Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:00 PM 12/16/2009, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: What's the payoff? ...That Steorn is really good at manipulating PR? ...That they they can pull a fast one on everyone? There seems to be an equally unproven assumption that if Steorn can pull it off that future prospective clients

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:11 AM 12/17/2009, William Beaty wrote: 7. It's NOT the company's number one goal to prove that the invention is real. The scam company seems to have no goal besides creating an aura of attractive secrets: secrets which will only be revealed to an in-group of superior blue-blooded

Re: [Vo]:Charging to get a look

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:23 AM 12/17/2009, you wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: They are charging for getting a look at the technology, and, I'm sure, this comes with heavy NDAs, Hey. Is charging to get a look at technology a dead givaway for an FE con game? In other words, what other

Re: [Vo]:Executive Director of the AIP says cold fusion is wrong and fraud

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:58 AM 12/17/2009, you wrote: Steven Krivit wrote: I'm sure Shanahan is finding immeasurable entertainment in these messages. Particularly your comment about certified fruitcake. It is the season, though, isn't it? Absolutely! And for the record, I'm crazy about fruitcake, especially

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:10 PM 12/17/2009, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Abd remarks, [...] What I do claim is that the Steorn situation bears very strong marks of being a con, a fairly sophisticated one, where they are deliberately setting up demonstrations with obvious flaws, which they can then

Re: [Vo]:New hypothesis about what Steorn is up to

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:55 AM 12/18/2009, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Well, as Deep Throat sed: Follow the money. What's the payoff. Smuggling donkeys. While this scam is running, do you have any idea what salaries Steorn executives are drawing? Do you know if any payments are being made to

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:20 AM 12/18/2009, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: From Stephen Lawrence ... But he's [MADOFF] **NOT** held up as an example of a successful con artist, because he (a) had no exit strategy, ... Ok, then then what's Steorn's exit strategy? I certainly don't know for sure. Depends

Re: [Vo]:New hypothesis about what Steorn is up to

2009-12-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:06 PM 12/18/2009, Mauro Lacy wrote: You maintain this business as long as you can, and when things are starting to get murky(really murky) and profits are falling, you suddenly fire all your employeess, close offices, and disappear in your private jet, to have a well deserved recess in

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:42 PM 12/18/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: However, bilked may not be it. Rather, he set up a speculative investment opportunity for people, under this particular theory: now that you know we don't actually have anything yet -- we might find the magic wand waving

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Advertisement

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:46 PM 12/18/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Sorry, I wasn't clear. Not the end of the ad, but the end of the sequence of damning quotes. But the sequence of quotes takes up most of the ad, and I found the inclusion of the quote from their own jury as the last one in the sequence more

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:46 PM 12/18/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: -- I think it's unlikely that they're cash positive right now, if we leave cash flow from stock sales off the balance sheet. But, that doesn't really matter much; with repeated rounds of financing, companies can go for years in a

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:43 PM 12/18/2009, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Mongo want to see a light bulb real soon. No light bulb soon, Mongo send candygram to Sean. Light bulb! Light bulb! Light bulb! Steorn response simple: light bulb. Lights up. What does that mean? Or not. Whatever they think will

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:27 PM 12/18/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 12/18/2009 02:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:02 PM 12/17/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Sounds good. But magicians don't usually start by working to convince everyone that they are incompetent liars. That's a label nobody wants

[Vo]:Steorn hosting new ads, explanation

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
http://www.steorn.com/ The al-Jazeera ad is there under the Watch the advert button. And Sean describes the technology, sort of, (absolutely no critical details, and the bottom line is, trust us). Very slick. They are claiming that the battery is merely an energy reservoir. That the

Re: [Vo]:Need help with AIP posting

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
The error message is from the Captcha Turing test. I ran into that too. I may have used the back button? I'm not sure. At 07:17 PM 12/19/2009, you wrote: I deleted the Richard Feynman quote and the blog entry was sent forward for censoring. It will be interesting to see if my one sentence

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:56 PM 12/19/2009, you wrote: A Ponzi scheme is specifically a scheme for allowing *investors* to make money even though the company has no source of income. It's the lure of assured high return on the money which pulls in the investors. In particular, investors who pull out before a

RE: [Vo]:Steorn toroids

2009-12-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:39 AM 12/20/2009, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: Electrical engineers should immediately understand the implications of toroid and no back EMF. I'd think so. Now, what would you say about the rebuttal video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0PdJn984s

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:03 AM 12/20/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 12/20/2009 12:22 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 10:56 PM 12/19/2009, you wrote: A Ponzi scheme is specifically a scheme for allowing *investors* to make money even though the company has no source of income. It's the lure of assured high

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:10 AM 12/20/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 12/19/2009 06:25 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Further, we know that they can produce something more interesting. I don't think Hoyt is lying. Do you? No, Hoyt's not lying. But Hoyt has been lied to and has apparently been taken

Re: [Vo]:Falsifiability of cold neutrons in LENR

2009-12-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:19 PM 12/22/2009, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:29:37 -0500: Some of the alphas, statistically, would be hot enough to induce secondary reactions as well. (Which comes first, the photon emissions or the fission?) [snip] Be8 has

[Vo]:American Chemical Society LENR session in March?

2009-12-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I see that Jan Marwan is scheduled with a symposium on New Energy Technologies at the ACS meeting in San Francisco in March. Any clues?

RE: [Vo]:query for opinions re: video from steorn waterways

2009-12-23 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:02 PM 12/23/2009, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Esa, Both vimeo videos came through clean for me. Looks great. Iphone... Good! If you get the chance, could you personally ask someone like Tachoman why Steorn didn't design the ORBO demo device around a high functioning

Re: [Vo]:query for opinions re: video from steorn waterways

2009-12-23 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:51 PM 12/23/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: As I understand it, they are not claiming that the motor being demonstrated is OU in the sense of more *mechanical* energy out than electrical energy in. Yes. The electrical energy is entirely being dissipated as heat, they claim, it is not

Re: [Vo]:query for opinions re: video from steorn waterways

2009-12-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
One thing should be kept in mind. Steorn claims that it noticed an anomaly. It has never described the exact nature of the anomaly, not publicly. Thus much of the criticism is simply an assertion that an anomaly is impossible. Steorn quite directly confronts this, with a truth: anomalies are

[Vo]:Thermonuclear indeed inaccurate.

2009-12-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Original subject was Re: [Vo]:Krivit Elsevier Encyclopedia Articles Publish At 06:08 PM 12/24/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Steven Krivit wrote: On 23 March 1989, electrochemists M. Fleischmann and S. Pons claimed in a press conference at the University of Utah that they had achieved nuclear

Re: [Vo]:Krivit Elsevier Encyclopedia Articles Publish

2009-12-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:24 PM 12/25/2009, Steven Krivit wrote: Fleischmann, M., et al., Electrochemically Induced Nuclear Fusion of Deuterium, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 261, Issue 2, Part 1, p. 301-308 (April 10, 1989) and errata in Vol. 263, p. 187-188, (1989) In view of the very high

Re: [Vo]:Krivit Elsevier Encyclopedia Articles Publish

2009-12-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:24 PM 12/25/2009, you wrote: I do not want to make too big a deal about this, by the way. I think thermonuclear is technically inaccurate in this context but broadly speaking, taken to mean conventional, known, plasma fusion reactions then Steve is right. This hypothesis has dogged the

Re: [Vo]:JL-naudin replicates current Steorn Orbo (Dec) demo

2009-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:00 AM 12/28/2009, William Beaty wrote: Rather than focusing on some perhaps-unexpected measurement, just close the loop. Ditch the battery. Make a perpetual wheel. Close the loop. If it's real, then closing the loop should be easy. If it's an artifact which misleads

Re: [Vo]:JL-naudin replicates current Steorn Orbo (Dec) demo

2009-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:58 PM 12/29/2009, William Beaty wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: But there is the tantalizing middle. They find that they almost close the loop. You're giving them the benefit of the doubt. Count how many times you have to do that! It's very telling

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:14 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Here are two more replications: The first link shows no apparent current increase as the speed of the rotor picks up, and tends to really display the effect that is perplexing all of these people.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:15 PM 12/30/2009, Harry Veeder wrote: Here is the same unit turned by hand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xungPOZtIo Setting aside the issue of over unity or free energy, what does the 'zero' meter reading mean ? a violation lenz law? a faulty meter? or meter leads located at the wrong

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:13 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Setting aside the issue of over unity or free energy, what does the 'zero' meter reading mean ? a violation lenz law? a faulty meter? or meter leads located at the wrong place? Are you implying that the amp meter is not connected correctly? If so,

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Craig, I don't think you get that the demonstrations show almost nothing, except that the second video you pointed to conclusively refutes the claim of no back-EMF, and quite visually, with the blinking of that neon bulb, which, as I recall, requires about 65 volts to initiate, the bulb then

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:37 PM 12/30/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 12/30/2009 03:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 12:14 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Here are two more replications: The first link shows no apparent current increase as the speed of the rotor picks up, and tends to really

Re: [Vo]:Request claque support

2010-01-08 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:06 AM 1/8/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: For my comment here: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/qa-googles-green-energy-czar/http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/qa-googles-green-energy-czar/ This has got to be against journalistic ethics at some level. Are you a

Re: [Vo]:Request claque support

2010-01-08 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:54 PM 1/8/2010, Mike Carrell wrote: Meanwhile Mills announced to as investment group expectations of a working prototype this year with scale-up to the megawatt powr plants next year. At Rowan university, members of the chemistry faculty, using commercially available chemicals, were able

Re: [Vo]:Request claque support

2010-01-09 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:15 PM 1/8/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I don't necessarily agree that cold fusion is economically viable, it's possible that huge sums could be spent with no commercial result, but at this point, huge sums aren't needed; rather what is needed is what Kowalski

Re: [Vo]:Request claque support

2010-01-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:34 PM 1/10/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Reasonable, I'd say, if the 10W experiment looked like it had a prayer of being scalable. 10 W would already be a significant scale up, by a factor of ~10. If it worked I am sure any larger size would work. Also, I know

Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig

2010-01-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:45 PM 1/13/2010, Terry Blanton wrote: Here is 1 of 5 youtube vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/SteornOfficial#p/u/0/bzcZDr1AcEU The set of videos is too long for me to watch now. But my immediate impression. The demonstrations are technically far more complex, they *look* much better.

Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig

2010-01-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:07 AM 1/14/2010, Esa Ruoho wrote: At 05:45 PM 1/13/2010, Terry Blanton . He claims that the energy output is greater than the input, but he says that again and again without showing a measurement of this. Next week, he says. So, Abd, do you even know what happens next week? They open it

Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig

2010-01-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:11 AM 1/14/2010, Esa Ruoho wrote: On 14 Jan 2010, at 06:07, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/user/SteornOfficial#p/u/0/bzcZDr1AcEUhttp://www.youtube.com/user/SteornOfficial#p/u/0/bzcZDr1AcEU The set of videos is too long

Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig

2010-01-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:03 PM 1/14/2010, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Nevertheless, you state at the very beginning that you didn't have enough time to watch the show in its entirety. Let me reiterate: It is in fact the first thing you tell your readers. While, in a sense, you are taking advantage of

Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig

2010-01-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:02 PM 1/14/2010, Terry Blanton wrote: Somehow Steorn must measure the torque or have the motor perform work, eg lift a weight, pump water, etc. But they seem to have a basic lack of understanding of this fact. This is quite the response that Steorn wants from people who realize the

Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of steorn talk#2 demo-rig

2010-01-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:38 PM 1/14/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: In politics, business and consulting, many people make a good living by obfuscation and sewing confusion. I like that. Sewing. They stitch it together rather than tossing seeds in the ground.

Re: [Vo]:Back EMF: Sean may be right

2010-01-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Of course Sean may be right. In a sense. But wrong if we take No back EMF as an absolute, and wrong in the implications. I don't think I've seen how the Orbo motor allegedly works stated clearly. The drive current doesn't accelerate the rotor directly, or, more accurately perhaps, it doesn't

Re: [Vo]:Back EMF: Sean may be right

2010-01-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, January 17, 2010 10:06:18 AM Subject: Re: [Vo

Re: [Vo]:Orbo: It's a magnetic-shield perpmo

2010-01-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: OK, folks, we're all talking about it but nobody's quite said it. This apparently novel motor is actually just a new manifestation of a very old concept. The Orbo, as described, is a perpetual

Re: [Vo]:Back EMF: Sean may be right

2010-01-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:47 PM 1/17/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Gosh, something happened and the calorimetry company had to withdraw. Sorry, folks. This has not actually happened. Please identify statements such as this as hypothetical or cynical, to avoid confusion. (Seriously.) I

Re: [Vo]:Back EMF: Sean may be right

2010-01-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:46 PM 1/17/2010, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: On Jan 17, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: How do you know? With regular bearings it may require more energy then the system can generate. Isn't that my point? They are drawing relatively high power from the battery

Re: [Vo]:Back EMF: Sean may be right

2010-01-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:05 AM 1/19/2010, Harry Veeder wrote: I noticed on the Steorn forum there is talk of a punch line that Steorn will give at the end of the month. Perhaps the test you describe is it. I rather doubt it. If they've done this and they have the data and it shows significant excess energy,

Re: [Vo]:steorn addendum video posted on youtube

2010-01-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:00 PM 1/20/2010, you wrote: Don't forget the Al Jazeera ad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcNwc-GhzIs 50 sec into it. Thanks for the reminder. They quote their own hand-picked jury's statement that there Orbo hasn't shown evidence of energy production. And immediately after that,

Re: [Vo]:steorn addendum video posted on youtube

2010-01-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:36 PM 1/21/2010, Michel Jullian wrote: This premise assumes that Stoern BELIEVES their ORBO is valid technology... that Steorn just needs a few of those big spending corporate entities to buy a cheap (for them) licenses and subsequently work out a few minor pesky bugs! Well not

Re: [Vo]:More on Pycno

2010-01-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:07 PM 1/21/2010, Jones Beene wrote: When deuterium is loaded in an atomic ratio of 1:1 within a metal, it must be in molecular form, and seldom atomic form, as was once thought (and taught) since the molecule is so much smaller than the atom. Given what has gone on in LENR over the years,

Re: [Vo]:Pycno-pockets?

2010-01-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:06 PM 1/21/2010, Jones Beene wrote: The natural abundance of D in the oceans of Earth of approximately one atom in 6,500 of hydrogen (~154 ppm) or four times lower than Jupiter. What happened to the rest of it, if it was initially the same as Jupiter? Fascinating question based on an

Re: [Vo]:steorn addendum video posted on youtube

2010-01-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:02 PM 1/21/2010, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Peatbog sez: The cost is 419 euros per year. Here are the terms: http://www.steorn.com/orbo/licensing/ Thanks for the clarification. The initiation fee is certainly way too steep for my tastes! Interesting that it's an annual fee.

Re: [Vo]:steorn addendum video posted on youtube

2010-01-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:03 PM 1/21/2010, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Abd sez: ... Get this: lying, as such, is not illegal. Most subscribers to this list are really space aliens, and I'm not yet revealing my secret knowledge, because I must protect my sources. However, I need money, so if you want

RE: [Vo]:orbo is a heat pump?

2010-01-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:10 PM 1/24/2010, Jones Beene wrote: As for the claim of OU heating from an electric motor - which has been around for years - google Szabo EBM. Here is a video which makes a clearer claim for OU than anything coming from Steorn, yet AFIK they have not been successful:

Re: [Vo]:STEORN: THE FINAL DEMO ... ...PROVING OVERUNITY

2010-01-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:23 PM 1/25/2010, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Big splashy advert screens are being displayed at steorn.com Sounds like they intend to deliver the final punch line this coming Saturday, Jan 30 we shall see... Yup. Unless all their bearings freeze up, the building mysteriously

Re: [Vo]:STEORN: THE FINAL DEMO ... ...PROVING OVERUNITY

2010-01-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:09 PM 1/25/2010, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: What we absolutely will *not* see: -- A true self-runner, which convinces all but the most pathological of skeptics. Will not happen -- not from Steorn. Not now, not ever. This includes motors with no external power supply, and motors driven

Re: [Vo]:OT: Space travel, moon colonization.

2010-01-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:16 PM 1/25/2010, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 01/25/2010 03:08 PM, Alexander Hollins wrote: Is anyone here familiar with any organizations dedicated to helping push along space travel? http://www.nss.org/ Well, I was Administrator of the L-5 Society, over thirty years ago, which

Re: [Vo]:OT: Space travel, moon colonization.

2010-01-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:28 PM 1/25/2010, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 01/25/2010 04:09 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Well, I was Administrator of the L-5 Society, over thirty years ago, That is seriously cool! Thanks. I thought so myself. I've done some other cool things, too! Right now I'm working

Re: [Vo]:STEORN: THE FINAL DEMO ... ...PROVING OVERUNITY

2010-01-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:45 PM 1/25/2010, Harry Veeder wrote: - Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com What we absolutely will *not* see: -- A true self-runner, which convinces all but the most pathological of skeptics. Will not happen -- not from Steorn. Not now, not ever.

RE: [Vo]:Spam has been eliminated? Robin posts considered spam (was Re: OFF TOPIC Davos predictions: predictably wrong?)

2010-01-26 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:50 AM 1/26/2010, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2010/01/25/spam-is-solved-we-can-all-go-home-now.aspx http://tinyurl.com/ylj42d5 I would love some comments on this article. Okay, here goes! The article describes an interesting

Re: [Vo]:Contropedia

2010-01-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:35 AM 1/27/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: There was a well publicized comparison made of Britannica versus Wikipedia a few years ago. Conclusion: Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us,

Re: [Vo]:Encyclopedia Britannica article on cold fusion

2010-01-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:00 PM 1/27/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: I guess I would have to say that despite its many faults, the Wikipedia article is better. [than the Britannica article]. Yes. The Britannica is depending on old information that was never really accurate, but it's not surprising that this is what

Re: [Vo]:Contropedia

2010-01-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:41 PM 1/27/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: It's really an aspect of the problem of scale. Those who could do something about it are overwhelmed and must make snap judgments, so when an issue is complex, really bad decisions are made. This is true

Re: [Vo]:An Incoherent Explanation of LENR

2010-01-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:46 PM 1/30/2010, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/blog/ Krivit says: Bottom line, there is something real, no doubt. Nuclear, absolutely. Potential for energy, yes. But fusion? I can't know for sure, but at this time, I highly doubt it. So if it's nuclear

[Vo]:comment on New Energy Times' editorial about MeV/He-4

2010-01-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
, perhaps. And on and on. Abd ul-Rahman Lomax http://lomaxdesign.com/coldfusion

Re: [Vo]:An Incoherent Explanation of LENR

2010-01-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:12 PM 1/30/2010, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 03:33 PM 1/30/2010, Steven Krivit wrote: NET 34 is out. Read it carefully. http://newenergytimes.com/v2/blog/ Feathers will be ruffled; yes, I know. You don't know half of it, Steve. Your comments, questions and critique, as always

[Vo]:comment on Violante data as covered by Steve Krivit

2010-01-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2010/34/345revisions.shtml We have learned, through a better understanding of their paper, that the authors did not perform calorimetry. Rather, they used the helium measurements to back-calculate the excess heat they would have expected from the amount of

Re: [Vo]:An Incoherent Explanation of LENR

2010-01-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2010/34/343inexplicableclaims.shtml This is a discussion of the Violante presentation, http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2004/ICCF11/pres/64-Violante.pdf Here, I will comment on the Krivit report, pointing out how he has misunderstood and/or

Re: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:28 PM 2/6/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: Based on this google translation it seems the Italian Committee Against the Claims of the Paranormal is seeking to discredit Rossi et al.

Re: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:27 PM 2/6/2011, Rich Murray wrote: I am Rich Murray, rmfor...@gmail.com , and have suggested Feb. 5 and 6 that the Rossi device may have internal leaks that cause the electric heater to short out to the output water, electrolyzing water into hydrogen and oxygen in the cell and messing up

Re: [Vo]:Comments by Duncan, Celani at ICCF16

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:58 AM 2/7/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Celani's description of the demo was more critical than his discussion with me, yesterday. He was quite upset that they did not let him make nuclear measurements, and I suspect that has colored his thinking. Rossi told him we can't let you take a gamma

Re: [Vo]:A few comments by Celani about the demonstration

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:00 AM 2/7/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Rich Murray mailto:rmfor...@gmail.comrmfor...@gmail.com wrote: If conducting paths start to open up within the cell from the heater electric power input, they will evolved and expand complexly. The H2 that Rossi thinks is being absorbed into the Ni

Re: [Vo]:Focardi Rosssi-Off- Topic - What gets Funded/Cashed Out..very upsetting

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:43 AM 2/7/2011, Ron Kita wrote: Greetings Vortex, I still cannot believe that Clorox acquired Burts Bees Wax for 925 million. I tried to find some lower numbers, none were found. Will keep looking..it is so incredible.

Re: [Vo]:A few comments by Celani about the demonstration

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:09 PM 2/7/2011, Rich Murray wrote: I want to be wrong, but all doubts have to be candidly explored in this very important scientific debate, in which Rossi at least could share critical details with some independent scientists of repute who can be trusted with secrets. There is no

[Vo]:How New Energy Times has become a crank web site.

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I posted a comment wondering why Krivit hasn't mentioned the Storms review, published in Naturwissenschaften last October, Status of cold fusion (2010), and hasn't listed the paper on his Recent papers page, in spite of it being, arguably, the most significant paper published in the field in

RE: [Vo]:A few comments by Celani about the demonstration

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:34 PM 2/7/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: Abd... I think you haven't been following this as closely as the active contributors... Perhaps your time is limited and you have not been able to read all the postings... What did Rossi hope to accomplish by the demonstration? My suspicion is, he

RE: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:08 PM 2/7/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: Abd: You stated: Right now, the Rossi device is a Black Box, with two apparent inputs: electrical power, as a supposedly measured level, and water, Did you forget the hydrogen? At least I would consider it an input since it is not entirely contained

Re: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:22 PM 2/7/2011, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Recall the tragic PR mess that transpired when scientists (most of them physicists) in their initial curiosity attempted to independently replicate a chemistry experiment, for which most had little experience in executing, the Pons

Re: [Vo]:How New Energy Times has become a crank web site.

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:37 PM 2/7/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/07/2011 02:24 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'm not sure how he took my criticism, since I have nothing invested in any particular theory As far as I can tell he didn't have the patience to understand your criticism. You used too

RE: [Vo]:A few comments by Celani about the demonstration

2011-02-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:52 PM 2/7/2011, Mark Iverson wrote: Abd: You really need to be more careful with your choice of words... There is a staged demonstration, under the control of Rossi, with experimental details concealed... No, there were at least two tests done with the same seasoned university

[Vo]:Outline for prosaic black-box generation of higher than chemical heat

2011-02-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Consider a well-insulated box. It contains a reservoir holding a substance with high specific heat and high melting point. Into the reservoir, and through a tube into the box, may flow water, and steam may escape. Internal controls may regulate flow. Hot air may be used to initially heat the

Re: [Vo]:Outline for prosaic black-box generation of higher than chemical heat

2011-02-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:34 PM 2/10/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: It would be a little tricky to have something like this produce the output performance of the Rossi device. You would have to have a secret remote control that vectors most of the cooling water around the heat source at first, and then gradually

RE: [Vo]:does classical mechanics always fail to predict or retrodict for 3 or more Newtonian gravity bodies? Rich Murray 2011.02.18

2011-02-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:12 PM 2/18/2011, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: Congratulations on your Sinclair project. I started on a TRS-80. Heh! Well, *I* -- the word is drawn out -- started on an Altair 8800. Pthtpthhh!

Re: [Vo]:does classical mechanics always fail to predict or retrodict for 3 or more Newtonian gravity bodies? Rich Murray 2011.02.18

2011-02-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:17 PM 2/18/2011, Rich Murray wrote: does classical mechanics always fail to predict or retrodict for 3 or more Newtonian gravity bodies? Rich Murray 2011.02.18 I think there is a misconception here. There isn't any true two-body or three-body problem because there are far, far more than

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:51 AM 2/21/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/02/21/rothwell-makes-pre-emptive-strike-against-new-lenr-textbook/ http://tinyurl.com/4s3xhjt Right there, in a nutshell, is perfect evidence as to Krivit's effective demise as a reporter on LENR. This leads

[Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Subject was Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device At 04:12 AM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: Not true. I have described what it would take to convince me (and so has Jed Rothwell), and if cold fusion could deliver a tiny fraction of what has been promised

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:50 AM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Ah. It seems Wiley has not agreed to publish this textbook. That is relief! I tried to ask Krivit about this textbook, but as I said, he refused to talk to me. He acted as if I was not there. When I tapped him on the shoulder he walked away. An

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:33 AM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: So I'm going to ask, as to cold fusion in general, what has been promised and what do promises have to do with science? A new energy source

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:38 AM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: This was all a tempest in a teapot! Good thing. I sent a message to the Wiley editor, pointing to Krivit's article, and apologizing for the misunderstanding. Regarding Abd's comments, several potential authors told me that Krivit pulled this stunt

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:38 AM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: This was all a tempest in a teapot! Good thing. I sent a message to the Wiley editor, pointing to Krivit's article, and apologizing for the misunderstanding. Your letter may have done good, pointing out to Wiley that there could be problems with

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:52 AM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: This discussion has been about the Rossi work, which is based on a secret process, and which is inadequately confirmed . . . I think the confirmation is better than most

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:47 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jed Rothwell mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.comjedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cude has added that he is not convinced that nuclear reactions in cold fusion experiments have produced measurable heat. From my point of view

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:28 PM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: But Rossi is not a clear confirmation of any prior work, since we don't know what's inside. Sure he is. This is a confirmation of Piantelli and Focardi, and Mills for that matter. We know approximately what is inside

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:41 PM 2/21/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I don't know about Joshua, but a report of an experiment with no details given sure doesn't convince *me*, but maybe that makes me a pathological skeptic, too, eh? Of course not. That was hyperbole on Jed's part. He might be right, if Joshua

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:01 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 10:33 AM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma

Re: [Vo]:Counter-strike launched in textbook controversy

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:50 PM 2/21/2011, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:40:47 -0500: Hi, [snip] But the result that is known is that helium is produced, and the observed energy supports the conclusion that the primary fuel is deuterium. unknown nuclear

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:31 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I've seen what they write. Practically every review is preoccupied with defending the reality of the field. I know you've read Storms' abstract to his latest review, because you are acknowledged in the paper. It's 2010, and most of it reiterates the

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