Re: [Vo]:Interesting *English* article from Focus.it - letter by Celani to Rossi and Rossi's answer

2011-11-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:10 PM 11/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote:  .. There's a zero missing somewhere : WHO IS THE CUSTOMER?Customer's spokesman,Domenico Fioravanti, retired colonel of the Genio, doesn't tell anything that would be revealing of its identity, but is Rossi himself who gives Focus something more: «We

Re: [Vo]:From Focus.it Customer? Celani test?

2011-11-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:39 PM 11/17/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: http://www.focus.it/scienza/dove-va-l-e-cat-e-la-risposta-di-rossi-alla-proposta-di-celani-1203_C12.aspx That link is interesting but hard to follow.  Actually, there's an index tab that gives you the Italian and English versions.  S.A gave the En

Re: [Vo]:From Focus.it Customer? Celani test?

2011-11-17 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:39 PM 11/17/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: I find that a total cop-out and just more of the same nonsense we've been hearing so much of from Rossi. It says he already proved it, doesn't need to do anything more, demo'd the megawatt plant, he has customers, and commercialization will prove it. H

Re: [Vo]:From Focus.it Customer? Celani test?

2011-11-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:54 PM 11/17/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Alan J Fletcher <a...@well.com> wrote: He's already said that deliveries to new customers will be in 2 months ... and that he's fully booked (ie 12 more for this one). Sorry but where does he say th

Re: [Vo]: UK's DECC "Monitoring the sector" (LENR)

2011-11-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:53 PM 11/17/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: In other words, they don't believe Rossi either, on the evidence that he's provided. I personally think their position is way too cover-their-a***///  conservative. They don't even include a more public 1MW acceptance test as a possible trigger. I

Re: [Vo]:Interesting *English* article from Focus.it - letter by Celani to Rossi and Rossi's answer

2011-11-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:24 PM 11/17/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 04:10 PM 11/17/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote:  .. There's a zero missing somewhere :  «We are building a 130 MW thermal plant, made of 13 plant such as the one you saw on October 28th». Andrea Rossi November 18th, 2011 at 5:33 AM November

[Vo]:Rossi Interview Questions *** DO NOT REPLY ON VORTEX ***

2011-11-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
* DO NOT REPLY ON VORTEX Please reply directly to a...@well.com * Suppose you knew someone who has an upcoming skype interview with Rossi, and who asked you for advice on what to ask. I was originally inclined to ask for "one more test" ... but I don't think that would fly. Likewi

Re: [Vo]:Scientists create light from vacuum

2011-11-18 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:53 AM 11/18/2011, Axil Axil wrote: Scientists create light from vacuum http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-scientists-vacuum.html Note the coincidence ...  www.ecat.com : Magnus Holm has a D.Tech and Niclas Sandström a PhD in elementary particle physics at Chalmers University of Technolo

Re: [Vo]:New LENR Patent Appl: Method for Producing Heavy Electrons

2011-11-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:57 PM 11/20/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote: Absolutely!  Widom-Larsen (where an electron combines with a Proton to form a Neutron and a Neutrino). has a critical mass, similar to the Coulomb barrier for regular fusion. Act

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi replies to my email

2011-11-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:31 PM 11/20/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: We are ready to pay you USD250,000 for the 5 diathermic oil E-Cat modules and the control system. Do we now have a workable proposal? Sorry he's ummm ... changed his mind. As always our discussions are Commercial in Confidence." Ummm ... whi

Re: [Vo]:New LENR Patent Appl: Muon Capture v Muon Catalyzed

2011-11-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
The best I can find on WL (1) is a list of papers at http://muon.npl.washington.edu/exp/MuCap/literature1.html but I don't have access to any of them.  Muon Capture in Hydrogen Experiment A. A. Quaranta, A. Bertin, G. Matone, F. Palmonari, G. Torelli, P. Dalpiaz, A. Placci, E. Zavattini,  Mu

Re: [Vo]:New LENR Patent Appl: Method for Producing Heavy Electrons

2011-11-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
(I decided to bypass the Joshua Cude discussion, to get back to the patent itself) The text of the application is at http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220110255645%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110255645&RS=DN/20

Re: [Vo]:Rossi opens 10 KW expression of interest list and sets 10 kW price

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
L KW Total Price including shipping and installation not to exceed $6,000, plus taxes. Total (thermal) power of at least 10 kW, with a COP of at least 6. Unit to conform to all USA, State and Local regulations Unit to conform to USA domestic insurance regulations (Tower Insurance) /s/ Alan J. Flet

Re: [Vo]:Tovima: Defkalion says the catalyst formula is not Rossi's

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:31 PM 11/21/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Just out of curiosity, is there anything written about "nuclear catalysts" other than related to LENR/cold fusion energy generation? I never heard of a nuclear catalyst before Rossi. I've always thought of a catalyst as a substance which changes the ra

Re: [Vo]:Rossi to come to the Massachusetts State House tomorrow

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:30 AM 11/22/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: This cannot be a scam! Even MY must be convinced now! Of course it's a scam. It's just a bigger scam. Or not ... I pre-ordered mine.

[Vo]:Randi Video

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BemTGkjl6U What a surprise ! (lenr.qumbu.com -- analyzing the Rossi/Focardi eCat  -- Hi, google!)

[Vo]:Re: Randi Video

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:25 PM 11/22/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BemTGkjl6U What a surprise ! Gee .. they even made the "University of Baloney" joke.

[Vo]:Tachyonic Neutrinos and the eCat

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
From another forum : "I want to corral some faster-than-light neutrinos to do my stock picks for me." My reply : The financial quants are already laying a dedicated transatlantic fiber cable so they get the news quicker. I'll bet they're talking to folks about how to send messages with neutrin

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's interview with "Tom and Doug"

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Oh-oh : just started to listen, and at 5:10 he says he burned the INDEX finger of the RIGHT hand. On the Krivit interview he said : At a certain point, the, the temperature raised very suddenly, and, uh, and I had in my, the, the, uh, left finger of, uh, of, uh, the, the, the, the finger of

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's interview with "Tom and Doug"

2011-11-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At about 17:00 he talks about 3 kinds of skepticism ... some of us at Vortex are "honest skeptics", which is positive. The other two are "Envy" and "Competitors". He politely left off #4 -- snakes. At 20:26 he says he isn't associated with ecat.com ... but this interview predates that : 11/11/1

Re: [Vo]:hydrogen refill

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:38 AM 11/23/2011, Gigi DiMarco wrote: I don't know if it was already reported but I found some oddies in the hydrogen consumption October 28th test, from Fioravanti/Rossi's report For Oct 28, don't forget the "restart" -- they started the eCat, it was unstable, so they lowered the hydro

RE: [Vo]:hydrogen refill

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:29 AM 11/23/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: Where on Earth did you guys get the information that it was running and hydrogen was purged? http://pesn.com/2011/10/31/9501942_After_the_E-Cat_Test--Report_and_Q-A_with_Rossi/ Description of the test installation the one megawatt Energy Catalyz

Re: [Vo]:Andrea Rossi replies to Nobel prize winner Brian Josephson (Focus.it)

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:41 AM 11/23/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Thanks for the translation, which google garbles. Could you please do the same for the last sentence : Details that do not interest to researchers. "With our equipment we will go in the shed that Rossi makes available to make the measurements -

RE: [Vo]:hydrogen refill

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:57 AM 11/23/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: Yes, he claimed they had to reduce power. Where does it say that they did this by reducing the hydrogen pressure? In the second link that I just posted : "To resolve the issue, the hydrogen pressure in all the reactors was reduced". I guess my

[Vo]:Re: Rossi Interview Questions

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Thanks to all who submitted questions. I sent in a collation (extracting ideas) ... including asking for another test. But with today's response to Brian Josephson I said don't ask him that one. (I'll put up what I sent in another post) Most of what I suggested came up in the interview natur

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi Interview Questions

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:23 PM 11/23/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: Thanks to all who submitted questions. I sent in a collation (extracting ideas) ... including asking for another test.  But with today's response to Brian Josephson I said don't ask him that one.  (I'll put up what I sent in anothe

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi Interview Questions

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Just for completeness : PREMIUM CONTENT Rossi's e-Cat Goes Commercial Italian engineer Andrea Rossi, inventor of the e-Catalyst energy system, talks with EV World about the system's successful test in Bologna and the future of this potentially gam

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion GT announcement

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 07:44 AM 11/23/2011, David Roberson wrote:  ... Engineer wrote: (Pssst, Ms. Yugo, we call them "Hyperions" in this forum.) Mr Engineer, e-cats (or energy catalyzers) are e-cats and Hyperions are Hyperions. We can assure you that they are not the same "thing" with just different names. Please

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi Interview Questions

2011-11-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 05:08 PM 11/23/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: And they want $49 to listen to the interview. Annual subscription, surely. Not worth $49 for this one audio only. though. If there's something particular you want to know, I can re-listen and make a closer transcript. (Maybe Bill will relent an

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 07:41 AM 11/8/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I understand why he does not trust people. He has had a painful life and he has often been betrayed and unjustly persecuted. For example, one of the charges they sent him to jail for was defrauding the stockholders. He himself was the only stockholder,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:38 AM 11/25/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Indeed. And I am sure you saw the large catalog of charges and convictions Rossi has amassed -- I forget where the cite is for that at the moment but it was quite impressive. You can read Rossi's version on the Krivit site. And you can read in http:/

Re: [Vo]:Rossi blog -- Hank Mills proposes a side-by-side blank test

2011-11-28 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Hank Mills November 28th, 2011 at 1:15 AM Hello Andrea, I apologize if I’m not controlling my passion about this topic quite as well as I should. I think the lies of the cynics and competitors (which I read everyday), are making me a bit more angry than usual. Out of jealousy and envy, they ar

[Vo]:Next customer -- public, NE USA

2011-11-28 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Andrea Rossi November 28th, 2011 at 6:48 PM November 28th, 2011 at 6:48 PM Dear Herb Gills: Today we sold in the USA a 1 MW plant which will go to a normal Customer. This installation will be visitable by the qualified public. We wait to have completed the contractual procedure through the a

Re: [Vo]:ZENN Trading Halted Pending News

2011-11-28 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:51 PM 11/28/2011, Terry Blanton wrote: EEStor related? I wouldn't get my hopes up. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ZNN.V Peaked at 25% up from 10am -- coulda made a killing! (If I had any stock). Volume: 148,044

Re: [Vo]:Rossi opens 10 KW expression of interest list and sets 10 kW price

2011-11-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Albert Ellul November 29th, 2011 at 4:29 AM Dear Andrea, May I make one suggestion: Would it be possible to include a counter on you website showing the number of people that have confirmed the pre-order for the 10KW heater?  Just thinking. Andrea Rossi November 29th, 2011 at 9:29 AM N

Re: [Vo]:Building E-Cat based thermal electricity plants

2011-11-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:50 PM 11/28/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: Is the 1MW in addition to, or instead of the 100kW ?

[Vo]:eCat/Hyperion output level control

2011-11-30 Thread Alan J Fletcher
A long time ago Rossi said that an eCat's output could be continuously variable between 0% and 100%. He hasn't said that recently. Defkalion/Hyperion also says it's bang-bang (on/off) .. "In general, the mean time to put a Hyperion from 0 to 100% of its capacity is 6,5min.". For both syst

Re: [Vo]:eCat/Hyperion output level control

2011-11-30 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:13 AM 11/30/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: You do not have to worry about wasting heat. It costs nothing. On the other hand it would be annoying to have to leave the cooling fans on. It would be noisy and it would cause wear and tear. At COP=6 I think you DO have to worry. COP=20, no.

[Vo]:Energy Catalyzer Wiki : FLAT EARTH! FLAT EARTH! FLAT EARTH!

2011-12-02 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer The Wiki "Reliable Source" police have won.  Brian Josephson has been driven off, and I'm giving up. Since the discussion on an article is removed after a month or so, I'm putting up my "final straws" for the record. The article is chock-a-block ful

Re: [Vo]:LENR presentation by Dennis Bushnell

2011-12-02 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:05 PM 12/2/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: Yes. He had so many basic facts wrong in his interview with ev-world, it should have been an embarrassment to NASA. Like all the other fans of Widom & Larsen, they love to point out how the theory avoids the Coulomb barrier (in an exothermic reaction), an

Re: [Vo]:LENR presentation by Dennis Bushnell

2011-12-02 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 03:08 PM 12/2/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: The simple fact is that it takes 780 keV localized on a single atomic site to cause electron-capture by a proton. WL try to explain how that might happen, but they don't admit that you only have to concentrate about 100 keV into a single atomic site to ge

Re: [Vo]: ECAT Triggered by Cosmic Rays?

2011-12-05 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:24 PM 12/5/2011, Andrea Selva wrote: Sorry Jed. I apologize for the quite rude joke. Couldn't resist. I still think that the eCat's neutrinos are interfering with the LHC's tachyonic neutrino experiment. Or vice-versa. Did you notice that Rossi always lines up the eCats in the same dire

Re: [Vo]:Ni producer

2011-12-05 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:03 PM 12/5/2011, Alain dit le Cycliste wrote: not so false. according to Rossi's E-cat figures, it would consume 25% of annual Ni production to produce the annual energy. in my opinion, according to defkalion info, the powder seems simple. the reactor and the H bottle seems the most expe

Re: [Vo]:Re: Krivit article on NASA Forum

2011-12-05 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:30 PM 12/5/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: We don't know what tests Ampenergo did -- perhaps it was more of the uncalibrated and error prone heat of vaporization of steam type experiments that Rossi is so fond of doing even though liquid coolant as used by Levi is much easier and better.  If you kno

Re: [Vo]:MSNBC reports on Rossi visit to Massachusetts

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:17 AM 12/6/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: Idea of a cold fusion plant in Massachusetts explored http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45557227/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/idea-cold-fusion-plant-massachusetts-explored/#.Tt3c0lbbDRQ "Life's little mysteries" has been covering Rossi intermittently,

Re: [Vo]:MSNBC reports on Rossi visit to Massachusetts

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:26 AM 12/6/2011, Mary Yugo wrote:They shouldn't burn the bodies -- better to make Soylent Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green The same article also links to : Eat the Old: Could Mass Cannibalism Solve a Future Food Shortage? < http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/soylent-gre

Re: [Vo]:a long paper about and mainly against the E-cat

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:37 AM 12/6/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: By the way, the article has an interesting way of cheating the power-in measurement. See the last figure. I don't think Rossi does this but I can't rule it out. In the photos, the line cord is taken apart and the wire being measured looks like it's a s

[Vo]:LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I've just finished a marathon multi-day session of skimming through the excellent http://lenr-canr.org  library. These are really just bookmarks to myself of papers that are worth reading properly.  I restricted myself to about 2005+ ... mainly to weed out "first impressions". I've tagged most of

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:47 AM 12/6/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-12-06 20:15, Alan J Fletcher wrote: By the way, have you checked if this archive contains things not included in lenr-canr.org ? http://www.iscmns.org/library.htm I didn't have that list.  There do seem to be papers not in Jed's

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:47 AM 12/6/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Good job, but I'll play the devil's advocate by saying that many of them are not peer reviewed papers and because of this hard skeptics would reject them at once. I was just building a reading list (thanks anyway) ... and did a coupla-minute skim

[Vo]:Re: LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol4.pdf#page=40   2011 has some good papers ...  many follow-ons, eg A. Meulenberg and K.P. Sinha / Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science 4 (2011) 241–255 expands on lochons : and p+e in particular.

Re: [Vo]:Re: LENR-CANR Theory Papers JCMNS Vol 4

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:42 PM 12/6/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol4.pdf#page=40   2011 has some good papers ...  many follow-ons, eg A. Meulenberg and K.P. Sinha / Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science 4 (2011) 241–255 expands on lochons : and p+e in particular. Adding

[Vo]:Re: LENR-CANR Theory Papers JCMNS 5

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol5.pdf Pretty much a special issue on : P.L. Hagelstein and I.U. Chaudhary / Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science 5 (2011) 52-71 Energy Exchange In The Lossy Spin-Boson Model (and their reviewer wanted more!)

Re: [Vo]:Re: LENR-CANR Theory Papers ISIS sumamry

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
There's a summary (2007) at : http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HowColdFusionWorks.php Covers some of the (ideas in) papers in my list.

Re: [Vo]:Re: LENR-CANR Theory Papers ISIS Cook, lattice models

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Cook's Lattice model of the nucleus seems to be getting a bit of traction (what, 35 years on?) another pdf ... http://iccf15.frascati.enea.it/ICCF15-PRESENTATIONS/S8_O2_Cook.pdf Essay : http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Cook_FQXiEssayNDCook_2.pdf (Or maybe if you google  nucleus drop,s

Re: [Vo]:Brian Ahern Will Not Be Presenting on December 7, 2011

2011-12-06 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:43 PM 12/6/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: This is unexpected. Does anybody know why Dr. Brian Ahern won't be presenting his findings on LENR tomorrow as originally planned? A comment on that page --  nextbigfuture (site owner) Apparently the organizer has said things and posted articles abo

[Vo]:Bill Gates to build a new nuclear reactor -- with China

2011-12-07 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/07/bill-gates-to-build-next-gen-nuclear-reactors-with-china/ BEIJING –  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed Wednesday he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new and safer kind of nuclear reactor. "The idea is to be very low cost, very

RE: [Vo]:Will tests surface mounted thermocouples on pipe

2011-12-08 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 12:54 PM 12/8/2011, Robert Leguillon wrote: Coming in late on this. General comments : your plastic-pipe situation is a poor model of Rossi's copper heat-exchanger manifold. Let's give you some numbers to show you how futile this is, and how Houke's method is insufficient to model the dynamic

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-09 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:28 AM 12/8/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: On 2011-12-06 20:15, Alan J Fletcher wrote: I've just finished a marathon multi-day session of skimming through the excellent http://lenr-canr.org <http://lenr-canr.org/> library. Another link for you. It contains documents not inclu

Re: [Vo]:Romney: Hot For Cold Fusion?

2011-12-09 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:52 AM 12/9/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: David ledin wrote: Look like Romney is a big fan of cold fusion. http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2011/12/08/romney-hot-for-cold-fusion.aspx That is astounding! Amazing that he has even heard about it. He has the details wrong,

[Vo]:The Thermodynamics of Making Coffee

2011-12-12 Thread Alan J Fletcher
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/coffee-pot-physics/ See ... our efforts on the Ecat weren't wasted! (lenr.qumbu.com -- analyzing the Rossi/Focardi eCat -- Hi, google!)

Re: Aw: [Vo]:God Revealed Tomorrow?

2011-12-13 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:57 PM 12/12/2011, peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: So far I have read, they got strong evidence, but not this high evidence that is needed for such a fundamental discovery. They are not like Rossi. They will test it again and again and doubt and harden it by all possible methods, before they c

[Vo]:Defkalion tells a reader : visit us

2011-12-14 Thread Alan J Fletcher
edpell : Guys, you have a nice website. Do you have any proof of any existence beyond a website? DKT: Come and visit us! (send us with a PM or an e-mail with your personal data first) Xanthou 3, Glyfada Athens, Greece Thank you (lenr.qumbu.com -- analyzing the Rossi/Focardi eCat -- Hi, go

Re: [Vo]:The Thermodynamics of Making Coffee (HTTP joke)

2011-12-14 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 05:37 PM 12/12/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/coffee-pot-physics/ I was reminded elsewhere of the HTCPCP error code 418 http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/6508102407/in/set-72157628409467125 (see: www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt    Any attempt to

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion tells a reader : visit us

2011-12-14 Thread Alan J Fletcher
M.Y. : Can you mention the name of any well known scientist, engineer, reporter or major company which has visited you, been favorably impressed by the technology you showed them, and with whom we could get confirmation of the visit? No trade secrets or product specifications are requested --

[Vo]:eCat Electric COP : 2

2011-12-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Andrea Rossi December 15th, 2011 at 2:46 AM Dear Aussie Guy: To make 1 thermal MWh/h of energy you will need 160 kWh/h (thermal or electric). This system will yield 300-330 kWh/h of electric energy. This, with the best available conversion system we got so far. In sustained mode this can be up

[Vo]:Crowd-funded test? List of pro-LENR scientists

2011-12-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
A couple of articles on my daily scan : A Crowd Funding Approach to E-Cat Testing http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/12/1499/ ... One idea that has been brought up on this site recently that might serve to break the deadlock is that interested people might purchase a 1 MW plant through a crowdfundin

Re: [Vo]:Crowd-funded test? List of pro-LENR scientists

2011-12-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:14 AM 12/15/2011, Akira Shirakawa wrote: Would he really be able to replicate sustained kW-level excess heat (of course, with watt-level input) with just $50,000 in funding or so? Serious question. Without the secret Magic Unicorn dust? Probably not.

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion tells a reader : visit us

2011-12-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:32 AM 12/15/2011, Peter Heckert wrote: The mechanism is constructed in such a way that any hard x-rays so far, so good ... or external gamma measurements are detected and it will trigger. How can you detect an EXTERNAL gamma measurement? Or do you mean that an attempt to probe the in

Re: [Vo]:E-cat article by Haiko Leitz

2011-12-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:45 AM 12/15/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: Just to be clear, no one is talking about heating the outside box metal envelope. My focus is entirely the inside box, the 30 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm inside box, the insides of which no one has seen. It is easy to place a thermal mass inside this vo

Re: [Vo]:E-cat article by Haiko Leitz

2011-12-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:08 AM 12/15/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: I need to add phase-change salts (and possibly even ceramic bricks) to my fakes paper. Can you give me / point me to a likely candidate? http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~meam502/project/reviewexample2.pdf    (2007) Very few with a melting-point above

Re: [Vo]:e-cat replication by Celani

2011-12-16 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:06 AM 12/16/2011, Robert Lynn wrote: Celani says that the Greeks of today have passed Defaklion Rossi, from the technological point of view. [Editor's note. others believe that Defkalion has put together a nice frame and a beautiful body ... but do not have the "engine"]. Celani's t

Re: [Vo]:Celani claims to have replicated Rossi

2011-12-19 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:35 PM 12/19/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: http://energycatalyzer3.com/news/top-italian-scientist-claims-to-have-achieved-nickel-hydrogen-cold-fusion Hard to tell ... since that's an echo of an echo from a google translation of Passerini's blog On p1 of comments Passi said he would get

[Vo]:Next Rossi customer update

2011-12-20 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Thomas Di Pietro December 20th, 2011 at 1:22 PM December 20th, 2011 at 1:22 PM Dear Engineer Rossi  [ google translate : ]  A few days ago we confirmed that it sold another 1-megawatt plant to a U.S. customer who seem not to want to remain anonymous. As soon as the contract of sale was ready

Re: [Vo]:Next Rossi customer update

2011-12-20 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:07 PM 12/20/2011, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: Could it be Black Light Power? Hmmm ... they're in New Jersey, so it qualifies as "North East". But I think Rossi would regard them as a snake/competitor.

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-20 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I don't remember seeing this : Fralick Slides Slide 14 has a nice summary of theories (transcribe

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:12 PM 12/20/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Take it or leave it. I'll take it ... thanks! Coincidentally, today Krivit comes out with : LENR Real; Rossi and Defkalion Dubious

Re: [Vo]:LENR-CANR Theory Papers

2011-12-20 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 03:29 PM 12/20/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: Ultra-Low Momentum Neutrons (Widom and Larsen) [ I think his title's wrong ... WEAK force capture of heavy electron and proton, giving U-L-M-N ] May BAD!!! That's the first few words from W&L's title !

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Happy Solstice / Let it Snow

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:27 AM 12/21/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: Happy Solstice! Too hot in here! Damn it! S Try typing "let it snow" into google.

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:38 PM 12/21/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: Simpler explanation: Jed's witness is not telling the truth. We don't know who this guy is so for our point of view this is completely possible that he is saying things that are not true. Unless we know more about the witness (and even in that

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:45 PM 12/21/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: If LENR is real it would be a perfect ground for citizen scientists. Lets see ... poisonous nano-nickel powder, explosive high-temperature hydrogen, gamma rays (are you sure that you'll get eCat-level 500KEV, and not Celani's needle-pegging b

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:54 PM 12/21/2011, you wrote: What makes Rossi's better than a good science amateur? Well, he hired Focardi to check on the radiation. So it WAS done under adult supervision.

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion : factory location

2011-12-22 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:25 PM 12/20/2011, Giovanni Santostasi wrote: AND HERE IT IS ! Go on the left of the academy and you see a symbol of a factory. If you translate from Greek this what you get: Former Factory Atmatzidis Defkalion says no : http://www.defkalion-energy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4983#p4983 X

Re: [Vo]:Mathematical modeling versus a blacksmith

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 07:10 AM 12/23/2011, Yram Oguy wrote: Ha! Your cleverly disguised name is a FAKE. Your REAL name is Yra M. O'Guy so .. BUSTED !

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:44 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Aseptic technique may be imperfect in many places but hundreds of thousands of death due to negligence?  Cite please.  And not some whacko website, please. http://www.safepatientproject.org/2007/05/cdc_publishes_sobering_stats_o.html In a newly released

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:53 PM 12/23/2011, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 02:44 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Aseptic technique may be imperfect in many places but hundreds of thousands of death due to negligence?  Cite please.  And not some whacko website, please. http://www.safepatientproject.org/2007/05

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate? 17C London

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
17th Century London : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070102/Royal-Society-exhibition-John-Graunts-1679-medical-stats-reveal-Londoners-causes-death.html http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/05/article-0-0F0E28C60578-628_964x1085.jpg Consumption and Cough is in the lead, at 44,487

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:22 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Ah... but you see, not every infection in a hospital is preventable, even with the most meticulous technique. While a few doctors are slobs and a few hospital are trash pits, most in the US are not. People get infections from their relatives and visito

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:35 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Some is avoidable, some not. The problem is less with doctors and nurses than it is with aides of various types, janitors, food workers, and all the other less educated hospital staff. Hospital Infections: Preventable and Unacceptable WSJ 2008 : http:

Re: [Vo]:POLITICAL What is the best way to advocate?

2011-12-23 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:35 PM 12/23/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Some is avoidable, some not. The problem is less with doctors and nurses than it is with aides of various types, janitors, food workers, and all the other less educated hospital staff. 5 google clicks seems to disprove your hypothesis. eg http://www.s

Re: [Vo]:high altitude airships now flight testing: Rich Murray 2011.12.29

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:10 AM 12/29/2011, Rich Murray wrote: high altitude airships now flight testing: Rich Murray 2011.12.29 Fascinating stuff : the weather / piloting http://airshipstothearctic.com/docs/pr/Weather_and_Piloting.pdf was particularly interesting Dynamic monte-carlo weather simulation route-a

Re: [Vo]:A Curious 2003 Cold Fusion Patent Application

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:57 PM 12/28/2011, Horace Heffner wrote: Wow. Rossi had better hope he doesn't get the same examiner. (Particularly failure to disclose "best mode" -- which doesn't even have to be "active concealment"). All the prior art stuff is well done. A couple of quibbles ... rather fatal to pr

Re: [Vo]:Extraordinary Evidence of nuclear reaction in cold fusion experiment.

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:43 AM 12/29/2011, David ledin wrote: Extraordinary Evidence of nuclear reaction in cold fusion experiment. http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2006/2006ExtraordinaryEvidence.pdf ... a grin spread across Gordon's face. "This is great," he beamed. "In the old days, we couldn't even start c

RE: [Vo]:LENR & 'Proliferation' was: US DOE alters its stance on LENR and Rossi?

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:31 AM 12/29/2011, Jones Beene wrote: Makes no sense to argue otherwise. Bite the bullet. There is no evidence of hydrogen fusion in Rossi; and there are many hours of data showing that no radiation over background is occurring - and moreover it was done using a very capable monitoring devic

[Vo]:Domestic eCat spec : 10 kW Heat + AC

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Kai Tønder December 29th, 2011 at 4:44 PM Dear Rossi, Will it be possible to connect your unit to a 12V car battery? I would like to use it at a hut where we do not have any other form for power then 12V. Also, is one unit sufficient to keep a jacuzzi warm ? If yes to both, please add me to y

[Vo]:Radio24 interviews : 12/21 Rossi,Lewan 12/22 Giudice,Celani

2011-12-29 Thread Alan J Fletcher
22passi on 21 December :  Mr Kilowatt finisce in bellezza (Mr Kilowatt ending in Beauty) < http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/12/mr-kilowatt-finisce-in-bellezza.html > The following from google translate (I'm not sure if the links come through .. go via 22passi ) Tonight at 21 on Radio24 , Maurizi

Re: [Vo]:Eatlim claims 50% thermal to electrical conversion efficiency

2011-12-30 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:31 AM 12/30/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32267/ http://www.technologyreview.com/files/53183/engine_x220.jpg It's a DALEK!! Exterminate! Exterminate!

Re: [Vo]:Eatlim claims 50% thermal to electrical conversion efficiency

2011-12-30 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:31 AM 12/30/2011, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/32267/ But : A second prototype that aims for 20 to 30 percent efficiency at 500 °C is expected this spring. "To get from 40 percent to 50 percent, we need to raise the temperature to 1,000 °C, and t

Re: [Vo]:Lewis Larsen (Lattice Energy) discusses irony of LENR politics

2011-12-30 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Krivit finally convinced me : LENR Researcher Refuses to Abandon "Fusion" Term that "neutron capture" (and subsequent decay to a proton) is NOT fusion, per wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_capture

[Vo]:Rossi 1 Year Experiment at Bologna

2011-03-04 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Hi folks .. I've been following you for a while, but this is my first post March 3rd, 2011 at 6:25 PM Dear Renaissance Man: Thank you for your kind blessing. I always appreciate it. I need it. We are now making a R&D work

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