Re: [Vo]:Notes from MFMP Lugano Thermal Verification -- emissivity should have been .95?

2015-02-04 Thread Paul Breed
As things get hotter the emissivity changes At 1000C things are a lot better emitters than at 100C. Rossi is smarter than that. This depends on the level of CON in Rossi's work. The Rossi is smarter than that argument can cut both ways... On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Bob Cook

Re: [Vo]:How to bring people around...

2014-12-01 Thread Paul Breed
How to bring people around, the very question sounds like a religion, not science. The only way to bring people around is to have an easily replicated unambiguous experiment. I've been waiting 25yrs to see such an experiment. Currently in LENR the more credible the scientist the poorer the

Re: [Vo]:How to bring people around...

2014-12-01 Thread Paul Breed
://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/de/follow/follow-2/347-gamma On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Paul Breed p...@rasdoc.com wrote: The only way to bring people around is to have an easily replicated unambiguous experiment. The people with the most open info seem to get null results: The Martin Fleishman

Re: [Vo]:Why doesn't Rossi makes a self feeding Hot Cat and ends the controversy.

2014-10-17 Thread Paul Breed
Closing the loop with a hot side temperature of 1200C and a COP of 3, is right on the very edge of possible... You need close to 50% of theoretical carnot efficiency... 100C cold 1200C hot gives carnot of 0.76 Best possible heat to mechanical work.. (3*.76) = 2.28 Best possible Work to

Re: [Vo]:Kudos to Jed

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Breed
I've now been watching this field for the better part of 30yrs. I remember the hope that accompanied the P+F announcement. I started paying more attention again about 18 mo ago. If one was to graph credibility and percentage of break even carnot COP IMHO I would have to put the 50% credible

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: about the Nuclear Active Environment

2013-08-20 Thread Paul Breed
My NAE question... If you follow the conclusions in the Nagel poster/paper on craters presented in the poster section of ICCF-18 This paper talked about the energy necessary to make the craters that seem to be a feature of active cathodes Given that paper I will make some assumptions : 1)At

Re: [Vo]:Suggestions for a more effective demonstration

2013-08-12 Thread Paul Breed
A positive displacement pump with temp sensing on the inlet and the outlet and a flow meter. The water running in a loop through a large, possibly insulated container... The Portable Spa is a good idea the heat calculated from the two different efforts should be within the error bands for the

Re: [Vo]:The WIPO Pekka Soininen Patent from May 2013

2013-08-02 Thread Paul Breed
First a warning, , If your trying to build an cold fusion device for profit via patents you may want to skip this article. Otherwise you will have first hand knowledge of prior art. I don't think ignorance is a valid defense in a patent battle

Re: [Vo]:The real cost of coal

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Breed
Patent rules in the U.S. have recently changed effective March 18, 2013 Priority is now first to file not first to invent LENR when it finally becomes economically viable (its been real soon now for 20yrs) will be an epic patent battle with every half brained idea posted somewhere in random

[Vo]:A show of hands, whose going to ICCF-18?

2013-07-01 Thread Paul Breed
I am.

[Vo]:Large Scale transmutation...

2013-06-27 Thread Paul Breed
In the nooks and crannies of LENR literature one finds obscure references to useful transmutations... Such as W-Au etc.. Is there ANY possibility that someone has or will perfect this in industrially viable quantities and keep it a secret?

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-26 Thread Paul Breed
In normal AC system DC bias is VERY rare. anytime a transformer is involved the dc bias goes to zero. Any AC powered device with a transformer in the front end of the power supply will likely fail in a catastrophic way if any significant DC bias is present. (You drive the transfomrer magnetic

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-06-26 Thread Paul Breed
I will also add that adding DC bias to 3 phase power without blowing up the step down transformer on the input side of this circuit is an engineering effort in its own right... it would require skills in power engineering and is not real simple... On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Paul Breed p

Re: [Vo]:@NewEnergyTimes: 1998 SRI International Hydrogen LENR Experiment Produces Helium-4

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Breed
Jed, I've read behind the paywall... It looks like the two D cells made He4 significantly above background He4. One of the H cells started with no He4 and ended with no He 4... The other H cell had a slowly increasing He4, but it seemed to asymptotic with back ground Atmospheric He4... never

Re: [Vo]:Brussels LENR meeting presentations in pdf

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Breed
Ed, 4.) When the isotopes are H, the nuclear product is still unknown Any speculation? My speculation would be D On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Robin, you need to acknowledge what actually is observed rather than what you think should

Re: [Vo]:Celani detects gamma emissions during the January 14, 2011 Rossi Test

2013-05-22 Thread Paul Breed
Another possibility Maybe Rossi has some radiation source in a lead box he pulls it out and shines it on his reactor starting it This would be consistent with the diurnal variation some have seen that matches the diurnal cosmic ray intensity. Maybe the system needs a trigger

Re: [Vo]:A Motto for ICCF-19

2013-03-13 Thread Paul Breed
I don't think your quite there yet... but your getting warmer. (ducks and runs)

Re: [Vo]:OT: Wealth and Inequality in U.S.

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Breed
The only thing shown to reduce income disparity is a freer market, yet that is the one thing not currently discussed. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Peter Gluck peter.gl...@gmail.com wrote: Inequality is a law of Nature. Now, when we are living in Moneytheism, it is applied to wealth, in

Re: [Vo]:OT: Wealth and Inequality in U.S.

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Breed
Buffett says his rate is lower while at the same time the company he owns is having a major battle with the IRS. With both Liberal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/warren-buffett-taxes-berkshire-hathaway_n_941099.html and Conservative references:

Re: [Vo]:Should We Send a Team to Rescue Curiosity?

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Breed
This is a comet, from wy out in the ort cloud If we are targeted by a comet like this we will have less than 24 mo warning. We can't find everything out that far that could hit us, we can find all of the asteroids, but not the all comets.. They come from too far away We don't need to

Re: [Vo]:The limits of 3-D replicators

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Breed
has a weakness in a literal sense of the unfired part being too fragile, shapways say to consider if it could be made with wet sand. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Paul Breed p...@rasdoc.com wrote: Actually not quite true... I have hollow parts from shapeways... and overhung parts built

Re: [Vo]:D or H loading...and other questions..

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Breed
explosives- ... That was not really my question. My question was more of the did anyone get an unexpected explosion and then discontinue the work The thought being that if you ever get the environment exactly right one is likely to see more energy release than you were planning for so

[Vo]:Any LENR wet cell work done at super critical temps and pressures?

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Breed
In reviewing what has been done in the field I see the LENR effect seems to have some positive correlation with both elevated temperature and elevated pressures. Has anyone attempted to do LENR type electrolytic experiments at super critical temperatures and pressures? Not even sure how a plain

Re: [Vo]:The limits of 3-D replicators

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Breed
The DMLS (discrete metal laser sintered) printers by EOS industries can do all sorts of metal. I had a 3d regenativly cooled rocket motor built out of both stainless and aluminum. Not cheap, but amazing, one can build things 80% as strong as the base metal, and one can build things that would be

[Vo]:D or H loading...and other questions..

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Breed
Ok for an electrolytic cell loading seems conceptually simple. For a dry gas cell, it seems more difficult... Rossi and Delalkian seem to just do temperature... (if you believe their devices work at all) Some have talked about Rossi doing some sort of thermo-electic effect Celani uses a big

Re: [Vo]:The limits of 3-D replicators

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Breed
Actually not quite true... I have hollow parts from shapeways... and overhung parts built with DMLS To be more precise shapeways can not build hollow parts with small passages that can not be emptied while the part is in the green clay intermediate state before sintering. Since both

[Vo]:Do Ni H LENR reactions generate detectable radiation?

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
As I previously commented I'm trying to set up a system for quickly testing various materials, simulations etc in a dry gas cell. Dr Storms seems pretty confident that whatever LENR is happening in Ni-H systems emits detectable radiation ... IE something easily detected with a sensitive

Re: [Vo]:Do Ni H LENR reactions generate detectable radiation?

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
Focardi et al) Peter On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Paul Breed p...@rasdoc.com wrote: As I previously commented I'm trying to set up a system for quickly testing various materials, simulations etc in a dry gas cell. Dr Storms seems pretty confident that whatever LENR is happening in Ni

Re: [Vo]:Do Ni H LENR reactions generate detectable radiation?

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
that a novel nuclear reaction is occurring. The amount of radiation can only give a relative measure of the true rate, which is related to the heat being measured. Ed On Feb 22, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Paul Breed wrote: Thanks for the references... there is so much info to absorb in this space

Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
I would question assumption #5 5. The process does not require applied energy to be initiated With start up times measured in days...I don't think you can say that, ie a random cosmic ray, or stray energy from anywhere. could kick it off I would also question the complete rejection of

Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
, but a little common sense has to be used. Otherwise, no progress will be made,. Ed On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Paul Breed wrote: I would question assumption #5 5. The process does not require applied energy to be initiated With start up times measured in days...I don't think you can say

Re: [Vo]:Do Ni H LENR reactions generate detectable radiation?

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
Radiation is the ONLY way an active material can be quickly identified. This tool has been ignored. I'm trying to get you and other people to use it Understood, the system I'm building will have at least one GM tube of equal or better sensitivity to the LND7313 you used in your experiment

Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
The fusion process has a beginning and an ending. It is not continuous. Once the He forms, the reaction must stop until the He leaves the site and more D takes its place. Has anyone melted a working cathode to see if it contains any trapped He? We all believe LENR is a surface effect, but its

Re: [Vo]:explaining LENR -III

2013-02-22 Thread Paul Breed
The question of whether or not this is a bulk effect can be addressed by using a very thin plating of active material. If the reaction is similar with the thin film that you get with a larger bulk, or perhaps even a thicker plating, then it is surface related. I assume that there is adequate

[Vo]:First post about LENR

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Breed
Much discussion in the LENR world focuses on cracks resonances etc Has anyone in this field done a systematic search for resonances on the surface of bulk materials, ie stimulate H or D loaded samples with radiation from DC to Xray searching for a resonant point? A lot of the variation in

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Breed
If one is doing a broad search it strikes me that reducing the detecton tme and thus the cycle time is paramount. A calorimeter is a slow sensing device Building a reactor before one has gathered the wind tunnel data gives you Langley's result not the wright brothers result. The writghts

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Breed
H2 system generates photons having enough energy for some to exit the apparatus I 100% agree that detecting penetrating photons with some sort of GM tube would be the almost ideal sensing scheme... There are several problems with this scheme... its not very precise, ie If one tests an array of

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Breed
if your at all put off by my responses, please accept my apology. Paul On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Paul Breed p...@rasdoc.com wrote: The state of the art in IR temperature sensing should be able to tell you in a matter of 200msec

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Breed
Jed Said: 6. Power density and temperatures roughly equivalent to the core of a fission reactor have been sustained in continuous, stable reactions lasting up to 3 months at Toyota, so there is no question that if the reaction can be controlled, it can be made into a useful source of energy. Is