’s about the secret element used in rossi’s e-cat (and maybe in defkalions hyperion). He thought it’s Tungsten (Wolfram) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten “Rossi’s

Re: [Vo]:The Aspden Effect

2012-02-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
I did not realize Harold died. He was a great man. I do not know if he was right about the far-out stuff, but he had wonderful ideas and he expressed them well. He had many conventional accomplishments and a distinguished career. I never met him but I have heard he was a nice fellow. I am glad

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Terry - Not sure I follow. Are you saying that virtual inertia comes from being undisturbed for a time? Please elaborate. I was thinking of an inverse of the Aspden Effect, ie if the aether is left undisturbed for some

Re: [Vo]:Tungsten?

2012-02-28 Thread Colin Hercus
Interesting thought but checkout the spectrum for Ni - http://www.xrfresearch.com/component/content/article/71-periodic-table/160-xrf-spectrum-nickel.html Colin On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Mark Goldes mgol...@chavaenergy.comwrote: I've copied this from ecat news. A very interesting

[Vo]:DGT's 1st test did not test power, just safety (NyTeknik)

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
The test was supposed to start on Friday 24 February, but according to sources of Ny Teknik it was initiated only after the weekend. The sources also said that the test was not focused on power or energy measurements but rather on safety.

[Vo]:2/20/2012 e-cat test.

2012-02-28 Thread Daniel Rocha
*The E-cat was apparently* operated without refilling from a hydrogen canister. Instead the hydrogen was supposedly stored in a piece of solid material – possibly in a metal hydride. The material contained a few grams of hydrogen gas which would last for six months of operation, according to

Re: [Vo]:DGT's 1st test did not test power, just safety (NyTeknik)

2012-02-28 Thread Robert
What I found most amazing, was all of the Rossi info: On February 20, 2012 Rossi performed a demonstration to show the actual level of development. Among the participants was chemist Roland Pettersson, retired Associate Professor from the University of Uppsala, who also attended a test of

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Veeder
My first statement is only correct if the putative cooler is an active cooling system. By that I mean it is behaving like the diode equivalent of a heat pump. A heat pump requires an external input of energy that is equal to or greater than the heat transferred out of the system. In this system

Re: [Vo]:DGT's 1st test did not test power, just safety (NyTeknik)

2012-02-28 Thread Harry Veeder
Defkalion failed to make it clear on their forum that the government representatives have so far only evaluated the Hyperion's safety. Surely, they realize that most people interpreted their vague annoncement of positive results as positive measures of energy gain. Why do we have to learn through

RE: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
PDF was too large, so go get U.S. Patent No. 0119825, McFarland. -Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:29 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT Terry - Not sure I follow. Are you saying that virtual