Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Ryan Hunt would better to ask this question. I believe the reactor tube in the Bang! experiment was from CoorsTek. The other dogbone alumina tubes were also from CoorsTek. They have an online store. It is the dogbone Lugano HotCat replica that has the heater coil wrapped around a second

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Lennart Thornros
Hei Mats, I will applaud your efforts. I know you are fighting the establishment and they are powerful. The only thing I might have another opinion about is how the Swedish scientist have handled their PR. I think they would have had a better response if they have been totally honest and been in

[Vo]:how to decrease the death rate of ot Cat reactors

2015-03-04 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Friends I hope many ideas will add to this: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/03/drastically-decreasing-death-rate-of.html We need reactors so viable in hellish conditions as the one tested at Lugano. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Cook
The added silica in the Parkhomov experiment is consistent with improving the fracture toughness of the tube. The silica addition acts to blunt the defects in the alumina and make the cracks that start at such a defect arrest before a significant crack propagation occurs. This is good old

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Cook
To improve the internal heat transfer look for an inert gas--He for example. He is a good and rapid heat transfer agent and would act to maintain a more even temperature within the reactor. It could even improve the alumina itself if sufficient porosity is incorporated into its structure.

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Alain Sepeda
Peace Nobel committee draw the way by firing it's chairman, for bad choices. Who have to be fired in that affair ? beside the journalist I mean ? It is important to prove that following the groupthink despite evidence is dangerous for your career. today it is the LENR supporter who risk their

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Cook
Mats-- I second Bob Higgins comment. If you are at ICCF-19, I hope to shake your hand. I once was a reporter of sorts and ran into problems with folks that did not like to hear the reality of things around them, nor its distribution to a large audience. Such wide spread knowledge of

[Vo]:Re: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Mark Jurich
Thanks for the info, Bob. For the last week, I have been concerned about the Elastic Expansion of the Reactor Tube due to the approximately 5000 psi pressure change that could occur. A back-of-the-envelope calculation revealed a 0.010” expansion. This is about an order of magnitude greater

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Lewan Mats mats.le...@nyteknik.se wrote: The scientific news team at Swedish National Radio, SR, received a honorary mention a few days ago at the Swedish Rewards for investigative journalism, The Golden Spade, for its four part reportage on Swedish researchers'

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Peter Gluck
conclusions a)investigative journaism is analogous to bravos- paid killers; our friend Steve Krivit is quite efficient in it , Gary Wright is very hard working; b) the passive and inactive behavior of the 4 Swedish scientists is perhaps not the most rational- it is quite a complicity of the

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Lewan Mats
Peter, I know that the Swedish researchers are still working on the update, doing additional calibration measurements. They have also stated that they intend to continue investigating the LENR phenomenon. That could include some kind of replication, but since they prefer to work in silence

[Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Lewan Mats
The scientific news team at Swedish National Radio, SR, received a honorary mention a few days ago at the Swedish Rewards for investigative journalism, The Golden Spade, for its four part reportage on Swedish researchers' (those who made the Lugano measurements) collaboration with the fraudster

Re: [Vo]: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
We are all grateful to Ed Storms and Kiva Labs for analyzing the sintered Ni ash of the MFMP Bang! experiment. Those images are from the sintered Ni, molded int o a rod by the ID of the reaction tube. There is woefully insufficient evidence that the Bang! experiment produced any LENR. However,

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
What you say is absolutely true, Bob. I don't believe that LENR occurred in the MFMP Bang! experiment. However the conditions were very similar to the Lugano experiment at that temperature and with the fuel that MFMP used. Check the Lugano SEM images of their Ni ash and compare to the SEM

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
This is not true. There are many physical and chemical thing happening that set the stage for LENR, and just because the stage has been set, it doesn't mean the show started. The chemical changes are the dissociation of the LiAlH4 and the dissolving of the Ni (at higher temperatures). The

Re: [Vo]:Investigative journalism rewarded

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Mats, you are a brave and insightful journalist. I believe you will one day be rewarded for capturing the birth of a critical new technology for the future of our planet and its people. [If not, you will still have gained the experiences needed to become a blues musician.] Bob Higgins On Wed,

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
This is a wonderful video, so thanks for pointing us to watch it. However, the molten Li-Al is not in a super-critical phase, but as he said, it doesn't have to be supercritical - just hot and high pressure. He also demonstrated a chemical mixing that produced nanoparticles as a precipitate.

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-04 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Bob, very nice design [I downloaded from home] and realized the gas/plasma inside the tube is a far superior transfer medium. I understand your purpose of only transferring heat in case of temp increase when the drive is removed for calorimetry BUT would you also consider dual use as part of

Re: [Vo]:diversity, one of the 6 pillars of LENR

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
One of the things not sampled in the Lugano experiment is the product gas or gas ash. This may have very important clues to the nature of the reaction. In my replication (under construction), I intend to be able to collect the product gas for analysis off-site. We could find enhanced deuterium,

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Questions Raised by Parkhomov Experiment Failure

2015-03-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Thanks Fran. I would love to be able to just see the XH to start. It would be a happy circumstance to then go on to evolve the software control to regulate temperature by modulating the thermal load. I am most of the way through making the small pieces for the convection system (it will have 4

[Vo]:Re: Rossi/Parkhomov reaction and the hydrogen anion

2015-03-04 Thread Mark Jurich
Bob, what was the Free Tolerance between the Reaction Tube OD and the Heater Tube ID in the MFMP Bang! Experiment? Who was the manufacturer of the alumina tubes? Thanks, Mark Jurich