[Vo]:Diary of a Mad Scientist

2012-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
Actually it's a movie: http://joedavisthemovie.com/ Just how mad is he? In another sexually charged example of performance art Davis sets out to correct what he feels is a case of censorship in scientists’ efforts to communicate with extraterrestrials. He explains that researchers have sent

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
This is hot, so to speak. Cough, cough ... that can be understood in a slightly derogatory way. Well, it is a slick presentation, glossy and well-prepared - and very convincing for LENR in a most superficial way. Cheerleaders for W-L, like Steve Krivit will be quick to heap on the praise. Put on

Re: [Vo]:Yet another flying car

2012-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Drowning Trout drowningtro...@gmail.com wrote: Evacuated Tube Transports would be way more beneficial than flying cars. This is similar to the proposed SwissMetro project. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Yet another flying car

2012-04-05 Thread Robert Lynn
Flying cars can eliminate the need for cities, and many of the problems that cities create: -crime and other social problems arising from lack of community -hugely expensive housing driven by high land prices -wasted lives commuting -environmental issues from high population densities -expensive

Re: [Vo]:Yet another flying car

2012-04-05 Thread Xavier Luminous
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Robert Lynn wrote: Flying cars can eliminate the need for cities, and many of the problems that cities create: -crime and other social problems arising from lack of community -hugely expensive housing driven by high land prices -wasted lives commuting

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:59 AM 4/5/2012, Jones Beene wrote: This is hot, so to speak. Cough, cough ... that can be understood in a slightly derogatory way. Well, it is a slick presentation, glossy and well-prepared - and very convincing for LENR in a most superficial way. Cheerleaders for W-L, like Steve Krivit

[Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I've been looking at: Letts, D. and P.L. Hagelstein. Stimulation of Optical Phonons in Deuterated Palladium. in ICCF-14 International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2008. Washington, DC. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LettsDstimulatio.pdf This work has not received adequate

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread fznidarsic
20 x 10 exp 12 hertz times 50 x 10 exp -9 = one megahertz meter Someday even Jones and Stevek will believe me. Frank Znidarsic -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Apr 5, 2012

RE: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Any brainstorming, especially informed, on how to generate the THz stimulation will be appreciated. Contact: Virginia Diodes Inc. (434) 297-3257 www.vadiodes.com/ THz Mixers, Multipliers, Systems Jones

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
If you are not concerned with a narrow broad band, you could use a blackbody emission. According to Wien's displacement law, 14.8THz to 22.5THz, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien%27s_displacement_law#Frequency-dependent_formulation gives 251K to 387K. So, a resistive heater would give you the

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
BTW, this resembles the stuff Rossi claims to use... 2012/4/5 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com If you are not concerned with a narrow broad band, you could use a blackbody emission. According to Wien's displacement law, 14.8THz to 22.5THz,

Re: [Vo]:Yet another flying car

2012-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Xavier Luminous xavier.lumin...@googlemail.com wrote: As hinted at by Jed and Eric, the problems you are describing are very US-centric, and I don't think flying cars are the way to address them. Jed and I live in Atlanta. The average one-way commute in

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Well, it is a slick presentation, glossy and well-prepared - and very convincing for LENR in a most superficial way. Consultant's motto: It always works in the PowerPoint presentation. T

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread integral.property.serv...@gmail.com
Great to see you all back from the future to reality. See the following Chan links: http://www.buildecat.com/blog_detail/the-chan-formula-4.html http://www.buildecat.com/blog_detail/chan-formula-update-i-5.html See Hideki at:

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 18:34 Donnerstag, 5.April 2012 Betreff: RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation And I still have seen no expanation, anywhere, of the basic problems with

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: integral.property.serv...@gmail.com integral.property.serv...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 21:22 Donnerstag, 5.April 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation Great to see you all back from the future to reality. This is

RE: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
Hey Daniel - instead of straight wide spectrum low IR - why not add a special filter to a tuned resistance heater electrode to get some kind of pseudo coherence? Here is a pretty steep spike at 2 THz: http://www.insight-product.com/mesh3.htm Low terahertz might work, no? Doubt if they go

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread pagnucco
Abd, Regarding the absence of gammas - Don't nanoscale currents store far more inductive momentum/energy than macro currents do per conduction electron? For example, see - Low Frequency Plasmons in Thin Wire Structures - JB Pendry http://www.cmth.ph.ic.ac.uk/photonics/Newphotonics/pdf/wires.pdf

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
The problem would be the output. The low energy tail would have also a very low power. I think a specialized equipment for that band is required... 2012/4/5 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Hey Daniel – instead of straight wide spectrum low IR - why not add a special filter to a tuned

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I was referring to explanations by proponents or others, justifying W-L theory in the face of serious objections (not the pseudoskeptical it's impossible objections, but the real thing). Goatguy, there, does come up with some of what I've mentioned, plus other stuff. He's focusing on NiH,

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:22 PM 4/5/2012, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com wrote: Great to see you all back from the future to reality. See the following Chan links: http://www.buildecat.com/blog_detail/the-chan-formula-4.htmlhttp://www.buildecat.com/blog_detail/the-chan-formula-4.html

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread pagnucco
Jones, Sure, some of those experiments produce hot plasmas, but there are many experimental results which appear to produce transmutations with temperatures too low to produce collisions energetic enough for fusion - unless the energy is focused and hidden in infinitesimal volumes. My

RE: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:22 PM 4/5/2012, Jones Beene wrote: -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Any brainstorming, especially informed, on how to generate the THz stimulation will be appreciated. Contact: Virginia Diodes Inc. (434) 297-3257 www.vadiodes.com/ THz Mixers, Multipliers, Systems

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:30 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: If you are not concerned with a narrow broad band, you could use a blackbody emission. According to Wien's displacement law, 14.8THz to 22.5THz,

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:31 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: BTW, this resembles the stuff Rossi claims to use... I don't think so. However, sure. Maybe the band heater that Rossi uses is actually an IR source. However, I'm not willing to base anything on anything from Rossi, until and unless it is

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com Jones, Sure, some of those experiments produce hot plasmas, but there are many experimental results which appear to produce transmutations with temperatures too low to produce collisions energetic enough for fusion... Lou - yes that

RE: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:56 PM 4/5/2012, Jones Beene wrote: Hey Daniel – instead of straight wide spectrum low IR - why not add a special filter to a tuned resistance heater electrode to get some kind of pseudo coherence? Here is a pretty steep spike at 2 THz:

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:29 PM 4/5/2012, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Abd, Regarding the absence of gammas - ... is it reasonable to suppose that a high energy gamma would experience many (anomalously high) dissipative Compton collisions before escaping as a less energetic photon? If this is plausible, could

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread pagnucco
Jones, Good points. I do not know the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect. I will research it tonight. There could be a number of confounding effects that coexist. Our tendency to look for a relativistic collision behind every nuclear event (except radioactivity) could be the problem. Lou Pagnucco

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread pagnucco
Abd, I intend to do some more research on this - plasmonics is pretty dicey. I'm not sure whether a nanowire has a cross-section large enough to scatter gammas originating at any significant distance, thoug, unless they are extremely collimated. But, I am more optimistic than you are that W-L

RE: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Sweeping up from 3 THz or so, Letts found no effect until 8 THz. He got the most pronounced effects at 15 and 22 THz. OK, got it. That puts this into very difficult territory. This spectrum 15-22 THz is the upper end of the so-called

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:05 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: The problem would be the output. The low energy tail would have also a very low power. I think a specialized equipment for that band is required... 2012/4/5 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Hey Daniel – instead of straight wide spectrum low IR - why

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread fznidarsic
Why not use a carbon dioxide laser? At 04:05 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: The problem would be the output. The low energy tail would have also a very low power. I think a specialized equipment for that band is required... -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:37 PM 4/5/2012, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: My suggestion is that transmutations be the litmus test for LENR - not the calorimetry results which never seem definitive enough for everyone. If the reported successful experiments were well conducted, then they will be reproducible.

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:15 PM 4/5/2012, Jones Beene wrote: -Original Message- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com Jones, Sure, some of those experiments produce hot plasmas, but there are many experimental results which appear to produce transmutations with temperatures too low to produce collisions energetic

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
Maybe it is the case of cooling the experiment with liquid nitrogen, to avoid self interference with the experiment. 8THz blackbody is a peak around 140K, so 71K is far away from that peak. 2012/4/5 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com At 12:30 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: If you are

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
The idea was doing something cheap, right? 2012/4/5 fznidar...@aol.com Why not use a carbon dioxide laser? At 04:05 PM 4/5/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: The problem would be the output. The low energy tail would have also a very low power. I think a specialized equipment for that band is

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Gamma sources could be placed so that gammas pass through the supposedly active heavy electron patches, and, if W-L theory is real, drastic attenuation should be seen. That attentuation should not be seen with

RE: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread pagnucco
Abd, You are right - I did not intend to sound dogmatic. I am beginning to wonder whether a couple of different phenomena, perhaps sharing a common denominator, are occurring - depending on experimental materials and procedures. Nature may be getting a little perverse here. The Wendt-Irion

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
That's the energy excitation corresponding Debye temperature in palladium 275K. That's odd. 2012/4/5 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net This begs the question: why would 15-22 THz, in theory, couple with Ni-H in a gainful way when higher radiation (lasers light) or lower (microwaves) would not

RE: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
From: Daniel Rocha That's the energy excitation corresponding Debye temperature in palladium at 275K. That's odd. Jones Beene wrote: This begs the question: why would 15-22 THz, in theory, couple with Ni-H in a

Re: [Vo]:Stimulation of LENR using dual lasers, creative engineering needed

2012-04-05 Thread Daniel Rocha
Well, depending on the theory, CF can be much hotter than those of Tokamaks... 2012/4/6 Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net From: Daniel Rocha That's the energy excitation corresponding Debye temperature in palladium at 275K. That's odd. Jones

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread pagnucco
Eric, The plasmon conduction electrons in nanowires can be very heavy - i.e., they possess a huge effective mass when they impact a particle in the direction of the current flow (- but not in orthogonal directions.) Similar to a light metal plate that penetrates a strong barrier because it is

Re: [Vo]:Yet another flying car

2012-04-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Average European commute is ca. 33 minutes. That is perhaps something like 8 miles. I have less than 25 minutes if walking to the parking lot is accounted. As Xavier pointed out this problem with cities is mostly American problem due to bad city design. Other problem is with the distribution