Re: Big CF breakthrough reported
Sources say there has been big breakthrough with CF Pd-Rh alloys. A company called Innovative Energy Solutions Inc. has been formed to market the technology. See: http://iesiusa.com/ - Jed For more than three months since a large exchange in the beginning of march 2005, we have not heard about IESI. Have they been visited by competent people which coud give us news of this supposed fantastic breakthrough or does it exist non disclosure agreements that prevent them to talk ? Or is it dead ? We would be happy to know Jean de Lagarde.
Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!
Interesting. Harry William Beaty wrote: Yes! It contains one of my hot-button topics: WELDING SPATTER ACTS WEIRD.
Re: Big CF breakthrough reported
Jean, Sources say there has been big breakthrough with CF Pd-Rh alloys. Aha... ! Is it merely coincidental - or were you considering Pd-Rh alloy for the MAHG? At least, something close to this was conclusion was also arrived at by me recently, based on a wide study of the literature of the hydrogen properties of what is available for use as electrodes - but substituting the next element in the periodic table - i.e. Ruthenium instead of Rhodium. Just based upon the numbers, it looks to me like a roughly 50-50 alloy of Pd and Ru is the best choice for MAHG - but then again - I am assuming a non-nuclear anomaly, while I suspect that you are considering a LENR effect. It will be interesting to see... ... and the best news about Pd-Ru alloy is - that despite whatever claims are made by others - the use of Pd-Ru in a hydrogen cell was patented in 1982 and that IP has long since expired. From the Kujas patent: Negative hydrogen electrode comprising an alloy palladium and ruthenium United States Patent #4,460,6601982 it is evident that, in such a cell, the hydrogen can only be converted into electrical power by means of the catalyst in the catalytic electrode. It follows that the efficiency and durability of the catalyst is frequently the determining factor of the useful life of such a fuel cell. Conventionally, the catalyst in such electrodes is generally an alloy of two or more metals including at least one noble metal such as platinum, ruthenium, niobium or the like. It is known that, in such cells, these catalyst materials can be poisoned by coming in contact with, e.g. copper in the electrolyte, or nickel which has broken away from the anode. Another hazard to the catalyst electrode in a nickel/hydrogen fuel cell is overconcentration of the electrolyte at higher polarization which results in electrolyte salt crystal formation on the catalyst surface. Any of these phenomena will significantly decrease the potential of the cell resulting in loss of operating efficiency for the vehicle containing it. In the literature pertaining to nickel-hydrogen fuel cells, palladium is not included among the noble metals suggested as catalytic materials. There are several reasons for this. Palladium is very sensitive to the above-mentioned phenomena, **particularly poisoning by copper.** [side note: is this why LENR cells are erratic - self-poisoning?} A pure palladium catalyst can be poisoned by amounts of copper measurable in angstroms. [side note #2 - copper is the most common transmutation product of LENR - that is pretty clear. If Kujas is correct, then LENR cells may be poisoning themselves with Cu !!] In addition, a pure palladium catalyst would be particularly unsuited for a nickel-hydrogen fuel cell because, under standard conditions in such cells, it will absorb up to 800 times its own volume of hydrogen. Further, pure palladium has shown a tendency to release from the support material during operation of test cells. In accordance with this invention, it has been found that palladium alloyed with ruthenium is unexpectedly substantially improved in tolerance to all of the aforementioned phenomena. In addition, the palladium/ruthenium electrodes provided in accordance with this invention are superior in operating efficiency to electrodes combining alloys of ruthenium with other noble metals such as platinum. Very interesting - I have spent days reviewing this FC electrode literature - and it amazing to me that many CF researchers are unaware of the depth of detail available in this field (active hydrogen electrodes) due to fuel-cell research. The problem is that much of it is unpublished trade-secret, and that the cross-over was never seen as a real possibility. However, I think it goes without saying that an alloy which is particularly good for a fuel cell would be a good 'candidate' for a MAHG or even LENR cathode (certainly it is no guarantee) - if only because some of that efficiency in the FC could possibly be related to non-chemical energy - whether it be LENR, of more likely a ZPE bare-proton effect. This could also be why one continues to hear anecdotal stories of FCs that appear to operate at overunity for considerable periods. And the self-poisoning effect is definitely an item that needs further attention. Jones It would not surprise me that Innovative Energy Solutions Inc. which is little more than an idea which has been incorporated, has now discovered the substantial IP problem which they face, due to Kujas et al. and decided to go trade secret from here on out.
Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!
At 09:05 pm 17/06/2005 -0700, you wrote: On that hot-streamer.com/mike2004 archive, Mike V's mpeg of Ball Lightning interviews is 180 Megs and takes ~hour to download (at 30Kb per sec!) I clipped one interesting segment out. Take a look at: 1cm glowing spheres: Golka shorts a battery bank (30 Meg video file) http://www.eskimo.com/~bilb/GolkaBL.wmv Yes! It contains one of my hot-button topics: WELDING SPATTER ACTS WEIRD. If you've ever watched arc-welders, you'll note that the metal spatters appear to be glowing spheres perhaps 1cm in diameter, but then they shrink enormously as they cool, turning into tiny balls of metal. I've been wondering about this since I was eight years old watching welders at a commercial garage. I've seen the problem mentioned in books, and they explain it as a visual illusion, a radiating retina effect where intensely bright objects tend to look larger than reality, because the bright light on your retina travels sideways through the retina. Therefore a pinhead-sized metal fragment would seem to be the size of a grape, since the fragment was incandescently bright. Yet I was always confused about this, since the welding spatters *don't* look that bright, yet still appear to be fairly large spheres. And they seem to have a distinct surface. And they appear to clearly shrink as they cool. Finally here's the same phenomenon captured on video. Doesn't look like an illusion now. I bet the illusion explanation is wrong. But Golka claims that there's a salt-grain-sized metal fragment in the center of those 5mm glowing spheres rolling across the water. Really? They have a solid core? I'm suspicious! What if Golka bases his claim NOT on evidence (such as shadowgraphs of dark cores in the center of those spheres.) What if instead he ASSUMES that the metal grains were in the spheres. Maybe they're not. What if the glowing sphere *is* the metal fragment? What if our eyes aren't fooling us, and the glowing balls really do shrink down and turn into solid metal grains? What if those glowing balls are something terribly weird; matter in a quantum state half way between plasma and metal: metal with its electron-sea pumped to stunningly high energy, not a metal at all but an extremely dense plasma of electrons bound to positive ions? If those balls are as Golka says: metal vapor surrounding a tiny liquid metal droplet ..why would metal vapor take a spherical shape with a distinct surface, why wouldn't it just drift away like any flame would? The explanation doesn't make sense, and I suspect that it's wrong, just as the retinal illusion explanation was wrong. I suspect that we're looking at something unexplained.f If I'm right, then people have been staring right at Ball Lightning for decades, while at the same time fooling ourselves with wrong explanations which prove that welding-spatter is something mundane. I believe you are right because it is one more example of a phenomena which occurs on several different scales. It seems to me that the above, ball lightning, Buckminster Fullerenes, Shoulders clusters, and last, but by no means least, Paul Rowe's hydrogen are all essentially the same systemic phenomena at different scales. In short, they are the result of intense hierarchical sets of vortices set up by intense electrical discharge which involves (d^n)L/dt^n of very high orders. On the subject of the ultimate collapse of electron clusters to hydrogen it occurs to me that hydrogen might be manufactured in normal lightning strikes and that some of the explosive force of those strikes could be the result of a hydrogen-oxygen explosion. If this were the case I imagine that there would be some characteristic radiation or other evidence. Does anyone know what this would be? Cheers Frank Grimer
Cold Fusion Computer Research Cluster
Moin Steve, I was surfing e-bay the other day, and saw an entire internet cafe being sold for 999 euro in Berlin - 20 Pentium III computers with monitors, keyboards, mice, router, desks and chairs. Everything looked pretty well beat up, but for that kind of money, what the heck, right? Well, after doing the numbers, it turns out that clustering machines like this is not really cost effective, unless you can get them for free. I installed a version of Linux called Damn Small Linux on a co-worker's Pentium III home computer this week just to see if it would work. She caught a virus while using Win98 that rendered her machine unusable, and she asked me if Linux would run on her machine. She only had 64 Mb ram, and didn't want to spend any money. I told her that most of the major distributions require 256 MB ram to function comfortably, and that it was probably better just to stick with Win98. I was just getting ready to re-install Win98 for her when I ran across a review of Damn Small Linux. I downloaded it, burned it, and did the install. After the install and the re-boot, I was almost blasted out of my chair by the speed. The distro comes with a bunch of programs like a browser, email, VoIP, office stuff, CD burner, some games, and, and, and... AND the entire distro is only 50MB. This is with a nice, graphical interface, and I can fit the entire thing onto a 10 euro, 64 MB bootable USB stick, and still have a little room left over. What was amazing to me was the fact that the installation was fully automated, and required very little input from me. It automatically figured out what was in the machine, and had all of the appropriate drivers. The only thing that it choked on was the German keyboard, and after doing a bit of reading on the forums, I got that sorted out. While researching the keyboard problem, I ran into articles by people who were running this OS on old Ataris and Apples with as little as 16MB ram. This is when I semi-seriously considered buying the internet cafe. I had done some reading before on what it would take to roll your own Linux for any particular machine. It is reported that if you really want to squeeze as much performance out of a machine as is physically possible, compiling your own kernel and programs is what is required. I think that it could be done by someone with my level of experience, but it would take a lot of work and experimentation. Clustering a group of machines like the ones mentioned above would undoubtedly require a lot more of the same thing. What would get for your efforts? Well, the theoretical maximum for 20 PIII headless nodes would only be roughly 10 Ghz processing power with 1.2 gigs of shared ram. You can build your own Athlon64 with a gig of ram for well under 300 euros these days, and save yourself the expense of an industrial strength airconditioner. Still, the clustering idea has merits. If you do it like SETI on a voluntary WAN basis over the Internet, with a generic Linux OS like Damn Small Linux that will run on anything, including a modern toaster, you might be able to assemble enough computers together for free to do some serious computational analysis. Considering that most of us have machines that are way better than a PIII, I would think that a teraflop is easily within reach. Anybody interested in pursuing this? Knuke Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 15:43 schrieb Stephen A. Lawrence: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: For ~ $10,000 you can build a Beowolf cluster in your basement with at least a dozen computers running in parallel (but you'll need some pretty serious air conditioning). Oops -- that's Beow_u_lf, not Beow_o_lf. Like in http://www.beowulf.org/ Thinking of this makes me wonder why I haven't read anything about computational cold fusion experiments. (Maybe the fault is mine, and I just haven't noticed the work that's been done?) It seems like some of the theories are complete enough to allow simulation, and Linux (or Mac) clusters are cheap enough to build on a shoestring budget.
Re: 11th Annual Roswell International UFO Festival
http://www.newmexico.org/event/loc/calendar/page/DB-event/event/4289.html Using a better map, note a flight path westward from the Roswell "crash site" (where an alien craft hit a radar-stealthed payload on a Mogul Spy Balloon ) northwest of Roswell N.M., then over Trinity Site, at the NW corner of the White Sands Missile Range, where the first A-Bomb was exploded July 1945, then South of Langmuir Lab on South Baldy, , and over the St. Augustine Plains where the where there was a second UFO crash near where the VLA is now located paralleling US highway 60. State-of-the-art 1947 spy electronics required some hefty battery weight. The lead ET craft saw the balloon on radar, but, not the radar-stealthed payload hanging below it. Wham, two or three birds and a balloon with one stone. Ya-all Come. We need the money. :-) Frederick
RE: Grab this GOLKA/TESLA VIDEO FOOTAGE
From: William Beaty Here's a collection of Bob Golka videos: ball lightning, giant Geissler tube striations, etc. It's only there temporarily, so grab copies if you wish. See message below http://www.hot-streamer.com/mike2004/ Note: that server is pretty slow. I'll see if I can host mirror copies of the really huge mpegs. Slow indeed. I haven't been able to download anything. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
Simplexification- was: Grab this... FOOTAGE
Ever notice how the tekkie things which mushroom all around us - how these newer, better toys which we are becoming so enamored with - and are supposed to enrich and simplify our life - things like increasingly advanced computers, multifunction cell phones, Replay TV, iPods, PDAs, etc... ...well, yes... dammit - they end up making life much more complex than it used to be. Huh? That's not the promise of advanced technology is it? ... we must think that it's worth it, in the end, but how far can you carry this trend of cascading-high-learning-curves ? - I mean you could offer a course in mastering Replay-TV - how crazy is that. Well, BillB's message: Note: that server is pretty slow. I'll see if I can host mirror copies of the really huge mpegs. ...makes me realize that another layer of complexity is just-now on the horizon to meet this need of huge files needing to be transferred between small numbers of individuals with shared interests. The information in video form is getting massive - but the owners of the information may be experimenters who do no have their own servers, or may have access to only barely-affordable servers that cannot transfer large (100 Mb and up) files to hundreds of individuals. BUT they do have valuable data of intense interest for a limited audience of a few hundred. (how many are on vortex these days?) And it is easy to record it - some cell phones will do this. Anyway the answer is here. It is free, it is effective, but it does have another irritating learning curve. Some might not call it a high learning curve, but it takes 10-20 hours to get familiar with it like everything else worth having, it seems. just one more damn annoyance... in being an ageing techie, I guess... but this not-so-simple-stuff gets old after a while. I mean when you start with Cobol, and thought that would be the only language you would ever need to learn but it was pass before you got out of grad school, and then you go through forty years of more-of-the-same (almost-planned) obsolescence...only to find that there is this not-huge but annoying learning curve just involved in being a moderately well-informed retiree... when does enough become enough? Not anytime soon... so... get ready... It is called P2P and it is pretty cool. I finally have gotten it down, mainly as a result of tracking down old music, and admittedly there are some legality issues with the more enjoyable aspects (music) but this is just the tip of a huge iceberg (and, hey, I did buy all of those albums in vinyl at one time or another - in greatly deflated currency ;-) ... but one can easily see how this little added-layer of communication efficiency is going to revolutionize the flow of information, and take it to another level. Imagine observing an experiment - or attending a conference 10-thousand miles away, and getting this info the next day, no airplane ticket required - no hotel, etc. This is happening now, and will only increase with P2P. Jones
Re: Loopy field lines
Keith Nagel wrote: Hi Stephen, You write: Absent quantum mechanics, we could think of the iron atoms as having electrons orbiting around them. If we did that, and if we could get the orbits to line up in parallel planes, then voila, we would have a magnet -- the currents in the interior of the domain would cancel (in their effects) and the result would be as though there were a single current running around the outer surface. And we would be completely confused by our resulting experiments. Orbital electrons contribute a negligible amount to the field of a ferromagnet. In addition, when we apply an external field to the system you describe, the result should be a field opposing the applied field. We measure just the opposite in a ferromagnet, ??? So we do... I guess. Hmmm? One of these days I've got to learn something about magnets (like, macroscopic magnets rather than the fields of individual loose particles). Every time I get into a discussion of them I end up confused. I agree that the basic newtonian principle that a body in motion tends to stay in motion is valid, although an macroscopic electrified body in orbital motion will most definitely radiate EM waves, something which the electron seems not to do, so orbital type models must be gross approximations at best. Right; you need QM to explain that the electron can't radiate once it's in ground state. (Unless it can go to a sub-ground state la Mills.) Appropo of nothing, it was mentioned on PBS that it was the 100th anniversary of the publishing of Einsteins theory of SR. It was proclaimed, with a straight face, that Einstein discovered that all matter was made up of individual pieces called atoms. Wow. Someone better not tell Democritus, or Rutherford for that matter. Soon we won't need a history of science, it will all have been created by Einstein. Say, did you know Einstein invented the first cursor? Well I wish he hadn't -- they're all over sci.physics.relativity, just cursing up a storm Even some perfectly respectable relativity books blithely credit Einstein with the whole field, lock stock and barrel. You've got to find a text like the somewhat-incoherent-but-richly-illustrated Gravitation by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler in order to see any kind of discussion of the background ambience in which Einstein worked. I'm currently reading Hawking's Brief History of Time, in which a lot of space is devoted to the history leading up to relativity, and even there the contributions of most of Einstein's predecessors gets rather short shrift (though he does mention Poincar's independent development of the guts of SR, apparently completed within a few weeks of Einstein's publication, which I had not been aware of).
Re: New search engine
R.C Macaulay wrote.. Having mentioned in prior posts my interest in "quadratic computing" ( use of 4 computers rather than 2 ( parallel computing),Stephen Lawrence wrote... 4 computers? I don't understand. The concept of using 4 computer in quad form rather than parallel. The thought being of borrowing from a qaudratic equation type architecture. Two of the computer being for the purpose of " mirroring" a 3 d image segment of a variable.These values are in analog format and must be converted to digital . They can be digitized by taking a " snapshot" of the image which also provides a time link.The third computer would handle the differential and used to " bias" the 4th computer which is formulating the completion of the equation. Difficult to describe. The idea comes fromthinking of the function of asimple electronic process controller with proportional and reset plus derivitive action. One can imagine the number of computers in cluster that " quadratic" programmming may bypass.There are some wizzs playing with this concept that should get together with the guys that put XBox and Game Boy together. May seem in the realm of imaginary mathematics way beyond present levels , however, the science community is beginning to reach its limits in existing math formulation. Where is the next Newton ?? He may be 7 years old with an XBoxon each hip instead of six shooter cap pistols. Richard
