Re: [Vo]:Oct 6 Heat Exchanger Manifold Thermocouple Placement.

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: If you collected the condensate for an hour while running it through a > precision flowmeter you might get a better handle on this, and a more > meaningful answer. You have to leave it in a steady state. > But I would not actually do that. That's kind of nutty. Way too complicated. I wou

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Even if Rossi were to run the thing for 40 hours or 40 days, I am certain >> you would demand more. You would still be finding excuses not to believe it. >> > > There may be other reasons not to believe in it but certainly a 40 hour > run is more persuasive than a 4 hour one . .

Re: [Vo]:Oct 6 Heat Exchanger Manifold Thermocouple Placement.

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: The first technique you suggested would spread out the test for too long of > a time(hour). > You misunderstand. I would fix hose at a certain height, let it fill with water, then let it run through a precision flowmeter. I would record it constantly, so that we know the ra

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > If he has teamed up with NI, that is exactly the right way to bolster > > customer confidence in the safety and reliability of the equipment. > > I don't think he "teamed up" in the sense that NI knows anything about > E-cats and that they work. I think Rossi offered to buy

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: > > Mary, you seem to love to find ways to scam scientific tests or do magic > tricks or whatever. Let me ask you a question. Can you name one > scientific experiment that is impossible to scam from the past? > The one I just cited, from the present, right here: http://w

Re: [Vo]:Oct 6 Heat Exchanger Manifold Thermocouple Placement.

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: > But I do not think that the difference would amount to hardly any > difference in calculations. Mats stated clearly that the flow was steady. > No bubbles, same height, everything I would have hoped to have him state. > The flow varied over time. It might have varied du

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: How much fuel, and how is that fuel reacted? Please do say there was >> something else hidden in the vessel other than the cell, and this other >> object magically defies Archimedes' law. >> > > Maybe someone else who's more of a chemist and electrochemist than I am > can try to

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: Pick one to have scammed. > Please, after you. Pick one yourself -- whichever you consider easiest to scam, and tell us how you would do it. Mind you, when the telegraph and years later the phonograph were demonstrated to Members of Congress, some of them did say the inven

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Leguillon wrote: Statement only slightly more ridiculous: > The most energetic thing that they could put inside is a fission reactor. > A fission reactor produces the most energy, because if it didn't, nuclear > power stations would use something else. And since we can't fit all of the > n

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > Pick one to have scammed. >> > > Please, after you. Pick one yourself -- whichever you consider easiest to > scam, and tell us how you would do it. > By the way, I do not mean that it is impossible to make a fake telephone with gutta percha, or a fake x-ray with a pre-arranged photo.

Re: [Vo]:Oct 6 Heat Exchanger Manifold Thermocouple Placement.

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: You answer is clearly indicated by the temperature readings at T2. This was very constant. Yes, of course. It has to be very constant. The pressure did not change, so the steam temperature did not change. When heat increased, more steam was generated, but the temperatu

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: Jed, I am waiting for Mary to give an example. It is not your question. Just in case someone were to scam your experiment, you have to realize that there are no limits on what is acceptable. You would not be able to set up the final experiment since that is part of the

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: This means, if Rossi has no trademark, he cannot use the NI Trademark. He must get an own Trademark first. That is easy. Anyone can get a trademark for around $300 in the U.S. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek wrote: This is what Rossi has said on many occasions. He says he cannot leave the thing, especially in self-sustaining mode. The idea that Rossi would do an unconvincing demo because he needed to empty his bladder or get some sleep, and could not delegate control for a while, makes lit

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini wrote: > Ergo, se National Instrument è > uscita allo scoperto adesso, significa che anche loro hanno escluso > l'ipotesi (campata in aria) della bufala. " > > Ergo, if Nat. Instr. came out now, it > means that they too excluded the (too far fetched) hoax hypothesis." > The

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Leguillon wrote: In the PESN postscript, it is quite obvious that NI is distancing itself > from any conclusions on authenticity. Naturally, they are distancing themselves, but I would not say from "any" conclusions. If they suspected it is fraud they would be crazy to allow that press r

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: If there is no way you or any of us can know anything at all about this method that you imagine might exist somewhere in the universe, how can you expect us to evaluate it? The way I said many times. You can falsify the premise that Rossi is scamming easily enoug

Re: [Vo]:Physorg comments : new Krivit Crusade

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Scale An interesting example. This was a conventional explosion that simulated a 4.8 kt nuclear explosion. A person observing this from a distance might have difficulty determining whether it is nuclear or chemical. Of course if you use

Re: [Vo]:Oct 6 Heat Exchanger Manifold Thermocouple Placement.

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson wrote: The output check valve operates by opening further as the pressure increases across it. It will not open any additional amount unless there is a finite pressure applied. There are several reasons for the ECAT internal pressure to rise. Yes, I realize that reactor vess

Re: [Vo]:Oct 6 Heat Exchanger Manifold Thermocouple Placement.

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: In case anybody hasn't gotten it, let me repeat it: The rate of mass flow *out* of the device is fixed by the *pump* *rate*, not by the power level. Only if the vessel is full to overflowing. If the water level is below the top, then it acts like a pot on the stov

[Vo]:Input power is the one questionable aspect of the October 6 demo

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Call this a CYA memo if you will, but I would like to grant that there is one part of the October 6 test that could allow fraud. The 2 power meters might be fake. I do not know where they came from. It is conceivable that Rossi took 2 genuine power meters and changed out the electronics. I do not t

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Claim: Rossi may be faking this -- I don't know how. Falsification: Someone independent and credible tested the device and determined by this method (yadadada) it's real and not fake. Right. Exactly. And in my opinion Rossi did this on Oct. 6. I think he provided irrefut

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > If they suspected it is fraud they would be crazy to allow that press >> release. They would issue a strong denial instead. >> > > Most people who have not followed the progress of this story carefully > from the start have no reason to suspect a fraud. I think NI simply has

[Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > I am not aware of a formal policy to not patent any cold fusion related > technology and I strongly suspect it doesn't exist. > It does exist. It has been in force since June 5, 1989. Everyone who works in cold fusion knows this. When you apply for any cold fusion related pa

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > I do not think it is likely that the public relations department at >> National Instruments has not even bothered to do a Google search and they >> have "no idea" whether Rossi's machines do what he says they do. >> > > So exactly what do you think NI did and why? A Google se

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > When you apply for any cold fusion related patent, they automatically > reject it with a form letter. . . . > > > Let me upload a copy: > > http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/PatentOfficeMemo.jpg > That is a copy of their policy, not the form letter. Sorry for the confusion. I tossed

Re: [Vo]:New diagram of Rossi reactor -- Reactor Volume ?

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher wrote: http://lenr-canr.org/RossiData/Higgins%20Oct%206%2027kWreactorDiagram4.png Do we have any agreement on the volume of the REACTOR (excluding fins). You mean the cell. Or "core" as they say in the fission biz. The thing with the three cold fusion cells in it. I would

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo asked Sean True: The deal with Rossi sounds much more like an OEM contract, and they are very likely to have done some diligence on it. Just the risk of adverse PR (which they are already experiencing, I suspect) would require a reasonable return on the cost of the

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: > No, no, wrong, wrong! > > NI has not made any press release. They have answered questions via mail. > When they have seen that PESWiki did not abuse the NI logo . . . > They did far more than that. They said: Thank you Sterling for allowing us to review. We approve the

[Vo]:Jumping the shark

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > You can't >>> be serous. If that is the last remaining argument you have against cold >>> fusion, you have jumped the shark. >>> >>> I like that expression "jumping the shark". Does it mean the same as >> "screwing the pooch"? >> > > It means the voice entry system

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: That jpg of a memo says only that applications about cold fusion should be stamped "cold fusion" for identification. Nowhere I can see does it say they should reject them. Ah, but they did, in fact, summarily reject them. So that memo was telling P.O. staff how to identify

Re: [Vo]:National Instruments signs to do E-Cat controls

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: I never alleged or even implied that it's forged (talk about straw men!). You didn't, but I did. It was not a straw man because it was my own supposition. I said it's probably meaningless and has no value in determining whether or not Rossi's claims are real. True and I

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: And it (emphatically) does NOT follow that if F&P are right, Rossi is right, as some people have irresponsibly and foolishly claimed in several forums. Fleischmann and I think it does follow. So do most cold fusion researchers I know. We think it is extremely unlikely there

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: I see nothing irresponsible or foolish about this opinion. And I see >> nothing irresponsible or foolish about expressing it here, or in any other >> forum. >> > > OK then. Airplanes are real so my flying sausage design will work. > You seem to be suggesting that there is somet

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > You seem to be suggesting that there is something fundamentally different > about Rossi's Ni nanopowder compared to the nanopowder cells of Arata and > Miles . . . > Meant MILEY. Not a voice input error. People often confuse, Miles, Miley and Mills in this field. Miley has made Ni p

[Vo]:Forbes article on NI and Rossi

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/11/11/national-instruments-and-cold-fusion/ QUOTE: Update#1: A statement from John Pasquarette, Vice President of Corporate Marketing and eBusiness, National Instruments: There are thousands of researchers and engineers in the world trying to solv

Re: [Vo]:Forbes article on NI and Rossi

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: > It might be a snide comment, but I dont believe so. The tone of it is snide, where he says "I'm not making this up . . ." He implies there is something strange about generators fueled by vegetable oils and animal fats. Apparently this author does not know much about bio

[Vo]:NI: "we did not buy a 1 MW cold fusion plant"

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
An addition to the Forbes article, QUOTE: Update #2: A followup statement from National Instruments’ John Pasquarette, Vice President of Corporate Marketing and eBusiness: We did not buy a 1 MW cold fusion plant. So, it would appear that the Free Energy Truth blog lacks a certain truthiness. I s

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat web site up

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini wrote: Digging in to the html code, the headers tell it all about quality... > made with FrontPage software that was discontinued in 2003! > I do not see why that matters. For LENR-CANR.org I use Borland Delphi 4, discontinued in 1999. I sometimes tweak the HTML *by hand*. With

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat web site up

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > Nice to see the web site is registered to Rossi but what the heck does the >> validity of the E-Cat have to do with the software that was used to create >> the web site or who the web site was created by or who it is administered >> by? >> > > I agree, very little. But it's

[Vo]:Kullander lecture announcement

2011-11-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
From: http://www.oru.se/Kalendarium/Startsida-Kalendarium/offentliga-forelasningar/Offentliga-forelasningar-Morgondagens-karnkraft---blir-den-kall-eller-varm-/ Google translate: Public lectures: Tomorrow's nuclear power - it becomes cold or hot? Date: 2011-11-23 Time: 18:30 to 20:00 Location: L

[Vo]:Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima . . . [second copy]

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/safetyandsecurity/reports/special-report-on-the-nuclear-accident-at-the-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-station (Download link on right) Description: Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

[Vo]:Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/safetyandsecurity/reports/special-report-on-the-nuclear-accident-at-the-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-station (Download link on right) Description: Special Report on the Nuclear Accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Re: [Vo]:Andrea rossi: This is not yet our official website

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Half cocked, as usual. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > You seem to be suggesting that there is something fundamentally different >> about Rossi's Ni nanopowder compared to the nanopowder cells of Arata and >> Miles, or the Ni cells of Patterson or Piantelli. . . . >> > > What I am suggesting is that the evidence for Rossi's claims

Re: [Vo]:Information on Dr. George Kelly

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig Haynie wrote: > Rossi: I do not know him well. I met him ten years ago when I made a > test of a Seebeck Effect apparatus in the UNH. Anybody can enter in the > Board Of Advisers of the Journal Of Nuclear Physics . . . It is necessary > to be a University Professor in Scientific matter. P

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

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: > The upper pipe was not measured and had no (visible) control mechanism. > > If the final customer was not aware about this possibility, he could have > been fooled. How long would the customer be fooled? No corporation would give Rossi $2 million without doing addition

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat web site up

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini wrote: A. Final note > There is a big difference between your efforts on http://www.lenr-canr.organd > the e-cat site. The first is a service to the community, the other is > for selling goods. > What is wrong with selling goods?!? Do you have some ivory-tower objection to ca

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

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Berke Durak wrote: > > > If we assume only a small amount was vaporized and the major amount > > of water was neither heated nor vaporized and flew back through the > > second pipe, then excess energy is not required. > > So you say no water was heated now? Do you have any basis for that > assum

Re: [Vo]:New E-Cat customers to reveal their identity

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > So let's see. If I send a report to Allan about my pink, invisible, > flying unicorns that eat nickel and fart hydrogen he should report that > too? I disagree. I think a journalist must use judgement in choosing what > to report. > I agree. It was silly for Allan to repo

Re: [Vo]:Order Form

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: This post, among others, violates the rules of this community. You are > using too much irony and scorn. And I am not the first to note that. > > Where are the moderators of this forum? > There is only one: Bill Beaty. Perhaps Mary Yugo has gone a little overboard. That is f

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat web site up

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > Of course nothing. But there is a lot wrong with misleading and deceptive > advertising. > Rossi has not done any advertising as far as I know. Perhaps you are talking about Steorn. > Also with saying you sold something when you didn't. > Do you have any reason to thin

Re: [Vo]:Order Form

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > That Rossi provides an order blank is in no way any evidence that he has > ever taken an order, accepted money for a device, actually delivered a > device or that filling in the order will get you anything more than not > doing so. How could an order form do this? Here is

Re: [Vo]:The U.S. Patent Office's formal policy to reject all cold fusion applications

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Mary Yugo wrote: > > Yes, I think most experts would say they do. >> > > That I would like to know more about. It should be easy to show -- add > the catalyst and get evidence for a nuclear reaction namely neutrons and/or > radiation. > This test will not work.

Re: [Vo]:New E-Cat customers to reveal their identity

2011-11-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Sure but it really is a waste of space. Here are some of the idiotic > nonsense actively promoted on Sterling's pages... as if Obama going to > Mars alone wasn't enough. Tell you what-- rather than my boring everyone, > choose from the list here: > > http://pesn.com/Radio/Fre

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

2011-11-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
This looks pretty good. Ask Rossi if this is correct. Send him the link. He may want to use it himself, on his website. - Jed

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

2011-11-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Sean True wrote: Customers exchange money for something that meets a current need. That > can be a need to use a device, a need to gain access to technology > early, or even a need to do some good. But in any case, there is a > contract (implicit or explicit) for an exchange of values. The proces

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat web site up

2011-11-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini wrote: > The difference between a free informative website and a business website > is about selling. On a business if you damage potential sales, you are > doing a poor job with the website. Rossi's site does not look like, and it > is not a business site, it is very "amateuris

[Vo]:People who will not do their homework do not deserve a response

2011-11-13 Thread Jed Rothwell
I have had it with Mary Yugo. She wrote: This test will not work. Cold fusion does not produce neutrons and it >> seldom produces radiation. I have told you that before. If you do not >> believe me, please review the literature on your own. >> > > Well that's inconvenient, isn't it? So we just lo

Re: [Vo]:Let Rossi Be Rossi?

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
This thread is full of strawman arguments. No one is defending Rossi's behavior, least of all me. We are saying: His claims can be evaluated independently of his behavior, based strictly on the laws of physics. This is true even though his experimental techniques are sloppy. His business decision

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Defkalion : first pictures of their lab released.

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Roarty, Francis X wrote: > IMHO Defkallion should make their own powder, I don't give Rossi's micro > tubules have any great advantage over the nano powders of other researchers. As far as I know, Rossi's powder is much better than anyone else's. It is far ahead of Piantelli's solid material.

Re: [Vo]:a modest proposal

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
jmp jmp mailto:crossection...@yahoo.com>> wrote: First, the part about "forget Rossi": I think Rossi has been an enormous time/talent sink with no benefit to the LENR field. Arguably, he's set the field back quite a lot. That is preposterous. He has made more progress toward practica

Re: [Vo]: Rossi Deserves Our Gratitude

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Well said! I agree completely. - Jed

[Vo]:Rossi might get a comprehensive patent

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > However, others are trying to develop powder, and they may be catching up. > . . . > [Various people] wish to reverse engineer the powder and develop a new type > not beholden to Rossi. > They may be able to do this outside of Italy, where Rossi has no patent. Or perhaps inside Italy

Re: [Vo]: Rossi Deserves Our Gratitude

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Nobody can prove *convincingly* that Rossi's E-cat works as he says he does. > Except people with a junior high level knowledge of physics, or anyone who has ever cooked a large pot of stew. > All of this is entirely Rossi's fault. > And all that he has accomplished is ent

Re: [Vo]:a modest proposal

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Re Mary Yugo, I am reading only what she tells about Rossi and the E-cat, >> not LENR or CF. >> >> Simple and completely correct. Proof of Rossi has nothing to do with > LENR or CF. > Rossi and Defkalion would like you to think so. Rossi's patent attorney, in the letters publis

Re: [Vo]: Rossi Deserves Our Gratitude

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek wrote: > > The fact that he has been able to do this despite rabid > > opposition and countless baseless accusations by people like you > > makes the accomplishment all the more remarkable. > > I can't see why suggesting that Rossi let an independent lab test > his device is 'rabid oppo

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion : first pictures of their lab released.

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > It's interesting that they showed what appears to be a prototype Hyperion > apparently with some sort of test set up. It's far from proving that they > have a working fusion reactor! > I would have expected them to show a large room filled with people making > Hyperions.

[Vo]:Cold fusion, heat from primary energy consumption, and global warming

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
>From time to time, someone asks me about these issues. For example, someone sent me this comment from a discussion group, and asked how it might be addressed: ". . . global warming is about HEAT - atmospheric gasses like co2 & ch4 tend to cause the atmosphere to retain more of it - however, even

Re: [Vo]: Rossi Deserves Our Gratitude

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > You keep saying the results of Rossi's demos were obvious but there is > continuing disagreement over that from very smart people so you could be > wrong. > I do not know any very smart people who say this. All of the scientists I know who have examined the results are convin

Re: [Vo]:a modest proposal

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > I don't recall Rothwell saying that Rossi lies. > Because I never did say that. I said repeatedly that as far as I know, he always tells the truth about engineering technical details. Mind your, the list of his statements we compiled includes some diametrically opposite

Re: [Vo]:a modest proposal

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: I suspect he practices misdirection ... We agree. I think his entire performance at the demos consists mostly of misdirection. Even if that were true, a 30 L vessel of water cannot remain at boiling temperature for 4 hours, so we can be sure the claims are true. Ther

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion : first pictures of their lab released.

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
This document is unprofessional. The photographs should have captions, like the ones in the Scientific American or a trade magazine. A caption should tell the reader what this is, and what the significance of it is. Like so: An reactor (nn cm x nn cm x nn cm). On the left is a canister of bla

[Vo]:This forum is not a supermarket checkout line tabloid

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: They did not say they had a prototype lab. They said they had a factory. >> >> >> Do you have evidence they do not? >> > > Oh come on! YOU know better than THAT! Like it's my job to disprove > their extravagant claims? > Many companies do have factories, so this claim is not

Re: [Vo]:Let Rossi Be Rossi?

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Charles Hope wrote: Granted that Rossi is producing anomalous heat, nevertheless absolutely > everything else about this story stinks to high heaven. Except the fundamental physics, and the fact that a 30 L poorly insulated vessel of water cannot stay at boiling temperature for 4 hours. That do

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion, heat from primary energy consumption, and global warming

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher wrote: > (I don't know if there's a name for that kind of chart .. a bit like the > famous Napoleon chart, showing the energy flow divided up into various uses. For those unfamiliar with this, the Napoleon chart is a *masterpiece* of statistical graphics. See: http://www.edwar

Re: [Vo]:Let Rossi Be Rossi?

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Charles Hope wrote: Rossi can be devious, but I have not seen *any* evidence that he lies about >> engineering data. >> > > Except that you wrote > > Mind you, the list of his statements we compiled includes some > diametrically opposite assertions: > > > http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Director

Re: [Vo]:Let Rossi Be Rossi?

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joshua Cude wrote: > > Except the fundamental physics, and the fact that a 30 L poorly insulated >> vessel of water cannot stay at boiling temperature for 4 hours. >> > > It most certainly can, if it weighs 100 kg, and consists in part of fire > brick, or something similar, and starts out at 500

[Vo]:Let Rossi Be Rossi?

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
This may be a double posting . . . Joshua Cude wrote: > > Except the fundamental physics, and the fact that a 30 L poorly insulated >> vessel of water cannot stay at boiling temperature for 4 hours. >> > > It most certainly can, if it weighs 100 kg, and consists in part of fire > brick, or some

Re: [Vo]:This forum is not a supermarket checkout line tabloid

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Ah. You must not have been reading what I wrote carefully. I never said > Rossi is committing fraud. I said that I think he *may be* committing > fraud. Some places I said "most likely" and "may very well" be committing > fraud. That isn't libel -- not in the US anyhow. >

Re: [Vo]:This forum is not a supermarket checkout line tabloid

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > http://amasci.com/pathsk2.txt > I cite example #10, below. This is what you are up to, and if you don't stop, you will be soon be on my kill file list. Admittedly that is an elite group (4 people), so perhaps it would please you to join it. 10. Accusing opponents of delusion, lying,

Re: [Vo]:This forum is not a supermarket checkout line tabloid

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
For some reason a message from Joshua Cude popped up. Anyway, he wrote: > It's not even close to libelous. But why exactly is your opinion more > important than the legal definition? > The spirit of these messages violates the rules set here, and they violate the rules of academic decorum. >

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion, heat from primary energy consumption, and global warming

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > > This figure is too high. The amount intercepted by the Earth is 5 million > quads > per annum above the atmosphere, and then some of this is directly > reflected back > into space by cloud cover. > Where did you get that info? I looked all around for that. I found that one site that

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion : first pictures of their lab released.

2011-11-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Leguillon wrote: Completely concur. These are the kind of test environs that I'd expect to > see. Also, their technical posts were always at least logical (e.g., > experimenting with different coolants for a single-phase primary loop). That's for sure. Better to keep it in liquid phase,

Re: [Vo]:This forum is not a supermarket checkout line tabloid

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
If I may summarize, this forum resembles a Unitarian Church. Unitarians welcome atheists. They really do. But they insist the atheists treat believers with respect and vice versa, and they are suspicious of certainty. See the Unitarian Jihad: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronic

Re: [Vo]: Rossi Deserves Our Gratitude

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > The homeopaths never do the experiment even in the face of a million > dollar standing prize from James Randi if someone can simply differentiate > a properly made homeopathic solution from it's solvent by *any* means > whatsoever. > That is incorrect. Jacques Benveniste inv

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > His October 6 demo featured a much larger and heavier device which was > poorly inspected and had a lower power density than ever before. > What do you mean by that? The power was 8 kW nominal. That is considerably higher than some previous demonstrations. The cell was no big

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery wrote: Can't you just ban this noise-box, Jed? I can't ban anyone. This forum belongs to Bill Beaty. The beauty of e-mail systems is that you can selectively ban individual people. If Mary Yugo grates on you too much, just add her to your kill file. Anything I think Yugo's latest

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > We don't even know what the cell looked like. Rossi did not show it. All > we saw was a large machine and inside was another box with some fins. Did > I miss something? > Yes, you did miss something. The box with fins was the cell. But I suspect you knew that. Please do no

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > Yes, you did miss something. The box with fins was the cell. But I suspect >> you knew that. Please do not play games -- if you did know that, do not >> pretend you did not. >> >> > I don't think so. What I read was that the finned box was another heat > exchanger with three

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > That's completely wrong-- both sides of it. If P&F are correct, that does > not mean that Rossi's entirely different claim is correct. > I do not know anyone else who says it is entirely different. When many experiments in different laboratories all show anomalous heat from

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: > > Let me see if I understand. You're making claims about the amount of > catalyst present in the cells? Isn't this a bit like counting the angels > on the head of a pin? > Except that angels do not obey Archimedes' law and they are invisible. Far as I know, Rossi has ne

Re: [Vo]: Rossi Deserves Our Gratitude

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mary Yugo wrote: Benveniste and others disputed that last statement. >> > > This is a bit like the story of Dr. Levi's 18 hour experiment. Why did > they not repeat the whole thing? They did not repeat it because Beveniste died soon after all of this occurred. Also I believe Nature magazine an

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion, heat from primary energy consumption, and global warming

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher wrote: > > That's the one! The last graph in particular. US only, and doesn't > support my "70%" (except as energy LOSS). > Here is similar data from the EIEA: Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Sector http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pecss_diagram.cfm I do

[Vo]:EIA Annual Energy Review 2010

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Anyone interested in energy should get this. It is an invaluable resource. 2010 is the latest edition, just published in October 2011 http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/aer.pdf I printed out a previous version. This one has a lot of new data such as U.S. Government energy consumption.

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion, heat from primary energy consumption, and global warming

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Okay, so if 3.5 million quads are added by solar energy, I should adjust this: World primary energy consumption is roughly 400 quads per year. The US > consumes 100 quads. Solar energy striking the Earth's surface produces > roughly 8.2 million quads per year, 20,500 times more than this. > Solar

Re: [Vo]:Stop Destroying Keyboards

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > No, he does not claim way more power. Adjusting for the mass of reactant > it is about the same as Fleischmann and Pons boiling experiments. > > > Wait ... Does this mean that the Saturn V didn't actually produce "'way > more power" than my Subaru's 4 cylinder engine,

Re: [Vo]:Interesting post on 22passi.blogspot.com

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
That is interesting. Rossi said he does not want to sell to the military. If he sold this the NRL that would be a major change in his policy. Granted, his policies are not very consistent. The NRL's budget is a tad over $1 billion, so they could afford this. I have no idea whether this is true. I

[Vo]:"The Myth of the Innovator Hero"

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
A good summary of the history of modern electronics: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-myth-of-the-innovator-hero/248291/ This includes the famous incident I mentioned here, in which Teal dunked a silicon amplifier into boiling oil, and it continued to work. That is another

Re: [Vo]:Cold fusion - thoughts

2011-11-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Heckert wrote: > Rossis demonstrations are as if Edison had drilled a pinhole in a box, put > the bulb in and demonstrated that light came out of the pinhole. "Sorry I > cannot show you more, unless you give me a million after succesful > demonstration". > On the contrary, Edison's strate

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