Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread peter . heckert
- Original Nachricht Von: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Datum: 16.10.2011 23:24 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself. Peter Heckert peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: E-Cat can also use natural gas as a heat source. Would you buy it

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread peter . heckert
- Original Nachricht Von: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Datum: 17.10.2011 04:18 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:OrboCat As you can hear from the nervous laughter in the video Steorn staff like to joke, but do you still think Steorn's Orbo is a joke?

[Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mostly speculative http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/ Mostly harmless. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: . . . but do you still think Steorn's Orbo is a joke? With a name like that? T

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mostly speculative http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/ Mostly harmless. http://www.singularity.com/charts/page50.html On a related point, and after following a few links, the author, Mark Gibss, points the reader to an interesting web

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Daniel Rocha
WOW, now that is really a mainstream magazine! 2011/10/17 OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com Mostly speculative http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/ Mostly harmless.

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: 1 kW is barely enough to make a cup of tee in the morning in reasonable time. I use 2 kW, thats faster. 2 kW equipment is not allowed on ordinary U.S. 120 VAC circuits. 15 amps is the limit nowadays. That is 1.8 kW but actually all heaters and teapots are 1.5

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: On October 6 the eCat ran for 4 hours without input. It is questioned if there where any output Questioned by who? Where? On what basis? Anything can be questioned including the moon landings and whether an airplane actually did smash into the towers on 9/11

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I meant to say The amount of power is IRRELEVANT. It varied between somewhere between 2 and 8 kW. the instrumentation was not good enough to determine whether the low-end was 2 kW or 3 kW. That is annoying, but it has absolutely no bearing on whether there was energy production or not. It is not

[Vo]:Jed why don't you shoot done from Ga to Fla to witness tests

2011-10-17 Thread fznidarsic
You can do it Jed. Frank

Re: [Vo]:Jed why don't you shoot done from Ga to Fla to witness tests

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
fznidar...@aol.com wrote: You can do it Jed. The test will be held in Italy, not Florida, and Rossi told me emphatically that I am NOT invited. He was upset by my recent criticisms. I was upset by the fact that he didn't even bother to insert an SD card into a meter, for crying out loud.

Re: [Vo]:Jed why don't you shoot done from Ga to Fla to witness tests

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: The test will be held in Italy, not Florida, and Rossi told me emphatically that I am NOT invited. He was upset by my recent criticisms. I was upset by the fact that he didn't even bother to insert an SD card into a meter, for crying out loud. To be fair de Rossi, I should add

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: WOW, now that is really a mainstream magazine! His Infoweek article is better. T

RE: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Leguillon
The skeptical, conservative position is to believe in conventional physics and to trust that laboratory grade instruments have worked correctly in thousands of experiments (including this one) and therefore cold fusion must be real. Am I to understand that even the most pragmatic skepticism

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mark Gibbs' article in Network World http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/101411-backspin.html?page=3 ...ends with: ... It remains to be seen whether this is really all some kind of mistake, which seems unlikely, or a hoax, which seems equally implausible because, if it is all bogus,

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 17.10.2011 15:57, schrieb Jed Rothwell: peter.heck...@arcor.de mailto:peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: 1 kW is barely enough to make a cup of tee in the morning in reasonable time. I use 2 kW, thats faster. 2 kW equipment is not allowed on ordinary U.S. 120 VAC circuits. 15 amps

RE: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:23 AM 10/17/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: The skeptical, conservative position is to believe in conventional physics and to trust that laboratory grade instruments have worked correctly in thousands of experiments (including this one) and therefore cold fusion must be real. Am I to

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 17.10.2011 18:35, schrieb OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson: Personally, I think it is ludicrous to assume Oct. 28 is the big day for humanity. The pessimist within me currently speculates that a more likely scenario will be that as Oct 28 arrives and the demo begins Rossi's 1 MW prototype may

[Vo]: Changing the subject... nuclear-to-electrical, Cockcroft and Walton

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've had enough of the E-Cat fiasco until the end of the month. I was going thru some old papers and found an s.p.f newsgroup article from 1991. yes, I'm kind of a pack-rat when it comes to sci-tech stuff. The article was posted by Bill Goffe at the

RE: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
Peter left out one minor detail... The purpose of a scam is to make money at other people's expense... If the 1MW demo fails, nobody gets paid, and Rossi has just FLUSHED his entire net worth down the drain. Peter, answer the question as to why Rossi would flush his money down the drain. He

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Terry Blanton
It should be obvious to all but the blind that this is not a hoax nor a scam. T

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com wrote: Am I to understand that even the most pragmatic skepticism it to be dismissed? So the *open-minded* position is that: The 6 statements that follow are not open-minded or pragmatic skepticism. They all mistakes. You do not understand what

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 17.10.2011 19:20, schrieb Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint: Peter left out one minor detail... The purpose of a scam is to make money at other people's expense... If the 1MW demo fails, nobody gets paid, and Rossi has just FLUSHED his entire net worth down the drain. I dont think about this. It

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-10-16 10:18 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: As you can hear from the nervous laughter in the video Steorn staff like to joke, but do you still think Steorn's Orbo is a joke? Yup. (Joke, scam, fake -- pick your term, they all apply.) This is another typical Steorn production -- nothing's

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: I bought a brandnew kettle boiler for my kitchen, because the old was used up. The label says 1850W-2200W. (I have 230VAC) Probably its a PTC heater. You have 230 VAC because you are in Europe. In the US, ordinary circuits are 120 VAC. Washing machines or electric water

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/10/17 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com: It should be obvious to all but the blind that this is not a hoax nor a scam. Indeed. I think it is completely out of the question that this is a hoax. It might be theoretically possible, to make illusion of excess heat if Rossi has e.g. falsified

Re: [Vo]:OrboCat

2011-10-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: This is another typical Steorn production -- nothing's measured (at least, not enough to show anything). Ketchup, Stephen. It's the Orbo of the solid state variety. No magnets. It's not true that nothing is

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Im not so sure. He is trained to buy waste from his oil company ;-) You can buy all this stuff on the surplus market or on the industrial section of ebay just for the copper price, if you look around. There is absolutely no evidency that he invested much money. Maybe he got this stuff

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: The problem is, that they claim they have heated an office before. This is not a problem. On the contrary it strengthens Rossi's claim. Several people said they saw the heater in operation so I suppose this is true. Rossi also claimed before they had done mass flow

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 17.10.2011 20:58, schrieb Jed Rothwell: Peter Heckert wrote: The problem is, that they claim they have heated an office before. This is not a problem. On the contrary it strengthens Rossi's claim. Several people said they saw the heater in operation so I suppose this is true. Rossi

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Why does a 65-year-old fisherman set out in stormy weather, with a leaking 10 m boat, three sheets to the wind (drunk)? A very appropriate phrase considering it's etymology:

RE: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Leguillon
Obviously, you have come to your conclusions. I have found this test inconclusive. You may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your personal attacks that are troubling. You continue to strike down questions with comments like: Skepics who claim that the temperature

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: I seriously recommend you try that before making more assertions about this test. It is not expensive or difficult to put insulation around an 8-gallon pot of boiling hot water. Turn off the gas, move the pot to an blanket of insulation, and cover it up. Use ordinary household

[Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
He always said he /has/ to build a 1 MW plant. Why /had/ he to do this, when he had no written contract? The only explanation I can think about, is, he has to do this because he already purchased the material (without having a contract to sell it). Maybe he got the boxes in a fortunate deal on

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Robert, You state: You [Mr. Rothwell] may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your personal attacks that are troubling. Where has Mr. Rothwell attacked you personally? As far as I can tell Mr. Rothwell has attacked your opinions - some of the conclusions and speculations you have

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Leguillon wrote: Obviously, you have come to your conclusions. I have found this test inconclusive. You may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your personal attacks that are troubling. Pointing out that your assertions violate elementary laws of physics is NOT a personal

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-10-17 03:50 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Robert, You state: You [Mr. Rothwell] may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your personal attacks that are troubling. Where has Mr. Rothwell attacked you personally? Well, if Robert is claiming that there was no

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Peter: He always said he /has/ to build a 1 MW plant. Why /had/ he to do this, when he had no written contract? The only explanation I can think about, is, he has to do this because he already purchased the material (without having a contract to sell it). Maybe he got the boxes in a

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: No one denies that Rossi has a lot of experience! From his way to answer or ignore reasonable and logical questions I conclude that he has no experience how to discuss with educated people that have another opinion than his own He is not very good at this. He has

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 17.10.2011 22:15, schrieb OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson: I hope for the best. I sincerely wish Rossi success in his endeavor, for we would all benefit. I wish him the best, if he really has done honest and carefully research, even if he failed. Remember, scientific and technological

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Frank Acland
Remember, he was initially going to build it for Defkalion GT. Perhaps that is what Defklalion, the first customer, ordered. He started building it and then cancelled the contract and now he has a 1MW plant on his hands. So maybe he just decided to keep going. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM,

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 17.10.2011 23:12, schrieb Frank Acland: Remember, he was initially going to build it for Defkalion GT. Perhaps that is what Defklalion, the first customer, ordered. He started building it and then cancelled the contract and now he has a 1MW plant on his hands. So maybe he just decided to

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Frank Acland ecatwo...@gmail.com wrote: Remember, he was initially going to build it for Defkalion GT. Perhaps that is what Defklalion, the first customer, ordered. He started building it and then cancelled the contract and now he has a 1MW plant on his hands. So maybe he just decided to keep

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: It seems odd to that he is found yet another customer who demands a megawatt reactor. Excuse me: It seems odd that he has found yet another customer who demands a megawatt reactor. You see what you will soon be up against with Siri, who also works with NaturallySpeaking based

[Vo]:quantum levitation

2011-10-17 Thread Esa Ruoho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA pretty

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/10/18 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: It seems odd to that he is found yet another customer who demands a megawatt reactor. I think that this is misinterpretation. The Customer who wanted the MW demonstration was Rossi himself, or more accurately it was LTI that was separated from

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Terry Blanton
Perhaps Rossi wanted to one up Bloom Energy's 100kW power cell. 1,000,000 watts is a nice round number. T

Re: [Vo]:quantum levitation

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Astounding! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jouni Valkonen wrote: I doubt that MW project was [ever] for the Defkalion, because there was nothing but talks from the beginning. Rossi and Defkalion both said there was a contract, not just talk. Why do you think both of them are lying about their business relationship? If they were only

Re: [Vo]:quantum levitation

2011-10-17 Thread fznidarsic
Not so, now you see the states are locked by a discontinuity placed in the superconductor. The superconductor will drop with the application of a radio wave a dimensional frequency of 1 million meters per second. been there done that. Now in the process of forming a company to produce

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
There are many kinds of contracts. Those that are just talking, those that are preliminary and those that are legally binding. I meant with contracts those that are legally binding contracts. It was certainly not the case, because Rossi does not do contracts without seeing the cash first.

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Rich Murray
As one of the pragmatic skeptics, I quote today's Waterloo moment -- in gratitude to Robert Leguillon and Alan J. Fletcher: fromRobert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com to vortex-l@eskimo.com dateMon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM [ Jed Rothwell : ] The skeptical, conservative

RE: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Mr. Lawrence, You [Mr. Rothwell] may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your personal attacks that are troubling. SVJ sez: Where has Mr. Rothwell attacked you personally? Well, if Robert is claiming that there was no energy generated, then the item from Jed which he

RE: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From: Rich Murray As one of the pragmatic skeptics, I quote today's Waterloo moment -- in gratitude to Robert Leguillon and Alan J. Fletcher: In regards to Rossi and the whole CF movement, just how many waterloo moments have you had lately? I seem to recall not long ago you were predicting

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: On 11-10-17 03:50 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Robert, You state: You [Mr. Rothwell] may disagree, and now be 100% convinced, but it's your personal attacks that are troubling. Where has Mr. Rothwell attacked you personally?

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Leguillon
Mr. Rothwell never attacked me personally. He merely labeled all remaining skeptics as ignorant/blind/foolish/etc. I think that there is still room to question the results, and I'm certainly not the only one. I think that the ad hominems can stifle open communication, and I thought that they

Re: [Vo]:Forbes weighs in on the controversial Rossi's eCat phenomenon

2011-10-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Why does a 65-year-old fisherman set out in stormy weather, with a leaking 10 m boat, three sheets to the wind (drunk)? A very appropriate phrase considering it's etymology: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/three-sheets-to-the-wind.html Yup.

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Charles Hope
I'm just interested in what kind of unpowered system can use insulation to increase its temperature after the power has been shut off. It seems to me Jed has a point. Sent from my iPhone. On Oct 17, 2011, at 21:37, Robert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com wrote: Mr. Rothwell never

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Rich Murray
Wolf! Wolf! wolf? wolf... WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!Rich Prediction is an hazardous pasttime, especially about the future... Woody Allen On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: From: Rich Murray As one of the pragmatic skeptics, I quote

Re: [Vo]:The style is the man himself.

2011-10-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
tiistai, 18. lokakuuta 2011 Robert Leguillon robert.leguil...@hotmail.com kirjoitti: I think that there is still room to question the results, and I'm certainly not the only one. I think that the problem here is not that are there still room to question the results. But problem is that skeptics

[Vo]:Tel Aviv Superconductor- Levitation

2011-10-17 Thread Ron Kita
Greetings Vortex, I haven t had a chance look for the superconductor material used in the levitation video, but it seems like this is not the usual flux pinning as experienced by 1-2-3 SC materials: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning Ron Kita, Chiralex Few people realize that when one

[Vo]:Primary Flow Calculation

2011-10-17 Thread David Roberson
I am attaching an Excel simulation which uses the power measured via the secondary water path of the heat exchanger to estimate the primary vapor flow. With this information it is possible to estimate the water mass in grams remaining within the ECAT as it responds to water pump input flow

Re: [Vo]:quantum levitation

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 18.10.2011 00:19, schrieb Esa Ruoho: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA pretty Wow!

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 18.10.2011 00:30, schrieb Terry Blanton: Perhaps Rossi wanted to one up Bloom Energy's 100kW power cell. 1,000,000 watts is a nice round number. There is something odd with this: People have said, the Fat Cat got hot outside. Even Rossi stated there is considerable heat loss by the

Re: [Vo]:quantum levitation

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Veeder
If the law of inertia is universally true, some sort of centripetal force is required to keep the disc revolving in a circle as it moves above the magnets. I can vaguely grasp how the phenomena of locking preserves the tilt of the disc, but how does locking bring about the necessary centripetal

Re: [Vo]:Why has Rossi to build a 1MW plant?

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Veeder
I suspect Rossi decided long ago that he wanted to build something big, and he pitched the idea of a 1MW plant to Defkalion They agreed to buy it from Rossi as long as Rossi could prove the plant was capable of operating safely several weeks before it was to be delivered. Harry On Mon, Oct 17,

RE: [Vo]:Primary Flow Calculation

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
Hi Dave, Anyone who goes thru the trouble of providing calcs to support their position is most welcome! This is a tough, but for the most part, fair and objective collection of characters. not to mention that some of them have been around for near 2 decades on this forum. strong opinions,

Re: [Vo]:quantum levitation

2011-10-17 Thread David Roberson
From: Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com If the law of inertia is universally true, some sort of centripetal force is required to keep the disc revolving in a circle as it moves above the magnets. I can vaguely grasp how the phenomena of locking preserves the tilt of the disc, but how does