[Vo]:INFORMAVORES SUNDAY 499A
My dear Friends, I have published IS 499A: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2012/03/informavores-sunday-no-499a.htm l Sorry it is fawlty a bit- the links don't work at clicking. I have no idea why, I am no programmer just simple and rather ignorant user. Anyway there is coming the Cold Fusion Anniversary Week, hopefully significant good events will come. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
[Vo]:laser fusion
http://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-system
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
Post #5 Crystal- structure of Nickel, plus some back-of-the-napkin calculations Ref: http://www.webelements.com/nickel/crystal_structure_pdb.html use the interactive view. distance between atoms: 352pm. (Btw, Pd and quite some others (Cu) has a similar crystal-structure with slightly larger atomic distance) So a nanocrystal-cube of 3.5nm^3 would comprise 10x10x10 =1000 atoms. The percentage of atoms on the surface to those in the volume is in the order of 50%! Now Ahern says the following in his ppt- presentation (ref -- see my post#1) page 10: …All nanoparticles in this size regime will display energy localized vibrational modes. They will be able to catalyze energy transfers as if they were very hot, localized energy reservoirs. … If in a crystal with nonlinear vibrational modes ALL energy is concentrated in one atom for a short time, this would mean that the kinetic energy of this single atom could be not more than the average energy of the 1000 atoms. By far not enough to overcome the coulomb-barrier with a classical approach. Then there are the protons (H+ ions) diffusing into the Lattice, and are push-pulled by the lattice-vibration. Ahern states that the temperature has to be elevated to something like 500K for the reaction to start. This gives some starting point for the energetic (kinetic) state of a Nanoparticle Aspects to consider: quantum tunneling; Gamov window (Wikipedia)
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
Post #6 Again re Ahern. He does not assume a perfect crystal, but one distorted in such a manner that non-harmonic oscillations can take place. This raises the probability of extreme energy-states, as far as I understand him. In other words: a distorted or contaminated crystal raises the probability of extreme energy states at some locations within or on the surface of the ‘crystal’. He calls this …enormous anharmonic vibrational modes… But in any case, the upper limit is that which I tried to estimate in post#5. The situation gets complicated if one has 3 agents: crystal-distorted-Ni, H+, catalyst. Occamite ‘clear’ thinkers tend to shy away from such muddying the waters, and tend to reduce the variables, for the good reason that possibilities soon rise to infinity, and this is not what a physicist likes. He likes to have his marbles controlled and dislikes playing with mud. One interesting aspect is eutectic systems, which have special properties. Which is not to say that this any direct relevance to the problem here. Just keep it in mind.
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
Post #7 Slight digression. The LENR crowd of scientists is accused of shoddy science ,unclear thinking and bad setups, which ruined Pons Fleischmann and others. We have also to be aware, that eg the Nobel Brian Josephson supports cold fusion, but also Homeopathy. And remember Crick, who admitted ‘seeing’ the DNA under LSD. So there are different types of scientists: Mainly a) the logical-rigid type and b) the intuitive type, who have their respective merits, but do not understand each other. The rigid type is now by far the most dominant, and academia is structured along this rigidity. If You do not follow the rules, you’re thrown out. I think a lot of the LENR-crowd knows this, but cannot express consistently, what the essence of this rift is. Peer-reviewing has a lot to do with this. The reviewers are the gate-keepers of this, and, you guess, a lot of money on behalf of Elsevier, Springer etc is involved to keep this system going. The effect of this is that the system became sclerotic. Interestingly enough Chinese, Indian and to a lesser degree the Japanese do not obey the rule, and present at times quite outlandish claims, which the western community rejects. Sort of a culture-war, where the western gatekeepers are the warriors, and the Easterners, who try to integrate their thinking into the scientific canon, do not understand what is going on. End of digression.
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
post #7 a brief sketch of a diagnostic LENR setup: --- | | H2 H2 H2 | | H2 H2 H2 | | | | V V -'plus'-electrode- spark tbd RF- H+ H+ H+ H+ H+ plasma | | | | | ... V V V V V -: NN NN NN NN NN NN NN NN :-heater, 500K -carrier-substrate, eg copper etc--'ground'- t-sink, calorimeter (Excuse me, this is the oldfashioned way of making drawings, but it is astonishing how information content can be distilled by a factor of 1000, just by using another symbol-space) this is the basic setup I have in mind, which already has a lot of degrees of freeedom. noteable is, that in this case 'NN' is placed on a TWO-dimensional substrate and not floating in a THREE-dimensional colloid or whatever. the advantage of this setup is, that all parameters can be controlle, without interacting. Thus getting the best of both worlds: the clean one and the muddled multidimensional one.
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor (Convert to a Forum)
Jojo, There is some strong resistance to converting to a forum.. I think most of the key players are happy with this (well run!) mailing list format. I would recommend finding an existing web site that focuses on LENR and getting involved there. You can post here and link to the site you choose. Most forum software has Blog support built in, so any builder could start their own project page and save images and documents... I have two sites I built that anyone can request full admin rights to and modify all they want.. http://ecatplanet.net (VBulletin) and http://ecatbuilder.net (Wordpress) But they haven't gotten much traffic and I don't have the time to properly maintain them.. There are also other LENR replication sites: http://www.buildecat.com http://www.alienscientist.com/ and http://www.fusioncatalyst.org/ - Brad
[Vo]:Page 4 missing
An important paper, relative to Ni-H which is on the LENR archive site: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf has a page missing - page 4 - and it could be important. I had not noticed this before, or else forgot it - but cannot imagine why it would be left out intentionally by Thermacore ... unless there was proprietary information on it, which seems unlikely, given they have disclosed so much detail elsewhere. Does anyone have this page? Since the paper was on the BLP site for many years until removed, the missing page could have been downloaded in complete form by someone from that site (or else BLP is the offending page remover since they did not want a detail to be known), but anyway - this problem is worth fixing, for the permanent record. This paper establishes a high level of prior art, now in the public domain for gas-phase Ni-H - and this can eliminate spurious claims from patent trolls and the like which are sure to surface in the future, once the technology is established. Jones attachment: winmail.dat
Re: [Vo]:laser fusion
At 09:34 AM 3/18/2012, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: http://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-systemhttp://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-system Oh, that's embarrassing. Intertial is misspelled in the title and thus the page name.
Re: [Vo]:laser fusion
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Oh, that's embarrassing. Intertial is misspelled in the title and thus the page name. The presenter called it laser initiated fusion energy; so, maybe they intended the hybrid of 'INITiated' and 'inertIAL'. Naaa. :-) T
Re: [Vo]:laser fusion, Fun with Spelling
At 03:48 PM 3/18/2012, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 09:34 AM 3/18/2012, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: http://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-systemhttp://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-system Oh, that's embarrassing. Intertial is misspelled in the title and thus the page name. And the above is embarrassing, too. Uh, inertial.
[Vo]:Cold Fusion Magic Dust.
In nature, there are situations in which exotic forms of matter form. These crystalline substances can be expressed within a wide array of physical processes each associated with a particular set of corresponding elements or chemical compounds and within various temperature ranges even at extreme high temperatures in cooling plasma. Science is beginning to study these exotic forms of matter formed at temperatures near absolute zero so that the experimenter can see how Rydberg atoms operate in a benign environment devoid of temperature distortions which can make observation impossible. But just because science uses cold temperature methods to study this stuff does not mean that nature does not find its own ways to make this material within every temperature regime. For *example*, there is a belief to which I adhere postulates that the red-orange plasma afterglow of a lightning bolt called ball lightning is an example of this exotic form of matter called Rydberg matter; a long-lived excited state of matter. After the lightning bolt, as the plasma that the bolt has spawned in the atmosphere cools, sometimes Rydberg matter made up of nitrogen atoms forms. From: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/18264 “Gilman suggests that the plasma ball has a very low density - comparable with the density of air - and is made up of Rydberg atoms. These are atoms whose valence electron has been excited into an orbital with a very high quantum number. He calculates that the radius of such an orbital could be as large as a few centimetres, and that the average atom would thus have a very large polarizability. Attractive Van der Waals interactions - which increase as the polarizability of atoms increase - could then be responsible for the cohesion between the atoms. He computes a value for the cohesive energy per atom to be about one hundredth that of a metal.” I am introducing the ball lighting concept as a preamble to a discussion of a paper from Edward Lewis called: Evidence of Ball Lightning -- A Survey of Some Recent Experimental Papers Describing Microscopic Objects Associated with Transmutation Phenomena http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LewisEevidenceofb.pdf Edward Lewis has done a large amount of legwork for me in documenting ball lighting(aka Rydberg matter) as a causation of transmutation of elements and cold fusion. Lewis also introduces the term “Lochak monopoles” which the Russians have invented that also is a synonym for Rydberg crystal. I will post on Lochak monopoles later. Lewis writes: “About the year 2000, Urutskoev and his associates discovered strange markings, like those earlier reported by Matsumoto, on nuclear emulsions near an electrical discharge experiment [6], along with other kinds of tracks. Urutskoev reported that the objects that made the “comet-like” tracks described in his article passed through black paper, and somehow left the unusual tracks that he photographed. Even more “strange,” these objects were emitted from a component of their experiment even after the object and some water was removed and placed in a petri dish. This “life after death” effect is evidence that atoms in the component were in a state I call the “ball lightning” state [2, 7, 8]. I think that this state of matter and energy is the same state as ball lightning.” Rydberg crystals(aka ball lighting) will survive for a long time based on its level of excitation. Rydberg matter will produce “life after death” of the reaction after input power is removed or even if the Rydberg crystals are removed to a remote location. Rydberg crystals are truly cold fusion magic dust.
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
I am beginning a survey of cold fusion experiments that span the many disparate paradigms of cold fusion in which I will attempt to unite them with Rydberg matter as a unifying causation principal. See the first post “Cold Fusion Magic Dust” On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote: post #3 intermediate note. The case of Case. He is definitely not your typical scientist. He is/was a practitioner with 30years experience, and as such one does not so much rely on theory but on intuition. What works and not is more in your bones and not in your head. This makes a difference, because this is not peer-reviewable, and reveals a fundamental problem of peer-reviewed scientific method: That it scraps intuition altogether and replaces it by a mechanical method of intersubjective verification, where all the intricate details are put under the rug of the method. The fight is about those accepting some sort of sublime, and those who build up knowledge up from the robust, i.e. the hard skeptics. What the hard skeptics miss, is, that their axioms -ie Occam- are on shaky ground, or more to the point: Occam does not have a foundation in 'reality'. I think occam's razor is useful for selecting explanatory axioms which emerge from a given philosphical outlook or paradigm, but it is a ridiculous basis for evaluating and comparing explanations which emerge from different paradigms.
Re: [Vo]:laser fusion, Fun with Spelling
My spelling is so bad that it qualifies me for the bureaucratic government job. Keeper of all the spelling. -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 4:20 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:laser fusion, Fun with Spelling At 03:48 PM 3/18/2012, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 09:34 AM 3/18/2012, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: http://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-systemhttp://academicearth.org/lectures/laser-initial-fusion-energy-system Oh, that's embarrassing. Intertial is misspelled in the title and thus the page name. And the above is embarrassing, too. Uh, inertial.
Re: [Vo]:Page 4 missing
Besides page 4, it is also missing pages 1,2 and 28 (Figure 9). Robert Dorr An important paper, relative to Ni-H which is on the LENR archive site: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf has a page missing - page 4 - and it could be important.
RE: [Vo]:Page 4 missing
Jones, all, Since this was an Unclassified SBIR Final Report, copies may be available from the USAF without charge. Mark Mark Goldes Co-founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute 301A North Main Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.chavaenergy.com www.aesopinstitute.org 707 861-9070 707 497-3551 fax From: Jones Beene [jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:53 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Page 4 missing An important paper, relative to Ni-H which is on the LENR archive site: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnascenthyd.pdf has a page missing – page 4 - and it could be important. I had not noticed this before, or else forgot it - but cannot imagine why it would be left out intentionally by Thermacore … unless there was proprietary information on it, which seems unlikely, given they have disclosed so much detail elsewhere. Does anyone have this page? Since the paper was on the BLP site for many years until removed, the missing page could have been downloaded in complete form by someone from that site (or else BLP is the offending page remover since they did not want a detail to be known), but anyway – this problem is worth fixing, for the permanent record. This paper establishes a high level of prior art, now in the public domain for gas-phase Ni-H – and this can eliminate spurious claims from patent trolls and the like which are sure to surface in the future, once the technology is established. Jones
Re: [Vo]:March 22, 23
Yes we do need to do exhaustive testing anyway. However, should we have waited for the last 200 years before we started selling woodstoves since they still had room for improvement? 1st generation cold fusion is still probably a lot cheaper, cleaner, and safer than any other energy source, so even if 1st generation cold fusion is worthless in 5 years due to improvements, it would still make more sense economically to sell 1st generation anyway. We have become a society full of pansies. There are millions of people dying every day from hunger. There are millions of people in desperate poverty. I don't think they care if it is 100% safe or not if it can provide them with cheap energy. I do agree that this needs a full scale approach as soon as possible, and I completely disagree with Rossi's and Defkalion's approach. But, sometimes a little inefficiency is good. If cold fusion is shown to work in the mainsteam, there is no question there will be virtually unlimited resources poured into it. On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Jarold McWilliams oldja...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree that it needs to be relatively safe if you are going to sell it, but you don't need a theory to prove it is safe. I expect a theory would improve both safety and performance, and help lower costs. If he really has a device that can produce power at commercial levels, I don't want to see time wasted on explaining the theory of how the reaction works before he can sell it. The time would not be wasted. We need to exhaustive testing anyway. The efforts should be made by thousands of people in parallel so that they do not take much time. This will speed up the introduction of the technology in a wide range of applications. In the end, it is faster and cheaper to do intense RD first, rather than after you introduce the product. Just as some others have said, we used fire for thousands of years before understanding how it worked. That is an interesting comparison. Let's look a little closer. In the last 30 years, woodstoves have improved in safety, efficiency and pollution control. They were invented by Franklin, but they are still being improved. Even though fire is our oldest technology, every form of combustion technology is still being improved, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps billions. Every dollar is well spent, since the improvements save fuel and improve safety. Gas-fired house furnaces are much safer, quieter and better than they were in the 1980s. Some do not even need a chimney; you can exhaust the gas around 10 feet off the ground safely, since it has no CO in it. Internal combustion engines are the most widely used technology on earth, but they are still being improved. These improvement could not be made without deep knowledge of combustion, chemistry, materials and related subjects. In the past, people put up with unsafe products to an extent we would find unthinkable today. Until the 1870s, steam engine boilers often exploded. This was easily prevented. The ASME and the Congress put in place regulations and inspections, and the accident rate fell overnight. Up until the 1960s, automobiles had dozens of egregious safety problems. Many were fixed at no cost, or in ways that actually saved money in construction and materials. For example the 1950s style fins and other protrusions were eliminated. Those fins used to gore people in accidents. They served no purpose other than decoration. Dashboards and steering wheels were made of hard material. Padding them cost nothing. Seat belts were installed. They are by far the most effective way of reducing injury and death in accidents. From the 1920s until around 1970, cars killed roughly 1.2 million people. (I think that is the number, but it could be higher.) Far more than all of wars in U.S. history. A large fraction of those deaths could have been eliminated with common-sense measures such as padded dashboards and seatbelts. The death rate per mile has plummeted since the 1960s. The actual absolute number of people killed in many states has fallen to levels not seen since the 1920s. My point is, we are not living in 1870, or 1960. People will not put up with innovative new technology that is half-baked and dangerous. We have to do all of the RD anyway. It makes more sense to spend the money and do the work before the product is introduced. That will save thousands of lives and billions of dollars that would be wasted on third-rate, short-lived technology. We can learn from history. We do not have to kill and maim people and waste money the way our ancestors did. We can set a higher standard. Our society is much wealthier and better educated. We have computers. We have thousands of capable engineers and scientists in laboratories equipped with instruments that seem miraculous by the standards of
Re: [Vo]:Open-Source-LENR-reactor
The next post in this series is called Rydberg matter and cavitation. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I am beginning a survey of cold fusion experiments that span the many disparate paradigms of cold fusion in which I will attempt to unite them with Rydberg matter as a unifying causation principal. See the first post “Cold Fusion Magic Dust” On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote: post #3 intermediate note. The case of Case. He is definitely not your typical scientist. He is/was a practitioner with 30years experience, and as such one does not so much rely on theory but on intuition. What works and not is more in your bones and not in your head. This makes a difference, because this is not peer-reviewable, and reveals a fundamental problem of peer-reviewed scientific method: That it scraps intuition altogether and replaces it by a mechanical method of intersubjective verification, where all the intricate details are put under the rug of the method. The fight is about those accepting some sort of sublime, and those who build up knowledge up from the robust, i.e. the hard skeptics. What the hard skeptics miss, is, that their axioms -ie Occam- are on shaky ground, or more to the point: Occam does not have a foundation in 'reality'. I think occam's razor is useful for selecting explanatory axioms which emerge from a given philosphical outlook or paradigm, but it is a ridiculous basis for evaluating and comparing explanations which emerge from different paradigms.
Re: [Vo]:Rydberg matter and cavitation
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:00:13 -0400: Hi, [snip] The presence of ultra violet photons from hydrogen spectral emissions is a sure indicator that a Rydberg atom was involved in this energetic bubble collapse reaction. Not necessarily. The capture of a free electron by a free proton directly into the ground state will also result in a 13.6 eV UV photon. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
[Vo]:Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol
Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol This post is third in the series on Rydberg matter which includes as follows: Cold Fusion Magic Dust Rydberg matter and cavitation IMHO, Leonid Urutskoev et al misinterprets the action of Rydberg matter as the leptonic monopole as proposed by Georges Lochak. Reference. http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LochakGlowenergyn.pdf Low-energy nuclear reactions and the leptonic monopole In this study of electric explosion of titanium foil in water, this group observed transformation of Ti48 into many transmuted elements. Similar to the LeClair experiment, a cavitation like reaction produces an electrically sensitive agent that shuts down the coulomb barrier. IMO, that agent is Rydberg matter. Included in this reference, experimental pictures of the path of this agent behave like boll lighting. The agent persists for long time, travels a long distance, and creates a distinctive trace pattern unlike an ion. Quoted from the reference. To make sure that the traces are not related to some electromagnetic artifact, we installed detectors near the foil remnants only after the explosion. During 24 hours we were registering the traces which were indistinguishable from those, observed at the instant of electric pulse. Thus, we have confirmed the nuclear origin of the radiation being registered. It should be noted that when the unit was subjected to a magnetic field [1], the traces in the nuclear emulsion changed. This is seen in the Figure 9. My Note: Rydberg matter will behave this way being long lived and electromagnetically sensitive. Doctor Ivoilov will present in his report some very interesting results for the traces [8]. Here are some conclusions based on the presented experimental data. 1. The particle which left the trace in the nuclear emulsion is charged, as nuclear emulsions are insensitive to neutrons. 2. The particle cannot have electric charge, as otherwise it could not be able to pass through two meters of atmospheric air and two layers of black paper. My Note: Rydberg matter(aka ball lightning) will behave this way. 3. The particle does not have high energy, as no delta-electrons are observed. 4. The mechanism of the interaction between the particle and the photosensitive layer is not clear. Assuming the Coulomb mechanism, the absorbed energy estimated using the darkening area equals around 1 GeV. 5. The radiation is of nuclear origin; it interacts with magnetic fields. My Note: Rydberg matter will behave this way being long lived and electromagnetically sensitive. I found this informative in the reference: A rather interesting question is whether Ti is the only element to possess this remarkable feature. The answer is no. Experiments with other types of foils (Pb, Zr, Ta and so on) were carried out, and isotope shifts were again detected. For example, the 208Pb isotope is the parent atom for Pb. It is noteworthy that the tendency for transformation is usually found for even-even nuclei. Note that this is only an observation rather than a statement. We did not carry out systematic studies with other foils, but we concentrated mainly on Ti. Note that to attain significant effects in these experiments, it is necessary to carefully select the current, the weight of the load, and other parameters for each type of foil. Nevertheless, the data obtained are sufficient to claim that each chemical element is transformed to give its own spectrum of chemical elements. The question of the isotope ratios of the chemical elements formed upon the transformation also cannot be passed over in silence. For the vast majority of chemical elements, we did not notice significant distortions of the isotope composition with respect to the natural distribution. This offers hope that we have not invented or imagined anything but only came across a natural phenomenon. Remember that Ni62 and Ni64 are Rossi preferred isotopes; these nickel isotopes have even-even nuclei. In closing, this reference is correct to point out that U235 can be enriched in a cheap and easy way using Rydberg matter. U238 which has an even-even nucleus will be easily depleted leaving U235 as residue. This may tempt the DOD to blackout cold fusion as a proliferation risk.
