[Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Alain Sepeda
Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion By Jennifer Ouellette | October 29, 2012 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/

[Vo]:New experiment started AC/DC

2012-10-30 Thread Jack Cole
I shot a little video of my latest experiment with borax. It is controlled with an Android phone, IOIO microcontroller, and relay bank. I am switching back and forth between AC and DC current supplies. Pardon the mess of wires as I am early in the process. It is interesting how the electrolyte

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-30 Thread Terry Blanton
Recent dark matter news for Stewie: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/1024/Gigantic-invisible-cocoons-of-dark-matter-may-suck-up-rogue-stars

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-30 Thread ChemE Stewart
Dark matter orbits around and through regular matter creating.halos. You are seeing massive dark matter in a chaotic multi-body orbit with these stars. The halo is its path. Unfortunately I just realized that some, not all halos on earth (rainbows) are showing us the elliptical orbit of

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Sigh . . . As they said of the French Bourbon dynasty, these people learn nothing, and they forget nothing. This column could have been written anytime in the last 23 years. There is not a single scientific fact in it. There is not one reference to scientific literature. It is based on movies and

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
I updated the LENR-CANR news item about cold fusion in the mass media. I added: Ouellette, J., *Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion*http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/, in *Scientific American*. 2012.

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Terry Blanton
Would you expect more from a recovering English major?

RE: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-30 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Hi Dave, EQ prediction is possible with very low frequency geomagnetic monitoring. http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg47319.html Is it any surprise that when the earth fractures, or is under stress to the point of fracture, it causes disturbances in its mag-field? -Mark

Re: [Vo]:Hurricane Sandy and the cost of the 1960s space program

2012-10-30 Thread LORENHEYER
All of the Astronomers Scientists and what-have-you are confused and/or just flatout plain wrong about what is going-on out in deep space, in the universe All you have to do is *Realize* that Highly Advanced Civilizations Spacecraft have a bulblike dome of their underside that can Light

[Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Jack Cole
http://www.lenr-coldfusion.com/2012/10/30/mark-prelas-neutron-mu/

Re: [Vo]:New experiment started AC/DC

2012-10-30 Thread Chuck Sites
Thanks for sharing the video Jack. I really like how your controlling that with and Android and IOIO microcontroller.I'm a beginner Android developer and the little IOIO PIC device is really cool.That is a great way of doing a duty cycle on the AC/DC. Here is a nice discussion on the

Re: [Vo]:New experiment started AC/DC

2012-10-30 Thread Jack Cole
Thanks Chuck. It's a fun hobby. I don't program in Java having done so much in visual basic over the years. Fortunately, I found a language for Android that is very much like VB called Basic4Androidhttps://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=1715566referrer=1047706. It has a library

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
I posted three messages in response to this article; one from Ed Storms and two of my own. All three disappeared within about 20 minutes. I assume they were erased. I just re-posted two of them. We will see if they vanish again. Here are two of them: Here is a response to this article written

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
I am glad to see this research revived, and glad they got it to work again. A number of other people observed neutrons and other nuclear effects from cryogenically cooled metals. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, Seen the contents (or better said the lack of it) of this article and the current comments shown, thy can not otherwise than to consider the Scientific American as a strictly biased magazine, which lacks a decent chief editor who should have performed a thorough review and hence this

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
When I open a browser incognito, I find no trace of my comments, which were #11, 12 and 13. They are only visible to me when I am signed in as Jed Rothwell. Apparently they are embargoed. That is to say, waiting for approval. Ah ha. A comment posted at 2:33 just appeared. It is critical of her

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread pagnucco
I am totally perplexed by how many reports of anomalous emission of neutrons and/or high energy e-m radiation (with both Pd+D2 and Ni+H2) can go unnoticed, or disproved by university physics labs. The only possible explanations I can think of are (1) intentional fraud (2) pervasive, but honest

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Okay, my comments are definitely gone, and the comment posted at 2:33 is gone. That one quoted Robert Duncan. She is erasing everything after her own comment at 1:16. At least, every criticism. Maybe someone should post fawning praise to see if she keeps it. If they want to close the discussion

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Daniel Rocha
Just for the record, would you post them here? 2012/10/30 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Okay, my comments are definitely gone, and the comment posted at 2:33 is gone. That one quoted Robert Duncan. -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

[Vo]:Passi22 : The CHEESE paper

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
http://www.22passi.it/downloads/Cheese.pdf CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE (C HICAGO), CHARLES ANDERSON MC LEOD (T ORONTO), DOROTHY MAHAJAN F ORMAGGIA, (FAIRLEE, VT). Organic enhancer catalysts in Ni-H Lenr reactions: a successful duplication of the Rossi-Focardi LENR device (Summer N-Physics Lab, Lake

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Just for the record, would you post them here? I did: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg72503.html I posted one other short message that I did not record. The message posted at 2:33 was from someone else. I did not get a chance to

RE: [Vo]:Passi22 : The CHEESE paper

2012-10-30 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
It's a shame to waste those nice products as a catalyst for LENR. _ From: Alan Fletcher [mailto:a...@well.com] Sent: mardi 30 octobre 2012 20:36 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Passi22 : The CHEESE paper http://www.22passi.it/downloads/Cheese.pdf CONSTANTINE MAGUIRE (C

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
My last message is now gone. You should not bother to write to this nitwit. I doubt there is any point to writing to the editors, either. Imagine casually erasing messages from Storms, without explanation or apology! - Jed

RE: [Vo]:Passi22 : The CHEESE paper

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
At 12:46 PM 10/30/2012, Arnaud Kodeck wrote: It’s a shame to waste those nice products as a catalyst for LENR. It seems that a significant proportion of the test materials were ... diverted.

Re: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-30 Thread David Roberson
That is quite a story Mark. I am not sure why the magnetic field was modulated prior to an EQ but I could readily expect that behavior during one. The measurements your friend performed might have indicated that movement of the earth was slowly occurring over a very large fault distance and I

[Vo]:Report 41 critic... your opinion ???

2012-10-30 Thread Alain Sepeda
on e-catnews there is a critic of report 41 that is too complex for me to oppose without risk. http://ecatnews.com/?p=2464cpage=3#comment-45607 here is the critic: can you comment... Alain posted on October 29, 2012 at 6:30 pm: if you don’t see there is something broken in mainstream

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
She put up an addendum from Krivit (and alluded to posting difficulties) -- who is peddling discredited CF vs Real LENR --- I wonder how a particular experiment knows how to behave depending on the belief of the experimenter. (See the Pod and The Barrier) At least I found out that Duncan is

RE: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com I am totally perplexed by how many reports of anomalous emission of neutrons and/or high energy e-m radiation (with both Pd+D2 and Ni+H2) can go unnoticed, or disproved by university physics labs. Are there

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread Daniel Rocha
With friends like that, who needs enemies? 2012/10/30 Alan Fletcher a...@well.com She put up an addendum from Krivit (and alluded to posting difficulties) -- who is peddling discredited CF vs Real LENR --- -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com

[Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ouellette un-erased the comment by Storms, and added: With all due respect to Dr. Storms, I stand by my post. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/#comment-461 Perhaps she restored this in response to my last

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: -Original Message- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com I am totally perplexed by how many reports of anomalous emission of neutrons and/or high energy e-m radiation (with both Pd+D2 and Ni+H2) can go unnoticed, or disproved by

Re: [Vo]:SciAm blog: Genie in a Bottle: The Case Against Cold Fusion

2012-10-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Alan, She put up an addendum from Krivit (and alluded to posting difficulties) -- who is peddling discredited CF vs Real LENR --- I wonder how a particular experiment knows how to behave depending on the belief of the experimenter. (See the Pod and The Barrier) Sounds similar to the

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Alain Sepeda
the cause is even more interesting http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%207p%20paper.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Patterns%20of%20Denial%204l%20fin.pdf 2012/10/30 pagnu...@htdconnect.com I am totally perplexed by how many reports of anomalous emission

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Terry Blanton
It all goes to show that there is a lot we do not understand about disturbed lattice reactions. Some emit neutrons, some emit gammas, some emit alphas . . . I would think that young physicists would want to seize the day and venture into this Undiscovered Country where they stand to make a name

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ouellette explained: FYI, there have been some technical problems with the commenting system, but as I announced at the start of the post, I am also moderating the comment thread heavily — because every time anyone criticizes cold fusion/low-temp nuclear reactions, the same people descend upon

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I would think that young physicists would want to seize the day and venture into this Undiscovered Country where they stand to make a name for themselves. They might want to, but if they talk about doing this they would soon be tossed out the

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
The Scientific American has been, for at least 25 years, little more than The Scientific Democrat. In other words, it is politics posing as science. BTW: I was an adviser to Dukakis's platform committee in 88' and I first used the term The Scientific Democrat around that time, the bias was so

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ouellette continues to erase messages as fast as I can write them. She erased my message linking to the comments made by Sci. Am. editors, as I knew she would. She will allow only skeptical attacks; no rebuttals or defense. Here is a response I wrote to Cude, which I expect will be erased

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: The Scientific American has been, for at least 25 years, little more than The Scientific Democrat. In other words, it is politics posing as science. Let's not suggest that Democrats are more likely to politicize science than Republicans. The Republicans

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: They might want to, but if they talk about doing this they would soon be tossed out the university on some pretext. The smart ones will learn to mask their research in the same way that Mills masked his first patent

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
I had hoped to head off your erroneous suggestion by including my Democratic affiliation at the time I first notice SciAm's political bias. Your comment is true but suggests that I was directing my comment toward Democrats rather than toward Scientific American's political bias toward the

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Fletcher
At 03:53 PM 10/30/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Wow! Mary Y relays your post !! http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2012/10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-case-against-cold-fusion/#comment-473 Jed Rothwell writes on another forum that he thinks he's being censored so I will

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, Just a thought, what would happen if you would write about the same facts but than everything in the opposite sense? A kind of reverse psychology method. Kind regards, Rob

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
Ah, I now see Ouelette's article was prompted by the release of the film The Believers. Sorry, but when I see SciAm cited, I find myself unmotivated to read the article. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:04 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I had hoped to head off your erroneous suggestion by

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
To which I responded: Not that I can speak for Robert Park, but it is not that he is bragging that he knows nothing, but rather that he knows who to listen to. Indeed, this is virtually the entire history of the “cold fusion” fiasco including the early 1990 rejection by the US editorial staff of

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Wow! Mary Y relays your post !! http://blogs.**scientificamerican.com/** cocktail-party-physics/2012/**10/29/genie-in-a-bottle-the-**

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: To which I responded: Not that I can speak for Robert Park, but it is not that he is bragging that he knows nothing, but rather that he knows who to listen to. Well said! Where did you write this? At the Sci. Am. site? I don't see it. I guess she

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
This whole thing is comical. Ouellette first censored a message from me pointing to a statement from *the editor of her own magazine*. She will not allow a discussion of Sci. Am.'s own editors' point of view! Then she turned around and allowed a skeptic to post a copy of my message. (So far,

[Vo]:Rossi's EU Patent Application Update

2012-10-30 Thread Patrick Ellul
1) was filed in 2008. 2) most recent updates just a couple of weeks ago. 3) direct link to all the documentation: https://register.epo.org/espacenet/application?number=EP08873805lng=entab=doclist 4) via: http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/10/leonardo-patent-report-publication-scheduled-for-nov-21/

[Vo]: Nemesis Park

2012-10-30 Thread Terry Blanton
Lately Robert Park seems to be more interested in politix than fizzix: http://bobpark.org/ My(another nemesis)! How the great (tree limbs) have fallen.

[Vo]:Rossi's first 1MW hot-cat to client by Feb 2013

2012-10-30 Thread Patrick Ellul
Andrea Rossi October 30th, 2012 at 8:35 PMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=748cpage=6#comment-381116 Dear Emilio Icaza: Yes, Leonardo Corp is very much powerful now. I can already say that the first 1 MW hot cat will go in operation within February 2013. It will not be a military

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ah, Ouellette deleted Yugo's copy as well. Good grief! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
For the record, Ouellette erased this one too: Cude wrote: “I’m not aware of a single major university that has expressed the opinion that evidence for the claims of PF is overwhelming.” Professors at universities and at other institutions express that opinion. For example, the Chairman of

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: To which I responded: Not that I can speak for Robert Park, but it is not that he is bragging that he knows nothing, but rather that he knows who to listen to. Well said!

RE: [Vo]:Mischaracterizations of verdict against seismologists.

2012-10-30 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Dave wrote: “If your friend has discovered a simple trick that works, he should be ready to demonstrate it to these guys. Please do not tell me that EQ geologists behave like physicists when the subject of LENR is brought up.” The technique was actually developed by Elizabeth Rauscher and

[Vo]:The Quantum Soul?

2012-10-30 Thread Patrick Ellul
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/28/soul-after-death-hameroff-penrose_n_2034711.html How far fetched is this? According to Dr. Hameroff, in a near-death experience, when the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, and the microtubules lose their quantum state, the quantum information

Re: [Vo]:Mark Prelas Studies Neutron Production at MU

2012-10-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:27 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: (3) the power of conformity, and fear of ostracism, completely prevents university experimentation. I am not an academic, so I can only discuss what I observe from the outside. But I suspect the pressure on academics is

Re: [Vo]:Ouellette un-erases Storms

2012-10-30 Thread Chuck Sites
What a bunch of horse shit. I'm so sorry I went to follow up, and it's like being a Dem shouted down at a Tea party rally. Example quote: Alas, those are ideal conditions for crackpots to flourish. I'm not much of a debater, but what do you say to that? If you ever study logic, this statement