Re: [Vo]:Seeing the Light

2015-03-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: At temps of 900-1000ºC, the LiH is reported to dissociate. However, high ambient H2 pressure may keep the LiH from dissociating until higher temperatures. I think the high temperature molten LiH + Al in contact with

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

2015-03-08 Thread Eric Walker
Just to be clear, I'm not saying I disagree with the objections to Rossi having handled the charge. In general one has the impression scientists are pretty collegial with one another. They place a lot of trust in one another. One scientist will say to another, I'd like to take a second look at

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

2015-03-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: See: https://gsvit.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/tpr2-calorimetry-of-hot-cat-performed-by-means-of-ir-camera-2/ See also: https://docs.google.com/a/node.io/file/d/0B5Pc25a4cOM2Zl9FWDFWSUpXc0U/edit

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

2015-03-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Since Rossi was in control at the critical points – the fraud issue revolves around his honesty. What you say is true. But in applying this standard, it seems we are going well beyond the kind of protocol that academic

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

2015-03-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Some recent experimental measurements by the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP) highlighted a possible error in the Hot-Cat calorimetric measurement; the calorimetric measurement we are referring to is described

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Lewan Mats mats.le...@nyteknik.se wrote: The scientific news team at Swedish National Radio, SR, received a honorary mention a few days ago at the Swedish Rewards for investigative journalism, The Golden Spade, for its four part reportage on Swedish researchers'

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

2015-03-03 Thread Eric Walker
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=0B5Pc25a4cOM2fllFSWpFNVJoUlIxbERhRTE2M2FTY0s3TU9sZ2FsVG5wMGdodlE2ZW1JMVEusp=sharing Thank you, Bob. (And thanks to Ed Storms.) Am I correct in

Re: [Vo]:This is where it all began?

2015-02-28 Thread Eric Walker
About the big bang theory -- my understanding is that it requires faster than light expansion in the earliest period. A theory that says the rules change at some point in time seems a bit ad hoc to me. About the huge black hole -- what are the chances that it looks like a black hole from our

Re: [Vo]:How could we collect ideas and knowledge on engineering of LENR devices?

2015-02-13 Thread Eric Walker
A wiki is an interesting idea for something like this. A challenge with such a project is that opinionated folks are likely, through the force of personality, to end up irremediably skewing the content towards their own view of what's going on with LENR, and even what LENR supposedly is. I have

[Vo]:what is needed to give rise to visible Cherenkov radiation?

2015-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, What is the flux of fast electrons needed to create the kind of visible Cherenkov radiation seen in pool-type fission reactors? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Advanced_Test_Reactor.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Cerenkov_Effect.jpg Is it a

Re: [Vo]:what is needed to give rise to visible Cherenkov radiation?

2015-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 1:49 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I have a different question altogether. How does one distinguish between Cherenkov radiation and light emitted by recombining ion - electron pairs? (Where fast particles are responsible for creating the pairs.) I believe Cherenkov

Re: [Vo]:Investigation by NC Department of Health into IH/Rossi/Vaughn/etc

2015-02-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: That document seems a bit odd. There is no address at the top for the (pseudonymous?) Gary Wright. That Gary Wright guy has it out for Rossi. What are the typical legal ramifications under US state/federal law, if any, for

Re: [Vo]:vortex mass

2015-02-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:54 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It would have been a surprise to find that nanovortices did not have mass since they obviously have energy. Mass is a tricky thing. Photons have no rest mass, for example, even though they can carry as much energy as you

Re: [Vo]:vortex mass

2015-02-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Photons are never at rest as far as I know. One question I have -- is there anything keeping them from being considered at rest within their own frame of reference? Eric

Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: With the interaction of particles with linear momentum something has to be produced that conserves this momentum and yet is an allowed energy state in the new system. Hi Bob, I have heard elsewhere that a reaction along

Re: [Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:49 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: It must be one of the thousands that I deleted unread, however I wouldn't expect that sort of thing to affect gamma radiation. Maybe. But consider for a moment the decay of a [dd]* compound nucleus, which normally follows one of the

[Vo]:earlier thread on surface vs volume effect in the gamma decay of radioisotopes

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, Sometime back there was a Vortex thread where we were looking at the question of whether electron charge density might be play a role in gamma decays. A point in question was whether gamma branches in the decays of solid radioisotopes might be affected by electron charge density. A

Re: [Vo]:Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In this way, the additive nature of gravity can transform this most feeble force in nature into a process that is so powerful that it can rip space and time apart to produce black holes of gigantic size. Would you like salad

Re: [Vo]:Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Walker
of LENR. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In this way, the additive nature of gravity can transform this most feeble force in nature into a process that is so powerful that it can

[Vo]:Quanta magazine article on pilot waves

2015-01-31 Thread Eric Walker
Those interested in de Broglie's and Bohm's pilot waves as an alternative to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, see: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140624-fluid-tests-hint-at-concrete-quantum-reality/ As a sociological aside about the culture among physicists, I quote from the

Re: [Vo]:Looking for feedback on a BLP POC disagreement

2015-01-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Your glib balanced harangue against Dr Mills, belies your stated support. Your incessant repetition of POC shows an ignorance of the gold standard Dr Mills has already adduced numerous times,

Re: [Vo]:doubling speed every 2 years for decades more, Intel silicon photonics now revolutionizing data centers, Michael Kassner: Rich Murray 2015.01.26

2015-01-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: They will have the power of today's Watson computer, which is to say, they will be able to play Jeopardy or diagnose disease far better than any person. I expect they will also recognize faces and do voice input better

Re: [Vo]:Why cold fusion will not need any grid

2015-01-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: When the new technology can do everything the old one does, and more, at a lower cost with other advantages such as speed and convenience, the old technology invariably goes away. To be included in the disadvantages

Re: [Vo]:the hole truth and nothing but

2015-01-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Sooner or later, one or several participants is going to hit on the optimum design which combines all of the improvements, but without jeopardizing the high thermal gain. I'm excited. Watching the replications feels a

Re: [Vo]:Message that will not post

2015-01-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It is because manufacturers, people, and society as a whole are not inclined to test many different implementations after a reasonably good one is found. We find something that works and we stick to it. Overall the

Re: [Vo]:A strange and screwy claim by Piantelli

2015-01-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 7:07 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: BTW, formation of 1 molecule of Hydrogen gas from atomic Hydrogen yields 4.519 eV per H2 molecule. By comparing this reaction to the formation of water through the burning (oxidation) of hydrogen, one can get a sense of how much

Re: [Vo]:two answers from Bazhutov and current LENR news

2015-01-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: There is tremendous overhead to this method [a centralized one]. It is needed with today's generator technology but it would serve no purpose with cold fusion. I for one will not miss power lines. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Dark wires in glowing reactor ?

2015-01-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Hydrogen in the DDL is greatly reduced in diameter so that it cannot be contained by the ceramic - and the isomer atoms would diffuse through the alumina (which is a dielectric) as soon as they are formed. These hydrinos

Re: [Vo]:Re: QM rant

2015-01-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, this is exactly the problem, you have two incomplete models that same the same thing. It's a mystery ... Allow me to point to some additional, beautiful images of excited Rydberg states that one will

Re: [Vo]:Re: QM rant

2015-01-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:07 AM, leaking pen itsat...@gmail.com wrote: Experimental evidence always trumps theory. I need that on a bumpersticker. I might want one of those. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Re: QM rant

2015-01-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Did you read my last email? Rathke stated a critique, Mills answered it. Interesting PDF file. It has Mills as the author, and it talks about Mills in the third person. Looks like ghostwriting, but

Re: [Vo]:Re: QM rant

2015-01-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: Did you look at the address, goes to blacklight power!!! I have no reason to doubt that the rebuttal came from Blacklight Power. My guess is that an employee or fan wrote it up, and Mills signed off on it,

Re: [Vo]:Re: QM rant

2015-01-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe stefan.ita...@gmail.com wrote: It is a shame that we don't have a serious heated debate between nobell lauriates and Mills regarding these matters, it would be a great show. In stead there is a speaking nothing. Mills would not say

Re: [Vo]:Report on Mizuno's Adiabatic Calorimetry revised

2015-01-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Gigi DiMarco gdmgdms...@gmail.com wrote: Two of us measured and discovered the Defkalion trick in the water flow measurement (or do you think it was really Gamberale?); if you like I can send you the proofs privately. Hi Giancarlo, Thank you for the careful

Re: [Vo]:A bombshell of a different type?

2015-01-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:08 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Something else I just thought of: 17O+6Li = 16O + 7Li + 3.107 MeV I would not be surprised if there were other stripping reactions occurring if Ni(7Li,6Ni)Ni was happening. As a side note, with the introduction of a gas phase

Re: [Vo]:Sealing the Dog Bone

2015-01-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: It may be that the hydrogen only acts to help distribute the Li-7 to the Ni isotopes for the Li-7+Ni reactions Jones suggested back in October and Eric has just reviewed. Just a small correction. It was Robin that

Re: [Vo]:Sealing the Dog Bone

2015-01-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Also keep in mind the physics student, Carl-Oscar Gullstrom, at the Uppsala University and under one of the Lugano authors, has a theory that is similar to Robin's idea. Yes -- I saw that. I note that Gullstrom's

Re: [Vo]:A bombshell of a different type?

2015-01-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:21 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 8 Oct 2014 09:22:13 -0700: Hi, [snip] Li7 + Ni58 = Ni59 + Li6 + 1.75 MeV Li7 + Ni59 = Ni60 + Li6 + 4.14 MeV Li7 + Ni60 = Ni61 + Li6 + 0.57 MeV Li7 + Ni61 = Ni62 + Li6 + 3.34 MeV Li7 + Ni62

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:40 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: I had that weird thought too that the reactor might be generating microwave radiation and heating the water... Would the microwaves make it through the metal pail? Eric

Re: [Vo]:The melting miracle

2015-01-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in what keeps the Rossi micro powder from sintering/melting at high surface temperatures when the reactor is in operation. We call this weird behavior the melting miracle. This is an interesting question. If

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: What puzzles me the most is why such a small amount of nickel is not completely vaporized by an emission of that much heat. Again, this suggests the possibility that the LENR output is low energy photons, which

Re: [Vo]:The MFMP replication effort live on youtube.

2014-12-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:39 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: In either of these three cases I would expect the active device to get hotter than had it been subjected to open air cooling. The trend is the same. The device may be hotter than it would be in the case of open-air

Re: [Vo]:Russian scientist reports replicating hot-cat excess heat

2014-12-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/A_Parkhomov/publications Parkhomov's publication record seems to be impressive and relevant. He has jointly published articles with researchers at Stanford and Purdue. He has

Re: [Vo]:Huge/Mysterious E-field found in cold gases

2014-12-27 Thread Eric Walker
at 12:27 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: This all comes from the uncertainty principle. When electrons are tightly confined, there energy levels go out of sight. Energy and distances are directly related in quantum mechanics. On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal

Re: [Vo]:Huge/Mysterious E-field found in cold gases

2014-12-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Eric Walker my suspicion is that the potentials have to do with buildup of electrons in dialectically insulated grains This is not the first time I have mistyped that. I suppose they might in fact be dialectically insulated metal grains. In this case

Re: [Vo]:Russian scientist reports replicating hot-cat excess heat

2014-12-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The main missing detail is a control run with no “fuel”; and then isotopic mass analysis of the ash. Yes -- the first is pretty much a must-have. The second would definitely be nice. Does anyone have information on the

Re: [Vo]:Huge/Mysterious E-field found in cold gases

2014-12-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:50 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: [From the article:] A potential of around 14.5 volts appeared spontaneously on the film, which in turn produced an enormous electrical field of more than 100 million volts per metre. This lends credence to my hunch

Re: [Vo]:1995- CETI 1kW reacto claim . fraud or not?

2014-12-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Does the maximum range of the strong nuclear force match the idea of a sonic velocity of the nucleus very well? I believe nuclear phonons are entirely quantum. In this regard I wonder whether there's a sense in which

Re: [Vo]:OT: what if everybody got free cash?

2014-12-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That does not include Social Security, $0.7 T. The plans I have seen eliminate Social Security and also welfare. From a tactical perspective, any plan in the US that eliminates Social Security will be doomed from the

Re: [Vo]:CNN: New ray gun

2014-12-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Rash/misc/addams.htm Death, ray fiddlesticks! Why, it doesn't even slow them up. I like the Patent Attorney sign on the door. Eric

Re: [Vo]:OT: what if everybody got free cash?

2014-12-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:08 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I do not see the need for panic during this period. It will not likely require rapid change to our current system to prevent major disruptions to our way of life. This is the face of technological change:

Re: [Vo]:They call me a moron. A reply.

2014-11-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:37 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I have seen an operating UFO. Can you elaborate on this detail? Eric

Re: [Vo]:They call me a moron. A reply.

2014-11-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Pair production, which I assume you agree is real, creates mass from empty space. What is the source of this mass, or the equivalent energy? What is the mechanism that makes this happen? In the case of an incoming

Re: [Vo]:They call me a moron. A reply.

2014-11-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:26 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I encourage anyone out there with knowledge about how to overcome the obvious problems to offer their input. One thought here -- the reactionless drive that I am aware of being in the recent news is the EmDrive. That

Re: [Vo]:They call me a moron. A reply.

2014-11-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: With a normal drive the guy can see the exhaust that is moving relative to him which contains all of the converted energy. If the guy with the spaceship with the EmDrive could bend the laws of physics for a moment and

Re: [Vo]:New Rossi Patent Appln..publishes Today

2014-11-10 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: With the acquisition of the technology by IH, Rossi has had the opportunity to avail himself of competent counsel. At face value it seems he has not done so. Or perhaps this is another play of some kind. Things never seem to get boring. One reason has occurred to me for Rossi's

Re: [Vo]:CERN and NO Higggs Particle Nov 7 2014

2014-11-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 10:07 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It has been my suspicion all along that these guys jumped to a conclusion much too quickly. I share your skepticism about the discovery of the Higgs boson. But I'm also skeptical about the claim of this team that there

Re: [Vo]:New Rossi Patent Appln..publishes Today

2014-11-09 Thread Eric Walker
See David French's analysis of Andrea Rossi's new patent application: http://coldfusionnow.org/andrea-rossi-2nd-us-patent-application-published-6-nov-2014-at-uspto/ David French concludes: How can the best mode requirement be met when a catalyst is required and that catalyst is not disclosed?

Re: [Vo]:New Rossi Patent Appln..publishes Today

2014-11-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Abstract A system is disclosed for converting energy from the electromagnetic quantum vacuum available at any point in the universe to usable energy in the form of heat, electricity, mechanical energy or other forms of

Re: [Vo]: New Rossi lab photo has much information

2014-11-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: From the other pictures, it is pretty clear that Rossi is using a sheathed k-type thermocouple with the hotCat. Because this thermocouple is not rated to operate at the temperatures that the reactor convection tube was

Re: [Vo]:Could LENR+ cause WWW III?

2014-11-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Blaze Spinnaker blazespinna...@gmail.com wrote: We imagine sometimes that Oil is the source of all our problems. But LENR+ could be a geopolitical nightmare as it completely upends the fragile balance of things. I assume that once LENR starts making its way

Re: [Vo]:MFMP interviews spokesman from WILLIAMSON

2014-10-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Only the shadow hypothesis requires the ceramic to be visually transparent -- the other two just could depend on thermal conductivity. The shadow hypothesis has always seemed like a stretch to me. It sounds speculative. Eric

Re: [Vo]:MFMP interviews spokesman from WILLIAMSON

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: It's not difficult to sell furnace heating elements which provide 4.6 watts of output for one watt of input. As an entry point into industry, it is a little obscure, and one that the accountants paying the electricity

Re: [Vo]:Deconstructing Rossi

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Robert Greenyer has a different take on Rossi's initial product: a dogbone heater element for furnaces. Nice homework on Greenyer's part. He makes an interesting case that IH is going to try to make use of LENR in an

Re: [Vo]:Re: Temperature Testing of an IH-like Alumina Reactor

2014-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: If any of LENR energy were produced by radiation or particles not stopped by the reactor vessel, such energy would escape detection by the Lugano instruments. Neutrinos and low frequency RF could be such radiation.

Re: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Robert Ellefson vortex-h...@e2ke.com wrote: How would you explain that particular ash morphology, considering the shape of the nickel fuel grain clusters? I suspect that the further we get away from everyday physics, the harder it will be to understand LENR.

Re: [Vo]:MFMP interviews spokesman from WILLIAMSON

2014-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Basically what happens is that as the temperature changes the peak of the blackbody spectrum moves through different parts of the emissivity/wavelength curve. Are you assuming a standard Boltzmann curve that just shifts its

Re: [Vo]:Re: Temperature Testing of an IH-like Alumina Reactor

2014-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Energetic photons provide an obvious means by which lots of energy might be allowed to escape from the E-Cat, thereby leading to an understated COP ... I suppose there are neutrinos as well. But they're very lightweight and so do not carry away much momentum, and they bring with them

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: No matter how intense and short the burst of energy is, as long as the calorimeter walls prevent it from escaping, and it produces enough joules of heat to be detected, it will be detected. This is a great advantage of

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:53 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Since we are assuming a symmetrical AC waveform, this is a pretty good example of that with numerous harmonics that also get into the act. Is this a safe assumption? Eric

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:10 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Let me know if you are still confused since it is important that we set the records straight and dispose of skeptical ideas. Unfortunately I don't know enough about electronics yet to have an opinion on Michael

Re: [Vo]:A new type of laser is born?

2014-10-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Robert Ellefson vortex-h...@e2ke.com wrote: Occam's Razor is a tool used by enfeebled minds to construct paper houses out of tree bark shavings. Real thinkers use chain saws and portable lumber mills to build their houses. Bayes' theorem and plain old

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Ni Self-Enrichment

2014-10-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: So maybe the hotcat wasn't running OUT of fuel at 32 days : it had completed the Ni isotope conversion (to a greater degree than Rossi expected), and was then running at peak efficiency? This could explain the improvement in

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: A lack of caftsmanship is not necessarily antithetical to greatness. e.g. The first transistor was crudely assembled. http://cnx.org/resources/9120e4bccd37da6ab1c4ff90e8c498cc/firsttransistor.gif They definitely weren't

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Patrick Ellul ellulpatr...@gmail.com wrote: From rossi: The coils of the reactor are made with a proptietary alloy, and the inconel is only a doped component of it. And The nature and composition of the coils are of paramount importance in our IP and for

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-20 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: With what we currently know, ultimately one must take the details on faith, which is precisely what skeptics will not want to do. Obviously this is not the mode of science. The report provided little to follow upon via scientific investigation. It was more like a piece of long-form

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Ni61 is non reactive as stated by DGT and confirmed by Mizuno as presented in Cook's !CCF-18 presentation I interpret the depletion analysis differently than presented in Cook's presentation (e.g., slide 52 [1]). If 61Ni

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: The temperature of a Pāhoehoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Lava#P.C4.81hoehoe lava flow can be estimated by observing its color. The result agrees well with measured temperatures of lava flows at about 1,000 to

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I disagree Dave. If you were to count the many hundreds if not thousands of hours which have been wasted arguing over the thermometry, multiplied by the hourly rate of the arguers, the actual cost to do excellent water

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Furthermore, if large amounts of electrons are being produced as a reaction byproduct ... How is conservation of charge maintained in this context? Eric

Re: [Vo]:Why doesn't Rossi makes a self feeding Hot Cat and ends the controversy.

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: In another sense, it would be no more overunity than a fission reactor, since the energy would be coming from the conversion of mass via nuclear reactions. The obvious objection to the above is that the release of energy always involves a mass deficit. The idea was that cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Unfortunately I don't have any other details and don't know of a particular experiment to refer to. Here is the quote from a textbook I recently finished reading: ... It was late last night, and the paragraph I found and quoted pertained to deuterium, not 4He, which you were asking

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: Once the Li is a thin alloy film on the Ni particle surfaces which are catalyzed to produce a LENR reaction, the Li may then be a participant in the LENR in condensed matter form as opposed to being a participant in

Re: [Vo]:new paper- help MFMP, please!

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: (And I can't resist noting that Levi et al should have done this). Yes. Even if you you're worried about running the E-Cat without fuel at high temperatures, a resistance heater running at the same power should be fine. That

Re: [Vo]:Hotcat melting miracle

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: So either the temperature measurement is wrong, or we have another miracle, that seems to take place within the entire interior of the hotcat. I think part of our difficulty is that one hesitates to take the report at face

Re: [Vo]:Hotcat melting miracle

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: There was a directly observable miracle that showed unmelted nano structure on the surface of those nickel micro particles that should have melted at 1000C and yet where photographed after days of 1400C reactor operating

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: By the time the IH reactor is operating above 1000C, there are no nickel nanoparticles or nano-features of any kind left - they are all melted into larger agglomerations. Is it possible that the micro-scale features

Re: [Vo]:Hotcat melting miracle

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:36 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: appendix 3 measured abundance in ash sample 6Li - 92.1% 7Li - 7.9% ​62Ni - 98.7%​ This is TOF-SIMS, secondary ion mass spectroscopy. It is a surface analysis. Heavy ions are accelerated towards the target and cause

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: A quadruple oscillating electric field may also help to excite the D's to shed their excess mass relative to the developing 4He particle. This sounds a little bit wishful to me. :) Eric

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: No matter how strongly you believe in the phenomenon of LENR, and I’m firmly in that camp – bad actors should be weeded out. Rossi is a bad actor here ... This is the same conclusion that Krivit has come to, and that

Re: [Vo]:Aviation Week and the Lockheed Fusion Reactor

2014-10-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2834452/data-center/ lockheed-martins-cfr-a-hot-fusion-breakthrough-for-power-generation.html It seems to me that a major weakness of the new Lockheed Martin skunkworks reactor design is the

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Robert Dorr rod...@comcast.net wrote: I've been thinking of tungsten for a while now. Do they make an alloy with tungsten that operates at high temps in an oxygen atmosphere. I ask because, although the tungsten that is embedded in the reactor would be

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-17 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I note that kanthal super, referred to by Bob Higgins elsewhere, appears to be used in some cases under a normal atmosphere: ... It now occurs to me why the alumina tubes might have been used in the Lugano test: http://lenr.qumbu.com/web_hotcat_pics/141011_lugano_fig12a.jpg The

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Do you know if the experiments looked at excited spin energy states that may be possible at higher spin quanta? Unfortunately I don't have any other details and don't know of a particular experiment to refer to. Here

Re: [Vo]:Why doesn't Rossi makes a self feeding Hot Cat and ends the controversy.

2014-10-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:00 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: If no fusion occurred it should be a 100% efficient conversion to heat, so now with the energy of fusion, shouldn't it be overunity as a heater? Well obviously yes unless energy is vanishing. In a sense, a cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:Greenhouse HotCat

2014-10-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:58 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure what you are asking, but the Earth supposedly generates some heat too. The earth does kind of have the composition of a large, spherical E-Cat. And there is a magnetic field that exists due in part to the

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: The following is a bit speculative, but perhaps someone can correct any misstatements I make -- if there is a magnetic field being created by the cables coiling around the tube [1], I believe the field would point along the axis of the tube, creating a theta pinch, even if only

Re: [Vo]:Engineering and materials issues with high temperature hot-cat Lugano demo

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: Highly doubtful. Above curie temperture of Nickel so no ferromagnetism, and powder too microscopic hot resistivity too high I assume, then, that magnetic domains and the curie temperature are not relevant.

Re: [Vo]:Gibbsite

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:50 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: However if it [hydrogen] only acts as a catalyst for neutron transfer reactions, then nowhere near that amount would be needed. My current theory is that the hydrogen plays no role in this particular instance. Perhaps elsewhere, deep

Re: [Vo]:E-cat : Minimum COP assuming worst mistakes possible

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:43 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It would be a miracle to find that the temperature exactly matched what is expected according to the Stephan-Boltzman equation. I get that the preconditions for the Stephan-Boltzman equation were not met, technically,

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