Re: Science exposes Hot Fusion weaknesses: March 11, 2006

2006-03-13 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:42:48 -0800: Hi Jones, [snip] Hi Robin, You said: According to http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/cgi-bin/nuclide?nuc=H-2n=2 the (n,2n) cross section for 14 MeV neutrons on D is 177 mb That sounds about right - but this is very low - and if memory

Re: Science exposes Hot Fusion weaknesses: March 11, 2006

2006-03-13 Thread Wesley Bruce
Steven Krivit wrote: Who has ever seen a major science journal expose the flaws of hot fusion in such a straightforward and raw manner? Is this as new as it appears to me? If you are interested, I'll send you the article. Steve Send it to me. I've got an interest in that question.

The Cosmic Landscape

2006-03-13 Thread hohlrauml6d
Excellent review of Leonard Susskind's book: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-03/000664.html excerpt: Susskind is eloquent in describing why the discovery that the cosmological constant, which virtually every theoretical physicist would have bet had to be precisely zero, is

Re: The Cosmic Landscape

2006-03-13 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: hohlrauml6d Excellent review of Leonard Susskind's book:    http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2006-03/000664.html  Landscape actually concurs with my personal theory of how there can be an Omniscient Being but we mere humans still have freedom of

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: you would continue to supply some electricity with quick response load-balancing generators, which I suppose would be natural gas turbines. I don't really see the need for this. Current which is being diverted through an electrolysis cell can very rapidly be

Re: Electronium (*e-) Quest, Moseley Auger

2006-03-13 Thread Frederick Sparber
More clues? http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v38/i16/p11927_1 Received 24 August 1988 "The total secondary-electron yield from positron and electron bombardment with incident energy 20-480 eV on Ni(110), Si(111), and MgO(100) has been measured. The positron-induced and electron-induced

Re: Titania nano tubes

2006-03-13 Thread Jones Beene
Robin, About a month ago I wrote to Dr. Grimes suggesting that he check to see if there was a temperature rise when his titania tube material (22 nm tubes; see http://www.physlink.com/News/072903TitaniaNanotubes.cfm) was exposed to H2 gas. This is most interesting - and even more so since

Re: Titania nano tubes

2006-03-13 Thread Jones Beene
Oops Not ot mention the special catalytic properties of titanium (Mizuno and MAHG) ... err ... that was tungsten, and I haven't downed my first expresso yet but of course titania has shown favorable excess energy results in LENR experiments.

Re: Electronium (*e-) Sodium-22 Laced Electrolysis Cells

2006-03-13 Thread Frederick Sparber
Jones. Would you consider using a few millimoles ofthe strong Positron Emitter Na-22 (~ 2.5 year half-life) in electrolysis cells with Titanium, Nickel, or Palladium cathodes a "from the top down" approach? How many millicuries would you be handling, if they let you buy it? Fred

Re: Electronium (*e-) Sodium-22 Laced Electrolysis Cells

2006-03-13 Thread Jones Beene
--- Fred Hmm... because of PET testing, these are not too hard to come by in small doses for an MD - but are you suggesting just to add some to a working cell to see what happens? Would you consider using a few millimoles of the strong Positron Emitter Na-22 (~ 2.5 year half-life) in

Re: Internet blows CIA cover

2006-03-13 Thread Jones Beene
--- Michael There was also an odd message from a domain that turned out to be the Marriot hotel in Langley. Ha! Some time ago I got a lot of weird attemts at accessing my computer, over and over, from two different Marriot hotels in N. Va. This was back when the firewall records were easier

Re: Electronium (*e-) Sodium-22 Laced Electrolysis Cells

2006-03-13 Thread Frederick Sparber
: Jones --- Fred Hmm... because of PET testing, these are not too hard to come by in small doses for an MD - but are you suggesting just to add some to a working cell to see what happens? Yes, why not try the direct approach? Would you consider using a few millimoles of the strong

OT: Fred the full Moon

2006-03-13 Thread Jones Beene
Fred, Johnny Carson read my note to him to the world on this back in May of 1981 it replayed on Best of Carson a couple of years later. My phone didn't stop ringing for days after. :-) Wait-a-minute ? What is the back-story on this one, Fred? You sent a funny note to Carson about Moon

Re: Electronium (*e-) Sodium-22 Laced Electrolysis Cells

2006-03-13 Thread Frederick Sparber
I was told that Sodium-22 is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. The tables in this link gives one pause to consider doing such an experiment in the kitchen when Sodium-22 runs about 10 Curies per gram. http://www.in.gov/isdh/regsvcs/radhealth/rules/410_iac_5-4.htm OTOH, Potassium-40

Re: Internet blows CIA cover

2006-03-13 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene JB: Hmm ... now I'm wondring if K. is the mole! G TB: Naaa. He sent me piccys of his cat. Cats eat moles. g JB: Ha! if they take anything seriously here, they will be looking for aliens next... TB: They already have them. T (former

RE: OT: Fred the full Moon

2006-03-13 Thread Frederick Sparber
I had been talking to the radio telescope people in Massachusetts about the possibility of the full moon giving off some sort of radiation that could affect the Pineal and moods. They said they used the full moon as a calibration check. A local astronomy professor had told me that the full moon

RE: Internet blows CIA cover

2006-03-13 Thread Keith Nagel
The cat is my controller. Damn you, Internets! You've blown my cover! Hey Jones, post the logs. I'd like to see what a CIA laptop looks like after it's been 0wned by a script kiddie. K. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006

Spoof articles about cold fusion

2006-03-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Someone who knows about Ed Storms, Dennis Cravens and others is writing pretend news stories. These are actually pretty funny, and not nasty. See: http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s6i10331 Disco Opens Cold Fusion Olympic Games Written by Ferrer Crowds were waiting for more

Re: OT: Fred the full Moon

2006-03-13 Thread hohlrauml6d
-Original Message- From: Frederick Sparber BTW. many plant species use the lunar cycle in their sex life. Yes, like Doris Day: By the light of the silvery moon I want to spoon To my honey I'll croon love's tune Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June Your silv'ry beams will bring love's

The Economist also links to us. Oops.

2006-03-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
In this article: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5601570 I just noticed that on the right there is a link to LENR-CANR.org. Oops. I sent them a nasty letter the other day saying they should not make light of or ignore the true history of cold fusion. Well, their

Re: Spoof articles about cold fusion

2006-03-13 Thread Jones Beene
The writer, Ferrer, looks vaguely similar to a local politician: http://www.thespoof.com/profile.cfm?uID=3258 Hmm ... and if memory serves, and not being a name dropper, didn't SK post something rather similar to this with an Olympics twist ? ... perhaps he just forgot the attribution...g

Re: Spoof articles about cold fusion - linked to real article in Wired

2006-03-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a pleasant surprise. The spoof article hyperlink for Ed Storms links to a real, highly positive story in Wired, from September 2005. I was not aware of this. See: http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/gadgets/index.blog?entry_id=1217543 Whoever this mystery author Ferrer is, he knows a thing

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread leaking pen
whoops, watch your units. is that the mj per gallon of gas, or per kg? On 3/10/06, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jones Beene wrote:Nuclear energy has heretofore been the most likely way, and GE is inon that avenue also. Splitting water using electricity from energy sources such as wind,

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread Horace Heffner
Another way to reduce sensitivity to wind and solar variability (which in many locations are nicely anti-correlated) is to control the demand side. See: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/BusIdea.pdf Horace Heffner

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 13, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Robin van Spaandonk wrote: you would continue to supply some electricity with quick response load-balancing generators, which I suppose would be natural gas turbines. I don't really see the need for this. Current which is being diverted

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Leaking pen wrote: whoops, watch your units. is that the mj per gallon of gas, or per kg? That was supposed to say gasoline has 42 MJ/kg and 132 MJ/gallon. Gasoline is lighter than water, so 1 gallon weighs 3.1 kg. One U.S. gallon of water weighs 3.8 kg (same as liters - duh). - Jed

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: Large volume hydrogen transmission, distribution and storage are fairly obvious problems to any engineer serious about a hydrogen economy. Yup. That is why I said, Actually, I would prefer to see them generate some sort of hydrogen based synthetic fuel . . . Something

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread leaking pen
lol, i would hope water weighed the same in kg as it massed in liters. otherwise, we ahve a small problem. On 3/13/06, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leaking pen wrote:whoops, watch your units.is that the mj per gallon of gas, or per kg? That was supposed to say gasoline has 42 MJ/kg and

Message to Ross at Impulse Devices

2006-03-13 Thread hohlrauml6d
To Ross Tessien Hi Ross, We are so delighted that a Vortexian has progressed so well! You are a frequent topic of discussion on the list. Recently (in light of the controversy), I saw your experimental setup on a news page. I continue on Vortex, and find that I have tolerated a Brit of

Re: Hydrogen from electrolysis versus gasoline

2006-03-13 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 13, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: Large volume hydrogen transmission, distribution and storage are fairly obvious problems to any engineer serious about a hydrogen economy. Yup. That is why I said, Actually, I would prefer to see them generate some

Re: a meteorologist speaks on climate change

2006-03-13 Thread thomas malloy
Vortexians; I've been corresponding with the meteorologist Roy Spencer. His ecoenquirer.com website is satire. I asked him for a URL of his serious writing on the subject, and he replied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas: If you want my serious writings on the subject, I have a lot of short