Re: [Vo]:New MOND order?

2011-03-03 Thread Roarty, Francis X
On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:22 Robin van Spaandonk wrote [snip] Ah..in short you reject the Hydrino hypothesis outright, since below ground state orbitals are the very core of his theory. Regards,[/snip] If Naudt's is correct about relativistic hydrogen then both sides are correct. Sub ground states

RE: [Vo]:Aviso Ponders Open Sourcing his Self-Running Electric Car Technology

2011-03-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Robin: ... It's ordinary physics. Charged particles circling around in a magnetic field must radiate cyclotron radiation. If you set up a resonant receiver, you should be able to pick it up. For the lower Van Allen belt, the height and frequency are approximately such that you could be

RE: [Vo]:Tunneling

2011-03-03 Thread Roarty, Francis X
on Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:27 Harry Veeder wrote [snip]The concept of quantum mechanical tunneling suggests that a particle can, with a certain probability, bore its way through a columb barrier. Suppose, instead, the probability is indicative of a fluctuating columb field in which

Re: [Vo]:Aviso Ponders Open Sourcing his Self-Running Electric Car Technology

2011-03-03 Thread Shek Singhal
To my understanding - there is no limit. Just as there is no limit as to how many magnets you can use in the world. The basis of the technology is an abstraction of magnetism to electricity. Just as North-North magnets repel eachother -- North-North electricity/electrons repel eachother. The

RE: [Vo]:New MOND order?

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
Good point . From: Roarty, Francis X Subject: Re: [Vo]:New MOND order? Robin van Spaandonk wrote Ah..in short you reject the Hydrino hypothesis outright, since below ground state orbitals are the very core of his theory. If Naudts is correct about relativistic hydrogen then both

RE: [Vo]:Fleischmann's Type A palladium

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
One more detail, for Dennis or anyone else looking into a Rossi replication based on an educated guess of what the inventor could have been doing at the time of the discovery of the energy anomaly. Rossi's first thermoelectric generator patent, assigned to Leonardo Technologies #6,620,994 might

[Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Terry Blanton
http://blastr.com/2011/03/giant-chamber-on-the-moon.php with must-see piccy.

RE: [Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
Obviously a sandworm burrow ... -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton http://blastr.com/2011/03/giant-chamber-on-the-moon.php with must-see piccy.

Re: [Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: http://blastr.com/2011/03/giant-chamber-on-the-moon.php with must-see piccy. The picture of what looks like a round crater does not match the description. Discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, this chamber is more than one mile long

RE: [Vo]:Fleischmann's Type A palladium

2011-03-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:39 AM 3/2/2011, Jones Beene wrote: - However, if you are going to use several layers of plating, which is good, then there is no reason not to start with copper as the base - for reasons of cost control. Perhaps. Silver is pretty cheap, by comparison with gold and palladium!

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

2011-03-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:16 PM 3/2/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I imagine they do not think it is worth the trouble to comment on, or to check out. That is how I feel about claims of harvesting energy from the surroundings such as the one just reported here, by Aviso:

Re: [Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: http://blastr.com/2011/03/giant-chamber-on-the-moon.php with must-see piccy. Apparently it is a lava tube. http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/ ISRO_finds_cave_in_moon_can_be_used_as_base_station_for_astronauts- nid-79567.html

Re: [Vo]:New MOND order?

2011-03-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
That was kind of a silly refutation of Mills. Hydrinos, if real, result from occupation of previously unknown states below the ground state. In other words, the ground state is not the ground state, merely a plateau that is normally not punctured. The scientific question is whether or not

Re: [Vo]:Typical dismissive attitudes toward cold fusion

2011-03-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:45 PM 3/2/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I have heard about a guy living under high tension power lines who made a gadget to extract useful amounts of energy. Supposedly the power company sued him. It's outrageous if they actually did! Imagine bombarding his family with RF and then suing him

Re: [Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: http://blastr.com/2011/03/giant-chamber-on-the-moon.php with must-see piccy. Here is a picture that shows the lava tube: http://parallelspirals.blogspot.com/2010/03/lava-tubes-found-on- moon.html http://tinyurl.com/4awbun6 A rille system

[Vo]:Re: Rossi credibility

2011-03-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:38 PM 2/21/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: His strategy might be reasonable. But a consequence of that strategy is that I'm not going to believe that Rossi is a demonstration of cold fusion. That's rather short-sighted of you. Please do not confuse not going to believe with believe that it

Re: [Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: http://blastr.com/2011/03/giant-chamber-on-the-moon.php with must-see piccy. Source article on the lava tube: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/1484.pdf 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2010) IDENTIFICATION OF LUNAR

RE: [Vo]:New MOND order?

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax That was kind of a silly refutation of Mills. Hydrinos, if real, result from occupation of previously unknown states below the ground state. In other words, the ground state is not the ground state, merely a plateau that is normally not

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi credibility

2011-03-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: There is allegedly some device that enhances battery life in golf carts, I had some discussion with a fellow who claimed to be working for the company, which he would not disclose. It's no secret:

Re: [Vo]:Perfect Moonbase Site

2011-03-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Source article on the lava tube: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/1484.pdf 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2010) IDENTIFICATION OF LUNAR VOLCANIC TUBES, A POTENTIAL SITE FOR HUMAN

[Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Yesterday I wrote that it can be surprisingly difficult to evaluate the performance of a large machine. That probably sounds odd. Let me explain a bit, while I try to anticipate some of the honest skeptical objections that might be raised about a 1 MW demonstration. Rossi is sometimes open to

[Vo]:Storms comments on Rossi

2011-03-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a message Ed sent to Abd and me, reprinted with permission -- This debate of whether to believe Rossi ignores two very important facts. We now know that chemically assisted nuclear reactions are possible, thanks to the CF work. This not like the claims for over unity based on odd

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Dennis
and I would like to see what he will use as his control. Dennis -- From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:50 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Dennis wrote: and I would like to see what he will use as his control. I am more concerned about control in the other sense -- can he can keep it under control. Seriously, a thing like this does not need a control (null comparison). A null is vital for small scale experiments -- under ~10

RE: [Vo]:Storms comments on Rossi

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
BTW - If you haven't seen it, here is the preliminary WIPO rejection notice of most of the claims of the Rossi patent http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/36/Rossi-Patent-Application-WO-20 09-125444-PrelimReport.pdf

[Vo]:Vimana Found in Afghanistan?

2011-03-03 Thread Terry Blanton
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14114-Vimana-(UFO)-Found-In-Cave-In-Afghanistan!!!s=a4cac42f6f636c2cb9015ae1a68805c3 What's a Vimana? http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS360US360aq=fsourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=vimana (Submitted mostly for entertainment purposes.) T

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Mitchell Swartz
Dennis, Indeed . And that would be controls. It might be a minority view; several controls are needed. He needs a metachronous 1 MW pulse for enough time and energy for the system to reach the same temp and heat deposited that the LANR system would expect to achieve in the steady state,

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Dennis
Unless he can unplug it... Most any system will tend to be messy at that level for any system that runs for extended times (days??) to rule out chemistry. I think he would do better by just making something in the 1 to 10 KW (thermal) range that ran for a week unplugged. If his claims are

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mitchell Swartz m...@theworld.com wrote: He needs a metachronous 1 MW pulse for enough time and energy for the system to reach the same temp and heat deposited that the LANR system would expect to achieve in the steady state, Ah. That is a skeptical objection I did not anticipate. I

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Having said all of that . . . Looking back at my notes from Hydrodynamics and the County Facility engineer who measured excess heat from the gadget installed in the Fire Department, I should report their methods could not be simpler. In the case of the Fire Department, they did the following:

RE: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
He cannot safely unplug it, we are told. However, one thing everyone seems to be overlooking in why Rossi is choosing to construct a machine which has a large number of modular units - is that it lends itself to the energy cascade, with extremely high iterative gain. A cascade will allow his

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: He cannot safely unplug it, we are told. I think Cravens meant Rossi should use the heat to generate electricity and make the device self-sustaining. He added: If his claims are real, he should have enough gain for that even at only 5% conversion rates.

RE: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
If you talking about closing the loop, then the Stirling engine is a good choice. Here is one he could use. http://www.whispergen.com/main/PRODUCTS/ If I am correct about the cascade, then a Stirling can provide about 15% conversion of heat to electricity (due to the low Carnot spread) but

RE: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:21 PM 3/3/2011, Jones Beene wrote: He cannot safely unplug it, we are told. Others apparently feel as I do, that a device that cannot be safely unplugged makes me nervous. Yes. Nuclear reactors (fission type) make me nervous. I wouldn't want to live near one.

RE: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Jones Beene
Yes. Your fear would be shared by the majority in the USA, and that is likely to be the major reason that Rossi is not doing it here. He knows he would not see this device sold here during his lifetime, due to the NRC. At some level, one's tolerance level for risk is proportionate to the

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-03 Thread Dennis
Yes, I meant that it would be more convincing if a smaller device was used (10's to 100KW) and that it turned a steam engine, stirling,. that could convert the heat and it then could be run without any access to external power sources. Notice I do not wish to imply that the water flow