Re: [Vo]:[Political OT]: Global negative income tax

2011-08-06 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/6 Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com: On 11-08-06 11:04 AM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: 2011/8/6 Craig Hayniecchayniepub...@gmail.com: You propose to end war with a global democracy, but wars will never end as long as we give the power seekers the ability to wage war. I have not seen

Re: [Vo]:[Political OT]: Global negative income tax

2011-08-06 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/6 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: I think we will need to do something like this when robots and computers eliminate most human labor. We need a gradual transition so a system along these lines. See: http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/ - Jed I think that according synopsis,

[Vo]:Calculating the real heating power of E-Cat demonstrations

2011-08-06 Thread Jouni Valkonen
]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless To: Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com At 12:48 PM 8/6/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: I do not know who was that crack pot who first introduced this concept of very wet steam. In steam industry, they pay lots

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Any probe that measures temperature in boiling water system measures also pressure. That is because boiling point of water is directly depended on pressure. - Jouni 2011/8/5 Mattia Rizzi mattia.ri...@gmail.com: Daniel, *you* are wrong! The ONLY *preassure* probe that can be connected is

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/5 Mattia Rizzi mattia.ri...@gmail.com: They claims that tehy have measured a temperature 100 C degrees and a pression equal to ambient preassure, so they claims that the steam is dry. They may claim whatever they want, but it is impossible that there is ambient pressure, since E-Cat is

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/5 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com: This is the reason why you need to know only one measured variable from E-Cat and that is the temperature of steam. You need also RH to make sure there is no mist. Mist does not contribute for the pressure and hence the temperature of boiling

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/5 Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com: I am talking about the need for the RH quantity, to make sure that there isn't enough liquid mass to invalidate the output power. This kind of setup, that there is no liquid mass with steam, is impossible, because it is not stable. Water inflow must

Re: [Vo]:Rossi and Defkalion Split-up?

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/6 Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: I meant the winmail.dat attachment ... but that seems to be attached to all your posts. I thought it contained the scoop on your hold the presses. That results from Jones' use of

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/5 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: The device has a pressure sensor in it, the pressure sensor is not in the probe. It's looking like Galantini assumed he was getting a pressure reading from the probe he'd placed in the E-cat, hence his error. This is too simple explanation!

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/6 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 10:17 AM 8/5/2011, Jouni Valkonen wrote: Any probe that measures temperature in boiling water system measures also pressure. That is because boiling point of water is directly depended on pressure. Jouni, you can't see the forest

Re: [Vo]:Re: [e-cat] Engineer from delta ohm confirms that galantini instrument is useless

2011-08-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/6 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: Boilers, however, do not ordinarily have liquid water spilling over the edge of a hole in the side of the boiler, at a pace determined by the difference between the pumped rate and the vaporization rate. If there is substantial steam (my very

Re: [Vo]:Passerini's Prediction

2011-08-04 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/4 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: Now, if you assessed the probability at 70%, rationally you would bet 40 euros against a lesser amount from me. Suppose my bet is X euros. Forget the charity thing, it complicates it. It is impossible to assess probabilities for one time

Re: [Vo]:Passerini's Prediction

2011-08-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Accoriding Steven Krivit (#3 report and some earlier writing), Daniele was also present at 18 hour test (i have not seen other sources). Therefore he is within the greates fraud of cold fusion or tells truth that world is saved, because he knows with certainty whether E-Cat is for real or a hoax.

Re: [Vo]:Passerini's Prediction

2011-08-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/3 Charles Hope lookslikeiwasri...@gmail.com: Consider how futile it should be to make a prediction six months out, as Rossi did regarding October, if reliability was still being addressed the entire time. That does not smell right. One can only predict confidently about well controlled

Re: [Vo]:Passerini's Prediction

2011-08-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/3 OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com: Considering Jouni's recent challenge: ...I will challenge you for 40 euros that Rossi does not do a fraud. If E-Cat is true, you pay 40 euros to charity, and if not I pay 40 euros for charity. Perhaps Charles and Hope should

Re: [Vo]:Passerini's Prediction

2011-08-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/8/4 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I've done a great deal of research on this topic. Problem is that mere research is not enough, because you need to be able to do your own conclusions from data and that includes reading other people's mind from between the lines. This is very

Re: [Vo]:Wet Steam: Energy required disperse and suspend small droplets in the vapor state

2011-07-30 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Jul 30, 2011 3:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Damon Craig decra...@gmail.com wrote: It irritates me to no end. All the rational evidence we have been presented supports the claim that water spills through the outlet. No, that cannot be happening. As Storms pointed out,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-29 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Jul 29, 2011 12:29 AM, Michele Comitini michele.comit...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, my feeling is that he prefers steam because it proves the thing works at high temperature. Also, it is a little more convenient to work with. The flow of water is lower and you can use a weight scale

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-28 Thread Jouni Valkonen
and empty words they really does something concrete. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqSEw6Nti8sns=em I also need to upgrade slightly my previous estimations. For March E-Cat 1.6kW, April 2.4 kW and June E-Cat 1.4 kW. On Jul 21, 2011 1:07 AM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-28 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Jul 28, 2011 6:07 PM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, better and even simpler- but from some reasons (temperature difference, control) Rossi prefers steam. For me Rossi's choice does make perfect sense, because purpose of these steam generators is not to produce warm water,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-28 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Peter, producing low pressure steam is not the point, but to produce high pressure steam when E-Cats are scaled up and connected in serial and paraller for 1MW plant. It is claimed by Defkalion that E-Cat is able to produce 414°C steam in high pressure. This is what scaling up means here.

Re: [Vo]:ColdFusionNow reports support for research from influential person in Italy

2011-07-27 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Jed wrote: If cold fusion starts to succeed in a big way, then I expect many people in the fossil fuel industry will begin to fear it Thanks again for excellent post! But I think that even this is exaggerating, because in oil industry people who has there real power are also immeasurable

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Craig, indeed that is true, liquid water does not contribute to the pressure at all, because water does not gently flow out of the E-Cat, but is spilled due to rather violent boiling at kW range in closed container. Only thing that contributes for the pressure is steam flow pressure out of the

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Damon, little two sec googling with cell phone gave me this link: http://brewery.org/library/SteInjCS1295.html It says that all boiling chambers produces about 98% dry steam. Therefore wetness measurement that was 1.4-1.2% feels very reliable. I think that wetness depens slightly on temperature

Re: [Vo]:New Sergio Focardi interview

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Perhaps auxiliary heater is for preheating inlet water so that the temperature gradient of water is smoother. This would help to maintain more constant temperature in the core and thus increase controllability, as heat energy from reactor core is used for making steam at constant temperature, but

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/22 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: However, claims that the data is contradictory, on the basis of steam pressure calculations, seem to fail. Thanks for these calculations – they sound reasonable. For me it seems that E-Cat worked properly only in Mats Lewan's hands where

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-22 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/22 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: Essentially, burden is a social construct, it doesn't exist aside from human conventions. There is no burden meter. Again you are on a roll! This burden of proof argument is silly and widely spread pseudoargument. Usually it works, because

[Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-20 Thread Jouni Valkonen
1200W±200W and water was just overflowing. —Jouni PS. Here is my explanation and working theory how E-Cat is functioning: -- Forwarded message -- From: Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com Date: 2011/7/20 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-20 Thread Jouni Valkonen
One interesting conspiracy theory hole is that in all demonstrations (January, March and May) total excess energy production was roughly 22 MJ, what is energy contained in 170 g of hydrogen. This kind of coincidence could be easily interpreted that there is somewhere small hidden hydrogen bottle

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat explained - Final chapter for steam controversy

2011-07-20 Thread Jouni Valkonen
I re-watched Krivit's video and got confirmation for this interpretation. Temperature anomaly was there just 100.1°C and steam production only fraction of Lewan's E-Cat. Therefore we can estimate that Krivit's E-Cat produced, while video was filmed, something like 1000W±200W total power. So, here

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-19 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/19 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: At 03:15 PM 7/19/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: The 120 kW excursion makes the 18-hr test less credible to me. It means that during that excursion the delta T between the ecat walls and the water would have to increase by an order of magnitude. If

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-19 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Abd ul-Rahman wrote: My conclusion is that there is very likely *some* overflow water, but it might be small. I have no way of telling how much there is, the demonstrations were not set up to make it possible to tell. This is probably correct analysis. I think that this is possible to calculate

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-18 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/18 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: P.J van Noorden wrote: It is very important to notice that water boils at 100.5 C when the outside air pressure is 1030 mBar, which can be the case when a  high pressure system is covering Italy . . . In the April 28 tests, Lewan reported: we

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Julian Brown wrote: Basically, the whole set up defies even approximate quantitative calorimetric analysis. This is nonsensical speculation. E-Cat is designed to be a standard boiling water reactor and boiling water reactor is exactly similar setup than a kettle. And we know that tea pots do

Re: [Vo]:European Patent Office observer criticizes Rossi's E-Cat

2011-07-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/18 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: teapots don't have a fixed water flow input. Rather, water is added when the level declines. This is irrelevant difference. Water flow is there only to ensure that water level does not drop below reactor core, so that core does not expose to

RE: [Vo]:How can we make sure that 1MW e-cat is true?

2011-07-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
1MW demoplant will produce ca. 414°C steam. It is completely irrelevant if it really works in scientific way or not, because it will be only a demonstration for journalists and politicians. If you want real proof, you can pay and preorder your own E-Cat and if you do not get what was promised, you

Re: [Vo]:Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement

2011-07-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I don't know what it is about this, but Jed seems to have lost his ability to read and understand Of course, it could be me, I suppose. Aren't we always the last to know? I think that it is both, because you speak different language. You

Re: [Vo]:The Mats Lewan demo

2011-07-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/7/15 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com: I must say, I'm appalled at how much time has been wasted on inadequate demonstrations. This is surprising considering that anyone here has never said anything that those demonstrations has any scientific relevance. That is simply because they

Re: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2

2011-07-14 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Damon, Nasa wants a cheap power source in order to deliver cargo to the orbit. And power for ion engines that enable fast deep space missions to the asteroids, Mars and beyond. E-Cat is perfect power source for aeroplane, but it can be applied also for launch vehicle. On Jul 13, 2011 2:14 PM,

Re: [Vo]:Perfect simulation of e-cat with 1200W, for Lewan's video.

2011-07-07 Thread Jouni Valkonen
If considered that in E-Cat there is constantly flowing cool water to replenish boiled water, then it is quite obvious that 2.5 kilowatt is very much possible with Mats' E-Cat. However Steven's E-Cat was malfunctioning while video was shot. That stove was quite modern, therefore it is likely that

Re: [Vo]:Universe Resolution Just Increased 13 Orders

2011-07-01 Thread Jouni Valkonen
I think that proper interpretation is that this just falsifies inflation theory of cosmology, but we did already knew this that inflation theory does not have any relevance with our cosmos. Only thing that can rival inflation theory in ludicrousness is the theory of dark matter! But I am glad if

Re: [Vo]:Re: Ad Hominem against Joshua Cude, or is that Ad Pseudonym against Joshua Cude ?

2011-06-30 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Abd wrote: My operating position has become that the public information does not allow us to come to clear conclusions about the Rossi claims. If I'm correct, then those who do, in fact, make claims of clear conclusion, either way, are merely displaying bias. It shouldn't be suprising, bias is

Re: [Vo]:Rossi responds to movie professor and Peter Ekstrom's analysis

2011-06-29 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Very good response by Andrea. We see that those movie clowns have also infiltrated Vortex, like Joshua, Abd and few other pseudoskeptics. One thing also what must be considered, but what was ignored by pseudoskeptics was that the room temperature was over 30 degrees. This makes steam less visible

Re: [Vo]:Rossi responds to movie professor and Peter Ekstrom's analysis

2011-06-29 Thread Jouni Valkonen
also be from chemical sources, they are not excluded. But this not what was said but asumption was that there was just two orders of magnitude measurement error what is just ridiculous. On Jun 29, 2011 5:33 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: On 11-06-29 10:23 AM, Jouni Valkonen wrote

Re: [Vo]:Rossi responds to movie professor and Peter Ekstrom's analysis

2011-06-29 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Jun 29, 2011 6:03 PM, Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com wrote: You yourself argued at length that the temperature is not above the boiling point, as evidenced by its perfectly flat nature. You argued it was because only liquid water is heated directly. If the steam is dry and above the

Re: [Vo]: Proposed method for how Galantini measures steam quality...

2011-06-26 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Jeff, thermometer was calibrated and unlike common belief, boiling point was not 100 degrees, but 99.7°C ± 0.1. The fact is that steam must be dry if it's temperature is above 100.1 °C ± 0.1 at atmospheric pressure. —Jouni

Re: [Vo]:The infamous chimney

2011-06-26 Thread Jouni Valkonen
E-Cat can be fabricated on all possible levels, because we do not know very little relevant details about the setup. However waterflow is not probable because Mats Lewan collected condensated steam into blue bucket. He would probably have seen if there had flown some 12 liters of water into small

Re: [Vo]:Looks like steam to me (I agree with Jed again)

2011-06-26 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Jun 26, 2011 5:55 PM, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote: So, we have no evidence about how much steam exits directly from the Rossi device into the hose. Actually i heard that Mats Lewan crudely estimated that about half of the water was evaporated. Remaining half was overflowed or

RE: [Vo]:Looks like steam to me (I agree with Jed again)

2011-06-26 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Mark, thanks for providing error margins. I think that this means that the accuracy when measuring delta-T, is ±0.1°C, but it's accuracy without calibration is ±0.4°C. Therefore thermometer was calibrated that boiling point was 99.7°C. Henceforth thermometer measures accurately. To add one

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-25 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/6/25 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com: Well it might be if the reactor were at the bottom of a tea pot, and the output at the top of the pot. But the input and output to the reactor are both horizontal at the same level. here was your misunderstanding. This is not true, because water

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-25 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/6/25 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/25 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com: Well it might be if the reactor were at the bottom of a tea pot, and the output at the top of the pot. But the input

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-25 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/6/25 Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: A tea pot has no means to overflow. Water is not continually added.  It is also not designed like a percolator, with large confined boiling compartment, and a narrow short chimney. It does not require much engineering to modify tea pot that it

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-24 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/6/24 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com: As soon as it starts boiling, things get very turbulent. Steam is 1700 times the volume of water for the same mass, so it's gonna push things around. It's gonna push all the water ahead of it out, and convert the unboiled water behind it to a fine

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-24 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/6/24 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know how many times you and abd have been told that the measured boiling point of water is 99,7 °C. Therefore if there is mist mixed into dry steam

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-24 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/6/25 Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a high temperature thermometer, please try this at home: Boil some water in a teapot so that steam emerges from the spout. Turn the flame down, so that only a

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat vs. Water Heater for coffee/tea...

2011-06-24 Thread Jouni Valkonen
the flow rate (reduce it) until the temperature of the steam begins to climb to 110C or 120C. Then you could be sure the steam is dry, the calculation he likes to stumble over would have some validity. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Therefore E

[Vo]:Faking a short E-Cat demonstration is trivial

2011-06-21 Thread Jouni Valkonen
hello, here is interesting comment from http://www.facebook.com/EnergyCatalyzer vvv Cesar Pinheiro: A comment in this page ( http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3166552.ece ) deserves merit to improve the tests. I don't know if testing the water was done

Re: [Vo]:Fusion as process or result

2011-06-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Idea with this fusion is that in fusion two light nucleous merge. But there is no good evidence that this reaction is plausible in low energy (without muons). However LENR does not exactly specify what does happen, but has more experimental approach. But in my opinnion Steven is perhaps wrong

Re: [Vo]:Steve Krivit's initiative

2011-06-17 Thread Jouni Valkonen
About those pseudoskeptics who doubt the dryness of the steam. Why they do not just boil water on the stove and then calculate the energy concumption from water used. If the setup resembles Rossi's setup, then it would be child's play to calculate probable error margins. —Jouni

Re: [Vo]:Villa and Ferrari answer question

2011-06-11 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Daniele Passerini constantly talks about April 21. Perhaps this mysterious date was that, when team Ferrari made the 10 hour test with output that was sufficient for 10-20 washing machines. If that is the case, then scientific validation of E-Cat has already been made, by this Bologna team of

Re: [Vo]:E-cat under test in U-Bologna

2011-06-06 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Loris Ferrari said quite clearly that E-Cat what they have, can produce enough power for 10 to 20 washing machines with the input of incandescent light bulb. Reading rossignlish is very difficult skill, and Rossi's comments are not usually good source for information, because he does not say much

Re: [Vo]:First eCAT Book - John Michel ???

2011-05-23 Thread Jouni Valkonen
=A3EQ858DHKP5EEs=booksqid=1306193015sr=1-3 John's home page: http://www.xecnet.com/ Jouni 2011/5/24 Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com: This might be interesting. I tried to google John's background as a writer but it was difficult, because there is another writer with the same name. Does not help

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