Re: [Vo]:Mizuno couldn't get to ACS

2010-03-27 Thread Michel Jullian
2010/3/26 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Are there any published works showing nuclear phenomena such as excess heat, correlated with deuterium percentage? I'm starting with 99.9% D2O  (atom percent D). What would be the difference I should expect with 98%

[Vo]:I missed Jed when he quit and now I miss Steve

2010-03-27 Thread Francis X Roarty
Just so I understand what all the fuss is about.. Is it because he is pushing neutron capture when he is supposed to be unbiased? I watched the Youtube presentation and frankly I liked it. How often does neutron capture occur normally? Does neutron capture get accelerated by catalytic action?

Re: [Vo]:Stimulus Suspension Would Put 85,000 Wind Jobs at Risk

2010-03-27 Thread Michel Jullian
2010/3/27 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 07:39 AM 3/26/2010, Michel Jullian wrote: No wonder, the cold fusion experimenters say my cell makes excess heat but they won't let skeptics see it with their own calorimeter. I intend to fix that, you know. Good. Obviously, common

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno couldn't get to ACS

2010-03-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michel Jullian wrote: Storms says that with electrolysis the Pd preferentially absorbs the H atoms so the concentration of H in the lattice is soon higher than in the starting liquid. Interesting. If this is true, it must be a purely electrochemical effect, probably related to the

Re: [Vo]:I missed Jed when he quit and now I miss Steve

2010-03-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
I never quit! I was temporarily locked out for a short time due to a misunderstanding. As I have said several times, I quit CMNS only because I am lazy about keeping track of information, and I don't want to upset anyone there. Francis X Roarty wrote: Just so I understand what all the fuss is

Re: [Vo]:Stimulus Suspension Would Put 85,000 Wind Jobs at Risk

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:30 PM 3/26/2010, Michel Jullian wrote: 2010/3/26 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: Michel Jullian wrote: So, you would not believe the Wright brothers unless they let you fly their airplane? A better analogy is that I would not believe them unless I saw them flying it with my

Re: [Vo]:Triumph looks in the mirror

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:07 PM 3/26/2010, Peter Gluck wrote: Dear Abd, I am starting the weekend rush to write my great editorial for the issue no 396 of my wekly newsletter Info Kappa ( I am working for an American Romanian ISP UPC Romania) The subject is primitive and I will use much of the book Caveman Logic

Re: [Vo]:Stimulus Suspension Would Put 85,000 Wind Jobs at Risk

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:37 PM 3/26/2010, Michel Jullian wrote: I am just stating a fact, not judging the validity of anybody's claims.There would be no airplanes today if the Wright brothers hadn't allowed skeptics to judge their claims with their own instruments (=own eyes in their case). Luckily, they were not

Re: [Vo]:Triumph looks in the mirror

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Abd, Thank you! I will quote Birtukan as soon as I am writing about some positive concept- not as now. I perfectly understand your love and happiness given by your daughters. It is wonderful to help them and to see how brave and nice they are. I had a very tragical history with my son Robert

[Vo]:The Adventures of Buzzaroo Skyline, and the Business of Cold Fusion.

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Finally read the blog comments for Buzz Skyline's rant. You said it all, Jed, clearly and cogently, and if Riordan had been listening, he'd have heard it. He's not willing to do any work, because he already thinks he knows the answer. At that point, once that has been established, it's a waste

[Vo]:Miley's presentation on fusion-powered rockets

2010-03-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/george-h-miley-presentation-on-nuclear.html George sure has some imagination! I wish Arthur Clarke could have seen this. I *love* ambitious stuff like this! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:The Adventures of Buzzaroo Skyline, and the Business of Cold Fusion.

2010-03-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Anyone want to share the booth? It could be difficult for me to fund this myself, though it makes good business sense for me to go. Don't get ahead of yourself! First make the co-dep thing work. Confer with Miles about co-dep procedures. He is a top-notch

[Vo]:Triumph looks in the mirror

2010-03-27 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Jones wrote on 3-27-10: ... there is no need for a liquid if we can dispense with electrolysis. IMHO this is probably a significant way in which LENR is maturing ... -- gas phase. Why not? There is little advantage to electrolysis as it actually hinders loading. The ~4:1 loading ratio of Arata

Re: [Vo]:Maybe we should thank Bernstein

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:34 PM 3/26/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: I doubt that James Riordon will generate a lot of angry mail to Bernstein. I hope not. I could hope so, in fact, because it could cost Riordon his job. I don't actually think that way, though. Let's say that it might be a good thing if Riordan is

Re: [Vo]:Triumph looks in the mirror

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:42 PM 3/26/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: We should not shrink from looking in the mirror! We have only begun to scratch the surface of a very large parameter space. Huge, truly enormous parameter space. Scary parameter space, compared to the much simpler space of plasma fusion. Messy,

Re: [Vo]:I missed Jed when he quit and now I miss Steve

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:34 PM 3/26/2010, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: Something ate our friend. If the professional is still alive in the belly of the whale, he'll be back. Maybe even a new, improved version. Meanwhile, those who are close to him can still communicate with him where he sits, in his

Re: [Vo]:Triumph looks in the mirror

2010-03-27 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 27, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Taylor J. Smith wrote: Is it possible to have room temperature and low pressure plasma cold fusion reactions? If the results of Claytor et al. are considered cold fusion, then the answer is probably yes. Claytor used a low pressure gas regime, involving

Re: [Vo]:Triumph looks in the mirror

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:53 PM 3/26/2010, Peter Gluck wrote: First of all- thank you! I also think that somewhere we have to get rid of palladium and replace it with something cheaper and more abundent, And is a provocative and/or nasty assertion that now we still do not understnd the science? We don't

[Vo]:OT (sort of): Challenging Dogma

2010-03-27 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
It was recently opined here that it is not the job of a reporter to challenge dogma. This was followed up with another opinion: That the job of a reporter is to find and present facts - that science reporters should find and present scientific fact. Personally, I think challenging dogma IS one

Re: [Vo]:Stimulus Suspension Would Put 85,000 Wind Jobs at Risk

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:10 AM 3/27/2010, Michel Jullian wrote: 2010/3/27 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I intend to fix that, you know. Good. Obviously, common sense starts at IQ 159 in CF researchers ;-) Geez, I mention the result of one test told to me in the 1950s, and it keeps bouncing back.

Re: [Vo]:I missed Jed when he quit and now I miss Steve

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:55 AM 3/27/2010, Francis X Roarty wrote: Just so I understand what all the fuss is about.. Is it because he is pushing neutron capture when he is supposed to be unbiased? I watched the Youtube presentation and frankly I liked it. How often does neutron capture occur normally? Does

Re: [Vo]:I missed Jed when he quit and now I miss Steve

2010-03-27 Thread Francis X Roarty
Abd, Thanks- I kind of figured there was more to it than I was processing. I asked about the normal rate of neutron capture because I thought it might change with fractional hydrogen. Always the optimist I find myself looking for the mechanism by which it could work. I really feel we already

Re: [Vo]:The Adventures of Buzzaroo Skyline, and the Business of Cold Fusion.

2010-03-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:07 PM 3/27/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Anyone want to share the booth? It could be difficult for me to fund this myself, though it makes good business sense for me to go. Don't get ahead of yourself! First make the co-dep thing work. Yeah, I get it. The APS