Re: [Vo]:Velocity dependent model of Coulomb's law

2014-02-15 Thread Nigel Dyer
I may be being stupid here, but if you have two charged particles moving towards each other then can they not be thought of as generating magnetic fields, and that these magnetic fields would form the basis of an additional attraction alongside the column force. electric and magnetic fields di

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
e simple newtonian problems from dynamics 101 can be so mind blowing, what's the chances of analyzing these bizarre non-linear maxwellian/relativistic/quantum mechanical kinds of problems. Hoyt *From:*Nigel Dyer [mailto:l...@thedyers.org.uk] *Sent:* Sunday, Februa

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
As I found out some years ago when I spent a couple of months on this, whatever system you come up with, when you actually go through the maths it comes up with the same answer, and that is that you cannot extract energy from the rotation of the earth without reference to some external body. Y

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
physics cannot explain, and I would not expect that to come from a system consisting of 50 tons of ironmongery. Nigel On 09/02/2014 13:33, Nigel Dyer wrote: The trade winds are driven primarily from the convection currents that take their energy from solar heating. The corriolis force means

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
The trade winds are driven primarily from the convection currents that take their energy from solar heating. The corriolis force means that the convection currents do not just go in a north-south direction but swing to the east or west. Given all this, at least some of the energy that drives

Re: [Vo]:New German LENR Company

2014-02-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
I'm not sure its photoelectric. Looks more like the high voltage plasma arc through water system, and again very similar to the Graneau/Pappas system and featured on a good number of you tube videos, except that the last time I looked a number of these you tube videos had dissappeared, which I

Re: [Vo]:So close but so far away ... or was it?

2014-02-07 Thread Nigel Dyer
Some years ago I was on a Church walk and got chatting with an elderly gentleman from the Church and I found that he had been a metallergist, so we got to talking about LENR. It turned out that in the 50's he had been working on a project that involved hydrogen and palladium and noticed a num

Re: [Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-04 Thread Nigel Dyer
04/02/2014 15:23, Jones Beene wrote: *From:*Nigel Dyer The energy gain of about two is based on an energy in of 850J which gives the appearance of having been typed in rather than measured, I must have missed something Nigel. Are saying the COP of this demo is about 2 ?

Re: [Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-04 Thread Nigel Dyer
The energy gain of about two is based on an energy in of 850J which gives the appearance of having been typed in rather than measured, possibly based on information about the voltage and current that was applied. It would have been nice to have had more details. It would also have been good

[Vo]:BLP video is out

2014-02-03 Thread Nigel Dyer
http://www.blacklightpower.com/whats-new/

Re: [Vo]:a note from Dr. Stoyan Sargoytchev

2014-02-03 Thread Nigel Dyer
entified. The rest can be explained by accepted laws of nature. Unfortunately, this requires a book length justification because acceptance requires a person to give up strongly held opinions. Ed Storms On Feb 3, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Nigel Dyer wrote: I don't feel that we have anything like enough

Re: [Vo]:a note from Dr. Stoyan Sargoytchev

2014-02-03 Thread Nigel Dyer
I don't feel that we have anything like enough evidence to say definitively whether there is one, or more than one, underlying mechanism. It seems likely that at least some of the different sets of experimental results will have a common underlying mechanism, and it is well worth trying to mak

Re: [Vo]:A return to Brown's Gas / HHO ?

2014-02-01 Thread Nigel Dyer
I very much agree about unpatentable theory. Perhaps the claim that sets it apart from ost if not all of teh previous water arc systems is claim 41 "The electrochemical power system of Claim 40 further comprising one or more solid fuel reactants to form at least one of the conductor, source

Re: [Vo]:Emilio del Giudice has died

2014-02-01 Thread Nigel Dyer
If you wanted to find out where the intersting and exciting science was taking place which was being ignored by main stream science then you just had to find out where Emilio was. I met him initially at conferences about biophotons, and more recently at conferences about water. He always br

Re: [Vo]:Report From an Attendee of the Blacklight Power Demonstration

2014-01-30 Thread Nigel Dyer
Perhaps BLP had the same problem with explosions and decided that, to use the phrase that our marketing guys love, "This is not a problem, this is a feature", and worked out what they need to do to make this happen every time, and their product morphed into what they have now demonstrated. Th

Re: [Vo]:Digital Journal reports on Industrial Heat deal with Rossi

2014-01-25 Thread Nigel Dyer
I tend to go to the mail archive site to search for historical postings http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/ which seems to allow seqrches of the last 10 years of the list Nigel On 25/01/2014 10:40, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: I suppose the archives of this mailing list will be a

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

2014-01-24 Thread Nigel Dyer
The way that it was explained to me (by my son who understands these things much more than I do) was that in a nuclear reaction that nucleus suddenly has lots of excess energy to get rid of, and normally the only option that its available that allows energy and momentum to be balanced is to emi

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

2014-01-22 Thread Nigel Dyer
, it says everything and its says nothing. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Jones Beene <mailto:jone...@pacbell.net>> wrote: -Original Message- From: Nigel Dyer The components of the demo don't look to me to be much like, for example the Catalyst I

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

2014-01-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
/01/2014 17:16, Nigel Dyer wrote: The components of the demo don't look to me to be much like, for example the Catalyst Induced Hydrino Transition Electrochemical Cell, so I was trying to work out what what we know about this configuration. For example, the energizing electrodes tha

[Vo]:BLP demo - the energizing electrodes

2014-01-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
The components of the demo don't look to me to be much like, for example the Catalyst Induced Hydrino Transition Electrochemical Cell, so I was trying to work out what what we know about this configuration. For example, the energizing electrodes that are mentioned. Do we haev an idea of what

Re: [Vo]:The Quantum Soul?

2014-01-18 Thread Nigel Dyer
cs on the nucleolus. Nigel Dyer On 18/01/2014 05:41, H Veeder wrote: "My Spider Senses are starting to tingle" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kek3GqbsTk Harry On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Terry Blanton <mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com>> wrote: Discovery of Quantu

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: BLP's announcement

2014-01-14 Thread Nigel Dyer
I was not aware of anything in the definition of LENR that says that it has to be solid state. Some of the better public examples at the moment are solid state, but I am aware of other systems that appear to be low energy nuclear reactions which appear to use other substrates, and I see no re

Re: [Vo]:[OT] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted

2014-01-10 Thread Nigel Dyer
To give an example of what might be an ignored anomoly In the last few years Konovalov in mosow has published papers that appear to show that when you do serial dilultion of certain solutes then structures persist in the water that can be seen in the water (and therfore might be the basis

Re: [Vo]:Mysterious Earthquake Lights Linked to Rift Zones

2014-01-10 Thread Nigel Dyer
I'm beginning to wonder whether the electrically exicited ions within the fault are able to pump a coherent electromagnetic mode within the rocks, the frequency determined by some physical characteristic of the rock structure. A direction that involves a number of such regions, ie along the l

Re: [Vo]:Mysterious Earthquake Lights Linked to Rift Zones

2014-01-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
In the recent explanations it has been far from clear to me how the large electric fields that no doubt build up in the rocks can cause ionizing effects in the air some distance above the fault. The explanation would appear to need something like highly directional electromagnetic radiation to

Re: [Vo]:[OT] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted

2014-01-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
My suspicion is that many of Sheldrakes 'non-materialist' ideas, such as the idea that memories are not just physical traces in the brain will turn out to be true, but will also turn out to be materialist and grounded in the science that we already understand. Nigel On 08/01/2014 06:36, jwi

Re: [Vo]: RAR energia update

2013-12-17 Thread Nigel Dyer
It was, and is the hope that we will find cures for cancer that provides the funds for many people such as myself to do the research that I am doing. In a number of cases there was no scientific basis for the hope when the research was started, but it funded the scientific research, and scienc

Re: [Vo]: RAR energia update

2013-12-17 Thread Nigel Dyer
It will make a brilliant centre peice for a museum looking at all the attempts, both successful and unsucessful, to find alternative energy sources. I guess the problem is that we dont yet know which of the two sections of the museum which should put this (and many other current projects) into

Re: [Vo]:possible explanation with illustrations

2013-12-16 Thread Nigel Dyer
I'm intrigued by the 'fusion observed in the vicinity of transformers' comment. I've had a quick scan on your blog, and a search through the vortex-l archive, and a search in the web and cant find anything obvious. Would it be possible to provide a link? Nigel On 15/12/2013 23:30, Eric Wal

Re: [Vo]:OT: 9th Grade Science Project: WiFi prevents seed germination

2013-12-12 Thread Nigel Dyer
The figure of 100,000 watts for a cell phone tower seems a little high. The most plausible figures from the web seem to be up to 500 watts if they are covering a large area, or somewhat less if it is a small cell in a city. Nigel On 12/12/2013 19:21, leaking pen wrote: Waldo anyone? On Thu

[Vo]:Oxyntix

2013-12-05 Thread Nigel Dyer
Has anybody come across a company called Oxyntix, a spin off company from Oxford University http://www.oxyntix.com/ The website is very sparten, but it does include a sentence with a familiar ring to it: "A core technology we are promoting involves generation of extremely high temperature

Re: [Vo]:Does modern science discourage creativity?

2013-11-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
I have begun to wonder whether the internet can be hindering the process. There is a feeling that we dont need to learn stuff because it is all there on the internet. However I wonder whether the creative process can only really happen when we get the stuff inside our heads so that our subc

Re: [Vo]:What LeClair really said.

2013-11-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
surfaces/* On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Nigel Dyer <mailto:l...@thedyers.org.uk>> wrote: The bits of the results that I think are true are that he has managed to get fairly spectacular damage using cavitation bubbles and that there was something more interesting going on

Re: [Vo]:What LeClair really said.

2013-11-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
November 9, 2013, Nigel Dyer wrote: I am not sure that a translation would be of much help. With LeClair I think you need to try and separate out the hypothesies as to the mechanism from the observations of what happened. Too often LeClair confuses the two. There is a lot to be sa

Re: [Vo]:What LeClair really said.

2013-11-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
I am not sure that a translation would be of much help. With LeClair I think you need to try and separate out the hypothesies as to the mechanism from the observations of what happened. Too often LeClair confuses the two. There is a lot to be said for the 'Method/Results/Discussion' format

Re: [Vo]:Graneau Questions

2013-03-23 Thread Nigel Dyer
I had the opportunity to speak to Peter about this, and I was led to believe that they were indeed mystified by what they had found, but also felt that they needed some kind of hypothesis in order to get the paper published. I know from bitter experience that it is very difficult to get a pap

Re: [Vo]:Another article about the impact of automation on employment

2013-01-29 Thread Nigel Dyer
The article tallies with the UK where the proportion of graduates in the cohort entering employment each year is double the proportion of jobs requiring a degree. My daughter and her son in law both got firsts, and both ended up in jobs that do not require a degree. My son in law is train

Re: [Vo]:Another article about the impact of automation on employment

2013-01-27 Thread Nigel Dyer
The fact that an analysis conflicts with every economist does not make it wrong. After their almost complete failure (yes I know there were some notable exceptions) to predict our current crisis I no longer have much faith in what economists say. A few years ago the UK Queen asked some economi

Re: [Vo]:Interesting speculative theory from Krivit on Boeing batteries

2013-01-20 Thread Nigel Dyer
I assume that people have done detailed 'post mortem's of batteries that have overheated. Is there anything in the detail that would support (or otherwise) the LENR proposal? On 20/01/2013 18:53, Eric Walker wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: Maybe the higher

Re: [Vo]:Quantum coherence in bacteria

2013-01-11 Thread Nigel Dyer
in" -Original Message- From: Nigel Dyer Fifteen years ago I visited someone at Daresbury in the UK to talk about coherent vibrations in living organisms. One of the things that he was working on was the light harvesting complexes in bacteria, and he said at the time that he fel

Re: [Vo]:Quantum coherence in bacteria

2013-01-11 Thread Nigel Dyer
Fifteen years ago I visited someone at Daresbury in the UK to talk about coherent vibrations in living organisms. One of the things that he was working on was the light harvesting complexes in bacteria, and he said at the time that he felt that that was where we were most likely to find quantum

Re: [Vo]:Birther Myth? or Lomax lies

2012-12-31 Thread Nigel Dyer
Indeed. There is a Catholic school in Birmingham, UK, where the majority of pupils are Muslim http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/birminghams-catholic-school-where-90-of-the-pupils-231115 Nigel On 31/12/2012 04:40, Jojo Jaro wrote: Yes, "Christian" catholic schools are more toler

Re: [Vo]:Digital information storage in DNA

2012-12-29 Thread Nigel Dyer
My paid employment means that I spend significant numbers of hours each day looking at DNA sequences, and the relationship between the DNA sequences of different species, from single celled bacteria through to homo sapiens. This shows, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the species 'evolved' from

Re: [Vo]:Digital information storage in DNA

2012-12-28 Thread Nigel Dyer
Genetics experts stopped calling the non-coding regions 'junk' some time ago. They might say something like 'what used to be called junk DNA'. I have been wondering whether certain aspects of the information that defines an organism is not contained in the DNA, but instead certain specific

[Vo]:Dundee man accused of 'recklessly producing household electricity'

2012-11-24 Thread Nigel Dyer
I think we should know more, and this may serve as a warning to anyone attempting kitchen table LENR experiments in the UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-20463857 Nigel

Re: [Vo]:Re: Curiouser and curiouser (Martian turtle from Terry Blanton)

2012-11-15 Thread Nigel Dyer
On 15/11/2012 14:20, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: I've found lots of Martian turtles and other life forms on Mars. Look at this image from Curiosity -- at least a dozen anomalies, worms, rectilinear concrete blocks etc., look at the Martian Dog in the upper left quadrant: http://tinyurl.com/bjsk7

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy presentation on nuclear events in lightning

2012-11-12 Thread Nigel Dyer
Gamma rays are detected associated with a number of different aspects of thunderstorms. As far 'conventional' lightning is concerned it seems to be associated with initiation of the forks in the forked leader en route to the ground in advance of the (visible) return stroke when the large curren

Re: [Vo]:Supersonic shockwave acceleration processes

2012-11-11 Thread Nigel Dyer
Having discussed what he appears to have seen with Mark L, I ended up coming to the conclusion that there are possibly two separate effects that we may need to consider. First there is whatever it is that happens within the cavitation bubble that starts the process off. In situations where ca

Re: [Vo]:Water Bridge-Electro Gravity ?

2012-11-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
On 08/11/2012 21:43, Peter wrote: Am 07.11.2012 04:38, schrieb Ron Kita: Greetings Vortex-L, A water bridge defying gravity: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-bridges-defy-gravity.html Ron Kita, Chiralex See here the castor oil bridge ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj7c0oWoBI I think it is an

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: "Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations"

2012-11-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
Well spotted Lou, and yes it is particularly intriguing. A couple of pointers. First, describing it as an after glow is potentially misleading, in that it is not necessarily after anything. It is something that is seen at and around the time when lightning occurs, but can be seen when there

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: "Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations"

2012-11-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
Lou, the answer is, its complicated, but very interesting and conditions can be recreated in the lab, and the guy who knows all about this is Joe Dwyer. He has done an excellent review http://www.springerlink.com/content/l112wv31n5446564/ You also get gamma rays, and he has shown that these a

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: "Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations"

2012-11-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
And I think I may be able to claim responsibility for the inclusion of the paragraph about neutron release in thunderstorms, given my discussions over the last couple of years with John Swain. Nigel On 06/11/2012 02:41, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Just published on Arxiv.org -- "Theories

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years - Easter Island

2012-10-10 Thread Nigel Dyer
://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/rethinking-the-fall-of-easter-island/1 "Feature" article, so apparently not paywalled - I'm not a subscriber, but I can see it. Jeff On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, David L Babcock wrote: On 10/9/2012 11:53 AM, Nigel Dyer wrote: I had th

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years

2012-10-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
I had thought that they destroyed their own environment through overharvesting and overhunting, ie the population was to large to live sustainably. This is not a particualrly religious reason. I had also gathered that the statues etc were an attempt to appease their gods in the hope that the go

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years

2012-10-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
What I think would be a good wake up call would be for someone (the BBC) to do a six part drama that is as historically accurate as it can be that covers the experience of a family on Easter Island as they went through the period when they ran out of natural resources. I think that would be a

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years

2012-10-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
If only that were true. If you were to do some research into the final years of Marconi in the UK, you would find that the reality was far from the picture that you paint. The senior managers made some absolutely disastrous business decisions, buying up highly overvalued companies, putting M

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years

2012-10-07 Thread Nigel Dyer
I am not sure that it will go anything like as far as you believe Jed, but some elements are already present. The first twenty years of my working life were spent automating the production of telephone exchange equipment, which resulted in many 1000s of people who used to work on the producti

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years

2012-10-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
Is ancient China included as being part of the west? A quick check of some basic history of ancient china seems to suggest that what I would consider to be the organisation of human labor was present going right back to the very earliest dynasties. However, I would tend to think that so many

Re: [Vo]:Spin phonons - transversal heat conduction

2012-10-05 Thread Nigel Dyer
The question makes sense, but I am intrigued by the inclusion of the word spin in the title. Most heat conduction calculations do not include the effect of spin, but there is work that does, and the quanta of interest is then a magnon, and it all appears to get very complicated. Nigel On 05/

Re: [Vo]:Magnons, excess heat and ferromagnetism

2012-10-01 Thread Nigel Dyer
I have been looking at some cell biology that suggests that nature may have got there first on this, which is perhaps no surprise. In the biological system the phonons are associated with low frequency vibrational modes in huntingtin, and I suspect that these are coupled to Cu2+ ions associated

Re: [Vo]:free energy rap

2012-09-17 Thread Nigel Dyer
Half of my brain thinks that this is brilliant and just what is needed, and the other half thinks that it is not. From my personal experience the problem is not so much a conspiracy as people, such as scientists in universities who do know something about this stuff, having read about this in

Re: [Vo]:ECat convention (Report day 1)

2012-09-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
The photo may have been taken part way through the test, rather than at the end. The temp is gradually ramped up during the test Nigel On 09/09/2012 21:20, Alan Fletcher wrote: Rossi report : the temperature of the outside cylinder is reported to be at 871C max, 820C average. Shouldn't it b

Re: [Vo]:Cell resistance drop at initiation of XP burst in the Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect

2012-07-11 Thread Nigel Dyer
I would agree that looking at the physical state of the water/bubbles at the surface of the electrode is a good idea. There was some work done many years ago on the sound of various chemical reactions. The sound of jelly setting was particularly odd (another situation where water is importan

Re: [Vo]:Florida Investigates Rossi

2012-03-13 Thread Nigel Dyer
The use of food irradiation varies significantly from country to country. In the UK for example, it can only be used for dried aromatic herbs, spices, and vegetable seasonings. The same variation in attitude towards such things could well mean that there are very different challenges to getti

Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools & animation generation packages

2012-03-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
Now I am sort of on home territory, as I do genetics as a day job. We have very few commented out genes (apart from a reasonable number of genes for olfactory nerves, our sense of smell would appear to of less importance to us than it is to our ancesters, so they do appear to have been comment

Re: [Vo]:Over unity at MIT

2012-02-28 Thread Nigel Dyer
The paper says that it is working at a temperature of 135 C, which is relatively elevated. I agree that this does violate the second law, in that it is doing work but there is not a heat source and sink. However, as my son, who knows more about physics than I do says, the second law is not so

Re: [Vo]:how common is heat pump / absorption cooling?

2012-02-19 Thread Nigel Dyer
Gas powered fridges have been around for many years, where the heat from a gas flame, together with heat pump technology, is used to cool a fridge. These are often used in caravans Nigel On 19/02/2012 02:39, Andre Blum wrote: Rossi says an optional cooling / air conditioning module can late

Re: [Vo]:Elemental Ovens

2012-02-18 Thread Nigel Dyer
It is interesting that you should wonder why E-cat systems have not been seen earlier. Over Christmas I met someone whilst out on a walk, got chatting, and found that they had been working on Palladium/Hydrogen systems in the 1960's, and had become aware that there was something odd going on.

Re: [Vo]:Excess heat due to proton pairing in metal hydrides?

2012-02-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
nd the Hyperion safety/control electronics/software. The contribution of such endothermic-exothermic circle to the COP of the total process is almost zero. 2012/2/8 Nigel Dyer He suggests that the pairing energy level is of the order of 1eV, which is a chemical reaction sort of energy.

Re: [Vo]:Excess heat due to proton pairing in metal hydrides?

2012-02-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
I am intrigued in that Julians interpretation of Rossi's actions on eCatNews align very much with my impression, although I am very much observing Rossi at a distance, and his Cooper-pairing of protons is my preferred framework for a possible understanding of what is going on. He suggests th

Re: [Vo]:World's best H2 catalyst?

2012-02-08 Thread Nigel Dyer
Indeed. I had just written a reply saying virtually the same think when your Email arrived. I do not beleive that there is any magic here that breaks any laws of physics. On 08/02/2012 15:15, David Roberson wrote: I would also take a second look at the net process energy balance. If alumi

Re: [Vo]:Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma

2012-02-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
Rupert is an interesting guy. I was lucky to have a couple of hours time with him in his book lined study last year, and then went for a walk across Hampstead Heath. That is clearly what talking with Rupert does to you. The thing about people such as Rupert is that he does not let our curren

Re: [Vo]:3M speculation on Cold Fusion

2012-02-04 Thread Nigel Dyer
I once heard it said that the common denominator behind all of 3M products are that they are thin (laminates, floppy disks, abrasives, tapes, polish once it is applied etc). An Ecat is not very thin Nigel On 04/02/2012 17:30, Ron Kita wrote: Greetings Vortex, I am not sure if the the "possib

Re: [Vo]:Cross-over technology

2012-02-03 Thread Nigel Dyer
I have been wondering about this as well. Experiments using such films with different dimensions of etched squares would be a good way of quantifying the way that the process depends on dimensions, which would in turn help us understand what exatcly is going on. Trying to get repeatable data

Re: [Vo]:RE: Defkalion video of internal testing

2012-01-30 Thread Nigel Dyer
Despite the shortcomings of the experimental setup, I would have thought it should be possible to use dataplots such as these to characterise the thermal characteristics of the a dummy hyperion system providing we know the power input. This should give usable figures for heat capacities and t

Re: [Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-30 Thread Nigel Dyer
Judging size is always a problem, but that does look to be of the big and far away variety. I saw BL many years ago when it appeared to be small (1 metre?) and closer, and have had a long standing interest in BL as a result. I have seen videos of other BL where it splits. In other cases the

Re: [Vo]:Nickel honeycomb ?

2012-01-25 Thread Nigel Dyer
If I was attempting to build a system from scratch, I would be tempted to stick as close as possible to what we know of the standard receipes used by others. The problem is that at the moment we don't understand the system to know what is important and what is not. My brother helped build a p

Re: [Vo]:LEAD shielding - a dual purpose?

2012-01-25 Thread Nigel Dyer
Unfortunately this model is nowhere near adequate to be able to calculate the levels of gamma we might see. At this stage it is at best a qualitative model that might explain the general characteristics. If the match looked sufficiently good to be worth looking at further then no doubt the mo

Re: [Vo]:LEAD shielding - a dual purpose?

2012-01-25 Thread Nigel Dyer
The 'fact' that the gamma only appears as a burst during startup is one peice of 'evidence' that I think suggests that the mechanism relies on a coherent state within the nickel, probably an optical vibrational mode within the lattice. Once it is at a sufficient amplitide, it's existence might

Re: [Vo]:Ni-64 enrichment

2012-01-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
I continue to be reminded of a (Isaac Asimov?) science fiction story I read as a child where a group of scientists are shown a film of what they are told is an anti gravity machine, which takes off, flies a bit then blows up. They are told that the inventer, the only person who knew how it wor

Re: [Vo]:University testing of the E-cat question asked on Rossi blog

2012-01-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
A good example. I think it comes down to whether all of the water that we see at the outlet, in whatever form, would have had to been converted to water vapour at some stage in order to get there, requiring its latent heat of vapourisation. In the case of my, and John's coffee maker, not all

Re: [Vo]:mechanical-to-optical coupling

2012-01-18 Thread Nigel Dyer
I think we should be considering the possibility that there are no gammas in the first place. After the LENR event the nucleus will be in a highly excited and state and will need to release its energy. The conventional route is via gamma (and/or an energetic particle) with the options deter

Re: [Vo]:Rossi on the Smart Scarecrow Show

2012-01-16 Thread Nigel Dyer
I am not sure if the point being made is that there can't be gamma radiation or else Rossi would be dead, or that there is gamma radiation and so it will never be a home appliance. The indications so far are that radiation levels are small, but not zero. This may well allow for home usage ev

Re: [Vo]:Nicholas Moller and MAHG

2012-01-15 Thread Nigel Dyer
Apologies... The appended text on the previous posting was not intended. I have changed to a different mail client which did not behave quite as I was expecting Nigel Dyer On 15/01/2012 16:51, Nigel Dyer wrote: A few days ago there was a breif mention of Nicholas Moller and his work on

[Vo]:Nicholas Moller and MAHG

2012-01-15 Thread Nigel Dyer
A few days ago there was a breif mention of Nicholas Moller and his work on MAHG The two websites that I have found both seem to date from 2005 and emails to the addresses on these websites seem to bounce. Is anyone aware of the statis of any work on this system? On 15/01/2012 16:28, Jay Ca

RE: [Vo]:What is the aggregate electrical charge of our sun?

2012-01-09 Thread Nigel Dyer
And in that context, some years ago I acquired one of a very few copies of a book which contained some ideas from 1952 about the relationship between the masses of various particles, which includes a derivation of the magic 1836.1 http://nigel.thedyers.org.uk/Jessup/ Nigel > -Original Messag

RE: [Vo]:Nickel nanoantennas... its all about resonances.

2012-01-04 Thread Nigel Dyer
I recently had a quick glance through the chapters on Cold Fusion in Preperata's "QED coherence in matter", and the results in the Nickel Nanoattenas paper seem to be in much the same area as the ideas in the Cold Fusion chapter. Nigel Dyer _ From: Mark Iv

RE: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Nigel Dyer
As far as I am concerned, I am looking for information that I would be happy to present to a 'friendly' member of staff in our Physics dept as reasonable evidence that there is something interesting going on that might be worth looking at. The reports of someone having visited Defkalion is somethi

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