Re: D2Fusion Website Being Updated

[Jones Beene]

- Original Message - 
From: John Coviello


D2fusion is finally upgrading their website: 
http://www.D2fusion.com.  Some signs of life from this fledgling 
cold fusion enterprise.  Also, their parent company Solar Ltd. 
has seen some action in its stock SLRE the last few days. 
Perhaps something is brewing out in California?


...and a most interesting management lineup:
http://www.d2fusion.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=25&Itemid=52

cool ... but apropos of nothing really, I haven't seen this 
proportion of Boardroom facial hair in some time. Except for the 
CFO, this looks like a meeting of left-coast physics professors 
(probably not that far off !)


Revenge of the Greybeards? ... Pathological science with an 
Hollywood flair? ... or Al Gore as the neo-hipster trendsetter for 
the anti-mainstream?


Jones 

Re: Heim Theory: A Real Warp Drive

[Wesley Bruce]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I came across this while searching for six dimensional theories:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html

excerpt:

Claims of the possibility of "gravity reduction" or "anti-gravity" 
induced by magnetic fields have been investigated by NASA before (New 
Scientist, 12 January 2002, p 24). But this one, Dröscher insists, is 
different. "Our theory is not about anti-gravity. It's about 
completely new fields with new properties," he says. And he and Häuser 
have suggested an experiment to prove it.


This will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting 
coil to create an intense magnetic field. With a large enough current 
in the coil, and a large enough magnetic field, Dröscher claims the 
electromagnetic force can reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to 
the point where it floats free. Dröscher and Häuser say that to 
completely counter Earth's pull on a 150-tonne spacecraft a magnetic 
field of around 25 tesla would be needed. While that's 500,000 times 
the strength of Earth's magnetic field, pulsed magnets briefly reach 
field strengths up to 80 tesla. And Dröscher and Häuser go further. 
With a faster-spinning ring and an even stronger magnetic field, 
gravitophotons would interact with conventional gravity to produce a 
repulsive anti-gravity force, they suggest.




There's more here; but, this is harder to understand than 
Beta-atmosphere:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
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Nice one! This guys just reinvented John Searls seg. The seg self cools 
to extremely low temperature and has spinning rollers on spinning rings. 
If only we could convert Johns theory into equations we would be on our 
way. The field strengths are about right. Dröscher and Häuser may have 
done the equations that we need. Wont it be cool to have a true space 
drive finally. Wont it be even cooler to discover that we had a 
prototype in the 1960's! That will give the skeptics a migraine.

I wonder how the equations fit with Dr Podkletnov's work?

Japanese population falls, and other 2005 trends

[Jed Rothwell]

Preliminary results indicate that the population of Japan fell by 
~10,000 in 2005. This is the first time this has happened since 
modern censuses began in the late 19th century. In 1945, the total 
population probably declined, but the population in the Japanese 
archipelago increased because of people returned from Korea and other 
defunct colonies.


2005 probably also marked the peak of oil production, according to K. 
Deffeyes. (http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/) Also, the Toyota is 
poised to overtake General Motors as the world's largest auto 
manufacturer. The actual production numbers hardly matter, as pointed 
out by Koji Endo, auto analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston in 
Tokyo. He was quoted in an AP article:



"It's bound to happen either next year or the year after," Endo said 
of Toyota's outstripping General Motors. "But perhaps there isn't 
much point to the question. It doesn't make much sense to be 
comparing vehicle production numbers between the world's most 
profitable automaker and one that's on the verge of collapse."



I get a sense that history is progressing and that irrevocable, long 
overdue changes are finally coming about.


- Jed

Re: What's the story with light water CF, anyway?

[Horace Heffner]

The key to anode fusion lies beyond merely creating the oxide film of  
a passivated anode, as described by Bockris. [J. O’M Bockris and  
A.K.N. Reddy, Modern Electrochemistry, Plenum Press, p.1319 ff.]  The  
process of conditioning the anode must proceed to the point where an  
insulating barrier is created that permits an electrostatic field  
intensity sufficient to ionize an OH molecule.  In other words, the  
surface barrier of the oxide film must be thick enough that electron  
tunneling to the anode only occurs at a voltage beyond the ionizing  
voltage of the OH molecule.  When an electron is stripped from the  
neutral OH molecule (or possibly water for that mater) the proton of  
the OH molecule is freed, set lose within the high intensity  
electrostatic field required to create the electron catalyzed fusion  
generating cascade within the electrolyte.


Horace Heffner

Message to Prof. Kevles

[Jed Rothwell]

WHAT A JERK!

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Your comments about cold fusion

Dear Prof. Kevles,

Your comments about cold fusion are beyond the pale. Cold fusion was 
never "debunked" and even the harshest critics until now have never 
suggested that it was fraudulent. The cold fusion effect was 
replicated at high signal to noise ratios by researchers at the Naval 
Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at China Lake, Shell, Amoco, SRI, 
Texas A&M, Los Alamos, Mitsubishi Res. Center, BARC Bombay, Tsinghua 
U. and over a hundred other world-class laboratories. Hundreds of 
positive, peer-reviewed papers on cold fusion have been published in 
mainstream journals, including Ziran Kexueban, Curr. Topics 
Electrochem., Denki Kagaku oyobi Kogyo Butsuri Kagaku, Electrochim. 
Acta, Fusion Sci. & Technol., Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, J. Fusion 
Energy, J. Electroanal. Chem., Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Kotai Butsuri, 
Naturwiss., Phys. Lett. A, J. Phys. Chem. and ~200 others.


Hundreds of papers from the laboratories listed above are available 
on line at our web site, and in the on-line archives of Jpn. J. Appl. 
Phys. and other journals. So you can easily confirm these facts. I 
suggest you familiarize yourself with the literature before 
commenting on a field of research.


Sincerely,


Jed Rothwell
Librarian
http://lenr-canr.org/

Outrageous comments about cold fusion

[Jed Rothwell]

From the Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2006:

TRIALS & ERRORS

Barely a Drop of Fraud

Why It Shouldn't Taint Our View of Science

By Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles

Sunday, January 8, 2006; Page B03

Seldom in our history have fame, fortune or a heady mix of the two 
tempted so many people into committing fraud. The halls of Congress 
are reverberating with the jingle of hastily discarded donations as 
elected officials distance themselves from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. 
Onetime employees have not forgotten Enron, WorldCom and the giant 
compensation packages of failed CEOs.


No surprise, then, that South Korean biologist Hwang Woo Suk, the 
putative creator of Snuppy, the first cloned dog, should come to 
occupy the spotlight of suspicion. There is doubtless a sense of 
schadenfreude among people envious of -- and at the same time fearful 
of -- scientists whose work they only partially understand but 
nonetheless depend on. Some are even asking whether biomedical 
research can be trusted.


But the specter of a cloud of fraud hanging over the microscopes and 
telescopes of scientists around the world is largely imaginary. It is 
true that there have been some great scientific misdeeds in the past. 
Who can forget Piltdown Man , the manufactured fossil skull that 
puzzled anthropologists for decades? Or the claims of the discovery 
of cold fusion in 1989 at the University of Utah? But those examples 
are famous because they are so rare. And, as the South Korean stem 
cell case shows, the scientific process means that frauds are 
typically revealed before they harm anything but the reputations of 
the perpetrators themselves. The far greater risk is that they erode 
our faith in science.


After all, the vast majority of scientific research is honest. True 
enough, laboratories such as Hwang's are filled with men and women as 
eager as the rest of us for fortune and fame. In their case, fortune 
can range from the renewal of grant money (many U.S medical 
researchers depend entirely on this rather than salaries) or 
financial gain in the form of patents or stock options. For a special 
few, fame can mean Nobel Prizes. But the risks of fraud are very 
great as well. The taint of cheating can end a career in science in a 
single blow.


The world of science is also intensely competitive, and there is a 
certain satisfaction within the scientific community when the 
spotlight of suspicion falls on a superstar like Hwang. He had 
enjoyed the kind of meteoric rise that most only dream of. A 
veterinary researcher at Seoul National University, Hwang won 
attention in 2004 for a paper in the pages of Science, the 
prestigious journal of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, documenting the first therapeutic cloning of new lines of 
stem cells from human embryos. Within a year, Hwang reported the 
cloning of Snuppy in the British journal Nature.


These accomplishments made Hwang a hero in his home country, and his 
laboratory received millions in government funds. But almost as 
rapidly as his star had risen, his work was targeted by investigative 
reporters from a Korean television network, and a Korean scientific 
Web site uncovered false claims in his articles. Alerted to the 
irregularities, Hwang's American co-author, Gerald Schatten of the 
University of Pittsburgh Medical School, terminated his collaboration 
and later asked that his name be removed from the papers. Hwang, 
suffering from stress, announced he was retracting the Science paper 
but maintained that his work was basically sound.


So there it stands. Hwang has suggested that someone, perhaps an 
assistant who had left his lab to take a job in Pittsburgh, may have 
switched the samples that were tested, and that he had, as he 
asserted at first, achieved the cloning. The issue is still muddled 
but what is clear is that in less than two years since Hwang made his 
claims, this case of scientific fraud has come to dominate headlines.


In the international field of stem cell research, controversy mounts 
upon controversy. First, there is the question of the efficacy of the 
peer review system, in which a journal's editor sends a paper to 
authorities in a field who decide if the work is original and 
valuable. Less visible in this instance is the nature of the research 
itself, which some scientists oppose on moral grounds. The cascading 
series of accusations runs the gamut from questions about the source 
of the human eggs and the technique used to create -- if Hwang 
actually did -- new stem cell colonies.


These experiments occurred outside the circle of Western science, 
raising questions, too, about the regulation of research elsewhere. 
There are thousands of scientists working in Asia, many of whom, 
unlike Hwang, were trained in the United States. There are also more 
scientific journals than ever before (although the journals Hwang 
published in are the oldest and most respected of them all). While 
everyone in the field ag

2006 : the year of the "small" ?

[Jones Beene]

We all have some sensory perception for the heating ability of 
microwaves and lasers.


That makes it all the more important to have the greatest respect 
for the "usable" level of energy found in the ultraviolet and 
gamma spectra, which we experience differently from a sensory 
perception.


It should be axiomatic, that when we want to rave-on (justifiably) 
about the coming "nano" age, and the importance of nano technology 
to the coming LENR revolution, that we also have a grasp for the 
corresponding energy-density available using sub-micron radiation. 
UV radiation starts at about 300 nanometers.


It has been over 5 years since this announcement below, which is 
about the minimum time necessary to get prototypes to market:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/10/001026091106.htm

Here is one of several important web-sites for a handful of 
companies now making these solid state UV lasers. My New Year 
prediction for 2006 is that they will be used this year for the 
first time, ushering-in the next step in LENR (but no one else in 
the field may yet realize this for a few months).

http://www.dpss-lasers.com/NewsArchive.htm

BTW, let me confess up-front that my 2005 predictions were not 
very accurate. Hopefully they were just premature in the timing, 
rather than wrong.


I was recently mentioning to Frank Grimer the implication of the 
inverse 5th power which is part of Planck's Law when expressed as 
spectral energy density as a function of wavelength. There is an 
inverse fifth power law, so basically the implication is that if 
you can half the wavelength of applied input radiation in the 
relevant photon, then the "energy density" at an active site can 
increase by a factor of 32.


For instance, even if both of two different one-watt lasers are 
employed, one visible and one UV (having the same total power) the 
actual end-result experienced at active sites, in a Letts/Cravens 
type LENR experiment, will not be the same - but instead there 
will be available an increase of x32 using UV.  IOW, although the 
net input of energy remains the same, it will be expressed 
differently at the sub-micron level at the nuclear active site.


Actually this 5th power is not exactly what "always" happens in 
practice, except at shorter wavelengths, but it is interesting to 
realize in regard to the possibility of augmenting an LENR 
reaction.  In regard to the Letts/Cravens experiment where visible 
laser light is used, then by substituting a UV laser for the 
visible, if say the wavelength were halved, then the energy 
density at the active site could experience an increase of 3200% 
... correct?


As a follow-on to previous postings about the overriding problem 
inherent in LENR of "reverse economy of scale" consider the 
implication of all of this.


The immediate implication is that the individual LENR cell of the 
future will be very small. It might consist only of one 
solid-state laser and a "dot" of metal loaded with D2. These cells 
might even be manufactured several hundred at a time using 
microlithography etching. The limitation of ultimate "smallness" 
will likely be related to the size of the UV laser... IF ...  that 
is (big if) the Letts/Cravens effect can be harnessed reliably - 
and, yes, there is much indication of that reliability coming from 
the folks at SRI.


Yet I do not think that even the geniuses at SRI have yet realized 
fully the implications of "reverse economy of scale" and how this 
chapter of the effort will now begin to unfold - that is by going 
smaller, not larger... and obviously this process will be aided by 
using all that we have learned from semiconductor manufacturing 
... which BTW includes the TEC conversion cell itself (direct heat 
to electricity conversion) which can be etched onto the chip at 
the same time, in theory. And guess what - SRI is perfectly 
located to take advantage of all this expertise.


This smallness only makes sense in a "net" energy approach when 
there is a large multiple coming from the underlying reaction 
itself. Obviously, this is always true in the nuclear scenario 
where the ratio is usually from a million to one (compared with 
combustion) to 10 million to one.


Any guesses on who will be the first LENR researcher to apply a UV 
laser to a small cell? Perhaps it will be someone lurking out in 
Vo-land whose mental-light-bulb has just now been switched on. 
Blacklight light-bulb no less.


Jones 

Re: Heim Theory: A Real Warp Drive

[Grimer]

At 12:39 pm 07/01/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>I came across this while searching for six dimensional theories:
>
>http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html
>
>excerpt:
>
>Claims of the possibility of "gravity reduction" or "anti-gravity" 
>induced by magnetic fields have been investigated by NASA before (New 
>Scientist, 12 January 2002, p 24). But this one, Dröscher insists, is 
>different. "Our theory is not about anti-gravity. It's about completely 
>new fields with new properties," he says. And he and Häuser have 
>suggested an experiment to prove it.
>
>This will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting 
>coil to create an intense magnetic field. With a large enough current 
>in the coil, and a large enough magnetic field, Dröscher claims the 
>electromagnetic force can reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to 
>the point where it floats free. Dröscher and Häuser say that to 
>completely counter Earth's pull on a 150-tonne spacecraft a magnetic 
>field of around 25 tesla would be needed. While that's 500,000 times 
>the strength of Earth's magnetic field, pulsed magnets briefly reach 
>field strengths up to 80 tesla. And Dröscher and Häuser go further. 
>With a faster-spinning ring and an even stronger magnetic field, 
>gravitophotons would interact with conventional gravity to produce a 
>repulsive anti-gravity force, they suggest.
>
>
>
>There's more here; but, this is harder to understand than 
>Beta-atmosphere:


I'm very glad to hear it, Hohlraum. 8-)

As the unveiling of the Beta-atmosphere
proceeds I am confident that you will 
find it easier and easier to understand. 

If you really want to get stop press on 
the Beta-atmosphere and hear of new 
developments before they are edited and 
placed on Vortex, you should really 
become a moderator of the Beta-atmosphere 
Yahoo Group. This will allow you to read 
the files in the File and Photo section 
and download such files at maximum 
resolution so that the pages I haven't yet 
had time to OCR can be read at maximum 
resolution without straining your mince 
pies.  ;-)

Cheers,

Frank

Heim Theory: A Real Warp Drive

[hohlrauml6d]

I came across this while searching for six dimensional theories:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925331.200.html

excerpt:

Claims of the possibility of "gravity reduction" or "anti-gravity" 
induced by magnetic fields have been investigated by NASA before (New 
Scientist, 12 January 2002, p 24). But this one, Dröscher insists, is 
different. "Our theory is not about anti-gravity. It's about completely 
new fields with new properties," he says. And he and Häuser have 
suggested an experiment to prove it.


This will require a huge rotating ring placed above a superconducting 
coil to create an intense magnetic field. With a large enough current 
in the coil, and a large enough magnetic field, Dröscher claims the 
electromagnetic force can reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to 
the point where it floats free. Dröscher and Häuser say that to 
completely counter Earth's pull on a 150-tonne spacecraft a magnetic 
field of around 25 tesla would be needed. While that's 500,000 times 
the strength of Earth's magnetic field, pulsed magnets briefly reach 
field strengths up to 80 tesla. And Dröscher and Häuser go further. 
With a faster-spinning ring and an even stronger magnetic field, 
gravitophotons would interact with conventional gravity to produce a 
repulsive anti-gravity force, they suggest.




There's more here; but, this is harder to understand than 
Beta-atmosphere:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heim_theory
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Re: What's the story with light water CF, anyway?

[Horace Heffner]

On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:

Thanks for the additional explanation and the reference to the 2002  
paper.


I'll take the time to read what you've already said about this a  
bit more carefully before I post any further comment 


No need for blushing!  This is not trivial stuff, at least for me.   
In fact, Nyle Steiner refers to the conditioned electrode as the  
cathode in :


Begin quote:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
- - - - - - -
"The aluminum becomes the cathode after a forming process of applying  
some ac current through the rectifier. Often, many jars were used in  
order to accomodate high voltages. It has been reported from various  
sources, that these rectifiers would also emit a faint glow when in  
operation.
While experimenting with these rectifiers, I have found them to work  
quite well and I have been able to observe the glow. It was also easy  
to make full wave rectifiers using more than one rectifier in  
traditional full wave rectifier circuits.


A rectifier can be easily made by mixing borax or baking soda into a  
pint jar of water and inserting an aluminum strip and a strip of  
another metal. After a forming process of running ac current between  
the two electrodes, the aluminum electrode becomes the cathode and  
the other electrode becomes the anode.


It seems that aluminum is necessary for the cathode, but the anode  
can be just about anything that conducts electricity. The aluminum  
cathode can be a 3/8" wide strip cut from an aluminum pie plate. The  
anode can be lead, carbon, steel or stainless steel. Copper tends to  
make a bluish green mess and does not seem as desireable. I have  
found most types of anode materials to work the same but the  
differences may be a long term effect not easily observed in the  
course of my experiments."
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- - - - - - -

end quote.

This is utterly confusing when the objective is to obtain the blue- 
green glow and *not to build or describe a rectifier*.   When a cell  
with a conditioned electrode (e.g. aluminum or nickel) and a neutral  
electrode (e.g. platinum) is operating as a diode and is in the  
maximum current direction, i.e. the "forward" direction, the  
conditioned electrode is indeed the cathode, from an electrochemical  
point of view.


However, if the objective is to drive the cell with DC current in  
order to condition an electrode or to produce the blue-green glow,  
then it is the *anode* that is the electrode where this happens.   
This is fully consistent with the notion that the glow occurs during  
reverse bias of the diode cell.


Below is the report of the experiment where I first discovered the  
glow was occurring on electrodes operating as anodes, and where I was  
very careful to check the diode polarity and to conduct control  
experiment to rule out the added HV diodes as being part of the  
effect. At the time I was unaware that glow on electrolytic rectifier  
plates was commonly known, or even that they existed for that matter.  
I was doing electrospark experiments, so even distinguishing the glow  
regime from the electrospark regime in the AC experiments was a  
pretty exciting event.  The DC experiment was quite a surprise.  As  
you might be able to tell from the report, I had doubts about the  
polarity.  It just was not what I expected.


Begin report by H Heffner
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- - - - - - -

Experiment Report 11/7/97

Added water to electrolyte to compensate for evaporation.

"Warmed up" cell by running at about 100 mA (variac at 10 then up to  
to 20 %) for about 5 minutes. Glow clearly visible in dark but noise  
not yet started.


Put some dummy diode pairs (P1 and P2) rated at  15kV Peak V, 100 mA,  
into circuit like so:



P1 and P2 both look like:

 -|>|---
   ||
   ---|<|


Circuit:


 V1T1--A1---P1--o
 ||||
 V1T1---P2--o


V1 - variac
T1 - HV transformer
A1 - mA meter
Pi - dummy diode pairs

Continued to run as before about 5 minutes.  Both electrode glowed as  
before.   This verifies that 2 pairs of these particular type of  
diodes work OK in circuit.


Tried geiger counter within about 1" of electrodes.  Got no increased  
counts.


Switched off variac when current was at 70 mA, leaving voltage  
setting alone.



Then inserted full bridge B1 made of same type of diodes:


Circuit:


 V1T1--A1B1--o +
 ||||||
 V1T1B1--o -


V1 - variac
T1 - HV transformer
A1 - mA meter
B1 - full rectifier bridge

Switched on variac and noted:

(1) only one electrode lit, the other was totally dark
(2) it was not nearly as bright as before
(3) noticeably more gas evolved at the dark electrode when DC used
(4) same current (abou

Fwd: Wanted: CEO Cold Fusion Company

[hohlrauml6d]

-Original Message-
From: hohlrauml6d
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:54:45 -0500
Subject: Re: Wanted: CEO Cold Fusion Company

Not D2 and SLC !!

It's the owners of D2 and Gibson . . . both in Vancouver.

You know . . . networking at the "club".

;-)

-Original Message-
From: John Coviello


What does D2Fusion have to do with Salt Lake City?
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