[Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread James Bowery
A lot of the keyboard banging could be avoided if folks would simply preface their comments with 3 attributes: Business vs Science viewpoint Circumstantial vs Direct evidence Guilt vs Innocence presumption For instance, if someone has $2M in their retirement account and they're thinking about

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread James Bowery
Can't you just ban this noise-box, Jed? On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: The pseudoskeptics continually assert that their criticism of those who are investigating Rossi's claims has nothing to do with whether Pons and Fleischmann had any validity to their

[Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-15 Thread James Bowery
In the tradition of Alan Fletcher's exemplary skepticism: If the pressure at the output thermocouple of the Oct 28 demo exceeds the critical pressure of steam at the reported temperature, then there is no heat of vaporization represented in the mass flow hence in the imputed power level. We may

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Can't you just ban this noise-box, Jed? I can't ban anyone. Then that ends that discussion.

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-15 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/15 James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com If the pressure at the output thermocouple of the Oct 28 demo exceeds the critical pressure of steam at the reported temperature, then there is no heat of vaporization

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
) is to feedback from temperature to the heat-transport medium's mass flow rate. If there is no such control then I can't conceive of how the temperature is stabilized. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:18 PM, James Bowery jabow

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.comwrote: On 11-11-15 10:31 AM, James Bowery wrote: The pseudoskeptics continually assert that their criticism of those who are investigating Rossi's claims has nothing to do with whether Pons and Fleischmann had any validity

[Vo]:Temperature Control in E-Cat Self-sustained Mode

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
What controls the temperature in the E-Cat's self-sustained mode? I had presumed that all the work Rossi did to go from resistivity heated temperature control to self-sustained temperature control was geared around feedback of the temperature to the heat transport mass flow rate. I didn't have

Re: [Vo]:Temperature Control in E-Cat Self-sustained Mode

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
wrote: skeptical viewpoints re Rossi: John Pasquarette: Rich Murray 2011.11.11 On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:24 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: What controls the temperature in the E-Cat's self-sustained mode? I had presumed that all the work Rossi did to go from resistivity heated

Re: [Vo]:Temperature Control in E-Cat Self-sustained Mode

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: This doesn't apply to the reaction chamber itself if we presume Rossi's temperature-enhanced reaction rate is in play there. Regardless of how the pressure changes or what the phase mixture is, the temperature will continue to rise and the power level

Re: [Vo]:Temperature Control in E-Cat Self-sustained Mode

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
repeated assertions that reaction rate increases with temperature). On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:05 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: This doesn't apply to the reaction chamber itself if we presume Rossi's

Re: [Vo]:Temperature Control in E-Cat Self-sustained Mode

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
Ooops... my intuition screwed up on this one: Since the effective specific heat does not remain constant with temperature -- there is a discontinuous rise at the boiling point -- there is a dramatic rise in the effective heat transport with temperature at the boiling point (whatever it is for the

Re: [Vo]:Temperature Control in E-Cat Self-sustained Mode

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
By the way, this means that if the water in the reactor vessel is under enough pressure, the water pressure can be very high. This means, in turn, that if it goes through a pressure drop, it can be completely vaporized -- indeed superheated steam. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:56 AM, James Bowery

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
substantial prior to the thermocouple, resulting in a dry -- even superheated -- steam. So my originally post problem of estimating the pressure at the output thermocouple still stands as critical in invalidating the Oct 28 demonstration. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:23 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:12 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I've now conceived of how the temperature is stabilized without feedback control, and it doesn't require anything like mixed phase flow

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: That's true if there is no latent heat of vaporization represented in the liquid water. With careful setting of the water flow rate, one can approach vaporization within the reactor vessel without any actual

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I recall the manometer registered 3 bar, which is 300kPa which corresponds to a potential liquid water temperature of 130C at the exit from the reaction vessel. This doesn't leave him a lot of room to play with before

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.comwrote: ** On 11-11-16 08:59 AM, James Bowery wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.comwrote: On 11-11-15 10:31 AM, James Bowery wrote: The pseudoskeptics continually assert

[Vo]:Oct 28 Condenser Problem

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
Examining the condenser, the condenser channels are horizontal pipes in a vertical array. It _appears_ as though each of 7 channels does one round-trip, returning on the pipe just below. One channel would look like: ___ Inflowing vapor (___ Outflowing

[Vo]:E-Cat's Big Scientific Coincidence?

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
Is there a plausible explanation for why the temperature at which reaction initiates in the E-Cat just happens to be so close to the boiling point of water? A NiH system doesn't bear any particular relationship to water that I can see. Is this a big scientific coincidence/serendipity or is there

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat's Big Scientific Coincidence?

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 11:32 AM 11/16/2011, James Bowery wrote: Is there a plausible explanation for why the temperature at which reaction initiates in the E-Cat just happens to be so close to the boiling point of water? Mostly coincidence

Re: [Vo]:Oct 28 Condenser Problem

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
Erratum: One channel - The seven channels On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:21 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Examining the condenser, the condenser channels are horizontal pipes in a vertical array. It _appears_ as though each of 7 channels does one round-trip, returning on the pipe

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-16 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:59 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The pseudoskeptics are basically saying that all we have to do is look at the circumstantial evidence to know that even cursory investigation

Re: [Vo]:Steorn's HephaHeat Eclipses Rossi's ECat

2011-11-18 Thread James Bowery
Steorn is not stating anything about the input power requirements for their HephaHeat product in that product's web pages. The personal communication about 1kW was made regarding a FaceBook video of a device that might be construed to be related but is not claimed to be related by the Steorn

Re: [Vo]:Petroldragon and Leonardo Technologies, Inc.

2011-11-21 Thread James Bowery
This is a good example of why circumstantial evidence should be the last resort. Who can deny that Rossi was indicted and tried? Who can deny that the Italian government is corrrupt? Most importantly, how do you weigh the virtually unlimited bits and pieces of circumstantial evidence against

[Vo]:USPTO Lawlessness?

2011-11-21 Thread James Bowery
There have been many complaints about the US patent office refusing to grant anything that smacks of cold fusion ever since the mid 1990s. Patterson was, I believe, the last person to be granted a patent and he is now dead. Does anyone have a cite for an official communication from the USPTO

Re: [Vo]:USPTO Lawlessness?

2011-11-21 Thread James Bowery
Here is a search of uspto.gov for cold fusion: http://goo.gl/groRG I think this hit indicates that the formal stance is that despite it being incredible technology, cold fusion should be evaluated on the basis of utility: Examples of such cases include: ... a cold fusion process for producing

Re: [Vo]:Rossi opens 10 KW expression of interest list and sets 10 kW price

2011-11-22 Thread James Bowery
While it is almost certainly the case that by the time you take delivery in or about 2013, the most critical questions surrounding the E-Cat will have been answered, it is also almost certainly the case that Rossi will reach the 10,000 customer waiting list before those questions have been

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's interview with Tom and Doug

2011-11-22 Thread James Bowery
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Oh well . . . the first reliable historical report of airplane flight was published in Gleanings in Bee Culture by Amos Root, in 1905. Still published: http://www.beeculture.com/ Now only in archive.com:

Re: [Vo]:Rossi to come to the Massachusetts State House tomorrow

2011-11-22 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: MIT? How is that possible. MIT is the epicenter of the anti-cold fusion conspiracy... Now THAT's hilarious! With one hand MIT was trashing Fleischmann and Pons and with the other hand they were simultaneously bolting

Re: [Vo]:Rossi to come to the Massachusetts State House tomorrow

2011-11-22 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: James Bowery wrote: With one hand MIT was trashing Fleischmann and Pons and with the other hand they were simultaneously bolting out

Re: [Vo]:A U.S.P.O. policy regarding cold fusion

2011-11-22 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Someone was kind enough to dig up this document: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2100_2107_01.htm -- Forwarded message -- From: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 21

Re: [Vo]:Rossi to come to the Massachusetts State House tomorrow

2011-11-23 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.comwrote: ** MIT? How is that possible. MIT is the epicenter of the anti-cold fusion conspiracy... If they're the epicenter of the conspiracy

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-24 Thread James Bowery
My question: Did Sen. Bruce Tarr ask Rossi any questions to which Rossi provided surprising (to B. Tarr) answers? When an attorney calls a witness, he knows the answers before he asks the questions. The same applies to public hearings where an elected official invests his political capital in

[Vo]:Only the Paranoid Survive

2011-11-25 Thread James Bowery
The last book published by Intel founder Andrew S. Grovehttp://www.amazon.com/Andrew-S.-Grove/e/B000AQ48KWwas titled Only the Paranoid Survive. Senility or experience?

[Vo]:Atmospheric Vortex Engine Critical Questions

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
Chapter 5 (page 107) of the 2011 doctoral thesis Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vorticeshttp://vortexengine.ca/cfd/Diwakar_Natarajan_Full_thesis.pdf by Diwakar Natarajan concludes that cross-winds do not affect the power generation capacity of the AVE, but it appears that this is only with

Re: [Vo]:E-Cats and 450 deg C steam

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM, noone noone thesteornpa...@yahoo.comwrote: The big cost difference between E-Cat technology and conventional technologies will of course be the fuel cost. The fuel cost for a one megawatt cold fusion planet will probably be at least 1/1000 times less than one

Re: [Vo]:E-Cats and 450 deg C steam

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM, noone noone thesteornpa...@yahoo.comwrote: The big cost difference between E-Cat technology and conventional technologies will of course be the fuel cost. The fuel cost for a one

[Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
Although the kill file approach doesn't work due to responses, one can use email filters such as gmail's to filter not only on the from field but on words that occur in the body of the message. The increase in signal to noise ratio is a pleasure.

Re: [Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
Oh, I almost forgot: For gmail, the action to take upon filter match is delete. Others won't get rid of the noise. On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:32 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Although the kill file approach doesn't work due to responses, one can use email filters such as gmail's

Re: [Vo]:E-Cats and 450 deg C steam

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
series claims? -- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:07:33 -0600 Subject: Re: [Vo]:E-Cats and 450 deg C steam From: jabow...@gmail.com To: thesteornpa...@yahoo.com CC: vortex-l@eskimo.com On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov

Re: [Vo]:Dealing with the noise box

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: With GMail, it is better to reduce noise by searching unvanted people and keywords and mark them automatically as read. I tried that, but Gmail organizes things in conversations that includes read messages in the

Re: [Vo]:Atmospheric Vortex Engine Critical Questions

2011-11-28 Thread James Bowery
This waterspout video seems to support the laminar hypothesis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7ug1zoWWE On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Chapter 5 (page 107) of the 2011 doctoral thesis Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vorticeshttp

Re: [Vo]:Atmospheric Vortex Engine Critical Questions

2011-11-28 Thread James Bowery
Indeed, there is a similar phenomenon over land known as landspouts that are known to be laminar. It looks like Natarajan screwed up. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:07 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: This waterspout video seems to support the laminar hypothesis. http://www.youtube.com

Re: [Vo]:Congress cuts the Gordian knot of aviation patents in 1917

2011-11-30 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: ...There is precedent for this. In 1917, the United States wanted to begin large-scale mass production of aircraft for World War I. The industry was hamstrung by patent fights especially by the original patent which had

Re: [Vo]: ECAT Triggered by Cosmic Rays?

2011-12-05 Thread James Bowery
This morning, I ran across a truly classy cold fusion joke appearing in Charles Beaudette's book Excess Heat in that book's appendix: The Internet Noise Level written as a letter to Dr. I. M. Noteworthy. I was delighted to see Beaudette's association of the word noise with internet regarding cold

[Vo]:Codeposition of Ni/H

2011-12-05 Thread James Bowery
Since codeposition of Pd/D seems to be one of the better ways to get reproducible PF effects, and there has been a lot of work done in electrodeposition of Ni, with the inevitable result of Ni/H codeposition, where are the reports of anomalous heat in the world of Ni electrolysis?

Re: [Vo]:Codeposition of Ni/H

2011-12-06 Thread James Bowery
into nickel nano-powder. - Strong Coulomb barrier masking. - Gamma Radiation thermalization, mitigation, and prevention. Industry standard electrodeposition of Ni does none of these key things. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:57 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Since codeposition

Re: [Vo]:Codeposition of Ni/H

2011-12-06 Thread James Bowery
notice excess heat? On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Uh, I'm not talking about the E-Cat. I'm talking about a huge industry with a long history. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: There are three basic things that must

[Vo]:Nickel salts for sale?

2011-12-09 Thread James Bowery
Where can I get small quantities of soluble nickel salts? Nickel chloride would be fine. Reagent grade would be nice but not absolutely necessary. Hopefully I won't have a SWAT team of wannabe secret police attack dogs bashing down my door if I get my mitts on such an obvious threat to Homeland

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat production in the US has begun

2011-12-10 Thread James Bowery
Your interpretation of begun should be constrained by the context of the original question in which begun is contrasted with starting up. However, your interpretation of begun was not so constrained. I suggest you restate your argument with that in mind. On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM,

[Vo]:Recycling high temperature electrolysis with metal oxide fuel cell

2011-12-10 Thread James Bowery
It occurs to me that a since high temperature electrolysishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_electrolysisconverts steam heat to chemical energy in the form of separate flows of hydrogen and oxygen, and high temperature fuel cellshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_oxide_fuel_cellconvert

Re: [Vo]:Satellite Video Captures Cloaked Klingon Ship

2011-12-10 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: I have no idea of what it is but it is not an imaging fault as it was observed by another solar satellite. Yes it is. Look at the video taken from the opposite side of Mercury. If it was a real object, it would

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion and the 2012 Election Cycle

2011-12-14 Thread James Bowery
With the DoE consistently opposing funding of cold fusion research it is clear that if Rossi let's his e-Cat out of the bag, it will benefit Ron Paul, who has most visibly and consistently over time opposed the existence of the DoE. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:52 AM, noone noone

[Vo]:Policy Recommendations

2011-12-19 Thread James Bowery
As the theocracy unravels, opportunities for reform may present themselves. We can hope that such Reformation is not as bloody as that which followed Galileo but the modern era has given rise to much worse phenomena in reaction to calcified institutions, such as Pol Pot's Khmer

[Vo]:National Security and Population Structure

2011-12-27 Thread James Bowery
A young Nebraska farmer's son went to war against Germany and came back with code-breaking skills, as well as good DoD contacts. His name was William Norris. He started Control Data Corporation with a young engineer named Seymour Cray and, with 34 people out on Seymour's farm in Wisconsin (only

Re: [Vo]:Eatlim claims 50% thermal to electrical conversion efficiency

2011-12-30 Thread James Bowery
1000C input temperature can achieve 50% Carnot efficiency with an exhaust temperature of 362C Not quite hot enough for input to MHD ;-) On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 01:31 AM 12/30/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Lewis Larsen (Lattice Energy) discusses irony of LENR politics

2011-12-30 Thread James Bowery
The war against the phrase cold fusion seems to derive from some sort of attempt at spin control on the whole affair. At some level, if the phrase cold fusion can be debunked then the physics establishment can save face in the eyes of the vast majority of the population. It is that concern that

Re: [Vo]: wired.uk on defkalion

2012-01-01 Thread James Bowery
If there were a movie portraying a world made continually overcast by the environmental engineering of vampires so they could rule the world and keep humans as livestock -- and the sun breaking through anyway to burn them all alive as the climax, then we would be onto something. Short of that,

Re: [Vo]:Forbes: The Year of Cold Fusion

2012-01-01 Thread James Bowery
A founder of the US Tokamak program proposed just that in 1995: http://www.oocities.org/jim_bowery/BussardsLetter.html On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:06 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: It would be interesting if a form of X-Prize was set up to reward the group that reaches an

Re: [Vo]:COLD FUSION - The Answer to all our energy problems ?

2012-01-01 Thread James Bowery
He's off by a factor of ten on the amount of money that has been spent on hot fusion research. The assertion that the theory is now known is nonsense. It may be that one of the many theories out there is correct, but that doesn't mean it is known which of those theories it is. On Sun, Jan 1,

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion described how they got Rossi's formula

2012-01-03 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: However, Defkalion spokesman Alexandros Xanthoulis told Swedish science magazine NyTeknik that they know exactly what the catalyst is. In a piece of subterfuge, a spectroscopic examination was carried out on an E-Cat

Re: [Vo]:Cooper pairing of protons

2012-01-07 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: In Brian Ahern's work on the Arata effect, which... is NOT the F-P effect So we're witness to not one, but TWO miracles of energy production that just happen to involve hydrogen-metal systems? One miracle is enough to

Re: [Vo]:Cooper pairing of protons

2012-01-07 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: In short, forget the bogus two miracle argument. Sure I'll forget the bogus two miracle argument -- especially since I never encountered it. As for the valid two miracle argument, its not going to go away simply because

Re: [Vo]:Cooper pairing of protons

2012-01-07 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: You say: D+D = He4 reaction involves two pairs of fermions and even accuse me of 'forgetting' something. Where are these two pairs fermions of which you speak ? What did I forget? Where are two pairs of anything? Two

Re: [Vo]:Cooper pairing of protons

2012-01-08 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: In our everyday world of illusion, a miracle is a highly improbable event. But in the real world of quantum mechanics (QM), if it can happen, it will happen, but just not very often. That is a sense of the word miracle that

Re: [Vo]:Cooper pairing of protons

2012-01-08 Thread James Bowery
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: So if you back off the details a little ways and look at the generalize QM mechanism, the D+D reaction is still caused by QM entanglement and coherence---see Dr. Kim references section in the following:

Re: [Vo]:Cooper pairing of protons

2012-01-08 Thread James Bowery
properties. The difference in physical and nuclear properties between the two (D and H) is staggering – far more pronounced than two elements in the same column of the periodic table, such as nickel and palladium, for instance. ** ** Jones (see footnote) *From:* James Bowery

[Vo]:Stress-induced negative coefficient of temperature?

2012-01-09 Thread James Bowery
Something that occurs to me about the emergence of a negative coefficient of temperature at high loading of hydrogen in metallic lattices is that it may be related to the stress imposed by that loading. If stress reaches a point where charge carriers to emerge, then increasing the temperature may

Re: [Vo]:Storms on the Space Show

2012-01-11 Thread James Bowery
I think Charles Beaudette did a beautiful job of describing the pathological science of the establishment as the modern equivalent of scholars of Galileo's time refusing to look through Galileo's telescope. The studied ignorance of the excess heat data by modern establishment scholars, due to its

Re: [Vo]:Storms on the Space Show

2012-01-11 Thread James Bowery
Its always nice to separate myth from fact. Even though myth may possess more truth at times, it is also true that those who would deceive frequently rely on historical docudrama to abuse the power of myth. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Economic Effects

2012-01-11 Thread James Bowery
The only way to get capitalism to work is to shift the tax base from economic activity to the liquidation value of assets, and set the tax rate to the interest rate used to calculate liquidation value. But no one with wealth wants that to happen even though just about everyone who has high

[Vo]:Preparata's Intra-Cathode Current?

2012-01-12 Thread James Bowery
Ever since talk began about increasing cathodic charge carriers emerging with temperature at high loadings I've been trying to recall the name of the early researcher who attached an anode directly to his cathode as well as having an anode in the electrolyte, and I finally found the cite in Excess

Re: [Vo]:Preparata's Intra-Cathode Current?

2012-01-12 Thread James Bowery
on by others back then - can only have been because other researchers either didn't hear about it, or didn't think it was credible. On 12 January 2012 15:09, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since talk began about increasing cathodic charge carriers emerging with temperature at high

Re: [Vo]:Preparata's Intra-Cathode Current?

2012-01-12 Thread James Bowery
I should add that I _did_ attempt to find Preparata's original paper online and was unable to do so. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, I got double-whammied: 1) It was Beaudette that said 100,000 watts per cm^3 (that string is outside

Re: [Vo]:Preparata's Intra-Cathode Current?

2012-01-12 Thread James Bowery
Has anyone even tried to replicate Preparata's configuration that he claims he successfully reproduced FIFTY TIMES??? On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I should add that I _did_ attempt to find Preparata's

[Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
HAS ANYONE EVEN ATTEMPTED TO REPLICATE PREPARATA? Citing Preparata, Guiliano, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cold Fusion Calorimetry, (ICCF-6, vol 1, October 13-18, 1996), p. 136 Excess Heat by Charles Beaudette, 2000 edition, p 207: Preparata ...claims to have obtained *100%

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Yes, we're home. Yawn. Why should it be a surprise, if the answer is no? Because there do exist some actual scientists.

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Yes, but actual scientists need decent funding to do this kind of work. ... As mentioned in previous postings, palladium has hit $1000/ounce at times $100 for one foot of 1mm diameter palladium wire

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: $100 for one foot of 1mm diameter palladium wire http://www.bonanza.com/listings/1-FOOT-PALLADIUM-950-ROUND-WIRE-HH-18-GAUGE-JEWELRY/23681238 This is enough to replicate

Re: [Vo]:Hello? Anyone home?

2012-01-13 Thread James Bowery
BTW: The following should not be taken to mean that I believe most actual scientists are convinced that pursuit of replication of the Fleischmann Pons Effect is a moot point. I was merely trying to avert an irrelevant argument with Jones. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, James Bowery jabow

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Economic Effects

2012-01-14 Thread James Bowery
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Mauro Lacy ma...@lacy.com.ar wrote: ** On 01/11/2012 11:28 PM, James Bowery wrote: The only way to get capitalism to work is to shift the tax base from economic activity to the liquidation value of assets, and set the tax rate to the interest rate used

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread James Bowery
Although just a kid, I remember being outraged at the Indy 500 committee for handicapping turbines after Parnelli Jones nearly won in 1967 with his turbine car. http://www.autopuzzles.com/Indy1967.htm On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:23 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Jed Rothwell's

Re: [Vo]:Rossi comments on the It was sent back statement

2012-01-16 Thread James Bowery
Good grief. What is it with the Windom-Larson crowd? I mean while I'm skeptical that anyone has the theory to explain any of this yet, I will admit that Windom-Larson may be right. But still, why the religious wars? What's wrong with these people? On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Jones Beene

Re: [Vo]:Hank Mills: NASA, MIT, and the DOE have blood on their hands.

2012-01-17 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 01:37 PM 1/17/2012, Robert Leguillon wrote: From Hank Mills - *Pure Energy Systems News*: Original Source: http://pesn.com/2012/01/15/9602013_138_Million_Cold_Fusion_Holocaust/ Good grief : Just imagine that if

Re: [Vo]:Dick Smith warns against investing in cold fusion

2012-01-19 Thread James Bowery
This is one reason I focus on promoting Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed by Charles Beaudette. My own interest in cold fusion was curtailed by my attempt to get a project going at the Roselle Street offices of Science Applications International

Re: [Vo]:Podcast interview about Ian Bryce's e-Cat investigation on behalf of Dick Smith

2012-01-21 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Robert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com wrote: It should be quite obvious by now, that there are a lot of people being separated from their money without any product testing...purely as investors. Under what pretext? Sales territories?

Re: [Vo]:Stable Fusion??

2012-01-22 Thread James Bowery
In the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson: WHO SENT YOU? On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Dusty Bradshaw d_bra...@bellsouth.netwrote: I have been having some success heating my house with a device that consists of unpressurized proteins, sugars, starches, and waters that undergo heating

[Vo]:Full text: Independent Testing on Hyperion Reactors

2012-01-25 Thread James Bowery
Independent Testing on Hyperion Reactors Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) is ready to further allow third parties to evaluate its core technology: a multi stage LENR reaction between Nickel and Hydrogen. PDGT has successfully completed its scientific, technological and

Re: [Vo]:Preparata's Intra-Cathode Current?

2012-01-27 Thread James Bowery
The error remains in the 2002 edition. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, I got double-whammied: 1) It was Beaudette that said 100,000 watts per cm^3 (that string is outside of the quotation marks meant to designated Preparata's words. 2) Lynn said

[Vo]:The Antagonists - Documentary about CF History.

2012-01-31 Thread James Bowery
The Antagonists is a better-directed epithet. Although pseudo-skeptics does capture an important dimension of the crime against humanity, it doesn't get as close to the heart of the matter. Perhaps a phrase involving establishment would be even better. The Inquisitors might be better than The

Re: [Vo]:The Antagonists - Documentary about CF History.

2012-01-31 Thread James Bowery
, or the new chosen-one is to be with us in these final days ... From: James Bowery The Antagonists is a better-directed epithet.  Although pseudo-skeptics does capture an important dimension of the crime against humanity, it doesn't get as close to the heart of the matter.  Perhaps a phrase

Re: [Vo]:Cross-over technology

2012-02-03 Thread James Bowery
The fervor with which W-L adherence advocate that theory is appropriate for a theory that has been strongly inferred experimentally against the array of competing theories. However, I see no such strong inference in evidence. Assuming nanotech can fabricate structures at the 15nm feature size,

Re: [Vo]:Concerning Rossi's attempts to achieve adequate Patent Protection

2012-02-03 Thread James Bowery
An executive has fiduciary responsibility to his stockholders. This means he must pursue due diligence regarding the protection of the assets of the company. Since the USPTO has made the patentability status of cold fusion claims unclear, for Rossi to expose his trade secret in a patent

Re: [Vo]:Concerning Rossi's attempts to achieve adequate Patent Protection

2012-02-03 Thread James Bowery
From the Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54964-2004Nov16_2.html : Research money has dried up. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused to grant a patent on any invention claiming cold fusion. According to Esther Kepplinger, the deputy commissioner of

Re: [Vo]:Claims of Fraud Heating Up

2012-02-10 Thread James Bowery
At this point Krivit's purpose in life appears to be little more than damage control for institutional science. He will fail. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Of course Krivit weights in http://www.livescience.com/18415-ecat-cold-fusion-fraud.html

[Vo]:Russ George's May 6, 1999 Cold Fusion Times article?

2012-02-15 Thread James Bowery
I'm attempting to obtain a copy of Production of Helium-Four from Deuterium Using Nano-Particle Palladium by Russ George, published in the May 6, 1999 issue of Cold Fusion Times on page 1.

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Vertical farming in Linköping, Sweden

2012-02-19 Thread James Bowery
Humans burn calories at a rate greater than 100W. Photosynthesis, in the best conditions (algae) converts only about 6% of insolation to biomass. The plants typically used in vertical gardening are more like 1% efficient at generating biomass, and of that biomass only about 20% is actually

Re: [Vo]:Professor Rossi and The Crazy Ones

2012-02-22 Thread James Bowery
Grammar correction: Think differently not Think different PS: They forgot Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot just sayin' On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Ron Kita chiralex.k...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Vortex, In case you haven t seen the Youtube the Crazy Ones by Steve Jobs:

Re: [Vo]:Andrea Rossi and Siemens working together.and more

2012-02-26 Thread James Bowery
Can't be. Rossi's inlet temperature is 524K. With an outlet temperature at 373K (100C) the maximum Carnot efficiency is only 29%. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: SST-040 looks a good candidate : 300kW from 1MW

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