Re: [Vo]:OT: Vertical farming

2017-03-18 Thread Bob Higgins
One of the problems with agricultural vegetables today is that they are devoid of the micronutrients that the human body needs to be healthy. These include a lot of trace minerals (boron, calcium, vanadium, iodine, zinc, copper, magnesium ...) that are found in fresh soil; but for 100 years, these

Re: [Vo]:12 years from now

2017-03-16 Thread Bob Higgins
I submit that using neural techniques to solve a problem is not AI. Neural programming is a different solution type - more like comparing writing a program in a sequential language like C or Fortran compared to a data driven language like Labview that is fundamentally multi-threaded. If it were A

[Vo]:12 years from now

2017-03-16 Thread Bob Higgins
Hmmm... Didn't your program insist that you include all of the words in the sentences that are needed? :) re-read below. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Frank Znidarsic wrote: > > Look at the picture. They predicted tug boat airplanes, painted floating >> signs, boies

Re: [Vo]:12 years from now

2017-03-15 Thread Bob Higgins
: > What Quantum Computers do is solve optimization problems based on Big data > that is not organized or sequenced such as... find the cure to cancer from > a million experiments worth of data. > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Bob Higgins > wrote: > >> I don&#

[Vo]:12 years from now

2017-03-15 Thread Bob Higgins
I don't see anything about quantum computing that is set to make AI take a giant leap forward. AI still needs substantial core inventions to make a truly adaptively thinking machine. Same is true for the next generation Intel processor. Neither computing technology brings, in itself, an AI inven

[Vo]:12 years from now

2017-03-15 Thread Bob Higgins
That is the problem with the work of Futurists - many of the massive changes in our lives comes from seminal inventions whose timing cannot be predicted. Once that seminal invention is proved, progress from engineering can be rapid, or can be slow, but it usually moves forward. I think LENR is st

Re: [Vo]:12 years from now

2017-03-15 Thread Bob Higgins
While we may not have reached the singularity, I already feel "enhanced" by my connection (fingers and eyes) to the computer. My old boss used to describe computers as "brain amplifiers" when pitching the purchase of new computers to management (asking, "how much amplification do you want?"). It w

[Vo]:Sleeper from ICCF20

2017-03-14 Thread Bob Higgins
It is interesting to consider the implications were some nucleosynthesis taking place in this report. The steel mills are a place on the surface of the Earth that most resembles the core of the Earth. For a long time, there has been speculations regarding the source of the heat in the core of pla

Re: [Vo]:The borderline between hot and cold fusion

2017-03-06 Thread Bob Higgins
uld > be easy to measure ... > >> >> Bob Higgins wrote: >> >>> You would be better off just bringing the muon source nearby a high >>> pressure lecture bottle of D2 gas. Forget the fusor. You could use the >>> lecture bottle of D2 as a test of wheth

Re: [Vo]:The borderline between hot and cold fusion

2017-03-06 Thread Bob Higgins
so even a > thru-port is not needed. > > Obviously, the muon production is the big mystery of the Holmlid device to > be solved, but in general a Fusor could be the easiest and perhaps the > cheapest way to confirm muons. > Bob Higgins wrote: > > The reasons that fusor'

Re: [Vo]:The borderline between hot and cold fusion

2017-03-06 Thread Bob Higgins
The reasons that fusor's work is that they produce a near singularity in energy density/confinement in the center of the device. If you put anything anywhere near the center of the fusor, it would screw up the 3D radial symmetry of the fields and the singularity-like confinement may not occur. I

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-03-02 Thread Bob Higgins
not generate any magnetic fields. Such a > field would scramble the character of the magnetic field of the activation > coil. For this reason, the output coil was constructed from bifilar wire. > > > > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Bob Higgins > wrote: > >> The 3 most commo

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-03-02 Thread Bob Higgins
The 3 most common uses for bifilar wire are: 1) to wind a transformer with a primary to secondary coupling constant that is very near 1.0 (maximum), 2) to use the wire as a foreshortened balanced transmission line, and 3) to create an unbalanced pair of coupled transmission lines with very high cou

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-02-27 Thread Bob Higgins
On this rare occasion, I would have to agree with Axil. He wrote: *"I would map the magnetic field strengths over the entire face of the billet, front and back. I would NOT apply any magnetism to it for fear of changing something. Use only passive magnetic sensors."* Since the ferrite will have

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-02-26 Thread Bob Higgins
Note that these ferrites have substantially different properties in the small signal than they do for large scale magnetic excursions. An RF engineer would shoot you for bringing a magnet near his ferrites because the high magnetic field can bias the material away from the desirable high permeabil

Re: [Vo]:Penon described the position of flow meter

2017-02-23 Thread Bob Higgins
I remember reading the spec for the flow meter that was used. While it may have had mechanical digit readings that were that coarse, the flow meter has an available electronic option that provides a pulse for each turn of the internal rotor which corresponds to about 1 liter of flow (again recolle

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-02-22 Thread Bob Higgins
Brian, You previously said that the strontium ferrite block was 4" x 6" x 1". Can you explain how the 3 coils are wound to produce a "north pole" at each of the 4 corners with a common center south pole in the center? Are 2 of the coils wrapped around the block like wrapping a box with ribbon in

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-02-22 Thread Bob Higgins
's description of energy being taken out continuously for a long period of time that actual power gain was observed. Bob Higgins On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Brian Ahern wrote: > I think we LENRers have too many preconceptions about the mechanism. I am > admittedly clueless. > &g

Re: [Vo]:DESCRIBING THE MANELAS Phenomenon

2017-02-21 Thread Bob Higgins
What happened to Manelas? Is he still alive? Are you still working with him? Has he shared the principles by which he built the device? On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Brian Ahern wrote: > The billet did not stop making energy. He stopped it to re-build. There > was no radiation observed wit

Re: [Vo]:Changing the topic back to the test

2017-02-18 Thread Bob Higgins
Jed, You are backing yourself into an extremist position with your latest comments. I don't believe that you or anyone else has enough data to *prove* that there was 0 excess heat in Rossi's attempt at a contrived "GPT". XH in this long experiment may not be close to what Rossi claims, but that

Re: [Vo]:Dark matter hydrogen - a hybrid approach

2017-02-15 Thread Bob Higgins
oing to be paired, you will probably need twice as many electrons to support the wave field structure. So, it would seem that there is a limit in how small an air-metal structure can be which can provide support for an SPP. On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > Bob Higgins wrote

Re: [Vo]:Dark matter hydrogen - a hybrid approach

2017-02-15 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, You seem to be mixing incompatible technologies - for example dense hydrogen matter and plasmon-polaritons. Keep in mind that plasmon-polaritons don't exist without conduction band electrons. In any kind of dense matter where the electron has entered a sub-conventional-ground state, it wo

Re: [Vo]:EM drive accepted now?

2017-02-15 Thread Bob Higgins
Yes, it is interesting to see press attention paid to the EM drive, but no revelations here. The first reference is about McCulloch's MiHsC theory. I have read his book and determined that his theory violates causality. When I questioned him on that, he agreed, and said he had ideas how that might

Re: [Vo]:Li batteries

2017-02-13 Thread Bob Higgins
As I understand the problem, the large note 7 had a large display and needed a lot of battery energy. Yet, everybody wants a slim phone. The Li-ion battery they designed had internal separators that were too thin. When the battery ages, it swells, even though it hasn't lost capacity. The case pu

Re: [Vo]:Defining the active particle of an LENR runaway

2017-02-09 Thread Bob Higgins
The problem with the phonon is that its wavelength is extremely short. The attenuation coefficient for waves, in general, is typically quoted in dB/wavelength; and nature abhors a too small value for such a number. Hence you only have to propagate a limited number of wavelengths and the energy in

Re: [Vo]:I calculated his power output from his own data. It is veryexciting and he may have something real that he is blundering with. Seebelow.

2017-02-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Perhaps someone could remind me of the terms of the GPT. I thought I remembered that the GPT had to achieve at least a COP>=4 for 250 days continuously. I don't think it required anything like the 1 MW output. Perhaps Rossi created the 1MW array of devices as a "reactor" to give himself the flex

Re: [Vo]:I calculated his power output from his own data. It is veryexciting and he may have something real that he is blundering with. Seebelow.

2017-02-02 Thread Bob Higgins
Has there yet been published in the court documents, a schematic of Rossi's system showing the location of the pumps and flow gauge? On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Brian Ahern wrote: > Yesterday I corrected the Rossi calculations. I failed to note the water > was above 100C with no pressure to

Re: [Vo]:An argument against intellectual property rights

2017-01-31 Thread Bob Higgins
bout glass making and decorations. Few were rediscovered > recently, but some stay mysterious. > > Industrial revolution raised the awareness of this problem, leading to > Patent idea, that seems to be contemporary to USA foundation ... > > 2017-01-31 17:53 GMT+01:00 Jed Rothwell :

Re: [Vo]:An argument against intellectual property rights

2017-01-30 Thread Bob Higgins
Prior to patent rights granted by the government, new technology was protected by trade secret - tell no one. Nothing was shared and technology advancement was slow. The "patent right" was created as a trade by the government: for a period of government protected exclusivity rights the inventor m

Re: [Vo]:Fast particles

2017-01-23 Thread Bob Higgins
Don't forget that is the estimated power *density* in W/cm^2 over a beam waist cross-section of only 30 microns diameter. From the description, it appears to be a diode pumped Nd:YAG laser that is frequency doubled (as are most green lasers today). The 5ns pulse implies Q switching. It is a pret

Re: [Vo]:New paper from Holmlid.

2017-01-22 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > > Bob Higgins wrote: > >> A long CV doesn't make contradictory claims OK. >> > Maybe not, but the combined reputation and many long CVs of the dozens of > co-authors, overcomes many objections ...

Re: [Vo]:New paper from Holmlid.

2017-01-22 Thread Bob Higgins
29] > Badiei, > Andersson and Holmlid (2009) > <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387380609000724> This > is the foundational paper on ultra-dense deuterium, the experimental report. > [30} Winterberg!, 2009, but on arXiv. <http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.5414>

Re: [Vo]:New paper from Holmlid.

2017-01-22 Thread Bob Higgins
gt; > IMHO, following Holmlid's theory is like following R.Mills > alternative science. It is not easy and it takes a lot of convection and > effort. With all its complexity and revolutionary dogma, LENR is not easy > to take on. Holmlid needs more validation before people will fee

Re: [Vo]:New paper from Holmlid.

2017-01-22 Thread Bob Higgins
of H(0)/D(0) be taken seriously without reasonable proof of the existence of the fundamentals? On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: > I believe there are circular arguments going on here. On the one hand you > are saying that neutral mesons are decaying into muons (charged)

Re: [Vo]:New paper from Holmlid.

2017-01-21 Thread Bob Higgins
ordinary LENR with GM tubes and scintillators basically means that, in LENR, mesons are not produced. They may not be produced in Holmlid's reaction ... but I have to finish reading the paper to understand the case he is claiming. On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Jones Beene wrote: >

Re: [Vo]:New paper from Holmlid.

2017-01-21 Thread Bob Higgins
The descriptions in 5,8) below suggests that Holmlid's reaction produces a high muon flux that would escape the reactor. A high muon flux would be very similar to a high beta flux. First of all, it would seem that a flux of charged muons would be highly absorbed in the reactor walls. Those muons

Re: [Vo]:The dark side of dense hydrogen

2017-01-05 Thread Bob Higgins
Even more probable is the evolution to spread spectrum techniques. Look at what has happened to a lot of our emissions - they have moved to spread spectrum. This would no longer be detectable as an emission type that is detectable by SETI technology. We may migrate largely to a communications te

Re: [Vo]:The dark side of dense hydrogen

2017-01-04 Thread Bob Higgins
I brought up the issue of weaponization of LENR in the panel session at ILENR-12. The general consensus was, "the cat is out of the bag"; I.E. too late for that concern. I think the real concern for weaponization is not the first thought everyone jumps to, which is explosive magnifier. For this,

Re: [Vo]:Article: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries

2016-12-01 Thread Bob Higgins
This is possible, but it would require a close coupling via low frequency magnetic fields. Think of it as a hockey puck placed over the pacemaker implant area for a period of hours. The human body is well modeled as a container of salt water. In fact, when we were creating RF models of the human

Re: [Vo]:Article: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries

2016-11-29 Thread Bob Higgins
Actually, the output voltage is the voltage of the semiconductor junction. The beta particle stimulates multiple hole-electron pairs across this junction. This type of beta voltaic battery is extremely inefficient in converting the energy in the beta particles into output electrical energy. On Tu

[Vo]:Article: Diamonds turn nuclear waste into nuclear batteries

2016-11-29 Thread Bob Higgins
uch a small market. One also has to consider that 14C is a tremendously bio-active element and you are talking about curies/battery (not microCi). This is basically a non-starter. Bob Higgins On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > wrote: > > The maximum power ou

Re: [Vo]:Holmlid, Mills & muons

2016-11-14 Thread Bob Higgins
f experiments. Silver of course has a very complete > electron cloud, as such it might well be the best material for engaging > with the muon/mischugenon nuclear ash. This would help me a lot in > understanding why it just happens that I have found silver so useful (as > has Mills) it is

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Holmlid, Mills & muons

2016-11-14 Thread Bob Higgins
Hi Fran, I am unable to imagine how something special would happen in that case. A muon in slow motion may have a greater chance of interaction if its energy is near the ionization energy of the atoms upon which it is incident - but this is only a small energy - less than 10eV. At higher energy,

Re: [Vo]:Holmlid, Mills & muons

2016-11-14 Thread Bob Higgins
In this discussion, Jones presumes muons to be traveling at light speed: The muon is an unstable fermion with a lifetime of 2.2 microseconds, which is an eternity compared to most beta decays. Ignoring time dilation, this would mean that muons, travelling at light speed, would be dispersing and de

Re: [Vo]:Holmlid, Mills & muons

2016-11-12 Thread Bob Higgins
If large quantities of muons are being produced, would you not expect to see the normal branches for muon catalyzed fusion to occur around it? These would be clearly detectable as 2.45 MeV neutrons for D2 gas or high energy 14 MeV neutron emission if the muons were to impact on a D-T gas mix. Note

Re: [Vo]:RE: Brian Ahern is now on this forum

2016-11-10 Thread Bob Higgins
Thanks Jones, for the link. It is an interesting article. Stainless at 800C was probably not a good choice because it is a prolific proton conductor at high temperatures (though reproducing the experiment may require SS). It would probably be better to use a steel that is nearer to pure iron fro

[Vo]:RE: Brian Ahern is now on this forum

2016-11-10 Thread Bob Higgins
fects, or is this just a heat evolution/heat transfer balance effect, but otherwise simply proportional to fuel mass? Bob Higgins On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Brian Ahern wrote: > Their final experiment was never reported. They used 5 pounds of nickel > powder mixed with K2CO3 powder

Re: [Vo]:Tritium generation in LENR

2016-11-06 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, While I agree 100% that tritium is one of the most convincing evidences for LENR, I beg to differ on your ease of detection comment for tritium: >> The signature of tritium is a well-known beta decay with a short and predictable half-life which cannot happen naturally, and also is easy to

Re: [Vo]:The return of the original "cold fusion" ??

2016-10-25 Thread Bob Higgins
Muon detection is far harder than the simple "$100 muon" detector suggests. Sure, it detects muons + + + protons, high energy beta, gamma - it has no specificity for muons. Detection of muons with any credibility requires far more apparatus. "not quite as simple" is a far, far understatement. S

Re: [Vo]:Article: Dirt Cheap Muon Detector Puts Particle Physics Within DIY Reach

2016-10-16 Thread Bob Higgins
It is an interesting design using a solid state photomultiplier, but really it is a charged particle + gamma detector with no discrimination. It is listed as detecting cosmogenic muons because they are the most likely cosmic ray detection at the surface of the Earth. On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 7:42

Re: [Vo]:Ah hah.... dark matter internal to common matter

2016-10-01 Thread Bob Higgins
They are proposing MOND as a new/old solution. The trouble is that MOND has adjustable parameters and does not explain why this occurs, only provides a means to fit an equation to the modification of Newtonian mechanics. Michael McCulloch wrote a book about his MiHsC theory that derives from firs

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected

2016-09-25 Thread Bob Higgins
ease the > spectrum of the incoming solar energy that is converted to usable > current/cell voltages--in other words makes a solar photon conversion more > probable. > > Bob Cook > > ---------- > *From:* Bob Higgins > *Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected

2016-09-22 Thread Bob Higgins
>From their video, it looks like they were trying to find a way to eliminate electron recombination in the silicon lattice to improve efficiency. They may be planning to do that with fields created with the pyroelectric films. Since the typical delta T from front to back in the panel is 26C, ther

Re: [Vo]:Unruh radiation, plasmons, and possible implications for LENR?

2016-09-22 Thread Bob Higgins
I have read Dr. McCulloch's book and find his theory interesting. However, my training in RF gives me a different perspective on wave phenomena that doesn't seem to match up with his theory. In his theory, he drops out wavelengths of EM background radiation that would be filtered in the frequency

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected

2016-09-22 Thread Bob Higgins
It looks like an interesting technology. However, the real metric is not in panel efficiency or system efficiency, it is total$/kWh. This has to include the longevity of the panel. The total cost/kWh over the life of the panel is its installed cost (+maintenance costs) amortized over the life of

Re: [Vo]:A question about Heavy and light Isotopes and LENR.

2016-09-16 Thread Bob Higgins
Actually what you describe has already happened. Norman Cook himself is weighing in on a theory of LENR. However, I don't think it is that simple. Dr. Cook is well versed at what happens inside the nucleus, but the LENR phenomenon is bigger than that - it needs a condensed matter physicist also

Re: [Vo]:Dirac's sea, the EM Drive and Weyl fermions

2016-09-01 Thread Bob Higgins
Jones, can you supply a reference or references that show that the Shawer drive doesn't work with silver and stainless steel as you state below? Also, according to Hotson, an epo is massless because of the spinor nature of the degenerate orbits shared between the electron and its positron phase-tw

RE: RE: [Vo]:Article: Electrons with no mass acquire a mass in the presence of a high magnetic field

2016-08-31 Thread Bob Higgins
BTW, positronium has mass but Hotson's epo's do not. Jones Beene wrote:BTW – for all of Don Hotson’s fans on vortex, and there are many…   The epo or BEC is based on Dirac’s equation and theories – as is all of Hotson’s “interpretation of Dirac” and this field consists entirely of massless ele

Re: [Vo]: Jed's flowmeter comments chanllenged.

2016-08-19 Thread Bob Higgins
Having an independent customer use the heat and with the customer knowing how much heat is required to keep his product line running, would have been a wonderful confirmation that the measurements on the Rossi side of the wall were correct. Certainly that was the spirit of the contract terms for t

Re: [Vo]:angry and sad LENR comment but info too!

2016-08-15 Thread Bob Higgins
While the engines example of energy production is frequently used, the engines would have to be running full bore constantly. I like Peter Van Noorden's example of the energy for 1MW for 350 days - about 1/3 the energy of a Hiroshima size nuclear bomb. That is truly a lot of Joules to hide. If I

Re: [Vo]: Where did the heat go?

2016-08-12 Thread Bob Higgins
gt; > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Bob Higgins > wrote: > >> I saw the picture of the inside of the customer's facility with its big >> black box. It caused me to consider the possibility that the heat was >> stored. Imagine an immense store of water as big as

[Vo]: Where did the heat go?

2016-08-12 Thread Bob Higgins
I saw the picture of the inside of the customer's facility with its big black box. It caused me to consider the possibility that the heat was stored. Imagine an immense store of water as big as the entire black box. If Rossi produced 1 MW of heat continuously, what would the numbers look like?.

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-09 Thread Bob Higgins
t, it would explain why Rossi is so confident. As others > have iout, IH has failed to supply simple proof that the plant didn't > work. Just suppositions of how Rossi could have cheated. IH apparently > lied about Vaughn not being a manager at Cherokee so they must be worried. &

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-09 Thread Bob Higgins
The flow meter used only seems to read out visually in integer m^3 with a mechanical digital roll-over indicator (probably readable to 1/2 digit). However, the flow meter is available optionally with a pulse output that apparently pulses for each 0.5 liter passing. Do we know if there was electron

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-09 Thread Bob Higgins
Jed, do you have a system diagram for the 1 year test unit? If I were Rossi, and I knew that some of the units would have to be taken off line, I would design in bypass valves. Do you have evidence that the water circulation pump(s) was ever shut off? Even if the reactors themselves were shut dow

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-09 Thread Bob Higgins
I think that claiming Rossi is lying or scamming could be extrapolating his behavior akin to "reductio ad absurdum". The truth is seldom so black and white. Rossi is known to shrewdly lead people on wild goose chases to obfuscate what he does know. He may well exaggerate the performance of his t

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-08 Thread Bob Higgins
l/h) to be within its specified maximum error of 5%. So, the accuracy doesn't seem to be as bad as you suggest, but it is fishy that the readings came out to 36000 kg of water every day when the meter was readable in increments of essentially 0.5 liter (kg). On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Bob

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-08 Thread Bob Higgins
; > There may also be an orifice to assure constant flow. > > A flow diagram of the system should be in hand before concluding issues > about flow. > > Bob Cook > ------ > *From:* Bob Higgins > *Sent:* Monday, August 8, 2016 7:57 AM > *To:* vort

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-08 Thread Bob Higgins
DGT). Whether it does this or not would be determined by whether or not there is a mechanical racheting mechanism in the gear train (probably not). On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Bob Higgins wrote: > > What I meant is that the flow axis (also the turbine prope

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-08 Thread Bob Higgins
have to take into account the turning resistance of the turbine, which is usually very low. Again, the turbine is measuring the speed of the flowing medium whether it is full or not (to first order). On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Bob Higgins wrote: > > >&

Re: [Vo]:Problems with Rossi's flow meter described in court document

2016-08-08 Thread Bob Higgins
Jed, Do you know the orientation of the flow meter? It is only possible to have a pipe half full if the flow meter is mounted horizontally (a mistake for use of this type of flow meter). That problem could have been totally eliminated if the flow meter were oriented vertically. An observation (

Re: [Vo]:Improved flywheel

2016-08-04 Thread Bob Higgins
I wish I knew what the novelty added was. The article was useless - it referred to MW of storage with no reference to energy (a low inductance capacitor can do that). Until I see some true novelty introduced, I would not get excited about mechanical storage. In the scheme of things, from any of

Re: [Vo]:Watch a Powerful Electromagnet Shrink a Quarter to Half Its Size

2016-07-20 Thread Bob Higgins
I don't think so. Electric fencers are relatively high voltage at 10Hz AC. They are limited to very low current so you don't kill what touches it. The 10Hz AC is very painful. On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Jack Cole wrote: > I thought this was very interesting. I wonder what would happen

Re: [Vo]:The principle of the mutual energy

2016-07-20 Thread Bob Higgins
I may be remembering wrong, but I believe that the evanescent magnetic field strength falls off as 1/r^3 and the coupled evanescent power falls off as 1/r^6. For the propagating field, the strength of the magnetic field falls off as 1/r in free space and the coupled power falls off as 1/r^2. In c

Re: [Vo]:Gain from wires and magnets?

2016-07-17 Thread Bob Higgins
I was once working with a technician who had hooked up an L-C circuit (without a transformer) and saw AC voltage gain. He was convinced that he had an overunity invention. The voltage gain was outside of his expectation. However, it was pointed out by someone with more experience that the voltag

Re: [Vo]: Q and A with Parkhomov regarding his latest presentation

2016-07-05 Thread Bob Higgins
Bob, This is exactly the type of experiment I had in mind. Add about 10% LAD to the LAH and re-run the series of experiments to see how the XH compares to plain LAH. You are also correct that this may tell us a lot about what reaction is occurring. It has been held by many LENR researchers that

Re: [Vo]: Q and A with Parkhomov regarding his latest presentation

2016-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
I am not against quasi-replications, just against drawing false conclusions from them. On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > *From:* Bob Higgins > > As we have all seen in this field, failed quasi-replications don't mean > squat. > > No at all! On the contrar

Re: [Vo]: Q and A with Parkhomov regarding his latest presentation

2016-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
, it needs to be run by someone who has had success with Ni+LAH. As we have all seen in this field, failed quasi-replications don't mean squat. On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > *From:* Bob Higgins > > Mathieu Valat has some LiAlD4 given to him by Jean-Paul Biber

Re: [Vo]: Q and A with Parkhomov regarding his latest presentation

2016-07-04 Thread Bob Higgins
Mathieu Valat has some LiAlD4 given to him by Jean-Paul Biberian. I asked Mathieu if he would be willing to send some to Parkhomov to increase the possibility that Parkhomov would run an experiment with D enrichment to look for increase in excess power. Mathieu was all for that. I also asked Bob

Re: [Vo]: Q and A with Parkhomov regarding his latest presentation

2016-07-03 Thread Bob Higgins
Parkhomov's choice of rain gauge for flow meter is an interesting choice - fits perfectly with his style. This flow meter is of the bistable conical cup type. It flops back and forth as each cup fills to a certain MASS of water: [I am inserting a small picture - hope it comes through] ​ When on

[Vo]: Q and A with Parkhomov regarding his latest presentation

2016-07-01 Thread Bob Higgins
I created a list of questions for Dr. Parkhomov regarding the experiment he reported in his latest presentation. Bob Greenyer communicated with him and we got the answers that are included in the file in my Google drive folder for this presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2Y

Re: [Vo]:Another motion filed in Rossi suit

2016-07-01 Thread Bob Higgins
t; He has a case if IH have not fulfilled their side of the contract and paid > him for a successful trial of the 1 MW plant. > > On 7/1/2016 5:12 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: > > I am not a lawyer. However, I believe at this moment Rossi has a duly > executed license agreement with

Re: [Vo]:Another motion filed in Rossi suit

2016-07-01 Thread Bob Higgins
2:47 PM, Craig Haynie wrote: > No way Rossi's actions are fraud, from reselling the licensing, (unless he > has a known faulty product). The best IH can hope for is a null contract; > not the rights to the IP. > > On 07/01/2016 03:59 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: > >> It i

Re: [Vo]:Another motion filed in Rossi suit

2016-07-01 Thread Bob Higgins
It is interesting and self-destructive that Rossi appears to have unilaterally declared that the license sold to IH is null and void. Having accepted money for that license, he is in a legally binding contract. Yet Rossi seems intent to market that license to others as though he had no other cont

Re: [Vo]:Powerful Shot Against Believers In "No Safe Dose" Of Radiation

2016-06-25 Thread Bob Higgins
I think there probably is a relatively high threshold for ionizing radiation, below which no statistically significant increases in lukemia, Parkinsons, and other cancers will be found. The danger is that some people may be extraordinarily sensitive and WILL develop these illnesses when exposed to

Re: [Vo]: English translation of Parkhomov's latest presentation

2016-06-24 Thread Bob Higgins
See below ... On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > Ah. Thank you. I didn't realize this is based on Rossi's work, though I > certainly should have, given the way it's set up. > > So, *if* we assume all of Rossi's results were bogus (and I know of no > reason not to as

Re: [Vo]: English translation of Parkhomov's latest presentation

2016-06-24 Thread Bob Higgins
tation of Ni isotopes, especially the increase of mass 64 isotope. > Maybe Ni-64. Also the possible increase of Cu as I recall. > > Bob—am I correct? > > Bob Cook > > > *From: *Bob Higgins > *Sent: *Friday, June 24, 2016 8:59 AM > *To: *vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Sub

Re: [Vo]: English translation of Parkhomov's latest presentation

2016-06-24 Thread Bob Higgins
First of all, did you notice that Parkhomov doubled his Ni charge from 1g to 2g? So, there is some scaling being tested. We don't really know if this reaction scales linearly with the fuel mass or squared or exponential or what. There was a report by Jones recently of a large scale runaway, so c

Re: [Vo]: English translation of Parkhomov's latest presentation

2016-06-24 Thread Bob Higgins
iously reactive, I wouldn't have expected it to do > much with nothing but Ni as a partner, since Li and Al are surely much > happier to donate electrons than Ni (didn't check the half reaction > potentials, tho, maybe nickel's more reactive than I think). > > > O

[Vo]: English translation of Parkhomov's latest presentation

2016-06-24 Thread Bob Higgins
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Re: [Vo]:EM Drive powered by entangled photons

2016-06-19 Thread Bob Higgins
resonator. Could there be some acceleration of epos caused by the device? If that were possible, then it could provide an effect proportional to the field and hence Q-proportional due to the field enhancement by Q. Bob On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > *From:* Eric W

Re: [Vo]:EM Drive powered by entangled photons

2016-06-18 Thread Bob Higgins
As I mentioned in my previous post, if you want to see how the photons can leak out, just have a look at the Fabry-Perot etalon. At resonance it is a high Q filter, even though the boundaries are highly reflecting. But, photonic leakage still doesn't explain the measured Shawyer EM drive thrust.

Re: [Vo]:EM Drive powered by entangled photons

2016-06-16 Thread Bob Higgins
I don't quite understand why people think photons don't leak out of the Shawyer apparatus. If you look at a Fabry-Perot resonator - two parallel mirrors (an etalon). The reflectivity for each of the mirrors can be 99.999%, and the etalon Q will be quite high, but at the resonance, light will pass

Re: [Vo]:Needs advises for equipment for LENR experiment.

2016-06-12 Thread Bob Higgins
Rather than a data logging multimeter, I would really recommend using something like the USB data acquisition (DAQ) units from the Labjack series ( http://www.labjack.com ). These units are very flexible and allow you to measure multiple temperatures (you can choose which thermocouple type), volta

Re: [Vo]:Gears in 4-Dimensions?

2016-06-11 Thread Bob Higgins
This is a nice video and definitely worth watching. You asked about interlocking gears in 4D. One of the gear mechanisms that operates in 2D that seems to use time as well is the Geneva mechanism. It may be possible that the Geneva mechanism could be expanded to 3 coupled "gears" while existing

Re: [Vo]:bye bye nukes

2016-06-10 Thread Bob Higgins
IMHO, the attention being given to CO2 is misplaced. A study of the Earth's cyclic climate history (mostly from ice cores) shows that today, the climate should be in the beginning of a slow temperature decline into ice age due to solar and precessional cycles. The anthropogenic CO2 may have sligh

Re: [Vo]:Rossi and Leonardo Corp legal position improves

2016-06-06 Thread Bob Higgins
I have heard that many of the anonymous (avatar) supporters of Rossi's case on LENR forum and other blogs are Rossi himself - posting under various names. On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Ruby wrote: > > There is no reasoning with a digital meme. Elon Musk said it out loud - > we may be living i

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg Matter and electron orbitals

2016-05-11 Thread Bob Higgins
I am pretty sure almost any interaction with even an optical photon would destroy RM. It is so near to ionization anyway. Not sure what you are talking about for photos of spins and orbits of hydrides. On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > > http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ultra-fa

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg Matter and electron orbitals

2016-05-11 Thread Bob Higgins
e models if > quantum mechanical models are used. Perhaps at these energies the Bohr > Model fits better the observed behavior. > > > On 11 mei 2016, at 20:05, Bob Higgins wrote: > > Stephen, My understanding is that Rydberg hydrogen is highly excited > hydrogen - it is just

Re: [Vo]:Rydberg Matter and electron orbitals

2016-05-11 Thread Bob Higgins
Stephen, My understanding is that Rydberg hydrogen is highly excited hydrogen - it is just below an energy that the hydrogen would be ionized. In fact, small energy inputs to hydrogen in a Rydberg state will ionize it. As I understand the orbitals for Rydberg state hydrogen they are huge diameter

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