Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-16 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: I call it whatever name needs be, for whatever audience I have. Spoken like a true politician. You go, girl!

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-16 Thread Bob Higgins
Thank you Mark for this article. It is good to keep Cold Fusion in the minds of the financial community. If Cold Fusion pans out, it could be the single largest business on the planet 10 years after the introduction of the first practical product. It could be $5T-10T/year - so what if the

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-16 Thread Axil Axil
I would like to introduce an alternate mental model of the process that you offer in is post. Currently, it is universally accepted as physics gospel that quarks are bound so tightly by the strong force that they can never exist in isolation or recombine in a low energy environment. What LENR

[Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Gibbs
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/07/15/why-cold-fusion-has-to-die/ [mg]

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Moab Moab
That article doesn't make sense to me. You are proposing that a name change will make non-listeners into listeners, I don't think that's gonna work at all. I think that any non-listening scientists that would read the a paper published with the new name will immediately figure out that it's

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread fznidarsic
Wait a minute! Did not Widom, Larson, and Krivit not figure this out? Frank Z -Original Message- From: Moab Moab moab2...@googlemail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 8:27 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die That article doesn't make sense

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Vorl Bek
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:27:51 +0200 Moab Moab moab2...@googlemail.com wrote: That article doesn't make sense to me. You are proposing that a name change will make non-listeners into listeners, I don't think that's gonna work at all. I think that any non-listening scientists that would read

RE: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Mark Gibbs: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/07/15/why-cold-fusion-has-to-die/ Hi Mark, I suspect your latest FORBES article will generate plenty of discussion here. Obviously, you suspect something interesting is happening. something that warrants further research. I

RE: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jones Beene
While AES is a preferable name to either LENR or cold fusion, renaming now is probably premature ... ...under the circumstances, it seems to me that we are within a year or two of finding the precise cause for the anomaly - so, why not wait a bit longer? From:

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Edmund Storms
Mark, you are correct about many theories being proposed but you are wrong about there being no theory that explains the effect. I have described such a theory in print and will give a major talk about the model at ICCF-18. This model can explain all the observed behavior as well as how

RE: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Cravens
]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2013/07/15/why-cold-fusion-has-to-die/ [mg]

RE: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jones Beene
Since Mark's suggestion will prompt a flurry of thought, and possibly a few more suggestions which are influenced by the present agenda of interested observers, here are a few alternatives from the far-fringe (with a rationale) - pending future evidence for accuracy. Obviously, there is a slant,

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
My response posted at the Forbes site: With the palladium deuterium system there is good evidence that cold fusion is, in fact, fusion. It produces helium in the same ratio to the heat as plasma fusion does. No one has looked for nuclear products in the nickel systems yet. (This is a very

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Moab Moab moab2...@googlemail.com wrote: You are proposing that a name change will make non-listeners into listeners, I don't think that's gonna work at all. I think that any non-listening scientists that would read the a paper published with the new name will immediately figure out that

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread ChemE Stewart
Plus, Jed would have to change the name of his book :) On Monday, July 15, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: Moab Moab moab2...@googlemail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'moab2...@googlemail.com'); wrote: You are proposing that a name change will make non-listeners into listeners, I don't think

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:27:51 +0200 Moab Moab moab2...@googlemail.com wrote: That article doesn't make sense to me. You are proposing that a name change will make non-listeners into listeners, I don't think that's gonna work at all. I think that

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com wrote: Plus, Jed would have to change the name of his book :) Not gonna happen. People who use technology from its earliest stages tend to stick to original words for things. To the end of his life Orville Wright spelled his invention aeroplane. That is more

RE: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
understanding ANOMALIES! Their pitiful excuse is just that. pitiful, and unbecoming a scientist. -Mark Iverson From: mark.gi...@gmail.com [mailto:mark.gi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark Gibbs Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 3:53 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Vorl Bek
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:46:46 -0400 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Vorl Bek vorl@antichef.com wrote: And when 'spam' had its meaning changed from 'unsolicited commercial email' to 'any email you do not want to receive', I figured scoundrels were trying to pull the wool

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Axil Axil
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1306/1306.0830.pdf *Laser-induced synthesis and decay of Tritium under exposure of solid targets in heavy water * There is an area a science where orthodox science gradually descends into pseudoscience as the power that activates the induced nuclear

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Adrian Ashfield posted an apt comment at Forbes: I don’t see that calling it 'Anomalous Energy System (AES)' gets us much further as it won’t be anomalous once it’s understood. Yes! It is a bit like calling them x-rays where x means unknown. There are countless words with origins based on

RE: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread DJ Cravens
I still label mine- HOPE , hydrogen or proton effect. With the understanding that hydrogen includes all isotopes of H. :) D2 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:53:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die From: jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Adrian Ashfield posted an apt

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, On 15-7-2013 16:11, Jones Beene wrote: 3) PCRPF or polariton catalyzed reversible proton fusion The thing is you need some kind of catchy Acronym. The above could be abbreviated to Polca Repro fusion; which can again be abbreviated to PoRe fusion ;-) And pore fusion could in essence

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Peter Gluck
. With the understanding that hydrogen includes all isotopes of H. :) D2 -- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:53:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die From: jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Adrian Ashfield posted an apt comment at Forbes

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Axil Axil
Nanoplasmonic Induced Transmutation (NIT). The name needs to be generalized to describe all know anomalous nuclear reactions which are outside the purview of orthodox nuclear physics. This should cover lightning reactions, nebular, solar, and the many forms of cavatation. At this early stage, it

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Edmund Storms
Why not call cold fusion: This is no threat to hot fusion (TINTTHF) and count on every one being as easily fooled as this discussion assumes? Ed On Jul 15, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Rob Dingemans wrote: Hi, On 15-7-2013 16:11, Jones Beene wrote: 3) PCRPF or polariton catalyzed reversible

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread David Roberson
When I discuss my interests with people that do not follow LENR progress I find that the best way to get them to understand which subject I am referring to is to use the term Cold Fusion. That always works! There has been at least one main movie that many typical people has watched where

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Robert Dorr
Personally I think the phrase Cold Fusion describes itself fairly well. When it comes to the way fusion was initially obtained, which is very hot indeed, this alternate, new method of creating fusion is pretty damned cold, no matter which way you go about it. Maybe we should call it New

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread H Veeder
X-Rated Fusion XXX Fusion Harry On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Adrian Ashfield posted an apt comment at Forbes: I don’t see that calling it 'Anomalous Energy System (AES)' gets us much further as it won’t be anomalous once it’s understood. Yes!

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread H Veeder
X-Rated physics. Not for prudes. Harry On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: X-Rated Fusion XXX Fusion Harry On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Adrian Ashfield posted an apt comment at Forbes: I don’t see that

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, On 15-7-2013 21:06, H Veeder wrote: X-Rated Fusion XXX Fusion Only to be applied after 10:00 PM ;-) Kind regards, Rob

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Dorr rod...@comcast.net wrote: Personally I think the phrase Cold Fusion describes itself fairly well. I think so too. I get why it upsets the plasma fusion people. I do not understand why it bothers other people, such as the people who hang out at Wikipedia, or Steve Krivit. They do

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread James Bowery
My response at the Mark Gibbs blog: A more neutral, and useful, name would be “Fleischmann Pons Phenomenon” since, at this point, it is interpreted by physics authorities to be merely a sociological phenomenon that originated with the two named perpetrators, and, by those skeptical of the physics

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: A more neutral, and useful, name would be “Fleischmann Pons Phenomenon” I think Fleischmann-Pons effect is more in line with the names of similar discoveries. Some people do call it this. It would not be a real effect if it turns out to be an

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread James Bowery
Yes if it were an experimental error it would be a phenomenon for the reason I stated: Physics authorities view it as a sociological phenomenon in which case Fleischmann Pons Phenomenon would still be appropriate as it named the original perpetrators of this incompetence and delusion that went on

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread blaze spinnaker
FPP is good! On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:56 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Yes if it were an experimental error it would be a phenomenon for the reason I stated: Physics authorities view it as a sociological phenomenon in which case Fleischmann Pons Phenomenon would still be

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Edmund Storms
I make the distinction between the Fleischmann-Pons Effect, The Arata Effect, and the Stringham Effect. All are cold fusion, but the names identify different methods and give credit. As for the name, everyone knows about cold fusion. Changing the name only invites a charge of trying to

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: I make the distinction between the Fleischmann-Pons Effect, The Arata Effect, and the Stringham Effect. Yes -- FP effect tends to refer to D2O electrolysis with palladium (or maybe titanium). In more general contexts,

Re: [Vo]:Why Cold Fusion Has to Die

2013-07-15 Thread Ruby
Names are important. They have power, and, they flip like fashion. But no matter what you'd like to call it, when the technology descends, you will not decide the name, the company will not decide the name, the public will. The users of any technology will generate their own language to