Re: [Vo]:Another Defkalion statement on PESN

2011-08-11 Thread noone noone
What do you think the catalyst is at this time? From: Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:46 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Another Defkalion statement on PESN Ever since one of our number  “noone noone” posted this  

[Vo]:How to present arguments against cold fusion critics

2011-08-11 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Hallo! I have discussed on other forum about cold fusion. I have, however some problems with arguments, because those critics used very powerful sounding, but probably false argument, that if cold fusion is real, why it is published on B-rate scientific journals? I tried to explain, that they are

[Vo]:Musical Open Letter to Andrea Rossi

2011-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
Not to be missed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNwOpSHNIQ4 T

RE: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
I accidentally hit the send button before I was complexly finished composing the original post. Let me follow up my take on sam. As far as I can tell Sam presents no actual evidence in his post as to why he thinks BLP Mills is a scam operation. What he does state, and this is quite

Re: [Vo]:How to present arguments against cold fusion critics

2011-08-11 Thread Rich Murray
This is a reasonable question, from my point of view as a cold fusion fan, serving as a unqualified scientific layman who has been offering painstaking, objective reviews of cold fusion papers since December, 1996 -- specializing in looking at all the common sense, nitty gritty details in the

[Vo]:Re: [H-Ni_Fusion] Where's That Smoking Gun?

2011-08-11 Thread Rich Murray
Better to invite Rossi to make a complete public confession -- then he can start making the runs of blogs, TV talk shows, lectures, videos, books, feature movies -- this is a potential bonanza, a ton of fun, while setting a good example for all humanity -- would add to public interest in and

Re: [Vo]:Musical Open Letter to Andrea Rossi

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
I like it! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: As far as I can tell Sam presents no actual evidence in his post as to why he thinks BLP Mills is a scam operation. What he does state, and this is quite revealing, is that he is upset over the fact that three of his own science articles posted out

Re: [Vo]:How to present arguments against cold fusion critics

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jouni Valkonen wrote: In summary, how do I disproof claim that all cold fusion researchers are crackpotters and all magazines that publish cold fusion are B-rate or less journals? If those are the best arguments your opponent can come up with, they have lost the debate. There is no point to

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
I think with so much money invested and nothing delivered, no independent tests whatsoever, it is hard to think this is not a scam. They would easily have money to test all other theories of LENR and come with something useful.

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Daniel I think with so much money invested and nothing delivered, no independent tests whatsoever, it is hard to think this is not a scam. I disagree. There is also some disagreement on the aspect of how one determines an independent test. BLP would say yes independent tests have been

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
Do you really think the scarcity of experimental results justifies the investment of 60mil$? It is easier to think that they just bribed a few other researchers just to fake results. This amount of money is enough to come with a proff of concept for any form of fusion, even tokamak.

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Daniel Do you really think the scarcity of experimental results justifies the investment of 60mil$? It is easier to think that they just bribed a few other researchers just to fake results. This amount of money is enough to come with a proff of concept for any form of fusion, even

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Do you really think the scarcity of experimental results justifies the investment of 60mil$? You are not privy to the results, so you have no idea whether there is a scarcity or a plethora of results. You have not read the contract so you have no idea

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: All tokamaks produce some excess energy. As do skeptics. T

[Vo]:RE: Everyone is overlooking Thermacore

2011-08-11 Thread Jones Beene
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/defkalion-claims-they-have-energy.html _ It is a mystery why nobody seems to be giving DGT (or PDGT) enough credit for being able to enlist credible scientific expertise, and then to replicate a 17 year old experiment

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
I talked about proof of concept, not a working device. Even FP fit in this description. But BLP didn't show anything that already worked. For example, look at this tokamak: http://www.toodlepip.com/tokamak/pictures/tm1.jpg And it was not even one of the first.

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
How can you justify 60mil? Even this: http://www.generalfusion.com/ Didn't require all those millions and it is a massive device.

Re: [Vo]:Another Defkalion statement on PESN

2011-08-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:13 PM 8/10/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: Alright, so Defkalion has a Kernel for a limited time, while the catalyzer lasts. And it seems to me that catalyzer is something they apply to nickel powder. Anyway, since they once they tested a thousand devices simultaneously and Defkalion is still

Re: [Vo]:The Galantini report examined in detail

2011-08-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I'm asserting that there are defects in the Galantini report, of two kinds. 1. He does not provide data to substantiate what he claims, which includes specifying exactly what equipment he used. He makes a point that he measured pressure, but he did not report the result as an instrumental

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Axil Axil
In this new Mills patent, you can see where some of the investment capital went in the blacklight power venture: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20110114075 It looks to me like Mills and associates must have gone through all possible hydride reactions with every possible transition

Re: [Vo]:RE: Everyone is overlooking Thermacore

2011-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/08/defkalion-claims-they-have-energy.html This is referencing the PESN article that Fletcher posted yesterday.

Re: [Vo]:The Galantini report examined in detail

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
By the way, I have been assuming that Galantini was watching the thermocouple display on the screen, and he took measurements when it hit 100.1°C or above. I do not suppose he used the temperature function in his instrument. The screen display has 4 digits and I think at least one is

Re: [Vo]:Black Triangles?

2011-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Is Aurora finally out of the closet? Can it hover? T

Re: [Vo]:Black Triangles?

2011-08-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: Can it hover? Well... no, but it can disappear! Excerpts: Update 12:29pET- DARPA says it could not regain contact with HTV2 but the hypersonic wedge can terminate its flight autonomously. Update 11:23aET – DARPA has lost contact with the HTV2

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
So, Mills is trying the same approach as farma companies do, massively parallel testing substances. But I don't think Rossi's catalyzer is about substance, but rather in how the lattice of the substance is arranged spatially.

Re: [Vo]:The Galantini report examined in detail

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: The entire approach to measuring enthalpy is corrupt and fraught with hazards. You know how to do it right. Rossi deliberately avoided that. Even assuming you are right and this method does not work, I do not know of any reason to think Rossi deliberately avoided

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: So, Mills is trying the same approach as farma companies do, massively parallel testing substances. But I don't think Rossi's catalyzer is about substance, but rather in how the lattice of the substance is arranged spatially. These remarkable instruments described at

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
That's the Rossi's secret sauce! 2011/8/11 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com The SEM alone cannot do the whole job. Even if you know how the lattice is shaped and what elements and compounds it includes, you still may not know how to fabricate a similar arrangement. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: That's the Rossi's secret sauce! The SEM alone cannot do the whole job. Even if you know how the lattice is shaped and what elements and compounds it includes, you still may not know how to fabricate a similar arrangement. Right! If he has a secret sauce (a

[Vo]:Animation of events which caused the Gulf Oil disaster...

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Iverson
This is an interesting and detailed animation of the sequence of events that eventually led to the failure of the Blow-Out Preventer (BOP) and subsequent flow of crude into the Gulf... They include pictures of the actual failed components which provided the clues to piece together what

[Vo]:Greek TV report says Rossi and Defkalion are back together

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
If this is true . . . it does not surprise me in the least. Rossi is mercurial. See: http://kanali6.gr/?p=8013 An improved translation is here in the comments section: http://pesn.com/2011/08/10/9501891_Defkalion_Responds_in_Support_of_Rossi/ QUOTED in its entirety: The process of

Re: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Axil Axil
I am going from memory here, but Rossi said early on that the secret additive is absolutely required to get useful energy out of his core. Using the nickel powder alone does not produce heat. The Rossi process is the amalgamation of multiple mechanisms each of which when taken separately fail

Re: [Vo]:Animation of events which caused the Gulf Oil disaster...

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Wow. That is a good video. What a nightmare. Fukushima is even worse. I am sorry to say the Japanese government's response in the early days is now coming to light and it is even more appalling than originally reported. There were civilians including children within 10 km of the reactor for

Re: [Vo]:Revisiting The Whipmag All-Magnet Motor, saga

2011-08-11 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2011 6:19:54 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Revisiting The Whipmag All-Magnet Motor, saga In reply to  Harry Veeder's message of Mon, 1 Aug 2011

[Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
There have been several comments here wondering if Defkalion has the catalyzer powder or whether they have reverse engineer it. For example, Axil Axil wrote: Ever since one of our number “noone noone” posted this http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg49026.html I have been

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Rocha
Ni powder is not the catalyzer. It is something you can buy in specialized stores online.

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
On 8/11/2011 3:05 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: Ni powder is not the catalyzer. It is something you can buy in specialized stores online. When I say Ni powder I mean the catalyzer: the ingredients placed within the reactor. I gather it is mostly nickel. The point is, Defkalion says clearly

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Please read Defkalion's statement carefully: http://pesn.com/2011/08/10/9501891_Defkalion_Responds_in_Support_of_Rossi/ It says: Defkalion is preparing all of its labs, the industrial production lines and support

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Defkalion is preparing all of its labs, the industrial production lines and support systems needed for the Hyperion kW range and MW range of products as designed, following all Andrea Rossi's specs on instruments and production machinery, including

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:13 PM 8/11/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: Doesn't mean they don't know the sauce. I'm with Terry on this one. They've could just have designed the correct hoppers, feeds, mixers etc etc to add the sauce, They can do this from a technical specification without knowing the secret. If and

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Harry Veeder
You can have a great kitchen and collect all the things you need to make bread, but unless your given instructions, or better still shown how to make bread you won't be able to make bread.   Harry From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 12:13 PM 8/11/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: Doesn't mean they don't know the sauce. I'm with Terry on this one. They've could just have designed the correct hoppers, feeds, mixers etc etc to add the sauce, They can do

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion clearly states that Rossi showed them how to make the powder

2011-08-11 Thread Peter Gluck
Very probably the problem is simpler than it seems, the core is actually a Sphynx without a Secret. The core is nanostructured Ni (please consider then particle size and nanostructure are two different characteristics- from a certain manufacturer and certain sortiment. Fora specialist in Competive

[Vo]:Speaking of finely divided nickel

2011-08-11 Thread Jones Beene
Nano is the key to many anomalies, and the follow numbers tend to support a surprising conclusion, to wit: Rossi's industrial secret catalyst is NOT nearly as good as the original . In 1994 in a series of experiments lasting over a year, but before nickel nanopowder was available, Thermacore

Re: [Vo]:Everyone is overlooking Thermacore

2011-08-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:50:06 -0700: Hi, [snip] It does not matter if it worked extremely well or moderately well. The testing was for safety- not performance. [snip] Actually it might. If there is a small amount of radioactivity associated with operation, it

[Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Iverson
You can get the gist of it just by the hyperlink... http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-controversial-energy-generating-lacking-credibility-video.html -Mark

[Vo]:Inexpensive catalyst makes hydrogen 10 times faster than natural enzyme

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Iverson
FYI: Inexpensive catalyst that makes hydrogen gas 10 times faster than natural enzyme http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-inexpensive-catalyst-hydrogen-gas-faster.html Looking to nature for their muse, researchers have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can make

[Vo]: Polarizable quantum vacuum could explain illusion of dark matter

2011-08-11 Thread Mark Iverson
Just an FYI: CERN physicist Dragan Slavkov Hajdukovic has proposed that the illusion of dark matter may be caused by the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum. We can consider our universe as a union of two mutually interacting entities, Hajdukovic said. The first entity is our

Re: [Vo]: Polarizable quantum vacuum could explain illusion of dark matter

2011-08-11 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Thanks for this post. I have bet 100 euros that there is no such thing as dark matter, that has significant effect on rotation curves of galaxies. Therefore it is specially good to hear such news! –Jouni 2011/8/12 Mark Iverson markiver...@charter.net: Just an FYI: CERN physicist Dragan

Re: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread Bastiaan Bergman
Can somebody explain me how, it is likely a weak interaction involving neutrons, without fusion could possibly gain energy? And where do these neutrons come from? It looks like people are more skeptical on the claim 'cold fusion' than on the claim that 'abra-ca-dabra' can actually do something.

Re: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Bastiaan Bergman bastiaan.berg...@gmail.com wrote: Can somebody explain me how, it is likely a weak interaction involving neutrons, without fusion could possibly gain energy? And where do these neutrons come from? It looks like people are more skeptical on the claim 'cold fusion' than on the

RE: [Vo]:On a Quixotic mission

2011-08-11 Thread Jones Beene
From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson ... What tends to happen under these kinds of circumstances where someone appears to be on a self-righteous kamikaze mission to destroy the reputation of an individual and his company. Hmm... Funny thing this question came up as I had been reading the

RE: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Bergman Can somebody explain me how, it is likely a weak interaction involving neutrons, without fusion could possibly gain energy? And where do these neutrons come from? It looks like people are more skeptical on the claim 'cold fusion' than on the claim that 'abra-ca-dabra' can

Re: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread noone noone
The thing is Widom Larsen theory (which I do not think is valid) does produce nuclear fusion. When a proton and electron pretending to be a neutron enter an atom's nucleus releasing energy and causing transmutations, it is FUSION!!! The Widom Larsen folks are absolutely out of their minds

Re: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread noone noone
Krivit and other worshippers of Widom Larsen theory do not make any sense. The reaction is not a weak interaction, but a fusion reaction. The neutrons are supposed to be protons and electrons that become virtual neutrons. Basically, Widom Larsen worshippers want people to believe if a proton

Re: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on Krivit's latest article...

2011-08-11 Thread noone noone
Inspired by Krivit's nonsense. Krivit has been out to try and discredit Rossi for a long time. He truly is a snake. From: Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 6:26 PM Subject: [Vo]:PhysOrg reports on