Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread francis
Jay, Excellent idea - could even use off the shelf heat exchanger as your link seems to indicate they already have their brazed products in automotive and aerospace equipment. I like the idea of the heat transfer fluid being inside the exchanger with the sputtered powder on the outside and

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-18 16:07, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Hello group, Today Rossi posted on his Blog some interesting info: When E-Cats work without a drive, Rossi has to operate alone on them for safety reasons. However Dr.Bianchini from the University of Bologna had special permission to witness one

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Rock_nj
I think the fact that Levi was caught telling a white lie about a report that does not exist is certainly news since it brings into question Levi's trustworthiness. If he was caught lying about the existence of that Galantini report, what else is he lying about? If you read the comments section

[Vo]:Message and INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY Nr 460

2011-06-19 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Friends, It was a rather interesting week for the E-cat, due to the steam dryness dispute between Krivit and Rossi Levi. We could see that the E-cat has very sharp verbal claws if infuriated. *The visit has not put doubts on the functionality* *of the E-cat, but raised serious questions*

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-18 10:57 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-06-18 09:21 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: I don't think Galantini is a thermodynamics expert. Jed is right about sparging the steam. Why do they insist on using phase change measurements anyway? There are a dozen

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 05:34 AM, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-06-18 16:07, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Hello group, Today Rossi posted on his Blog some interesting info: When E-Cats work without a drive, Rossi has to operate alone on them for safety reasons. This is such a facile explanation ... We

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread vorl bek
How many reactions, which produce heat, and which may produce runaway heat, can be quenched by ... *heating them up* ? I would call that another big red flag. I hope this thing is not a fake; I am just barely over the trauma of the Steorn debacle.

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-19 14:08, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: How many reactions, which produce heat, and which may produce runaway heat, can be quenched by ... *heating them up* ? To be fair, I don't think this is what Rossi actually means. Self-sustaining reactors probably operate on a closed loop,

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Caplan
Fran, Your point even better. Use round fins ~2 mm apart brazed to the center heat transfer fluid tube. Center tube brazed to bottom cap which has a hole for center tube, this brazed as well. Would use copper tubing for all these tubes and fins, standard plumbing parts. Fill from upper side

FW: Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread francis
Stephen, I think you might be missing the point, in free running the OOP is AT the critical temperature and the heat sinking must be exactly balanced between quenching and runaway while normal operation is kept slightly below the critical temperature such that a PWM can push the

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Coupled with the admission that the steam was wet (which has seemed pretty obvious to me for quite a while, though, as I've said before, I'm no expert) this makes Galantini's assertions about steam look pretty unreliable. 1. I do not see them

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: Why do they insist on using phase change measurements anyway? There are a dozen better ways to measure energy flow. I think Levi and Rossi did the private flow test in feburary to really convince themselves, and not to the arm chair skeptics,

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Ooops, overlooked something in your message. On 11-06-19 11:39 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: 3. The second test with liquid phase flow calorimetry confirmed that the first test was right No it didn't because it wasn't public and details weren't documented. It was viewed, in private, by exactly

[Vo]:Steven Chu

2011-06-19 Thread Bastiaan Bergman
http://the-explorer.com/steven-chu-looks-at-lattice-assisted-nuclear-reactions-cold-fusion/2011/3429583.html/ It *suggests* that Steven Chu was at the MIT meeting. But it clearly *states* that he is looking at Cold Fusion. Anyone has a link supporting the last claim? Thanks! Bastiaan.

Re: [Vo]:Steven Chu

2011-06-19 Thread Terry Blanton
This appears to be bunk. See this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg47764.html T On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bastiaan Bergman bastiaan.berg...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: 1. I do not see them admitting any such thing. 2. It cannot be obvious to you because you were not there and you have not used instruments or done tests to measure the enthalpy of the steam. It was obvious from the output temperature curves and

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: 3. The second test with liquid phase flow calorimetry confirmed that the first test was right No it didn't because it wasn't public and details weren't documented. I said that too. Only a few details were released. If you believe these details,

[Vo]:A worldwide conspiracy against the Rossi effect

2011-06-19 Thread Akira Shirakawa
...Or at least, this is what Rossi is implying in the comment below pasted from his blog. It looks like we will know more details about it after the presentation of the 1-MW plant in October. Rossi paints a grim picture where LENR researchers backstab each other in order to obtain research

RE: [Vo]:Rossi: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:13 PM 6/18/2011, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: From Rossi, ... ... For example, we had recently a fake journalist here who wrote stupidities about the water in the steam: ... I guess Rossi is still pissed off. For many years, since I first started on-line conferencing

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Nick Palmer
Rossi: About all the others, honestly, I do not care too much, they are either competitors, sometimes disguised as Research Laboratories anxious to validate, fake journalists sent by the same, or just honest sceptic who are not important for our market. Our universal credibility will come from

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 12:04 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: 1. I do not see them admitting any such thing. 2. It cannot be obvious to you because you were not there and you have not used instruments or done tests to measure the

Re: [Vo]:A worldwide conspiracy against the Rossi effect

2011-06-19 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-19 18:05, Terry Blanton wrote: Anyone have any idea what he means here? I do not recall a diagram. Is he speaking of a water phase graph? Yes, I think he's speaking of a water phase graph they (i.e. him and Levi) have been shown, although privately as of yet. Perhaps the

Re: [Vo]:A worldwide conspiracy against the Rossi effect

2011-06-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com wrote: 1- The fake diagram of steam has been given to the “snake” Anyone have any idea what he means here? I do not recall a diagram. Is he speaking of a water phase graph? T

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 11:39 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: Coupled with the admission that the steam was wet (which has seemed pretty obvious to me for quite a while, though, as I've said before, I'm no expert) this makes

[Vo]:We Need to Stop Lying!

2011-06-19 Thread Wm. Scott Smith
As with most alleged conspiracies. People with similar interests naturally do the same things. It is just plain old-fashioned non-orchestrated Self-interest. While on the topic, yes there really are people who conspire to pull a lot of strings, but the diversity of their individual

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-19 02:37, Harry Veeder wrote: If I recall correctly someone wrote on the vortex list back in feburary or march that Galantini never wrote a report, so that fact is not news. Steven Kirvit managed to catch Levi uttering a 'white lie' to *him*. Is that fact news? Try read the

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Axil Axil
Rossi adds externally generated heat to reach and maintain steady state heat production equilibrium. One passive way to decrease reactor heat production is to decrease hydrogen pressure. This can be done by absorbing hydrogen from the hydrogen envelope using a hydride producing metal; for

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Axil Axil
Please add at this top as an edit... Rossi runs his reactor subcritically. That is, the maximum amount of heat that his reactor can produce will NOT increase internal reactor heat production beyond a self-reinforcing increasing takeoff point. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Axil Axil

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Nick Palmer ni...@wynterwood.co.uk wrote: He's certainly got a very bad case of Chris Tinsley's inventor's disease or he's faking. His mention now of totally dry steam has clearly been made because of Steve K's visit.. . . Rossi does show some symptoms of that syndrome, but there is a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Harry Veeder
Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: He [Rossi] could apologize. What would he lose if he did? Nothing that I can see! It would be out of character. Yeah, just like Steven Kirvit could apologize for insinuating incompetency. lol. Harry

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:57 PM 6/18/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: If you were Rossi the businessman, and you knew your device has turned water into steam for short periods of time without any input power, wouldn't you treat the steam quality issue as a minor concern? Harry Sure, I might, but I would also understand

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:57 PM 6/18/2011, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:32:54 -0400: Hi, [snip] It's being operated, apparently, at a balance point. Other designs ...or as Dr. Schwartz would say, an OOP. Well, no, even though I did refer to that term

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 12:13 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: That's like a poker game where nobody has to show their cards, they just state what they have and everyone believes them. In poker, you do not have to show your card if

RE: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Andrea Rossi: June 18th, 2011 at 4:02 AM ... By the way: in a statement he released further, he [Krivit] said that while Prof. Levi told him there was a report about this issue, I said in the interview that there was not a report about this issue. This is a translation

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:08 AM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-06-19 05:34 AM, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-06-18 16:07, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Today Rossi posted on his Blog some interesting info: When E-Cats work without a drive, Rossi has to operate alone on them for safety reasons. This

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 02:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 08:08 AM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-06-19 05:34 AM, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-06-18 16:07, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Today Rossi posted on his Blog some interesting info: When E-Cats work without a drive, Rossi has to

Re: [Vo]:A worldwide conspiracy against the Rossi effect

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:17 AM 6/19/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: ...Or at least, this is what Rossi is implying in the comment below pasted from his blog. It looks like we will know more details about it after the presentation of the 1-MW plant in October. Rossi paints a grim picture where LENR researchers

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:39 AM 6/19/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: He is a very frank.He said emphatically he wants no more tests before the 1 MW demonstration. I think that policy is ill-advised. I do not understand it. But it is his decision, and I suppose he has his reasons. Well, there are two possible reasons

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:37 PM 6/18/2011, you wrote: Why Levi is upset is more evident in this exchange between Steven Krivit and Luigi Versaggi P. https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/cold-fusion-andrea-rossi-method/i-made-a-question-to-steven-krivit/235485236468276 If I recall correctly someone wrote on the

[Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
I've asserted recently that it was obvious to me that the steam was wet, and I've said, several times, that it would take too long to explain why. I've got a few minutes, so I'll see if I can fit in a coherent explanation. The attached graph (with my annotations) is from the paper

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:57 AM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I won't argue this with you again, Jed, I had enough trouble getting you to admit that it's possible to have steam at higher than 100 C at 1 atmosphere of pressure. Stephen, perhaps you are making the same mistake here, misunderstanding

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:03 PM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Ooops, overlooked something in your message. On 11-06-19 11:39 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: 3. The second test with liquid phase flow calorimetry confirmed that the first test was right No it didn't because it wasn't public and details weren't

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 04:38 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:57 AM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I won't argue this with you again, Jed, I had enough trouble getting you to admit that it's possible to have steam at higher than 100 C at 1 atmosphere of pressure. Stephen, perhaps you are

Re: [Vo]:A worldwide conspiracy against the Rossi effect

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:05 PM 6/19/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com wrote: 1- The fake diagram of steam has been given to the snake Anyone have any idea what he means here? I do not recall a diagram. Is he speaking of a water phase graph?

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:09 PM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I won't argue this with you again, Jed, I had enough trouble getting you to admit that it's possible to have steam at higher than 100 C at 1 atmosphere of pressure. Oh come now. Don't make false accusations. I admitted fully and frankly that

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 05:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 12:09 PM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: I won't argue this with you again, Jed, I had enough trouble getting you to admit that it's possible to have steam at higher than 100 C at 1 atmosphere of pressure. Oh come now. Don't make

Re: [Vo]:Steven Chu

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:44 PM 6/19/2011, Bastiaan Bergman wrote: http://the-explorer.com/steven-chu-looks-at-lattice-assisted-nuclear-reactions-cold-fusion/2011/3429583.html/ It *suggests* that Steven Chu was at the MIT meeting. But it clearly *states* that he is looking at Cold Fusion. Anyone has a link

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, June 19, 2011 12:03:30 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset Ooops, overlooked something in your message. On 11-06-19 11:39 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: 3. The second test with

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:57 PM 6/19/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Generally, what the record showed wasn't what some of the participants thought. They were reacting to, not what had actually been said, but how they had, themselves,

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: our reactors now produce a totally dry steam

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:11 PM 6/19/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: He [Rossi] could apologize. What would he lose if he did? Nothing that I can see! It would be out of character. Yeah, just like Steven Kirvit could apologize for insinuating incompetency. lol.

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:16:03 -0400: Hi, [snip] At 10:57 PM 6/18/2011, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:32:54 -0400: Hi, [snip] It's being operated, apparently, at a balance point. Other designs

Re: FW: Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread mixent
In reply to francis 's message of Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:11:41 -0400: Hi, [snip] Why not control the pump speed electronically (as well)? Stephen, I think you might be missing the point, in free running the OOP is AT the critical temperature and the heat sinking must be exactly

Re: [Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:02:22 -0400: Hi, [snip] If the effluent isn't flowing, however, the temperature rise is limited only by the need to heat the thermal mass of the device, which is fixed. The linearity argument is very far from conclusive, of

Re: [Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:02:22 -0400: Hi, [snip] Complex explanations have been proposed, ranging from insensitive equipment to bizarre multibody fusion theories. Yet, a very simple explanation covers the result very well: Rossi lies. My own personal

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:46 PM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-06-19 02:40 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 08:08 AM 6/19/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-06-19 05:34 AM, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-06-18 16:07, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Today Rossi posted on his Blog some interesting info:

RE: [Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Robin, My own personal impression (for what it's worth) is that Rossi has something important and knows it, but doesn't understand it completely, and consequently can't control it perfectly, which makes him a little insecure, so he easily feels threatened, and says whatever he thinks is

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Harry Veeder
ahh... so it is nothing more than misunderstanding about the meaning of the word report. Harry - Original Message From: Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, June 19, 2011 1:32:02 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset On 2011-06-19 02:37,

Re: [Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-19 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-06-19 06:44 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:02:22 -0400: Hi, [snip] If the effluent isn't flowing, however, the temperature rise is limited only by the need to heat the thermal mass of the device, which is fixed. The

Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset

2011-06-19 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, June 19, 2011 8:01:26 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Levi is upset On 11-06-18 10:57 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 11-06-18 09:21 PM, Terry Blanton

Re: [Vo]:Something more on the steam

2011-06-19 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, June 19, 2011 9:09:23 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Something more on the steam On 11-06-19 06:44 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to  Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Sun, 19 Jun

Re: [Vo]:New private E-Cat test with no input energy

2011-06-19 Thread Axil Axil
Rossi could use tungsten as a replacement for stainless steel (SS) as the shell of his reaction vessel. The nano-powder has a higher melting temperature then SS. Tungsten is also opaque to x-rays/gamma-rays can replace lead shielding; and very importantly, it is also impermeable to hydrogen As a