Re: [Vo]:Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Gluck
This leads to a question: What is better? a) 6 times~ 10% heat excess b) 2 times 500% heat excess, 4 times...no heat excess Taking in account that 10% is a scientific curiosity, 500% is of technological interest. By the way, what are the performances of Melvin Miles' system? Thank you for any

Re: [Vo]:Rossi

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Gluck
I have sent this once but it seems it has not arrived= communication problems? Dear Cousin Jed, You are right in principle, we have many elements of *know wha*t and *know how *re the cells. We know the critical parameters but we cannot always achieve them. We definitely have no*know why* because

Re: [Vo]:Rossi

2010-03-24 Thread Michel Jullian
2010/3/23 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: Michel Jullian wrote: If I was the inventor, I would take my cold fusion cell, *as a black box to preserve my secrets*, to whatever authority accepts to test it I do not think there is any chance that would work. I have never seen a cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:Rossi

2010-03-24 Thread Michel Jullian
Dear peter, I did get your original posting, about 11 hours ago. I had similar problems of not getting my own posts, which were solved by adding myself to my gmail contacts. I agree with you that Jed's assertion that we know enough on what makes a CF cell work to enable independent replication

Re: [Vo]:Rossi

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Gluck
Patenting is almost perfect for a mechanism, device, product, programme, however for a PROCESS it is always more imperfect and less talkative- usually there are vital know-how elements that are absolutely necessary to be... known. What I say is based on my long and very dynamic experience from the

[Vo]:Construction to begin on thousands of charging stations for 'clean' cars

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/03/electric- vehicles-charge-ahead-in-us?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-March24-2010 http://tinyurl.com/ydff5mk What's billed as the biggest rollout of electric vehicle infrastructure in the world is about to begin in the United States.

Re: [Vo]: scepticism was Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Nick Palmer
ABD wrote Those people in the canoe, observed by a previously reliable scientist, were wearing clothing, as well, and the movements they were making were probably just exercises Here is a funny exposition of pathological scepticism well worth five minutes of anyone's time

[Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here again are the slides I discussed yesterday: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2010/2010KrivitS-ACS.pdf A few weeks ago, Krivit discussed here the graph shown on Slide 30. I pointed out that it should show the zero line, and it should include error bars. In the presentation Krivit put

[Vo]:The ACS Conference in the news. And Krivit.

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Well, this is getting closer to major media. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/23/2237165.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage I've submitted a response about the media standard obligatory boilerplate, couldn't be reproduced. I suggest hammering away at that, because it is

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
This annoying trick is described on p. 62 of a marvelous little book by Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (1954, now in its 39th printing). This book was printed the year I was born. As I recall, my mother gave me a copy as a child with the admonition: grown-ups sometimes lie. In

Re: [Vo]:Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:07 AM 3/24/2010, Peter Gluck wrote: This leads to a question: What is better? a) 6 times~ 10% heat excess b) 2 times 500% heat excess, 4 times...no heat excess Taking in account that 10% is a scientific curiosity, 500% is of technological interest. By the way, what are the performances

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Well, I was ten in 1954, and I think I read the book before I was in high school, and it made a strong impression on me. If you were ten in 1954 you must have been 17 and 18 when you attended the two year Feynman lecture series for

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:56 AM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Well, I was ten in 1954, and I think I read the book before I was in high school, and it made a strong impression on me. If you were ten in 1954 you must have been 17 and 18 when you

Re: [Vo]:Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Gluck
Thank you, Abd! We have to wait anyway till we know Melvin's results. However, based on my long experience in the field I think that the cathodes belong to three categories or castes - inactive, talented (10- 30% heat excess) and geniuses (say 500 excess or more) I have never met an example of

[Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
This was extensively discussed back a few months. http://newenergytimes.com/v2/library/2010/2010KrivitS-ACS.pdf Slide 36 asks a question, How Did ENEA Get “24 MeV”? He should know the answer. They didn't, and they didn't claim to. They used the 24 MeV value as a convenient conversion factor

[Vo]:Concentrating Solar Thermal Power

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a conference on a particular type of solar power, Concentrating Solar Thermal power: http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=791972http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=791972 We will know that cold fusion has succeeded commercially and

[Vo]:Goodbye, Vortex!

2010-03-24 Thread Steven Krivit

Re: [Vo]:Goodbye, Vortex!

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
You can dish it out, but you can't take it, can you? You say researchers look like true believers or idiots, you use cheap tricks to distort graphic data, and then when someone calls you out, you quit in a huff. How childish. It is hard to believe anyone can be reporter with such thin skin.

Re: [Vo]:Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:33 PM 3/24/2010, Peter Gluck wrote: Thank you, Abd! We have to wait anyway till we know Melvin's results. However, based on my long experience in the field I think that the cathodes belong to three categories or castes - inactive, talented (10- 30% heat excess) and geniuses (say 500

Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
To a moose. :-) T On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, March 23, 2010 6:52:41 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion

Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Harry Veeder
I think nuclear physicists reserve the term fusion for interactions involving the strong nuclear force, and the terms fission and neutron absorption are terms reserved for interactionsinvolving the electro-weak force. Perhaps the phenomena of cold fusion is a consequence of some sort of

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Michel Jullian
Fits with your 159 IQ. Back on topic, I understand why you are mad at Steve krivit for pushing his POV that the heat/helium = 24 MeV/He is bogus, that's because that correlation is what made you believe CF might well be real. You don't want to doubt again. Michel 2010/3/24 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

Re: [Vo]:Goodbye, Vortex!

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:17 PM 3/24/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: You can dish it out, but you can't take it, can you? You say researchers look like true believers or idiots, you use cheap tricks to distort graphic data, and then when someone calls you out, you quit in a huff. How childish. It is hard to believe

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michel Jullian wrote: Back on topic, I understand why you are mad at Steve krivit for pushing his POV that the heat/helium = 24 MeV/He is bogus, that's because that correlation is what made you believe CF might well be real. You don't want to doubt again. On behalf of Abd, let me say:

Re: [Vo]:Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Gluck
As with people, genius cathodes are rare- Martin and Stanley had one, Mizuno had the best, Energetics had cathode no 64, Piantelli had one in the early stage of development.. I have no complete list just now. Perhaps Jed is more systematic than me. Air is polluted almost everywhere, I am not

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:56 AM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Well, I was ten in 1954, and I think I read the book before I was in high school, and it made a strong impression on me. If you

[Vo]:Interview with Peter Hagelstein

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is an interview with Peter at the ACS conference: http://io9.com/5499139/an-interview-with-peter-hagelsteinhttp://io9.com/5499139/an-interview-with-peter-hagelstein This is linked in from:

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:10 PM 3/24/2010, Michel Jullian wrote: Fits with your 159 IQ. Someone else is paying attention, I like that. 159 is not well enough established to be a reliable figure, it's based on one test in high school. There are other signs, though, judge for yourself. Be careful. It is very,

RE: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Harry Veeder I think nuclear physicists reserve the term fusion for interactions involving the strong nuclear force, and the terms fission and neutron absorption are terms reserved for interactions involving the electro-weak force. Harry, the electroweak is

RE: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: We should also add: A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes . . . As long as we are beating up Canadians -- quoting a Canadian author: By rights our nation should be the proud inheritor of British culture, U.S. technology and

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Abd: ... If the value turns out to be 48 MeV instead of 24, I'm not offended at all. But I'll wonder what other products there are in sufficient quantities to explain that. In fact, if it's lower than 24, I'm not offended, it would simply indicate other reactions besides those which

Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... By rights our nation should be the proud inheritor of British culture, U.S. technology and French cooking. Somehow we ended up with British cooking, U.S. culture, and French technology. Quit bashing the French! We envy their Nuclear utility technology! 8-0 Canadians... well...

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
It's frightening to think that half of the people of the world have a below average IQ! T (TiC)

Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
Are Canadians proud of what happened at the UoO yesterday? I guess freedom of speech is only okay if you believe in what the speaker has to say. T

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread mixent
In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:21:56 -0400: Hi, [snip] How Does Hagelstein Explain Energetic Alphas? Theoretical Speculations on “Upper Limits”: “The alpha particle must be born with an energy less than 20.3 KeV.” (Pay no attention to Lipson et al. 2002 – 11-16

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robin van Spaandonk wrote: BTW I find the whole idea of using the volume of the cathode to compare energy densities proving some form of fusion to be silly. Clearly the volume of electrolyte is of far more consequence, given that it is this which contains the putative fuel anyway. I

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:42 PM 3/24/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Michel Jullian wrote: Back on topic, I understand why you are mad at Steve krivit for pushing his POV that the heat/helium = 24 MeV/He is bogus, that's because that correlation is what made you believe CF might well be real. You don't want to doubt

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:42 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:21:56 -0400: Hi, [snip] How Does Hagelstein Explain Energetic Alphas? Theoretical Speculations on “Upper Limits”: “The alpha particle must be born with an energy less

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
I just wrote: I think this is a misunderstanding of what the 20.3 keV represents. It does not represent the Q of the reaction. It represents an (experimental) upper limit on the kinetic energy the 4He obtains from the reaction. This is not at all a surprising result if, as I and various

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:53 PM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 11:56 AM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Well, I was ten in 1954, and I think I read the book before I was in high school, and

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Peter Hagelstein

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:55 PM 3/24/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is an interview with Peter at the ACS conference: http://io9.com/5499139/an-interview-with-peter-hagelsteinhttp://io9.com/5499139/an-interview-with-peter-hagelstein This is linked in from:

Re: [Vo]:Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:52 PM 3/24/2010, Peter Gluck wrote: www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GluckPunderstand.pdf Very interesting. I picked up particularly on the comment that paradoxically, lack of reproducibility has an amazingly great informational value. That's absolutely right, except in narrow

Re: [Vo]:Interview with Peter Hagelstein

2010-03-24 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 7:53:02 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Interview with Peter Hagelstein I'd say that we are on the way, fasten your seat belt, things might change

RE: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:41 PM 3/24/2010, Jones Beene wrote: An alpha decay, say from Pd having been activated by a cold neutron is a QM reaction - even if it involves an excited nucleus emitting an alpha particle, which is of course identical to a helium-4 nucleus, since both mass number and atomic number are the

RE: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:41 PM 3/24/2010, Jones Beene wrote: PS: in a followup to really important scientific insight, such as your previous: A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe without tipping it. We should also add: A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and

RE: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:55 PM 3/24/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: That reminds me of JFK's comment that Washington DC is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. That had me going for a minute, until I realized that he did *not* get it backwards.

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:24 PM 3/24/2010, Terry Blanton wrote: It's frightening to think that half of the people of the world have a below average IQ! Complain to your congressperson! It's a shame how education is neglected. On the other hand, they do seem to have this problem addressed in Lake Woebegone.

Re: [Vo]:Goodbye, Vortex!

2010-03-24 Thread Harry Veeder
At 02:17 PM 3/24/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: You can dish it out, but you can't take it, can you? For the record, people have said far worse things about me, countless times. The only forum I ever quit was CMNS because they wanted to keep the discussion confidential, and I can't be

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:42 PM 3/24/2010, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I haven't read Hagelstein's paper, but it seems to me that one must base any such analysis on individual experiments where both He and heat are measured concurrently and as precisely as possible. Read the paper. It's not about what you think

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:04 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Would you care to give your best guestamate (don't worry, I won't hold you to it) on how much is theorized to be due to d+d = He+24 MeV, and how much might be due to other processes? Incidentally, to the rest of the Vort

[Vo]:Krivit cuts me off in high dudgeon

2010-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Krivit has irrevocably cut me off in high dudgeon, throwing his wrist to his his forehead and his head back to entreat The Heavens, like an incensed Victorian maiden who overheard me telling an off-color joke. I should mail him a bottle of smelling salts. Arata once sent me a similar message in

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:37 PM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:42 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:21:56 -0400: Hi, [snip] How Does Hagelstein Explain Energetic Alphas? Theoretical Speculations on “Upper Limits”: “The

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:21 PM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: This was a wandering mind tying. 8^) It should say: I think this is a misunderstanding of what the 20.3 keV represents. It does not represent the Q of the reaction. It represents an (experimental) upper limit on the kinetic energy the 4He obtains

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 07:21 PM 3/24/2010, Horace Heffner wrote: This was a wandering mind tying. 8^) It should say: I think this is a misunderstanding of what the 20.3 keV represents. It does not represent the Q of the reaction. It represents an

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Below-median IQ. I wonder what percentage have above or below average IQs. Does anyone know if IQ has a discovered genetic basis? What happens to IQ as a person grows older? On Mar 24, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: It's frightening to think that half of the people of the world

Re: [Vo]:Goodbye, Vortex!

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:29 PM 3/24/2010, Harry Veeder wrote: Is confidentiality maintained because some of the participants are worried about losing their day jobs if word got out that they were taking CF research seriously? If some think that, and imagine that a mailing list is sufficiently confidential,

RE: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Horace Heffner It is somewhat frustrating to me that no one seems to have ever read, or if so, understood what I have written... It requires time for us mere mortals - a considerable time of study contemplation (not to mention procrastination) before the

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 05:04 PM 3/24/2010, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Would you care to give your best guestamate (don't worry, I won't hold you to it) on how much is theorized to be due to d+d = He+24 MeV, and how much might be due to other processes? Incidentally, to the rest of the Vort Collective,

Re: [Vo]:Krivit vs. ENEA

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:11 PM 3/24/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote: Robin van Spaandonk wrote: BTW I find the whole idea of using the volume of the cathode to compare energy densities proving some form of fusion to be silly. Clearly the volume of electrolyte is of far more consequence, given that it is this which

[Vo]:Neutron halo

2010-03-24 Thread Harry Veeder
...we have known since the 1980s that atomic nuclei of certain neutron-rich isotopes of the lightest elements - lithium, helium and beryllium - completely contradict this conception. These isotopes consist of a compact nuclear core and a cloud made of diluted nuclear material - called

[Vo]:The Nature blog, more.

2010-03-24 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2010/03/acs_cold_fusion_calorimeter.html Some good posts, very prominent. Larsen gets in first, not too bad, but still essentially attacking the mainstream CF community. There is a big problem with Larsen's approach. He's suggesting that people look at his

Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 4:41:29 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition -Original Message- From: Harry Veeder I think nuclear physicists reserve the term fusion for

[Vo]:Peter L Hagelstein 2D -- He4 + 24 MEV in fractal Pd or Au nanovoids, with 2-stage spin boson model for energy downshifts to 2 MEV to optical phonons: Lomax: Murray 2010.03.24

2010-03-24 Thread Rich Murray
Peter L Hagelstein 2D -- He4 + 24 MEV in fractal Pd or Au nanovoids, with 2-stage spin boson model for energy downshifts to 2 MEV to optical phonons: Lomax: Murray 2010.03.24 Hi Vo gang, Duh, hey dudes, I'm impressed, so I'm sending this to Scott, Marissa, and Hal at Earthtech in Austin --

Re: [Vo]:Krivit again uses annoying trick

2010-03-24 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Irv Dardik is no quack. He has developed an approach to human health and performance that is based on extensive experience with the US Olympic effort, an inquiring and astute mind, and a considerable track record. Like many new things, it has its skeptics, but I've looked into it and it makes a

Re: [Vo]: Miles' new recipe for codeposition

2010-03-24 Thread Rich Murray
2010.03.24 Hi Abd, here's my two or three bits for your cells: 1. Cooperate closely with Melvin H Miles to replicate small, cheap replications of his protocol -- I respected his quality in the ACS panel video. 2. Fractal nanostructures mean that, as in the Mandelbulb 3D version of the 2D

Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition

2010-03-24 Thread Harry Veeder
Ann Coulter is luv'n it. Harry - Original Message From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 5:28:19 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Request for fusion definition Are Canadians proud of what happened at the UoO yesterday? I guess freedom of