Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
And I think I may be able to claim responsibility for the inclusion of the paragraph about neutron release in thunderstorms, given my discussions over the last couple of years with John Swain. Nigel On 06/11/2012 02:41, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Just published on Arxiv.org -- Theories

Re: [Vo]:The Greenland High

2012-11-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
When you have a central pressure of 946 mb any normal pressures will seem high. On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Robert Lynn wrote: I don't doubt it - Rossby waves (meanders in the polar jet stream) do sometimes create locally anomalous behaviours - like the Russian heat wave of a few years

Re: [Vo]:Yet another physics website where anonymous trolls rule

2012-11-06 Thread Alain Sepeda
2012/11/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Cold fusion has been suppressed. Not by powerful people at oil companies. Not by evil people trying to preserve academic funding. No, it has been suppressed by stupid people. Very Stupid People. Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Politics by mortar in North Korea

2012-11-06 Thread Jojo Jaro
Is it the people or the system (communism) that is evil? No doubt it's both. Evil men come up with the Evil System which in turn breeds Evil men to power. These atrocities are by no means isolated to Mao. These atrocities are visible and clear halmarks of the communist philosophy. Name a

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Politics by mortar in North Korea

2012-11-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com wrote: ** Is it the people or the system (communism) that is evil? No doubt it's both. Evil men come up with the Evil System which in turn breeds Evil men to power. These atrocities are by no means isolated to Mao. These

[Vo]:OT (but not entirely): The Evolution of Politics forces the redrawing of our Personal Boundaries

2012-11-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
As we make our way to the voting polls, and as we ponder the future of CF/LENR technology... first a brief word from a member of the Vort Collective A Personal Essay I suspect the impression many of us have these days is that we have become a nation entrapped by sharply divided opinions.

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Politics by mortar in North Korea

2012-11-06 Thread Jojo Jaro
Laugh your heart out my friend, I myself am laughing at my own posts. I posted this response on Jed's off topic thread to deliberately hijack his thread to try to prove a point. That there is no rule of rule here in Vortex. The banning of Loren was an arbitrary exercise of owner power.I

RE: [Vo]:lorenhe...@aol.com blocked from vortex: political hatred

2012-11-06 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Jeff I have been relaxed about off-topic postings because I'm relatively new to the group and was following the lead of others. If there's a desire to enforce that rule more strictly I will be happy to stop doing it. Jeff, I think you'll do fine if you observe Mr. Beaty's rules.

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Politics by mortar in North Korea

2012-11-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: At least it was mostly painless. Yeah. They zeroed in first. They might've used him for target practice. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Politics by mortar in North Korea

2012-11-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
But probably the excuse of lack of respect for the former president is just an excuse for a random feud between generals. Both father and son are most likely only puppets of the military junta. 2012/11/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson

[Vo]:Magnetic Manipulation of Active Species - Plasma, Lattice Trapped Protons ...

2012-11-06 Thread lchen
G'Day, Another piece of the puzzle: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a437433.pdfsa=Uei=DviYUNC3I4T68gTHkoDoBwved=0CCUQFjAHusg=AFQjCNG778qpHEgmUmao2_8c3zx4egKCjQ and http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fugt1aPsVWU/TbQ1X3IGgbI/LMY/S Brilliant work being proposed and

Re: [Vo]:OT (but not entirely): The Evolution of Politics forces the redrawing of our Personal Boundaries

2012-11-06 Thread Jojo Jaro
AND ... the blatant, repeated and egregious violations of the rules continue and without consequence I might add. And since this liberal from Wisconsin have violated both of Bill's rules of no politics and no regilious posts; I will respond with a response which contains both a political

Re: [Vo]:OT (but not entirely): The Evolution of Politics forces the redrawing of our Personal Boundaries

2012-11-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
Seriuosly, I'd really appreciate if you were banned. It's well known that 'godless moon worshippers' is an anti islamic attack. 2012/11/6 Jojo Jaro jth...@hotmail.com ** Though you are right on one thing. New rights will be first tolerated, then celebrated, then legalized and then imposed;

Re: [Vo]:Yet another physics website where anonymous trolls rule

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
Never attribute to mere stupidity that which can be explained by unenlightened self-interest. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Cold fusion has been suppressed. Not by powerful people at oil companies.

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread pagnucco
Nigel, Thanks for spreading that information. It is a surprising phenomenon. I believe some lightning generates neutrons and positrons, but some does not. Do you know what the conditions produce neutrons/positrons? Also, whether these conditions can be replicated in the lab? -- Lou Pagnucco

Re: [Vo]:Magnetic Manipulation of Active Species - Plasma, Lattice Trapped Protons ...

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
[image: Google] http://www.google.com/ *404.* That’s an error. The requested URL /-Fugt1aPsVWU/TbQ1X3IGgbI/LMY/S was not found on this server. That’s all we know. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:07 AM, lc...@asia.com wrote: G'Day, Another piece of the puzzle:

Re: [Vo]:OT (but not entirely): The Evolution of Politics forces the redrawing of our Personal Boundaries

2012-11-06 Thread Jojo Jaro
Seriously also, I would appreciate it also if I were banned. That will only go to show the mob rule that occurs in this forum. My friend, I did not say godless moon worshippers; that would be false. I said godless moon god worshippers; which is the truth. And how can truth be considered

RE: [Vo]:Magnetic Manipulation of Active Species - Plasma, Lattice Trapped Protons ...

2012-11-06 Thread Jones Beene
The second citation is a dead link for me. The first one could have value, but is inconclusive as to gain ... compare it with a similar thruster experiment in which there is actual gain:

[Vo]:Magnetic Manipulation of Active Species - Plasma, Lattice Trapped Protons

2012-11-06 Thread lchen
G'Day, Another piece of the puzzle: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a437433.pdfsa=Uei=DviYUNC3I4T68gTHkoDoBwved=0CCUQFjAHusg=AFQjCNG778qpHEgmUmao2_8c3zx4egKCjQ and http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fugt1aPsVWU/TbQ1X3IGgbI/LMY/S Brilliant work being proposed and

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
Lou, the answer is, its complicated, but very interesting and conditions can be recreated in the lab, and the guy who knows all about this is Joe Dwyer. He has done an excellent review http://www.springerlink.com/content/l112wv31n5446564/ You also get gamma rays, and he has shown that these

Re: [Vo]:Yet another physics website where anonymous trolls rule

2012-11-06 Thread Alain Sepeda
If unenlightened self-interest. is a selfish version of stupidity, I agree... many stupidities are simply people thinking that their interest is to do something that finally is stupid, and should have been easily guessed as so. someone said (who?) people often don't act reasonably, but they

[Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
I've decided to vote for Mitt Romney and enthusiastically recommend that others, including die-hard Obama and Ron Paul supporters, vote for him. I do with with a vague feeling of nausea because I know I'll be misunderstood. Please let me explain. I'm not kidding. I'm serious as a heart attack

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread a.ashfield
It doesn't matter much what either candidate says, they will follow the advice of DoE or NASA. DoE in particular STILL don't think ELNR happens. At least that is their current official position. See what I wrote here

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Guys, Just a quick update on my expanding theory. As I have mentioned before , it basically says that most severe low pressure systems are triggered by energetic dark matter particles orbiting above and below Earth in a decaying 2-body Kepler, closed string orbit (M theory). Dark Matter

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Mitt Romney has made a comment, about as ignorant is you can get, about cold fusion that is, despite its ignorance, a positive comment. That's a TERRIBLE reason to vote for Romney! I am sure he will do nothing for cold fusion if he wins. Neither will

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC My election prediction

2012-11-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is an interesting comment on technology and poll-taking. [Generating a truly random set of respondents] is a very challenging problem, in part because the technological landscape is changing so fast that it's hard for pollsters to use their experience from the last presidential election as a

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread pagnucco
Thanks, Nigel A very good reference. There are certainly lots of variables to consider. I've only perused it, but I found the long (- 50 minute half-life) gamma/x-ray after-glow (described on pp.24-5) particularly intriguing. I haven't had time to look into the lab spark experiments cited, but

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/24/1135928/-More-Mitt-Romney-science-He-believes-University-of-Utah-solved-cold-fusion The Jed Report by Jed Lewison http://www.dailykos.com/user/Jed%20Lewison [image: Mad

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
Another angle on this I just realized was Neocon insularity: If there is any group of people inside the beltway that is capable of blocking out reality and forging ahead with whatever agenda they want, it is the Neocons who got the US into the recent wars over Al Queda in Iraq and Sadam's WMDs.

RE: [Vo]:[OT] Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Adrian, Why don't you go live in Israel for the next year or two... I think you need to see it from their perspective. With the nutcase in Iran stating over and over in public, even when speaking at the UN, that he is working toward the annihilation of Israel, you might well start to look at it

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread Nigel Dyer
Well spotted Lou, and yes it is particularly intriguing. A couple of pointers. First, describing it as an after glow is potentially misleading, in that it is not necessarily after anything. It is something that is seen at and around the time when lightning occurs, but can be seen when

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread de Bivort Lawrence
There is a lot more to the Romney/U.Utah/BYU story than you acknowledge, and none of it favorable to Romney. Voting for Romney because of Cold Fusion is a little like voting for Alfred E. Neuman for President because you like freckles. Except that Romney doesn't even have the freckles.

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
Please expand on the statement: There is a lot more to the Romney/U.Utah/BYU story than you acknowledge, and none of it favorable to Romney. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:49 PM, de Bivort Lawrence ldebiv...@gmail.comwrote: There is a lot more to the Romney/U.Utah/BYU story than you acknowledge,

Re: [Vo]:Vote for Mitt Romney If You Want Cold Fusion

2012-11-06 Thread James Bowery
Some comfort for those who support Obama: Intrade.com has his odds of reelection increasing as the night progresses. He now stands at 70% odds. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: I've decided to vote for Mitt Romney and enthusiastically recommend that

Re: [Vo]:New Paper: Theories of Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations

2012-11-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Beta Plus Decay can produce positrons B+ decay occurs when energy is applied to a proton, and the resulting interaction causes the proton to convert into a neutron and a positron. The neutron remains captured in the nucleus, while the positron is ejected, sometimes at high speed. Note that B+

Re: [Vo]:OT nuclear physicist as dutch prime minister?

2012-11-06 Thread Andre Blum
On 09/13/2012 06:55 AM, Rob Dingemans wrote: Hi, On 13-9-2012 12:23, Teslaalset wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Andre Blum andre_vor...@blums.nl mailto:andre_vor...@blums.nl wrote: On 09/12/2012 01:21 PM, Andre Blum wrote: Please, please refrain from discussing dutch politics

[Vo]:HOW LOW - ENERGY FUSION CAN OCCUR - CUSP DRIVEN TUNNELING

2012-11-06 Thread pagnucco
A new preprint on Arxiv.org describes a method to induce room temp D+D--He fusion by waveform shaping and overlap instead of high speed collision. HOW LOW - ENERGY FUSION CAN OCCUR - B. Ivlev http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1211/1211.1243.pdf ABSTRACT: Fusion of two deuterons of room

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC Politics by mortar in North Korea

2012-11-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:56 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Does anyone know the margin of error expected for the impact location of a mortar round zeroed in at say 1/4 mile range? A near miss might prove to be very painful! Why not just use an explosive charge if the idea is to

Re: [Vo]:HOW LOW - ENERGY FUSION CAN OCCUR - CUSP DRIVEN TUNNELING

2012-11-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:22 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: The energy of two nuclei is conserved and remains small during the motion through the Coulomb barrier. The penetration through this barrier, which is the main obstacle for low-energy fusion, strongly depends on a form of the

Re: [Vo]:HOW LOW - ENERGY FUSION CAN OCCUR - CUSP DRIVEN TUNNELING

2012-11-06 Thread pagnucco
Eric, There are several theories along these lines - possibly mutually compatible. Another approach by Li, et al, involves resonant tunneling. See: Sub-barrier fusion and selective resonant tunneling http://newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2000/2000Li-Sub-BarrierFusion.pdf An Approach to Nuclear

[Vo]:New Energy Paradigm Shift 2012 Art Show -Submissions Dec 1

2012-11-06 Thread Ruby
Politics and elections can bring incremental change, and ain't nuthin wrong with that. But if you really want to change your world, new technology is the catalyst. Some call it technological determinism; I just call it history. Please forward to your art pals: