Re: [Vo]:The great oil sniffer hoax

2011-07-09 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is a technological hoax that bamboozled $150 million from high officials in oil companies and governments. I did not realize such large, high-level hoaxes existed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oil_Sniffer_Hoax Aha, that's different from the

[Vo]:Mythbusters: gets microwave boiling physics wrong

2011-07-18 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Jones Beene wrote: I suspect you were using pure water and it superheated. You were lucky - superheated water from a microwave can explode and cause a burn. Microwave coffee explodes. Soup explodes. Spaghetti sauce especially explodes. So do egg yolks (no shells.)

[Vo]:REMOVED: Damon Craig on vortexB-L only

2011-08-01 Thread William Beaty
Removed for repeated flagrant violation of Rule #2 No Sneering. See: http://amasci.com/weird/wvort.html#rules http://amasci.com/weird/vmore.html Mr. Craig remains available via secondary flamewars list vortex...@eskimo.com. To subscribe, send a *blank* message to:

Re: [Vo]:WTF: The Easiest 100% FREE Electricity...Build It In Less Than An Hour!

2011-08-02 Thread William Beaty
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: WTF! I really makes me sad that there are people trying to rip people off in this way. :(. No idea where they got my email address from. This Magniwork scam group is apparently huge. On google ads I have blocks on hundreds of different

[Vo]:October SSE Edge Science mag, free issue

2011-11-08 Thread William Beaty
The SSE has another issue online of their EdgeScience magazine: http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/ http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/edgescience_09.pdf - Anecdotal Evidence - Letters: Tunguska and UFOs - The plasma universe of Hannes Alfven -

RE: [Vo]:~Norway proof of concept/Man-made Man-played~

2010-09-27 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR If you don't cough up the details we won't get paid. And I for one do not want to be unemployed. No worries, a quick secure-satphone call to the Tesla pulsed-xray wavecomplex-emitting global satellite

Warning S. P. Tuteja: spammer, fraud too. Re: [Vo]:Test Mail

2010-11-18 Thread William Beaty
Thanks. Yes, Scientific Glass Works of India is a known fraud and prolific spammer (in fact repeatedly blocked on vortex under many changing email aliases. This is yet a new attempt.) Besides the spam, he ripped off a colleague. See warning: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~lfh25/ Suraj

Re: [Vo]:we need an ultrasimple example

2010-11-30 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, francis wrote: Some ideas - I recently saw a demonstration of paramagnetism where rare earth magnets are dropped down a copper tube and fall very slowly due to the Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrw-i5Ku0mI That's the copper tube and neo supermagnet I was

[Vo]:Nasa announce: astrobio discovery

2010-11-30 Thread William Beaty
NASA news conference, Thursday morn Dec 2 http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2010/M10-110.html (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. Beatyhttp://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ beaty, chem washington edu Research

Re: [Vo]:Nasa announce: astrobio discovery

2010-12-02 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: This is exciting! It has to be something about extraterrestrial life, given the lineup of people making presentations. Whatever it is, I expect the Drake equation values will increase. doh. Broken embargo: Since Mars has Methane, and since methane

[Vo]:Call for papers: 2nd ISNPEDADM Conf.

2011-01-12 Thread William Beaty
Here's an upcoming conference on New electrical technologies for environment. Looks like green electrostatics/plasma research. Abstracts deadline Apr 30th website http://lea.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/noumeameeting/ Google maps (Aust NZ area) http://goo.gl/Ce4WA ((

Re: [Vo]:OT: Why we have to teleport disbelief

2011-01-13 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Harry Veeder wrote: Why we have to teleport disbelief http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927951.900-why-we-have-to-teleport-disbelief.html Also see: http://amasci.com/freenrg/digibio.html Jan 2009 Electromagnetic Signals Are Produced by Aqueous

Re: [Vo]:OT: Why we have to teleport disbelief

2011-01-13 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, William Beaty wrote: He discovered the Benveniste digibio experiment, but using 7Hz sine rather than white noise in his coils. Put DNA in one sample tube, hold it near a second one with 7Hz AC, then dump in some nucleic acid and enzymes in the (water only) second tube

RE: [Vo]:EETIMES publishes report

2011-01-25 Thread William Beaty
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Mark Iverson wrote: and he has also related to me that on more than one occasion, the 'firing' of the Z-pinch machine has resulted in anomalous energy that could not be explained, and instruments all seemed to be working properly... don't think they ever tracked it down

[Vo]:FEW HOURS LEFT, OPTICS SURPLUS JUNK 30% Off Sale (fwd)

2011-01-27 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, G Shepherd wrote: This is a source of some very good deals on items not even listed in many physics equipment resources. I got some 4-5 lenses from them one time that are hard to find. Their stock changes somewhat but is always interesting to look through even if they

Re: [Vo]:CALL FOR REDIRECT OF SOME TOPICS OR DISCUSSIONS TO VORTEX-B

2011-12-18 Thread William Beaty
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Terry Blanton wrote: Hey,Bill, Do you have a Paypal account? It's time for Vorts to ante up. Yep, on paypal it's just my normal email: billb()amasci dotcom (figure out obfuscation) Recent news: Me being insulted by William Shatner on ca-only History channel

[Vo]:billb bought no SMOTseses

2012-01-20 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, Jones Beene wrote: He did repay a few carefully selected purchasers on vortex, including our moderator Bill, Nope, I never was interested, other than to buy $10 of used mouseballs and a length of small-gauge train track. My personal policy is, when playing with FE/OU,

Re: [Vo]:Keef Versus Greg Watson

2012-01-20 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: So, he was clearly a bald face liar, asking people for money for something he certainly knew he didn't have. To suggest that we welcome him back to the list, after he stole money from list members, would be outrageous. (I'm not sure anyone

[Vo]:VORTEX RULES

2012-01-23 Thread William Beaty
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Shaun Taylor wrote: Oh so now Vortex is only a PRO Rossi discussion group? Yes. Exactly. Now you're getting it. What part of BIG NASTY NEST OF 'TRUE BELIEVERS' didn't you understand? You apparently haven't read the forum rules. Is there ANY reason I shouldn't ban

Re: [Vo]:Opponents should please go away and form your own group

2012-01-23 Thread William Beaty
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Mary Yugo wrote: It is absolutely inane to ask critics to read the literature. You think we have nothing better to do than to spend time with unlimited quantities of inadequate and difficult to understand papers? Certainty that LENR critics should be ignorant of LENR

Re: [Vo]:Opponents should please go away and form your own group

2012-01-23 Thread William Beaty
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Dusty Bradshaw wrote: Some of us doubters would rather unsubscribe but since this is like Hotel California, welp.. Also, didn't know this was a religion here, worshipping at the altar of fringe science? Is this a cult or science, and where can I get off this train? How

[Vo]:REMOVING RULE2 VIOLATORS, 'subscribe' blocked.

2012-01-23 Thread William Beaty
Vtx thoughtcriminals. Scoffing and anti-fringe behavior, but didn't leave in disgust as suggested. Ungood! Time for Periodic Cleansing. removed: Mary Yugo effwivakeef Dusty Bradshaw Shaun Taylor Vortex traffic temporarily suspended. Getting everyone's attention. I'll leave

Re: [Vo]:REMOVING RULE2 VIOLATORS, 'subscribe' blocked.

2012-01-23 Thread William Beaty
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, William Beaty wrote: Vortex traffic temporarily suspended. Getting everyone's attention. OK, back on. I'll leave subscribe turned off for weeks/months, unsubscribe remains active. Email me directly for problems, suggestions. (( ( ( ( ((O

[Vo]:Ball Lightning 2012: call for papers

2012-01-29 Thread William Beaty
(( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. BeatySCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA

Re: [Vo]:What Bill B. said, to the second power

2012-02-02 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Randy Wuller wrote: This post prompted a reply from Maryugo. Since MY is banned here and at the Defkalion site and since I converse with MY (by email) occasionally, she sent me her reply to Bill Beaty which I presume he received and did not elect to post. Yourself or

Re: [Vo]:Magnet Motor Video..Hmmmmm????? 267,500 hits- goes Viral.

2012-02-02 Thread William Beaty
A couple of Free Energy prizes exist. How about a prize for an elegant fake FE machine? No batteries or ext. power source, that's no fun. For example, suppose you could build one of these youtube magnet motors which actually accelerated and ran by itself ...but its magnets became weaker

Re: [Vo]:Magnet Motor Video..Hmmmmm????? 267,500 hits- goes Viral.

2012-02-03 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Harry Veeder wrote: If theory predicted that it should run for x hours but instead ran much longer would it qualify as a true FE device? If it runs far longer ...then it merely supplies a more precise method for measuring the actual energy provided by your magnets! :)

Re: [Vo]:

2012-03-04 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Terry Blanton wrote: I have forwarded it to the list owner requesting that he nuke 'em. Nuked. This was a first for vortex. I think the closest we've ever had to spammers was that eximcon guy from Inda selling lab glassware (takes your money, never ships anything, had

Re: [Vo]:BRUSH UP ON BASICS

2012-03-21 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com wrote: Found this more suitable for spare time than videos or games: http://hydride.has.it/ Nice, but arrg, powerpoint. No PDF vers. For real fun we can go argue about amateur breakthrough hoax videos. DWFTTW is old, so now it's

Re: [Vo]:BRUSH UP ON BASICS

2012-03-24 Thread William Beaty
weren't forced to take their demo show to France in order to attract the press. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:02 PM, William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, integral.property.serv...@gmail.com wrote: Found this more suitable for spare time than videos or games: http

[Vo]:Flying electrostatic antennas

2012-04-03 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Terry Blanton wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2122762/Airborne-power-generator-produce-energy-1-000-feet.html How 'bout this one, no wind needed! :) Tethered km-high balloon, DC electrostatic collector http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNjmjMNqLCo

Re: [Vo]:Flying electrostatic antennas

2012-04-04 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Terry Blanton wrote: What is the Vret path on this sky battery? It's mostly from thunderstorms: lightning and neg-charged rain. Conventional theory of the Earth Global Circuit has thunderstorms as electrostatic generators which on average deliver neg. charge downwards

[Vo]:Seasonal variation of halflife: tritium test

2012-04-13 Thread William Beaty
Interesting thread going on in SED newsgroup... http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_thread/thread/d99b2b7ad28787ba# Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design, sci.physics From: Jan Panteltje pantel...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:38:32 GMT Local: Tues, Mar 20 2012 5:38

RE: [Vo]:Seasonal variation of halflife: tritium test

2012-04-19 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: It is also well established that the intent and expectation of the experimenter can influence radioactive decay, so it would be difficult to separate that out from the other possible influences. Since the research community assumes half-lives to

Re: [Vo]:What is this?

2012-04-19 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: Every time I post to Vortex-l I receive this immediately from Russia: Do you know what it's about? Header follows: Delivered-To: hoyt.stea...@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.118.134 with SMTP id v6csp307779vcq; Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:44:09 -0700

Re: [Vo]:Can a Box Fly?

2012-04-25 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012, Terry Blanton wrote: This one does by turning inside out: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/04/flying-object-propels-itself-by-flipping-inside-out.html?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2012-2304-GLOBAL|flyingobjectsutm_medium=NLCutm_source=NSNSutm_content=flyingobjects It flies

[Vo]:test, ignore

2012-04-29 Thread William Beaty
yet another test

[Vo]:vortex-L alive again

2012-04-29 Thread William Beaty
Ignore the below, vortex-L is working again. On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, William Beaty wrote: DOH, this ancient FREENRG-L list still seems to be working. I wish I'd remembered to check this sooner. I moved all vortex-L subscribers here temporarily until Eskimo sorts itself out. For vortex-L

Re: [Vo]:vortex-L alive again

2012-04-30 Thread William Beaty
Rest of the story: apparently it was a bug turned up by long-overdue updating of internal security on eskimo.com. Group permissions of certain smartlist directories (including vortex) were accidently changed. (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J.

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-16 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 16 May 2012, David Jonsson wrote: I am a SLIder myself. I can turn off some lights just by passing by foot or I'm not one myself. But I did get a chance to expound on my personal conventional-yet-crackpot bio-electrostatics explanation of some examples of the phenomenon:

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-16 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 16 May 2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: Perhaps it has to do with the fair weather current, or in this case field. By walking toward the lamp the top of your head brings the ground closer to the lamp (because your body is filled with salt water, which is a reasonable conductor), thus

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-16 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 16 May 2012, William Beaty wrote: Lung-powered human VandeGraaff disease? William Shatner's Weird or What http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neYxvtqH8QM Better link here: http://amasci.com/static/e-disease.html (( ( ( ( ((O

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-18 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 18 May 2012, David Jonsson wrote: What is happening when you turn off the LEDs? Where is that described? It looks like a possible explanation. Three-dollar e-field detectors, see the project page: http://www.amasci.com/emotor/chargdet.html But if streetlights respond to DC

Re: [Vo]:Any SLIders out there? I am one.

2012-05-27 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 22 May 2012, David Jonsson wrote: Thanks. I will try to build one. Will this transistor do? http://www.newark.com/nte-electronics/nte451/transistor-jfet-n-channel-4ma-i/dp/29C4598 Probably, but you'd have to try it. Or just use MPF-102:

spam infection Re: [Vo]:Unidentified subject!

2012-06-08 Thread William Beaty
Yes, just a spamming virus, don't click. On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Michael Crosiar wrote: http://www.parcelsrealestate.com/wp-content/themes/prophoto3/sdvsbse.html?cnj=ji.jkjjxc=kjnk.ycjjn=buqw (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. Beaty

Re: Perendev MPI

2004-07-03 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A motor with no input-HOW DO YOU TURN IT OFF? ALL things are great to turn on-but oh- many times more important to turn OFF!!! Think about it. Even if he can't turn it off, millions of people will want one! (( ( ( ( (

Re: OT: GIF backgrounds under IE

2004-07-06 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Taylor J. Smith wrote: Extra lanes added to Interstate Five in Seattle http://www.amasci.com/stopgo.html What's supposed to happen? I stared at it (reversing cube effect?), but nothing changed; With a recent version of Internet Explorer? It's a 16-frame

Unidentified subject!

2004-07-07 Thread William Beaty
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Keith Nagel wrote: Hi All. With all the learned bloviating on this topic, I'm surprised no one has yet addressed the critical issue with secrecy and invention. snip No, the real issue is much simpler, and can be seen in every institution where the command and control of

everything down, being restored

2004-07-13 Thread William Beaty
Huge ISP crash, vortex-L dead for a day, things are being restored from June backups. (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. BeatySCIENCE HOBBYIST website [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://amasci.com

WSCI: Just how ab initio is ab initio quantum chemistry?

2004-07-21 Thread William Beaty
Here's some interesting articles in a (currently) free online version of a chem journal, mentioned on PHYS-L forum... Foundations of Chemistry Philosophical, Historical, Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-4238 (see FREE ISSUE CLICK

Other Archive Site

2004-07-24 Thread William Beaty
Since Escribe is down again would you repost the alternative archive site? DOH! The big eskimo.com crash made the Vortex-L website revert to the weeks-old copy! Fixed now (google fortunately had backed it up.) If you ever need it, the vortex-l chache is always linked on

RE: sam faile update and boundary electrolysis

2004-07-30 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Nick Reiter wrote: In the meantime, I kept the voltage the same and went to an even smaller diameter (about .001) hair wire for the cathode - wow. In KOH, the plasma has now moved from the violet potassium color to a bright blue intense sheath along the wire. I wonder

Re: Podkletnov's latest claims

2004-08-08 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, thomas malloy wrote: Hum, let's hope that independent researchers have more luck reproducing Podkletnov's latest claims then they did on his claims of antigravity. This is ALMOST a hobbyist project. Except that Podkletnov used superconductor pucks larger than 10cm

[ISBL04] Newspaper Articles of International Symposium on Ball Lightning in Taiwan (fwd)

2004-08-21 Thread William Beaty
The Ball Lightning Symposium apparently just took place last week in Taiwan. I received the following chinese-language file. Can anyone translate? See this temporary GIF image http://amasci.com/temp.gif Babelfish also does a slightly-worthwhile job on the following URLs. --

Re: [ISBL04] Newspaper Articles of International Symposium on Ball Lightning in Taiwan (fwd)

2004-08-21 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, William Beaty wrote: Babelfish also does a slightly-worthwhile job on the following URLs. Also: select chinese-trad as the language. Here's a sample: http://www.ncu.edu.tw/ncu2/modules.php?name=Ncu_mainfile=indexfunc=articlesid=2393 Reporter the pond biography

Re: la loi d'ZPE

2004-10-14 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jones Beene wrote: Pastor Rod Flash Powerhouse Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/asacob.htm (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. Beaty

Weirdness at Astronomy Picture of the Day

2004-12-08 Thread William Beaty
APOD: shadow stripe? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html Forum http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?t=249 ((( ( ((o)) ) ))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research Engineer

Comments from billb amform (fwd)

2005-01-03 Thread William Beaty
Can someone give Mr. Wang some pointers? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:20:55 -0800 From: Jin T. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Comments from billb amform --- comments --- I am a professor in physics at Southern University, USA. I am

Re: FW: WHAT'S NEW Monday, January 03, 2005

2005-01-04 Thread William Beaty
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Akira Kawasaki wrote: UN. Yet, in Dover, PA, a town much like Dayton, TN, the school board voted to require that intelligent design be taught alongside evolution. The school board will lose in court, but we must ask ourselves why science has been so spectacularly

Re: Funny comment from Brian Josephson

2005-01-09 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Jed Rothwell wrote: Cold Fusion gets lukewarm backing 1. the reviewers say they remain unconvinced about the reality of cold fusion ... 2. ... indeed, a third of the reviewers believe that the phenomenon could potentially create excess power Invent a logic system for

Antigravity insects?

2005-01-12 Thread William Beaty
Numerous times I've seen bees in the garden as they explore, hovering half a foot above the fine dusty dirt. Just as you might expect, there is a tiny spot directly below the bee where the dust is being thrown radially outwards. The downwash from a bee remains collimated as a narrow jet

Dream-inspired fringe-science invention

2005-01-19 Thread William Beaty
Here's something from a basement inventor: weird EM effect makes solids transparent, ruins electronics, kills goldfish? http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=6657

Entry to Phenomena Reports

2005-01-27 Thread William Beaty
-- WOW! I just experienced a disappearing-object event, BIG TIME, with no sensible explanations and no questionable issues to provide any excuses. This is the first time an object has vanished right before my eyes. I was stirring a tall paper

Re: Entry to Phenomena Reports

2005-01-28 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Colin Quinney wrote: Wow. James Bond movie? No way. Sounds more like something seen in a John Hutchison movie. Bill was the microwave oven on during this episode? Nope. This was around 9AM in the electronics shop at work, just after I'd arrived. I had purchased a paper

### American Antigravity - Troy Hurtubise Interview ### (fwd)

2005-01-31 Thread William Beaty
See below... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:37:43 -0800 From: Tim Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Lifters Group' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'American Antigravity Yahoo Group'

Re: Role of God in government

2005-02-06 Thread William Beaty
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Edmund Storms wrote: the present government justify this approach and how this tendency to lie squares with their understanding of the Christian religion. If a person supports obvious lies, how can anything they say be trusted? I came to the conclusion long ago that lying

OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations?

2005-02-11 Thread William Beaty
Actually, since 2001 it has been: William J. Beaty 7540 20th Ave NW Seattle, WA, 98117 Also see: AMASCI.COM TIP JAR http://amasci.com/tipjar.html On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Horace Heffner wrote: For snailmail just send a check to: William J. Beaty

Re: Coaxial Capacitor Thrustor

2005-04-08 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, John Berry wrote: Your analysis makes it tempting to try and build it, except that in air there really is a displacement current due to polarizing the air. A force would certainly be generated no doubt, but so would a stream of moving air. From the Chris Tinsley era:

Re: Experimental Challenge!!!!!

2005-04-08 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Keith Nagel wrote: I'll give everyone a day or two to respond to the list, and if ANYONE can post something which has some remote whiff of truth to it, I'll post the experiment and you can all do it for yourselves and see what I'm talking about. Everyone talks about Bog,

Re: Experimental Challenge!!!!!

2005-04-08 Thread William Beaty
when you go into your church, you talk about god. when we go into our teepee we talk TO god. - Chief Seattle - Apparently that's a fake quote, written in 1974. Most Chief Seattle quotes were taken from an article manufactured by an author who was writing a Hollywood-ized movie script. The

Re: Survey questions from Dr. Peter Gluck

2005-04-09 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Mike Carrell wrote: - WHAT IS COLD FUSION (LENR, CANR, CMNS)? There may be more than one fundamental energy-producing phenomenon involved, so any questions about the one true nature of CF will devolve into Swiftian lilliputan battles. - HOW DOES IT WORK? IT? What if

Spontaneous invisibility: in the movies

2005-04-22 Thread William Beaty
Nick R. avalonbiker wrote: You might like to read this article - written about 10 years ago by a researcher in California. The author, Donna Higbee, describes some further cases of the phenomenon. Apart from Ms. Higbee's paper, I had not heard anything more about the effect until this

archive.org, the wayback machine

2005-04-22 Thread William Beaty
Just FYI, copies of very old defunct websites can by found by placing this in front of the sites' original URL: http://web.archive.org/web/*/ For example, http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/index.html (Note: if you forget this secret phrase, you can find it near

SMOT closed-loop roll arounds? (2nd msg)

2005-04-26 Thread William Beaty
What's the current best record for number of roll-arounds (or time length in operation) with multiple ramps in the closed-loop configuration? ((( ( ((o)) ) ))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research

Is Prometheus Effect actually Greg Watson?

2005-04-28 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Prometheus Effect wrote: I can only report on what I achieved and from memory it was not stable. So then, stable or not, what was *your* record for number of closed-loop roll-arounds? Sorry but I don't have my original notes so I can't give you more info. Hmmm.

Greg's msg from 1997: continuous closed-loop SMOT

2005-04-28 Thread William Beaty
Vortex-L archives have your original message announcing successful closed-loop operation. And successful rotating-wheel-device operation! See below. To all: while reading this, keep in mind that it all happened eight years ago and we've yet to see evidence that his devices ever existed. Keep

Greg's 3-ramp SMOT loop runs continuously!

2005-04-28 Thread William Beaty
Not Greg, but an imposter? Or more likely, you are actually Greg Watson, but you lied on vortex-L years ago about closing the loop on SMOT, and now you don't remember the number of seconds/hours/days that you told us the device ran back then. However when I finish the single ramp return

Greg's closed loop SMOT claims, and Vortex-L Freenrg-L forums

2005-04-30 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Prometheus Effect wrote: I would like to enlist the aid of some of the members of the OU / Free Energy community to independently verify the virtually no magnetic dragback exit of the Prometheus Effect. This is somewhat pointless, since you've already achived closed-loop

RE: vacuum cleaner static vortex

2005-04-30 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Michael Foster wrote: What brand is the vac? I gotta try this. Very cool! A low-humidity environment is probably the key to this. Powder impact on plastic should charge both the powder and the plastic. I've never seen it happen with my vacuum in Seattle, so it might be

[Vo]: Chem experiments for kids (large pdf file)

2006-09-25 Thread William Beaty
The Golden Book of Chem. Experiments (28.6 meg pdf) http://www.foundontheweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/The-Golden-Book-Of-Chemistry-Experiments.pdf mirror: http://rapidshare.de/files/33904018/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments.pdf.html Banned book: kid's chemistry

[Vo]: Two interesting articles...

2006-09-27 Thread William Beaty
A selected history of expectation bias in physics.M. Jeng, Am. J. of Physics, July 2006 http://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/AJPIAS-ft/vol_74/iss_7/578_1.html The beliefs of physics can bias their results toward their expectations in a number of ways. We survey a variety of

[Vo]: Seeing Tesla with new eyes

2006-09-28 Thread William Beaty
I uploaded some crude screenshots taken from the film The Secret of Nikola Tesla. I'm very curious as to the original source of these images. Who was the artist? On what were they based? From what I understand of Tesla technology, they seem very accurate (also quite revealing.)

[Vo]: New Tesla statue at Niagra

2006-09-28 Thread William Beaty
Tesla statue unveiled 7/2006 Niagra Falls (Canadian side) http://www.teslasociety.com/victoria.htm http://www.teslasociety.com/victoria3.htm (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. Beatyhttp://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ [EMAIL

RE: [Vo]: Seeing Tesla with new eyes

2006-09-29 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Bill, This is fantastic! Then take a look at THIS one: http://amasci.com/graphics/tesblb1b.jpg It's from Electrical Experimenter from 1919. June issue, I think. I always thought that these old Tesla bulb devices were the same as plasma

Re: [Vo]: Seeing Tesla with new eyes

2006-10-01 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Harry Veeder wrote: Recently on TV there was a show about 'sprites' -- this is high altitude lightning which shoots up into outer space. Could the Earth be acting like a giant Tesla bulb? Wow. Are you aware that something inside thunderstorms is creating pulses of

[Vo]: Travelling Tesla exhibit, Nov 11-16 Vancouver BC

2006-11-12 Thread William Beaty
Nikola Tesla's Wonderful World of Electricity Exhibition from the Nikola Tesla Belgrade Museum November 16 30, 2006 BC Hydro Lobby 333 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 5R3 Monday-Friday 9:00 am-7:00 pm Saturday, Sunday 12:00 pm-5:00 pm OFFICIAL OPENING OF TESLA EXHIBITION Saturday, November

[Vo]: Vancouver BC Tesla Conference (this Fri Nov 17)

2006-11-12 Thread William Beaty
This friday at Simon Fraser U. is International Tesla Day 2006 and all-day symposium (registration required, $20, deadline Tues.) Nikola Tesla: Celebrating the Legacy http://tesla2006.irmacs.sfu.ca/ Schedule Friday, November 17, 2006 the IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser

[Vo]: photos from Tesla travelling exhibit

2006-11-12 Thread William Beaty
I found a site which has photos of the Tesla travelling exhibit from when it was in Australia in October: http://teslaforum.com/2006%20Tesla%20exibition/2006%20Tesla%20Exibition.htm (( ( ( ( ((O)) ) ) ) ))) William J. Beaty

[Vo]: x-rays from TC capacitors?!!!

2006-11-26 Thread William Beaty
I stumbled across an odd idea. If a home-built stacked-plate capacitor is operated with high-volt pulses, then the thin air-film trapped between the foils and the dielectric sheets will glow violet. (I verified this idea using a quickie test device made from a thin glass bowl, foil on the

Re: [Vo]: Bill Beaty's inspiring Videos

2006-12-13 Thread William Beaty
Responding to old message... On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, leaking pen wrote: bill put up videos? i missed this. anyone have a link? They're mentioned on the new additions page for amasci.com. http://amasci.com/news.html Or just go directly to uTube:

Re: [Vo]: seacrete

2007-01-15 Thread William Beaty
I saw an article in the 1970s about this, about using rebar as electrodes and growing hemisphere domes. Then years later there was another article: there were no mineral deposits, instead the concrete was made of coral. Apparently something about the electrode was attracting the free-swimming

[Vo]: MODERATOR: Michel Jullian, cease your attack on Ed Storms

2007-03-19 Thread William Beaty
I've received complaints about your behavior. In reading the recent threads, it's clear that several Vortex members have objected to your behavior, yet you ignored them. Are you new to Vortex-L? On this forum, dismissing complaints from other users is a major mistake. And perhaps you haven't

[Vo]: MODERATOR: Michel Jullian removed from vortex

2007-03-26 Thread William Beaty
Well, I think I've mulled about this sufficiently, and waited long enough to get clear perspective. My earlier opinion hasn't changed. Michel is removed for two weeks. After that time he can contact me about the situation. Michel clearly doesn't take the past week's events very seriously, but

[Vo]: what does Electrolysis actually mean?

2007-03-27 Thread William Beaty
For those not totally sick of this topic... :) Here's one research technique: use google define: command to search many random websites. http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+electrolysis Several of them have Ed Storms' usage, including a UK chemistry textbook: electrolysis is a

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2007-04-06 Thread William Beaty
From: Denis Rancourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Victory in Disciplined Minds case Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:54:54 -0400 Dear fellow physicist, Your courage to take a public stand on a close-to-home issue has won justice for a fired fellow physicist and has promoted free

[Vo]:Runaway Breakdown ionospheric energy tap

2007-05-09 Thread William Beaty
Normally a large Tesla coil sends out fractal plasma streamers: sparks based on electron avalanche of air molecules as well as UV ionization. The tips of the streamers grow relatively slowly, on the order of tens of KPH. However, if supplied with relativistic electrons as a seed, where the

Re: [Vo]:Runaway Breakdown ionospheric energy tap

2007-05-09 Thread William Beaty
/9/07, William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally a large Tesla coil sends out fractal plasma streamers: sparks based on electron avalanche of air molecules as well as UV ionization. The tips of the streamers grow relatively slowly, on the order of tens of KPH. However

Re: [Vo]:Runaway Breakdown ionospheric energy tap

2007-05-09 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 9 May 2007, William Beaty wrote: Oops, a line got deleted: ionosphere is the power supply, the Runaway Breakdown spark is like a FET switch, and the Tesla coil is the resonator. But how much energy could be extracted in this way? It might be feeble. However, if the POWER BEING

Re: [Vo]:Runaway Breakdown ionospheric energy tap

2007-05-11 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Robin van Spaandonk wrote: AFAIK there is no such thing as a safe to use paintable beta emitter. I was suggesting a new process. The paint would have to be very thin BTW. A nano powder deposited on a sticky substrate might work best. There are beta emitters with MeV

Re: [Vo]:Runaway Breakdown ionospheric energy tap

2007-05-11 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 9 May 2007, leaking pen wrote: in addition, it would only throw the long sparks in the direction of the motion of the seeds, yes no? The direction of such a spark is an interesting issue. Would RB sparks tend to curve, to follow the e-field flux lines of the electrode supplying the high

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