Re: [Vo]:Estimated range of possible power shown by 2 ml/second water flow in a Rossi-type demonstration

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Semantics. Yes, steam can be much wetter than 20%, particularly after condenstation, under marginal conditions it could approach

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Damon Craig
You're right. Someone of the group of seven attendees had placed an ammeter on the line. The line voltage is either assumed or measured to be 220 VAC. (Levan reports ~236 VAC.) At least once, the ammeter was read. The quoted phrase referring to start up: The electric heater was switched on at

Re: [Vo]:Estimated range of possible power shown by 2 ml/second water flow in a Rossi-type demonstration

2011-07-15 Thread Damon Craig
Why did you choose the words red herring for a discriptive? Who uses these? On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: In many discussions of this, it was assumed that the only issue was steam quality. If we were to assume very wet steam, say 20% by

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I don't know what it is about this, but Jed seems to have lost his ability to read and understand Of course, it could be me, I suppose. Aren't we always the last to know? I think that it is both, because you speak different language. You

Re: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2

2011-07-15 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Robin, I have always maintained that Casimir geometry can form between the grains of metal powders but the present thread is making a good point regarding the shape of these grains. Perhaps even the term tubercles is still too rounded or organic sounding when we should be considering a

Re: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2

2011-07-15 Thread Joe Catania
You want Young's Modulus, see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_modulus - Original Message - From: Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:02 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2 But Robin, how about the 2nd half of

Re: [Vo]:Definitely proving cold fusion.

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: So, why not making an LENR experiment close to a big neutrino detector, like the kamiokande? This was done at Kamiokande. Unfortunately the experiment was amateur and there is no chance it produced a cold fusion effect. It would be a good idea to try again with a

Re: [Vo]:Definitely proving cold fusion.

2011-07-15 Thread Daniel Rocha
Any link to the experiment?

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And this has been said to you many times, Jed, and you keep repeating that this is nonsense. It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. The Lewan video proved that the smaller cells are

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Damon Craig wrote: 1) How often the ammeter was observed is unreported. People have done any number of cold fusion experiments, including Ni-H ones, in which input power was recorded on computer. If you don't wish to believe this particular experiment then I suggest you look at some of

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam should have been a few hundred degrees C in the January test, and not

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
Since only Rossi and Levi were present at the 18 hr test, it is possible that Rossi fooled Levi by tampering with the instruments prior to the tests.     Harry

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Jed and Josh: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam should have been a few hundred degrees C in the January test, and not 100C. But of course it doesn't prove anything other than

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Jed and Josh: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam should have been a few

Re: [Vo]:Estimated range of possible power shown by 2 ml/second water flow in a Rossi-type demonstration

2011-07-15 Thread Rich Murray
Well, since now it is pretty clear to many of us that none of the demos provide proof of excess heat, then the judgement call is whether to decide that there is no Rossi excess heat. I came up intuitively, out of my sensitive vapors, with the scenario that Rossi found that increasing the electric

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Rich Murray
[ duplicate from parallel discussion } Well, since now it is pretty clear to many of us that none of the demos provide proof of excess heat, then the judgement call is whether to decide that there is no Rossi excess heat. I came up intuitively, out of my sensitive vapors, with the scenario that

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:42 AM 7/15/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: Since only Rossi and Levi were present at the 18 hr test, it is possible that Rossi fooled Levi by tampering with the instruments prior to the tests. Krivit gave us an observer list at http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/RossiECatPortal.shtml

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: Since only Rossi and Levi were present at the 18 hr test, it is possible that Rossi fooled Levi by tampering with the instruments prior to the tests. This is not possible. It is very easy to confirm that the instruments were more-or-less correct with visual and tactile

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
I am going by this report: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece   Harry From: Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 1:44:31 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude At 09:42 AM 7/15/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: Since

Re: [Vo]:Definitely proving cold fusion.

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
I wander here into what I'm currently excited about At 09:44 AM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Daniel Rocha wrote: So, why not making an LENR experiment close to a big neutrino detector, like the kamiokande? This was done at Kamiokande. Unfortunately the experiment was amateur and

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Obviously I meant to write: . . . you can feel the OUTLET is substantially warmer than the INLET. . . . I meant in the 18-hour test with flowing liquid water. As described here: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece . . . the inlet was tap-water temperature,

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: ** JC stated: ...and the heated walls are at a higher temperature. So, it must get hotter. What makes you think that the walls of the vertical section (i.e., the 'chimney') are at a higher temperature than the walls

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:53 AM 7/15/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: And this has been said to you many times, Jed, and you keep repeating that this is nonsense. It is all nonsense and bullshit. Sure, with proper specification of the it. Nice to be able to agree. The 18-hour tests with

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:32 AM 7/15/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Jed Rothwell mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.comjedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It is all nonsense and bullshit. The 18-hour tests with flowing water proved that the large cell is producing ~17 kW. If it did, then the steam

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
Ok, I accept it is not possible to fake the results by tampering with the instruments, but there might be other ways such as the water diversion trick using a hose within a hose. This would make the outside of the hose feel warm. In order to rule this out the the end of the hose should be

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Gluck
In this case there is only one problem/question. 1L per second i.e. 15.65 gpm is an incredibly high flow for a tap and for the water feeding tubes. Perhaps a garden hose could do it. It seems it was a surprise- the 130kW heat peak and this was quenched with the maximum available flow. No flowmeter

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Joshua, I waited in anticipation to see if you could help explain to me the errors I might have made in my reasoning. I was astonished to discover that the jest of your replies struck me as being just as much of a seat-of-the-pants explanation as you apparently accuse me of doing. For example:

Re: [Vo]:Definitely proving cold fusion.

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: There is no other way to be sure you have a cold fusion effect in the first place. There is no point to testing a cell that is not producing heat. That's not *entirely true*, but it is a huge caveat. In the early days, lots of experiments

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck wrote: In this case there is only one problem/question. 1L per second i.e. 15.65 gpm is an incredibly high flow for a tap and for the water feeding tubes. Perhaps a garden hose could do it. In a commercial building it should not be a problem. It seems it was a surprise- the

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
To be fair, in this report http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf Rossi and Focardi describe some other water flow tests on page 3.   Harry From: Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:08:17 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: To be fair, in this report http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf Rossi and Focardi describe some other water flow tests on page 3. This link does not work. Want to try again? - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:15 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Joshua, I waited in anticipation to see if you could help explain to me the errors I might have made in my reasoning. And yet you responded to everything except the part where I explained the

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Craig Haynie
This link does not work. Want to try again? It's in this list: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/ Craig Manchester, NH On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 16:17 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: To be fair, in this report

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:17:16 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude Harry Veeder wrote: To be fair, in this report http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf Rossi and Focardi describe 

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: Hmm I guess only direct downloading is allowed, so go here: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/ and look for Rossi-Focardi paper listed under resources on the left side of the page. You mean the RIGHT side. Right bottom, where it says Rossi-Focardi paper. I am

[Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Lewan addresses, in this report, some of the issues which had been raised by discussions. http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3166552.ece As previously, the power output was calculated from the amount of water boiled into steam, and thus depends on the water flow. At the

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: To be fair, in this report http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/files/Rossi-Focardi_paper.pdf Rossi and Focardi describe some other water flow tests on page 3. The text is confusing. The liquid flowing water tests are listed in Table 1, p. 4. Flowing water is method

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Orionworks wrote: Joshua, I waited in anticipation to see if you could help explain to me the errors I might have made in my reasoning. I was astonished to discover that the jest of your replies struck me as being just as much of a seat-of-the-pants explanation as you apparently accuse me of

Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:36:48 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Levi's likely attitude Harry Veeder wrote: Hmm I guess only direct downloading is allowed, so go here: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/ and look for

[Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation. Take a smooth china mug, and fill it with water. Stir the water, so it's swirling nicely (if you don't do this only the surface will get hot and the experiment probably won't work). Put it in a microwave on high power for a

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Alexander Hollins
Superheated, and it requires some special circumstances. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation. Take a smooth china mug, and fill it with water. Stir the water, so it's swirling nicely (if

RE: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Jones Beene
I suspect you were using pure water and it superheated. You were lucky - superheated water from a microwave can explode and cause a burn. Myth-buster did short vid on it - using a sugar cube instead of tea bag. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OXM4mr_i0 -Original Message- From: Stephen

Re: [Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I must say, I'm appalled at how much time has been wasted on inadequate demonstrations. This is surprising considering that anyone here has never said anything that those demonstrations has any scientific relevance. That is simply because they

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:03:11 PM Subject: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling... So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation. Take a smooth

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Alexander Hollins
Ive never done swirling, but if you heat to boiling, then let cool, it removes a lot of gas, and lets you superheat tap water. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To:

RE: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Robert Leguillon
Never tried the superheating water in china. I would assume that it's the lack of nucleation sites on the smooth china. Pure water can be driven well outside of normal phase-change temperatures when there's a lack of nucleation sites. The tea bag or sugar cube would merely serve as a place

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Joshua, Stephen, I have no desire to incessantly argue my POV - till I'm blue in the face. As I've stated many times in the past, I might be wrong. In any case I think I now understand where our mutual misunderstanding might lie. There appears to be a semantics problem, one that may have

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Pure steam, hotter than 100C, is a stable effluent: If the power output varies a little bit, you'll still be making pure steam at some temperature above 100C. Pure steam, at 100C, is *not* stable: If the output power varies just a little, you'll either be making

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
- Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrencesa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:03:11 PM Subject: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling... So here's a cute experiment, done by accident while on vacation. Take a smooth china

Re: [Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jouni Valkonen wrote: These are just demonstrations, not scientific validations. And the purpose of them was that Rossi let some people to observe, while he was doing his own tests for the E-Cat units. Only January demonstration was actual demonstration. Exactly right. Rossi said this, very

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Joe Catania
The reason is because you need nucleation sites for boiling to start. The teabag adds them. - Original Message - From: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

[Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-15 Thread Akira Shirakawa
Hello group, A new interview to Sergio Focardi has been posted on Passerini's blog here: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/07/intervista-di-focardi-energylab.html Google translated short link: http://goo.gl/nxcMG It contains some interesting bits of information. I recommend reading it.

Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 03:21 PM 7/15/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: A new interview to Sergio Focardi has been posted on Passerini's blog here: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/07/intervista-di-focardi-energylab.html Google translated short link: http://goo.gl/nxcMG It contains some interesting bits of information. I

[Vo]:Rossi on NASA

2011-07-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Martin July 14th, 2011 at 1:57 PM Dear mr Rossi, Today there was a meeting with NASA about your invention. Is it possible to give some information about this meeting? If it is not possible no problem! Im just very curious. Best regards Martin Andrea Rossi July 15th, 2011 at 7:24 AM Dear

[Vo]:Minor Stream Media -- at least it's in print (UK)

2011-07-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Cold Fusion, Warm Future. A New Day Dawning? http://www.thesussexnewspaper.com/columnists/3061-cold-fusion-warm-future-a-new-day-dawning.html You may be happy to learn that while lunatics have been busy knocking seven bells out of foreign countries so as to purloin oil, which is soon going to

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Man on Bridges
Hi, From what I know, is that when you want to boil a cup of water in a microwave (b.t.w. over here we tend to call it a magnetron), you are required to put a metal spoon in the cup of water to make sure it will boil in a regular way. I seem to recall it has to do something with the surface

Re: [Vo]:Rossi on NASA

2011-07-15 Thread Terry Blanton
I suppose they know the secret sauce? T

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread Alexander Hollins
ermmm... putting metal in microwave can be BD, mmmkay. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Man on Bridges manonbrid...@aim.com wrote: Hi, From what I know, is that when you want to boil a cup of water in a microwave (b.t.w. over here we tend to call it a magnetron), you are required to

Re: [Vo]:They say liquid water can't be hotter than boiling...

2011-07-15 Thread John Berry
A decade ago I would clean the microwave by putting a bowl in the microwave with water and dishliquid and nuke the crap out of it, it wouldn't boil but then I'd throw a teaspoon in it and it would explode with hot bubbles and froth, the microwave was cleaned with superheated water and steam, but

Re: [Vo]:Rossi on NASA

2011-07-15 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Alan, please let me know what's the source (url) of this info; it is not in his 1072 answers at his website. And there are other places where Rossi speaks? Thanks! Peter On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Martin July 14th, 2011 at 1:57