Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Anyway the Farnsworth Fusor is a fusion reactor that many high school level students have built, including Conrad. It involves adding electrical energy in order to achieve LENR reactions. Sound familiar, Joshua? You

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-04 Thread Joshua Cude
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us who have studied cold fusion for the last 23 years have a definition

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Harry Veeder
Jones, Did he make the background measure and the active run measure with the detector in the same place and same orientation? If he did, then the dip recorded during the active run would mean an _active_ ecat can reduce background radiation. Harry On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 12:08 AM,

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
From: David Roberson Robin, how would Rossi prevent the lead from melting at the elevated temperatures? Do you suspect that he has it confined within a closed shell of some kind? I do not recall seeing any place for it to hide.

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
OK, Jones, let me try to summarize what you propose. You believe CF is like the Mills effect even though CF is known to produce nuclear products and the Mills effect does not. You believe that Rossi made the Ni-H2 system create energy using the Mills effect while everyone else who explored

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
From: Edmund Storms OK, Jones, let me try to summarize what you propose You believe CF is like the Mills effect even though CF is known to produce nuclear products and the Mills effect does not. Not even close, Ed. I specifically said that I do not address

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: No. That is not correct. Tritium would have already have been detected by Bianchini if it was there . . . I do not think so. Tritium would be trapped inside the cell. The decay product is a low energy beta. If a little tritium leaks out of the cell it

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Jed is correct. Tritium can not be detected by an ordinary detector because the beta is too weak. Unless the required special detector is used, tritium would be totally missed no matter how much is present. That is why tritium is dangerous. Nevertheless, modern methods can detect tritium

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
You do not need to remove the gas. I know you have heard of Bremsstrahlung, even if the word is almost unspellable to Anglos. Thank heavens for spell checkers and Wiki vids. Here is a little video that tells you why Bianchini would see tritium, if it was there.

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, you are simply wrong. I have worked with tritium and I know how it behaves. It cannot be detected using its Bremsstrahlund unless a huge amount is present because this radiation is produced at only a small fraction of the beta and is absorbed very quickly by only a small amount of

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
On Jun 2, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Jones Beene wrote: From: Edmund Storms OK, Jones, let me try to summarize what you propose You believe CF is like the Mills effect even though CF is known to produce nuclear products and the Mills effect does not. Not even

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
From: Edmund Storms Jones, you are simply wrong. I have worked with tritium and I know how it behaves. You apparently have not worked with tritium very intuitively, if you cannot understand this simple video. It cannot be detected using its Bremsstrahlund unless a huge

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Apparently Jones, I have to be clearer and more emphatic. Tritium can not be detected when it is in a container as massive as the E-cat. THIS IS A FACT. Please at least acknowledge that I might know something about tritium that you do not. The video only shows that some unknown amount of

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
Ed, You are not very good at misdirection, try hard as you might - and you are fighting a losing battle in trying to wedge an incorrect theory into the most important LENR experiment out there at present. My advice is to quit before you are completely embarrassed. You theory works in some

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: . . . a signal should show up above background on his meter - especially when the Rossi device is disassembled, as it is in the Penon report. They disassemble it by cutting it in half with a saw, don't they? There is no way you could capture tritium by

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
OK Jones, useful discussion has come to an end. I will wait until the proper measurements are made . Then we will talk again. Ed Storms On Jun 2, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Ed, You are not very good at misdirection, try hard as you might - and you are fighting a losing battle

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
Tritium is preferentially absorbed into nickel. Most of it would be retained in the nickel powder, if it were present. From: Jed Rothwell . . . a signal should show up above background on his meter - especially when the Rossi device is disassembled, as it is in the Penon report. They

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Tritium is preferentially absorbed into nickel. Most of it would be retained in the nickel powder, if it were present. Good point. Still, if you were doing a serious study you would not cut it in half. McKubre devised a complicated way to puncture the

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Jones Beene
Let me say that almost everyone concerned, other than Andrea Rossi himself - would be delighted if tritium had been found in the spent fuel of the HotCat. If tritium were found in proportion to thermal gain - this would explain the mechanism in accordance with Ed Storm's theory - and not only

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, I agree with your conclusion about Rossi. However, tritium is not his only problem. His patent will probably not reveal how the Ni can be treated to make it active. Simply adding Ni62 is obviously not the only thing he does to the Ni. Without the ability to replicate the patent by a

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-02 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 2 Jun 2013 06:15:39 -0700: Hi, [snip] The fact that there is no radiation at all detectable (at kW thermal output) from Rossi's device (above a threshold of tens of keV) is rather conclusive that there is no fusion, and essentially no nuclear reaction of

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones, please do not confuse hot fusion with cold fusion. The difference is in the products. Cold fusion does not produce neutrons and energetic radiation. Hot fusion produce neutrons and radiation because the conditions require the nuclear product to fragment. This fragmentation does not

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Edmund Storms Jones, please do not confuse hot fusion with cold fusion. The difference is in the products. Not necessarily. Perhaps that is your definition, but as I stated - the Farnsworth Fusor is LENR on the input side. Same with sonofusion - it is the

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Edmund Storms
We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us who have studied cold fusion for the last 23 years have a definition of CF that is not up for discussion. Please try to understand what I'm

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Terry Blanton
I thought we agreed to call Muon assisted fusion warm fusion. On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us who

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Edmund Storms We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us who have studied cold fusion for the last 23 years have a definition of CF that is not up for

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Edmund Storms
You can call it what you want. Jones called the muon reaction cold fusion before he applied the term was applied to the F-P effect. Nevertheless, the products are those that result from hot fusion, i.e. equal amounts of neutron and tritium that result from fragmentation of the resulting

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Edmund Storms
On Jun 1, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Jones Beene wrote: -Original Message- From: Edmund Storms We are taking about two different phenomenon of nature. Trying to use the same concepts and words to describe both results in confusion. Those of us who have studied cold fusion for the last 23

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Edmund Storms The Mills effect is a different phenomenon all together. His effect is not nuclear, as he admits. Yes, but that is not relevant to understanding Rossi. Many other researchers, including Miley have incorporated major parts of Mills theory into a

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Bianchini finds zero radiation over hundreds of hours of careful radiation testing. Most cold fusion experiments produce no measurable radiation over hundreds of hours, including Pd-D ones. Essen finds no radioactivity in the ash. No excess deuterium

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell wrote: Bianchini finds zero radiation over hundreds of hours of careful radiation testing. Most cold fusion experiments produce no measurable radiation over hundreds of hours, including Pd-D ones. Most cold fusion experiments have been milliwatt level and do

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Most cold fusion experiments have been milliwatt level and do not use the very sophisticated setup of Bianchini . . . Fleischmann and Pons ran hundreds of tests with boiling cells, at 20 to 100 W. They has sophisticated detectors. They found nothing as

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The ultimate source of energy cannot be determined as of now but Rossi’s hundreds of hours of operation at kilowatt levels with no gammas clearly indicates NO fusion. I don't exclude the possibility that there's

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
Eric, I have dined on crow before and prefer mine well-charred with a nice Pinot Noir… The ultimate source of energy cannot be determined as of now but Rossi’s hundreds of hours of operation at kilowatt levels with no gammas clearly indicates NO fusion. I don't exclude the

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I have dined on crow before and prefer mine well-charred with a nice Pinot Noir… Foul! Fowl demands a white, say chardonnay,

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:33:22 -0700: Hi, [snip] Eric, I have dined on crow before and prefer mine well-charred with a nice Pinot Noir… The ultimate source of energy cannot be determined as of now but Rossi’s hundreds of hours of operation at kilowatt

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Hi Robin, The H2 is of course f/H molecules. Still three body reactions - no way Nevertheless, I suspect that indeed the primary source of energy in his reactor is the formation of f/H. Yup. By a large factor. There is actually an easy

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The ultimate source of energy cannot be determined as of now but Rossi’s hundreds of hours of operation at kilowatt levels with no gammas clearly

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 1 Jun 2013 17:27:32 -0700: Hi, [snip] -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Hi Robin, The H2 is of course f/H molecules. Still three body reactions - no way No, these are all two body reactions, because the f/H is bound in a

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Hi Robin, The H2 is of course f/H molecules. Still three body reactions - no way No, these are all two body reactions, because the f/H is bound in a pico/femto molecule, and approaches the target nucleus as a single (composite) entity.

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Frank
Jones, Interesting concept..[snip] No, these are all two body reactions, because the f/H is bound in a pico/femto molecule,[/snip] how about combining it with Naudt's paper on relativistiv hydrogen, the hydrogen has an equivalent negative acceleration of relativistic proportion

RE: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread Jones Beene
Let me add that in the appendix to the Penon report, David Bianchini finds not only no significant radiation over background, but actually the peak radiation counts are slightly less during the experiment than background, indicating the apparatus shields the detector from cosmic rays slightly.

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 1 Jun 2013 19:35:11 -0700: Hi, [snip] -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Hi Robin, The H2 is of course f/H molecules. Still three body reactions - no way No, these are all two body reactions, because the f/H is bound in a

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 1 Jun 2013 19:59:52 -0700: Hi, [snip] Let me add that in the appendix to the Penon report, David Bianchini finds not only no significant radiation over background, but actually the peak radiation counts are slightly less during the experiment than

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread David Roberson
-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 12:08 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 1 Jun 2013 19:59:52 -0700: Hi, [snip] Let me add that in the appendix to the Penon report, David Bianchini finds not only no significant radiation over background

Re: [Vo]:Adding Energy to get Energy

2013-06-01 Thread mixent
for it to hide. Dave You are correct. :) I was confused with the earlier versions that used lead shielding. However any solid will provide *some* shielding. -Original Message- From: mixent mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 12:08 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Adding