Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 07:41 AM 11/8/2011, Jed Rothwell wrote: I understand why he does not trust people. He has had a painful life and he has often been betrayed and unjustly persecuted. For example, one of the charges they sent him to jail for was defrauding the stockholders. He himself was the only

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: For example, one of the charges they sent him to jail for was defrauding the stockholders. He himself was the only stockholder, so this was Kafkaesque. Someone in the Italian justice system had it in for him. Does anyone have a link for that? No,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Gluck
Lack of a patent is one side of the vulnerability. The other, even more important the stealability, guessability of his solution (catalyst). Is it something so awfully difficult as that shown in the nice old (1966( movie- How to steal a million with Audrey Hepburn and poeter OToole or is it

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Mary Yugo
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: For example, one of the charges they sent him to jail for was defrauding the stockholders. He himself was the only stockholder, so this was Kafkaesque. Someone in the Italian

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 25.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Peter Gluck: Lack of a patent is one side of the vulnerability. The other, even more important the stealability, guessability of his solution (catalyst). I think they intentionally made their scientific publication and their patent in such a way that it will be

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Gluck
The degree of correlation of Rossi's problems with the law and the efficiency of the E-cats is an open question. The definition from this writing can be applied here: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-seed.html However this idea of intelligence can be used but also abused. I have a

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 25.11.2011 21:01, schrieb Peter Gluck: The degree of correlation of Rossi's problems with the law and the efficiency of the E-cats is an open question. The definition from this writing can be applied here:http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/01/first-seed.html However this idea of

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Peter Heckert peter.heck...@arcor.de wrote: There are others that replicated the experiments and got no certainty. Citations, please? The cleansing of Ni of resident gases is arduous and necessary. Do these replications follow that protocol? T

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 11:38 AM 11/25/2011, Mary Yugo wrote: Indeed. And I am sure you saw the large catalog of charges and convictions Rossi has amassed -- I forget where the cite is for that at the moment but it was quite impressive. You can read Rossi's version on the Krivit site. And you can read in

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Gluck
I have the certainty because I and some other friends have seen the cells working and giving excess heat. I have certainty because what Piantelli says and does has a logical consistency and I have followed the development for long years and it was development, was progress. This does not mean that

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 25.11.2011 21:37, schrieb Peter Gluck: I have the certainty because I and some other friends have seen the cells working and giving excess heat. I have certainty because what Piantelli says and does has a logical consistency and I have followed the development for long years and it was

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Peter Gluck
Have you read Piantelli's publications see my Taxonomy on the blog Ego Out and on lenr-canr, there are many.papers. What do you think about the Pontignano Poster I have sent today? If you read these you will not ask why the hydrides do not give this effect. The poker play analogy has absolute no

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-25 Thread Rich Murray
Predictions are very dicey, especially about the future -- evidence very fallible, especially unsubmitted, especially nonexistent -- conclusions rather premature, especially imagined... while the feverish delirium of racing on hobby horses suggests dreaming -- the joint production evolving as a

[Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Berke Durak
The important thing with the e-Cat is that there don't seem to be any good faith classical models left around to explain the effect. In other words, all the various demonstrations disprove the notion that this is just misunderstood classical physics. It is either an elaborate hoax, or this is

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Robert Lynn
The problem is that it is easy to come up with fraudulent methods that could have delivered the observed demo results. Add to which Rossi has had no end of opportunities to remove all doubt, at no extra cost in effort or materials, and without danger of loss of IP, but has chosen not to for

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Berke Durak
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that it is easy to come up with fraudulent methods that could have delivered the observed demo results. This is true and that's one of the points. Add to which Rossi has had no end of

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Robert Lynn The problem is that it is easy to come up with fraudulent methods that could have delivered the observed demo results. Add to which Rossi has had no end of opportunities to remove all doubt, at no extra cost in effort or materials, and without danger of loss of IP, but has

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Robert Lynn
Suggesting that it is due to his inability to get a patent points again to why he should have done a proper black box demo in January - then he could have quickly signed up a large expert technology development partner that could have quickly resolved all of his IP ownership problems. The system

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Lynn robert.gulliver.l...@gmail.com wrote: Suggesting that it is due to his inability to get a patent points again to why he should have done a proper black box demo in January - then he could have quickly signed up a large expert technology development partner that could have quickly

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Robert Lynn
My sympathys. Also thanks for your Miley report, heartening to see the reverse engineering is progressing so fast. I'm sure others won't be far behind, and once Chinese govt et al awakens there'll be several hundred thousand (ex-petroleum?) engineers and scientists working on understanding,

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote earlier that Rossi is in a bind because he has no viable patent. Then just now I wrote that I have urged him to do a proper test, get funding, and then hire experts, the way, Robert Lynn recommends. The problem is, Rossi does not trust outsiders. He cannot even bring himself to give a

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com wrote: Designing and setting up an iron-clad demonstration for public consumption is a major task, and is never good enough if there is disinformation by the mainstream media. Designing and setting up a demonstration would take a week or two. However, Rossi

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: It would not be appropriate for Rossi to assist or kibbutz I meant kibitz. Voice input does not handle Yiddish well. This means, To look on and offer unwanted, usually meddlesome advice to others. I expect that people in a Kibbutz often kibitz. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Horace Heffner
On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I wrote earlier that Rossi is in a bind because he has no viable patent. Then just now I wrote that I have urged him to do a proper test, get funding, and then hire experts, the way, Robert Lynn recommends. The problem is, Rossi does not

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Rossi's behavior is absurd, unless he doesn't believe in the technology himself. Then it makes complete sense. His behavior is irrational and absurd. However, such behavior is common among inventors and discoverers, and it has been throughout

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Horace Heffner
On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: Rossi's behavior is absurd, unless he doesn't believe in the technology himself. Then it makes complete sense. His behavior is irrational and absurd. However, such behavior is common among

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Horace Heffner
I wrote: This is a different statement from the one I made. I implied Rossi's behavior makes complete sense if he does not believe in the technology himself. I did not say it makes complete sense that Rossi does not believe in the technology. There is a difference. The question though

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: The question though should be which premise is more consistent with Rossi's behavior, he believes his own claims, or not? The premise that best fits his behavior is the same one that fits Harrison, Patterson, William Shockley, and many other

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread David Roberson
of luck. It is amazing how closely related modern LENR research is to the early days of the transistor. Dave -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 2:57 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Horace Heffner
On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: The question though should be which premise is more consistent with Rossi's behavior, he believes his own claims, or not? The premise that best fits his behavior is the same one that fits

Re: [Vo]:E-Cat / philosophical remarks

2011-11-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: It is difficult to believe that Harrison, Patterson, or Shockley would put on about a dozen demonstrations of their technology, repeatedly botch the scientific aspects of the demonstrations, and refuse to acknowledge or fix the problems. How hard?