Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-26 Thread Bob Higgins
and so the full pressure generated from the thermal decomposition of the LiAlH4 was applied to the stainless tube. Bob Higgins On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: I for one did not understand that the center tube was made from stainless steel. Apparently

Re: [Vo]:Explosion May Be Out of Control LENR

2015-02-10 Thread Bob Higgins
Having a switching control of the heater bias is not at all going to fix a reactor that is unstable once it reaches a critical temperature. Such a reactor will continue to rise in temperature with NO input at all (pulse width =0). Such devices as have been shown today have essentially a fixed

Re: [Vo]:Ceramic-to-metal hermetic bonding

2015-01-04 Thread Bob Higgins
. It is worth additional experiments and data taking, all of which will require good seal technology. MFMP is beginning to get feedback from Dr. Parkhomov. Bob Higgins On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: CB Sites-- Check out the following for LiAlH4

Re: [Vo]:What did Rossi learn from the Lagano test?

2015-03-15 Thread Bob Higgins
in the molten metal was melted LiH, an ionic hydride - the molten metal was probably saturated with hydrogen in the form of H- anions as part of the ionic hydride of Li. This appears to be a [liquid metal ionic hydride - Ni] reaction, not a gas phase reaction. Bob Higgins On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:03

[Vo]: Thermometry

2015-03-21 Thread Bob Higgins
I brought up this in an internal MFMP discussion and I would be interested in getting input from the Vorts on the topic. I have been thinking about thermocouple measurements with a reactor tube or a glow stick. I now believe it is a bad idea to measure the core temperature inside the tube as a

Re: [Vo]:Seeing the Light

2015-03-09 Thread Bob Higgins
The LockTherm testing is certainly interesting, but it is not clear to me that it has any advantage over Parkhomov. I have seen no additional videos, nor have I heard that they achieved excess heat. An interesting phase of this whole Parkhomov/Rossi fuel is what is happening in the 700-1100ºC

Re: [Vo]:Seeing the Light

2015-03-09 Thread Bob Higgins
together and making the geometry between grains smaller. IMHO a more robust dynamic tapestry of smaller geometries is better than loosely packed larger geometries. Regards Fran *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, March 09, 2015 12:34 PM *To:* vortex-l

Re: [Vo]:Seeing the Light

2015-03-09 Thread Bob Higgins
are spent sealing the tubes. LockTherm is only using fused quartz tubes. This won't allow them to work at the Parkhomov pressures. And, we have no reports of excess heat from them. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Ø Ø The LockTherm

Re: [Vo]:Critique of Levi et al. Lugano experiment

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Higgins
resolution mass spec] - XRD - Thermocouple calibration furnace - IR spectroscopy Please feel to private email me if you think you can help. Bob Higgins On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Higgins comments are right on. MFMP should do mass spec analysis

Re: [Vo]:Critique of Levi et al. Lugano experiment

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Higgins
. What MS studies are you talking about? Bob Cook - Original Message - *From:* Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Sunday, March 08, 2015 1:31 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Critique of Levi et al. Lugano experiment I don't believe Ed Storms and Kiva Labs has

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Patent Final Rejection

2015-03-13 Thread Bob Higgins
Be careful not to read too much into the USPTO's stamp of final rejection. It is not uncommon to receive this notice during the process of patent prosecution. I have issued patents, which, during the course of prosecution, got stamped final rejection. It is time for the patent attorneys to do

Re: [Vo]:HotCat Design Explained

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
It is not clear from your description of this book on the website, but it appears to be a compilation of the published work of others plus pure speculation by R. Ventola. Does author Ventola have any first hand knowledge of the construction and fueling of the HotCat? On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:58

Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-02 Thread Bob Higgins
meticulous measurements. Fran *From:* Bob Higgins [mailto:rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, March 01, 2015 9:01 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure From the pictures I saw, Parkhomov changed to use a separate

Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-02 Thread Bob Higgins
I don't know why you think it would be less safe to run LiAlH4 by itself in the reactor. As the temperature rises and H2 is released, the liquid Li is also being released. If there is oxygen present, it will form LiOH which doesn't decompose until over 900C. This is the first stage of O2

Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-02 Thread Bob Higgins
Yes, this is why I was worried about Alexander's new design that puts an air gap and another ceramic around the reactor core - increasing its thermal resistance to the lower temperature air around it and/or the water in the calorimeter. He already showed that if he put alumina powder insulating

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Ryan Hunt would better to ask this question. I believe the reactor tube in the Bang! experiment was from CoorsTek. The other dogbone alumina tubes were also from CoorsTek. They have an online store. It is the dogbone Lugano HotCat replica that has the heater coil wrapped around a second

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Axil, what you are describing as proper sized and tubercles are applicable to Rossi's low temperature catalyzed Ni fuel. This is not what was used in the HotCat or Parkhomov experiment. SEM images of the Ni core from the MFMP experiment (Bang!) show that early on the Ni particles are completely

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Axil, what you are describing as proper sized and tubercles are applicable to Rossi's low temperature catalyzed Ni fuel. For a temperature of 1200C, the proper size is about 2 microns give or take. This is not what

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Axil, have you looked at the SEM images (courtesy of Ed Storms) of the Ni from the MFMP reactor? https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2fllFSWpFNVJoUlIxbERhRTE2M2FTY0s3TU9sZ2FsVG5wMGdodlE2ZW1JMVEusp

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that is correct. We do not have an SEM of Parkhomov's Ni particles. You don't know that they were not similar to MFMP's. However, the same thing happened to Parkhomov's particles as the MFMP particles

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Inline below... On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: I meant exactly what I said. Do I have justification? Yes. The first is that Parkhomov's experiment appears to have worked

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
See inline ... On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: A sign that the nickel power is not working is the explosions that are occurring when the LENR reactions begin in the nano particles produced by lithium and hydrogen plasma as it cools from the high

Re: [Vo]: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
so seal some with Parkhomov's formula. On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Since the SEM images of the fuel https://drive.google.com/folderview?id

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
that there seemed to be a start of an excess heat reaction prior to the bangs, however the extent of this production of excess heat was not very long. ) Bob - Original Message - *From:* Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Tuesday, March 03, 2015 9:23 PM

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
This is not true. There are many physical and chemical thing happening that set the stage for LENR, and just because the stage has been set, it doesn't mean the show started. The chemical changes are the dissociation of the LiAlH4 and the dissolving of the Ni (at higher temperatures). The

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Mats, you are a brave and insightful journalist. I believe you will one day be rewarded for capturing the birth of a critical new technology for the future of our planet and its people. [If not, you will still have gained the experiences needed to become a blues musician.] Bob Higgins On Wed

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
This is a wonderful video, so thanks for pointing us to watch it. However, the molten Li-Al is not in a super-critical phase, but as he said, it doesn't have to be supercritical - just hot and high pressure. He also demonstrated a chemical mixing that produced nanoparticles as a precipitate.

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
One of the things not sampled in the Lugano experiment is the product gas or gas ash. This may have very important clues to the nature of the reaction. In my replication (under construction), I intend to be able to collect the product gas for analysis off-site. We could find enhanced deuterium,

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Thanks Fran. I would love to be able to just see the XH to start. It would be a happy circumstance to then go on to evolve the software control to regulate temperature by modulating the thermal load. I am most of the way through making the small pieces for the convection system (it will have 4

Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-01 Thread Bob Higgins
From the pictures I saw, Parkhomov changed to use a separate tube for the heater. If nichrome does make a difference, it would have to be against the alumina reactor tube. So, if you use the heater tube, it wouldn't make any difference if it was kanthal or nichrome - the H2 would leak out of the

Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
If you looked at the links for my calorimeter (in my previous post), you would see that it is a 20 gallon metal fish tank (a garbage can). Instead of glass that would be cool for a movie for seeing through, the metal can makes it less breakable, and the copper container for the reactor conducts

[Vo]: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-03 Thread Bob Higgins
in LENR. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Explosion May Be Out of Control LENR

2015-02-20 Thread Bob Higgins
would only increase the tube diameter, causing a bigger change in the dead volume. Bob Higgins On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Bob and Mark-- One potential minor correction to the volume should account for the increase (or decrease)in volume

[Vo]:translation of Parkhomov 3rd

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Higgins
the numerical mistake at the end. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2WWVmdHRjVmVHMDAauthuser=0 Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Critique of Levi et al. Lugano experiment

2015-03-08 Thread Bob Higgins
there is a significant amount of Ni. Note: Ed's EDX analysis of the solidified Li-Al showed almost 4% Ni, but the percentage did not include the Li (which EDX does not detect), so the actual percentage of Ni in solution may have been more like 2%. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:*GlowStick* GS2 LIVE NOW

2015-04-02 Thread Bob Higgins
? *From:* Bob Higgins Also, here is the link to the periodic screen captures: http://bit.ly/1DzPIM2 This will allow you to actually read the temperatures and pressures in the graphs. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Alberto De Souza alberto.investi...@gmail.com wrote: http

Re: [Vo]:*GlowStick* GS2 LIVE NOW

2015-04-02 Thread Bob Higgins
I asked if they could do this. We'll see. The problem is that Alan does not have sufficient computer capability to continuously upload to HUGnet. So the only one that can do this data dump is Alan. Alan says the CPU is at the limit and he is afraid of a crash if he tries to do this. So,

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: replication results coming later

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Parkhomov replication experiment to date. There are sure to be better experiments to come, but lets give Alan his due for putting together a good experiment. Bob Higgins On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: MFMP didn't show COP1, with the dog bone

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: replication results coming later

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Higgins
There were a couple of reasons. First, Alan was at near maximum power when the reactor tube outside temperature was 900C and the internal core temperature was over 1200C. The Kanthal A1 heater wire would have burned out by the time the reactor tube temperature could have been driven to 1200C,

Re: [Vo]:VIDEO: Stan Szpak LENR Co-deposition

2015-04-13 Thread Bob Higgins
with the Pd cathode, amplifying the overall excess heat. I agree that the presence of Li in systems producing excess heat is a noticeable coincidence. How it is implicated at a Pd cathode is a mystery. Bob Higgins On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Jones Beene's

Re: [Vo]:Path to Prove LENR at Hand

2015-04-16 Thread Bob Higgins
Years ago when I built a sonoluminescence apparatus and was investigating its properties, I read of some systems that used alpha particles and neutrons to stimulate bubbles which would migrate to the acoustic field center. So, generally, alpha, neutrons, and protons may stimulate a bubble in

Re: [Vo]:Electron capture as a source of neutrons.

2015-04-16 Thread Bob Higgins
that is available, as an initial high energy particle is Compton scattered in a dense atom field. At some point, it would seem that the energy of the particle will be just right for neutrino/anti-neutrino formation. Bob Higgins On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:stiring

2015-04-16 Thread Bob Higgins
By 300C, and in the presence of the released H2, the Ni particles have been reduced of their oxice and are sintered together into a spongy solid. It remains this way until the LiH and Al have melted, and then the web of SOLID spongy Ni is coated with a liquid film of LiH-Al . The Ni is solid and

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-11 Thread Bob Higgins
research lab. On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: This suggests that something nuclear is happening in the branch of the reaction that results in the ejection of the 6 MeV proton

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-11 Thread Bob Higgins
Thanks Robin. Can you give me the leads you found and/or the search terms you used so I can be sure to find the ones you saw? I will follow up with additional searching. If I can find some that appear to fit with Piantelli's experiment, I will forward them to him and offer to make contact with

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: replication results coming later

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Higgins
is being produced? Why 1200 C when the outside is at only 900 C? Something does not seem to add up in that calibration run, or perhaps I just missed a fine point that you can help explain. Thanks. Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: replication results coming later

2015-04-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Tungsten has a very high melting point, but it suffers badly from oxidation and will fail at 1000C if exposed to O2. Kanthal A1 is one of the best alloys for a heater coil that can survive in the presence of O2 (leakage) and it is reasonably ductile for forming. Ductility is important because if

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: replication results coming later

2015-04-05 Thread Bob Higgins
Daniel, I got an email response to you from Dennis Cravens (who reads Vortex-l): One easy way is a carbon welding rod. ---Cheap and most have copper coatings that can be easily pealed off and also be used for easy connections. They are also useful for current shunts. On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:18

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-08 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, What is your evidence for your statement: The Lugano isotope data, even if it could be believed, completely negates the entire scenario since Li-7 is NOT depleted according to the Lugano report - but instead is converted to Li-6. What I drew from the report was the only thing that can

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-08 Thread Bob Higgins
(for example liquid density of 6LiH vs 7LiH)? I am not questioning that the isotopic ratio is changing, only that the change appears bigger at the surface than in the particle as a whole. Bob On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Bob Higgins Jones, What

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-09 Thread Bob Higgins
as a booster for his reactors - using the Li to create excess heat from the 6 MeV protons being produced (resulting in more than 6 MeV of heat per proton). However, he does have excess heat without the Li. Bob Higgins On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:30 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Bob Higgins's

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-09 Thread Bob Higgins
Piantelli's theory says that H- anions are responsible for the Ni-H LENR reaction. According to his theory, the H- anion, as a composite fermion, enters the Ni atom much as would a muon. Somehow (and Piantelli doesn't say how) the large H- anion must become a compact negatively charged object

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-09 Thread Bob Higgins
. Finding a measurable percentage of the sample gas to be He could confidently be determined to be a reaction product rather than contamination due to the higher pressure of the sample container which could not have been produced from atmospheric contamination. Bob Higgins On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat, co-author Andrea Rossi

2015-04-09 Thread Bob Higgins
they were all consumed in the subsequent LENR reaction. That seems unlikely to me. Bob Cook - Original Message - *From:* Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Thursday, April 09, 2015 8:09 AM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:mainstream physics paper bout the Hot Cat

Re: [Vo]:*GlowStick* GS2 LIVE NOW

2015-04-02 Thread Bob Higgins
Also, here is the link to the periodic screen captures: http://bit.ly/1DzPIM2 This will allow you to actually read the temperatures and pressures in the graphs. On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Alberto De Souza alberto.investi...@gmail.com wrote: http://youtu.be/zMs8XwF22Dk

Re: [Vo]:Quest to Mine Seawater for Lithium Advances

2015-06-09 Thread Bob Higgins
, Be, etc. that could be sold to pay for more Li? A new industry will develop to monetize the recycling. Bob Higgins On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:12 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Lewan Mats's message of Mon, 8 Jun 2015 07:05:31 +: Hi, [snip] Predicted lithium shortages are leading

Re: [Vo]:Request: info on very high (2000F) temp sensors

2015-06-19 Thread Bob Higgins
The real disadvantage of the thermal imagers and spot sensors is that they cannot reach in and see the temperature of the core or a spot related to core temperature. In the Parkhomov experiments, there is a measure of insulation between the core and the visibly accessible outside of the

Re: [Vo]:Cat stimultion

2015-06-18 Thread Bob Higgins
and mouse -ish to me. I think the cat mouse are probably much less exotic than what has been proposed in this thread. Bob Higgins On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:17 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:19:04 -0400: Hi, [snip] The Hot cat reactor has

Re: [Vo]:The good, the bad and the ugly

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Higgins
more likely that a small XH will be detected before you optimize to realize a larger COP. Bob Higgins On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 7:39 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Jones, I agree with your desire to find an easy to use and inexpensive heating method. I am just pointing out

Re: [Vo]:Jiang reports successful Lugano replication

2015-05-30 Thread Bob Higgins
Type B thermocouples are expensive; even for fine wire, short, uninsulated couples, because they are made from platinum. They may be 10x more expensive than type-K and extension wires are just as expensive. Additionally the signal level is smaller with type-B which means more noise in the

Re: [Vo]:Fractional Hydrogen without Mills

2015-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
However, Maly Vavra, and Naudts predict the lowest DDL state as giving up 510 keV to be reached, not 3.56 keV. That is 2 orders of magnitude lower energy for their DDL solution than what you are describing. Where has all the energy gone in this calculation? On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:52 PM,

Re: [Vo]:Can anyone help?

2015-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
are there by chance, and probably also unreasonable to think they wouldn't dissolve in the very active liquid metal environment. Rossi is known to have used Fe in his low temperature eCat fuel. Bob Higgins On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The nickel particles grains looks like

Re: [Vo]:Can anyone help?

2015-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
in the FUEL. Replicators do not do this. They use untreated nickel powder. Have you all missed this? On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Note that there are many optimizations of carbonyl processing designed to produce, in particular, long strand connected

Re: [Vo]:Can anyone help?

2015-07-05 Thread Bob Higgins
in any of the MFMP replication attempts. Perhaps Parkhomov's grinding/mixing is a partial substitute for Rossi's pre-processing of the Ni powder with LiAlH4. Bob Higgins On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg

Re: [Vo]:New Paper in the American Chemical Society: Oscillatory behavior and anomalous heat evolution in recombination of H2 and O2 on Pd-based catalysts

2015-07-02 Thread Bob Higgins
This paper also has a great deal of similarity to the claims being made for HHO systems which use a modified automobile catalytic converter to re-combine the HHO into water. These catalytic converters use nano-catalysts (including Pd) embedded in a ceramic matrix (similar to catalysts used by B.

Re: [Vo]:Can anyone help?

2015-07-06 Thread Bob Higgins
in the Rossi fuel (from Rossi's pre-processing); and may never have existed in the Lugano reactor as LiAlH4. Bob Higgins On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The micrograph on page 44 lends substance to the speculation that neither the nickel powder nor the old

Re: [Vo]:Re: Fractional Hydrogen without Mills

2015-07-06 Thread Bob Higgins
. The mass-to-charge ratio is a physical quantity which is widely used in the electrodynamics and charge varies linearly according to mass AFAIK. *From:* Bob Higgins Jones, you are the first to discuss the variable mass of the proton. The Vavra and Maly solution (which agrees with Naudts

Re: [Vo]:Re: Fractional Hydrogen without Mills

2015-07-06 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, you are the first to discuss the variable mass of the proton. The Vavra and Maly solution (which agrees with Naudts) is for the proton/electron system. There is nothing that says that all of that energy must come from the electron. Why couldn't it come from the energy of the system as a

Re: [Vo]:Re: Fractional Hydrogen without Mills

2015-07-06 Thread Bob Higgins
I am just going from memory, but I believe the difference is that positronium is the state of an electron and positron orbiting each other BEFORE the 1.2 MeV is emitted. Once the 1.2 MeV is emitted, the orbiting pair shrink (like a hydrino) and drop out of detectability. On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at

Re: [Vo]:Re: Fractional Hydrogen without Mills

2015-07-06 Thread Bob Higgins
According to Hotson, the positrons and electrons are never created nor destroyed. Because they are both fermions, they can never occupy the same space at the same time and so can never annihilate each other. Instead, upon combination, the electron and positron become an epo atom with each

Re: [Vo]:Matter to energy, and back

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Higgins
According to Hotson, pair production is not matter creation, it is only ionizing an epo (electron - positron pair in a DDL-like orbit). To me, this is far more plausible than matter creation. On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Steven, It’s called “pair

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's theory of the LENR reaction

2015-07-18 Thread Bob Higgins
The problem I have with this analysis is that in the Lugano reaction, whose fuel/ash analyses are the basis of the hypothesis, the Ni seemed to have been largely converted to 62Ni and the Li converted almost completely to 6Li; yet in the experiment, the excess heat showed no signs of abatement.

[Vo]:Lugano iron oxide fuel particles

2015-07-18 Thread Bob Higgins
as to leave an enriched mix of liquid LiH? Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's theory of the LENR reaction - LiHy4-.pdf

2015-07-18 Thread Bob Higgins
. A possible counter argument would be that the fully populated Lithium tri-hydrinohydride would not be ionizable and hence not detectable in SIMS. However, a Lithium + 1 or 2 hydrinohydrides should be ionizable and should populate m/z = 8,9 and these are not seen. Bob Higgins On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:13

Re: [Vo]:OT: Patent question

2015-07-20 Thread Bob Higgins
against other company's portfolios - trading cross-licensing to keep yourself from being litigated. Rossi needs his own patent portfolio. Bob Higgins On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. hoyt-stea...@cox.net wrote: Question about trade secrets and patent enforcement: How does

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:NEW LIVE Steorn Webinars Announced - Product Demonstrations

2015-10-29 Thread Bob Higgins
That may be true, but they are only guaranteeing that it will work for 1 year. And, it is not clear that they are guaranteeing that it will still produce 10WH / day at the end of one year. The internal lithium battery will probably only last about 2 years. That is a total of about 3.6kWH of

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:NEW LIVE Steorn Webinars Announced - Product Demonstrations

2015-10-29 Thread Bob Higgins
they currently show > is far from matured applications and integration. The first home VCR also > weighted 15Kg. I'd like my mobile phone having this technology embedded. > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> That may

[Vo]:[Vo] STAIF II Conference

2015-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
Ron Kita has alerted me to a conference with a session on LENR in 2016. It is the STAIF 2, the "Space Technology & Applications International Forum" in Albuquerque, NM USA on April 21-23, 2016. Here is the link to their site: http://staif2.org/ They have a session G on LENR that will be

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

2015-10-26 Thread Bob Higgins
. The way I understand it, all of the energy has a mass > equivalent. > > Dave > > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Sun, Oct 25, 2015 3:05 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ul

Re: [Vo]:Taking Holmlid towards a useful device

2015-10-26 Thread Bob Higgins
Having retired from 37 years in the portable electronics world, I hate these scenarios where LENR are suggested for application to cellphones. They all suffer from the same problem as the fuel cell powered cellphone - waste heat. When a Li battery discharges in powering a phone it produces very

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

2015-10-25 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, Once again you slapped your glove on Hotson's face. Your comment, "No one needs to be convinced that matter and antimatter can be made to annihilate" is just such a slap. Regarding electrons and positrons in particular, Hotson rightly points out that these two particles are fermions. As

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

2015-10-25 Thread Bob Higgins
To Jones' point regarding annihilation and disintegration ... These are not the same. Annihilation is the total conversion of entities having mass into energy. Disintegration is the breakup of a composite particle into its constituents. To Eric's question ... A proton is a composite particle.

Re: [Vo]:Colloquium at SRI

2015-10-23 Thread Bob Higgins
ned > that his supplier in Italy required months to make a batch of active > reactant. Could it be that Rossi has been inadvertently getting dense > hydrogen all along? > > The presentation of Alan Goldwater was very impressive. I am confident > that if and when Alan announces thermal

Re: [Vo]:slide deck for ultradense hydrogen / Leif Holmlid

2015-10-25 Thread Bob Higgins
t 25, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Regarding electrons and positrons in particular, Hotson rightly points out >> that these two particles are fe

Re: [Vo]: How many atoms to make condensed matter?

2015-11-12 Thread Bob Higgins
e tip. This mechanism is an EMF > amplification mechanism. This mechanism has been experimentally verified > and I have shown fluorescent micrograph pictures of this process here > multiple times. > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >

Re: [Vo]:The vacuum is the glue that keeps the universe together.

2015-11-12 Thread Bob Higgins
Axil, if you want to be informed about electrons and radiation/non-radiation, you should read G. H. Goedecke's paper, "Classically Radiationless Motions and Possible Implications for Quantum Theory", Physical Review, Volume 135, Number 1B, July 13, 1964. It tells of the criteria for electron

Re: [Vo]:The vacuum is the glue that keeps the universe together.

2015-11-12 Thread Bob Higgins
com> wrote: > Do you have a link address? > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Axil, if you want to be informed about electrons and >> radiation/non-radiation, you should read G. H. Goedecke's paper, >> &q

Re: [Vo]: How many atoms to make condensed matter?

2015-11-13 Thread Bob Higgins
I think you are asking the correct questions. As I have come to read more about the RM and think about their behavior, I have come to respect Winterberg's concept to a greater degree. The RM snowflakes have a high magnetic moment due to their large flat orbitals, and apparently the atoms in the

Re: [Vo]: How many atoms to make condensed matter?

2015-11-13 Thread Bob Higgins
It is an interesting speculation. Nature is a truly immense experiment, particularly when considering the number of atoms present. Immense nuclear trials are constantly happening all around us. If this type of sub-nuclear shuffle were happening with the "less difficulty" that you describe, it

Re: [Vo]: How many atoms to make condensed matter?

2015-11-14 Thread Bob Higgins
I think the answer to your question about gradual decoherence of the magnetic domains might actually be the opposite. Remember your old horseshoe magnets? They were always stored with a "keeper" so as to keep the magnetic field strong. I think what would happen over time is that the magnet will

Re: [Vo]:Re: The vacuum is the glue that keeps the universe together.

2015-11-16 Thread Bob Higgins
The concept of the fractional charge quarks as constituents of matter is a completely made-up story/hypothesis. Has anyone ever measured an elementary particle with a charge other than an integer multiple of e? Hotson proposes that because of this the electron IS the one and only fundamental

Re: [Vo]:Re: The vacuum is the glue that keeps the universe together.

2015-11-16 Thread Bob Higgins
neutrinos? Sounds > like I need to do some reading. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 16 nov. 2015, at 17:18, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The concept of the fractional charge quarks as constituents of matter is a > completely made-up story/hypothesis. H

Re: [Vo]:Re: The vacuum is the glue that keeps the universe together.

2015-11-16 Thread Bob Higgins
The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect is presently a measurement in need of an explanation. To my knowledge, no one is attributing fractional charge to an individual elementary particle in attempted explanation of the data. The theories seem to revolve around collective phenomena. On Mon, Nov 16,

[Vo]: How many atoms to make condensed matter?

2015-11-12 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, your description below about metallic hydrogen stimulates me to wonder about atoms, molecules, particles, and condensed matter. Obviously a single atom of H is not metallic hydrogen. A single molecule of hydrogen is more "dense" than the H/D(1) species of Rydberg matter. I don't think

Re: [Vo]:Casimir, ZPE and Holmlid

2015-10-29 Thread Bob Higgins
ar cluster that it would destroy itself. Like a molecule, the Rydberg matter behaves with one quantum state. So, is it a very large molecule or a room temperature BEC? I am not sure of the distinction. Bob Higgins On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:

[Vo]: Evidence for ultra-dense deuterium

2015-11-05 Thread Bob Higgins
LENR reaction? Somewhere, Miley and Holmlid parted theoretical company. I think that Miley may believe that the RM particles could be complicit in LENR, but perhaps he didn't buy into the ultra-dense hypothesis. Bob Higgins

Re: [Vo]: Evidence for ultra-dense deuterium

2015-11-05 Thread Bob Higgins
>From my side of a recent private discussion of Holmlid ... I thought some of it would add to this topic: >From what I have seen of Miley's work, Miley does not believe the ultra-dense form of hydrogen is something that forms on a surface or can exist in the air. He thinks it is a form that

Re: [Vo]: Evidence for ultra-dense deuterium

2015-11-05 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, Even if true that H(-1) exists as a superfluid/RTSC (and Winterberg says that the ultra-dense form only occurs with deuterium), then it is highly likely that it would be a type II superconductor, like all of the superconductors above about 40K. The type II superconductors pin a magnetic

Re: [Vo]:Re: Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

2015-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
get at the truth. Bob Higgins On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > In short (at the risk of being repetitive) ... this theory is an >> embarrassment t

Re: [Vo]:Electron-mediated alpha decay in quasi-stable isotopes

2015-10-14 Thread Bob Higgins
mal) neutrons. These could also produce a beta signature in his scintillator, but the velocity would not correlate to the measured 13ns particles. Bob Higgins On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@g

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