Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-11-03 Thread James Bowery
of a class 'A' RF stage serves as an excellent example of what I am observing in the simulations. Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 2:42 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-11-03 Thread James Bowery
observing in the simulations. Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 2:42 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component BTW, David Roberson and I have corresponded with Barry Kort

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-11-02 Thread H Veeder
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: From the point of the calorimeter heat is not absorbed since no heat vanishes. The energy does vanish! You put in X amount of electricity but only a fraction of X comes out. The

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-11-02 Thread David Roberson
. Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 2:42 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component BTW, David Roberson and I have corresponded with Barry Kort about the claim

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-11-01 Thread Bob Higgins
BTW, David Roberson and I have corresponded with Barry Kort about the claim that McKubre's measurements were as much as 3% in error due to presumption of constant current and average voltage between samples for calculation of average power. The claimed mis-measurement is attributed to the

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-30 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: From the point of the calorimeter heat is not absorbed since no heat vanishes. The energy does vanish! You put in X amount of electricity but only a fraction of X comes out. The rest goes into changing the chemical structure of the egg you are cooking, or

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-29 Thread H Veeder
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: ​Unless heat is absorbed during charging and is released during discharge a calorimeter can't tell you if an endothermic reaction occurred. The heat being absorbed is the

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-28 Thread Bob Higgins
As a follow-up to this, and as part of my appropriate public recanting, here are the equations for power during a sample time. This shows that if the current is made a constant, then only the average voltage need be acquired. Between samples, a capacitance on the voltage measurement node will

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
What you say, Dave, is entirely true and always pragmatically wrong. Most DAQ systems do not sample simultaneously and have an input capacitance that provides averaging. Thus, you will always be reading average current between samples and average voltage. Computing power from average current

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread David Roberson
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 11:05 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component What you say, Dave, is entirely true and always pragmatically wrong. Most DAQ systems do not sample simultaneously and have an input capacitance that provides averaging

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
I have no first hand knowledge one way or the other [this was not my assertion]. I believe Dr. McKubre to be an outstanding researcher and have no reason to believe this escaped his attention. Even if it did, it would only be a minor error and does not alter conclusions. It will make a

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread David Roberson
, 2014 1:02 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component I have no first hand knowledge one way or the other [this was not my assertion]. I believe Dr. McKubre to be an outstanding researcher and have no reason to believe this escaped his attention. Even if it did, it would

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Alain Sepeda
2014-10-24 23:14 GMT+02:00 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: McKubre never reported a 3% gain. Even with his calorimeter that would be in the margin of error at the bottom of the scale, although he can detect the difference between, say, 40% and 43%. As I recall, McKubre reported gains

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread David Roberson
energy. The skeptics should listen more, study theory in detail, and speculate less. Dave -Original Message- From: Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com To: Vortex List vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 2:10 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
I hate to say this, but what you say is absolutely wrong. You could only do as you describe if the voltage being averaged is the RMS voltage. You cannot take the average voltage and multiply it by the average current to get average power. For example, suppose that the voltage was

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: ​Unless heat is absorbed during charging and is released during discharge a calorimeter can't tell you if an endothermic reaction occurred. The heat being absorbed is the definition of an endothermic reaction. That's exactly what it is. Even if the energy

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
This is not my understanding. Most wattmeters that are implemented as you describe require the wattmeter to be the entire target load. Otherwise, there is no error-proof way to know how much power is dissipated in the wattmeter in relation to that which is dissipated in the device. Typical

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: This is not my understanding. Most wattmeters that are implemented as you describe require the wattmeter to be the entire target load. Otherwise, there is no error-proof way to know how much power is dissipated in the wattmeter in relation to that

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
In thermal wattmeter, the series wire that is heated measures the current squared, not power. This is useful for measurement of the power to the load only if the load is resistive and the resistance does not vary because the power is I^2R. You could measure the voltage squared with a similar

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Alain Sepeda
If you stabilize the current at I0 I think that the question of average is solved. you have U(t)=U0+R(t)I0 P(t)=U(t)I0 what is proposed here is that R(t) is hugely unpredictable and changing quickly. in fact if you measure U(t) average over the time period, you have simply the power injected.

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com wrote: . . . So to use such [thermal watt-] meters, you have to presume that you have no phase shift between the voltage and current (a point of residual equivocation and error). To insure this is a correct presumption, you need an oscilloscope to check.

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread David Roberson
@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component I hate to say this, but what you say is absolutely wrong. You could only do as you describe if the voltage being averaged is the RMS voltage. You cannot take the average voltage and multiply

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Bob Higgins
@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 3:11 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component I hate to say this, but what you say is absolutely wrong. You could only do as you describe if the voltage being averaged is the RMS voltage. You cannot take the average voltage and multiply

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: No matter how intense and short the burst of energy is, as long as the calorimeter walls prevent it from escaping, and it produces enough joules of heat to be detected, it will be detected. This is a great advantage of

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:53 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Since we are assuming a symmetrical AC waveform, this is a pretty good example of that with numerous harmonics that also get into the act. Is this a safe assumption? Eric

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread David Roberson
the latest testing! Dave -Original Message- From: Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 10:58 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component Well Dave, you have made a good and convincing argument. My hat is off to you

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread David Roberson
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Oct 28, 2014 12:34 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:53 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Since we are assuming a symmetrical AC waveform, this is a pretty good example

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:10 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Let me know if you are still confused since it is important that we set the records straight and dispose of skeptical ideas. Unfortunately I don't know enough about electronics yet to have an opinion on Michael

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-26 Thread David Roberson
The total instantaneous power into the system can be calculated by taking the instantaneous source voltage and multiplying it by the instantaneous source current. It does not matter whether you want to call it AC or DC since this is the total that is being delivered. There is no more,

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Scott Little showed a beautiful example of this once. He put a rechargeable battery into a calorimeter and charged it up. There was a deficit comparing electricity to the rising temperature. Then he discharged the battery through a resister in the cell.

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-25 Thread H Veeder
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Scott Little showed a beautiful example of this once. He put a rechargeable battery into a calorimeter and charged it up. There was a deficit comparing electricity to the rising

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread James Bowery
Could this explain figure 3 in Storms's paper The Status of Cold Fusion (2010) http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: Barry Kort on Dr bob blog reported challenging critiques of McKubre experiments

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Foks0904 .
I'd wager this isn't a terribly important critique, considering it's on a guys blog and at-a-glance not even approaching the authority of a white paper. If I had to guess, I'd gamble this has been either implicitly or explicitly covered elsewhere somewhere in the literature. The thing about

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Foks0904 .
If this is purely in reference to the 3% gain chronicled by McKubre years ago in the old ELFORSK report, we already know that might be an ambiguous result, and what does it have to do with the 60 Minutes presentation? I don't really care if they're able to shoot down one series of ambiguous

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Foks0904 .
*Correction: Not ELFORSK, EPRI On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: If this is purely in reference to the 3% gain chronicled by McKubre years ago in the old ELFORSK report, we already know that might be an ambiguous result, and what does it have to do with

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Ruby
This guy is spamming lots of our Youtube's. I let him post the same exact tome on two or three of our videos, but after that, I deleted his comments. Ruby On 10/24/14, 7:46 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: Barry Kort on Dr bob blog reported challenging critiques of McKubre experiments

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: If this is purely in reference to the 3% gain chronicled by McKubre years ago in the old [EPRI] report, we already know that might be an ambiguous result . . . McKubre never reported a 3% gain. Even with his calorimeter that would be in the margin of error

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread H Veeder
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: If this is purely in reference to the 3% gain chronicled by McKubre years ago in the old [EPRI] report, we already know that might be an ambiguous result . . . McKubre never

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: ​Photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction but instead of absorbing heat energy it absorbs light energy. I doubt a calorimeter would detect that. The light source would have to be inside the calorimeter to affect the process, so yes, it would detect the

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread H Veeder
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: ​Photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction but instead of absorbing heat energy it absorbs light energy. I doubt a calorimeter would detect that. The light source would have to

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread H Veeder
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:48 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: ​Photosynthesis is an endothermic reaction but instead of absorbing heat energy it absorbs light energy.

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Ok so you can design a calorimeter to detect this particular endothermic reaction, however, if you don't know a-priori what type of endothermic reaction or what energy source is involved a standard calorimeter might fail to detect it. Harry ​Another

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread Foks0904 .
Thanks for the clarification Jed. Easy to misunderstand the 3%. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Foks0904 . foks0...@gmail.com wrote: If this is purely in reference to the 3% gain chronicled by McKubre years ago in the old [EPRI] report, we already

Re: [Vo]:questions on McKubre cells and AC component

2014-10-24 Thread H Veeder
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Ok so you can design a calorimeter to detect this particular endothermic reaction, however, if you don't know a-priori what type of endothermic reaction or what energy source is