Re: [Vo]:BLP demo - the energizing electrodes

2014-01-22 Thread Nigel Dyer
I agree that the patent is written to confuse. By carefully selecting a few sentences and paragraphs from the patent I think it is possible to find a rather neat semi-continuous flow version of an intersting development of the Graneau water arc system, which is consistent with the rather

RE: [Vo]:BLP demo - the energizing electrodes

2014-01-22 Thread Mike Carrell
Erik, Yes, you got it about patent strategy. There is no malice in this. If a guy claims a blue box in a patent and another claims a red box with the dame function, he should not get a patent if the color is not of the essence. The BLP paper “Solid fuels that make HOH catalyst” clarifies the

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo - the energizing electrodes

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
History of Water Arc Explosions : The unusual strength of explosions caused by a pulsed current flowing through water plasma was first noticed in 1907 by Trowbridge. in his early high voltage laboratory at Harvard University. When he passed an arc through a spray of water, the resulting

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo - the energizing electrodes

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
More... from a post here on vortex back on 12/31/12 to vortex-l I looked at the Papp cannon video again. At 3:00 in, Papp is filling the cannon from one of the flasks. It has a sizable amount of clear liquid at the bottom of that flask.

[Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
Speaking of intentional deception in a patent application ... (which BTW voids that patent application if it can be proved - and is not tolerated by USPTO) there is the issue of MHD. Any patent or claim that proposes to convert heat into electricity based on MHD is probably nothing but hot air,

Re: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread fznidarsic
Very interesting. Can such a device convert terahertz radiation into DC power? -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 10:31 am Subject: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love... Speaking of intentional deception in a

Re: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread ChemE Stewart
I have 2 years statistics in FL showing accelerated ionization and decay clustered around microwave radar towers, including algae blooms, fish kills,increased sinkholes and waterspouts. In Oklahoma and North Texas my 3 year statistics are showing a correlation between microwave radar tower

RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: fznidar...@aol.com Very interesting. Can such a device convert terahertz radiation into DC power? No. An oversimplification of Cuccia coupling (this is from memory so it may not be accurate) is this: microwaves couple to electrons at very

[Vo]:Understanding BLP: Chapter Two

2014-01-22 Thread Mike Carrell
I am pleased by the stir created by my previous post on this thread. I also now have a better understanding of the BLP posts. Readers have been fixated on the press release and the patent application and overlooked the paper Solid Fuels that Form HOH Catalyst which contains the key to

RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
I have reworded this post below to make it clearer, and change the dyslexic wording (power - energy) and account for the magnetic field, all based on original guesstimates of the Russians. From: fznidar...@aol.com

[Vo]:Observing Dark Matter

2014-01-22 Thread Terry Blanton
20 January 2014 Last updated at 09:05 ET Cosmic 'web' seen for first time By Simon RedfernReporter, BBC News The hidden tendrils of dark matter that underlie the visible Universe may have been traced out for the first time. Cosmology theory predicts that galaxies are embedded in a cosmic web

RE: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Marcus Haber
Quote: If you have an intense source of UV in a plasma (as Mills apparently does) then it is possible to use a photocell for conversion, but the plasma will also have a lot of +ions which destroy the photocell. A protective window is impossible since UV is absorbed by the window. Thought

[Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/507821/nanoparticles-make-steam-without-bringing-water-to-a-boil/ Nanoparticles can concentrate the energy of photons on a localized nanometric scale. Here is a application of this ability. Steam is a key ingredient in a wide range of industrial and

Re: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
One of the goals of the dense plasma focus(DPF) reactor design is to convert the ions produced by the plasmoid directly into electric power using a MDH. In that system energy comes from two sources, ions and x-rays. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Marcus Haber tr...@gmx.de wrote: Quote: If

RE: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
If I remember - UV grade fused silica doesn’t filter very much UVA or UVB – that much is true, but can filter maybe 75% of EUV at 55 eV. That would be too much. It would be worth looking at a spec sheet. The gain in Mills reaction is claimed to be in the range called EUV (extreme UV).

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
The total energy contained by the steam must be no greater than the input light energy. This is not magic, just a way to concentrate the incoming light. I am assuming that LENR of some sort is not contributing. Dave -Original Message- From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Vo]:Understanding BLP: Chapter Two

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
The cavitation experiments by LeClair show that water subjected to plasma cooling will produce nanoparticles of solid water formed from cooling water plasma. These small crystalline particles are the active agent in many water based nanoplasmonic LENR reactions including cavitation. I believe

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
In order to understand if over unity power production is occurring, the energy content of the incoming solar photons shall be determined and compared to the output energy content of the steam produced. Experimenters must use this procedure or its like to determine the COP of solar cells. On

[Vo]:Researchers Split Water into Hydrogen, Oxygen Using Light, Nanoparticles

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2013/december/1216baohydrogen As it happens in LENR. nanoparticles can concentrate the energy of photons on a localized nanometric scale through super-lensing. Here is yet another application of this ability. Researchers from the University of Houston have

Re: [Vo]:Understanding BLP: Chapter Two

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
Nanoparticle formation, superatoms, and Rydberg matter are an important subfield in chemistry. Mills, being a master chemist, should have been familiar with this science and should not have invented his own imaginary field of chemistry. Nanoparticles and their properties and application can

[Vo]:A new LENR Buzzword

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
I have just run across a new term that describes the a particular Bose -Einstein condensation characterization of the Ni/H reactor --- “grand-canonical ensemble”— See the details here: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/7 Viewpoint: Statistical flickers in a Bose-Einstein Condensate of Photons

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
Normally, I assume that all of the incoming energy, in this case light photons, that is not reflected away ends up heating the water. Anything that concentrates the energy into a small region, such as appears to be happening with this device, will boil a tiny quantity of water. This is not

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
One characterization of the process that you have not considered is localization. The water boils around the nanoparticle but the average temperature of the waterdoes not rise. Another enhancement of the effect is the development of Bose-Einstein condensation. When all the localize nanoparticle

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
Axil, I realize that there may be some interesting behavior associated with this material. The exact mechanism responsible for the generation of water vapor may be difficult to discern. When ice sublimes, or water evaporates, a similar process may be taking place. Heat is extracted from the

RE: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread a.ashfield
Jones Beene, What Mills talks about is the ejection of very high speed ions from which it should be possible to generate electricity. Has he stated that a large proportion of the energy is UV?

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
In the Papp engine, that one of the mysteries of that process is that it produces little heat. The energy density in the Mills cell indicates the production of little heat. I think this lack of heat condition is all connected under the nano-particle causation principle. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at

[Vo]:Why plumbers and experiments often run late

2014-01-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
The other day I broke the stem on the garden hose faucet outside my house. It happens my wife is in Guatemala, so like any husband I thought to myself, I better fix this before she gets home and finds out. It would be difficult to replace the whole faucet but I thought perhaps I can just replace

Re: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
A possible connection between the Mills cell and sonoluminescence is the production of UV. Could a common causation principle be afoot. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:25 PM, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Jones Beene, What Mills talks about is the ejection of very high speed ions from

RE: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
Yes. The gain in the Mills reaction derives from EUV emission initially. Plasma ions can absorb EUV - and that is how they are heated and how they are maintained as a plasma. (EUV can include what is sometimes called soft x-rays, as they are borderline). -Original Message- From:

Re: RE: [Vo]:MHD- from Russia with Love...

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
Nano-clusters can also absorb EUV and then explode in catastrophic structural failure producing a plasma shock wave. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Yes. The gain in the Mills reaction derives from EUV emission initially. Plasma ions can absorb EUV -

[Vo]:PESN LENR to Market digest for January

2014-01-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
http://pesn.com/2014/01/22/9602426_LENR-to-Market_Digest_January22/

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
It could be a Papp like process as you suspect Axil. I do not know what is fact or fiction with the Papp engine and much of what Mills is stating. We need good data if we are to make much headway in understand these systems. Dave -Original Message- From: Axil Axil

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
Here is some believe your own eyes type data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1oPB_iniQ4https At 2:00 Papp disconnect the batteries and the engine still runs. This was demonstrated to the patent office and Papp got the best patent of the year award back in the 70s.. When Mills can do that,

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread torulf.greek
This ability of nano particles to make steam with lesser energy input may also make it possible to get false positive result in LENR. If nano particles is used and laser or maybe some other simulation is used and the steam or evaporation is used for calorimetry. Torulf On Wed, 22 Jan 2014

RE: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: Axil Axil Here is some believe your own eyes type data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1oPB_iniQ4https LOL this is your idea of data ? Give me a break. absolutely zero data there. I wish I had that wasted 6 minutes back. What a con artist Papp was. The longest

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Here is your “back to reality” information on Papp from Feynman himself. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/comments/papparticle2.html If we assume the thing was real, then Feynman was responsible for the accident. He killed someone. It was criminal. Real

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Regarding electronic controls, let me add that there is a difference between unplugging a device and having a power failure. I don't know about the Papp machine, but some of my power tools have a brake that engages when the power fails or when you turn off the power switch. If you unplug the

RE: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
Jed, I thought so too, when Gene first published the other side of the story. But if your read Feynman's account carefully, and you should - then you will see that Papp himself unplugged engine and handed the plug to Feynman. Feynman did not unplug the machine - he merely failed to give

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread John Berry
Still Feynman obstructed Papp from operating a device that Feynman did not understand. By doing so he essentially became fully responsible for anything the machine does due to the power being disconnected for too long. It was only Feynman's cynicism that would not have him plug it back in despite

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
If the Papp engine was not producing over unity power, then with the wall power removed the Papp engine should have stopped. This is what RF thought. But unexpectedly, the engine increased its power output until it blew apart. This is not the behavior of a scam that RF was assuming. This is the

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
I have to admit that sometimes I do not believe my own eyes. I once saw what some refer to as a UFO and I did not believe what I saw. In that case, I would have had to go up to whatever it was and inspect it in detail before accepting that it was real. To believe in a device as revolutionary

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
More... When Papp found out he was going to die, Papp flushed his secret fuel mix from all his engines three months before he died. If the Papp engine was a scam, why would Papp go to the trouble just to keep his secret from the world? On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Axil Axil

RE: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread a.ashfield
Jones Beene, Nobody knows if the Papp engine was real. Papp certainly demonstrated some remarkable things like a cannon, with many witnesses, that blew up with more force than a conventional explosive. Whether Feynman unplugged the wire is secondary to Papp becoming agitated when he

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
I do not think this would be a problem. Remember, the amount of steam formed must still be proportional to the amount of heat energy injected. A device such as this can only make a small quantity of steam from a well defined amount of heat energy. If some method is found to extract heat

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:05 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: The other problem I find difficult to accept is that the Papp engine did not find its way into production if it actually performed as described. Even an idiot would instantly realize that the Papp engine would be a

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread John Berry
David, you show a most annoying circular reasoning trap. First you fail to recognize the obvious resistance to a product that will put oil and energy companies out of business, one of the biggest there is. Next you say that you would require an extraordinary level of evidence to believe in it.

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
I look at this issue from another angle. If Papp had a real engine, then why would he want to keep it from humanity? It seems more likely that he wanted to prevent others from seeing that his device was a fake and the liquids would make that obvious. Many people would like to prevent being

RE: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
From: Axil Axil If the Papp engine was not producing over unity power, then with the wall power removed the Papp engine should have stopped. Not if there was a battery and other circuitry designed to cause a catastrophic failure after a burst of acceleration; so apparently you did not

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
RF was delusional. The engine was inspected after the incident and no battery was found and not explosive residue either. That is why RF's employer settled with Papp out of court for big money. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: *From:* Axil Axil If

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
Papp never made things easy for those who seek his secrets. After the disastrous demo in which the Nobel laureate Richard Feynman attended and witnessed the explosion that killed and maimed a few of those in attendance, Papp never could be persuaded to give the engine up for an independent

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
I sure hope not! If Mills really has a device that performs as he indicates, then I will be super pleased. There is great pleasure in seeing something you helped design go into production and be used by thousands of happy clients. Nothing feels better than seeing your design out in public

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread torulf.greek
If I remember it right. There was relatively newly at PES, much about an Papp-engine called noble gas engine. The PES people appears to believe in all weird things but they exposed this as a simple fraud. Torulf On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:43:05 -0500 (EST), David Roberson wrote: I sure hope

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
You should further your education into human nature by dealing with a criminal psychopath. Bernie Madoff is not available anymore but I am sure there are many more doing business on wall street. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:43 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I sure hope not! If

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread pagnucco
Pardon - this has probably already been mentioned before, but could this be related to the alleged excess energy released in water arc explosions? I do not know how real the results are, but some papers that directly or indirectly reference them follow: The Alternative to Nuclear Energy - Peter

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
This angle was covered in the BLP demo - the energizing electrodes thread to some degree. Water arcs have been know to produce over unity power production. In 1969, the US Bureau of Mines issued a long report on their investigation into using water arc explosions for rock fragmentation. In one

RE: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com How credible are the excess energy claims? In the balance of credibility - towards water arc gainfulness, you should also consider George Hathaway's retraction of the Graneau work. He was coauthor.

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
Sorry John. You are correct about what you say to a certain extent. How much resistance do you think the general public would exhibit to owning a vehicle that runs virtually for free? This is the same group that will ensure that LENR does not get hidden behind closed doors. It is far more

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
I have dealt with crooks before Axil. On several occasions I designed radio devices that worked as advertised but the clients realized that I was too busy to spend the time and effort suing them to collect the bonus payment earned. You can understand why they found themselves having to

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Axil Axil
I have a possible take on a man like Mills who has invested so much into this theory that might be Papp like. If his world saving invention was found to contradict the hydrino theory, he might pull a Papp and kill the project to maintain his place in history. When a man ties his ego so very

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread James Bowery
WD Hamilton, in Innate Social Aptitudes of Man wrote about the tendency of civilization to breed cultural creativity out of the gene pool for the simple and obvious reason that the benefits of invention do not go to the inventor's genetic correlates while the inventor bears the costs of invention

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
That may be the solution Axil. Pride can make people do things that they would not do otherwise. I am sure most of us have said of done things that we later realized was not entirely accurate but failed to set the record straight. Perhaps, as more of your existence becomes entangled in the

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: But if your read Feynman’s account carefully, and you should - then you will see that Papp himself unplugged engine and handed the plug to Feynman. Feynman did not unplug the machine – he merely failed to give back the plug to Papp. No, sorry, that is

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Lennart Thornros
I cannot determine if Papp was a fraud or not. However, I do agree ego is far more important than logic or the good for others. In the sevenntoies I met aguy who offered me to be his partner mmanufacturing and selling the best wind xcreen cleaner stuff I have seen. However, his conditions was I

RE: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread pagnucco
That does cast some doubt on the original claims. Some of Graneau's papers are more recent than Hathaway's retraction, so Graneau is either stubborn, or maybe correct after all. Quite possible that the authors were pressured to retract or suffer consequences. An interesting paper that, while

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:05 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Why on earth would they let such an opportunity get away? It just doesn't add up. Just to play devil's advocate, perhaps Papp had onerous licensing terms. Given that he is reported by Axil to have taken the specific

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread John Berry
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:31 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Sorry John. You are correct about what you say to a certain extent. How much resistance do you think the general public would exhibit to owning a vehicle that runs virtually for free? Virtually zero, BUT that is the

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
Perhaps so Eric. Many have been blinded by the need to acquire great wealth to such an extent that they missed achieving modest wealth altogether. I do not know much about Papp other than what I have read and that is limited. If his engine actually performed as he claimed it is a shame that

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread John Berry
Here are some thoughts on the CoE. What major quantum physics theory would drastically oppose the CoE? The many worlds interpretation of quantum physics, One instant you have one universe, next instant you have thousands that have split off due to probabilities. Does this mean that the many

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread John Berry
BTW, I looked into WMI and found that the only real answer to it (that does not limit the CoE to applying within each universe only) is that the worlds don't split off (branch) but that they are already separate but identical. This has 2 issues, first it means that a universe will finally stop

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
It is obvious that we are in disagreement on plenty of issues and I will leave it at that. Dave -Original Message- From: John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 11:10 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

2014-01-22 Thread David Roberson
It is enlightening to consider the structure of the universe and the many wonders that it reveals to us. Keep asking the right questions and you will find appropriate answers. I have observed the behavior of particles and energies for some time now and I find that the CoE is an effective way

[Vo]:some thoughts on hydrinos

2014-01-22 Thread Eric Walker
People who are following this list are already acquainted with my views on hydrinos -- I do not believe they are plausible. This is despite the fact that some smart people here take them seriously. Nonetheless, because they upset so many assumptions, I have enjoyed thinking about them in the