[Vo]:Re: Ad Hominem against Joshua Cude, or is that Ad Pseudonym against Joshua Cude ?

2011-06-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:40 AM 6/30/2011, Rich Murray wrote: Re: Ad Hominem against Joshua Cude, or is that Ad Pseudonym against Joshua Cude ? Rich: So I couldn't manage to find any quotes by Abd that were Ad Psdudonym against Joshua, so I retract that claim and regret my error and remind myself how very easy it

Re: [Vo]:Krivit's Napoli visit? To all Italian-reading Vorts

2011-06-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:28 AM 6/30/2011, Rich Murray wrote: This team was competent enough to dismiss their own excess energy claims. Transmutations and isotope shifts may well be the most convincing evidence for low levels of LENR -- widely reported in a variety of setups -- has this area been reviewed in

Re: [Vo]:Re: Ad Hominem against Joshua Cude, or is that Ad Pseudonym against Joshua Cude ?

2011-06-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:44 AM 6/30/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Rich Murray mailto:rmfor...@gmail.comrmfor...@gmail.com wrote: Rich: So I couldn't manage to find any quotes by Abd that were Ad Psdudonym against Joshua, so I retract that claim and regret my error and remind myself

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:48 AM 7/3/2011, Jeff Driscoll wrote: Rossi has not done a definitive test. I don't trust him on his input mass flow rate (2 grams per second) or whether or not it was turned to vapor or just spurted out as liquid slugs of water into the drain. Or something in between. Levi has a lot

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:06 AM 7/3/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an analysis of Rossi's e-Cat steam test from Ed Storms. Actually, this is a combination of two messages he sent me, with a clarification inserted into item 2. - Jed Thanks for forwarding this, Jed, and thanks to Dr. Storms for writing it.

Re: [Vo]:Krivit accuses Rossi of not being a scientist, which Rossi isn't

2011-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:12 PM 7/3/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: Calculating the output velocity is a good sanity check. Could you see what you get? No, it isn't a good sanity check at the end of a 3 m hose. It would be good with a short hose. It

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:17 PM 7/3/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Jeff Driscoll mailto:hcarb...@gmail.comhcarb...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Rossi's assertions of that steam quality can be measured with a Relative Humidity meter (it can't). Yes, it can. No it can't, I wrote a detailed email on Vortex as to why it can't,

Re: [Vo]:Feedback, formally - Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:38 PM 7/4/2011, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: [with some personal history, which I very much appreciate, there are valuable lessons for all of us in this, so I sincerely thank Steven for sharing this, there is some historical pain there.) As to Driscoll -- and myself-- some

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:47 AM 7/5/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: BASIC CONCLUSION: None of the plausible assumptions are consistent with the claim for excess energy being wrong. These conclusions are an indication of what passes for evidence for cold fusion advocates. And are consistent (but much more obviously

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:50 PM 7/5/2011, Rich Murray wrote: MISTer Joshua Cude, you are, as always, right... No evidence at all for excess heat production... From defective evidence to no evidence is a leap. I just looked over the Kullander and Essen report, and what I see is that some assumptions were made.

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of e-Cat test by E. Storms

2011-07-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:45 PM 7/5/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: The Kirvit video *might* be explained in terms of the Tarallo Water Diversion Fake: http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_details_v323.phphttp://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_details_v323.php Tarallo suggests that there is a hose leading water out

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Offers Dealerships

2011-07-07 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:54 AM 7/7/2011, Rock_nj wrote: Exactly the way free energy inventor (scammer) Dennis Lee raised money, by selling dealerships. Why would Defka​lion need to sell dealerships to raise money if they have such a blockbuster energy product? This thing is really starting to smell

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:26 PM 7/12/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: [KRIVIT] Professors Sven Kullander, retired from Uppsala University, and Hanno Essén, with the Royal Institute of Technology, endorsed Rossi’s claimed technology in a news story on Feb. 23, 2011, before they had seen or inspected the device.

Re: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2

2011-07-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:25 AM 7/13/2011, Damon Craig wrote: What does NASA have to say about this? On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Alan J Fletcher mailto:a...@well.coma...@well.com wrote: http://ecatreport.com/e-cat/andrea-rossi-on-the-e-cat-part-22http://ecatreport.com/e-cat/andrea-rossi-on-the-e-cat-part-22

Re: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2

2011-07-13 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:55 PM 7/12/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-07-13 02:31, Alan J Fletcher wrote: http://ecatreport.com/e-cat/andrea-rossi-on-the-e-cat-part-22 The following excerpt from the above interview is wow news to me. Is NASA going to get actively involved with Rossi? Wow again if true:

[Vo]:Estimated range of possible power shown by 2 ml/second water flow in a Rossi-type demonstration

2011-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:01 AM 7/13/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: If we apply the logic of the block box to the eCat then it is possible to argue it is a hoax even if the output is only dry steam. This is based on the assumption that it is theoretically possible to use a 600-700 watt resistance heater to

Re: [Vo]:Estimated range of possible power shown by 2 ml/second water flow in a Rossi-type demonstration

2011-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:50 PM 7/14/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: In many discussions of this, it was assumed that the only issue was steam quality. If we were to assume very wet steam, say 20% by weight

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I don't know what it is about this, but Jed seems to have lost his ability to read and understand Of course, it could be me, I suppose. Aren't we always the last to know? At 02:45 PM 7/14/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Nevertheless, this report from Kullander

Re: [Vo]:Estimated range of possible power shown by 2 ml/second water flow in a Rossi-type demonstration

2011-07-14 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:49 PM 7/14/2011, Rich Murray wrote: The 15 seconds when Rossi waved the misty end of the black hose against the black sweater were the Waterloo of this mistaken claim... Any signs that his associates are starting to face this unwelcome reality? Rich, you are making an assumption, that a

Re: [Vo]:Definitely proving cold fusion.

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I wander here into what I'm currently excited about At 09:44 AM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Daniel Rocha wrote: So, why not making an LENR experiment close to a big neutrino detector, like the kamiokande? This was done at Kamiokande. Unfortunately the experiment was amateur and

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:53 AM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And this has been said to you many times, Jed, and you keep repeating that this is nonsense. It is all nonsense and bullshit. Sure, with proper specification of the it. Nice to be able to agree. The 18-hour tests

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:32 AM 7/15/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Jed Rothwell mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.comjedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam

[Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Lewan addresses, in this report, some of the issues which had been raised by discussions. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3166552.ece As previously, the power output was calculated from the amount of water boiled into steam, and thus depends on the water flow. At the

Re: [Vo]:Definitely proving cold fusion.

2011-07-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:20 PM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: There is no other way to be sure you have a cold fusion effect in the first place. There is no point to testing a cell that is not producing heat. That's not *entirely

Re: [Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:08 PM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Having said that, I feel that Krivit should have paid more attention to some technical details. He should have made more observations and reported more facts, such as whether Rossi placed the feedwater reservoir on a weight scale, and if so, how much

Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-16 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:38 PM 7/15/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 03:21 PM 7/15/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: A new interview to Sergio Focardi has been posted on Passerini's blog here: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/07/intervista-di-focardi-energylab.html Google translated short link: http://goo.gl/nxcMG It

Re: [Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:40 AM 7/17/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: (Remember the skeptics evolution as a phenomenon is proved: 1. It's not true; 2. It may be true, but not important. 3. It's true and important, but we have always known it.) Here's the believers' progression: 1. The experiment proves it's true. 2.

Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:27 AM 7/17/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Uhhh. I give up. How is a kink in a thermal curve evidence of exothermic activity? It's unclear what Damon is responding to. However, a change in the slope of a heating curve will generally indicate some variation in condition, such as changed input

Re: [Vo]:Antigravity- Easy Experiment-via Youtube

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:00 PM 7/17/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: The end was the best. Yeah, the card and the coin completely disappear, right at the end, showing that this was indeed a visual trick. Waste of time. That's why I'm disclosing that here. It's not impossible that some radio frequency phenomenon

RE: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:10 PM 7/17/2011, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Joshua: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson; My perception on the reactor core has always implied that the volume of water entering the reactor core could vary. Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:13 PM 7/17/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Joshua apparently wrote: Well, that's the difference then. But I think you're mistaken. Rossi uses a pump designed to maintain a constant flow, and all his calculations (including Krivit's video of him calculating the power) assume constant flow

Re: [Vo]:Krivit could be correct on Rossi

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:54 PM 7/17/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: Julian Brown seems to be a clown. At least he is what you guys call a pseudoskeptic. I'll be blunt. You are an idiot, Mr. Rocha. Brown shows no signs of being a pseudoskeptic, he did not knee-jerk reject Rossi's work, and apparently travelled to see

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:30 PM 7/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-07-17 22:16, Daniel Rocha wrote: I did not find any name Julian Brown related to EPO, except for an inventor with this name: Then it's possible that it isn't his real name or that he isn't related with EPO or other patent offices. If the

Re: [Vo]:Krivit could be correct on Rossi

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:04 PM 7/17/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: It seems that this EPO's Julian mentioned that he worked at Oxford during the 80's, to make some kind of smoke screan with Julian Brown from Oxford. They do not have anything to do with each other:

Re: [Vo]:Krivit could be correct on Rossi

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:24 PM 7/17/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: So, why does he uses the Oxford address? That doesn't make sense since the EPO's Julian, according to himself, was just in Oxford only during the 80's. Serious Imagination Deficiency. How come? as an argument. People sometimes use academic

Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:21 PM 7/17/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 03:27 AM 7/17/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Uhhh. I give up. How is a kink in a thermal curve evidence of exothermic activity? It's unclear

Re: [Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:33 PM 7/17/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Both of these pseudoskeptical [yada, yada, yada]. I have no idea what you said there, but I admit, I didn't try very hard to understand

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:19 PM 7/17/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Julian Brown wrote: Basically, the whole set up defies even approximate quantitative calorimetric analysis. This is nonsensical speculation. E-Cat is designed to be a standard boiling water reactor and boiling water reactor is exactly similar

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:20 PM 7/17/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: http://ecatnews.com/?p=489#comment-85 Julian Brown July 17, 2011 - 10:25 pm Can i ask you, for the sake of my family, to remove my submission to your blog. It was sent in good faith, because I really care about the LENR field and don't want it to

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:54 PM 7/17/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: However, just right in terms of exact full vaporization is difficult to reach, from an engineering perspective . . . Naa. It is a piece of cake. Just listen to the boiling

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-17 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:14 PM 7/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: So most of the time he now performs stress tests on his modules in self-sustaining mode, apparently. That's an amazing claim! Just demonstrating one of those running for a reasonable amount of time would have rendered pointless most of the

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:55 AM 7/18/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 09:14 PM 7/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: So most of the time he now performs stress tests on his modules in self-sustaining mode

Re: [Vo]:Krivit could be correct on Rossi

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:57 AM 7/18/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Tell me Lomax. Would you destroy the reputations of others to advance your own. Would you ask leading questions to preserve your own position? I reserve what can be called personal attacks for those who personally attack. I risk my reputation with

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:08 AM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: P.J van Noorden wrote: It is very important to notice that water boils at 100.5 C when the outside air pressure is 1030 mBar, which can be the case when a high pressure system is covering Italy . . . In the April 28 tests, Lewan reported: we

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:46 AM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Jed, this is dead wrong. This is obvious. Suppose you have *almost* full vaporization, not all the water is boiling, so water level in the E-Cat will rise. Almost full vaporization is a degree or two below boiling. That's

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:07 PM 7/18/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-07-17 21:16, Akira Shirakawa wrote: And this was Rossi's answer: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=497cpage=16#comment-53792 It looks like Rossi has updated his answer on JONP, without adding a note about that. I personally

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:20 PM 7/18/2011, P.J van Noorden wrote: To conventionally explain the boilingpoint of 100.5 degrC the backpressure in the Ecat must have been 30mbar (for a boilingpoint of 99.6degC) and 20mbar for a boilingpoint of 99.9degC. This compares to resp 30.6 cm and 20.4cm water and this is

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:15 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Rossi wrote: I received him to get those suggestions, curious to know about what he had to suggest. I was working in my Bologna lab when I received him and he saw one E-Cat under test for no more that 30 seconds, after which I invited him to exit.

RE: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:42 PM 7/18/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: [snip] However, we know that Rossi is, shall we say, enthusiastic, and not terribly careful about what he says. The 18-hour test allegedly showed a transient temperature phenomenon that has been interpreted as 120 kW. Just for starters, that might

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:25 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Daniel Rocha mailto:danieldi...@gmail.comdanieldi...@gmail.com wrote: So, can you confirm that Julian Brown from the European Patent Office is the same as the one of this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1878http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1878 ? Who else

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat open source replication

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:13 PM 7/18/2011, ecat builder wrote: I created a simple wordpress blog where I will try to follow replicators. (http://ecatbuilder.comecatbuilder.com) I will write about my research and say what works and what doesn't. Hope to hear from those with constructive ideas for experiments. If

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:49 PM 7/18/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: I am not sure if you could do this procedure in any place. In not all places the accused is allowed to produce evidences against his/herself. If Brown didn't say what Rossi claims, I'd suggest Brown may want those recordings *immediately* subpoenaed.

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:20 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: They were not regulating flow in the 18 hour test. It was a direct feed from the tap (or spigot), and the utility water-meter served as their impromptu flow meter. I don't

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:22 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Who else would he be? I wasn't aware there was a controversy. Jed, haven't you read Rossi's comment? He's claiming that Brown is an imposter. I missed that. As far as I

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:29 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Well, Rossi is changing the power when he twiddles the controls. Maybe he is trying to keep it stable. But anyway if it overflows I am pretty sure he turns up the power. How does he know when it overflows? You've been assuming that the temperature

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:22 PM 7/18/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: The meeting took place in Bologna. The thing that could happen is Brown accusing Rossi of defamation and show a picture of the website as a proof. If Rossi didn't present defense, the purported recordings, he would get a sentence. No need for a

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
standards. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: At 09:29 PM 7/18/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Well, Rossi is changing the power when he twiddles the controls. Maybe he is trying to keep it stable. But anyway if it overflows I am

Re: [Vo]:Vortex Could Go Down July 25th

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:06 PM 7/19/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: I think most of the 'regulars' and ol' Timers would agree that, out of respect for the founder, the decision should be done by Mr. Beaty himself... Well, I never intended

Re: [Vo]: Prof. Kullander now an Ecat critic?

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:49 PM 7/19/2011, Michele Comitini wrote: Angela, The article does not say much.  As a matter of fact Bardi does not give any scientific fact to confirm what he has written, just rumors hence just blather on which he bases his bufala (scam) assumption. You can find him on some

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:15 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: The 120 kW excursion makes the 18-hr test less credible to me. It means that during that excursion the delta T between the ecat walls and the water would have to increase by an order of magnitude. If ordinary operation is at 300C or 400C, this would

Re: [Vo]: Prof. Kullander now an Ecat critic?

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:26 PM 7/19/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: In my opinion, Kullander made some mistakes, and he should simply acknowledge them and move on. Where, in his report, are these mistakes? Someone here claimed that he did not measure input power, when the report clearly

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:58 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: In the paper they show how their technique can measure steam quality to within a few per cent between 5% and 80%. 5% corresponds to 5 % steam by mass, and yes, that means 95% liquid by mass. That seems to be the official definition of steam quality:

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:55 PM 7/19/2011, Damon Craig wrote: In my more-or-less last communication with Krivit, I told him the wet steam hypothesis, inspired by an abused humidity meter, was a red herring, and the water was simply flowing through it. Then you turn up using the same phrase. I've been using it

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:06 PM 7/19/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: 2011/7/19 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 03:15 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: The 120 kW excursion makes the 18-hr test less credible to me. It means that during that excursion the delta T between the ecat walls and the water

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:42 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Why don't you find a piece of cheap, light styrofoam packing and see if it will float over a boiling pot of water. Extra question

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:50 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: I wouldn't call it an overflow issue, but a lot of people were wise to only a small fraction of the water being vaporized a long time ago. I certainly didn't invent that idea. You could be correct with your idea that there would be a lot of froth.

Re: [Vo]:Radiation Shielding test for LENR.

2011-07-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:22 AM 7/20/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: According to some theories of LENR, like Lewis Larsen, there is a layer on the surface of the metal which strongly shields against radiation. That's right. It's how he explains the lack of gammas. It's just as outrageous an explanation as the claim

Re: [Vo]:Radiation Shielding test for LENR.

2011-07-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:00 PM 7/20/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: The dineutron or polyneutron theory belongs to Fisher: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/FisherJCoutlineofp.pdf W-L. is just a 1-neutron theory. Anyway, it gives weird results, for example, the resulting materials should be very radioactive. I

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:07 PM 7/20/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: One interesting conspiracy theory hole is that in all demonstrations (January, March and May) total excess energy production was roughly 22 MJ, what is energy contained in 170 g of hydrogen. This kind of coincidence could be easily interpreted that

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-20 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:17 PM 7/20/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: The demand for self-powered operation is a classic pseudo-skeptical excuse, that's not necessary for an independent test, where input power

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
There are some pretty sloppy statements. I know that Damon is being sarcastic, but that sarcasm is based on certain understandings. Let's be more careful, everyone! At 05:41 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: The greatest souce of pressure is the water standing in the hose. Probably not, but

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:22 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Look, guys. If no one is pursuing the really wet steam theory anymore the steam wetness issue is pretty much moot. Sorry if I didn't realize that. I have to say that really wet steam is not implausible, Joshua has made a decent case for it. However,

Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:47 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: OK. So no one has looked closely at the goofy temperature curve in the Levi report of the December 16, 2010 demonstration which he claimed was evidence of an exothermic reaction (and cold fusion). There is a copy of the report at

Re: [Vo]: Prof. Kullander now an Ecat critic?

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:30 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Essen and Kullander: At the end of the horizontal section there is an auxiliary electric heater to initialize the burning and also to act as a safety if the heat evolution should get out of control. This is the first mistake: presumption

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:56 AM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet. One presumption is that an auxillary source of heat energy, such as resistive heating, is

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:55 AM 7/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: Originally, you may recall, numbers caste about were as high as 97% liquid by mass. This is dense enough a chunk of oak would float in it. Please. 97%

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:58 AM 7/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: Cude, Lomax: To you two, and myself, its fairly obvious this device doesn't do what it is reported to do, but we have no solid, unrefutable evidence--yet.

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:49 PM 7/21/2011, Damon Craig wrote: I find your statements bewildering. Projection of internal state onto external reality. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: There are some pretty sloppy statements. I know

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:06 AM 7/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: It's plausible as a control method, depending on the temperature response of the active material. The active material will presumably have

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:48 AM 7/22/2011, Damon Craig wrote: I think I'll have to take this one step at a time. Do you all realize that you could swim up into the sky in steam containing 90% by mass water? Absolutly not. You are thinking, Damon, of 90% by volume.

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:59 AM 7/22/2011, Damon Craig wrote: The steam temperature is not measure at the location of evolution but futher along in the device toward the exit. For those of us adhering to the Water Flow-though Hypothesis, the thermometer is further toward the water surface at the height of the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:24 AM 7/22/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Craig, indeed that is true, liquid water does not contribute to the pressure at all, because water does not gently flow out of the E-Cat, but is spilled due to rather violent boiling at kW range in closed container. No, that's an error. The E-Cat

RE: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:27 AM 7/22/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: http://evworld.com/press/e-cat_cutaway.jpg Two heaters. The internal heater makes sense for bringing up the Ni-H to operating temperatures (and, presumably, keep it there). It's the purpose of the external heater that's puzzling. How

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:48 AM 7/22/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Damon, little two sec googling with cell phone gave me this link: http://brewery.org/library/SteInjCS1295.htmlhttp://brewery.org/library/SteInjCS1295.html It says that all boiling chambers produces about 98% dry steam. Therefore wetness

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:48 AM 7/22/2011, Damon Craig wrote: the burden of proof lies with the claimant it does? 1) prove it. 2) in having made the burden-of-proof argument, are you obligated to me to prove it? 3) what is your burden/penalty if you decide not to oblige me? Arguments like this assume

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:55 AM 7/22/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: The key word is boyancy. What is the densest thing you have ever seen floating in a vapor of steam, Joshua? I'll answer that, I've never seen anything

Re: [Vo]:PESN reports that Rossi 1 MW reactor may be self-sustaining

2011-07-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:26 PM 7/22/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I think someone here referred to the idea that the device is a sort of energy amplifier. That is, something that uses a flow of energy to tap into a source of energy and extract it at rate depending on input power. I do not think any cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:PESN reports that Rossi 1 MW reactor may be self-sustaining

2011-07-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:26 PM 7/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: With the electrochemical cells, all else being equal, output is somewhat proportional to input because high input boosts high loading which in turn boosts the heat. But I

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:22 AM 7/26/2011, Damon Craig wrote: The by mass and the by volume jargon that has evolved here--or where ever--to describe steam quality is a bit screwy. Not when you know what you are talking about. Each way of expressing steam quality has its value. In each case a volume is

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-26 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:06 PM 7/26/2011, Damon Craig wrote: Try to keep up. Try not to fill this list with posts with no new content except useless statements plus what's been copied from before. However, to provide some utility here, I will reproduce part of a multiplication table, in case Damon needs it

Re: [Vo]:NET Says Little COP

2011-07-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:27 PM 7/29/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/07/29/possible-low-or-no-levels-of-excess-heat-in-rossi-device/http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/07/29/possible-low-or-no-levels-of-excess-heat-in-rossi-device/ Our analysis shows a possible energy gain of one to

Re: [Vo]:Fw: Krivit Snarks

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:19 PM 8/1/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I have not had a chance to read the Krivit newsletter yet, but I agree with Fletcher's comments here. He wrote: Last year Rossi and Focardi claimed an energy gain of 213 times. This year, Rossi downgraded that to six. But now he's claiming

Re: [Vo]:Passerini's Prediction

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:42 AM 8/3/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Accoriding Steven Krivit (#3 report and some earlier writing), Daniele was also present at 18 hour test (i have not seen other sources). Therefore he is within the greates fraud of cold fusion or tells truth that world is saved, because he knows

RE: [Vo]:Steam Test Kit

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:14 PM 8/2/2011, Jones Beene wrote: Mark, Why measure steam quality at all? If there is one lesson we all should have learned from the many painful gigabytes of wasted bandwidth on Vortex about steam quality, it is that you simply cannot satisfy everyone this way. Too many variables. But

Re: [Vo]:Fw: New Energy Times #37 and Rossi Report #3

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:19 PM 8/1/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I think there is good evidence for Rossi's claims. I hope that Defkalion soon publishes good evidence for their claims, with more rigorous professional reports than Rossi and Levi et al. have produced so far. I do not think that any of the arguments

Re: [Vo]:Fw: New Energy Times #37 and Rossi Report #3

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:39 PM 8/1/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Andrea Selva andreagiuseppe.se...@gmail.com wrote: Michele, if you look at this page http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/37/3705report3.shtml scrolling down just past 50% you can see a note and a picture of the

Re: [Vo]:Wet Steam: Energy required disperse and suspend small droplets in the vapor state

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:04 AM 7/30/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jouni Valkonen mailto:jounivalko...@gmail.comjounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: That is very true, it requires lots of steam to rise boiling point temperature by one degree of celsius. How much is lots? If 2% of the

Re: [Vo]:Wet Steam: Energy required disperse and suspend small droplets in the vapor state

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:18 PM 7/30/2011, you wrote: Damon Craig mailto:decra...@gmail.comdecra...@gmail.com wrote: What further amazes me is the degree of disconnect between simple newtonian physics and everyday life experiences displayed by so many. I agree. People seem to have no experience with teapots or

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Hot Water Experiment and the Pointless Wrangle over Steam Dryness

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:39 AM 7/30/2011, Ron Kita wrote: Greetings Vortex, IF my memory is correct there was a hot water test on the Rossi Device. Also, it appears the the results of the hot water test were. OK. Well, that's, shall we say, optimistic. It's true, in a way. That is Levi claims to have

Re: [Vo]:Fw: New Energy Times #37 and Rossi Report #3

2011-08-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:01 AM 8/1/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Something that has not been clarified here is that the flow rate is rather slow; 120 ml/min. Before the water boils, when the liquid overflows, It would take a long time to fill up the hose. There would be a lot of water in there. Once it starts

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