Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread James Bowery
Although just a kid, I remember being outraged at the Indy 500 committee for handicapping turbines after Parnelli Jones nearly won in 1967 with his turbine car. http://www.autopuzzles.com/Indy1967.htm On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:23 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Jed Rothwell's

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
here it won't be burned gas turbine, but recycled vapor turbine... clearly downsizing is not evident... but maybe it is possible... noise should be much lower, and no problem with throttling if the car is hybrid. evacuation of heat is not trivial also, because on car most of the heat is

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Jay Caplan
, January 14, 2012 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:20:46 -0500: Hi, [snip] Turbines are kind of slow to respond to controls. Jet engine aircraft are less responsive than propeller-driven ones

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jay Caplan uniqueprodu...@comcast.net wrote: Gas is the operative term. It is the expanding gas that makes internal combustion the best choice for most transportation. Steam engines and condensers for light transportation are just not feasible. That is incorrect. There have been several

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Alain Sepeda
maybe steam engine, but seems not to be turbine. external heat engine, for light vehicle, seems to be piston engine. Stirling or steam engine. 2012/1/15 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com Jay Caplan uniqueprodu...@comcast.net wrote: Gas is the operative term. It is the expanding gas that

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: maybe steam engine, but seems not to be turbine. Sure. This was 1925. ICE cars were primitive and difficult to drive back then. This car was as fast as any ICE car. Leno is shown driving at 60 mph. He says you can go all day at that speed, whereas a

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Mary Yugo
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: A thermoelectric hybrid vehicle would be better. It would be a lot more expensive at present, but I expect the cost of themoelectric chips will fall rapidly. Let's use Rossi's thermo-electric chips... oh!

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-15 Thread Jay Caplan
: Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: maybe steam engine, but seems not to be turbine. Sure. This was 1925. ICE cars were primitive and difficult to drive back then. This car was as fast as any ICE car. Leno is shown

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-14 Thread Alain Sepeda
in the discussion about cars and e-cat/defkalion I was assuming time to switch on of about 5 minute, taken from defkalion (most of my computation are from defkalion hyperion) today rossi give an answer about time to switch on/off

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-14 Thread Jay Caplan
]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY in the discussion about cars and e-cat/defkalion I was assuming time to switch on of about 5 minute, taken from defkalion (most of my computation are from defkalion hyperion) today rossi give an answer about time to switch on/off http

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-14 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: I was assuming time to switch on of about 5 minute, taken from defkalion (most of my computation are from defkalion hyperion) I do not know whether we should call this switch on or ramp up but yes, this is what I was looking at as well, when I

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-14 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:20:46 -0500: Hi, [snip] Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: I was assuming time to switch on of about 5 minute, taken from defkalion (most of my computation are from defkalion hyperion) I do not know whether we should call

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-14 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:20:46 -0500: Hi, [snip] Turbines are kind of slow to respond to controls. Jet engine aircraft are less responsive than propeller-driven ones. There was a gas turbine automobile prototype in the 1970s. I do not know what it was like to

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-12 Thread Alain Sepeda
Hi, just to add some useful data using some data used for electric car(french) in european small car market http://sfp.in2p3.fr/Debat/debat_energie/websfp/Livet-elect.htm for small urban cars (the kind who consume 3-4litter/100km) Cx is around 0.33 for profiled cars, ( 0.5 for SUV), front

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Alain Sepeda
I'm afraid that LENR will trigger opposition, not mainly because of the business that invest in 3rd revolution, but because all the others who morally have invested in punitive policy. I see a big part of 3rd revolution technology that CAN be reused : - Converting Buildings into Power Plants

RE: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Zell, Chris
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.netmailto:orionwo...@charter.net wrote: [Personal comment: Obviously, if Rossi related competition claims pan out in the near future, that would initiate

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Jay Caplan
To: 'vortex-l@eskimo.com' Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 8:29 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY Yes, the bankruptcies will be massive. However, some entities will survive based on oil/gas used as a petrochemical feedstock. For them, it ain't gonna be pretty

RE: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Robert Leguillon
vehicles. There are LOTS of opportunities for elimination of fossil fuels from our transportation system. From: uniqueprodu...@comcast.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:33:07 -0600 Oil products still necessary

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Alain Sepeda
2012/1/9 Jay Caplan uniqueprodu...@comcast.net Oil products still necessary for transportation/internal combustion engines. Cold fusion is a heat source only, can't efficiently be used in transportation, outside of large ships' steam plants. What, back to steam engine cars and trucks?

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-01-09 18:24, Alain Sepeda wrote: yes, but with hybrid... let's imagine a Toyota Prius, with : - a smaller battery, with just 15 minute autonomy at full speed What do you mean for full speed? If it's full power, then you might want to reconsider that. With about 100 kW of peak

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Jay Caplan
. - Original Message - From: Robert Leguillon To: Vortex Listserve Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10:57 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY Though you could have modern steam vehicles, it is unlikely that this would be the long-term solution

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Automotive engineers say they would have no trouble making a cold fusion heat engine given the temperatures and power density the best existing devices. commercial devices will be far better than the best existing experimental device today. As noted by others here, the most likely design

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: The cost of extracting or synthesizing the liquids, then transporting, storing and pumping them would be far greater than the extra cost of a cold fusion engine. Let me explain what I mean by that. Liquid or gasoline fuel would presumably be either synthetic gasoline, liquid

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Alain Sepeda
Question between parallel and serial hybrid is studied, but for gas+electric. using a serial hybrid mode (Volt?), mean having 2 electric engine/generator able to sustain the full power. good point for serial is that turbine works at optimal working point, because it has no need to drive the

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-09 Thread Alain Sepeda
Right, I mean the battery need only to allow the vehicle to move on the highway, while the LENR engine is cold... I don't know well the power need of cars. I just look at current hybrid cars power to get reasonable values. 25kW when running cold is a good news. I assume this mean that when

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-08 Thread Axil Axil
Some countries are investing in The Third Industrial Revolution : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Industrial_Revolution The European Union is going in big time with this ill-fated green energy strategy. LENR will not be welcome by these power centers to say the least. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: [Personal comment: Obviously, if Rossi related competition claims pan out in the near future, that would initiate a sustained and permanent drop in global oil prices, despite rising world demand. Granted, It may not happen

Re: [Vo]:Kiplinger Letter, Jan 6 2012, Topic: ENERGY

2012-01-07 Thread Alain Sepeda
yes, I made the same analysis. price of oil will get low, those who own reserve will sell them as fast as possible. by the way the prospection won't be affordable anymore, and we will soon forget abour shale oil/gas and deepwater drilling. it is a well known fact in geostrategy, that the cause