Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
*Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find it just as amusing should your work ever be misappropriated without the thief even asking. [mg] On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
*To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:28 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find it just as amusing should your work ever be misappropriated without the thief even asking. [mg] On Tue, May 21, 2013

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2013-05-22 Thread James Bowery
, 2013 4:28 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find it just as amusing should your work ever be misappropriated without the thief even asking. [mg] On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol

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2013-05-22 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, I think we should take Mark's request seriously and avoid posting copyrighted material to this list. It is not difficult to post links to articles of interest. By using links instead of the full text, the authors get credit for page hits from their sponsors and Vortex-L stays out of

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2013-05-22 Thread ChemE Stewart
I agree with Mark, I think he is listening to the minds on Vortex and interacting and does not deserve to have his work just copied and pasted on the Internet. In addition to the legal aspects , he certainly is backed by a media organization which can help further the cause of LENR over time. At

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
My responses are designated by 3 asterisks***. On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: Vortex-L is an educational organization. Not relevant. If Harvard wouldn't do what you did because

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
needs to grow some ethics. Andrew - Original Message - *From:* Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:28 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find it just

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread James Bowery
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:28 PM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find it just as amusing should your work ever be misappropriated without the thief even asking. [mg] On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Kevin

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2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Then why do you engage in the debate?As I've stated, this is an educational organization, so at the very least we are all getting educated on Fair Use Copyright law. We're also getting exposure to Fair Use Policies as enforced by some corporations, which are not really in line with the Fair

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Mark: I just checked the article I reposted here on Vortex and I was wrong, it did include pictures. That was not my intent -- only the text. For posting the pictures, I apologize. Hopefully, Bill removes the article and this incident just goes off into the sunset. The attribution and

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2013-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: I just checked the article I reposted here on Vortex and I was wrong, it did include pictures. That was not my intent -- only the text. Only the text is also a violation. You should apologize. It will go off into the sunset faster if you would

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2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
It is not a violation of the fair use law. If it were, basically every professor I had in college would be liable for copyright violation. Think of the money that these companies could get by just intimidating the entire educational establishment. And why don't these companies do it, when there

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: It is not a violation of the fair use law. If it were, basically every professor I had in college would be liable for copyright violation. . . . Yo, Kevin: First rule of holes. When you in one, stop digging. - Jed

RE: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
: Kevin O'Malley [mailto:kevmol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:36 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Mark: I just checked the article I reposted here on Vortex and I was wrong, it did include pictures. That was not my

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2013-05-22 Thread Kevin O'Malley
want to do that! ;-) ** ** -Mark Iverson ** ** *From:* Kevin O'Malley [mailto:kevmol...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:36 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: ** ** Mark: I just

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Harry Veeder
*To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: ** ** Mark: I just checked the article I reposted here on Vortex and I was wrong, it did include pictures. That was not my intent -- only the text. For posting the pictures, I apologize

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Terry Blanton
Mark, Bill does not monitor this list regularly and the email address you used might not get his attention. I have posted to him via a different address. Please standby until he has a chance to respond. This list has benefited you in the past. I suspect your gain exceeds your loss. On Tue,

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
Terry, Thanks. The issue has become a moot point and Bill needn't bother. [mg] On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, Bill does not monitor this list regularly and the email address you used might not get his attention. I have posted to him via a

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Terry, Thanks. The issue has become a moot point and Bill needn't bother. I really don't care what you do to the offender; but, injuring this list is not in your best interest. After all, didn't you get the original story

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2013-05-22 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Thanks Harry for supporting the behavior needed to keep the bar open! ;-) Cheers! -M From: Harry Veeder [mailto:hveeder...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 3:21 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: In principle I side

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2013-05-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Shutting down this forum would be like closing the bar in the Dime Box Saloon… and you don’t want to do that! An oil company could shut us down quite quickly with a series of cease and desist letters and threats of

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
I said it was a moot point [1] ... and I have no interest in injuring the list. And, nope, I didn't get the news of the report here. All the same, I value this list and wouldn't want to see it interfered with which is why I asked Kevin and Bill to handle it without me getting Forbes' involved.

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: I said it was a moot point [1] Thanks for the clarification. Your comment struck me as ominous, hence my response. Personally, I prefer http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ Warm regards, Terry

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Here you've used average emissivity. I think a rock-bottom lower bound (or something along those lines) would use ε=1. I do not readily see a way to extract such a calculation for the March 2013 run from the data presented in the paper. I guess you

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Another thing I forgot to mention is that they ignore heat from the ends of the cylinder and from the large flange. I'll bet those two would add ~100 W. Okay, unaccounted for losses during the calibration at 810 W were 58 W. Not ~100 W. The calibration was stepped up through

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Malley
posting it here on Vortex for purposes of using it elsewhere... Finally! Independent Testing Of Rossi's E-Cat Cold Fusion Device: Maybe The World Will Change After All 31 comments, 0 called-out

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2013-05-21 Thread Edmund Storms
OK Peter, let's explore the dynamic creation process you suggest. First, a condition must be present that allows the NAE to form by release of Gibbs energy. If this condition exists, than it will not decompose under the same condition. The condition must change before the NAE can

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
Kevin, Publishing a summary or abstract of my piece would have been fine (under the concept of Fair Use) but posting my article in full to a list (and a public list at that) is a breach of both my copyright and Forbes'. I'd be less annoyed if you'd waited a week or two but for heaven's sake, this

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Mark: Welcome to da internets. I hope you don't 'loose' your reputation. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Kevin, Publishing a summary or abstract of my piece would have been fine (under the concept of Fair Use) but posting my article in full to a list

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2013-05-21 Thread Alan Fletcher
PopSci isn't impressed : http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/cold-fusion-machine-gets-third-party-verification-inventor-says .. The paper, which is not peer-reviewed, leaves out crucial details, for example referring to unknown additives instead of specifying what chemicals actually

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find it just as amusing should your work ever be misappropriated without the thief even asking. [mg] On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: Mark: Welcome to da internets. I hope you don't 'loose' your

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Andrew
I am with Mark. Kevin needs to grow some ethics. Andrew - Original Message - From: Mark Gibbs To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Kevin, Glad you think it's funny. I hope you find

[Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-20 Thread Edmund Storms
Begin forwarded message: From: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Date: May 20, 2013 9:11:57 AM MDT To: c...@googlegroups.com Cc: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released: Before we get too excited. I think two questions need to be answered. 1.

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-20 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Ed, Your arguments here have great success, our dear Mary Yugo is using them in her comments for annihilating this report. I think you as NAE expert are focusing on the second idea. 1- is true indeed. The total emissivity changes as evrything changes but how great must be these changes in

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-20 Thread Axil Axil
You have to admire the bravery of the scientists that ran these tests and put out this paper. The enemies of the ideas that they purport to verify will try to destroy them. How much faith that one puts in a test is usually determined by the faith that one has in the people who ran the test. If a

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2013-05-20 Thread Edmund Storms
No matter what is said, Yugo and others will distort the comments to agree with their belief. If we accept Rossi, we are stupid and deceived. If we criticize Rossi, this is used to show that Rossi is wrong. They do not even attempt to understand what part of a claim may be real. They

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2013-05-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: However, given the importance and the skepticism, I would have expected a thermocouple would have been placed on the device to check the measured temperature. They did that. See p. 18, QUOTE: Various dots were applied to the dummy as well. A

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2013-05-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: 1- is true indeed. The total emissivity changes as evrything changes but how great must be these changes in order to invalidate completely the results, so we can say NO excess heat, the authors are in total error? Very

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2013-05-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder what the second set of calculations would look like with an assumption of ε=1 -- since the COP was only ~2, perhaps it would get uncomfortably close to 1 with full emissivity? First of all, the COP wasn't ~2 it was ~2.6 +/- 0.5, with the

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2013-05-20 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Ed, You got the idea, NAE/active sites are NOT stable, they come, work or not and go, and come again incessantly. A dynamic vision, not a static one is necessary. Peter On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: No matter what is said, Yugo and others

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: You can do that from the numbers in Table 8. With average emissivity, radiation is 460 W and convection is 282. Throw out convection completely (ignore it; pretend it did not happen) and you get: 460 W / 283 W = COP of

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2013-05-20 Thread Alan Fletcher
Mark Gibbs has an article up : http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/05/20/finally-independent-testing-of-rossis-e-cat-cold-fusion-device-maybe-the-world-will-change-after-all/ (Shout-out and plot to ... guess who? )