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

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: There was no feedback from the applied power level to the input flow rate, and there is no apparent reason for the output temperature to hold steady at barely above boiling, as it did. There is no feedback in the Hydrodynamics gadget either, just a

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 09:37 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: There was no feedback from the applied power level to the input flow rate, and there is no apparent reason for the output temperature to hold steady at barely above

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

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: The energy produced was apparently *exactly* what was needed to boil away the input water -- no more, no less. And *that* is strange. Nope. That's steam at 1 atm. It never gets any hotter than just above boiling. It comes out faster with more

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

2011-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
Rich, S30430 is soft temper wire stock ! Good grief - Why would you blindly try to debunk a potentially useful finding by claiming that an alloy which is not used in Dewars, is the source for anomalous copper ? Geeze, I've got no problem with good debunking, because most of the claimants need

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 10:22 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: The energy produced was apparently *exactly* what was needed to boil away the input water -- no more, no less. And *that* is strange. Nope. That's steam at 1 atm.

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

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Gluck
Jed is right, it is an open system and even if the surface of heating is at 300 C, the time of contact is short and the steam cannot be overheated much. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: On 02/09/2011 10:22 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence

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

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Now, if you boil water in an *open* boiler with a *submerged* heating element, the temperature of the steam will never go above 100C (give or take a degree). Exactly. And that's still how it works if you turn the pot sideways. That's what the Rossi

[Vo]:Krivit agrees that helium is the product of cold fusion

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Krivit agreed that Helium is a nuclear product and it has been measured repeatedly and rigorously in LENR. That being the case, I cannot imagine why he thinks cold fusion is not fusion. He hasn't actually said that deuterium is the starting product, but what else is there?!? He also makes strange

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed, did you actually read what I wrote? It sounds like you stopped after the first paragraph. On 02/09/2011 11:14 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: Now, if you boil water in an /open/ boiler with a /submerged/ heating

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

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
I meant to say it makes NO difference whether the water is on top of the submerged heating element, or the heating element is on top of the water, or a joule heater in the water, or -- for that matter -- a laser hitting the water, or a Hydrodynamics gadget that imparts the energy with ultrasound.

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
I'm getting really tired of this. Peter, you didn't read, or didn't understand, what I wrote. You don't seem to understand the fundamental point, which is that the rate of boil-off is being determined by the pump, with no feedback from the reactor. The flow rate is fixed and 100% of the water

[Vo]:Free Energy TV

2011-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
I suspect that many vorticians will have already bookmarked this site: http://freeenergy.tv/ . but the real reason for mentioning it now is the fabulous presentation at Mizzou in 2009 by Larry Forsley. If you have not seen it, is a must-see:

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 11:43 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I meant to say it makes NO difference whether the water is on top of the submerged heating element, or the heating element is on top of the water, or a joule heater in the water, or -- for that matter -- a laser hitting the water, or a

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

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: The steam can NOT exit the tube going faster unless IT IS HOTTER. You've got a fixed flow rate in moles per minute, man -- doesn't that mean anything to you? It isn't fixed at the outlet. It comes out as fast as it likes. Only the inlet rate is

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 11:58 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: The steam can NOT exit the tube going faster unless IT IS HOTTER. You've got a fixed flow rate in moles per minute, man -- doesn't that mean anything to you? It

[Vo]:Fwd: Bologna 14-jan-11 test on Rossi E-cat: Franco Mattei: Rich Murray 2011.02.09

2011-02-09 Thread Rich Murray
Fwd: Bologna 14-jan-11 test on Rossi E-cat: Franco Mattei: Rich Murray 2011.02.09 [ permission given to forward ] -- Forwarded message -- From: Franco Mattei fm1986...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:00 AM Subject: Bologna 14-jan-11 test on Rossi E-cat To:

[Vo]:Imagine a teakettle

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
I put some water in a teakettle. I put it on the stove. I turn on the burner, on high. After a while the water in the kettle boils. The steam from the boiling water entirely fills the kettle, pushing out *all* the air. The steam is rushing out the little hole (making an awful whistling

RE: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
From: Stephen A. Lawrence If the reactor were generating 10% more power than needed to exactly boil off the water, just where do you think that excess power would go? Steven - it is you who is making the wrong assumption. You have missed the forest for the trees. Do you not see the

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones, I this has already been mentioned and briefly discussed, in an exchange with Robin. Feedback from the output temp to control the reactor is the *only* mechanism which has been proposed which accounts for this, and it was proposed long before you wrote your message. If that is what was

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

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Gluck
I have understood. I have even worked with many types of pumps, including those with constant, fixed flow, as in this case- the peristaltic pump.. Very probably the system works in this way- you have a core, very hot in the center of the device- Ni and H reacting in a metallic tube.. By external

RE: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
Of course this method of direct temperature control via the included hardware is what is being done, and it is not speculation! The possibility of control via water flow is ABSURD! Where did that come from? That is the basis of my comment - not seeing the forest for the trees. This type

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thank you for the clarification. My only point was that there was a coincidence in need of explaining: the power in and power out *seem* to be set independently and yet they match to a nicety. Your explanation of that coincidence, given below, is in rough agreement with Jones's, which is that

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 01:07 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Of course this method of direct temperature control via the included hardware is what is being done, and it is not speculation! Who, besides yourself, has said the reaction rate is being electrically controlled to keep the steam temperature at

Re: [Vo]:Free Energy TV

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: But geeze, folks, let’s stay away from semantics – it only gives the irrational skeptic an additional hook to hang their stinkin’ hats on. I've always been antisemantic. T

RE: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Iverson
Been following this discussion carefuly, since I can understand the point being made... Stephen asked, And if the reactor is putting out an extra 500 watts over and above the amount to exactly vaporize the water, exactly *where* do you think that extra 500 watts is going? The answer, which

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Who, besides yourself, has said the reaction rate is being electrically controlled to keep the steam temperature at 101.6 C? Levi's report says the control box contains 5 digital PLC's. I presumed they were

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 01:28 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Who, besides yourself, has said the reaction rate is being electrically controlled to keep the steam temperature at 101.6 C? Levi's report says the control box

Re: [Vo]:Free Energy TV

2011-02-09 Thread Man on Bridges
Very good and clear lecture. As Frank asks how many do think that something is going on, I would positively raise my hand. It seems to me that there are some parallels with what Rossi is doing. Would be great if similar data for Protium could be placed next to those of Deuterium. My

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

2011-02-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:31:46 -0800 (PST): Hi Harry, [snip] If something like neutron capture is involved would it help if the palladium had a particular isotopic composition? [snip] I would expect neutron poor/light isotopes to be more susceptible to neutron

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

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Gluck
Jones has explained the case better than me. It was a peristaltic pump, see Celani's report peristaltic pump, small size 10-20 W power I have used this type of pump for many liquids, including phosgene- so I noticed it immediately. The temperature of the steam was 101 C- and to be again personal

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

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 02:28 PM, Peter Gluck wrote: Jones has explained the case better than me. It was a peristaltic pump, see Celani's report peristaltic pump, small size 10-20 W power I have used this type of pump for many liquids, including phosgene- so I noticed it immediately. Interesting.

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

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Gluck
To be sincere, it is not essential if it was a peristaltic pump or a positive displacement pump as you can see here: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/positive-displacement-pumps-d_414.html By the way positive displacement is a generic concept peristaltic is a sub-category of it. Fiat voluntas

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: On 02/09/2011 01:28 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Who, besides yourself, has said the reaction rate is being electrically controlled to keep the

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: On 02/09/2011 01:28 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: Who, besides yourself,

[Vo]:This is a Test

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
Is Vortex constipated again?

Re: [Vo]:This is a Test

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Is Vortex constipated again? I guess everyone went to bed early. I want to thank all for the conversations this day. I work for a railroad and was quite interested in the discussions. It lead me to research on the steam

[Vo]:Cold Fusion What's in a name?

2011-02-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
FWIW, it seems like there have been efforts underway to vilify the term Cold Fusion as a defunct, incorrect, out-of-date concept - a name based on faulty scientific evidence. Such efforts strike me personally as nothing more than an unproductive semantics game, a game caught in the act of trying

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion What's in a name?

2011-02-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:47 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: FWIW, it seems like there have been efforts underway to vilify the term Cold Fusion as a defunct, incorrect, out-of-date concept - a name based on faulty scientific evidence. Hey, Adobe liked it:

RE: [Vo]:This is a Test

2011-02-09 Thread Jones Beene
Thank you for not adding all the livelong day G Seriously ... Check out ORC http://www.infinityturbine.com/ORC/ORC_Waste_Heat_Turbine.html This looks interesting for conversion of low heat to electricity is a Rossi type reactor -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton I want to thank

RE: [Vo]:Cold Fusion What's in a name?

2011-02-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Terry sez: Hey, Adobe liked it: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/ Adobe knows! ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Imagine a teakettle

2011-02-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: The kettle is still filled with water vapor -- dry steam -- and the pressure inside is still 1 atmosphere, give or take a few millibars. What temperature do you suppose the steam inside the kettle is at? Could this be -- gasp! -- an example of

Re: [Vo]:Imagine a teakettle

2011-02-09 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 02/09/2011 09:43 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: (I'm going to put back a few lines you snipped, just for context clarity:) After a while, all the water boils to steam. The kettle is still filled with water vapor, of course! But

[Vo]:hot spots, temp gradients and momentum uncertainty

2011-02-09 Thread Frank
As Terry said it was a very interesting day for topics on vortex. Rossi demos were mentioned that were able to work with missing heaters but interestingly unable to work closed loop with this deficit.. hot spots and temperature gradients seemingly part of the start up procedure? The controversy

RE: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Iverson
This whole thread started by the critique by Joshua Cude posted by Rich Murray... It would appear that Joshua (and Rich) have not read all of the comments and reports on Rossi's website, so they were UNinformed as to the purpose of the 'control box'. Rich, would you please correct Joshua on

RE: [Vo]:Imagine a teakettle

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Iverson
Although this discussion thread is really a moot point after it was pointed out that there are 5 PLCs which are controlling the power to the resistive heaters, there's one thing I'd like to point out... Stephen said: Jed, it's a container, with all the walls at several hundred degrees C or

Re: [Vo]:Imagine a teakettle

2011-02-09 Thread Charles Hope
pV = nRT. If the temperature increases, there must be a corresponding increase in the pressure or the volume (or both). In this tea kettle case, the volume of the steam increases right out the top of the kettle. But the temperature can increase above 100. Sent from my iPhone. On Feb 9,

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water

2011-02-09 Thread Rich Murray
Mark, I dimly recall Jed said a few days ago, Rossi and Levi would soon rewrite their report on the two demos -- I will alert Joshua Cude -- I'm struck that so many important factors are really unclear -- there are a lot of important claims in Focardi and Rossi, March 22, 2010 9-page A new energy

[Vo]:probably, the Rossi demos have a complex control box with thermal controls that lower the electric input power when the reactor gets too hot: Cede: Murray 2011.02.09

2011-02-09 Thread Rich Murray
probably, the Rossi demos have a complex control box with thermal controls that lower the electric input heater power when the reactor gets too hot: Cude: Murray 2011.02.09 fromMark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net reply-tovortex-l@eskimo.com to vortex-l@eskimo.com dateWed, Feb

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion What's in a name?

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Steven, At least and eventually the community at Chennai tries to determine what the PROBLEM with field, see please Krivit's blog - and if you will be so kind, my comment to it. By the way- why you are speaking about scientific genes? They are more- are cultural and are called MEMEs