[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: > Unless Mizuno can/did address the following problems addressed in the > paper I linked > to in the > previous email, his work has been debunked. > I strongly disagree. > He [Piantelli] supposedly was going to tea

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: > Parkhomov, Defkalion, me356, Rossi of course (consider the connected > papers conducted by academics) . . . > Parkhomov maybe. I don't know if he a professional, and he never published. I meant published results in the scientific literature. > , possibly Brillouin (evident

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: We've seen errors this big before. > I do not think so. Rossi apparently made errors this big, and much bigger: 1 MW. (I think this was fraud, not error.) But I do not know recall any professional scientist who has published a paper which was later shown to have errors on this s

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > During a bake-out at high temperature, no contamination from the the cell > walls or the gasket get into the gas. If the gasket were Cu, and some of it > got into the gas, you would know. During and after a bake-out you run > samples of gas through the mass spec. > As I wrote elsewher

[Vo]:PLEASE try to replicate according to instructions!

2019-06-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Someone wrote to me saying he intends to try to replicate Mizuno's experiment, but at a much higher temperature. I responded: "PLEASE do not make any changes until you have tested the same materials in the same conditions as the original!! Please follow the instructions as closely as you can, and

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Dave Roberson wrote: > With further reading I see that some thin gasket was used. I answered my > own question. Of course the type of material is very critical for anyone > wanting to replicate the experiment. > I do not think the gasket material is critical to replicating the experiment. The

Re: [Vo]: Seals

2019-06-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
The reactor definitely uses metal gasket seals. I couldn't remember what metal, but copper sounds right. There's all kinds. See: http://www.wermac.org/gaskets/gaskets.html On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 3:58 PM Bob Higgins wrote: > Hi Dave, > > This looks like standard conflat UHV gear to me. The ty

Re: [Vo]:Exponential and self-heating reactions are not necessarily unstable

2019-06-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > It would be almost impossible to be sure that the amount of gas was > constant since the pressure varies during operation and small leaks are > inevitable. > Nope. There are no measurable leaks. When there is no reactant in the cell and it is pressurized at some low level, a

Re: [Vo]:Exponential and self-heating reactions are not necessarily unstable

2019-06-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > If the amount of gas in the device is constant . . . As shown in Table 1, he adjusted the gas during the 111 day run, to see the effects of pressure. He kept an inventory of gas to measure loading. But this could be kept constant in a future test. Plus you could probably measure the h

Re: [Vo]:Exponential and self-heating reactions are not necessarily unstable

2019-06-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Arnaud Kodeck wrote: The design of the reactor is huge to compare with the amount of heat. > Oh come now. Obviously it has not been optimized. It is 60 cm long and the meshes are only 30 cm long. It is half empty. It also has not been driven to maximum temperature. Mizuno has projected that it

Re: [Vo]:Exponential and self-heating reactions are not necessarily unstable

2019-06-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: But Mizuno and other have suffered runaway reactions in the past which are > completely unexplained to this day since they did not leave behind > significant activation of materials.. > Right. But not with this system. By the way, Biberian reanalyzed some of these reports. He t

Re: [Vo]: Mizuno's Q and A to a person who wants to replicate

2019-06-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Jurich wrote: > It is most likely that the R20 housing is simply a UHV Mass Spec Section > and is an off-the-shelf component. > I do not think it is. Mizuno says he has a specialty supplier fabricate these reactors according to his specifications.

[Vo]:Exponential and self-heating reactions are not necessarily unstable

2019-06-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Two or three people have suggested to me that Mizuno's reaction must be unstable because it is exponential and self-heating. I do not think so. I commented on this at LENR-forum. Let me copy a few paragraphs. First, you can see this is anomalous heat. Look at the first 10 minutes of Fig. 6, and

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: But what about other kinds of testing? (non thermal) > > > Is there any data from radiation testing, mass spectrometry (appearance of > helium) spectroscopy (Balmer line broadening), film, silver activation or > any kind of non-thermal anomaly which would bolster the case? > I

[Vo]:It is unlikely Mizuno’s results are a mistake

2019-06-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is an edited version of a message I posted at LENR-forum: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/6013-mizuno-reports-increased-excess-heat/?postID=113176#post113176 “SOT” and “THH” are denizens of that forum. Someone at LENR-forum wrote, "I think [Mizuno and Rothwell] probably have made s

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: Mizuno's Q and A to a person who wants to replicate

2019-06-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: If the heater is only consuming 50 W, why does it need to be a 500 W heater? > That is the most he has ever put into it, when it was outside the reactor in front of the fireplace (Fig. 1). That produces too much heat for the calorimeter. Also, I think he needs that to calibrate an empty

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: Mizuno's Q and A to a person who wants to replicate

2019-06-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Arnaud Kodeck wrote: Hi Jed, > > > > Did you have by any chance some more information about the sheath heater? > It is a 2m long, so how is the heater bent? You said (I don’t remember if > it is here or LENRForum) that you will ask the question to Mizuno. > I asked, but he has not had a chance

[Vo]:Fwd: Mizuno's Q and A to a person who wants to replicate

2019-06-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
A person who is thinking of replicating Mizuno's experiment asked series of questions in English. I wrote some responses myself. Then I translated everything into Japanese. Mizuno confirmed my responses and wrote some additional comments. I translated his responses back into English. I recommend t

[Vo]:Revised Mizuno paper

2019-06-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
I made some revisions to the Mizuno paper: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTincreasede.pdf Biggest changes: p. 1. Note: Readers have made valuable suggestions, so we have made some changes and corrections, mainly on p. 12. We appreciate the suggestions. This is the June 24, 2019 version

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno presentation at ICCF-21

2019-06-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alberto De Souza wrote: I would like to suggest a setup for the replication of Misuno’s results. In > this setup we would have two reactors operating side-by-side at the same > time: one active and one dummy . . . Finally, thermocouples would monitor > the temperature in the external metal surfa

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno presentation at ICCF-21

2019-06-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > The most striking thing to me from this presentation is that Mizuno was > using the nickel mesh coated with palladium early on with modest success - > but did not see the big breakthrough until going to a lower pressure regime > (and allowing the reactor itself to heat up.)

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > It increases the output/input ratio (COP) simply because it takes less > electric power to heat the inside to the same temperature. > That has no scientific significance. I just thought I should add it to the list.

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: If the main function of the Mizuno heater wire (very thin resistance wire) > was merely to raise the gas temperature of the reactor – then an external > heater could do the same. > Note that he did use an external heater before, and it worked, but nowhere near as well. Perhaps

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > I asked Mizuno what sort of sheath heater he uses. He uses a 500 W model, > such as the Flexible heater "M2 type micro heater" available at this > website: > By the way, the 500 W version is 2 m long. I don't know how he folded it to fit it into the cell. I asked him. 500 W: https:/

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
H LV wrote: Commercial for Kyukyuto. > > https://youtu.be/W4rOA20hZvw > I love it!

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I asked Mizuno what sort of sheath heater he uses. He uses a 500 W model, such as the Flexible heater "M2 type micro heater" available at this website: https://www.monotaro.com/g/03032749/ He says they are all pretty much the same, so he goes by price. I would add that it has to withstand high te

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > By the way, the name of that detergent is cute. It is Kyukyuto which is > the sound clean wet dishes make when you wife them. Kyu! Kyu! > WIPE them. Not wife. That has to be some kind of Freudian slip. Ahem, let's keep this here, shall we? What happens in Vortex stays in Vortex. I wo

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: He probably needs to include more data. > There is lots more data in the first paper.

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
H LV wrote: In your paper you describe a certain brand of orange scented detergent. Do > you think a successful replication requires it? Harry > See p. 18: It is not clear whether the choice of detergent or the type of plastic in the scrubbing brush has an effect on the outcome of this experime

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: > This replication method goes without saying. But what is the plan for > continuing improvement of this type of reactor? > Here is my plan. First we get a few people to replicate. Then a few more, say 10. They tell others and 20 more replicate. Then 50 more, then a chain react

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: It's not really clear to me whether he re-calibrated everything with the > new reactor. > He re-calibrates everything, every time he puts reactors into the box and seals it up. He does the procedures graphed in the Calorimetry section of the new paper. The traverse test and so o

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: This experiment is so similar to what has been done before over 30 years – > what is the one detail which makes it so much more robust? > Mizuno has some ideas about that which I hope to translate and put in a new paper soon. Ed Storms thinks it is the Pd mechanically bound t

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is some more info. from the invoice for the nickel meshes, from Inada Kanaami, Inc. It says: ニッケル200 綾織金網 0.055X180mesh 200X300 5枚 Let me insert commas. That means: Nickel 200, twill wire mesh, 0.055 x 180 mesh, 200 x 300, 5 sheets Nickel-200 is 99.6% nickel. It is described here: https:/

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I made some minor changes to the paper and uploaded a new version. Biggest change, p. 12: Rubbing is done with a palladium rod, 100 mm long, diameter 5.0 mm, 99.95% purity. Before rubbing the mesh, weight it with a precision scale. Then vigorously rub the entire surface, left and right and up and

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > But, in this system, when you load the Ni high, that reduces or prevents > adsorption into the Ni surface . . . > Onto, not into. People have asked some good questions. I will update the paper to answer them. Such as: Q: How long should I rub the mesh? A: Until the weight increase

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: This lack of dense deuterium loading speaks against the old fusion meme, > doesn't it? The working gas pressure is .003 bar. > Yup. Mizuno's opinion is that to generate cold fusion in pure Ni, you need to load it as high as possible. But, in this system, when you load the Ni hi

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: I would like to suggest and experimental modification as follows: . . . > I would like to suggest that before you make ANY modifications, no matter how slight, you should first do it exactly the way we told you to. Then, if it works, go ahead and modify it to your heart's deligh

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > A molten salt coolant in a flow calorimeter with an inlet temperature of > e.g. > 300 C and an outlet temperature of 300+ C, would allow both accurate > measurement > and high power operation concurrently. The whole should be well insulated > to > ensure low losses. > That would hold t

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jed Rothwell wrote: > I think it is important that the calorimeter not cool the outside wall of > the reactor much more than this air-flow calorimeter does. I think that > would interfere with the reaction, or prevent it. That was a problem with > Mizuno's earlier calorimeter

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > Why not put the reactor in a water bath and confirm the excess heat that > way? … or water flow. > I think a water bath would kill the heat. As we wrote in the paper: We recommend air-flow calorimetry for this experiment. The reactor walls must be hot for this reaction to o

[Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
In the upcoming ICCF22 conference, Tadahiko Mizuno will report increased excess heat with nickel mesh coated with palladium. The results are dramatic, so we decided to upload a preprint of his paper. To understand the calorimetry, you have to read his ICCF21 paper. Unfortunately, the ICCF21 Proceed

Re: [Vo]:CNBC: Brad Pitt and Laurene Powell Jobs are reportedly invested in a mysterious 'cold fusion' energy company

2019-06-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > > OMG – Industrial Heat is the big mystery? Give me a break. > That is hilarious. It is a little like calling me "a man of mystery." As Martin Fleischmann used to say, "we are painfully conventional people." That is one of ironies of cold fusion. Fleischmann and the others

Re: [Vo]:Financial Times article on cold fusion

2019-06-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
David L. Babcock wrote: Hey! Paywall! Give us a brief synopses ! > Try the other link, from Google. I am curious to see if it works for other people. Here are the first two paragraphs: "Thirty years ago, I was the first reporter to write about the sensational claim by two respected chemistry

Re: [Vo]:Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of Japan CF Research Society JCF19

2019-06-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: Anyone who wants something translated should get it done by someone who's > first > language is the target language, and who's second language is the source > language. > It is a problem, isn't it? When people have to read a paragraph two or three times because it is poorly written, they

Re: [Vo]:Financial Times article on cold fusion

2019-06-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
That link may be behind a paywall. Try this: https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.ft.com/content/4233196a-82cb-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjEwOTgwMDQzNjU3NjMwMTI5MzIaOWRjOWRkNDQ0ZjJjNDJiNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEC0RfGv6Db-95-bClUlOQY7kGDbA

[Vo]:Financial Times article on cold fusion

2019-06-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: https://www.ft.com/content/4233196a-82cb-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b

[Vo]:Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of Japan CF Research Society JCF19

2019-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://jcfrs.org/file/jcf19-proceedings.pdf Other Proceedings: http://jcfrs.org/proc_jcf.html

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette cited wrong paper, and apparently tried to do Rossi experiment

2019-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Okay, the second time they talk about the Ni-H experiments, they reference Levi et al.: 61. Levi, G., et al., *Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device containing hydrogen loaded nickel powder* 2013: Bologna University https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LeviGindication.pd

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette cited wrong paper, and apparently tried to do Rossi experiment

2019-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ah. There is a claim of excess heat from this system, by Parkhomov: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedr.pdf#page=252

[Vo]:Berlinguette cited wrong paper, and apparently tried to do Rossi experiment

2019-06-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
There is some confusion in the new paper from the Google researchers, Berlinguette, C.P., et al., *Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion*. Nature, 2019 On p. 4 it says: "Over the course of 16 months, we evaluated contemporary claims of more than 10% excess heat production involving samples of ni

[Vo]:Article about Russ George

2019-05-31 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/24/18273198/climate-change-russ-george-unilateral-geoengineering

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019

2019-05-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > The first article says: >> <> bias . >> >> > > Well at least they aren't using the scathing term pathological science. >> > > And for that I am grateful and thusly do not use the term 'cognitive > dissonance'. :) > We

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019

2019-05-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda wrote: By the way, from what you read about the work of that team, was failure > predictable ? > I do not think they are finished, so it should not be called a failure yet. They probably did not achieve high loading. See this interview with one of the authors: http://news.mit.edu/2

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019

2019-05-29 Thread Jed Rothwell
I think this paper is weak tea. The editorials accompanying it are pretty awful. On the other hand, as they say in show business, any publicity is good publicity. People reading *Nature* may ask themselves: Why did they publish a paper along with three editorials attacking it? Why are they so upse

Re: [Vo]:Google Project Finds No Evidence of Cold Fusion

2019-05-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: WTF? > Strange, isn't it? As they say in show biz, any news is good news.

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019

2019-05-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Note there are two other articles in Nature about the Google experiment. Both of them insufferable bullshit: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01675-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01683-9

Re: [Vo]:Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019

2019-05-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is something hilarious about the Nature webpage for this paper. Look at Reference 1. They just couldn't help themselves! 1. Fleischmann, M. & Pons, S. Electrochemically induced nuclear fusion of deuterium. *J. Electroanal. Chem. Interfacial Electrochem*. 261, 301–308 (1989). Article that in

[Vo]:Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019

2019-05-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Berlinguette, C.P., et al., Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion. Nature, 2019 DOI https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1256-6 Abstract The 1989 claim of ‘cold fusion’ was publicly heralded as the future of clean energy generation. However, subsequent failures to reproduce the effect

Re: [Vo]:The historical model for Danzik - Joe Newman

2019-05-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
H LV wrote: > A perpetual motion machine which is capable of generating enough energy to > keep itself in > motion despite the forces present, but not enough to perform any other > work, such as lifting a weight or propelling itself uphill. > Such a machine would still be useless in the sense of

Re: [Vo]:Re: GoFundMe: Geiger Counter + Lab Tour to Test Atom-Ecology Claimed Energy Source

2019-05-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley wrote: > The simple fact is that whoever goes forward to test gammas and > actually finds them will probably find his career over. That's gotta > be worth $100k. And that's why no one is stepping forward to overcome > the ... bullshit. > I doubt that the career would be over,

Re: [Vo]:Re: GoFundMe: Geiger Counter + Lab Tour to Test Atom-Ecology Claimed Energy Source

2019-05-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley wrote: Uhh, Jed I proposed explicitly that YOU would be more suited to go > and test but you declined. Okay, you proposed I go. I told you I know nothing about this. Why are you repeating this? You have "explicitly proposed" that the wrong person be sent to do something he do

Re: [Vo]:GoFundMe: Geiger Counter + Lab Tour to Test Atom-Ecology Claimed Energy Source

2019-05-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley wrote: > Jed is > already posted in as willing to do it for a cool $million. That > makes me look cheap in comparison. > That was a JOKE. > Of course I think Someone ELSE should bell the > cat, like Jed Rothwell whom I posted as a good candidate, s

Re: [Vo]:Re: GoFundMe: Geiger Counter + Lab Tour to Test Atom-Ecology Claimed Energy Source

2019-05-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Plus, if I understand correctly, he is asking for $100,000. > Yup. That's what it says. That's chutzpah! It also says: "The offer to test for gammas was rescinded. Please donate instead to the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project. I don't understand why this page is still there.

Re: [Vo]:Re: GoFundMe: Geiger Counter + Lab Tour to Test Atom-Ecology Claimed Energy Source

2019-05-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > His GofundMe campaign seems to be predicated on his raising money based on > his coming to the lab to view my work. I repeat he is NOT invited. That > puts all his messaging into the realm of worse than bullshit, as when one > is raising money on false pretenses there is a different wor

[Vo]:The replication crisis continues

2019-05-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
If you think cold fusion has problems, you ain't seen nothing. Look at biology and social sciences (what my mother called "the hot air sciences"): Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the u

Re: [Vo]:Article on Dennis Danzik - Inventor of EarthEngine (magmo)

2019-05-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > There have been many gratuitously scaled up experiments, such as Maxim's > airplane . . . > And, of course, Rossi's 1 MW reactor! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Article on Dennis Danzik - Inventor of EarthEngine (magmo)

2019-05-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > Nevertheless, I predict that humans will keep on trying to “supersize it” > – even is Dennis Danzik adds his name to a long list of failures… > It is odd how people like this think "it will work if only I try it on a large scale." Like . . . I don't know, the ITER tokamak r

Re: [Vo]:Off topic: machine translation

2019-05-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > AI does exceed human abilities in a narrow range of problems, such as > playing Go, recognizing faces, or determining that a young woman who shops > at Target is pregnant before her father realizes that fact. > I kid you not. See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/h

Re: [Vo]:Off topic: machine translation

2019-05-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Oh give us a break, Douglas. Yeah, the guy is a genius and all, but this should be titled "The Shallowness of Douglas Hofstadter and dozens of straw-man arguments." No one who knows the first thing about computers, AI, or machine translation would assert that it is remotely close to human-level tra

Re: [Vo]:Re: GoFundMe: Geiger Counter + Lab Tour to Test Atom-Ecology Claimed Energy Source

2019-05-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Kevin O'Malley wrote: > It would make > > sense for someone more qualified to make the visit , take the > > measurements, and generate the YouTube video. Hint: Jed. > Not me. I do not know anything about gamma ray detection or videos. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Math Scholar paper on LENR

2019-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
bobcook39...@hotmail.com wrote: Jed— > > > > Do you know who wrote the Math Scholar item on LENR? > No idea. I looked around the website to find the author. It is a little odd that the author is not listed.

Re: [Vo]:test

2019-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Working now. There was a glitch yesterday.

[Vo]:Math Scholar paper on LENR

2019-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: https://mathscholar.org/2019/03/lenr-energy-science-or-pseudoscience/

Re: [Vo]:Thorium breeding now?

2019-05-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: Some points. > > 1) The fuel is dissolved in the water, so initially there is no fuel in the > reactor until water is added, then criticality is achieved at startup by > pulling > control rods somewhat once the water (and fuel) has been added. > At this point, the negative temperature coef

Re: [Vo]:A catalytic converter might be a cold fusion cell

2019-05-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Hmmm... Actually, a few years ago there was indeed a flash of interest in > doing this - using catalytic converters for thermal gain.. > > . . . > Nothing was memorable from this extensive effort IIRC, but these efforts > were generally using H2 instead of D2. > That is an odd

[Vo]:A catalytic converter might be a cold fusion cell

2019-05-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
I have often noted that Pd thin film catalytic converters resemble cold fusion cells. Actually, for all anyone knows, they might *be* cold fusion cells. I have often suggested the someone should buy a brand new one, fill it with high pressure pure deuterium gas, and then heat it up. It might produc

[Vo]:Comparison of energy from uranium fission to palladium cold fusion

2019-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Years ago, I made a rough estimate of how much palladium would be needed to produce all of the world’s energy with cold fusion. I based this on the primary use of palladium today, which is in automotive catalytic converters. A significant fraction of all the energy in the world is converted to hot

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC Notre Dame, art curating and restoration

2019-04-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
Some comments by me about this: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/5967-le-myst%C3%A8re-des-cath%C3%A9drales/?postID=109274#post109274 Take-away message: it is not as bad as it looks. It could have been a lot worse.

Re: [Vo]:PENTAGON CANCELS CONTRACT FOR JASON ADVISORY PANEL--TOO MUCH LENR?

2019-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Take a look at the "Acknowledgements" in the cited paper. > > There are two JASONs who contributed in some way. > Ah, yes. I see what you mean. They were unhelpful. Ed described their contributions in his lecture. Garwin did what he always does, which is to look for a reason t

Re: [Vo]:PENTAGON CANCELS CONTRACT FOR JASON ADVISORY PANEL--TOO MUCH LENR?

2019-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: > > Has anyone ever seen a JASON report on LENR? > > IIRC that report was related to this work, which is moderately positive. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BeitingEinvestigat.pdf > What report are you talking about? Did someone in the JASONs have a road to Damascus revelat

Re: [Vo]:PENTAGON CANCELS CONTRACT FOR JASON ADVISORY PANEL--TOO MUCH LENR?

2019-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
As far as I know, the JASON group hates cold fusion. They were instrumental in crushing it in early days. Assuming they are still opposed, if they have been denied funding or disestablished, good riddance to them. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Toyota puts 24,000 hybrid car patents into the public domain

2019-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: This is not unprecedented: > > https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you > > Whaddya know! That document is titled "All Our Patent Are Belong To You." That's an inside joke based on a video game. That is a flippant way to put it for a billion-dollar corporation

[Vo]:Toyota puts 24,000 hybrid car patents into the public domain

2019-04-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
Toyota has 24,000 patents for hybrid automobile technology. Yesterday, they announced that they will no longer charge royalties for any of this. They are putting all their hybrid car IP into the public domain. This was featured on the 7 o'clock national news. I thought: "those people must be crazy

Re: [Vo]:Mills water bath calorimetry tests

2019-04-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
I cannot judge whether the BLP results are real or not. For sake of argument, let's assume they are. In that case, I cannot understand why they keep changing their methods and starting over from scratch. As Jones Beene said, Thermacore's results decades ago were more impressive. I think the people

Re: [Vo]:Mills water bath calorimetry tests

2019-04-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > > This paper is most disappointing if it represents the extent of progress > of BLP over the past 30 years. > > > > The results from Thermacore decades ago were way more impressive. > Yes. You probably have in mind this paper: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GernertNnasc

Re: [Vo]:Possible LENR-based consumer product

2019-04-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
It is good to see that American innovation is still a thing. Americans also lead in cloud-based inverse reactive data schemes. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJsuJOk1DA

Re: [Vo]:Russian Academy of Sci. cold fusion meeting

2019-03-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Correction: it should be the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Academy_of_Natural_Sciences

[Vo]:Russian Academy of Sci. cold fusion meeting

2019-03-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is an article in Russian about a recent meeting. Google Translate does an excellent job of translating this into English: https://regnum.ru/news/innovatio/2599167.html

[Vo]:Article: Icebergs In The Room? Cold Fusion At Thirty

2019-03-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
An excellent article. See: https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/03/icebergs-in-the-room-cold-fusion-at-thirty.html

Re: [Vo]:Oyama Power Corp., cold fusion reactor pioneer

2019-03-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
bobcook39...@hotmail.com wrote: Jed— > > > > Do you know if Oyama Power Co is real entity in Japan? I could not find > any web information, except to a bicycle manufacturer in Oyama. > No idea. - Jed

[Vo]:Article: Google Corporation LENR Energy Patents: History and Skill-Set of the Inventors

2019-03-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: https://gbgoble.kinja.com/google-corporation-lenr-energy-patents-history-and-ski-1832540626 Article begins: On February 7th 2019 two LENR technology patents assigned to Google Inc. became exposed/published. They were each filed on the same day a year and a half ago, August 3rd 2017. It’s ha

[Vo]:Universities versus Elsevier

2019-03-04 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/uc-elsevier-publisher/583909/

[Vo]:Oyama Power Corp., cold fusion reactor pioneer

2019-03-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a strange website in Japanese, which you can Google translate: https://ooyama-power.com/index.html This site is rather amateur. It is bombastic such as where it says: "January 24, 2019 became a day engraved in the history of mankind." The author is Kazuo Oyama. (long O: Ōyama). I have nev

Re: [Vo]:a bit of honesty in a complicated world

2019-02-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: > He did not mention explicitly : "investors from the petroleum industry" > since that is a given ... but the implication is that he gets constant > negative feedback from some of his investors, at the level of Board of > Directors, NOT to pursue electric vehicles... Imagine t

Re: [Vo]:D. Alexandrov, Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor

2019-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Alexandrovheavyelect.pdf

[Vo]:D. Alexandrov, Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor

2019-02-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://canadiancor.com/proposal-for-the-development-of-an-lenr-reactor/ QUOTE Proposal for the development of an LENR reactor Introduction: Canadian researcher, Dr. Dimiter Alexandrov, Lakehead University, in his semiconductor research laboratory, performed successful replicable LENR (Low

[Vo]:Mitsubishi invests 800 million yen in in Clean Planet

2019-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Nikkei BP (business publication) reports that Mitsubishi has invested 800 million yen ($8 million) in Clean Planet. Here is an article in Japanese which you can Google translate: https://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/dm/atcl/news/16/021211964/?ST=msb&n_cid=nbptec_f This article also mentions the NEDO proje

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: They filled in many other small holes, such as where the electric wires > used coming through the wall. > I meant where the wires used to come in. The electrician installed a new meter years ago. The box where the old one was now has birds nesting in it, which is nice. When you get new

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Catching mice

2019-02-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
My suggestion: hire an expert. We had mice galore until I hired a local company. They came and put new screens over the air vents to the crawlspace and the attic. They filled in many other small holes, such as where the electric wires used coming through the wall. They did some carpentry on the kit

Re: [Vo]:First Light Fusion Fraud

2019-02-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
bobcook39...@hotmail.com wrote: Regarding leaving environmental messes to future generations. I just read > an item that noted 450,000 “brown fields” mostly in cities exist, and > that one city in Mass. Is beginning remediation. > I did not mean to imply that all environmental messes should be

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