RE: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Steven Krivit
Well...what I said is my view of the effect of the documentall the players in this have different goals and objectivesBarnhart's job is to scan the horizon and warn other people in DoD of potential, uh, issues. ...the co-authors of the document have different goals objectives, as you

Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Horace Heffner
On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: What I found particularly interesting: If rapid, explosive energy output can occur in one or several modes, could LENR serve as a new high-energy-density explosive? LOL! DIA and DOD interest. Where's DOE? A belly-buster, IMO. Cheeze!

[Vo]:DIA paper uploaded

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: Barnhart, B., et al., Technology Forecast: Worldwide Research on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Increasing and Gaining Acceptance 2009, Defense Intelligence Agency. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BarnhartBtechnology.pdf This is an annoying document. There is a duplicated footnote, the

[Vo]:DIA-08-0911-003 text

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
[Here is the corrected text from the DIA report, ABBYY version. Unfortunately, this is not the underlying text in the version I uploaded. That has more OCR errors. I believe there are no OCR errors here, but I have not checked closely. - JR] UNCLASSIFIED Defense Intelligence Agency Defense

Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Harry Veeder
Is the DIA a parody of the CIA? harry From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 8:00:57 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released On Nov 16, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: What I found particularly

RE: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Jones Beene
From: Horace Heffner If rapid, explosive energy output can occur in one or several modes, could LENR serve as a new high-energy-density explosive? It is ironic isn't it? CF dismissed by DOE and the patent office, and yet potentially important to DOD. However, I think the potential for

RE: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Iverson wrote: Jed, then you've got some extremely liberal definition of 'insider'! I was using the skeptics' definition. As I said, one of them called Duncan a charlatan because he concluded that Energetics Technology is correctly measuring 0.8 W in, ~20 W out. Any sane expert in

RE: [Vo]:DIA-08-0911-003 text

2009-11-17 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Many thanks, Jed. Would there be any utility to taking your text and adding some formatting to resemble the actual report? (I'm not suggesting that you must be the one to do it.) Lawry -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17,

RE: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Mark Iverson
My definition of an insider is one who has at least done some experimental/theoretical research on the subject; LENR in this case. Duncan has now become an insider, by that definition. No, I disagree. Has he set up a lab and done some experiments? No. Has he delivered a

Re: [Vo]:DIA-08-0911-003 text

2009-11-17 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/11/17 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: [Here is the corrected text from the DIA report, ABBYY version. Unfortunately, this is not the underlying text in the version I uploaded. That has more OCR errors. I believe there are no OCR errors here, but I have not checked closely. - JR]

RE: [Vo]:DIA-08-0911-003 text

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Lawrence de Bivort wrote: Would there be any utility to taking your text and adding some formatting to resemble the actual report? (I'm not suggesting that you must be the one to do it.) It will preserve the formatting if I export it to Microsoft Word or HTML. If I am going to go to the

Re: [Vo]:DIA-08-0911-003 text

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I informed the author there are some spelling errors, and footnotes #11 and #14 are the same. I asked her to provide another copy of the paper in text Acrobat format. So maybe I will get a copy the easy way. Thanks again to Michel Jullian for finding human spelling errors: Fleischman Spzak

RE: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Iverson wrote: Duncan has now become an insider, by that definition. No, I disagree. Has he set up a lab and done some experiments? No. Yes, he has now. That's my point. I am pleased he has! My point was that at the time of the 60-Minutes piece, he most certainly was NOT .

Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Steven Krivit
At 07:37 AM 11/17/2009, you wrote: Is the DIA a parody of the CIA? profound question

Re: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mark Jed sez: ... Again, its a perception battle, and the goal is not to convince the diehard (pathological) skeptics like Park; its to persuade the average Science or Nature reader, the average researcher . . . That's true, and it is important. There is no point in trying to convince the

[Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is a perennial subject. I suppose that cold fusion bombs are probably not possible, for the reasons given below, but I do not think suppose can roll them out definitively. First, the reasons why they may be possible: 1. Several cold fusion devices have exploded. 2. Martin Fleischmann

RE: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Mark Goldes
Jones, I believe you meant Robert Carroll, not Robert Forward. --- On Tue, 11/17/09, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Subject: RE: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7:47 AM

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: I know for a fact that our military bureaucracy is not that smart when it comes to cold fusion. This is an observation, not speculation. . . . This is also true of the Japanese bureaucracy under the previous two Prime Ministers. I meant Cabinets. Although I am pretty sure the

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Terry Blanton
I understand your objections to the idea of a CF bomb. However, I must cite the history of the laser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_inversion The issue is timing. This is an issue from comedy to fission to fusion. Once the process is well understood, creating a synchronous reaction

RE: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Jones Beene
The interesting implication of the Arata-Zhang experiment for this subject, is the extraordinary claimed loading ratio of over 3:1 (deuterons to metal atoms). But the CFB concept might work as well or better with protium. Compelling evidence has been found for the occurrence of superfluidity in

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Horace Heffner
On Nov 17, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: This is a perennial subject. I suppose that cold fusion bombs are probably not possible, for the reasons given below, but I do not think suppose can roll them out definitively. First, the reasons why they may be possible: 1. Several cold

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Of course, one might opine that Catch-22 you cannot get to that degree of loading when you are near absolute zero, since the fusion will have already started! And if you suddenly allow the temperature to increase, the

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Harry Veeder
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Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Terry Blanton
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Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: I understand your objections to the idea of a CF bomb. However, I must cite the history of the laser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_inversion The issue is timing. This is an issue from comedy to fission to fusion. Once the process is well understood,

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion bombs

2009-11-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I forgot to mention a critical factor. Heat stimulation of cold fusion reactions seems to occur remarkably slowly. Fleischmann and Biberian both told me they used a heat pulse to trigger the boil off reaction. It worked something like this: Turn up electrolysis power for 3 minutes. The

RE: [Vo]:Re: New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Mark Iverson
He has??? Wow, that's very good news... Do you know if he's just setting up, or have they had this lab up and running for awhile? Have they had any encouraging results, like exploding experiments! :-) You were right the first time... Blowhards. Actually, that's way too gentle a term

Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released

2009-11-17 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Steven Krivit stev...@newenergytimes.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 4:07:53 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times News Flash: DoD Report Released At 07:37 AM 11/17/2009, you wrote: Is the DIA a parody of the CIA? profound