[Vo]:Rossi Nickel enrichment : is a liquid-phase Calutron possible?

2011-11-03 Thread Berke Durak
, and the isotopic composition may well be indistinguishable from that of natural copper. Now if that enrichment process is feasible, we need to run some numbers to see if 200 W.h is in the ball park for 5 x enrichment of Ni-64. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Nickel enrichment : is a liquid-phase Calutron possible?

2011-11-04 Thread Berke Durak
are present swirling in the opposite direction. I don't know how that would affect the Ni2+ ions. Any physicists / electrochemists in the room? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Nickel enrichment : is a liquid-phase Calutron possible?

2011-11-04 Thread Berke Durak
for the depleted feedstock. That is key. There seldom is a market, but since nickel has that as its major feature, then an enriched isotope on a mass production scale, for a NiH energy system, is not out of the question. -Original Message- From: Berke Durak On Thu, Nov 3, 2011

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Nickel enrichment : is a liquid-phase Calutron possible?

2011-11-05 Thread Berke Durak
ratio in natural nickel is not enough for self-sustained operation. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Some thoughts about preparation of nickel powder

2011-11-06 Thread Berke Durak
Hi Pasha, Could you give an estimate for the energy required for preparing 10 kg of nickel following that procedure? Rossi claims 200 W.h is sufficient. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-07 Thread Berke Durak
, and the amount of iron required would be about 250 kg per module. Look at the pictures of the e-Cat. The modules are standing on pieces of metal supported by 5 cm x 5 cm angle sections about 5mm thick. I don't think you can put 500 - 750 kg over 1.5 m on such angle sections. -- Berke durak

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-07 Thread Berke Durak
9.5e9/5.25e9 = 1.81 cubic meters. Assume you have 50 modules of 70 cm x 30 cm x 45 cm. That makes 4.7 cubic meters. Not enough space for cement (unless you know of some special kind of cement.) Using iron, it would fit, but it would weight way too much, at 250 kg per module. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-07 Thread Berke Durak
is false, anything goes and there is nothing left to investigate. You have to put faith in something, otherwise it is pointless to discuss - just call it a scam and move on. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-08 Thread Berke Durak
.  In the 1MW demo, the steam is condensed and fed back in, there is no way of knowing how much water was actually vaporized. How did they get the 3716 liters of vaporized water figure then? -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Berke Durak
that can be there only if this is a hoax, such models won't speak for the hoax hypothesis. -- Berke Durak

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

2011-11-08 Thread Berke Durak
before we poison what little drinkable water is left by fracking or nuclear disasters. Maybe we deserve to die. -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:Oct. 28 demo: 3716 liters of water vaporized

2011-11-11 Thread Berke Durak
) Are there other techniques for getting rid of water? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Oct. 28 demo: 3716 liters of water vaporized

2011-11-11 Thread Berke Durak
was escaped neither to drain nor air. That's not getting rid of water. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Oct. 28 demo: 3716 liters of water vaporized

2011-11-11 Thread Berke Durak
liters of water in 5.5 hours so that it escapes into the atmosphere? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Oct. 28 demo: 3716 liters of water vaporized

2011-11-12 Thread Berke Durak
. The input energy was only 238 MJ. There is clearly a large amount of excess energy, unless we assume that the whole report and everything else was falsified. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Oct. 28 demo: 3716 liters of water vaporized

2011-11-12 Thread Berke Durak
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Peter Heckert peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: Am 13.11.2011 01:47, schrieb Berke Durak: Even if only water flowed through the pipe, and even if we assume that its temperature was actually only 100 degrees, then at least 1.17 GJ of energy would be required

[Vo]:Hypothetical diagram of the Oct. 28th E-Cat

2011-11-12 Thread Berke Durak
After watching the available footage and looking at the pictures of the Oct. 28th demo, I have just drawn a diagram of the system as I think it was that day. http://i.imgur.com/Ipn7W.png Please report any inaccuracies or misuse of engineering symbols. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Hypothetical diagram of the Oct. 28th E-Cat

2011-11-12 Thread Berke Durak
in the video available on Youtube. It has a sticker that reads Altertecno 450 KVA. I can add another 300 KVA genset for version 2. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Hypothetical diagram of the Oct. 28th E-Cat

2011-11-12 Thread Berke Durak
.) http://imgur.com/Nxaj2 -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Hypothetical diagram of the Oct. 28th E-Cat

2011-11-13 Thread Berke Durak
. Where these the pumps you meant, Albert? Missing are : - the automatic valves for keeping the water level. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Hypothetical diagram of the Oct. 28th E-Cat

2011-11-13 Thread Berke Durak
. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Hypothetical diagram of the Oct. 28th E-Cat

2011-11-15 Thread Berke Durak
. http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=516cpage=12#comment-118170 -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Imputing pressure at the output thermocouple for Rossi's Oct 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread Berke Durak
m pipe length to the condensers is correct. Also, these measurements are based on a container width of 2.6 m as given in the report - corroborated by a deduced floor tile size of 30 cm. -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:High school physics says 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread Berke Durak
So you have water in the two 1000 l reservoirs with an average temperature of ~18 degrees (Celsius). Output temperature was 104.5 C average. I don't give a damn about steam. I presume the boiler wasn't operating at sub-atmospheric pressure, right? So let's just say that the water was heated to

Re: [Vo]:High school physics says 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread Berke Durak
, but it would weight way too much, at 250 kg per module. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:High school physics says 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo

2011-11-16 Thread Berke Durak
of excess energy, and the only non-cold-fusion explanation involves an international conspiracy and technologically non-trivial deception. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:High school physics says 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo

2011-11-17 Thread Berke Durak
it a bit for only 1 kW. Claiming that the energy comes from that amount of hydrogen is equivalent to admitting nuclear reactions. -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:Rossi: Only two theories left. The big conspiracy theory and the true energy production theory.

2011-11-17 Thread Berke Durak
path of technological innovation and have been mostly met with accusations of fraud. They noticed that no conceivable demonstration would be good enough for pseudoskeptics, so they focus on commercialization, which is the only way to get the devices accepted. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:High school physics says 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo

2011-11-18 Thread Berke Durak
might have come from the pre-heating period need to provide plausible accumulation, storage and retrieval mechanisms compatible with the claimed geometries of the reactors. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:High school physics says 1 GJ excess energy for the Oct. 28 demo

2011-11-19 Thread Berke Durak
the thing running? -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:So Rossi has a real Ph.D. obtained in 1975

2011-11-20 Thread Berke Durak
this disinformation about Rossi being a chalatan with a fake PhD from a diploma mill coming from? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-20 Thread Berke Durak
the pumps were controlled. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-20 Thread Berke Durak
. The input temperature rises by a few degrees. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:So Rossi has a real Ph.D. obtained in 1975

2011-11-21 Thread Berke Durak
I'm being told that Dottore Magistrale in Filosofia is the equivalent to a master's degree, and not to a Ph.D. Are there any Italian-speaking persons familiar with Italian research education here that could comment on this? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Berke Durak
) there is a frigging control system. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-21 Thread Berke Durak
. I find your rate of change of power transfer too high vs thermal inertia argument intriguing, but it would be nice if you could explain it logically and numerically. Currently, your explanations are entangled with a multitude of hypotheses and suppositions. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Berke Durak
. If you pump in water, you may cover more of the heating element if it has vertical surfaces, and thus arbitrarily increase the power transfer. Sincerely, -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Berke Durak
. The current can be ramped up very quickly. So if you start pumping more, the water level rises, and so does the evaporation rate and the power transfer. In principle, you just have to control the pumps and provide enough power to have a dQ/dt as high as you wish (within limits, of course). -- Berke

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-22 Thread Berke Durak
. I like that idea, but maybe someone knows better. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: ECAT 1 MW Test Discrepancy

2011-11-23 Thread Berke Durak
to capacity? Please explain. What was the capacity of the pumps? How many pumps were on? Do you know how they were they controlled? If you have all that information, why don't you share? Sincerely, -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:E-Cat 1MW Demo Water Clog Theory

2011-11-23 Thread Berke Durak
know how fast the water mixed, nor where the input temperature sensor was. Here is a diagram explaining this scenario: http://i.imgur.com/LLtrR.png Also, note that for water to boil at 112 degrees you need a pressure of about 150 kPa, which is about five meters of water. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat 1MW Demo Water Clog Theory

2011-11-24 Thread Berke Durak
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com wrote: David Roberson proposed a theory where a water clog forms because of condensation. Because of this clog, pressure and temperature rises until

Re: [Vo]:Andrea Rossi Working with Domenico Fioravanti on Electrical Power from E-Cat

2011-11-25 Thread Berke Durak
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, vorl bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: Since lead melts at 327 Celsius, is there some lead alloy that would keep it solid at 450? What's wrong with tungsten? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:hydrogen refill

2011-11-26 Thread Berke Durak
of 277 l. The modules were arranged in 8 or 10 rows of 5 m (since that is the dimension of the container). That's likely 40 to 50 m of tubing. That tubing with an inner radius of 2.66 - 3 mm. It all makes perfect sense to me. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:hydrogen refill

2011-11-26 Thread Berke Durak
Sorry I meant diameter. The inner DIAMETER of tubing would have to be 2.66 - 3 mm. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:hydrogen refill

2011-11-26 Thread Berke Durak
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Peter Heckert peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: Doesnt happen to a Nato Colonel with 30 years of experience. These guys are topfit, far above average. Are you seriously claiming that a category of people doesn't make mistakes? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Why Rossi's E-cat is claimed to have a COP of around 6

2011-11-26 Thread Berke Durak
sarcasm. I'd be happier when you guys come up with real arguments and not silly I don't like his handwriting! arguments. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Why Rossi's E-cat is claimed to have a COP of around 6

2011-11-26 Thread Berke Durak
be protected from vulgar language? PS. How about a ban on ad hominem attacks and unsusbtantiated accusations or insinuations of scam or incompetence? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Put your money where your mouth is - for charity

2011-11-28 Thread Berke Durak
the use of at least 25 GJ. That's 29 days of use for a 10 kW e-Cat.) -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:Detailed 1-MW demo temperature analysis ; peak power = 490 kW, mean power 461 kW.

2011-11-28 Thread Berke Durak
person. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Detailed 1-MW demo temperature analysis ; peak power = 490 kW, mean power 461 kW.

2011-11-29 Thread Berke Durak
demo, so minor adjustments and reasonable hypotheses are needed to make sense of it. So far I haven't found anything significantly wrong with the 1 MW demo. Also I still don't understand your instantaneous power transfer discontinuity argument. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Padua University not Siena made the analysis

2011-12-05 Thread Berke Durak
in that range wouldn't have been detected by Villa - this is clearly stated in the abstract. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Padua University not Siena made the analysis

2011-12-05 Thread Berke Durak
excess heat. (3) You cannot exclude a small amount of energetic gammas being produced. So you could get most of the heat from 200 keV photons, plus the occasional 750 keV photon. Remember that guy who measured a gamma spike while Rossi was adjusting a reactor in the other room? -- Berke Durak

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

2011-12-06 Thread Berke Durak
CF/LENR/CANR/whatever it turns out to be. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:[Rossi] University RD has gone away?

2011-12-06 Thread Berke Durak
is heavier than the most abundant isotope Ni-58 by a hopping 10%, making separation way easier than, say, uranium enrichment. -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:Transcript of Low Energy Nuclear Revolution

2011-12-06 Thread Berke Durak
and participated! Free for non commercial use. Televisions, radios, newspapers, in or out the net, and web sites with advertising can contact us for permission:l...@phizero.it -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:Celani: gamma spike during ignition of Rossi reactor

2011-12-07 Thread Berke Durak
. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:[Rossi] University RD has gone away?

2011-12-07 Thread Berke Durak
is needed, but we cannot rule out the possibility that raising the Ni-64 fraction by a couple percentage points would not be sufficient. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Celani: gamma spike during ignition of Rossi reactor

2011-12-07 Thread Berke Durak
during its functioning. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Celani: gamma spike during ignition of Rossi reactor

2011-12-07 Thread Berke Durak
may be right about that. But there might very well be low energy radiation. Also, there might still be high-enery radiation since the physics of the device are not understood -- how about that heavy electron shielding? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Celani: gamma spike during ignition of Rossi reactor

2011-12-07 Thread Berke Durak
ordinary scintillators and probes. There was a hole in the shielding, but there's plenty of material left to shield the reactions. So you just cannot say that there was or wasn't low-energy ( 200 keV) gammas. Finally, why all the hate? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:entanglement broadcasting

2011-12-15 Thread Berke Durak
Axil Axil wrote: I think I can safely say no one understands quantum mechanics, the late physicist Richard Feynman once famously explained. Does anyone know if and how entanglement effects are explained in stochastic electrodynamics? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:CALL FOR REDIRECT OF SOME TOPICS OR DISCUSSIONS TO VORTEX-B

2011-12-19 Thread Berke Durak
-based forums can inject malware, and web sites can be blocked. Lots of people may be reading Vortex e-mails from work; if Vortex moves to a web-based forum, some of them may no longer be able to participate due to IT policies in effect at their workplaces. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:CALL FOR REDIRECT OF SOME TOPICS OR DISCUSSIONS TO VORTEX-B

2011-12-19 Thread Berke Durak
are discussed, this is totally inappropriate. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:What it takes to fake

2013-05-23 Thread Berke Durak
3. The clamp ammeters are incapable of detecting not only DC but also incapable of detecting frequencies above about 60 Hz. I think you meant 60 kHz. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: Some points to ponder, if you run the numbers: 1. To produce the supposed

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes

2013-05-27 Thread Berke Durak
Wouldn't harmonics show on the power analyzer? On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Duncan Cumming spacedr...@cumming.info wrote: With chopped DC, a clamp on ammeter will show the AC component. So if you had 0 to 1 amp chopped, the ammeter would show 0.5 amps peak AC. So you get a partial reading,

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-29 Thread Berke Durak
In fact I said the 3-phase input to the box was particularly unnecessary *because* only single-phase was used for the box. There are legitimate reasons to prefer 3-phase input. If the output of the control box is a pulse width-modulated DC signal, then you need a high-power DC source. There

Re: [Vo]:Gibbs: Rossi's A Fraud! No, He's Not! Yes, He Is! No, He Isn't!

2013-05-30 Thread Berke Durak
. The map = Theory The territory = Experiments It's not on the map = No good theory If it's not on the map, it can't exist! (Our map makers are very good.) = It doesn't fit physics thus it's pseudo-science! (Our scientists are very good.) -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-30 Thread Berke Durak
indeed Rossi bother with that if he didn't have a true need to industrialize his product? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:new hypothesis to confute regarding input energy in Ecat test

2013-05-31 Thread Berke Durak
works. Triphase is legit and not suspicious, that's all I'm saying. Your claim that it only makes sense as a scamming aid remains unsupported. -- Berke Durak

[Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Berke Durak
To deceive an electronics guy, one may use a chemistry trick. To deceive a chemist, one may use software tricks. To deceive a computer scientist, one may use a physics trick. But using an electricity trick to deceive a group of experts sent by a power industry association is stupid. -- Berke

Re: [Vo]:On deception. 3rd EE

2013-06-01 Thread Berke Durak
Does anyone know if the power analyzer sees DC *VOLTAGES*? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]: DC Meter Cheat Spice Model to be Replicated

2013-06-02 Thread Berke Durak
Dave, Can the power analyzer sense DC voltages? I haven't been able to figure this out from the manual or the datasheet, but I'm sure someone who has actual experience with three-phase power measurements should be able to answer that question. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Wiki on E-CAT

2013-06-03 Thread Berke Durak
dependence on third-party infrastructure is minimal and replaceable but it's a bit too easy for opponents to flood and derail discussions. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Wiki on E-CAT

2013-06-03 Thread Berke Durak
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Berke Durak, My interest was to get Wiki to correct their entry. Not clear to me how Reddit can help that. The idea is that pro-LENR people could collaboratively work on a wiki where they have editorial control, whose

[Vo]:AC/DC, power, etc.

2013-06-05 Thread Berke Durak
poltergeist effects. That's why we need to know if the power analyzer senses DC voltages. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Why are pseudoskeptics so relentless in their mission to debunk?

2013-06-05 Thread Berke Durak
codes tattooed on our foreheads might be prerequisites for letting CF develop. But it seems like we need cheap energy for world peace to begin with. So maybe Rossi didn't die in a car accident early in the game because his device is not readily weaponizable... -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:AC/DC, power, etc.

2013-06-06 Thread Berke Durak
equipment nor giving RF burns to anyone. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:AC/DC, power, etc.

2013-06-06 Thread Berke Durak
could say that they switched DC off while they had a multimeter hooked. My point is then that even (3) IS IMPOSSIBLE IF the power meter can sense DC voltages. That holds true even if the experimenters hadn't checked for DC, because it would require very high currents. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-25 Thread Berke Durak
of excess power. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-26 Thread Berke Durak
integrals over time, so the error is: U_DC * I_DC. In other words DC times AC cross-products do not contribute net power. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-26 Thread Berke Durak
be possible, as the temperature would drop rapidly and this would immediately show on the IR video / temp curve. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-26 Thread Berke Durak
using other means. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-27 Thread Berke Durak
trillion behemoth — will shrink to $1.3 billion, one-fourth the size of the bubblegum business. With stakes that high, shouldn't we expect LENR researchers to get offers they can't refuse? -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:arXiv:1306.6364 Comments on the report Indications of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device containing hydrogen loaded nickel powder

2013-06-28 Thread Berke Durak
: The use of the raw electrical signal from the sensor instead of the manufacturer-calibrated temperature represents a new situation and introduces additional unknowns that make the estimation of the output power unreliable. -- Berke Durak

Re: [Vo]:arXiv:1306.6364 Comments on the report Indications of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device containing hydrogen loaded nickel powder

2013-06-29 Thread Berke Durak
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com wrote: So they want a custom-made camera with raw output from the sensor!? I doubt it. The way I read this point was that they wanted the raw data

Re: [Vo]:A bibliography of the Electrically Exploded Conductor Phenomenon

2013-12-19 Thread Berke Durak
Works for me. There, I shortened it: http://tinyurl.com/lyxu8f9 On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 3:53 PM, John Berry berry.joh...@gmail.com wrote: I was using chrome, so I tried FF and then IE, and still it can't resolve the domain. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:My rejected submission to physicsforum cached by google

2016-01-22 Thread Berke Durak
popular press. These claims have been extensively debunked and are not acceptable references under the Physics Forums rules. Their list of banned topics does not include continental drift. -- Berke Durak