Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram

2010-03-19 Thread Michel Jullian
2010/3/19 Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com:
 Here is a reply from Magluvin who is also a member of overunity.com:
 This is not a boost converter

I said it was a boost converter _without a load_.

 as none of them will recharge the input
 source(cap) while being operated. Ive tried.

This is because he hasn't tried removing the load. If you do, in the
course of one oscillation cycle, the input source first sources
current, and then sinks current. Note there is a hidden component in
the circuit which is important to understand where the inductor's
current flows to and from in this no load operation, that's the
MOSFET's output capacitance. The IRF640's antiparallel diode is
another hidden component which plays an important role, it prevents
the drain voltage from going below zero.

Michel

 And you wont find any
 dc/dc converters with magnets on the coil core. ;]

 Harry



 - Original Message 
 From: Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com
 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
 Sent: Thu, March 18, 2010 10:46:19 PM
 Subject: Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram

 Ok, I gave him the wiki reference.
 Harry



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 March 18, 2010 7:34:49 PM
 Subject: Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram


 Nothing mysterious about this circuit, it's a silly boost
 converter
 without a
 load. See:


 target=_blank 
 href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter; target=_blank
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter

 2010/3/18

 Harry Veeder 
 href=mailto:
 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com
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 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com:






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 diagram

 Stephen A. Lawrence
 wrote:

By
 the way, I should say Thanks!
 for
 taking the time to post all

 these
here.  It's interesting, even if I
 don't
 believe
 for a minute that it's OU.

 Someone should
 communicate
 the
 gist of the comments here to the

 author of the video.
 Tell him to invest in
 an ammeter, for
 crying out
 loud.

 - Jed

 I am ignorant
 about electronics but
 I don't see what the fuss
 is about since
 it is all DC current. If you
 know the resistance and the voltage can't
 you safely infer that as the voltage
 rises and falls
 so does
 the current?

 No, V=R*I works only on a
 pure resistor. An
 inductor or a capacitor
 obey different laws.

 I
 still
 think that in certain simple circuits voltage measurements can serve as

 a pretty good indicator of current and power.

 Not

 here.

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Re: [Vo]:Neat new OCR technology

2010-03-19 Thread Michel Jullian
2010/3/19 Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com:
... if you convert a
 clearscan pdf back to image format in higher resolution e.g. 600 dpi
 (this can be set in editpreferencesconvert from pdfTIFFedit
 settings), make a new pdf from that, and re-do an OCR on it,
 interestingly the recognition accuracy is improved,

Let me retract this, after experimenting on a few more pages it turns
out the 2nd OCR pass makes roughly the same number of recognition
errors as the 1st pass on average, what fooled me is that it doesn't
do them on the same words. So there is no point really in going
through the complexity and hard work of a 2nd pass.

There is another use however, useful this time, of the trick of saving
as tiff and re-pdf-ing before OCRing: it circumvents the Acrobat
could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because: This page
contains renderable text. error you get on some documents, which
annoyingly aborts the whole OCR process. If anyone knows of a simpler
way, I am interested.

Last point, I see they have integrated the OCR multiple files
feature to the main menu in version 9, so one doesn't have to go
through the batch processing procedure to OCR a large collection of
documents. Much more convenient.

Michel



Re: [Vo]:More tests from gotoluc

2010-03-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence


On 03/19/2010 12:58 AM, Harry Veeder wrote:
 
 
 test 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgwlJx0zNw With only a signal
 generator attached.

This is a variation on Stiffler's circuit, which, as you may recall,
worked with just one wire from a signal generator connected.  Capacitive
coupling is very likely playing a role here.

And, once again, the *only* way to be sure of what's going on is to
measure the *POWER* coming out of the signal generator.  And that can
*ONLY* be done is to make simultaneous voltage and current measurements,
at the signal generator terminals, and integrate their product.

Note well:  With this load, the voltage and current from the signal
generator may very well not be -- are probably not -- exactly in phase
with each other.  During the part of the cycle where the voltage and
current are going in different directions, power is flowing backwards
into the SG.  During the part of the cycle when voltage and current are
going the same way, power is flowing forward out of the SG.  So, as I
said, the only way to find the total power out of the SG is to integrate
the product of the voltage and current (which a digital scope such as
the one used in these experiments may be able to do).

The reason it's possible to have this behavior, where power flows from
the SG to the circuit part of the time and from the circuit to the SG
part of the time, is that both capacitors and coils store energy, and
when they give it up, it can flow back into the source.  Resistors don't
store energy, they just throw it away, so when you're driving a resistor
the current and voltage are always precisely in phase.


 ALL meters removed in the second half of this
 video. At the end he asks others to build the circuit and post their
 results.
 
 test 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgPR9r14zWE With a pick up
 coil. Green LED is used to provide a relative comparison between
 current from the mosfet vs current from output coil.
 
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Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram

2010-03-19 Thread Harry Veeder
I'll pass that along.
But the capacitor looks like it is in the wrong place to be a booster
converter with or without a load.
compare photo 2:
http://tinyurl.com/ycw4xm4

with operating principles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter

Harry





- Original Message 
 From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com
 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
 Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 4:54:02 AM
 Subject: Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram
 
 2010/3/19 Harry Veeder 
 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com:
 Here is a 
 reply from Magluvin who is also a member of overunity.com:
 This is not 
 a boost converter

I said it was a boost converter _without a 
 load_.

 as none of them will recharge the input
 source(cap) 
 while being operated. Ive tried.

This is because he hasn't tried removing 
 the load. If you do, in the
course of one oscillation cycle, the input source 
 first sources
current, and then sinks current. Note there is a hidden 
 component in
the circuit which is important to understand where the 
 inductor's
current flows to and from in this no load operation, that's 
 the
MOSFET's output capacitance. The IRF640's antiparallel diode 
 is
another hidden component which plays an important role, it prevents
the 
 drain voltage from going below zero.

Michel

 And you wont find 
 any
 dc/dc converters with magnets on the coil core. ;]

 
 Harry





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[Vo]:New book with a chapter on cold fusion

2010-03-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
D. Goodstein, On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front 
Lines of Science


http://www.amazon.com/Fact-Fraud-Cautionary-Tales-Science/dp/0691139660/http://www.amazon.com/Fact-Fraud-Cautionary-Tales-Science/dp/0691139660/ 



This is complete  utter ignorant, infuriating bullshit. (Strong 
letter to follow.) Look inside the book on p. 94 to see what I mean. 
The author claims that coldl fusion is irreproducible and that very 
little has changed sinced 1989.


- Jed


Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram

2010-03-19 Thread Michel Jullian
The capacitor on your photo 2 is in parallel with the battery so it's
part of the converter's input supply. The capacitor in the operating
principles diagram of the wikipedia article is the converter's output
capacitor, which might as well not be there in steady state is there
is no load (once charged it just stays charged at a high voltage, and
the Boost's diode never conducts-- so the diode might as well not be
there either). So everything to the right of the switch in the boost
converter diagram could be removed in no load condition, that's why I
say the circuit operates like a Boost converter without a load. Which
explains why it steps up the input voltage, that's what Boost
converters do.

Michel

2010/3/19 Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com:
 I'll pass that along.
 But the capacitor looks like it is in the wrong place to be a booster
 converter with or without a load.
 compare photo 2:
 http://tinyurl.com/ycw4xm4

 with operating principles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter

 Harry





 - Original Message 
 From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com
 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
 Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 4:54:02 AM
 Subject: Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram

 2010/3/19 Harry Veeder 
 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com:
 Here is a
 reply from Magluvin who is also a member of overunity.com:
 This is not
 a boost converter

 I said it was a boost converter _without a
 load_.

 as none of them will recharge the input
 source(cap)
 while being operated. Ive tried.

 This is because he hasn't tried removing
 the load. If you do, in the
 course of one oscillation cycle, the input source
 first sources
 current, and then sinks current. Note there is a hidden
 component in
 the circuit which is important to understand where the
 inductor's
 current flows to and from in this no load operation, that's
 the
 MOSFET's output capacitance. The IRF640's antiparallel diode
 is
 another hidden component which plays an important role, it prevents
 the
 drain voltage from going below zero.

 Michel

 And you wont find
 any
 dc/dc converters with magnets on the coil core. ;]


 Harry





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Re: [Vo]:New book with a chapter on cold fusion

2010-03-19 Thread Michel Jullian
What a jerk. On that page alone, he says one loads palladium into
deuterium, and platinum too, and he professes that excess heat is the
bad kind of cold fusion!

2010/3/19 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com:
 D. Goodstein, On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of
 Science

 http://www.amazon.com/Fact-Fraud-Cautionary-Tales-Science/dp/0691139660/

 This is complete  utter ignorant, infuriating bullshit. (Strong letter to
 follow.) Look inside the book on p. 94 to see what I mean. The author claims
 that coldl fusion is irreproducible and that very little has changed
 sinced 1989.

 - Jed




[Vo]:Moddel paper on energy extraction

2010-03-19 Thread Roarty, Francis X

Assessment of proposed electromagnetic quantum vacuum energy extraction methods 
(Dated 30 October 2009)
http://www.calphysics.org/articles/Moddel_VacExtrac.pdf

Abstract
In research articles and patents several methods have been proposed for the
extraction of zero-point energy from the vacuum. None has been reliably
demonstrated, but the proposals remain largely unchallenged. In this paper the
feasibility of these methods is assessed in terms of underlying thermodynamics
principles of equilibrium, detailed balance, and conservation laws. The methods
are separated into three classes: nonlinear processing of the zero-point field,
mechanical extraction using Casimir cavities, and the pumping of atoms through
Casimir cavities. The first two approaches are shown to violate thermodynamics
principles, and therefore appear not to be feasible, no matter how innovative 
their
execution. The third approach does not appear to violate these principles.



Re: [Vo]:Focardi and Rossi paper

2010-03-19 Thread mixent
In reply to  Steven Krivit's message of Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:05:04 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
Journal or Nuclear Physics? Really??? Can someone please tell me 
something about this?
http://whois.domaintools.com/journal-of-nuclear-physics.com
[snip]
I note that there is another paper on the site
(http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=168) that bears a striking
resemblance to Horace's Deflation Fusion theory.

Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk

http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html



Re: [Vo]:Moddel paper on energy extraction

2010-03-19 Thread Horace Heffner


On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Roarty, Francis X wrote:



Assessment of proposed electromagnetic quantum vacuum energy  
extraction methods (Dated 30 October 2009)

http://www.calphysics.org/articles/Moddel_VacExtrac.pdf


Initially, an apparent exercise in circular reasoning: Pinto’s  
approach cannot work if the Casimir force is conservative. If so, no  
matter what process were used to separate the plates, it would  
require at least as much energy as had been extracted by their coming  
together.  ... One might ask if it is possible to use ZPE to do the  
work on the Casimir plates necessary to reduce the attractive force  
or to convert it to a repulsive force. In this way, could a  
continuous cycle provide power? If such a ZPE-powered process were  
developed, net power could be extracted. However, the power would  
then be coming from the process that modified the Casimir plates  
rather than from cycling the spacing of the Casimir cavity plates.


If my aunt were a man she couldn't be my uncle, because uncles are  
male. But, if my uncle had a sex change he could be my aunt, which  
would mean she, my aunt, then would be my uncle.


If power can be extracted from the Casimir force then it the Casimir  
force is not conservative.


The author then goes on to solidify a sensible viewpoint in my  
opinion: Our apparent lack of success in extracting energy from the  
vacuum thus far leads to two possible conclusions. Either fundamental  
constraints beyond what have been discussed here and the nature of  
ZPE preclude extraction, or it is feasible and we just need to find a  
suitable technology.


If we can find the right surgeon then perhaps we can do the necessary  
job to convert my aunt into an uncle-aunt.


While this is really a neat and understandable article, it does not  
address a multi-dimensional approach to Casimir force extraction:


http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CasimirGenerator.pdf

the potential for inertial drives:

http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ZPE-CasimirThrust.pdf

nor does it address the environment where the available vacuum energy  
is largest and thus practical extraction can most likely be  
accomplished, namely the nucleus:


http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/NuclearZPEtapping.pdf

Best regards,

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/






Re: [Vo]:Focardi and Rossi paper

2010-03-19 Thread Horace Heffner


On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:44 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:

In reply to  Steven Krivit's message of Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:05:04  
-0800:

Hi,
[snip]

Journal or Nuclear Physics? Really??? Can someone please tell me
something about this?
http://whois.domaintools.com/journal-of-nuclear-physics.com

[snip]
I note that there is another paper on the site
(http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=168) that bears a  
striking

resemblance to Horace's Deflation Fusion theory.


Thanks for posting that.  I replied: This view looks very similar to  
my own, as exemplified in my “Cold Fusion Nuclear Reactions Article”:

http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CFnuclearReactions.pdf;

Best regards,

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/






Re: [Vo]:add on: OU demonstrated ( with no secrets)

2010-03-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

At 07:40 PM 3/17/2010, you wrote:

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote:

 OK. I am just trying to understand what circumstances a voltage
 measurement by itself would be sufficient to prove OU.

Never.  Energy is measured by power expended over time.  Electrical
power is voltage times current.  Voltage transformations occur under
various conditions and can never indicate OU performance without
current or power and time measurements.


Well, that's not exactly true. Set up, say, an Orbo run by a battery. 
Capture power from the rotor with a generator and arrange this so 
that it charges the battery. If we can eliminate losses in the 
circuitry, and if the system is operating at unity, power in would 
equal power out. Over unity would produce excess power which could be 
used somewhere else.


Now, replace the battery with a capacitor. Charge it first with the 
battery, so the initial condition is that pulling the battery has no 
*immediate* effect (the voltage doesn't change). If the system is 
operating at over unity (after deducting losses), the capacitor 
voltage will increase, if under unity, it will decrease.


That's why using supercapacitors in place of the battery for Orbo was 
suggested as a test. They were claiming 200% operation, that should 
be plenty of power to stay over unity overall. Gee, they didn't do 
it! I wonder why not?


The voltage on a capacitor varies directly with the stored power, it 
integrates it, so, indeed, that voltage is a measure of power 
generation or consumption. It's very simple, whereas power in a 
battery is really, really complicated. 



Re: [Vo]:add on: OU demonstrated ( with no secrets)

2010-03-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

At 03:14 PM 3/17/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote:

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:


So, get rid of the battery -- I mean, *really* get rid of it, disconnect
the wires at the battery terminals, and carry it a good distance away
from the experiment --  and show the capacitor still charging itself up.


Well, something has to drive the circuit. The whole thing will stop 
dead otherwise. That would be like expecting a Fleischmann Pons cell 
work without first doing electrolysis.


It's different, actually. Electrolysis in a Fleischmann cell probably 
has very little to do with the nuclear reaction, it's just a way of 
generating deuterium gas right at the surface of the electrode.


The point of Stephen's suggestion is to set things up so that the 
circuitry is driven by power from the capacitor. Sure, get the thing 
started with a battery, then, once it's up to operating voltages, 
disconnect the battery. If it's over unity, and with an efficient 
circuit, if the capacitor continues to charge for any significant 
time, you have proven over unity. (You could, I suppose, set up some 
system where a lot of power gets stored somewhere, that then 
transfers back to the capacitor charge slowly, but that would need to 
be pretty complex, probably. If the circuitry is simple, and you can 
keep the thing running, the capacitor isn't running down, which is 
much easier to measure than battery charge, you've got over unity.


What ususally happens is that no, it isn't enough to increase the 
capacitor charge but that's just because our circuitry isn't 
efficient enough, we are working on that. What they are really doing 
is recycling power, and some of it is lost in each cycle, but they 
just look at what's coming in and not what's going out... 



Re: [Vo]:OU demonstrated ( with no secrets)

2010-03-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

At 01:24 AM 3/18/2010, mix...@bigpond.com wrote:

He states that it must be OU because the output voltage goes above the battery
voltage.


B O G U S. If the output were charging the exact same battery, that 
would mean something.


In this sense, it was correct that you can't tell from voltage alone. 
The same amount of power stored in a small capacitor would show a 
very high voltage, with a large capacitor a low voltage.



 However has he taken into account that the two coils form a
transformer, and it's very possible that the secondary has more windings than
the primary, so that the output voltage is higher than the input voltage?


Lots of ways to do it. Voltage is like water pressure. With a 
constant pipe going up, you can tell how much water you have (and 
thus how much stored energy) by the pressure. But you can extract 
energy from a lot of elevated water and use it to raise a small 
amount of water much higher. Smaller pipe! If you simply connect the 
two pipes, the pressure will equalize, and the water will have a head 
that is the same, because the pressure does not depend on how much 
water you have, only the height of the column. But when a big column 
moves down, it generates so much power which can be used -- try some 
gears! -- to raise a small amount of water much higher. Other things 
being equal and without losses to friction, you could raise a certain 
amount of water twice as high as you lower half the amount of water.




Re: [Vo]:New book with a chapter on cold fusion

2010-03-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I just realized I know Prof. Goodstein. Rob Duncan invited him to the 
seminar at U. Missouri last May. This book was published in January 
2010. So, Goodstein has been made aware of facts about cold fusion, 
and he ignored them. What a travesty!


- Jed



Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram

2010-03-19 Thread Harry Veeder
The toroid is also wired in differently from the inductor in the wiki diagram, 
but I suppose that doesn't matter either?


harry




- Original Message 
 From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com
 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
 Sent: Fri, March 19, 2010 1:42:52 PM
 Subject: Re: [Vo]:circuit diagram
 
 The capacitor on your photo 2 is in parallel with the battery so it's
part of 
 the converter's input supply. The capacitor in the operating
principles 
 diagram of the wikipedia article is the converter's output
capacitor, which 
 might as well not be there in steady state is there
is no load (once charged 
 it just stays charged at a high voltage, and
the Boost's diode never 
 conducts-- so the diode might as well not be
there either). So everything to 
 the right of the switch in the boost
converter diagram could be removed in no 
 load condition, that's why I
say the circuit operates like a Boost converter 
 without a load. Which
explains why it steps up the input voltage, that's what 
 Boost
converters do.

Michel

2010/3/19 Harry Veeder 
 ymailto=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com; 
 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com:
 I'll pass 
 that along.
 But the capacitor looks like it is in the wrong place to be 
 a booster
 converter with or without a load.
 compare photo 
 2:
 
 http://tinyurl.com/ycw4xm4

 with operating 
 principles
 
 target=_blank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_converter

 
 Harry





 - Original Message 
 
 From: Michel Jullian 
 ymailto=mailto:michelj...@gmail.com; 
 href=mailto:michelj...@gmail.com;michelj...@gmail.com
 To: 
 
 href=mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com;vortex-l@eskimo.com
 Sent: Fri, 
 March 19, 2010 4:54:02 AM
 Subject: Re: [Vo]:circuit 
 diagram

 2010/3/19 Harry Veeder 
 
 href=mailto:
 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com
 ymailto=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com; 
 href=mailto:hlvee...@yahoo.com;hlvee...@yahoo.com:
 Here is 
 a
 reply from Magluvin who is also a member of 
 overunity.com:
 This is not
 a boost 
 converter

 I said it was a boost converter _without a
 
 load_.

 as none of them will recharge the input
 
 source(cap)
 while being operated. Ive tried.

 This is 
 because he hasn't tried removing
 the load. If you do, in the
 
 course of one oscillation cycle, the input source
 first 
 sources
 current, and then sinks current. Note there is a 
 hidden
 component in
 the circuit which is important to 
 understand where the
 inductor's
 current flows to and from in 
 this no load operation, that's
 the
 MOSFET's output 
 capacitance. The IRF640's antiparallel diode
 is
 another 
 hidden component which plays an important role, it prevents
 
 the
 drain voltage from going below zero.

 
 Michel

 And you wont find
 any
 dc/dc 
 converters with magnets on the coil core. 
 ;]


 
 Harry





 
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Re: [Vo]:New book with a chapter on cold fusion

2010-03-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

At 01:07 PM 3/19/2010, you wrote:
D. Goodstein, On Fact and Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front 
Lines of Science


http://www.amazon.com/Fact-Fraud-Cautionary-Tales-Science/dp/0691139660/http://www.amazon.com/Fact-Fraud-Cautionary-Tales-Science/dp/0691139660/ 



This is complete  utter ignorant, infuriating bullshit. (Strong 
letter to follow.) Look inside the book on p. 94 to see what I mean. 
The author claims that coldl fusion is irreproducible and that very 
little has changed sinced 1989.


Page 129 he's clear that cold fusion was not fraud. Goodstein is a 
disappointment. Certainly he overstates the irreproducible thing, 
my impression is that he really hasn't done an overview and is 
relying on old information and what he knew before.


You really should look at the next page. He acknowledges that fusion 
may have taken place in some of these experiments. His comments, in 
fact, cut both ways.


However, given what we now know about the field and the overall body 
of research and what went wrong in 1989-1990, Goodstein's report is 
shallow, he's very ambivalent, as he was years ago. There is now a 
great deal more known, and with hindsight we really can understand 
the problems with the research. It's almost like he hasn't moved in, 
what, about 15 years?


Overall, this has to be taken as a relatively positive publication, 
in spite of the obvious errors. He's acknowledging open research 
questions, he *attributes* the negative conclusions to scientists of 
the time, and says that the problem is that the normal process of 
science broke down and is staying broken down because nobody is listening.


Well, it's not true that nobody is listening, but it's true, 
probably, in the circles he moves in! I suspect he'll come around, 
because it's going around. He hasn't painted himself into a corner, 
like others did, with confident, smug skepticism.




Re: [Vo]:New book with a chapter on cold fusion

2010-03-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

At 02:00 PM 3/19/2010, Michel Jullian wrote:

What a jerk. On that page alone, he says one loads palladium into
deuterium, and platinum too, and he professes that excess heat is the
bad kind of cold fusion!


You know, he points out that it is not fraud to be wrong, and I'll 
point out that it is also not being a jerk to be wrong. That error 
shows that this wasn't well-considered. I.e., the error about 
loading of palladium and platinum into deuterium.


He's also trying to support his friend Scaramuzzi with a comment that 
the loading (i.e., of deuterium into palladium, it doesn't load into 
platinum) is respectable, with only a tangential connection to cold 
fusion. Yeah, that's right! Anomalous heat or unexpected helium 
or whatever. Cold fusion? No. Maybe its a low-energy nuclear 
reaction, but fusion? No, we don't mention fusion around here, it 
makes the natives restless. We are researching anomalous heat in the 
palladium deuteride system, you got a problem with that?


I think you are being a little harsh, Michel. This reads to me like 
an essay or even a speech or something dictated off-the-cuff, it's 
certainly not well-edited and researched. But the basic message is 
actually positive.


What did bad kind of cold fusion mean? Read the context and the 
time. At that point, there was muon-catalyzed fusion on the table, or 
the possibility that there was a very-low level form of other cold 
fusion, i.e., what Jones was reporting. That would be the good 
kind. Not so horribly controversial. But Fleischmann was reporting 
levels of heat that could only be from much higher levels of 
reaction. He's describing his distress at heating that his friend was 
involved in this nonsense. Bad kind is what he thought then.


He then, next page, says that he has looked over the results 
carefully, and they are pretty impressive. Go back and read this 
again! He's complaining that the normal process of science isn't 
happening. If there are all these positive results, there should be 
people pouring over them to try to prove them wrong.


Note the very obvious implication. Cold fusion has not been proven 
wrong. And in this he is 100% correct. He underreports the positive 
evidence, that's all. Scaramuzzi is only a small part of it. 



RE: [Vo]:New book with a chapter on cold fusion

2010-03-19 Thread Mark Iverson
He's simply trying to cover his ASS... And give himself a way out.
These people think politically, which is all about how to maintain whatever 
level of
power/importance they've achieved...

-Mark





[Vo]:Pi factor

2010-03-19 Thread Harvey Norris
The energy transfer between L and C as stored joules by the quantities;
J= .5 CV^2 and J = .5 LI^2
and considering The I^2R heating loss of the inductor itself; when the transfer 
of energy between L and C as joules/sec becomes equal to the inductor heat loss 
wattage, by the inductor displaying a Q factor of 3.14; the oscillation of 
energy between the fields has become Pi times greater then its ordinary 
reactive state.
HDN
Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/


  



Re: [Vo]:Pi factor

2010-03-19 Thread Harvey Norris

Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances 
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/


--- On Fri, 3/19/10, Harvey Norris harv...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Harvey Norris harv...@yahoo.com
 Subject: [Vo]:Pi factor
 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
 Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:18 PM
 The energy transfer between L and C
 as stored joules by the quantities;
 J= .5 CV^2 and J = .5 LI^2
The quandary here is the fact when we measure either I or V by meter means, 
this displayed value is the rms or averaged, and the true peak  value is 
therefore 1.4 times the reading. However even after making this corrective 
manipulation of indicating true values, the comparison to actual energy 
transfer over time falls short by pi times the amount of supposed energy 
transfer. Here perhaps semantics, or wording of the involved process of 
description might explain this apparent discrepancy that has long bothered me. 
When we speak of energy transfer OVER TIME; the amount of energy being 
transferred {in time itself] is only at a peak at a certain instant of time, 
and therefore by using that derived peak value as the total amount of energy to 
be transferred in time itself, a different answer is arrived at. The true 
analysis should include the fact that the amount of energy being transferred 
over time is itself not constant,(we need calculus) and in fact it
 can be itself zero at certain time measurements of the time interval itself as 
a cycle being measured. I am now wondering if this is the explanation for the 
discrepancy of joules/sec vs wattage measurements in comparison for equal 
energy transfer resonant circuits.
 and considering The I^2R heating loss of the inductor
 itself; when the transfer of energy between L and C as
 joules/sec becomes equal to the inductor heat loss wattage,
 by the inductor displaying a Q factor of 3.14; the
 oscillation of energy between the fields has become Pi times
 greater then its ordinary reactive state.
 HDN
 Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances 
 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/