Re: [Vo]:defkalion rumour (PESN)

2012-05-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 1:42 Dienstag, 22.Mai 2012 Betreff: [Vo]:defkalion rumour (PESN) http://pesn.com/2012/05/17/9602095_LENR-to-Market_Weekly_May17/ Sterling's Assessment: ...The scuttlebutt is that

[Vo]:defkalion rumour (PESN)

2012-05-22 Thread Chemical Engineer
I believe a better analogy is trying to warm your Cofee pot uniformly with a 3700 C capable hydrogen blowtorch without melting it. And just to aggravate things the metal pot tends toward nuclear meltown if Rydberg conditions are just right, which happens to be right where you want to operate...

[Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread P.J van Noorden
See press release and validation reports from Blacklightpower: http://dev.blacklightpower.com/press/052212-2/ http://www.blacklightpower.com/technology/validation-reports/ Peter

[Vo]:BLP News Release re CIHT

2012-05-22 Thread Mark Goldes
http://www.wkow.com/story/18579657/electricity-generated-from-water-blacklight-power-announces-validation-of-its-scientific-breakthrough-in-energy-production Mark Goldes Co-founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute 301A North Main Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 www.chavaenergy.com

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-22 Thread David Jonsson
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:19 PM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012, David Jonsson wrote: What is happening when you turn off the LEDs? Where is that described? It looks like a possible explanation. Three-dollar e-field detectors, see the project page:

Re: [Vo]:Does Taylor diffusion affects heat?

2012-05-22 Thread David Jonsson
I have been thinking for a while and I think it should because heat conduction is also described as heat diffusion. Can someone please try a simple experiment to check this? Rotate anything, preferably a gas, and check if the radial heat conductivity decreases. David On Sun, May 6, 2012 at

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Peter Gluck
Impressive, however small power, small energy, results some 5 months old- the phase of scale up, intensification, long term functionality has only started.. Science is great but engineering put's the generators on the market. Let's hope the best Peter On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, P.J van

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Terry Blanton
Haynes 242 alloy: http://www.haynesintl.com/pdf/h3142.pdf T

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Daniel Rocha
Indeed! So small, that it won't remove skepticism from skeptics. They will say it's an error in measurment. And it is extremely ambitious to talk about 1KJ. 6 orders of magnitude of improvement within a few months. 2012/5/22 Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com Impressive, however small power,

RE: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread Jones Beene
Eric - perhaps the original post should have been phrased as “zero believable evidence”… instead of zero evidence. The paper does constitute putative “evidence” after all – actually rather convincing if it could be taken at face value. Romodanov is a mystery. If what he was seeing and

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Peter, I am somehow tired, as we probably all are, of all those annnouncements of 'breakthroughs' . Randall M. probably sees the 'scene' moving away from him and feels challened to announce his n'th breakthrough. Count me unimpressed. Albeit I consider the LENR  phenomenon real, quite a lot

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread fznidarsic
I have seen a lot of water vapor, in my bathtub, in my sink, in fog, emitted from a boiler, at high pressure. There was never any excess energy. Yes, I know, Blacklight discovered the hydrino and they have all of them. Frank

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 16:40 Dienstag, 22.Mai 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower Indeed! So small, that it won't remove skepticism from skeptics. They will say it's an error in

RE: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Haynes 242 alloy: http://www.haynesintl.com/pdf/h3142.pdf Hmmm ... Good eye, Terry. It is probably not coincidental that this is one of the highest available alloys in molybdenum content. Moly is possibly the best fit catalyst in the periodic

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread integral.property.serv...@gmail.com
Jones, Not valuable. No market. Who would buy it? What would you use it for? Half-life of tritium (hydrogen-3) is 12.3 yr. Warm Regards, Reliable, a thinking person Jones Beene wrote: Eric - perhaps the original post should have been phrased as “zero believable evidence”… instead of zero

Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Mistaken notions about human populations and longevity

2012-05-22 Thread Ron Wormus
--On Monday, May 21, 2012 5:57 PM -0400 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: No doubt that is the biological root of the obesity problem. That is why fat people exist. I doubt there are any obese chimpanzees in the wild. Chimpanzees do not have fire and so do not cook their food

Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC Mistaken notions about human populations and longevity

2012-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote: Chimpanzees do not have fire and so do not cook their food must devote most of their day to chewing digesting a lot of raw food. Mastering fire cooking food has allowed humans to quickly fuel our large brains using a short digestive system. True! And

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The overage which is in play in this hypothesis is the mystery energy source for Ni-H reactions, whether they be from Mills, Rossi, DGT, Piantelli, Celani, or Thermacore. It is technically nuclear energy, since it comes from a nucleus - but it does not

[Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
I have been researching the cold fusion reaction that is suggested by Rossi and Focardi in their recent paper http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf and have a couple of questions. The authors suggest that 3.41 MeV of energy is released by the fusion of a

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Now I know how people felt when isotopes were discovered. I meant that isotopes came as a surprise, and people initially questioned the experimental results rather than believe there variations in the weight of an element. It is an interesting episode in the history of science. I

RE: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Finlay MacNab
Your calculation does not take into account the fact that the activation energy barrier releases the energy added to overcome it during the reaction. In this case once coulomb repulsion is overcome, the energy is added back to the system by attractive nuclear force. The 3.41MeV is the

Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to?

2012-05-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
, but diminish the efficiency of the whole setup considerably. I attach another pdf to clarify the 'ignition' issue. 'ideal case'. best regards Guenther Visio-my_LENR_ignition-20120522.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

[Vo]:Another web site about Rossi

2012-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://rossifocardifusion.com/

Re: [Vo]:Why Nicola Tesla was the greatest Geek who ever lived.

2012-05-22 Thread Terry Blanton
Steven, looks like Forbes is reading Vortex also. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/ T

RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Jones, I've always felt there is a relationship between spontaneous emission, pyrophoricity and radioactive materials in a Puthoff atomic model kind of way and that stability is really just a matter of time scales - Forming macro geometries out of Casimir material allows us to modify

Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to?

2012-05-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
What is a spark-plug anyway? Designing an apparatus means knowing as good as possible the essential components and their interaction. If You go to the junkyard and collect your arbitrary ignition electronics, ignition-coil, spark-plug, you are probably in for a surprise. Moderately modern

Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to?

2012-05-22 Thread Jojo Jaro
Interesting!!! I take it from your use of a Fairchild IGBT that you are planning to implement a conventional Kettering Ignition Design rather than a Capacitive Discharge Ignition Design. (Since an SCR, rather than an IGBT would be more appropriate in a CDI design.) Yes, there would be

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash : Rossi -- changed

2012-05-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Rossi --- see #4 Carlo Salvi May 21st, 2012 at 12:59 PM Dear Mr Rossi About the new 600° celsius e-cat: 1)Does it start with the same time of the the “first” ecat or is it more faster to began to work ? 2)Does it uses the same quantity of Ni/H ? 3)Do you think it still can work for 6 month

Re: [Vo]:Another web site about Rossi

2012-05-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed, See: http://rossifocardifusion.com/ These guys definitely have a lot of time on their hands! Lots of snazzy graphics! I hope it isn't all just smoke and mirrors. So, Jed. What do you think? Did these guys use WordPress, Drupal, or some other concoction? Inquiring minds want to

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
Thanks for the rapid response! I think that I have a mental block regarding this issue. Perhaps I am looking at the fusion process from the wrong angle. Help me understand where my error is as I do not follow your example below. Let's try a mental experiment. I can see that it would be

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Frank You have to bathe in Ni nano powder to dilate the space time which the vapor then diffuses into becoming hydrino or inverse Rydberg from our perspective - I would posit gas loading is actually based on temporal distortion where many more atoms can perform Lorentzian contraction to fit

RE: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Jones Beene
Are you discounting QM and quantum tunneling? One could say that the in tunneling - threshold energy is briefly borrowed and then a short time later, the debt is repaid – before the net gain is obvious. From: David Roberson Could you help me understand how the 5.6 MeV is

Re: [Vo]:Another web site about Rossi

2012-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: So, Jed. What do you think? Did these guys use WordPress, Drupal, or some other concoction? To reveal this with Google Chrome you do a right-click and select view page source. And voila, it says: meta name=generator

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 07:40 AM 5/22/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: And it is extremely ambitious to talk about 1KJ. 6 orders of magnitude of improvement within a few months. The Weinberg report : http://www.blacklightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/WeinbergReport.pdf indicates that it's straight-forward

RE: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Finlay MacNab
The easiest way to visualize the effect is to imagine the case of a roller coaster. Initially a roller coaster must overcome a gravitational energy barrier by a mechanical mechanism that pulls the cars to the top of the track. That energy is not lost but is regained on the down slope. In

Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to?

2012-05-22 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com An: Vortex Vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 21:32 Dienstag, 22.Mai 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to? Interesting!!! Glad   jojo no problem. Misunderstandings are quite normal. Anyway. Ignition

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: The PDF's secured, so I can't cut and paste . Page 2-3, and particularly Page 3 starting with A combination of increasing the surface area ... Secured PDFs are annoying, aren't they? Here is the text you meant to quote: A combination of increasing

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
That idea crossed my mind but I still do not know where the 5.6 MeV of energy imparted upon the proton wound up. If the path were exothermic I would expect to be able to recover(or at least locate) all of the 5.6 MeV as well as some extra energy. I recall reading an article years ago that

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Michele Comitini
Alan, If you have firefox you can render most PDFs in your browser without any extra reader. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs plain js + html5 You can do all the copying you need then ;-) mic 2012/5/22 Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com: At 07:40 AM 5/22/2012, Daniel Rocha

Re: [Vo]:Another web site about Rossi

2012-05-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed: As for me, my current plans are to completely overhaul my orionworks web site using XARA Web Designer Premium. See: http://www.xara.com/us/products/webdesigner/ That costs $99. Probably worth it. It looks similar to WordPress. They use the same jargon for components such as

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
I just reviewed the wikipedia article on stars. They support the idea that iron is the last element that can be fused before the process becomes endothermic. It is an interesting read and I should be kicked in the rear for not reading it before asking my question. Of course they might not

RE: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Finlay MacNab
In the case of regular fusion the kinetic energy of the proton would be conserved in the reaction products (i.e. the total energy of the system would be 5.6 MeV + 3.41MeV) these reaction products might be a Cu59 nucleus with 9.01MeV of kinetic energy or more likely some combination of gamma

[Vo]:Re: [Vo] Offtopic -- pdfjs

2012-05-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:59 PM 5/22/2012, Michele Comitini wrote: If you have firefox you can render most PDFs in your browser without any extra reader. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs plain js + html5 I'm on FF10 ... it's installed, but it still opens with the regular reader. I couldn't

Re: [Vo]:Press release Blacklightpower

2012-05-22 Thread Terry Blanton
You can always print, scan and OCR it with a cheap all-in-one printer. T

RE: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Jones Beene
Awkshully, the most stable isotope in the periodic table is not one of iron’s major isotopes. 62Ni has the highest binding energy per nucleon of all isotopes, including iron, even though the average binding energy per nucleon for iron is slightly higher than nickel. Another reason that

[Vo]:New WLT Transmutation : Tungsten (W) to Gold

2012-05-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
via Krivit Fascinating Reading: Larsen’s Latest on LENRs and Gold http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2012/05/21/fascinating-reading-larsens-latest-on-lenrs-and-gold/ http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-lenr-transmutation-networks-can-produce-goldmay-19-2012 # Once you've

Re: [Vo]:Bologna Italy 6.3 Earthquake

2012-05-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 05:09 AM 5/20/2012, Ron Kita wrote: I guess that this will be headline news in a few seconds: http://news.yahoo.com/6-3-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-bologna-italy-022116451.html Dear Prof. Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize: Thank you for your attention. The earthquake has hit my house,

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Axil Axil
There are a number of assumptions at issue in this tread that I would like to counter. I believe that a cooper pair of Protons fuses with the nickel nucleus. The reaction products of this type fusion are listed in the Kim paper

[Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread Axil Axil
This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge. Excess charge electrons: the delocalized electrons, those not associated with specific atoms, follow circular orbits around the tube circumference. As in an atom, this motion causes one orientation of the electron spin to have lower energy

Re: [Vo]:New WLT Transmutation : Tungsten (W) to Gold

2012-05-22 Thread mixent
In reply to Alan J Fletcher's message of Tue, 22 May 2012 16:20:19 -0700: Hi, [snip] via Krivit Fascinating Reading: Larsen’s Latest on LENRs and Gold http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2012/05/21/fascinating-reading-larsens-latest-on-lenrs-and-gold/

Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 22 May 2012 22:33:09 -0400: Hi, [snip] Many delocalized electrons would orbit the diameter of the nano-tube in a cooper paired counter rotational spin up spin down couplet. The electron motion would be superconductive and the total excess charge would be

Re: [Vo]:New WLT Transmutation : Tungsten (W) to Gold

2012-05-22 Thread fznidarsic
Larsen has all of the slow neutrons. Mills has all of the hydrinos. I have all of the mega-hertz meter Puthoff has all of the ZPE It amazing. Frank

Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread fznidarsic
Its an old experiment. Stern and Gerlich. Frank -Original Message- From: mixent mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, May 22, 2012 11:06 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge. In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 22 May

Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread mixent
In reply to mix...@bigpond.com's message of Wed, 23 May 2012 13:06:16 +1000: Hi, [snip] BTW there are also other ways you can rotate an ellipse. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
I understand how your analogy operates now. It is helpful to be able to compare everyday experiences with the phenomenon that one is trying to get a handle upon. What is the possibility that the barrier energy that is supplied by my experimental proton accelerator at approximately 5.6 MeV

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
I also suspect that the reaction is a bit more complex than a single hydrogen fusion. Dave -Original Message- From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, May 22, 2012 9:44 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic? There are a

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
The process suggested by Rossi has major issues as you point out. I do think that one could force a reaction like this with very high energy protons impacting nickel, but it seems quite unlikely to me that this will happen at the low temperatures encountered within Rossi's reactors. Dave

Re: [Vo]:New WLT Transmutation : Tungsten (W) to Gold

2012-05-22 Thread David Roberson
You guys need to share with the rest of us. Dave -Original Message- From: fznidarsic fznidar...@aol.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, May 22, 2012 11:07 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:New WLT Transmutation : Tungsten (W) to Gold Larsen has all of the slow neutrons. Mills has

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ** Another reason that Focardi/Rossi’s claim of nickel going to copper is brain-dead. Or a gambit intended to divert attention from what is really going on. Eric

Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread Axil Axil
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.3060.pdf Electric charge enhancements in carbon nanotubes On page 4 of the reference, three of my recently made assertions are demonstrated. 1. Charge is concentrated at the tip of the tube, 2. Tube Charge will be attracted to and amplified by the

Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread mixent
In reply to fznidar...@aol.com's message of Tue, 22 May 2012 23:08:53 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] Its an old experiment. Stern and Gerlich. IIRC that deals with Silver ions, not free electrons. Frank -Original Message- From: mixent mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com

Re: [Vo]: Proton Fusion Ni58 to Cu59 Endothermic?

2012-05-22 Thread Axil Axil
The hard part is making the coulomb barrier go away; after that the fusion is easy. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:24 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I also suspect that the reaction is a bit more complex than a single hydrogen fusion. Dave -Original Message- From:

Re: [Vo]:This is how a 1 dimensional nanowire stores charge.

2012-05-22 Thread Axil Axil
What I was describing is the spin hall effect in a one dimensional topological insulator… see page 8 of last reference. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.3060.pdf Electric charge enhancements in carbon nanotubes On page 4 of

Re: [Vo]:New WLT Transmutation : Tungsten (W) to Gold

2012-05-22 Thread Axil Axil
No neutrons please. The fusion of one or two protons will transmute tungsten(N) into elements in the platinum group(n+1) or (N+2). The test is easy. There will be no beta decay and no tungsten isotopes. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: via Krivit

Re: [Vo]:Nickel-hydrogen nuclear ash

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Eric - perhaps the original post should have been phrased as “zero believable evidence”… instead of zero evidence. The paper does constitute putative “evidence” after all – actually rather convincing if it could be taken