Re: [Vo]:got something

2013-05-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:01:17PM -0400, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: I tried all kinds of gasses on all sorts of filaments Got nothing then something happened with ammonia on tungsten filaments. Can you please describe the detail of your experiment, and what exactly happened?

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: just delusioned and selectively blind like what roland benabou describe I think groupthink is a much better explanation for belief in cold fusion than it is for skepticism. Mainstream science is an extremely diverse

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cude not only fails to see this pattern, he mixes up two numbers: The claim that high loading is correlated to claims of excess heat was made early on, but that bit of alleged intelligence has done nothing to help with

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The role of correlation and real-world control factors is often overlooked, even by supporters. This is critically important. Cold fusion heat with the Pd-D system is correlated with several control factors, including:

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Cude: I missed the obligatory tritium is claimed to be detected, and no even if it's detected, there could be contamination, accidental or deliberate. That is an absurd cop-out. There are dozens of

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cude wrote: After 24 years, there is still not an experiment that anyone skilled in the art can do, and get quantitatively predictable positive results, whether it's excess heat, tritium, or helium (or an

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: plate tectonics evidence where overwhelming much before they were

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't answer the question. ***Of course it does. The question was why don't intelligent people believe cold fusion. If the mainstream

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: interlab reproducibility is still a bitch. ***True enough, but that doesn't make it a pathological science. It makes it a difficult one.

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: That's a reflection of what mainstream science thinks of cold fusion. It doesn't answer the question of why, if the proof is so obvious,

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Mainstream does not believe the evidence for cold fusion. Therefore, it is not credible. ***What a ridiculous line of reasoning. It's what the

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: So, Pons Fleischmann were careless researchers, eh? Yes, sadly. Then how is it that their findings have been replicated 14,700 times? They weren't How did they become 2 of the most preeminent electrochemists of

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: At least I know how to spell his name. ***Gee, that's about as semantically irrelevant as an argument can get. Lighten up. It was a gentle poke, since you were chiding me on not being as great as Arata. He

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: It's self evident that there are images of an unknown physical entity. ***Wow, you put more credence into bigfoot than cold fusion. Who can

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Again with the semantics. I don't really care what word you use. To me, both polywater and cold fusion are almost certainly bogus phenomena,

Re: [Vo]:got something

2013-05-10 Thread Edmund Storms
Frank, tungsten has a very high melting point that is lowered by addition of any element to its structure. Tungsten forms a nitride that melts at a much lower temperature than the metal. Why not consider that you simply changed the melting point of the wire, which cause a break in the

[Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial 2

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
Walker wrote: Yes, definitely -- conflation is a critical mistake, but it is most likely to occur when it is convenient for one's position. Throw perpetual motion machines, homeopathy, polywater and cold fusion all into the same category. It does not matter that there appear to be basic

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial 2

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
Rothwell wrote: Cude and others conflate many different assertions and issues. They stir everything into one pot. You have to learn to compartmentalize with cold fusion, or with any new phenomenon or poorly understood subject. That's nonsense. It's the believers who are forever using tritium

[Vo]:News about Rossi from PESN

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
For what it's worth: http://pesn.com/2013/05/09/9602311_LENR-to-Market_Weekly_May9/ http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Whats-Happened-to-Andrea-Rossi-and-his-E-Cat.html QUOTE from latter: What Rossi and the enthusiasts have learned is it’s a very long path from the lab

Re: [Vo]:News about Rossi from PESN

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Another quote, from: http://pesn.com/2013/05/07/9602310_Interview_with_Andrea_Rossi_About_1-MW-E-Cat-Plant_Delivery/ . . . Early in the interview, Rossi explained that the 1 MW plant that I saw demonstrated on October 28, 2011 was not delivered to the confidential military customer. There were

RE: [Vo]:‘Pathological Science’ is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological)

2013-05-10 Thread Chris Zell
Given that the topic is phrases that should be abandoned, can we do away with extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence ? This repellent remark is glibly repeated to justify the bias of whoever happens to be using it. It should be asked, extraordinary to whom? There are large

Re: [Vo]:News about Rossi from PESN

2013-05-10 Thread Peter Gluck
This is easy to understand: it is a long way from the discovery of an enhanced form of excess heat to a stable, well controlled commercial energy source. A long way with many obstacles, barriers and problems that must be solved.Mainly engineering, technology, materials science. However enhanced

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:‘Pathological Science’ is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological)

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: ** Given that the topic is phrases that should be abandoned, can we do away with extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence ? Amen. Here is what Melich and I wrote about this: [DoE 2004 review] claim 1.5. “As many have said, extraordinary

RE: [Vo]:got something

2013-05-10 Thread Jones Beene
Frank, Look at the SEM image of a tungsten filament - 2nd image here http://www.google.com/url?sa=irct=jq=esrc=ssource=imagescd=cad=rjadoc id=Ox10wVsW9nbjvMtbnid=9CZnSD4v8IRcxM:ved=url=http%3A%2F%2Fion.asu.edu%2F descript_depth.htmei=awCNUZ7uIKakiQKglIHgBQbvm=bv.46340616,d.cGEpsig=AFQj

Re: [Vo]:News about Rossi from PESN

2013-05-10 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2013-05-10 15:53, Peter Gluck wrote: However enhanced excess energy is the first, sine qua non step. Rumors circulating about the Professors' Hot Cat report pre-publication text on the Web accessible for very selected persons. Not confirmed yet. I'm not asking for nor expecting any further

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Malley
Going back to my corner of LENR, if it were not credible then the replication of Dr. Arata's work would not have been published in Physics Letters A. You are not credible. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Kevin O'Malley

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Who can deny that some of those photos are not explained? Therefore they are images of an unknown physical entity. ***You're trying to twist the original dispute, which is that National Instruments could have gone

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Sue me. I'm an anti-semantic. I'm not saying cold fusion is bad because it's pathological. I call it pathological because it's bad. ***Now you're back to your own Humpty Dumpty definitions. On top of that,

Re: [Vo]:News about Rossi from PESN

2013-05-10 Thread Peter Gluck
I have not mentioned it till a second friend has not alluded to the fact that there are people who know what I have asked re the Professors in my blog writings . It can be pure fantasy, but not mine. I think you have better connections in this case. It could be triggered by the optimist

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:‘Pathological Science’ is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological)

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: ** Given that the topic is phrases that should be abandoned, can we do away with extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence ? That phrase (or some form of it) is usually attributed to Truzzi, but the

Re: [Vo]:got something

2013-05-10 Thread fznidarsic
No, an increase in resistance effects the damping in the tuned circuit not the frequency. I adjust the frequency with a high voltage tuning capacitor. I got it from a from a very old transmitter years ago. I shock excite the tuned circuit with a spark to get it oscillating. Yes, I can

Re: [Vo]:got something

2013-05-10 Thread fznidarsic
Lots of methods work, not well, not every time, and to such a small degree that the calamity is always in doubt. Supplying atomic hydrogen from the dissociation of ammonia is just another approach. It was worth trying and I got local hot spots. I, like noone else, have been doing experiments

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: That's a reflection of what mainstream science thinks of cold

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial 2

2013-05-10 Thread ken deboer
Sidenote: I'm reminded of one of the great one-liners (and I believe it was uttered by someone on this list if I;m not mistaken: The difference between connecting the dots and conflation is spin On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Rothwell wrote: Cude

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: The question stands. If the evidence is so compelling, why don't intelligent people accept it? Why are some intelligent people racist? Has to do with self-interest, I think. But it is in nearly everyone's

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Joshua Cude
or rather, why do nearly all intelligent people reject it. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.comwrote: The question stands. If the evidence is so compelling, why don't intelligent

Re: [Vo]:News about Rossi from PESN -- Rossi Says ecat mouse COP is 100-200

2013-05-10 Thread Alan Fletcher
Andrea Rossi May 9th, 2013 at 8:18 PM Dear Tom Conover: We are testing low temperature tigers, for now, of 100 kW. All our reactors now have activator and E-Cat, allowing us an activator with a COP more than 1 and E-Cat with COP in the hundreds. Warm Regards, A.R. - - - Andrea Rossi May

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Chris Zell
I believe there are documented, well attested cases in which some opponents of cold fusion actually refused to read or consider the evidence - or said that they would disbelieve anything reported in its support. This is not unusual. Sheldrake politely reports the same sort of behavior in

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: . But it's difficult to come up with a phenomenon on the scale of cold fusion that was rejected for decades and was later vindicated. There is, as described in Hagelstein's essay, Semmelweis, and to a lesser degree

[Vo]:Pravda publishes an article on LENR in it's science section.

2013-05-10 Thread Teslaalset
http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=frsl=autotl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pravda.ru%2Fscience%2Ftechnolgies%2F26-04-2013%2F1153327-termo_cold-0%2F%3Fmode%3Dprint Nice find by Alain Coetmeur, lenr-forum

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Malley
In order to see things the way you do, you ask that 2 of the most careful electrochemists made fundamentally careless measurements. That the physicists who tried the experiments and had no colorimetry experience were able to be more careful than these 2 careful dudes. And that the effect has not

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.comwrote: Mainstream does not believe the evidence for cold fusion. Therefore, it

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial 2

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Cude wrote: That's nonsense. It's the believers who are forever using tritium and neutrons at ridiculously low levels to prove PF were right. You just conflated two unrelated things! No one says that tritium proves that PF's claims of excess heat is correct. Tritium cannot prove that

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:‘Pathological Science’ is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological)

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hume said: A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence. ***Hume also wrote the following, which applies to Joshua Cude, who absurdly claims that Pons Fleischmann were not careful electrochemical experimenters and

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Chris Zell
It is well that you bring up the subject of medical procedure (transfusions) because this area is loaded with egregious examples of verifiable facts that are ignored - often due to prejudice and moneyed interests. My doctor marvels at my dramatic improvement in blood chemistry but denies that

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Harry Veeder
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.comwrote: The question stands. If the evidence is so compelling, why don't intelligent people accept it? Why are some intelligent people

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: The question stands. If the evidence is so compelling, why don't intelligent people accept it? Why are some intelligent people racist? Indeed. Willful ignorant often plays a role, as it does in cold fusion. Many of the people most stridently opposed

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
Then there's Dr. Simoncini ( cancerfungus.com ) that cures cancer with baking soda, but that's too cheap to be credible :-) . From: Chris Zell [mailto:chrisz...@wetmtv.com] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:27 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial It is well

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Cude wrote: Has to do with self-interest, I think. But it is in nearly everyone's self-interest for cold fuison to be real. And in any case, my question was really why don't *all* intelligent people accept it. In 1941, U.S. Adm. Stark said to the Japanese envoy Nomura: If you attack us we

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Chris Zell
It usually transpires that, if some treatment is natural ( unpatentable) or inexpensive, it will never be investigated or established as factual within the medical community. I first caught on to this while reading thru Pub Med and Index Medica documents. It was suggested that polyunsaturated

Re: [Vo]:Pravda publishes an article on LENR in it's science section.

2013-05-10 Thread Alain Sepeda
finding of david to be honest, I relayed. 2013/5/10 Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.com http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=frsl=autotl=enu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pravda.ru%2Fscience%2Ftechnolgies%2F26-04-2013%2F1153327-termo_cold-0%2F%3Fmode%3Dprint Nice find by Alain Coetmeur, lenr-forum

Re: [Vo]:Dark Lightning

2013-05-10 Thread Terry Blanton
And now some dark Lovecraftian creature from lightning: http://whofortedblog.com/2013/05/04/hell-it-bizarre-organism-appears-lightning-strike/

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: The fact that the war could only end with that kind of disaster (or earlier with an unconditional surrender) should have been obvious to every Japanese leader from the Emperor down to every town mayor. I would like to explore this dreadful history a little more, because I know a

RE: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Chris Zell
Apparently, you have presented a true example (Park et al) of pathological science !

Re: [Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

2013-05-10 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Thu, 9 May 2013 20:49:04 -0700: Hi, [snip] On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:47 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Eric Walker's message of Mon, 6 May 2013 18:21:16 -0700: Hi, [snip] If that fails, because, for example, Robin shows overwhelming evidence

Re: [Vo]:Dark Lightning

2013-05-10 Thread ChemE Stewart
DARPA first attempt at quantum teleportation via dark energy of a human volunteer... On Friday, May 10, 2013, Terry Blanton wrote: And now some dark Lovecraftian creature from lightning: http://whofortedblog.com/2013/05/04/hell-it-bizarre-organism-appears-lightning-strike/

[Vo]:nano crystals slip thru nanotubes with constrictions smaller than the crystal itself!

2013-05-10 Thread Roarty, Francis X
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/may/01/how-nanocrystals-squeeze-through-nanotubes [snip] Researchers in the US have made a remarkable discovery about how an iron nanocrystal moves through a carbon nanotube that does not have a uniform diameter. They found that if the crystal meets

Re: [Vo]:Pravda publishes an article on LENR in it's science section.

2013-05-10 Thread Alan Fletcher
Interview with Yuri Bazhutov -- ICCF-13 chairman

Re: [Vo]:RE: From Russia, with love

2013-05-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:21 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In short, very roughly, a 1 W unshielded power source would double the background rate. Thank you for the numbers. Twice background doesn't sound like all that much; presumably this is near the threshold of detection, and a signal

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial 2

2013-05-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: There are differences of course. Identical analogies serve no purpose. I think they're the most powerful. :) I assume we all agree that homeopathy and polywater and perpetual motion are bogus. And so when someone

Re: [Vo]:Hagelstein's editorial

2013-05-10 Thread Kevin O'Malley
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: To the Japanese in 1941, Americans seemed outlandish. To the skeptics who agree with Cude or Close, we are the ones disconnected from reality. We are illogical and even mentally ill thinking that we can fuse hydrogen in a