Re: [Vo]:Simple, even simple-minded tests can be a great help in understanding these things

2012-01-07 Thread Eric Walker
Hi everyone! Interesting list, to say the least. I like Mary Yugo's contributions, even if some of you feel that she's trolling or quibbling. I don't agree with some of her conclusions, but more often than not she raises interesting points that are helpful to take into account, making her

Re: [Vo]:Simple, even simple-minded tests can be a great help in understanding these things

2012-01-07 Thread Eric Walker
Hi Mark, Thanks for the welcome. Replies inline. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Welcome Eric, Thx for the feedback… this seems to be your first post. A few questions if I may… 1) How long have you been monitoring this forum

Re: [Vo]:LENR is not a disruptive technology...

2012-01-15 Thread Eric Walker
LENR would be quite disruptive if it even replaced 10 percent of the world energy supply over the next twenty years. If it turns out to be bona fide and something that can be commercialized (hopefully we'll get a sense of this soon), and barring some unforeseen impediment to its widespread

Re: [Vo]:LENR is not a disruptive technology...

2012-01-15 Thread Eric Walker
I was more thinking out loud than responding to any specific point you were making. :) Eric On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Eric, I suggest you read my entire posting… I was being facetious, and stated that ‘disruptive’ is not

Re: [Vo]:LENR G Silver Currency

2012-01-16 Thread Eric Walker
, and stated that ‘disruptive’ is not going far enough. -m *From:* Eric Walker [mailto:eric.wal...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Sunday, January 15, 2012 10:45 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:LENR is not a disruptive technology... LENR would be quite disruptive if it even replaced

Re: [Vo]:LENR is not a disruptive technology...

2012-01-16 Thread Eric Walker
It doesn't seem like fusion, specifically, would necessarily be involved in the transmutation of elements seen in the LENR experiments. My understanding is that the processes that have recently been proposed to be at work are inverse beta decay (neutron capture), beta decay, alpha decay and

Re: [Vo]:LENR G Silver Currency

2012-01-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Sure, the US went off the gold standard decades ago (a mistake in my opinion), but where does money get invested when currencies weaken… precious metals. You do realize that we’re not just talking

Re: [Vo]:Interesting new video from ecat.com

2012-01-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That he will never do. As McKubre says, he wants chaos. He wants people to think he has nothing. That is his business strategy. It has been all along. He thrives on controversy. He stirs it up deliberately. I

Re: [Vo]:Interesting new video from ecat.com

2012-01-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it's speculation. But taking the totality of the evidence and putting Defkalion and Ampenergo into the equation, it just isn't the way a true development of practical, powerful, LENR fusion reactors would go. None of

Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog

2012-01-21 Thread Eric Walker
Maybe Rossi thinks Prof Levi and Prof Focardi working privately in his laboratory is the same thing as the University of Bologna doing the work. That was until the University made it VERY clear they had never officially done any work for Rossi and this would not happen until he paid them what

Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog

2012-01-21 Thread Eric Walker
A good magic show can fool a few journalists and grad students and yes, Levi does not inspire confidence – but take a closer look at the “guests”. I also fail to see the point of Rossi's pulling off a successful magic show, unless he's just flying blind and improvising at this point and is

Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog

2012-01-21 Thread Eric Walker
If it is clearly being done, then why has Rossi stiffed the university? Why did he break contract? How will this enhance his public image? I have no explanation for why Rossi would have broken the contract. There is a lot that I don't understand about this story. It would hardly enhance his

Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog

2012-01-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: We do not understand him, but the general the outlines are clear. He is an inventor and businessman trying to make money. Not a scientist. He has no interest in academic kudos. He does not give a damn what anyone else

Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog

2012-01-21 Thread Eric Walker
The most reasonable answer to why he broke the contract was because he had already milked dry the bogus respectability it brought him for free, so why pay for it? There's also the possibility that it won't actually work in actual independent tests. I agree that this is a plausible

Re: [Vo]:Mark Gibbs - Forbes- on LENR January 20th blog

2012-01-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:43 PM, *** Craig Brown *** cr...@overunity.cowrote: Gibbs seems utterly desperate to explain LENR away as just an unrepeatable anomaly I'm not so sure. I would have guessed the opposite to be the case. In this instance he might be responding to pressure as a

Re: [Vo]:Opponents should please go away and form your own group

2012-01-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: It is absolutely inane to ask critics to read the literature. You think we have nothing better to do than to spend time with unlimited quantities of inadequate and difficult to understand papers? It's your job as

Re: [Vo]:Problem with flow calorimetry in Defkalion system

2012-01-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: IR is a good idea. Weren't there some IR movies of FP cathodes? Here is a video from SPAWAR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9V_qFKf2M

Re: [Vo]:Lubos motll, physicis talk of CERN CF conference, and bash it...

2012-02-13 Thread Eric Walker
Luboš Motl is a respected user on physics.stackexchange.com -- http://physics.stackexchange.com/users/1236/lubos-motl. From the answers I've seen of his to physics questions, he seems quite knowledgeable. In this instance he appears to reject the possibility of cold fusion out of hand, on the

Re: [Vo]:Do you think Rossi will still be too busy?

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Walker
Two points to add to what has already been said in connection with the initial item in Rossi's statement, below -- First, the English of the response is indeed more lucid than in the past. It sounds like parts of the statement have been copied and pasted from a lawyer's email. Second, it's

Re: [Vo]:Simple Genius: This Says it all!

2012-02-17 Thread Eric Walker
Technological development is very welcome, in part for the increase in productivity that it brings and for its connection to economic growth. But the introduction of significant gains in productivity is a two-edged sword. It can often lead to people's skills becoming irrelevant and their

Re: [Vo]:Test day in Greece time

2012-02-24 Thread Eric Walker
I think your reply address isn't configured to point to vortex-l. I hope Defkalion's technology is original. It very well may be. But if it is not, it is a shame that they did not simply pay Rossi earlier in 2011 so they could continue working together. Instead, if 2 or 3 is true, Rossi may

Re: [Vo]:Test day in Greece time

2012-02-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I personally think the patent system is fatally flawed, and I haven't the slightest sympathy for the idea of intellectual property. The conversation has moved on, but I should moderate the statement above, a little. I

Re: [Vo]:DGT's 1st test did not test power, just safety (NyTeknik)

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Walker
Hi Guenter -- your reply-to address is your own email address. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.comwrote: DGT did not make a substantial error up to now. Btw, my own projects often have delays and complications and modifications. That's the way it is. In

Re: [Vo]:To Radiate or Not to Radiate

2012-03-03 Thread Eric Walker
There are reports of low but significant levels of fast neutrons above background. Charles Beaudette describes a 1992 experiment by Akito Takahashi, for example, that found neutrons being emitted from a Pd-D system. In general, however, the level of neutron emission is well below that which

Re: [Vo]:To Radiate or Not to Radiate

2012-03-04 Thread Eric Walker
The possibility has been brought to my attention that levels of neutron emission are generally so low that it's unlikely that they can be ascribed to a LENR process. So one might want to be a little skeptical of evidence of neutrons. Eric On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg matter and the leptonic monopol

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: Early Rossi devices did not use his frequencies generator. That appeared to be an addition to help stimulate the reaction at a lower H2 pressure where the reaction had less tendency to run out of control. It is known

Re: [Vo]:Physicists Simulate Strongly Correlated Fermions

2012-03-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: In the peer-reviewed journals, though, the debate, for now, is over. Cold fusion survived. What's dead is the highly skeptical position. I'm grateful cold fusion research has survived. But it seems like the

Re: [Vo]:Thane Heins continues with his bold claims

2012-03-23 Thread Eric Walker
I apologize -- I missed some of the early context for this thread. I just want address a general point or two. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:46 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The reason for the self sustaining requirement is to ensure that there are no false measurements taking

Re: [Vo]:the desktop supernova

2012-03-27 Thread Eric Walker
The experiment gave off powerful crested cnoid de Broglie Matter wave soliton wave packages that were doubly periodic and followed the Jacobi Elliptic functions exactly, mostly in the form of large doubly-periodic vortices. Hundreds of wave trains and vortices appeared everywhere and are

Re: [Vo]:the desktop supernova

2012-03-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:03 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I do suspect that they would change their position and actions quickly if anyone develops a technique that leads to dangerous weaponry. I hope that this will never be possible and most of the evidence points in that

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin Energy making waves

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Walker
As long as LENR can't be patented there is no way for it to be really profitable. Three weeks after someone comes out with a working device the e-cat will be out of the bag and you'll have dealextreme.com selling disposable LENR devices for $10.00 inc delivery. While I'm sure a few million

Re: [Vo]:There is no tomorrow Video

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Walker
It would be nice to see them all funded to the $50-100 million level for a few years to see if one or more of them looks promising enough to carry on with 1/ Field Reversed Configuration - eg Helion Energy, Tri Alpha 2/ Electrostatic Confinement - eg Polywell/EMC2 3/ Magnetised Target

Re: [Vo]:The Fukushima disaster

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Without moral hazard, there is no way for a party to be motivated to change his behavior, improve his design, or pay for any damage caused. I think you have moral hazard exactly backwards. Moral hazard is a bad thing -- it's

Re: [Vo]:The Fukushima disaster -- 34 meter tsunamis?

2012-04-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jarold McWilliams oldja...@hotmail.comwrote: A democracy is a horrible form of government. Sad but true. Dictatorships are much better, and you don't have people making decisions based on irrational fear and emotions. Dictatorships are better governments,

Re: [Vo]:Yet another flying car

2012-04-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The solution to the traffic problem is to stop going places. Reduce commuting distances with full screen video telecommuting from home and from satellite offices. Agreed. Make cities beautiful and livable and compact

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Gamma sources could be placed so that gammas pass through the supposedly active heavy electron patches, and, if W-L theory is real, drastic attenuation should be seen. That attentuation should not be seen with

Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light

2012-04-07 Thread Eric Walker
That's fantastic. I'm a complete amateur, so I have to ask for clarification -- is the phenomenon behind the tunneling of en electron through a semiconductor, as described in the article, the same one involved in the quantum tunneling of an electron into a proton? Or are the two processes

Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light

2012-04-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: What is the wavelength of the photons being used in the experiment being discussed, and what is its relationship to the energy barrier being overcome? What happens if you increase the wavelength significantly? Sorry

Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light

2012-04-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com fusion.calo...@gmail.com wrote: Another quote from Vortex which may clarify the concept: it was pointed out by someone the importance of Fe powder influenced by RFG to both align Ni lattice structure and oscillate the hydride

Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light

2012-04-07 Thread Eric Walker
I was imagining a high energy photon (maybe in the gamma range?) binding with an electron, thereby creating a dipolariton which then would tunnel into a nearby neutron (a sort of inverse beta decay). Sorry -- proton, not neutron: the dipolariton would tunnel into a nearby proton, creating a

Re: [Vo]:Controlling Quantum Tunneling With Light

2012-04-08 Thread Eric Walker
Thanks, Ron, for providing this link. I'm pretty excited. Here's the abstract from Science: Tunneling of electrons through a potential barrier is fundamental to chemical reactions, electronic transport in semiconductors and superconductors, magnetism, and devices such as THz-oscillators. While

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: W-L theory allows for a farrago of proposed reactions, so one can pick and choose for a large and complex field, to find a reaction that might explain a particular result. And that the required reaction series

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: If the proton was produced by free neutron decay, an electron would have also been produced. These electrons were not seen in the Piantelli’s cloud chamber. Could this mean that Piantelli’s reaction is different from the

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: No, not at all. Where did you get that idea? Heat is not missing, except when we look at what would be required to generate the observed levels of helium following the W-L pathways. The third missing observable

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation

2012-04-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Iwamura's results are certainly interesting and worthy of replication, and there have been replication attempts, some of which appear to have failed (or, in a recent case, just published in the CMNS journal, there

Re: [Vo]:Toyota demos 60 km/l hybrid prototype

2012-04-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:52 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: While it's probably true that a 100% electrical car with a 100-mile range per charge might be suitable for the vast majority of U.S. car owners, psychologically speaking, it still will be perceived

Re: [Vo]:Massive free energy - in the hood

2012-04-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: San Francisco is one of those so-called “liberal” localities - where public “light pollution” is a real issue overriding lowest cost- and sodium lamps are favored for this – but I do not know for a fact that these are of

Re: [Vo]:Higher Spins and Holography

2012-04-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The paper touches on the cross connection to spin ½ particles. The proton of course is spin ½. Understanding this well enough to write down a coherent explanation of how it applies to Ni-H is beyond my pay grade, but I

Re: [Vo]:Higher Spins and Holography

2012-04-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: This stuff is beyond my pay grade as well, but I'm willing to venture my own proto-theory: spin is central to LENR. There are bosons (spin 1) and fermions (spin 1/2). (I have no thoughts at this point on particles

[Vo]:holons, spinons and orbitons

2012-04-18 Thread Eric Walker
Not-quite-so elementary, my dear electron http://www.nature.com/news/not-quite-so-elementary-my-dear-electron-1.10471 It looks like an electron can be decomposed into a holon, spinon and orbiton in some contexts by using X-rays. The holon carries the electron's (negative) charge. I wonder what

Re: [Vo]:Spinon + Orbiton = Electron

2012-04-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: If chargon is a boson, it could support a condensate that enables a charge accumulation mechanism whereby the large negative electric charge localized is a small volume can remove the coulomb barrier to allow fusion to

Re: [Vo]:Znidarsic's constant

2012-04-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:09 AM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: As far as Jones comment as finally..Its is finally not.. this was done 15 years ago. Jones did ask a good question of why hydrogen in nickle and why deuterium in palladium. It must have something to do with a resonant condition at

Re: [Vo]:Boeing Electric Airliner---LENR Application=???

2012-04-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: It can be extremely useful to incorporate 45 megawatts of LENR power into a stealth aircraft. This capability will allow the stealth aircraft designer a true UFO like performance via a hybrid ion jet engine. How would

Re: [Vo]:Ignition

2012-04-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:59 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Actually, the liquid gasoline never burns. Only vapor burns. This is true in an engine as well. The smaller the droplets, the more easily they evaporate and provide the necessary vapor. Does this follow from the fact that the

Re: [Vo]:Hot fusion crowd trying to justify continued funding...

2012-04-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: “An in-depth analysis by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) zeroed in on tiny, bubble-like islands that appear in the hot, charged gases—or plasmas—during

Re: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Oil Price.com features Brillouin CF Reactor

2012-04-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I have not seen any reference to transformation of nickel to copper as Rossi claims and I was wondering if anyone else has seen any references. Why would all of the freshly minted neutrons collect with protons only

Re: [Vo]:Oil Price.com features Brillouin CF Reactor

2012-04-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:18 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Hasn't someone here rebutted the physics of e-c capture? The rebuttals I've seen involve the p + e- - n + v reaction that is usually understood to occur between an inner shell electron and a proton in a nucleus, or of the heavy

Re: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Oil Price.com features Brillouin CF Reactor

2012-04-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: But this statement from Wikipedia could lead one to wonder whether the cathode (nickel, palladium, tungsten, etc.) is the secret catalyst: I'm using cathode too broadly here -- I mean the metal substrate within which

Re: [Vo]:Oil Price.com features Brillouin CF Reactor

2012-04-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The photoelectric effect won’t work, Eric - unless you include this as a premise ** ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_theory_of_light ** ** … which is an interesting solution in a way. That is

Re: [Vo]:Article on LENR on Mizzou Weekly

2012-04-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.comwrote: Mizzou Weekly is A publication for the faculty and staff of the University of Missouri, published every Thursday during the academic year and twice a month during the summer by Publications and Alumni

Re: [Vo]:Pirelli Foundation funds successful LENR Cold Fusion Project

2012-04-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Tungsten is interesting stuff when used in cold fusion. Hydrogen does not migrate or penetrate into it so many of the Brillouin and WL theories are difficult to support when a tungsten lattice is used in cold fusion,

Re: [Vo]:Superfocusing of electomagnetic waves by nanorods

2012-04-27 Thread Eric Walker
Thank you, Lou. Some interesting points for those who did not have a chance to look at the paper: - The authors model electric field enhancement for an electromagnetic plane wave passing through a gap between two silver cylinders. - If E0 is the strength of the electric field of the

Re: [Vo]:The Future of LENR

2012-04-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:10 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Nanospire report that the isotopes generated are short-lived. Assuming their measurements are accurate, why should this be? Short-lived isotopes are generally a signature of hydrogen or deuterium fusion, neutron capture or

Re: [Vo]:The Future of LENR

2012-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:58 AM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: So - if the results are correct, maybe we should expect neutrons are falling into shallow nuclear potential wells, forming short-lived isotopes? This is what I'm hoping for. In my mind it connects together so many pieces of the

Re: [Vo]:What was that?

2012-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:29 PM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: It did not move like an aircraft. It meandered around at a low velocity for about one minute. Then it got dimmer and cycled off and on on random intervals of about two second intervals.. An aircraft would have to be traveling in

Re: [Vo]:New York Times- Link to : Quantum Fusion - Brillouin

2012-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: All the Godes/BEC are required to do - in order to silence the skeptics (and at the same time receive all the funding they can ever use) is to demonstrate conclusively the appearance of Helium in the ash. Helium ash is a

Re: [Vo]:LENR detailitis

2012-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Is it truly cold and is it truly fusion? Well, it's got to be nuclear in nature, but until we know what it *is* -- and we don't -- we can't rule anything out, not completely. Abd, you bring up some excellent

Re: [Vo]:New York Times- Link to : Quantum Fusion - Brillouin

2012-05-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any invalid reports? Has anyone looked? I just looked at the relevant section of Ed Storms's book -- no easy-to-spot reference to helium evolving in a Ni-H gas system. But there is a large table of experiments

Re: [Vo]:LENR detailitis

2012-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: What I would love to see are some (very) simple statements that all can agree on that, if tested and found conclusively true or false to everyone's satisfaction, would help to sift between the competing explanations. I offer one such possible statement as an example: - Ionization

Re: [Vo]:LENR detailitis

2012-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:29 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: You are assuming that hydrogen is the only element that can be used in an LENR reaction. This should be verified. You bring up an excellent point. My wording was not careful enough -- I should have made reference to

Re: [Vo]:LENR detailitis

2012-05-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: - Below a certain threshold, there is a direct correlation between temperature and heat. Ha! I sure hope there is. I meant, a direct correlation between cell temperature and power or something like that. Eric

Re: [Vo]:High-temperature eCat ?

2012-05-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Hergen .. with your new achievement is it possible to increase the COP? AR: No, for the domestic the safety issues are still prohibitive, but for the industrial applications we made a gigantic step forward. If we take

Re: [Vo]:Yet another tale of woe

2012-05-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Opposition to cold fusion is as strong as ever. See: http://e-catsite.com/2012/05/07/mit-physicist-nixes-cold-fusion-funding/ Eventually, when cold fusion research breaks through the current impasse, there will be a

Re: [Vo]:Progress Photographs pdf from Defkalion Green Technologies

2012-05-11 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: Being charitable maybe they already have a large technical staff, or maybe they plan on outsourcing a lot of engineering development (though not from looks of planning to build factory). It does make me a

Re: [Vo]:News update from Andrea Rossi and ECAT.com in May

2012-05-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Do not judge Rossi by the standards of academic science. That's the biggest mistake people make. Judge him instead by the standards of software companies in the go-go 1980s, or railroad financing circa 1870 during the

Re: [Vo]:Anti-wind energy tactics

2012-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:41 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Jed I am afraid that it will be easier for the vested interests to oppose cold fusion. They will scare the public by equating cold fusion devices with nuclear reactors emphasizing the radiation aspects. I hope that logic

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:36 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: A characteristic of HID lights is that they begin to cycle on and off as they approach the end of life. Time to replace those Slider lamps. Dave The human mind loves to find patterns, even when they don't exist.

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Also, does anyone have references to replicated experiments with the Ni-H systems regarding the ash products? I am aware of the many excellent results that have been published in reference to the palladium

Re: [Vo]:Topological Materials Rant

2012-05-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: According to the researches of Prof. Piantelli Nickel is only one of the transition metals able to generate the anomalous phenomena (excess heat) if in form of adequate nanoclusters. More broadly (avoiding the question

Re: [Vo]:A last! Somebody has the Rossi ecat all figured out ... NOT

2012-05-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.comwrote: So I am undecided. I suspect it's a several-pronged strategy. You have a bunch of (nonsense) articles out on the Internet linking to the site you're being paid to promote, you have them linking to one another to

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Since there is zero evidence of high energy gammas in Ni-H reaction, and zero evidence of radioactivity in the ash - and only slight evidence of soft spectrum radiation, Tritium is radioactive, so the evidence of

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Tritium is radioactive, so the evidence of radioactivity in the ash of the Ni-H reaction is nonzero. If we allow Ni + H2O, I can provide two additional references in support of tritium generation and, implicitly

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ** Another reason that Focardi/Rossi’s claim of nickel going to copper is brain-dead. Or a gambit intended to divert attention from what is really going on. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Eric - perhaps the original post should have been phrased as “zero believable evidence”… instead of zero evidence. The paper does constitute putative “evidence” after all – actually rather convincing if it could be taken

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: If we wanted to get really twisted here ... we could propose not only Brown's paired-protons, operating a unit - but also to have them mate with a Mills' hydrino hydride, at deep redundancy so you go all the way from

Re: [Vo]:Tritium in Ni-H LENR

2012-05-24 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I should credit Eric Walker's persistence, as well, in this mini tritium revival - especially in digging up old papers from the early nineties where the isotope is mentioned. I failed to give Ed Storms credit for the

Re: [Vo]:Zawodny on LENR in a recently uploaded NASA LaRC YouTube video

2012-05-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: the pictures from LeClair are in the comments section of this blog. I know very little about Mark LeClair or NanoSpire. The main thing I conclude from the photographs in the comments is that the lab is not clean and that

Re: [Vo]:Critique of Space Shuttle written in 1980

2012-05-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:32 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: It is incredible to watch the folks here in Vortex speak about obscenity like NASA in any other terms. It was born of a Manhattan Project-style centralized government program an and, like the Manhattan Project, spawned a

Re: [Vo]:Tritium in Ni-H LENR

2012-05-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:47 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Guys, this thread has gotten very far off the subject. I request that you rename it and continue. I would really appreciate a discussion concerning tritium associated with Ni-H LENR. Dave We seem to be reaching the

Re: [Vo]:Localized time- space curvature demonstrated from 3 phase alternator powered 666 machine

2012-05-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: And it's far more likely -- just my personal impression -- that you don't actually know what you are doing. But I'm not inspired to follow you enough to find out either where you are right or where you are wrong.

Re: [Vo]:No More Anticipation

2012-05-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: WTF! WOW!! Somehow they took ketchup, which is fine enough but not quite as good as its reputation, and made it look utterly unpalatable. When it comes to food, presentation is important. I wonder whether it

Re: [Vo]:re the alternative history of LENR

2012-05-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.comwrote: When we make an exception for government and say, well we know that violence, threats of violence, and aggression are wrong, and while we would never practice these things in our personal relationships, but then we

Re: [Vo]:re the alternative history of LENR

2012-06-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.comwrote: This example, at its most simple message shows how corporations sometimes see new technologies in the opposite light even though the world might benefit. Agreed. Corporations sometimes see things in terms starkly

Re: [Vo]:re the alternative history of LENR

2012-06-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I do not think it is a good idea for the U.S. to become an economic colony of China, incapable of manufacturing any core technology for ourselves. It is difficult to know how we can avoid that without the government

Re: [Vo]:re the alternative history of LENR

2012-06-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Liberalism is supporting government? Shouldn't it be the opposite? I mean, liberalism is a typical conservative stance, for example, the more conservative the republican, the more liberal it is. Liberal as meaning

Re: [Vo]:Milky Way and Andromeda collision

2012-06-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: That's long before Sol goes Red Giant, so we'll have a clear view. That's pretty exciting. Forget zombie-producing contagion or nuclear annihilation. The second video presents an apocalyptic vision of two galaxies tearing

Re: [Vo]:Milky Way and Andromeda collision

2012-06-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: All of this behavior is due to the effects of attraction caused by the nonlinear inverse square law. The material outside of the galaxies thus appears to be repelled ever faster and stronger as the distance increases. I

[Vo]:interesting articles

2012-06-03 Thread Eric Walker
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-european-energy-vulnerable-climate.html Increasing temperatures will affect how nuclear and coal-fired electrical plants will be operated in the future. It may be necessary to build new plants near salt water. The anticipated rise in heat in effluent cooling water

Re: [Vo]:discussion about RELIABILITY in LENR

2012-06-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: Of the 33 cells, 12 were showing no anomalous heat, and no anomalous helium was detected. 18 showed heat, and, from them, helium was detected within an order of magnitude of the helium expected from d - He-4. The

Re: [Vo]:discussion about RELIABILITY in LENR

2012-06-06 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Two questions: - Do we have solid evidence that there is a dynamic NAE rather than a static one? Or is the evidence just barely above noise at this point? - If there is no clear evidence yet, is there a clever experiment that could settle this question for at least one

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