Re: [Vo]:Expectation bias, delusion

William Beaty wrote: > ... I stacked up sixteen layers, squeezed it with two different > micrometers to exclude air, and repeatdly saw values of 6-7 microns per > layer. Also, the spool was stamped with "6" (but could have been "9.") > Also, Kapton is commonly sold in thicknesses of 25u, 12.5u,

Re: [Vo]:Expectation bias, delusion

William Beaty wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > >> No, the force should have been the same in each trial. Think about what >> you've got. >> >> If each layer is behaving elastically, then the question you need to ask >>

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Party according to Palin

Man, this is so far OT it makes the cats of Iem look on-topic. FWIW I'm a wild-eyed liberal and none the less, I think Palin got pretty seriously shafted by the press during the campaign; a more effective smear job has not been seen since Kerry got swift-boated but I don't have the slightest

Re: [Vo]:QuantaSol Unveils 28.3% Efficient Single-junction Solar Cell

OrionWorks wrote: > >From Jed: > > >> 500 times seems too high. I gather the parabolic troughs used at SEGS in >> California only concentrate sunlight by a factor of 80 and yet they heat the >> devices up to 400 deg C. >> >> How do you concentrate sunlight 500 times? With a Fresnel lens? Parab

Re: [Vo]:QuantaSol Unveils 28.3% Efficient Single-junction Solar Cell

Jed Rothwell wrote: > > I hate to use Wikipedia, but this photo shows damaged mirrors, which > indicate the limits of the technology (the lifetime of the installation): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solarplant-050406-05.jpg Weird! What on Earth happened to them? It looks like somebody d

Re: [Vo]:QuantaSol Unveils 28.3% Efficient Single-junction Solar Cell

mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:42:15 -0400: > Hi, > > I think you may be reaching a bit to far. I think it's just a matter of > economics. By going to 500 Suns, they reduce the size of the solar cell > required, and hence also the cos

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Edmund Storms wrote: > They say this is an open system, which has the advantage of putting > the user in control. Why would it not also put the hacker in control? What's the problem with open source, aside from the fact that anyone can learn how the system works? I don't see one. Security based

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

t in a position to do that). They were the inhouse programmers at Sony, working with full access to the (secret) source. And the ones who got nailed were the general public, duffer and expert alike, who are not allowed to see the secret sources, and so can't know what's actually running on t

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Edmund Storms wrote: > Thanks Stephen and Jed, your description makes my concern much less > rational. I keep reading about the various ways the Windows operating > system is hacked because it is poorly written. Its good to hear that > systems are being developed that don't have these problems a

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Jed Rothwell wrote: > The number of bugs in a software package decreases at first > and then increases, inexorably, to the point where the software becomes > unusable. Can you name an example where this has happened? I can't think of one. This sounds like the old theory of "evolutionary exhau

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Alexander Hollins wrote: > Its the reason why any software package older than 5 years is up to > version 4 or 5 or 12 by now. each new number is a built from scratch > variant, to avoid just those problems. Was this intended as a joke? It's certainly not true. Just asking.

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> > The number of bugs in a software package decreases at first >> > and then increases, inexorably, to the point where the software becomes >> > unusable. >> >> Can you name an example where thi

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Jed Rothwell wrote: > I gather the operating system for Apple computers has been rewritten > from scratch more often than Windows Only if Windows has been rewritten "from scratch" -1 times. I've been in the Apple code. It's still based on BSD. (I was going to cut out a few pieces as "exhibit

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> Emacs, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, OpenOffice, MS Word -- would you claim >> that any of these have simply been left to sit on a shelf, and that's >> why they haven't become so buggy they can't be used? &g

Re: [Vo]:OT: cnn.com: Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

Jed Rothwell wrote: > Edmund Storms wrote: > > > I have heard that Apple is more ruthless about backward > compatibility. Microsoft cannot afford to be, because if the new > Windows does not work with old hardware, people will eventually > throw away their hardw

Re: [Vo]:More From the Steorn Jury

OrionWorks wrote: >>From Terry: > >> http://www.steorn.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=61849&page=1#Item_0 > > The steorn saga has been a real education for me. > > Whether it is naivety on my part or not, I was willing to give the > benefit of the doubt to Steorn's engineers in assuming t

Re: [Vo]:USPO regulations say cold fusion is "wholly inoperative"

Jed Rothwell wrote: > See: > > http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/2100_2107_01.htm > > > *II.WHOLLY INOPERATIVE INVENTIONS; "INCREDIBLE" UTILITY* > > ... , a "cold fusion" process for > producing energy (/In re Swartz/, 232 F.3d 862, 56 USPQ2d 1703, (Fed. > Cir. 2

Re: [Vo]:USPO regulations say cold fusion is "wholly inoperative"

Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> But also see note at end: >> >> > These >> > examples are fact specific and should _not_ be applied as a /per se/ >> > rule. > > Ah, but in fact they do apply this. > > >> I

Re: [Vo]:More From the Steorn Jury

Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> The Steorn engineers are not self-deluded. >> >> They're dishonest. >> >> Fraudulent. > > I have not been following the story. Is there evidence that they > benefited financially? It is

Re: [Vo]:More From the Steorn Jury

nate it to the church, or spend it on a bottle of Chivas. It's still fraud. * * * Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> > I have not been following the story. Is there evidence that they >> > benefited financially? It isn't a fraud unless someone

Re: [Vo]:More From the Steorn Jury

OrionWorks wrote: > > Perhaps it's time to move on. D'accord. I'm too much of a cynic anyway. I shall stop venting here.

Re: [Vo]:More From the Steorn Jury

Mauro Lacy wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> I don't know why he didn't run. > > He didn't ran because he was a scapegoat. Scapegoats don't run, by their > very definition. > It's always better to blame it all on a "lone shooter", than

Re: [Vo]:OT: RepRap is ready

Mauro Lacy wrote: > Talking about the power of Open Source, what about the same concept but > applied to material goods? > > The first version of RepRap, an almost completely self replicating 3D > printer, is ready: > http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome > > At least in theory, it can achiev

Re: [Vo]:More From the Steorn Jury

OrionWorks wrote: >>From Mario Lacy: > >>> Edmund Storms wrote: Come now, let's be realistic. He did not run because he would not have been safe anywhere in the world. When you damage so many people, many of whom are very powerful and will connected to the Jewish community, y

Re: [Vo]:Curious shocking discharge from TC

John Berry wrote: > I made a simple so-called "Tesla Coil", the secondary is a pancake coil > without top electrode and has a resonant frequency of 760khz, the > primary circuit is a NST and I have used microwave diodes to rectify it > so the coil is run on DC. > > Most of the time I have the Va

Re: [Vo]:Curious shocking discharge from TC

John Berry wrote: > I connected a signal generator to the secondary and hung the > oscilloscope lead in the air, that is how i found the 760-ish khz frequency, > > I am not willing to run my scope near or even while the TC is running > currently as I have no power line conditioners. Eh -- good

Re: [Vo]:Most papers from Piantelli are authored by Focardi

Jones Beene wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Jed Rothwell > >> I never have a hidden agenda. My view of the > Ni-CF research is clearly stated in my book. > > > Your significant and long-standing contributions to LENR, in both time and > money, are of the highest order - and shoul

Re: [Vo]:Most papers from Piantelli are authored by Focardi

ns of Jupiter shot it down none the less. > His model is the only rational explanation that has > been offered so far. As is usual, rejection by conventional science is > based largely on ignorance of what is being rejected. > > Ed > > > > On Jul 21, 2009, at

Re: [Vo]:Most papers from Piantelli are authored by Focardi

Jones Beene wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Stephen A. Lawrence > Whoops -- You lifted the following quote from its context: You snipped the part where I said, "The claim Jed made was *not* that they failed to replicate; it was that..." Consequently, you'

[Vo]:Question about hot glass

I ran across an explanation of a "blackbody" which I actually understood a week or so back (totally unexpected, it was in the introductory chapter to a QM book), and since then I've been fiddling around with gedanken experiments involving black boxes with little holes in them and the second law of

Re: [Vo]:Perspective on Heat Vs. Everything Else

Jed Rothwell wrote: > > And finally, [Bacon] on the role of discoverers: > > ". . . inventions are a blessing and a benefit without injuring > or afflicting any." > > That last statement is, alas, no longer true, what with people inventing > thermonuclear bombs and the like. Never was true,

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Roarty, Francis X wrote: > > I am proposing that Lorentz contraction > can occur in the opposite direction creating a time dilation where the > gas diffused in a Casimir cavity appears to accelerate while the orbital > diameter quite correctly calculates smaller than ground state because it >

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Frank wrote: > I have a better explanation with animation at http://byzipp.com/energy/ but > basically it is just trig. I am saying that our perspective relative to the > equivalent speed approaching an event horizon has a corollary in the Casimir > cavity where I propose all vacuum fluctuations

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

frank wrote: > > I'm sorry, I can't make sense of this. > > If tau is the local time for a tiny observer located inside the cavity, > > and t is time for an external observer, what's dt/dtau? > > And why should it be anything other than 1? > > > > *Because it is a protected harbour

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Roarty, Francis X wrote: > Horrace- My mistake, It was Steven's comment I took offense to when he > made inquiries without reading the references and then remarked "I'd > like to see some of your terms defined a bit better before I take > time to read your blog or look at animations." I stopped

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Terry Blanton wrote: > I thought this all sounded familiar: > > http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=6156 > > Terry Thanks for the ref, Terry. It sheds a little light on this. Funny, my first thought was that Frank sounded a whole lot more coherent on that thread than he has here -- and

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

them to give up energy, and then let the inflate again with energy from the zero point field. So you sort of treat the atoms like little sponges; squeeze out their energy using tiny cavities, then let them loose to "sponge up" some more from the ZPF. Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Hmm -- Horace, I had a question about a somewhat different proposal. You have proposed that if we let two plates come together, pushed by the Casimir force, then slide them apart sideways, and then repeat, we can get energy out of the cycle. Now, I don't pretend to understand the Casimir effect a

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Roarty, Francis X wrote: > Horrace, > Horace, > Your criticism was harsher but constructive and you read my information > where as Steven just implied his time was much more valuable and > wouldn't bother reading my support blogs unless I made a better case-- You seem to have forgotten that I a

Re: FW: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Thanks for the extensive response -- it has taken me a while to go through it, and I'm sure I didn't do it all justice! Frank wrote: > > Stephen, > > Snip--- >> The hydrino radius >> between the nucleus and orbital has a temporal rise and spatial run > [snip] > > Let's stop right there.

Re: FW: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Frank: Please keep in mind that the "rotation" in the Lorentz transform is hyperbolic, not circular. A circular rotation has the form | cos(theta) sin(theta) | | -sin(theta) cos(theta) | and it maps circles centered on the origin into other circles centered on the origin. It appears t

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > Jones Beene wrote: > >> However, getting a massive charged particle to transverse a Casimir gap >> would be difficult > > Akshully How about, forget the "massive" bit, just substitute > tritium oxide for deuter

Re: [Vo]:Hydrino represents Lorentz contraction in the opposite direction from event horizon

Jones Beene wrote: > However, getting a massive charged particle to transverse a Casimir gap > would be difficult Akshully How about, forget the "massive" bit, just substitute tritium oxide for deuterium oxide and load any-old-material with Casimir sized pores with it, and see if the decay

Re: [Vo]:How to Build a UFO

Terry Blanton wrote: > Speaking of UFOs on a slow Sunday, this guy has a very interesting > interpretation of the lyrics to "Hotel California": > > http://www.inthe70s.com/generated/lyricsmeaning.shtml > > The Eagles's "Hotel California" Although I think many of you have hit > upon some very in

Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

provide more info on this? This teaser is a killer! > > R. > >> -Original Message- >> From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:sa...@pobox.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:38 AM >> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com >> Subject: [Vo]:Question about hot g

Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

aque to microwaves. That was glass heated well below the glow point (until the microwaves hit it, of course) but that would make sense as microwaves are much lower frequency than light (obviously). > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> I ran across an expl

Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > Rick Monteverde wrote: >> The hot (1800+ degF) and warm (1450+ degF) glass I've worked with always >> stays clear. Glass from a furnace is extremely clear, you can look at the >> bottom of the pot and it looks like there's nothin

Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> Rick Monteverde wrote: >>> The hot (1800+ degF) and warm (1450+ degF) glass I've worked with always >>> stays clear. Glass from a furnace is extremely clear, you can look at the >>> bottom

Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > I've seen lead-crystal (very clear) glass being worked at high > temperatures, at Corning many years ago, and as far as I can recall it > did indeed glow bright orange. > After the conversation here I searched through my old slides and found

Re: [Vo]:Question about hot glass

Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > >> Suppose you took a lump of glass and placed it in an (evacuated) oven. >> Suppose further that the walls of the oven are dead black, absorbing >> (nearly) all radiation w

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

Jed Rothwell wrote: > There was a tremendous effusion of computer CPU and ALU architecture in > the 1970s and 1980s, as minicomputers and microcomputers competed. Now > there is only Intel. Really? That's odd -- at work we use an awful lot of X86-64 systems. Last I heard that wasn't an Intel p

Re: [Vo]:Bismuth + Dr. Schwartz = 3kW free energy

Explanation given: Schwartz says it's an 'electromagnetic device'. Hmmm, that's a little thin on the "explanation" front. The first thing he does is he "activates" it. NOTE WELL: First it must be turned on and activated, and the first thing it does when he flips the switch is light some LEDs, a

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> > There was a tremendous effusion of computer CPU and ALU architecture in >> > the 1970s and 1980s, as minicomputers and microcomputers competed. Now >> > there is only Intel. >> >> Really? Tha

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

OrionWorks wrote: > * Of having surgery performed on your body. Of being examined, > typically in the gynecological sense. Eggs are removed from females - > sperm removed from males. > > * Of at subsequent abductions being shown their "offspring", the > result of their eggs (and sperm) having b

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

Sorry; I was feeling crabby when I wrote that last letter about alien abductions. But now that I've thrown a rock in the pond, I have a pebble to throw in after it: If alien abductions -- which are pretty rare -- are taken as convincing proof of the existence of aliens, shouldn't theophanies -- w

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

OrionWorks wrote: > From: Edmund Storms > >> I have no idea what you mean Steven when you say >> "The experience IS what it IS." > > It was my somewhat crude attempt to suggest that such experiences not > be judged. They are what they are. "Judging" such experiences as > either authentic or fal

Re: [Vo]:Astronaut Buzz Aldrin claims monolith on Mars moon.

Horace Heffner wrote: > Just to complete my thought. > > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:02 PM, OrionWorks wrote: > > >> "We should go boldly where man has not gone before – fly by the >> comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There’s a monolith >> there. A very unusual structure on this li

[Vo]:OT: Doctors

[We interrupt this program for the following Public Service Announcement.] I just made an appointment to see a doctor. This note is to let people know why, with the thought that it might stimulate a few of you other gents to do the same. A coworker of mine, whom I will call Fred, was a very seni

Re: [Vo]:OT: Doctors

Pete Bogham wrote: > > I think it was James Fixx, a fitness guru, who died of a heart > attack at some ridiculously early age - early forties I think. His > father also died early of a heart attack, and despite Fixx's > exemplary regimen of diet and exercise, Load of crap. Fixx is a perfect c

Re: [Vo]:OT: Doctors

people have been left for dead in oxygen tents and popped back to life. > > Final note, hearts are often weakened by parasites and a good course of > antiparasitics can be highly beneficial. What parasites, specifically? Curious. > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence <mailto:sa...@pobox.com>> wrote: > > >

Re: Mandatory Vaccinations? Re: [Vo]:Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder

John Berry wrote: > *The Vaccine exists and will soon be trialed* (note: different versions > will exist!): > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/22/swine.flu.vaccine.trials/index.html > > *WHO > recommends every country to make vaccine

Re: Mandatory Vaccinations? Re: [Vo]:Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder

John Berry wrote: > *Military will "help"*: > http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/07/28/military.swine.flu/ > They are clearly preparing for the *possibility* (unlikely as it seems) of 1918-all-over-again. If that were to happen, the military's help would be needed and appreciated. In Philadelphi

Re: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

Thanks, Horace, this was enlightening. Is it fair to say that, a) The Casimir force is a surface phenomenon, unlike most common forces, which act on the body of the material, including all the forces mentioned below in (b); b) The net Casimir force which acts on a body due to the presence of mor

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

Edmund Storms wrote: > But Jeff, artifacts do exist. They have been seen by people and > described in detail. Granted, you are not allowed to see them, but is > that required ... Of course, in the realm of science, actually "seeing" something is not necessary to believe in it. However, in gener

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

Chris Zell wrote: > I don't understand how the whole of medicine can rest on the assumption > that simple diffusion can get extremely small doses of medicine to the > proper receptors. Like DNA "telekinesis"? I guess you've never been involved with setting doses through titration, then. It's n

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

ously published. > Even > the rocks and returned space craft, which you can see in museums, can be > fake. You have to take the word of honest and respected people that the > event actually happened. An identical problem applies to the UFO claims. > > Ed > > > >

Re: [Vo]:BlackLight Power announces "6th commercial license" July 30, 2009

I chased the link and didn't get anywhere; it would not open for me. Could you summarize -- did they say anything about the cost, if any, of the license? And did Akridge say anything about plans to construct anything using the licensed technology? Just wondering. OrionWorks wrote: > With all of

Re: [Vo]:Piston Fusion

Terry Blanton wrote: > http://www.technologyreview.com/business/23102/ > > Sidebar: > > Power pistons: General Fusion's reactor is a metal sphere with 220 > pneumatic pistons designed to ram its surface simultaneously. The > ramming creates an acoustic wave that travels through a lead-lithium >

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

OrionWorks wrote: >>From Mr. Lawrence: > > ... > >> Here, let me make this more concrete: I have a perpetual motion >> machine in my basement. I can describe what it does, and how >> wonderfully it works. I'll explain to you how I've tied it into >> my house wiring, and how I no longer have

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

OrionWorks wrote: >>From Mr. Storms: > > ... > >> Who is doing this planting of coordinated vision? Who wants us to >> believe in aliens? The government is doing everything it can to kill >> this belief. > > Just some idle off-the-wall speculation follows...a fable of sorts: > > Once upon a t

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

Kyle Mcallister wrote: > --- On Sat, 8/1/09, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >>> state of mind. >> If you're going to use English to communicate with others, please >> use the words to mean what we all agree that they mean. > > > >> "time&qu

Re: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

Mauro Lacy wrote: > > I was thinking recently that it's not enough for gravity to be explained > merely as a consequence of a distortion of space. It's not a distortion of space, it's a distortion of spaceTIME, and the difference is extremely important. The metric in 4-dimensional spacetime

Re: [Vo]:OT: The Abduction Paradigm

OrionWorks wrote: >>From Mr Lawrance: > >> You don't sound like an annoying broken record. To be blunt, you sound >> silly, asking that. I don't think there's any disagreement at all over >> what would constitute an "authentic alien artifact" -- it would be a >> piece of litter left by an auth

Re: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

Frank Roarty wrote: > > No, but I'll read about it. Reciprocal space sounds like a mirror space > to me. By example, using the fourth dimension, you can invert a > tridimensional sphere without breaking it. That is, you can put the > inside out and viceversa, through a rotation over a fourth di

Re: [Vo]:Casimir force at slab edges

Mauro Lacy wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> Frank Roarty wrote: >> >> >>> s >>> identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message >>> has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or labelNo,

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

Chris Zell wrote: > First, I think Congress should convert all of Hawaii over to electric > vehicles. Maybe Puerto Rico, too. Who needs a 300 mile range? Mandating the kind of cars people can drive is wrong, IMO; that's what got us the CAFE law and that's what led directly to the SUV craze. I

Re: [Vo]:Blacklight Power revamps their web site

OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > If you haven't already done so, check out BlackLight Power's web site. > > http://www.blacklightpower.com/ > > Besides a new face, new stuff reported on. I notice they've got another replication from the Rowan team. No links to published articles o

Re: [Vo]:Blacklight Power revamps their web site

Oops. Disregard previous. Not with it today -- I overlooked the links lower down the front page; just looked at the news releases. Now I see the reports. Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: >> If you haven't already done so, check out B

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

FWIW, right now one can charge up at a lot of the small shopping centers and stores around Ottawa, if one asks. Typically the outlet is off someplace, like in the back, not in the main block of spaces. The science museum here has outlets at all the spaces, IIRC. These are just ordinary 110v outl

Re: [Vo]:Nissan electric car

come to think of it.) > > Terry > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: >> FWIW, right now one can charge up at a lot of the small shopping centers >> and stores around Ottawa, if one asks. Typically the outlet is off >> someplace, like

Re: [Vo]:Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) suppresses the need for EV recharging stations

(Caveat lector ... I'm grumpy today...) It seems to me that supercaps are the first thing which needs to be developed for this to have half a chance of going anywhere. Michel Jullian wrote: > A quick search revealed that the concept of cars selling energy to a > grid already exists --at a wider s

Re: [Vo]:those more knowledgeable, please chip in

Steorn Inc is clearly run by dishonest scammers. (Sorry if this is blunt, but this is the first time anyone in this group indicated they were going to send a chunk of money to Steorn, and I feel it's important to point this out.) IMO you should not consider paying anything to them for any reason

Re: [Vo]:BB motor - surprising experiments

I looked this over, and two questions occurred to me. 1) What's the power factor when it's running? It's got a back EMF, due apparently to a hysteresis effect, and on the face of it that word "hysteresis" suggests the EMF and current may not be in phase. In particular, if the power factor varies

Re: [Vo]:BB motor - surprising experiments

Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> I looked this over, and two questions occurred to me. >> >> 1) What's the power factor when it's running? > > > It's DC. Power factor is 1. U.

Re: [Vo]:Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) suppresses the need for EV recharging stations

Michel Jullian wrote: > I mean, if it worked as I described below (by "parameter" I meant > "set", forgive my French ;), would you grumpy vorts (Stephen, Terry > and Jed) effectively opt out from V2G (while retaining G2V of course) > by setting the "stop selling" percentage of full charge to 100%

Re: [Vo]:BB motor - surprising experiments

Horace Heffner wrote: > > The effect works with magnetic bearings and not with non-magnetic > bearings. That is sufficient to establish the effect is > electromagnetic. Yes, for sure. > Further, a back-emf is produced, which confirms it is > electromagnetic. No, for sure not! If the motor

Re: [Vo]:BB motor resistance measurements

Two very quick thoughts, probably both bogus: 1) You're striking an arc inside the bearing, and the controlling thing is the voltage; below the critical voltage needed to strike the (very short!) arc the resistance is much higher Or 2) Somewhere in the bearing, at the junction between two ma

Re: [Vo]:Paper on the ball bearing motor via Google

Horace Heffner wrote: > Since all the balls rotate about the same axis, > namely the x axis in his paper, aligned with the axis of the shaft, a > net angular momentum is continually conferred upon the balls and then, > through friction, to the motor mount. My theory does exactly the same > thin

Re: [Vo]:Paper on the ball bearing motor via Google

Horace Heffner wrote: >> >> It's hard to see how AM balances; that's true. However, take a look at >> the attached jpeg, which is a much simpler system: >> >> It's a set of ball bearings in a race, just as you've been using. The >> balls are assumed to be NON-MAGNETIC. In fact, the balls may

Re: [Vo]:Roswell Confession

Terry Blanton wrote: > http://ufocon.blogspot.com/2009/08/scientist-admits-to-study-of-roswell.html > > Sunday, August 16, 2009 > SCIENTIST ADMITS TO STUDY OF ROSWELL CRASH DEBRIS! (Confirmed by FOIA > Document) by Anthony Bragalia > > A research study that has recently been obtained through FO

Re: [Vo]:Paper on the ball bearing motor via Google

Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > >> >> >> Horace Heffner wrote: >> >> [sal] >> It's an ordinary magnetic field, and no matter what its cause, it must >> also have the usual properties of

[Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

I think I may see how this works. Unfortunately I'm going to be swamped this week, I think, and I won't have time to write it up sensibly with pictures 'n' such any time soon, but here's a quick sketch. The key is the outer race. We've got 100 amps flowing through that race. IF the current were

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

break. The motor should then self-start and run unidirectionally. Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > I think I may see how this works. Unfortunately I'm going to be swamped > this week, I think, and I won't have time to write it up sensibly with > pictures 'n' such any ti

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

Michel Jullian wrote: > There may be another cause for a net B field through the ring: the > Earth's. (apologies if this was mentioned before, haven't followed the > discussion closely) Too weak to be significant, almost certainly, but more to the point a fixed field through the ring would make

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

nd > concentric circular rails rotate by circulating current through it via > the rails? If it did, this would invalidate your theory wouldn't it? Would violate COAM too if I understand what you're proposing. So, no, it wouldn't rotate. > > Michel > > 2009/8/24

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

be a homopolar motor, which is well understood. But so what? That has nothing to do with the case of the BB motor, where there is no external field. (That's kind of the point.) I really don't see what you're getting at here. > > Michel > > 2009/8/25 Stephen A. Lawrence

Re: [Vo]:Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) suppresses the need for EV recharging stations

Michel Jullian wrote: > Just thought of a possible way to make V2G viable, for the sake of the > ubiquitous availability of fast charging it would allow without need > for dedicated stations: the utility could make away-from-home fast > charging (e.g. along highways) available at a much cheaper pr

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

And here's a related thought: What's the drift velocity in the bearing race? Wiki's article on drift velocity gives one actual number, which is 0.00028 meters per second for a copper wire 1 mm cross section carrying 3 amps. I'm not going to try to compute anything right now so I'll just take tha

Re: [Vo]:BB motor -- explanation (maybe!)

Michel Jullian wrote: > Couldn't a net magnetic field be generated by the varying paths of the > currents through the static track device I suggested, by the same > mechanism you suggested for the BB motor? I don't see how the fact > that one of the races moves in a BB, compared to a fixed circul

Re: [Vo]:Super cold cold fusion

Mark Goldes wrote: > Jones, > > As you know, the late Dr. Robert Carroll applied for a patent on fusion > close to Absolute Zero. We have a copy of the patent application. I'm > home for the weekend, but if memory serves it was filed during the 1960s. > > I'll dig it out next week. For energy

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