Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion : factory location

2011-12-23 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Well, If they want to be consistent with their statement that they would warm up the Police Academy they need to have an industrial facility quite close to it. There are not many other buildings that qualify. Giovanni On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion : factory location

2011-12-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:25 PM 12/20/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: AND HERE IT IS ! Go on the left of the academy and you see a symbol of a factory. If you translate from Greek this what you get: Former Factory Atmatzidis Defkalion says no : http://www.defkalion-energy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4983#p4983

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Energy Liberator
Nice find. Now all we need is someone to do a drive by and take a few photos to see the progress of the factory. On 21/12/11 04:30, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: So the coordinates of the Defkalion factory are: 41.1188 24.8674

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Energy Liberator
On 20/12/11 20:32, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jed Rothwelljedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Defkalion is not only starting a company, it is developing revolutionary technology, dealing with complex business arrangements, and dealing with Rossi, who is a difficult person

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I guess there is no evidence if you cover your eyes and your ears and yell nya, nya, I can't hear you!! like a 5-year-old. There is plenty of evidence if you look up Ni-H experiments at LENR-CANR.org. There is a

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: But what is wrong with that?!? Nearly every effect discovered since 1700 has started off on a small scale, and was later scaled up: High temperature superconductivity has not yet been scaled up successfully for

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: How do you know these are extravagant claims? The claims are extravagant, whether true or not. Why else is everyone so excited about them? If these claims were true then they were not bluster. We don't know yet. I

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-20 08:37 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: Oh? On-demand production of **useful** heat? From gas phase hydrogen on nickel, with nothing but roasting to trigger the reaction? By roasting I assume you mean gas loading

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.comwrote: AND HERE IT IS ! Go on the left of the academy and you see a symbol of a factory. If you translate from Greek this what you get: Former Factory Atmatzidis It will house the 1 of the 3 plants of the company

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're being pedantic here. I love this urban dictionary definition: 3. pedantic 76 up, 45 down Ostentatious regarding one's intelligence. Using this word also makes you this word. T

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're being pedantic here. I love this urban dictionary definition: 3. pedantic 76 up, 45 down Ostentatious regarding one's

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Careful Terry.  Mark will complain you're wasting precious Vort bandwidth... or S/N ... or some such.  Or maybe he only chases after me? No, he knows I am the jester -- the doty old fool. Jes doin' my yob mon. T

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Well, this is what we know at this point: there is a Police Academy in Xanthi, there is a building that is an industrial facility at a reasonable distance near by, somebody labeled the factory as associated with Defkalion. Also the article from a local Xanthi newspaper I have indicated mentions

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: But I agree with you all this doesn't prove that they will. It just shows that if they are creating an elaborate scam they take at least care to have some minimal props for it. If this is an elaborate scam, they are creating maximum props for

RE: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Careful Terry.  Mark will complain you're wasting precious Vort bandwidth... or S/N ... or some such.  Or maybe he only chases after me

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Jed, My assessment was based on what I found on the web about some of the factual evidence as the existence of the Police Academy, industrial buildings near by, local newspaper article and so on. The article also mentioned the intention of the company to hire scientists and other personnel.

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Rocha
Didn't you say before that they were there just to check the reactors and not do testings? Wouldn't days count as a test? I don't get it. 2011/12/21 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com * Invited experts to see this for days at a time and managed to fool them. This alone would be an astounding

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: All the other statements you make are based on your witness's report to you. I want to give the benefit of doubt to that but I don't consider it factual evidence at this point. Why not? Do you think I am making it up? Do you think my informant

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.comwrote: Article on Defkalion from a local Xanthi newpaper: http://www.xanthipress.gr/eidiseis/politiki/8221-o-antiktipos-gia-ti-defkalion-stin-xanthi-i-epomeni-parousiasi.html That was from June 28, 2011 and IIRC was

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Didn't you say before that they were there just to check the reactors and not do testings? Wouldn't days count as a test? I don't get it. No, I said No tests were done by this observer (actually observers) meaning they did not bring their own

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Do you think I am making it up? Do you think my informant is crazy? The thing is we don't know. I doubt your above rather extreme propositions but that someone could make inadequate observations and jump to erroneous

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
With meteorite sightings you have many witnesses in many countries. The path of the meteorite can be traced sometime (if the witness knows a little about constellations and cardinal directions). Only collecting a lot of this information one can apply it for useful science. I think in general the

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: . . . but that someone could make inadequate observations and jump to erroneous conclusions which then they reported to you -- that's as credible as the proposition that the information is correct. Are you serious? Do you sincerely believe that a

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-21 03:22 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com mailto:gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: All the other statements you make are based on your witness's report to you. I want to give the benefit of doubt to that but I don't consider it factual

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
But there is also scientific fraud, Unfortunately it happens everywhere even in prestigious institutions. There are even Science and Nature articles that have been retracted because the results described were shown later to be fraudulent. Scientists that have put a lot of stakes in a line of

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Harry Veeder
Plausible deniability is the 'modus operandi' of the zealous skeptic. Harry On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: With meteorite sightings you have many witnesses in many countries. The path of the meteorite can be traced sometime (if the witness

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: With meteorite sightings you have many witnesses in many countries. Not always. In many cases, only one witness sees them. In all cases of birdwatch sightings, or right whale sightings, only one observer sees them. Until LENR is something

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Aussie Guy E-Cat
When the technology gets to that stage, it will be powering your home. Amazing that you suggest successful replication by amateurs is needed before main stream science acceptance. Oh BTW that happened in 2002: http://www.lenr-canr.org/Experiments.htm#HighSchoolStudents They saw excess heat and

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: . . . but that someone could make inadequate observations and jump to erroneous conclusions which then they reported to you -- that's as credible as the proposition that the

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Plausible deniability is the 'modus operandi' of the zealous skeptic. Ah, but this is *im*plausible deniability. Santostasi will not believe it until every amateur enthusiast can reproduce the effect. That is a novel standard! I think he made it up on

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-21 03:50 PM, Mary Yugo wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com mailto:maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: . . . but that someone could make inadequate observations and

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: I remember that Defkalion used someone else's (Piantelli's?) images of high vacuum equipment in one of their news releases as if it were their own. No, they did not do that. A news organization did. I am suggesting your contact may have misconstrued what

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Harry, I cannot talk for all the other skeptics but in my case I can assure you that my skepticism comes from a strong desire for LENR to be true. But true is not wishful thinking (in fact it is the opposite). I have been disappointed so much in my professional and personal life from people making

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: LOL (well, snickering a little, anyway). Entertaining thought -- makes it sound like the link I posted earlier on the Paradyne boondoggle may have been more apposite than I realized at the time; it bears repeating: Did a computer expert go to

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Giovanni: Until LENR is something that every amateur enthusiast can reproduce and post on youtube, it will remain in the realm of pseudoscience. I disagree with that assumption. What the hell do amateur enthusiasts have to do with validation? Assuming the technology is valid, all I

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Andrea Selva
Jed please, for prcision sake, allow me to make a small correction to one of you sentences. You forgot only 2 words *If this is an elaborate scam, they are creating maximum props for it. *They said* they have: * * and so on. * 2011/12/21 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Giovanni

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Jed, What I meant that you need to accumulate a lot of reports around the world and over time to infer a pattern and make a useful inference about the phenomenon. For example, if many witnesses over the years see meteorites coming from a particular location in the sky and during a particular time

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: I cannot talk for all the other skeptics but in my case I can assure you that my skepticism comes from a strong desire for LENR to be true. But true is not wishful thinking (in fact it is the opposite). I have been disappointed so much in

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
I have seen a lot of pseudoscience products in WallMart as healing magnetic bracelets, shoe soles that can extract toxins from your body and so on. There is a lot of crap available commercially that makes all kind of claims. But while some amateurs don't know what they are doing, many of them

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-21 04:09 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: LOL (well, snickering a little, anyway). Entertaining thought -- makes it sound like the link I posted earlier on the Paradyne boondoggle may have been more apposite than

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Andrea Selva andreagiuseppe.se...@gmail.com wrote: Jed please, for prcision sake, allow me to make a small correction to one of you sentences. You forgot only 2 words *If this is an elaborate scam, they are creating maximum props for it. *They said* they have: * * and so on. *

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Harry Veeder
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Plausible deniability is the 'modus operandi' of the zealous skeptic. Ah, but this is implausible deniability. Santostasi will not believe it until every amateur enthusiast

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Jed, I do want LENR to be true. I have said that. In fact, because I consider such possibility so important that I want it to be true and verifiable and not something we desire to be true. This why my high standards. I didn't say that being reproducible by amateurs would be the only way I would

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Yes. For long enough to get through the contract awards process, and, as far as I can tell, for several years after that. If Paradyne had delivered on time and on budget the fake would never have been noticed. The article says: When Paradyne

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Simpler explanation: Jed's witness is not telling the truth. We don't know who this guy is so for our point of view this is completely possible that he is saying things that are not true. Unless we know more about the witness (and even in that case one witness would not be enough) we cannot say

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Are you kidding, or what? On 11-12-21 04:33 PM, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: I didn't say that being reproducible by amateurs would be the only way I would take LENR seriously. Multiple tests done by respectable scientists, with high sigmas, and blind methods blind methods ??? What, you

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't say that being reproducible by amateurs would be the only way I would take LENR seriously. Multiple tests done by respectable scientists, with high sigmas, and blind methods would be acceptable. This has been done for 22 years. High

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Blind testing is done in the social sciences and in medicine but not in physics. It's nutty to even suggest it. Actually, ahem Miles, Boss, Mizuno and some others did do blind testing. Single blind. That is to say, they knew the history of the

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Giovanni recently expressed the following proclamation: Until LENR is something that every amateur enthusiast can reproduce and post on youtube, it will remain in the realm of pseudoscience. Soon afterwards, Mr. Rothwell followed up with: I suspect you [Giovanni] are making up unreasonable

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Stephen, From your previous posts I guess you are joking. But if Rossi's can do it (and he is a clumsy amateur after all, maybe with some good machinist skills learned as a youth in his father shop) everybody should be able to do it, right? Fission is not that difficult to happen, just get a

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:38 PM 12/21/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: Simpler explanation: Jed's witness is not telling the truth. We don't know who this guy is so for our point of view this is completely possible that he is saying things that are not true. Unless we know more about the witness (and even in that

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OK, look, the Paradyne thing wasn't meant to be an exact analogy. But none the less, the thing it's being compared with is a site visit in which tests were *not* *performed*. The visitor supposedly verified that there was lots of nifty equipment on site, but didn't see it actually do

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Giovanni Santostasi wrote: We don't know who this guy is so for our point of view this is completely possible that he is saying things that are not true. Unless we know more about the witness (and even in that case one witness would not be enough) we cannot say for sure what is going on.

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
blush Oh, er, yeah, that kind of blind testing... yes, that makes quite a bit of sense, after all, doesn't it. On 11-12-21 04:49 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: Blind testing is done in the social sciences and in medicine but

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Are you serious? Do you sincerely believe that a professional scientist could spend several days in the laboratory talking to people, looking at instruments and data, and not recognize that the equipment is fake and the

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: They have many highly qualified professional scientists -- They had at least two people who said they were scientists, and sounded technically reasonable Who told you there are only two?!? Where did you get that information? I know more than two people there

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Blind tests are not done just in the social sciences. I work in the field of gravitational waves that coincidentally is another somehow controversial field. Just because it is controversial, just because it has a history of past false claims the almost 700 scientists, working in the scientific

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: Until LENR is something that every amateur enthusiast can reproduce and post on youtube, it will remain in the realm of pseudoscience. That will never happen. But

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher wrote: ps : On the demonstration front -- I once demonstrated a new Engineering Workstation --- schematic entry, logic simulation We were still coding the night before the exhibition floor opened (DAC 1983). Nobody noticed that after issuing a redraw of a complicated

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Iron has 10 times lower specific heat than water. It would store less heat, not more. It could not be heated more than a few hundred degrees with this equipment, so total heat storage would be less than it would with a

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: And remember, ... you're the person who thought the Rossi demo of October 6 was iron clad. I still do. So do many others. It probably did involve some iron (or steel) but hardly was conclusive. Iron has 10

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:13 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming the technology is valid, all I think that would be necessary for LENR to escape the realm of pseudoscience is for products that exploit the technology to be sold off the shelves of Home

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Maybe I'm missing something but it is not claimed over and over that LENR are tabletop experiments that are achieved with relatively simple equipment? Is not the incredible interest in LENR by supporters due to the fact that it could change energy production in such way that every household could

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:13 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Giovanni: Until LENR is something that every amateur enthusiast can reproduce and post on youtube, it will remain in the realm of pseudoscience. I disagree with that assumption. What the

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote a message that I happened to notice: Cold fusion is a simple experiment, and anyone should be able to follow the recipe, even if not from scratch. If the material is tricky, get it from someone who claims to be able to make it reproducibly. This is

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't matter. Heat stored in water is useless to keep water boiling. Heat stored in steel at a much higher temperature can keep water boiling until it cools down to the boiling point of water. Don't you now anything?

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
And this is why LENR is on the edge of pseudoscience. Because it is so damn difficult to do and when it happens (often randomly) it is not certain what really happened if anything. Giovanni On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-21 05:10 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: They have many highly qualified professional scientists -- They had at least two people who said they were scientists, and sounded technically reasonable Who told you there are only two?!? Where did you get that

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote a message that I happened to notice: Cold fusion is a simple experiment, and anyone should be able to follow the recipe, even if not from scratch. If the material is tricky,

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.comwrote: Maybe I'm missing something but it is not claimed over and over that LENR are tabletop experiments that are achieved with relatively simple equipment? Is not the incredible interest in LENR by supporters due to

RE: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
As far as I am concerned, I am looking for information that I would be happy to present to a 'friendly' member of staff in our Physics dept as reasonable evidence that there is something interesting going on that might be worth looking at. The reports of someone having visited Defkalion is

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
That would not stop amateurs from trying to reproduce the results and even improving on design, fuel and so on. Are you aware of the phenomenon of biohacking? People are fooling around with genetics in their home labs. This is actually pretty cool and I support the emergence of these citizen

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.comwrote: People are fooling around with genetics in their home labs. This is actually pretty cool and I support the emergence of these citizen scientists. Sorry- not cool: terrifying. How soon we forget the legend of

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.comwrote: Are you kidding, or what? On 11-12-21 04:33 PM, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: I didn't say that being reproducible by amateurs would be the only way I would take LENR seriously. Multiple tests done by respectable

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't say that being reproducible by amateurs would be the only way I would take LENR seriously. Multiple tests done by respectable scientists, with high sigmas,

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote a message that I happened to notice: Cold fusion is a simple experiment, and anyone should be able to follow the recipe, even if not from scratch. If the material is tricky,

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
I agree with Joshua well explained arguments. In particular I don't believe for a second that there is a overall scientist conspiracy against LENR. Maybe some strong skepticism due to the past of the field and the nature of the claims made that go beyond known physics but not outright close

RE: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Leguillon
The biggest problem with the early PF replication attempts was the lack of respect given to the reactants. People trying to replicate did not understand that it was a surface phenomenon. They did not understand that the cathode could be easily poisoned. They did not understand that the

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Harry Veeder
It isn't necessary to to have a strong desire for LENR to be true. You only need a desire to seriously examine the evidence, and if it isn't satisfactory to YOU, then move on to something else. What else do you want? If you need help processing your past disappointments then seek therapy. I have

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Mary Yugo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Robert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com wrote: Then call up MaryYugo, and invite her to dinner and a show. Show her it works, and serve up some crow. I prefer civet de lapin. Just out of curiosity, was there an RFG involved in the early experiments?

RE: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Leguillon
believe that Rossi had, in one of his blog posts, claimed that he'd always used it. Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:40:18 -0800 Subject: Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion From: maryyu...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Robert

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote a message that I happened to notice: Cold fusion is a simple experiment, and anyone should be able to follow the recipe, even if not from scratch. If the material is tricky,

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:45 PM 12/21/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: If LENR is real it would be a perfect ground for citizen scientists. Lets see ... poisonous nano-nickel powder, explosive high-temperature hydrogen, gamma rays (are you sure that you'll get eCat-level 500KEV, and not Celani's needle-pegging

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Robert, According to Newtonian gravity the unwarping would happen instantaneously (Newton of course didn't think of warping, he said I will not make any hypothesis about gravity's nature but only on how it works). But the unwarping happening in a finite time is one and the same with gravitational

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Harry Veeder
The staff? http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.1684.1323189515!/image/ehrsson.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/ehrsson.jpg harry

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
No, it is not necessary but I'm saying that to claim I have nothing against LENR per se. I was ecstatic when the FP announcement came out for the fist time. I was at my first year in Physics in Bologna and I thought I lived in an amazing time. The entire thing turned out to be pretty

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
What makes Rossi's better than a good science amateur? Giovanni On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 02:45 PM 12/21/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: If LENR is real it would be a perfect ground for citizen scientists. Lets see ... poisonous nano-nickel

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:54 PM 12/21/2011, you wrote: What makes Rossi's better than a good science amateur? Well, he hired Focardi to check on the radiation. So it WAS done under adult supervision.

[Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Defkalion asked an independent expert to contact me and discuss some aspects of the company and their technology. This person is well known to me and I trust him completely. For the time being he asks to remain anonymous, for good reasons. The expert has examined the machines and discussed their

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Peter
Yes, we know this all. Serious companies do always forward this stuff anonymously on lists like Vortex L. Ok, sometimes they use better more prominent channels like PESWIKI or Freeenenergytruth. This is a definitive proof of reliability and truth. Thank you very much!

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Mary Yugo
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Their upcoming products are revolutionary. They are the best LENR implementations ever produced. The expert says the prototype products are consistent with the specifications described in the web site. No tests were

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-12-20 21:09, Jed Rothwell wrote: The expert has examined the machines and discussed their business plans. He has made an independent in-depth evaluation lasting several days. He Do you mean that this person actually went there an examined the machines in person? Sorry if I'm being

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Defkalion is not only starting a company, it is developing revolutionary technology, dealing with complex business arrangements, and dealing with Rossi, who is a difficult person to do business with. So they *are*

AW: Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Yamali Yamali
I#39;m a little shocked by this. It isn#39;t information nor opinion - more some kind of propaganda. You#39;ve heard from somebody you trust completely but can#39;t say who and that somebody shared an opinion with you based on Defkalion asking him/her to do so, right? Who is protecting who? And

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-20 03:09 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Defkalion asked an independent expert to contact me and discuss some aspects of the company and their technology. This person is well known to me and I trust him completely. For the time being he asks to remain anonymous, for good reasons. OK, so

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea WHEN your consultant might do some tests? Soon, I hope. How can an independent in-depth evaluation lasting several days NOT involve doing tests? It is what engineers call a site visit meaning a formal evaluation or planning session made in

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Daniel Rocha
A site evaluation is something like what Matts Lewan did? 2011/12/20 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea WHEN your consultant might do some tests? Soon, I hope. How can an independent in-depth evaluation lasting several days NOT involve

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-12-20 03:42 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com mailto:maryyu...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea WHEN your consultant might do some tests? Soon, I hope. How can an independent in-depth evaluation lasting several days NOT involve doing tests? It is what

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: OK, so you cite someone you know, who is unnamed, who claims to have met someone he now knows, but whom you haven't met . . . How do you know who I have met, and not met? The engineering and business operations at Defkalion are highly promising.

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
In this case we have to give Jed some slack. What he described is what he was told by a persons he trusts as competent. And what Jed was told is that an initial fist visit was done and everything seems to be ok and as advertised. It is just an initial, first inspection in preparation for a more

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