[Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jojo Jaro
Hey gang, I would like to request (ask, beg, plead, beseech, supplicate) everyone to please refrain from OFF-TOPIC discussions in this list. It is very difficult and time-consuming to have to wade thru the numerous off-topic posts. Filters simply won't work in filtering for the simple

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I disagree. Off topic subjects are often food for thought. Some seem off topic at first, but turn out to be on topic. I have often posted news items and things that caught my attention from books I am reading that seemed off topic. After some discussion here I realize why they caught my attention

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Michele Comitini
From Bill's pages: The Vortex-L list was originally created for discussions of professional research into fluid vortex/cavitation devices which exhibit anomalous energy effects (ie: the inventions of Schaeffer, Huffman, Griggs, and Potapov among others.) Currently it has evolved into a discussion

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jojo Jaro
Jed, I agree. Cold Fusion touches every aspect of our lives and society, but that does not mean every aspect of our lives and society is appropriate for this forum. One may argue that some topics are marginally relevant but surely, you can agree that some topics are way off topic. Surely you

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Vorl Bek
Jed, I agree. Cold Fusion touches every aspect of our lives and society, but that does not mean every aspect of our lives and society is appropriate for this forum. One may argue that some topics are marginally relevant but surely, you can agree that some topics are way off topic. Surely

RE: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Jones Beene
UPDATE: I was asked about the EPRI data in the Ahern report - showing cooling with titanium nanopowder, and finally got in touch with Brian. He did not include the data in the final report, merely a summation. He stands by the cooling effect as valid and repeatable; but the effect was not

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread David Roberson
Thanks for the update Jones. If the cooling effect is valid then it should be pursued. Any time an anomalous occurrence is registered an opportunity to discover a new relationship exists which may allow us to fit additional parts of the puzzle into place. I would assume that the cooling

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Terry Blanton
Post no bills.

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: Surely you can agree that Wisconsin politics, school lunches, dead Everest Bodies and the like are completely inappropriate. (Although I did find Everest Dead Bodies Interesting to say the least.) I agree they are OFF TOPIC. They should be marked OFF TOPIC.

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jojo Jaro
Jed, I believe you are missing the point. 1. Extra verbiage does not bother me, it's the clumsy mailing list format that's causing a lot of heartache. It sends you all the mail and it clogs my Internet pipe. (I don't have a fast pipe like you have.) The problem in not so much in the amount

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Reformat paragraphs a little. This is supposed to go: Incidentally, school lunches are ON TOPIC insofar as a 9-year-old girl has gotten more attention, more hits, public support and funding for her cause in 4 days of on-line presence than cold fusion researchers have attracted in 23 years. . . .

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: 1. Extra verbiage does not bother me, it's the clumsy mailing list format that's causing a lot of heartache. It sends you all the mail and it clogs my Internet pipe. (I don't have a fast pipe like you have.) The problem in not so much in the amount of

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Peter Gluck
Vortex is for me, a forum where I have old e-friends. In my opinion very strict rules are not necessary- if somebody wants to tell me about an interesting subject- fine. If the subject is not interesting for me, I am deletimg the message a few seconds of work. Peter On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:15

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: That's life. People are what they are. It isn't as if we have a better class of primates waiting in wings, prepared to take over the world and correct the problems caused by our nature. I hope not, anyway. I have

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: Vortex is for me, a forum where I have old e-friends. In my opinion very strict rules are not necessary- if somebody wants to tell me about an interesting subject- fine. If the subject is not interesting for me, I am

RE: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jones Beene
* Maybe you need the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail reader. It does a good job sorting out the threads in various ways. Most of it is innocuous, but what you are suggesting is making lots of people on the list go to significant trouble in order to accommodate a few off-topic posters ... which

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:59 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Thanks for the update Jones. If the cooling effect is valid then it should be pursued. Any time an anomalous occurrence is registered an opportunity to discover a new relationship exists which may allow us to fit

Re: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread Jojo Jaro
Jed, a Forum Format is the forum format found in sites like ECatplanet.com. In a Forum Format, the post are organized into seperate threads, where users can only click to see a thread that interests them. Not like the Vortex mailing list format where all threads are stuff down your email.

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread David Roberson
An LENR like technique that achieves active cooling would be an interesting discovery. It is normal for a black body radiator to loose energy and cool down by radiation and maybe a method exists to convert some of the thermal energy into another form such as neutrinos that can escape any

[Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread Jojo Jaro
Hey Gang, Is anyone here aware of an easy test for the presence of Carbon Nanotubes? Easy being simple and inexpensive and accessible to ordinary folks without expensive equipment. A Test that would quantify the amount of carbon nanotubes would be better than simply telling me that they are

Re: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread Иванов Михаил
test passed!

RE: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Jones Beene
Yesterday, Robin mentioned that under the theory of Mills, the hydrino cannot be easily contained after it gives up significant energy - and would eventually migrate out of the structure like a neutron (being subject to gravity) and eventually “disappear” anyway – so there is no need for another

RE: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
I don't know about nanotubes, but b-fullerene is soluable in something easy and it turns it purpleish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19655724 -Original Message- From: Jojo Jaro [mailto:jth...@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 12:53

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: It brings the question of conservation of energy to the fore. If normal LENR is like a box with a button on it, which once pressed causes heat to spill out, can you have another box with a button that, when pressed, causes cooling to occur? At face value, it sounds like some basic

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: The question of nickel v. tungsten is more complex than I implied. If I remember correctly, there are experiments with tungsten in which heat was produced. The experiment involved titanium nanopowder, not tungsten. But I see now that there have been experiments using titanium in

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: … don’t crush that dwarf :-) Hand me the pliers. (Without knowing the reference, this sounds crazy.) T

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: So if Brian Ahern's anecdotal data are allowed, titanium can yield both power and localized cooling (perhaps energy is being fed into the system from the power outlet to accomplish this). I'm all mixed up. There are the ice packs, which absorb heat during a phase transition from

RE: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Jones Beene
As I recall, the titanium experiments with thermal gain have been with deuterium. Do you have reference to gain with Ti-H instead of Ti-D? But even if titanium can go either way, and it can be determined that some experiments with hydrogen and other “nano-metric” metals result in excess

RE: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
That was helpful... -m -Original Message- From: Иванов Михаил [mailto:i-...@yandex.ru] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes test passed!

RE: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread Иванов Михаил
test passed!

Re: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread Axil Axil
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir_probe Langmuir probe A *Langmuir probe* is a device named after Nobel Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prizewinning physicist Irving Langmuir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir, used to determine the electron temperature,

Re: [Vo]:Test for the Existence of Carbon Nanotubes

2012-06-17 Thread Иванов Михаил
test passed!

RE: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Recently Vorl Bek and Jojo Jaro have suggested, OFF TOPIC discussions should be relegated to Vortex B, something to the effect that there is no need for OT discussions here. ...or perhaps they are simply suggesting that maybe I ought to pack up my bags and head for VoB. But then maybe I'm just

RE: [Vo]:OT: Please! Let's do our part and keep OFF-TOPIC off this list!

2012-06-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Jojo ... For that matter, maybe the regular old folks here can see the benefit of a Forum Format and help me prevail upon Bill to convert. I find it perplexing why this suggestion of mine is not receiving its rightful support from old folks. Are old folks here really that content

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Axil Axil
Reference: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MileyGHnucleartra.pdf NUCLEAR TRANSMUTATIONS IN THIN-FILM NICKEL COATINGS UNDERGOING ELECTROLYSIS George H. Miley and James A. Patterson Other key features observed in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 that must be accounted for by any theory include the

[Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
I'm curious as to how fellow Vorts would answer this question. What are the chances that there is at least one undiscovered form of energy yet to be discovered? 0=No F*in Way 1=slight chance 2=reasonable chance 3=very good chance 4=I'm certain there are undiscovered forms of energy

Re: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Hence, when someone adamantly relies on CoE, saying that such and such is impossible since it would violate CoE, they are not a scientist in my mind. I don't know about the not a scientist part, but I personally have

Re: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread David Roberson
Mark, you ask the tough questions. When I consider the possibility of a new energy form I have to think of the historic past. We are notoriously incapable of imagining things such as this unless some well observed phenomenon is unknown and accepted as true. Anything our senses can not

Re: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread David Roberson
Eric, perhaps you noticed my reference to neutrinos easily escaping the system along with their associated energy. That was my way of evading the CoE in the closed environment. Actually, that was the way they were originally proposed; a way to explain the variation in energy associated with

RE: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
I’m probably sitting between 3 to 4, and here is why… Empirical evidence for the existence of the zero-point field (ZPF) is now well established… what that means is that there is something present that we are only recently beginning to understand. The only important question relevant to

RE: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
-Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:38 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos) It is easy to go over the top with dramatization on this one. ... ...The interesting part (for this thread) is

Re: [Vo]:Missing Neutrons (hydrinos)

2012-06-17 Thread mixent
In reply to David Roberson's message of Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:27:19 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] Perhaps the neutrons are captured in some manner and allowed to decay into proton, electron, and an electron antineutrino. The antineutrino would easily escape the system carrying away mass and energy.

Re: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread Harry Veeder
The apparent lack of anti-matter in the universe is also conundrum from the standpoint of CoE. harry On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Hence, when someone adamantly relies on

Re: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread Harry Veeder
With respect to neutrinos and beta decay, CoE may be a possibility rather than a necessity. Neutrinos would be regarded as incomplete entities at the moment of their creation. They remain incomplete until they are destroyed during a subsequent interaction. As long as they never interact, they

Re: [Vo]:The missing half of the Law of CoE...

2012-06-17 Thread David Roberson
That is an interesting comment Harry. Are you suggesting that the neutrino is entangled with an electron other than the one released at the time of the decay? The oscillation between flavors of neutrinos makes that seem strange as it would require the end receptor to change with distance and