Re: [Vo]:A few comments by Celani about the demonstration

2011-02-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck wrote: Jed you are a good historian too...in which extent was the airplane > patented? It was patented in 1906. The legal battles over the patent exhausted Wilbur Wright and contributed to his death in 1912 at age 45. See: http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Wright_Bros/Patent_

Re: [Vo]:A few comments by Celani about the demonstration

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Gluck
Thank you, complex issue! Difficult to find valid analogies with the present case- that is developing step by step. On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Peter Gluck wrote: > > Jed you are a good historian too...in which extent was the airplane >> patented? > > > It was patented

RE: [Vo]:Rossi responds to some of his critics

2011-02-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Thanks for the posts. For better or worse, Rossi strikes me as the ultimate micromanager. Perhaps it part of an engineer's internal makeup - to want to stay in control of everything, including the purse strings. I can dig it. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/ori

Re: [Vo]:Rossi responds to some of his critics

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 08:52 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > Thanks for the posts. > > For better or worse, Rossi strikes me as the ultimate micromanager. > > Perhaps it part of an engineer's internal makeup - to want to stay in > control of everything, including the purse strings. >

RE: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Jones Beene
You misunderstand. The purpose of the radioactive "seed" emitter in this scenario is NOT to produce power, per se. It is to alter the QM probability field. The result is many orders of magnitude enhancement. QM fusion is all about probability enhancement. It sounds illogical - like magic, but th

Re: [Vo]:How New Energy Times has become a crank web site.

2011-02-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steve Krivit wrote: > In the last few years, we have figured out that there really is < >> http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2010/35/SR35902coldfusionisneither.shtml>no >> evidence for cold fusion and that the best so-called evidence for it was < >> http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2010/35/SR359

[Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Murray
Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08 Why didn't I see this, right in my face for three weeks? I really wanted the dream to be true, after 22 years... "3. If the flow rate measurement is accepted, and that could

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Rich Murray wrote: > 1. Presumably, the H-Ni system is not aware of what is happening > inside the conduit, so the notion that at the exact moment the > temperature hits boiling, its power output would increase 8-fold is > not believable. > Even less believable is the notion that it would stop i

[Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Rich, /please/ */STOP CROSSPOSTING!!/* It's a violation of list rules and it's a pain in the neck when responding! On 02/08/2011 12:15 PM, Rich Murray wrote: > When it reaches the necessary power transfer to vaporize all the > water, the increase stops abruptly; > 5% more power would increase the

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 12:42 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Rich Murray mailto:rmfor...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > 1. Presumably, the H-Ni system is not aware of what is happening > inside the conduit, so the notion that at the exact moment the > temperature hits boiling, its power output would inc

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Due largely, I suspect, to Rich's cross posting, I'm getting responses off-list to my comments. I'll repost one of them here, because it might be worthwhile for others to see it. On 02/08/2011 02:59 PM, Dan G wrote: >> "there is no apparent reason for the output >> > temperature to hold

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
stephen, the steam does absorb more energy, but this manifests as a faster flow of steam rather than as a temperature increase. Harry From: Stephen A. Lawrence >To: vortex-l@eskimo.com >Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 3:29:42 PM >Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does

RE: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Jones Beene
... two more details worth mentioning about "seeding" in LENR, such as with a radioactive isotope, only this time it is not an exotic isotope. And that infamous Bologna reactor, shaped like the boot of Italy, is starting to really smoke, now. The secret could be thorium. The second confirming deta

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Let me second and third some of the counter claims raised about the steam temperature issue. >From Mr. Lawrence, ... > If the water flow rate is fixed, and the power level is allowed > to vary, then, if steam is coming out, its temperature will vary, > and will be determined at any moment by how

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > In an open boiler with a submerged heating element, the steam won't rise > above 100 C, because its temperature is buffered by the liquid water with > which it's in contact.  In a pipeline, once the water has boiled away to > steam, the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 03:43 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > stephen, the steam does absorb more energy, but this manifests as a > faster flow of steam rather than as a temperature increase. No. Remember, PV = nRT for steam, just like any reasonable gas. That means, V = nRT/P If the steam flow accelerates

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 8 Feb 2011 06:42:25 -0800: Hi, [snip] >I am trying to write up a decent description of it ...I await with bated breath. :) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
hmm could naturally occuring radioactive palladium be playing role in PF  cells? http://www.webelements.com/palladium/isotopes.html btw radioactive pallidium seeds are used to treat protaste cancer. Harry > >From: Jones Beene >To: vortex-l@eskimo.com >Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 3:50:49 PM >S

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 03:52 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: > Let me second and third some of the counter claims raised about the > steam temperature issue. > > >From Mr. Lawrence, > > ... > > >> If the water flow rate is fixed, and the power level is allowed >> to vary, then, if steam is com

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 8 Feb 2011 12:50:49 -0800: Hi, [snip] 1/3 of 300 gm of Ni = 100 gm of copper ~= 1.6 Mol * 150 MeV / Th fission reaction => 6.3E6 kWh of thermal power = 126 times more than 5 kWh. One has to wonder where it all went to. (Not to mention that Th fission

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread P.J van Noorden
On January 15th 2011 the airpressure in Bologna about 1025 hPa ( High pressure system) . At that airpressure water boils at 101 deg C. So the higher temperature of the steam can be explained by the higher airpressure and not be "superheated "steam. Peter - Original Message - From

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:05:47 -0800 (PST): Hi, [snip] >hmm could naturally occuring radioactive palladium be playing role in PF  >cells? All naturally occurring isotopes of Pd are stable. > >http://www.webelements.com/palladium/isotopes.html > >btw radioactive p

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 03:52 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > >> In an open boiler with a submerged heating element, the steam won't rise >> above 100 C, because its temperature is buffered by the liquid water with >> which it's in contact. In

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 04:10 PM, P.J van Noorden wrote: > > > On January 15th 2011 the airpressure in Bologna about 1025 hPa ( High > pressure system) . At that airpressure water boils at 101 deg C. So > the higher temperature of the steam can be explained by the higher > airpressure and not be "superheat

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:22:25 -0500: Hi, [snip] >In this case, the flow rate is fixed by the positive displacement pump >at what seems to be an arbitrary value, and the power level is whatever >the reactor puts out. It's an enormous coincidence that the te

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 04:22 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:22:25 -0500: > Hi, > [snip] > >> In this case, the flow rate is fixed by the positive displacement pump >> at what seems to be an arbitrary value, and the power level is whatev

Re: [Vo]:Gerald Celente: Cold fusion “greatest investment opportunity of the 21st Cent.”

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Mitchell Swartz's message of Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:29:48 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Also: Gerald Celente puts new energy as a top trend for 2011. >"Gerald Celente of Trends Institute has put new energy as a top trend for >2011. He made the statement on Eric King’s King World News interview for

[Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread Jones Beene
You may think these comments are a bit premature, but . There are some heavy hitters in DoE and the major Universities behind thorium as a replacement for uranium. But that is for use in an expensive breeding cycle which has most of the negatives of any fission scheme. Imagine how surprised they

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Gerald Celente: Cold fusion “greatest investment opportunity of the 21st Cent.”

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
Great Scott! http://images.thetruthaboutcars.com/2008/12/mr-fusion.jpg the Doc returns from 2015 to 1985 with a commericial LENR device. Harry - Original Message > From: "mix...@bigpond.com" > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 4:43:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Gerald

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
The gas law is only accurate for systems which are in thermodynamic equilibrium.This system is not in a state of equilibrium. The steam is not only "spreading out", it is also moving en masse in one direction. harry > >From: Stephen A. Lawrence >To: vortex-l@eskimo.com >Sent: Tue, February 8

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mr. Lawrence: ... > You are making an unconscious assumption here, which is that > water is being added just exactly fast enough to replenish > the water which is boiled away. > > That's not what's happening! The water is being added at > a constant rate, with no feedback from the reactor!

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 06:03 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: > > To clarify, the original point I was trying to make (quite consciously > I might add) is that IF we presume Rossi's reservoir always contains > sufficient amounts of water within the reactor core the temperature of > the vented stea

Re: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-08 Thread Horace Heffner
A few spikes in power from a 230 V source, due to a few brief shorts, can not explain a half hour's production of heat. Also, resistors typically fail to an open circuit. Hydrogen burning is not a good explanation either, because the hydrogen use was monitored. The experiment is said to be

RE: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread George Holz
Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] wrote: [JB] There are some heavy hitters in DoE and the major Universities behind thorium as a replacement for uranium. But that is for use in an expensive breeding cycle which has most of the negatives of any fission scheme. [GH] The company behind the

[Vo]:Pole Shift Causing Superstorms

2011-02-08 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february042011/globaltemp.php Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms Terrence Aym Salem-News.com Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other. (CHICAGO) - NASA has

[Vo]:Corn Starch the Next Blowout Plug

2011-02-08 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/oobleck-top-kill Dr. Seussian Mystery Fluid Could Have Saved Top Kill By Lisa Grossman February 7, 2011 | 2:00 pm | Categories: Miscellaneous, Physics A mixture of cornstarch and water best known for entertaining kindergartners could have plugged t

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Murray
Re the tiny copper flake found inside the Cincinnati group stainless steel chamber after high temperature, high pressure electrolysis for hours (1997?) -- I looked up the composition of the stainless steel at the Los Alamos National Lab library, and found that copper was about 5%... uh, possible el

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
As Steven J., points out it could simply be the water delivery system is designed to maintain the same amount of water in the reactor at all times. I don't think that would be an extra-ordinary feat of engineering. harry - Original Message > From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson > To:

RE: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Rich Murray Re the tiny copper flake found inside the Cincinnati group stainless steel chamber after high temperature, high pressure electrolysis for hours (1997?) -- I looked up the composition of the stainless steel at the Los Alamos National Lab library, and fo

[Vo]:Article on Rossi vs BLP

2011-02-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
A reasonably salient article comparing Rossi vs. BLP. http://pesn.com/2011/02/08/9501758_Black_Light_Power_and_Rossis_Cold_Fusion_ related/ http://tinyurl.com/673823b Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Pole Shift Causing Superstorms

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:11:58 -0500: Hi, [snip] >http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february042011/globaltemp.php [snip] Quote:- "Worse, what shields the planet from cancer-causing radiation is the magnetic field. It acts as a shield deflecting harmful ultra-vi

RE: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread Jones Beene
Thanks for the information George. As you know, there is little way to avoid "further speculation" in this group, but I am going to try to abstain, as it is probably counterproductive at this stage. Jones -Original Message- From: George Holz Jones Beene wrote: [JB] There are some he

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 08:32 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > As Steven J., points out it could simply be the water delivery system is > designed to maintain the same amount of water in the reactor at all times. I > don't think that would be an extra-ordinary feat of engineering. > The water delivery syste

Re: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/08/2011 07:10 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > A few spikes in power from a 230 V source, due to a few brief shorts, > can not explain a half hour's production of heat. Also, resistors > typically fail to an open circuit. Hydrogen burning is not a good > explanation either, because the hydrogen

[Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread francis
Jones, You mentioned an avalanche in your other thread due to increasing the QM probability using a Radioactive seed that should also apply to Thorium. I think you may have guessed their process or an an equivalent one! Your threads on this subject combined make a nice theory. I still thin

[Vo]:Thorium

2011-02-08 Thread mixent
Hi Jones, Here's a nice little clean (no radioisotopes) fission reaction for you, using H clusters:-) Th232 + 8H (cluster) => Ti50 + Os190 + 183.9 MeV A fission reaction is essentially guaranteed given that for heavy metals such as Th, U etc. it doesn't take much to cause them to fission. When

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Murray
Well, Jones, Rossi claims anomalous elements found on disrupted small regions on his Ni: Cr and Mn... Also, there is plenty of Cu pipe, coated with Ni as the reaction surface, and as the cooling water pipe, and if I recall correctly, not supposed to be oxidized -- dimensions not given -- I recall

Re: [Vo]:The New Thorium Cycle ?

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Murray
Hello Jones, I'm glad to see the possibilities of cold thorium fission being explored. As an technically unqualified scientific layman, I was one of the skeptics in months of debate on V-L in 1997 re the transmutation claims by the Cincinnati group -- you may not be surprised that the skeptics ag

[Vo]:H2 O2 gases mixed at high pressures -- a modest proposal: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Rich Murray
H2 O2 gases mixed at high pressures -- a modest proposal: Rich Murray 2011.02.08 Yakking with Michael Barron today, I imagined the tall green H2 bottle, attached to the Rossi demos -- he tells me that the standard maximum pressure is 3,000 psi [ 200 atmospheres ] -- what if such a bottle, pumped f

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:  > > On 02/08/2011 08:32 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > > As Steven J., points out it could simply be the water delivery system is > > designed to maintain the same amount of water in the reactor at all times. > > I > > don't think that would be an extra-ordinary feat

Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)?

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message > From: "mix...@bigpond.com" > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 4:13:43 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Am-243 - the Rossi smoking gun? (smoking boot)? > > In reply to  Harry Veeder's message of Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:05:47 -0800 (PST): > Hi, > [snip] > >hm