Re: [Vo]:Is there a SONO connection to the Rossi Demo?

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Gluck
The ear witness cannot help, has not observed ultrasound- he sayas: *Does anyone recall an audible component to the demo (other than the pump sloshing) which could be indicative of lower harmonics of ultrasound? * Perhaps if somebody brings a dog to such a demo, he will know- dogs hear

RE: [Vo]:Is there a SONO connection to the Rossi Demo?

2011-02-25 Thread Jones Beene
Peter, Thank you for checking. Apparently, there is no ultrasound. The need of differential heating, provided by electrical input, in a situation where the reaction itself is gainful - is most unusual. I cannot think of any corollary in an industrial process. I am still struggling

Re: [Vo]:Is there a SONO connection to the Rossi Demo?

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Gluck
There are many unknown unknowns here and surprises; what they do in Bologna is more similar to industrial tests than with scientific experiments. The Ecat decides so. The Murphy Laws are active in this case but this is not significant as long as the generator works at high thermal production,

[Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
By a person, not Google translate: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article324.ece - Jed

Re: [Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is a discussion with Prof. Emeritus at Uppsala University Sven Kullander, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Energy Committee, and Hanno Essén, associate professor of theoretical physics, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. Overall it is quite positive! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: What I know doesn't matter, but it is very clear that most people who know as much about tritium as your stars, don't believe the measurements, or at least don't believe they come from cold fusion. That is incorrect. There is no published papers from experts in tritium

Re: [Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: This is a discussion with Prof. Emeritus at Uppsala University Sven Kullander, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Energy Committee, and Hanno Essén, associate professor of theoretical physics, Swedish Royal

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua Cude wrote: What I know doesn't matter, but it is very clear that most people who know as much about tritium as your stars, don't believe the measurements, or at least don't believe they come from cold fusion.

[Vo]:Two US ECat Licensees

2011-02-25 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3091266.ece According To Andrea Rossi Defkalion Will Have the exclusive commercial rights to the 'energy catalyst' in Greece, the while two U.S. companies Will Have the corresponding rights in the United States. One would guess that they

RE: [Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton and chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society . . . Which makes the acceptance of Rossi, and the total rejection of Mills all the more curious... and indefensible... especially from a Skeptic. Curious ... in the sense that Mills has strong academic

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: Scientists don't waste time publishing papers to point out errors or express doubt in a phenomenon only a fringe group takes seriously. This is not a fringe group. Look at the people I listed in previous messages in this thread: Roland A. Jalbert of Los Alamos and the

Re: [Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Curious ... in the sense that Mills has strong academic credentials, no hidden ingredients, a vetted theory with 20 years of refinement, a stellar Board of directors,$60mm raised in capital - and yet suffers only from the lack of 100% independence in verification. I do not

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: If the effect were real, it would not stall at the marginal level. Many cold fusion results are marginal, but others are not. Even in 1989 there were many dramatic heat events and some tritium production at extraordinarily high signal to noise ratios. There were solid

Re: [Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Frankly, a stellar board of directors or $60 million do not impress me much either. If I had to guess, I suppose it would mean that many of Mills experiments and claims are well supported. That's true for bulk Pd-D cold fusion as well, but I have never thought that technique has any

[Vo]:friendly exchange of ideas

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Gluck
These days I had a rather friendly correspondence with Robert Park the author/editor of the What's New column. Robert fights against pseudoscience, but very unfortunately he made the fatal error to not see the reality of cold fusion. I have asked him to tell his opinion about the latest

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:46 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: You seem to know something about this research. Surely you have read McKubre, Fleischmann and Storms and seen the graphs. Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances

Re: [Vo]:Is there a SONO connection to the Rossi Demo?

2011-02-25 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:39:14 -0800: Hi, Peter, Thank you for checking. Apparently, there is no ultrasound. The need of differential heating, provided by electrical input, in a situation where the reaction itself is gainful - is most unusual. I

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: The assertion that a determined con artist can do this or that strikes me as inadequate. A con artist is not a magician capable of changing the laws of physics or magically influencing instruments. Uh, Jed, a con artist is indeed a magician, that is, someone

Re: [Vo]:NyTecnik discussion translated into English

2011-02-25 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:17:40 -0500: Hi, [snip] By a person, not Google translate: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article324.ece - Jed Ni has roughly the following isotopes/percentages:- Ni-58 68% Ni-60 26% Ni-611% Ni-624%

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Just a comment to Jed and Abd, and a few other patient participants. I've enjoyed being a spectator to this thread. I guess that makes me somewhat of a sadist. By all means continue clarifying all the misconceptions being spewed out from this particular thread. Many of you have harder skulls

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at http://lenr-canr.org/index.htmlhttp://lenr-canr.org will see you are wrong. That's P13/P14. There is

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: However, I just meant that the margin of error bars are marked at the bottom of the graph along with the blue line for light water, and the red heavy water line is far above that margin. Plus, PLUS! the red line is beautifully correlated with a control factor, current density. You

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Dennis
-- From: Jed Rothwell ..Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux ... Here is an example of an experiment that could be faked. Dennis Cravens proposed to use Pd-D powder to produce heat inside a thermoelectric device that would light

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Dennis wrote: Jed, thanks for the compliment... I think It was a compliment. My point about that proposed experiment was that it was not a good means of convincing skeptical people. That many not matter. No experiment can accomplish every goal. The LED experiment would be fascinating

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Dennis
Lots of people feel that way, and are doing similar experiments. As far as I know, Brian Ahern is leading the pack. Ask him for some of his material. He was one of these people who made a large impact at ICCF-16 without being there. He told me he will never go to India .. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:07 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: The assertion that a determined con artist can do this or that strikes me as inadequate. A con artist is not a magician capable of changing the laws of physics or magically influencing instruments. Uh, Jed, a con artist

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Dennis wrote: Yes, it would be hard to fake much over 1kW... wall plugs being what they are, gauge of wires being what they are. (unless you used part of the plumbing as your current carrier). Ah! That's one I hadn't thought of. So it is becoming very interesting -if you believe any

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:30 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at http://lenr-canr.org/index.htmlhttp://lenr-canr.org will see

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:25 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Surely it has been realized by now that it's not likely to be Mr. Rothwell, or Mr. Lomax, or anybody on this list that possesses an arsenal of information accurate enough to blast a hole through this

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: There have been dramatic demonstrations, I've read about them, but I don't care to look them up. I'm simply going to assert that, given enough motivation, I could fake a demonstration like that reported. I'd have to have the motivation, and I certainly don't. I'm not

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:44 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I wrote: However, I just meant that the margin of error bars are marked at the bottom of the graph along with the blue line for light water, and the red heavy water line is far above that margin. Plus, PLUS! the red line is beautifully correlated

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:44 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Plus, PLUS! the red line is beautifully correlated with a control factor, current density. You can see that at a glance. A correlation is an important way to separate noise from meaningful data. McKubre once wrote that he could do a much better job

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:25 PM 2/25/2011, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Just a comment to Jed and Abd, and a few other patient participants. [...] Surely it has been realized by now that it's not likely to be Mr. Rothwell, or Mr. Lomax, or anybody on this list that possesses an arsenal of information

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:20 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Impossible. Until someone can propose a plausible a way to fake the two Rossi demos, I will consider that impossible. Without specifics, the claim that it might be faked cannot be tested or falsified. Why does this sound so familiar? Until someone

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:37 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Dennis wrote: Yes, it would be hard to fake much over 1kW... wall plugs being what they are, gauge of wires being what they are. (unless you used part of the plumbing as your current carrier). Ah! That's one I hadn't thought of. This is my

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Why does this sound so familiar? Until someone can propose a plausible mechanism that will explain cold fusion, I will consider it impossible. Wrong comparison. The comparison you should make is: Until someone can prove otherwise, I am sure

[Vo]:values decreasing...

2011-02-25 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Joshua Cude wrote: ,in the data by orders of magnitude (10^10 if I remember), from the fact that the highest values came from BARC within weeks of the press conference (for what is supposed to be a very difficult experiment), that they have gotten smaller over the years,

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Ah! That's one I hadn't thought of. This is my point, there may be a million things you haven't thought of. Nope. That does not work. A good experiment cannot have a million possible problems. If we had to think up a million ways that an

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Harry Veeder
Jed Rothwell wrote: The worst example was the Correa claim that a stationary gold leaf electroscope does work. No, it doesn't! It isn't a little guy standing with his arms out. He claimed to have electrical evidence that a stationary gold leaf electroscope does work. I assume your

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/25/2011 04:06 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: But what about the hydrogen control? Well, the skeptical mind will assert, hydrogen bubbles are twice as bouyant as deuterium bubbles, so the noise is less Er, no. The buoyancy is due to the difference between the density of the

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/25/2011 04:30 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at http://lenr-canr.org/index.htmlhttp://lenr-canr.org will

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: He claimed to have electrical evidence that a stationary gold leaf electroscope does work. For the audience: this means it performs work. (The English it does work is confusing, as it could mean it does what it is supposed to do.) I assume your

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: In an experiment with only 4 main parameters -- input power, inlet temperature, outlet temperature and flow rate -- the number of potential significant errors will BE small, and so will the number of ways deliberately fake data can be surreptitiously introduced. This is a bit like

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:45 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Why does this sound so familiar? Until someone can propose a plausible mechanism that will explain cold fusion, I will consider it impossible. Wrong comparison. The

Re: [Vo]:friendly exchange of ideas

2011-02-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: Not so curious about what he will write- that's his personal problem of prestige management. I feel much empathy for him, I am not an authorithy so I be very open and sincere. Love your enemy. Peter, you are a true

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:07 PM 2/25/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Ah! That's one I hadn't thought of. This is my point, there may be a million things you haven't thought of. Nope. That does not work. A good experiment cannot have a million

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:28 PM 2/25/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/25/2011 04:06 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: But what about the hydrogen control? Well, the skeptical mind will assert, hydrogen bubbles are twice as bouyant as deuterium bubbles, so the noise is less Er, no. The buoyancy is due

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: That's correct. It would take a magician familiar with physics, perhaps. Certainly that would be the case here. Ordinarily, magicians can fool physicists about as well as they can fool anyone else. No doubt they can, but they cannot fool

Re: [Vo]:Hidden wire hypothesis redux

2011-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: With a single report, lots of opportunities exist for error or, yes, fraud. With many reports, and especially with independent confirmations . . . This is not a single report. People have done flow calorimetry millions of times. Seriously,

[Vo]:Keep an eye on Antony's question to Dr. Mills

2011-02-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
See: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SocietyforClassicalPhysics/message/894 Antony asks: Dr. Mills, your theory presents electrons in atoms as spheres that enclose a nucleus rather than points or electron clouds or probability waves. I was wondering if a neutron can pass through the electron

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:36 PM 2/25/2011, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 02/25/2011 04:30 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Yet you persist in calling these results marginal. You are either technically illiterate, or you are a liar. Anyone who glances at the graph on the front page at

Re: [Vo]:friendly exchange of ideas

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Gluck
Understand your enemy is much more realistic. Be convinced I know well what he has said in 140 'What's New' messages re. Cold Fusion; a chronology of his attacks can be found there: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/BobParkColdFusion.shtml