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

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
That's unconscionable. I can give examples if you like but I'd rather not waste more space. . . . Please do. That would not be a waste of space. You tend to make blanket accusations without specifics. Let's hear some specifics. It may be that what you consider unethical, others consider

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
Krivit seems to have good contacts who are willing to talk to him, including some at the U of Bologna and U of Uppsala and many scientists who work in cold fusion and LENR. So do I. As far as I know, the people in Bologna and Uppsala have been telling Krivit just the opposite of what he

Re: [Vo]:Order Form

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
to note that. Where are the moderators of this forum? 2011/11/12 Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com Whoopee. I have to rush to put up an order form for my pink, invisible flying unicorns that make free energy. When you can name and preferably interview a customer, that sort of news will become

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
That seems unlikely to work. I may have missed it (it's not my field) but I don't know of any proven and properly tested and documented catalysts that facilitate fusion or any other nuclear reaction.Do the other claims involve catalysts? Yes, I think most experts would say they

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Vo]:Order Form

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
You seem to have some difficulty with logic. No. It seems that you are disregarding the original intent of the link to the order form. It was to suggest that Rossi is legitimate and his device is real because such a form is available. It was implied that now, for sure, properly qualified

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Not everything there is a scam. At least one is not, which is plasma focus, which they frequently feature among the top 5 and is based in an old technology. But they never claimed overunity, just 1/10 of the input

Re: [Vo]:Swedish Radio : advertising a scam ?

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: I'm beginning to see why you've been banned from so many forums. Sorry, I don't keep track. How many was that and which ones if you know? And were they all run by fervent believers in Rossi? If you don't know which ones and

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mary Yugo
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Mary Yugo maryyu...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Any scam must obey the laws of physics. Oh yes. But you don't necessarily know which laws are used to deceive you. All propositions and assertions in a scientific debate must be subject to testing and must be falsifiable, at least in principle. Asserting that somewhere, someone might

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
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? I tried and can not come up with one, so give it a try. There are many ways to suggest a

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
I think there is a consensus that Rossi was the control mechanism for his earlier devices. If this is the situation, he will not be able to leave for any extended length of time. The self sustaining mode, if that is what they witnessed, will require careful control if operated for very long.

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
By the way, has anyone heard any peeps out of Mr. Parks lately? I bet he and a lot of his cohorts are keeping a low profile. ;-) Why would anyone keep a low profile because of Rossi?

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Both Levi and Lewan were given a second-shot at testing. Do you mean Levi was given a chance to repeat and record properly his long high power experiment and refused? If so, WHY?!?! | With the possible exception of the Oct 6 run, all of the investigators (not Krivit -- that was a

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
OK Mary, you are correct in realizing that Rossi could be attempting a fake. Many of his supporters have reviewed the sparse data supplied during his demonstrations and have convinced ourselves that it is real. I am confident that we are seeing a real LENR device. I'm happy for you, David,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
You can't have it both ways. Either the steam is dry (complete vaporization), in which case the temperature and pressure of the effluent are independent, or it's not. Your assertion that the output temperature depends directly on the pressure is a tacit statement that it's not producing dry

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Well, if I had been so confident that cold fusion or LENR or what ever you want to call it is impossible, I would feel quite foolish at the moment. He spent many years of his career making fun of the serious researchers operating within the field. I'm not sure who will end up looking foolish

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
This is a completely different subject. Please do not mix up unrelated topics. I asked how a person can test or falsify *your* assertion about stage magic. I did not ask how Rossi can falsify his claims. If you will not cite a specific stage magic technique, there is no way anyone can

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Faking experiments is beginning to become boring so let's call it a day. That is the game I made reference to. Sorry if it bores you. The possibility that everything Rossi has shown is fake and that all the people who have endorsed it are being flummoxed is fascinating to me. So much of life,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
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 perceived risk. What due diligence do you

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
The total heat contained within the mixture of water and vapor entered the heat exchanger. The output of the exchanger was plain old fashioned cool water. The heat was extracted to the cooling water flow. The issue of vapor versus liquid did not remain. Yup-- that was true October 6 but on

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
To prevent federal funds from being spent on research is going to slow down the research. Do you not agree? Yes. That's a pity. But it's sort of circular. If the evidence was convincing, the funds would be there. You have to start somewhere. And before we start on it, I don't know

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Here is my point. if you do not know how he might be cheating, then it is not logical for you to propose this as a hypothesis to be debated here. You can say it is your gut feeling he is cheating. That's fine. That's an informal judgment. We welcome that here. But let us not confuse a gut

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
I doubt that. In my experience, large corporations do not authorize press releases without checking things out carefully. Anyone can do a Google search and find out in a few seconds that Rossi is very controversial. I do not think it is likely that the public relations department at National

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
I like that expression jumping the shark. Does it mean the same as screwing the pooch? It means the voice entry system has added its own improvement to the original statement. An obvious guess is that the shark was supposed to be something a train rides on. Too bad. It was fun the

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
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 out my copy

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Mary, your requirement for blank test run is unreasonable, but you are misunderstanding the reason why blank tests are used in science. Blank runs are used when we are measuring effects that may consist on multiple unknown variables and with controls we try to eliminate those variables that we

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Thank you Sterling for allowing us to review. We approve the text, especially the National Instruments portion of the story that includes Stefano’s quote and information. Oops. I see that memo is written to Allan. I guess he circulated it. I though it was to David Ledin. If it is forged,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
-FP, 1989. Nothing was done about about any of the rejections. What could be done? I don't know. I do suspect that you can sue if a worthy patent is denied. Maybe someone who is a patent attorney can comment? That's out of my area and I don't want to discuss it as I already said. My

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mary Yugo wrote: And it (emphatically) does NOT follow that if FP 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

[Vo]:U of Bologna denies any involvement with Rossi

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Data: 05 novembre 2011 10.01.45 GMT+01.00 A: Ufficio Stampa Alma Mater ufficiosta...@unibo.it mailto:ufficiosta...@unibo.ithttp://us.mc381.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ufficiosta...@unibo.it Oggetto: PRESS RELEASE - E-CAT: UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA IS NOT INVOLVED E-CAT: UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA IS NOT

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.leonardo-ecat.com Gee. I looked all over for an order form, a price list and a PayPal Logo and darn... no luck. Oh and: Page posted by Sterling Allan http://sterlingdallan.com/, PES Network, Inc.

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: For me this looks like a bad joke. It is not nice to do a fan page that superficially looks like authentic page. It does look like a bad joke but look at this from there: Welcome to the homepage of Andrea Rossi,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Major kewl! Yah. Looks like a camp stove.

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Uhho... this is going to cause a lot of trouble for sure. Wait until the universities hear about it! Now I really do wonder if Rossi ever saw it before it went live. Ah well... we'll know soon. Leonardo Corp Personnel Ing. Andrea A.

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: I find this very interesting. Where is there a scam here? Oh ok. Let's order one. How do I do that exactly? (medium to small please, one each)

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: Site says 100 kw min. Rossi gets nothing until the unit meets specifications. Right. Steorn said something like that too. They never delivered and they have kept and spent €20 million of investor money along

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: 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.

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Spin this any way you try but your time here claiming scam / fraud is over. Sure. When you can name one customer with some reputation for credibility and they prove they've done a proper test -- but not before, OK? Someone at Ecatnews.com pointed out that the web site is so bad that someone

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: If Steorn was operating a scam, why have they not been charged? I don't know. If you look at their history, it's clearly a scam. They also have contempt for their marks because they joke about them tacitly. Perhaps

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: Please tell me how Rossi can scam a engineering firm Perhaps I wasn't clear. I suggested he may have scammed investors, not an engineering firm. Was some part of that in need of further elaboration?

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
You have suggested Rossi may have scammed investors? Bold statement there Mary. Care to disclose your proof as otherwise you may have just committed Defamation and I'm sure the Vortex administrators will not wish to be involved in hosting defamatory comments. A bit of advise Mary, if I may,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat aussieguy.e...@gmail.comwrote: You claimed Rossi may have scammed investors. Prove it or stop making up statement that you may wish to be real. You're making stuff up. I already said I wish Rossi would be real. And yes, he may have scammed

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Yikes! Defamation would be: Rossi is a scammer A personal opinion and perfectly legal: Rossi may be a scammer (also he may not be one). Freedom of speech on that one, I think. Really -- I had this issue come up before and I checked with an attorney who specializes in it. There's no

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mary Yugo
Next Few Months * New customers of the one megawatt E-Cat plant reveal their identity publicly. * Location of first E-Cat factory in the United States revealed. And why do you believe that will happen? Because Sterling Allan wrote it? He's the same guy who had Obama in Mars for

Re: [Vo]:Mr. Rossi appears to be busy for the foreseeable future.

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
Is this credible to anyone? If so, why and how? Rossi can't rely on anyone else at all to help make the wondrous machines? If he's afraid of reverse engineering, he'd better not sell any at all! How does he know what his customers will do with them? Or maybe he's relying on that

Re: [Vo]:New diagram of Rossi reactor

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
In the older small (but allegedly powerful) E-cats, the main (largest and probably most powerful) heater has always heated the cooling water! This is evident because it's wrapped around the *exterior* of the E-cat. This never made sense, by the way, unless the objective was to use electricity

Re: [Vo]:Mr. Rossi appears to be busy for the foreseeable future.

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
Welcome to Vortex, MY! Thank you.

Re: [Vo]:New diagram of Rossi reactor

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
Even if he's concerned about that, he could disassemble all the way to the final core and stop there. He did that, several times. Even with the big reactor people say they could see the whole thing, under the cell. You can't see much in the photos, but you can in person. It would be a

[Vo]:NASA officially responds to an FOIA request that Rossi has never proved his claim

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/11/10/nasa-engineer-explains-why-rossi-demos-failed/ According to a slide presentation given by NASA engineer Michael A. Nelson, which New Energy Times obtained under a FOIA request, “Energy Catalyzer” inventor Andrea Rossi failed to conclusively show that his

Re: [Vo]:New diagram of Rossi reactor

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
 And most of all, it seems to be a serious problem for Rossi to get an E-cat to one of the two universities he promised them too.  I wish Rossi's butt were somehow a bit more resistant to pain. He ran out of money and couldn't pay Bologna. If he really collected E2M he should be able to pay

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
However calorimatric criticism is not relevant, because Rossi has never forbid for observers to do accurate calorimetry and check all the necessary calibrations with their own instruments. Therefore bad calorimetry is not likely source for the cheat, because that cheat would depend on

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
It is irrational to demand 1,000 times more energy than chemistry can produce when you have already seen 10 times more. The point is already proven. I think many responsible and capable people don't believe that. The only absolutely determinative test is an independent one that rules out

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

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
I just wish Rossi would pay more attention to needs of customers and to PR. I just wish he'd get a single independent and credible test done. Never mind the PR stuff. As for the needs of customers, how do we know he ever had one or has one? If he has teamed up with NI, that is exactly the

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

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
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, especially when there is no

Re: [Vo]:NASA officially responds to an FOIA request that Rossi has never proved his claim

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Alan J Fletcher wrote: The entire empty volume of a shipping container? Since the energy produced is N * the number of modules, the TIME should be the SAME as a single eCat at the same power. Well said. Indeed

Re: [Vo]:NASA officially responds to an FOIA request that Rossi has never proved his claim

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
Might be their motivation is neither technical nor scientifical but political? A serious motivation could be to protect their own knowledge and research. Are you talking about NASA? How would that work? What is it they are protecting? How does what they say about Rossi protect anything? If

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

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
Col. (Ret.) Domenico Fioravanti Thanks. I hope there is a tough journalist interview with him soon. I doubt that there ever will be.

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

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
I wish Rossi would make a gift of one of his ECATs to Mary so that she could perform all of the tests that she desires. I suspect that she would complain that it did not look nice enough for her to dirty her hand upon it. What is your agenda Mary? Well, I do wish the devices didn't look

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
Does anyone seriously doubt that if Fioravanti is telling the truth, there can be any doubt the 1 MW reactor is real? Are you seriously suggesting that a measurement using standard industrial techniques, performed by an expert, showing 66 kWh input and 2,635 kWh might be in error?!? You can't

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
I think you understood that is what I meant. Please do not be argumentative. Please do not use straw man arguments. I am confident there are no hidden wires or tubes going into the reactor. If you are not confident of that, fair enough, but please do not bring up that issue when we are

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

2011-11-10 Thread Mary Yugo
You go, Mare! (But careful, you're running close to your 40 post per minute limit on Vortex ;-) Thanks. I'm done. I actually have to work on something else for a living some of the time. Meanwhile, I notice that when NASA came up, the enthusiasts on ecatnews.comstarted talking about

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