Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:40 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am fairly confident that these inventors do not claim that the electrical energy recovered due to the returning piston is significant compared to the mechanical output. I haven't followed this detail up to now. Here

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
I think we are dealing with an entropic force that can remove entropy from the gas at times as well as give it back in the way of charged particles On Monday, December 31, 2012, Eric Walker wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:40 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml',

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread David Roberson
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 8:57 am Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:40 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am fairly confident that these inventors do not claim that the electrical energy recovered due

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:56 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I suppose that a large capacitor bank could let loose and so some damage, but in this case I recall that mechanical shrapnel did the damage. Most likely this was a result of the engine running at too high of a speed.

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread David Roberson
. My gut feeling is that it is not going to work. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 12:51 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:56 AM, David Roberson dlrober

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread ChemE Stewart
- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'eric.wal...@gmail.com'); To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'vortex-l@eskimo.com'); Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 12:51 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 8:56 AM

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Dec 31, 2012, at 10:40, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I was trying to come up with any way that energy could be delivered by the Papp while leaving the gas cool. It occurs to me now that we may have made a simple problem into a difficult one. Our initial challenge is to find

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread David Roberson
Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 2:44 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water On Dec 31, 2012, at 10:40, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I was trying to come up with any way that energy could be delivered by the Papp while leaving the gas cool. It occurs to me now that we may

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-31 Thread David Roberson
Sent: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 3:01 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water On Dec 31, 2012, at 11:55, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: I am not sure I understand what you are suggesting. Does the piston return to its beginning point with each cycle? If so, at least a complete loop

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread David Roberson
: [Vo]:Papp and Water At 09:55 AM 12/28/2012, Roarty, Francis X wrote: Axil, etc. This is Vortex, and you guys are certainly free to speculate at the drop of a hat or a popper. However, I'm also free to note that trying to figure out what is going on with Russ's popper, when we have just about

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:02 PM 12/30/2012, David Roberson wrote: I just came to the realization that most of the demonstrations that Russ has performed do not show much real work output. The piston is driven upward by the spark activated mixture, but then returns to the starting point. Any work done on the

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread David Roberson
Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Dec 30, 2012 8:46 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water At 06:02 PM 12/30/2012, David Roberson wrote: I just came to the realization that most of the demonstrations that Russ has

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:39 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Therefore, if no heat is detected within the gas at the conclusion of the cycle, then there is no work done on the piston by that gas. For this reason it is not possible to measure the output of a Popp type system just

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect that work must necessarily be done on the Papp popper at the very beginning, during the first discharge, and that this work can be measured and tell us whether the cycle is overunity. But as I think about it

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread David Roberson
heats that initial mix of gases. The elevated gas temperature results in elevated gas pressure holding up the piston. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Dec 30, 2012 9:53 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-30 Thread David Roberson
compared to the mechanical output. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, Dec 30, 2012 10:15 pm Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-29 Thread Axil Axil
The Papp reaction will be revealing to those who are interested in the DGT LENR reaction in that it is similar to the spark discharge that is being used in the DGT reaction. If it is true that we know nothing about the Papp reaction, then the same must be said about the function of spark energy

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-29 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 07:48 PM 12/28/2012, James Bowery wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Axil Axil mailto:janap...@gmail.comja **nap...@gmail.com janap...@gmail.com wrote: Heat output can be neglected. I strongly

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-29 Thread Axil Axil
A simplified experiment is the most elegant, the most understandable, and the most convincing. Abd ul-Rahman Lomax is wise to suggest that the pressure of air compression by the piston in the popper is best removed as an experimental variable. His astute suggestion about the addition of weight

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-29 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:20 PM 12/29/2012, Axil Axil wrote: The height that the weighted piston travels upward to a stop determines the output energy of the popper. Well, that shows the work done by the piston. Unavoidably, the energy associated with the feedback current must be determined and added to the

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread Roarty, Francis X
releasing energy at the same rate on the reassociation portion of the cycle. Fran From: Axil Axil [mailto:janap...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 1:41 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water The recombination of atomic hydrogen to diatomic hydrogen

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:55 AM 12/28/2012, Roarty, Francis X wrote: Axil, etc. This is Vortex, and you guys are certainly free to speculate at the drop of a hat or a popper. However, I'm also free to note that trying to figure out what is going on with Russ's popper, when we have just about zero information

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread Axil Axil
Your opinion is most valuable. What do you recommend in terms of experimental detail? I posted previously that an accelerometer installed on the piston would provide the finest grained experimental detail. A graphic profile of the piston’s movement plotted against time could be converted to

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread James Bowery
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Heat output can be neglected. I strongly disagree. We hear a lot about how the temperature doesn't rise in any degree approaching what one would expect from the joule input but one must recall that this is one of the most

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:34 PM 12/28/2012, Axil Axil wrote: Your opinion is most valuable. What do you recommend in terms of experimental detail? I posted previously that an accelerometer installed on the piston would provide the finest grained experimental detail. Yes. I think I said the same. But if we

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:48 PM 12/28/2012, James Bowery wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Axil Axil mailto:janap...@gmail.comjanap...@gmail.com wrote: Heat output can be neglected. I strongly disagree. We hear a lot about how the temperature doesn't rise in any degree approaching what one would expect

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Papp and Water

2012-12-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Dec 28, 2012, at 20:25, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Whether there is any need to look for heat, then, is a subsidiary question. Is there excess energy, expressed in piston motion? This makes sense. Look for first order effects, then zero in on second order effects if