Re: [Vo]:Swedish Defense report about NiH, no result...
On 2013-02-23 09:39, Alain Sepeda wrote: David on LENRNews.eu hav published a Swedish defense report : http://www.lenrnews.eu/swedish-defence/ This report would have not been surprising if it was just about plain nano/micrometric nickel powder experiments. The effects of hydrogen on nickel and nickel-based alloys have been studied for decades, without any nuclear or otherwise anomalous heating effect normally occurring. However, as far as I understand, presumably active samples obtained from Brian Ahern were used as well, and during these Swedish experiments in no case excess heat above error margins has ever been detected. Why is this worrying, people on other discussion venues are asking. The reason is that Ahern is one of the key researchers in the existing LENR community reported to successfully and reliably obtain significant (several watts) excess heat from Ni-H based experiments. He even has his own theory on the working mechanism, based on the concept of nano-magnetism. I'm assuming the Swedish researchers who performed the experiments have been in contact with him for tips and suggestions. Nevertheless, they haven't been able to independently reproduce his results. At this stage I think it's important to know what is Brian Ahern's opinion on this matter, which is probably known in the private mailing list CMNS. I invite people with access to that list to share relevant information here too, if possible. Cheers, S.A.
RE: [Vo]:Swedish Defense report about NiH, no result...
I forwarded your message to Brian Ahern. -Original Message- From: Akira Shirakawa At this stage I think it's important to know what is Brian Ahern's opinion on this matter,
RE: [Vo]:Swedish Defense report about NiH, no result...
Akira, all I would not make too much of this null result. Having the report surface now is disappointing - but the testing was NOT performed according to Ahern's protocol, and the sintering could have ruined the activity of the material. He was not consulted during the testing. Plus - I was in contact with Curt over one and a half years ago when I was in Germany, and brought one of the samples back to the States, so I am certain that they only gave it a cursory examination. That sample had been active for Ahern, but it apparently was only tested for a short time in Sweden. No mention was made at the time of who the sponsor was. Why it took so long to issue this report, and why it was not first shown to Ahern is also suspicious. However, there is no doubt that this is disappointing, but I do not think that one can vary so far from a suggested protocol and expect the same results. Jones -Original Message- From: Jones Beene I forwarded your message to Brian Ahern. -Original Message- From: Akira Shirakawa At this stage I think it's important to know what is Brian Ahern's opinion on this matter,
RE: [Vo]:Nanowire frequency conversion
Your resonant structure will need to be an exact multiple of the size of the nucleus/gamma. -m From: David Roberson [mailto:dlrober...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 7:51 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nanowire frequency conversion Check your dimensions. Gamma rays are on the order of the size of a nucleus. You appear off by many orders of magnitude. Dave -Original Message- From: Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 8:36 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nanowire frequency conversion A BIG peice of nano-material is at or under 100 nanometers. This is less than 61 microns so a nano-structure that small can convert a gamma ray to heat because it is less than the far wavelenth of the radiation. ***Much of current semiconductor research is well under 100 nm. Why haven't they seen this conversion of gammas to heat? Why hasn't it been accepted in mainstream physics? A google search for conversion of gamma rays to heat generates only cold fusion related hits.
[Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
Chondrite. Only small hunks, not 'big' In Russian, but look at the picture! http://www.mk.ru/science/space/article/2013/02/22/816801-chelyabinskiy-meteorit-priletel-v-moskvu.html Translate: http://goo.gl/GnhJ3 (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. BeatySCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb amasci comhttp://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
Only 9,999.99 tons to go! @ $2400/gram I figured it is worth $16 Trillion... On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:37 PM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: Chondrite. Only small hunks, not 'big' In Russian, but look at the picture! http://www.mk.ru/science/**space/article/2013/02/22/** 816801-chelyabinskiy-meteorit-**priletel-v-moskvu.htmlhttp://www.mk.ru/science/space/article/2013/02/22/816801-chelyabinskiy-meteorit-priletel-v-moskvu.html Translate: http://goo.gl/GnhJ3 (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. BeatySCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb amasci comhttp://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
[Vo]:Spontaneous Human Combustion report
See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/danny-vanzandt-spontaneous-human-combustion_n_2734730.html
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:41:11 -0500 ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Only 9,999.99 tons to go! And what happened to the remains of the Tunguska meteor??? Even if it broke up in the air, there must have been humungous chunks of the thing lying around, but the expeditions found only horizontal trees. And I have always wondered about Meteor Crater in Arizona; I never understood why a little digging did not expose a big chunk of extraterrestrial rock at the centre of the crater; but there is nothing. Any sinkholes in the Tunguska area? Well, they probably never thought to look. And why are craters made by these meteors and asteroids always round? Shouldn't the rocks come in at an angle, on average, and make an oval-shaped crater? Or is it due to the immense densities of the baryonic matter, or whatever it is, that causes them to do a fast curve and zoom right for the black hole at the centre of the earth? Cripes, every time I hit a pothole these days I wonder if some dark matter hasn't shat all over the street.
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
Vorl, If you look closely at the Chixulub crater in Yucatan that occurred around the time of the dinosaurs exit, you see hundreds ofsinkholes all grouped along the outer rim of the perfectly round larger one. I believe those all accompanied the larger object gravitationally as it struck/orbited through the Earth. Each of those sinkholes corresponds to a large vacuum increase/disturbance in the atmosphere and beta decay/volcanism/seismic disturbance in the Earth according to my model, leading to global cooling, volcanoes and earthquakes. A large enough hit will trigger the next ice age. I believe this stuff orbits for months/years in our atmosphere and gradually/eventually coalesces with Earth's dark matter core, increasing it's mass slightly and also adding to the auroras. It is the missing 95% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater Artist's rendering of the gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub Crater area. Red and yellow are gravity highs; green and blue are gravity lows. White areas indicate multiple sinkholes, cenotes. The shaded area is the Yucatán Peninsula Stewart darkmattersalot.com On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:41:11 -0500 ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Only 9,999.99 tons to go! And what happened to the remains of the Tunguska meteor??? Even if it broke up in the air, there must have been humungous chunks of the thing lying around, but the expeditions found only horizontal trees. And I have always wondered about Meteor Crater in Arizona; I never understood why a little digging did not expose a big chunk of extraterrestrial rock at the centre of the crater; but there is nothing. Any sinkholes in the Tunguska area? Well, they probably never thought to look. And why are craters made by these meteors and asteroids always round? Shouldn't the rocks come in at an angle, on average, and make an oval-shaped crater? Or is it due to the immense densities of the baryonic matter, or whatever it is, that causes them to do a fast curve and zoom right for the black hole at the centre of the earth? Cripes, every time I hit a pothole these days I wonder if some dark matter hasn't shat all over the street.
Re: [Vo]:Tech Predictions
In Germany there will be ca 100 GW solar installed by 2020. This is inevitable, because there just happened the crossover that commercial grid electricity is now more expensive for the companies than producing own rooftop solar electricity. Grid electricity costs for the companies about 110–170 euros per MWh where as rooftop solar electricity costs just 120–140 euros per MWh. The system price of rooftop solar has already fallen to €1520 per kW in January 2013. And as the crossover has now happened, it takes just few years to ramp up the global production of solar cells. This will induce further price cuts. Macquarie says rooftop solar juggernaut is unstoppable http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/macquarie-says-rooftop-solar-juggernaut-is-unstoppable-40618 For households, grid electricity is already so expensive in Germany that the payback time for roof-top solar panels is just 10 years. By 2020 payback time is reduced to five years according to UBS prediction. Also battery technology is getting cheaper very rapidly. Roof-top solar systems with batteries are predicted to be cheaper than solar panels alone by 2015. Wind power is also getting cheaper due to advanced blade materials such as carbon fibers. As carbon fibers are lighter than current blade material of choice fiberglass, this allows higher output of wind turbine. Graphene may be also coming rapidly. And if graphne is only half as good as promised it allows drastic cost reduction of wind turbines. Third piece in the energy puzzle is that half of the cars manufactured in 2020 are electric or plug in hybrids. Probably fully electric mostly. This is because the price of lithium batteries is halved by the 2020. As EVs are ideal companions for renewable solar and wind electricity, there is just no room in the grid for unadjustable new nuclear power and adjustable coal and natural gas must be subsidized so that they provide electricity when there is not enough wind and sun is not shining. There are deep economic reasons behind why Germany is getting rid of nuclear power. It is not just anti-nuclear idealism. —Jouni On Feb 13, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: How about throwing in some predictions on world resource use, nuclear power, wind power, robots, the erosion of funding for HF, or the zombie apocalypse?
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:37 PM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: Chondrite. Only small hunks, not 'big' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite One of the most valuable types. Older than Sol. It will be interesting to see what type of chondrite. Carbon types are the most interesting.
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
Weight of Object10,000.00tons“ 20,000,000.00lbs“ 9,080,000,000.00gramsValue per gram 2,200.00$/gmValue1.9976E+13$*“**20**trillion dollars*If it really is all baryonic matter, it would pay of the US Debt with 4 trillion to spare. However, I think it was hollow and most of the mass was collapsed at the core. On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:37 PM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: Chondrite. Only small hunks, not 'big' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite One of the most valuable types. Older than Sol. It will be interesting to see what type of chondrite. Carbon types are the most interesting.
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
In reply to Vorl Bek's message of Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:27:07 -0500: Hi, [snip] And I have always wondered about Meteor Crater in Arizona; I never understood why a little digging did not expose a big chunk of extraterrestrial rock at the centre of the crater; but there is nothing. Maybe it went deeper and molten rock covered it, so all you see now in the bottom of the crater is the cooled and solidified crust that was molten at the time. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd)
I visited it once and the story is that the meteorite came in at a steep angle and is buried under one of the rims. Dave -Original Message- From: mixent mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 10:51 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd) In reply to Vorl Bek's message of Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:27:07 -0500: Hi, [snip] And I have always wondered about Meteor Crater in Arizona; I never understood why a little digging did not expose a big chunk of extraterrestrial rock at the centre of the crater; but there is nothing. Maybe it went deeper and molten rock covered it, so all you see now in the bottom of the crater is the cooled and solidified crust that was molten at the time. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
[Vo]:star shaped gravity waves
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/star-shaped-gravity-waves-physicists-france_n_2744664.html?ir=Science Mark Goldes Co-Founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute www.chavaenergy.com www.aesopinstitute.org 707 861-9070 707 497-3551 fax
Re: [Vo]:Gizmag: NASA's basement reactor
Below Zawadny is alluding to details of a theory proposed by Allan Widom and Lewis Larsen. It is a very attractive theory to newcomers who are not physicists, and perhaps to some physicists with an appetite for adventure as well. The proposed explanation says that the conditions can be created in Ni/H for a proton to capture an electron and yield a neutron via the weak interaction. Once you have a neutron, there are a number of exothermic neutron-capture reactions that can occur relatively easily with nickel and with impurities in the nickel, since Coulomb repulsion goes away. Under normal conditions, the hard part would be creating the neutron. Widom and Larsen's theory is one of the more controversial ones. Opinions here range from cautious optimism to absolute certainty that it's nonsense. A difficulty arises in connection with this theory, in particular, as some people, including a few journalists, present it as an uncontested explanation for LENR, when really it is just one competing theory among many. Eric On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: BTW, did everyone see the Gizmag article NASA's basement reactor ( http://m.gizmag.com/article/26309). It's a bit fluffy and hand-waving but I was intrigued by this section: According to Zawodny, LENR isn’t what was thought of as cold fusion and it doesn't involve strong nuclear forces. Instead, it uses weak nuclear forces, which are responsible for the decay of subatomic particles. The LENR process involves setting up the right conditions to turn these weak forces into energy. Instead of using radioactive elements like uranium or plutonium, LENR uses a lattice or sponge of nickel atoms, which holds ionized hydrogen atoms like a sponge holds water. The electrons in the metal lattice are made to oscillate so that the energy applied to the electrons is concentrated into only a few of them. When they become energetic enough, the electrons are forced into the hydrogen protons to form slow neutrons. These are immediately drawn into the nickel atoms, making them unstable. This sets off a reaction in which one of the neutrons in the nickel atom splits into a proton, an electron and an antineutrino. This changes the nickel into copper, and releases energy without dangerous ionizing radiation. The trick is to configure the process so that it releases more energy than it needs to get it going. “It turns out that the frequencies that we have to work at are in what I call a valley of inaccessibility,” Zawodny said. “Between, say, 5 or 7 THz and 30 THz, we don't have any really good sources to make our own controlled frequency.” Let the comments begin ... [mg]
