[Vo]:Rossi may be making a very bad move

2014-07-10 Thread Axil Axil
The Russians and Chinese will engaged in aggressive economic and political espionage against the use of LENR outside of their own spheres of influence and control when they realize what a great competitive threat and a valuable commodity to control that LENR is. To avoid external compromise from

Re: [Vo]:Skeuomorphs ride again!

2014-07-10 Thread a.ashfield
Jed wrote: The Prius starts to move the moment you take your foot off the brake, before you press the gas pedal. There is no need for that, but that is how conventional automatic transmissions work, and the car is designed to imitate them. Actually this is a useful function when you are

Re: [Vo]:Rossi may be making a very bad move

2014-07-10 Thread a.ashfield
Axil, I don't agree. Rossi is apparently close to showing a 1 MW plant in operation and needs the paper to persuade the Patent Office, nay sayers in the government and proof that a charge lasts for 6 months.

Re: [Vo]:Skeuomorphs ride again!

2014-07-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Actually this is a useful function when you are starting on a hill, to prevent the car rolling back when you take your foot off the brake before you can put it on the accelerator The transmission would prevent that. It locks it forward. You may be

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jack Cole
Hi Jones, I'm still around. :) I put my electrolysis experimentation on pause after doing something like 200 experiments with nothing to convince me I had found anything. I had some hope for Brillouin Energy, but after all this time at SRI with no results reported, it gives me doubts about

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
Jack, Sorry you got nothing to show from electrolysis - but it is sometimes helpful to report these negative results. Thanks for stepping forward with them now. There is value in null results when properly analyzed, and it can be of significant value when there is something positive to

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Axil Axil
Jack: Did you try to roughen the surface of the lattice substrate metal with spark discharge as Mizuno has done in his experiments. A rough reaction surface is the key to nanoplasmonic activity and the production of Surface Plasmon Polaritons. All the successful LENR experiments that I know

[Vo]:Tesla's birthday is today

2014-07-10 Thread Axil Axil
Born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan Croatia Nikola Tesla is considered one of the most impactful inventors ever. It is Tesla’s birthday today, 158 years since his birth. Even after all these years, we mark Tesla as one of the most brilliant and productive technical minds that has ever existed. Will

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Axil, I tried fine grit sand paper and acid. I think that will contaminate the material. You better clean it repeatedly and carefully after that. I will grant, Mizuno and Ohmori used to scratch the surface of their glow-discharge cathodes with glass. The

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Axil Axil
Dear Jack, Please indulge me some more suggestions. The Cravens and Rossi experience clearly shows the importance of sizing micro particles to be black body temperature resonant diameter. At 400C, a 5 micro particle size is ideal. Cravens uses a bigger particle size because he needs to operate

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5H

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Cook
Jed, Jones and others-- I too read the Craven’s report and found it very interesting--particularly his discussion of the theory. He points out the importance of the magnetic field aligning the D nuclei in antiparallel spin orientations as well as the importance of vacancies in the Pd

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
Nickel is also magnetostrictive, I wonder if that might expand and contract entrained materials when excited with an AC magnetic field. From: Axil Axil [mailto:janap...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:59 AM To: vortex-l Dear Jack, Please indulge me some more suggestions. The

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5H

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Cook Is there any reason why the D nuclei could not form excited states of high but opposite spin states which collapse quickly to the zero spin He with distribution of small spin quanta to other entities in the lattice including spin angular momentum associated with orbital

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5H

2014-07-10 Thread Axil Axil
http://www2.ju.edu.jo/sites/Academic/humamg/Lists/Published%20Research/Attachments/43/T-matrix_and_effective_scattering_in_spin-polarized_atomic_deuterium.pdf Since the spin of deuterium is non zero, I claim that Deuterium cannot support LENR unless it is in its cooper pair like dimer form. This

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5H

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- Helium or something like He with Atomic Wt 4 is seen as a relic in the Pd,D reaction. The Dirac sea may be involved as we have discussed. It remains that gammas from “normal” nuclear transitions is missing. Cravens thinks the24 Mev transition happens . The Navy SPAWARS

[Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-10 Thread Axil Axil
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_nuclear_polarisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_nuclear_polarisation* *Dynamic nuclear polarization results from transferring spin polarization from electrons to the nuclei, thereby aligning the nuclear spins to the extent that electron spins are

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5H

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Cook Helium or something like He with Atomic Wt 4 is seen as a relic in the Pd,D reaction. OK, we can buy that - but realize that the only way this works out in terms of what is seen and what is not seen is if “something like He” with

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jack Cole
Hi Jed, Step 1 was sand paper. Step 2 and 3 were thorough cleaning with acetone, although I couldn't be certain of what was on there at a small scale. Best regards, Jack On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Axil, I

Re: [Vo]: Re: CMNS: water memory by Luc Montagnier

2014-07-10 Thread ChemE Stewart
For those interested, we will be discussing the Kauai coral reef DISSOLVING problem on the radio Friday (tomorrow) @ 11 PM ET (5 PM rush hour in Honolulu). The radio station streams online at: http://hawaiistomorrow.com/ On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:42 AM, ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-10 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Axil, nice citation, it might also assist the manufacture of powders of the appropriate geometry by stunting the effect when the geometries are most vulnerable at the instant of creation. Perhaps we should be activating our catalysts in a microwave? Fran From: Axil Axil

[Vo]:The Gene Mallove collection at infinite-energy.com

2014-07-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
A lot of fine work by Christy Frazier. See: http://www.infinite-energy.com/genemallovecollection/index.html - Jed

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jack Cole
Thanks Jones. It's okay with me that I didn't find anything convincing. It was a rewarding challenge. I will resume if I discover something I think will work. And I think you are correct about the value of null results. Those are things that have been ruled out. I am happy to find null

Re: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Cook
Axil-- I second Fran’s comment regarding a nice citation--the one regarding dynamic nuclear polarization. It provides a sought after coupling of the transfer of spin energy between nuclei and electrons. It does not involve large energy (Mev) changes in one reaction. I think it seems

RE: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Cook I think it seems reasonable that nature likes small energy transitions at cool temperatures as opposed to large ones associated with high temperature/kinetic energy reactions. It is pretty clear that the known reactions of spin

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Higgins
I have moved west, and Dennis Cravens is just a couple miles away. I visited him recently. In his lab he still has long term tests operating with his spheres (of course, along with other experiments in progress). He said that he charged a HydroStik and then froze it at dry ice temperature. At

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
Thanks, Bob – Do you know if he gets excess heat from H as well as D? You seem to be suggesting that the most heat (most desirable mix) comes from a mix of H and D, is that correct? From: Bob Higgins I have moved west, and Dennis Cravens is just a couple miles away. I visited him

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
For those who have not followed this closely – here is the HydroStik at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8

Re: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Bob Higgins
Dennis did not explicitly say that an H D mix was required, but I believe that his theory and his own experiments have led him to mostly use a 50:50 mix in his present experiments. He showed me a Ni based experiment that he had setup, which he turned on while I was visiting. Before I left, his

RE: [Vo]:RE: Hydrofill and LaNi5

2014-07-10 Thread Jones Beene
From: Bob Higgins Dennis did not explicitly say that an H D mix was required, but I believe that his theory and his own experiments have led him to mostly use a 50:50 mix in his present experiments. This could be a new wrinkle. At NI-Week, he was apparently using only D, and was

Re: [Vo]:Dynamic nuclear polarization

2014-07-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Aren’t you completely misinterpreting what this article states in trying to shoehorn it in LENR? The article does indeed talk about an effect of one or two electrons on the spin of a nucleus (or nucleon), rather than the