Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Alain Sepeda
yes, after collaboration with Kresenn, he is working with LENR Cars CTO (Antoine Guillemin) for a replication under Fleishmann Memorial open replication project... If it succeed in a replicable toy experiment, it can convince. I'm jusr afraid that it failed like Spawar replication kit... working

Re: [Vo]:A New Spin on Solar Cells

2012-10-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Oct 3, 2012, at 6:22 AM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I can't guess what effect the lenses would have, but I'm guessing it would be minimal, since they only appear to cover a fraction of the total area. Focusing the light with lenses will increase the efficiency of the PV-cell by 20 to 75

Re: [Vo]:A New Spin on Solar Cells

2012-10-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:22 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: This makes no sense to me. It seems that at any given instant only some of the cells are exposed to direct sunlight, the other half to indirect sunlight (unless the sun is directly overhead). Therefore if anything, one would need

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2012-10-03 08:50, Alain Sepeda wrote: yes, after collaboration with Kresenn, he is working with LENR Cars CTO (Antoine Guillemin) for a replication under Fleishmann Memorial open replication project... Interesting; do you know more information or are you in contact with Guillemin or

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Alain Sepeda
all I have is from the video of discussion of N Chauvin with a student on you tube, and people commenting it. 2012/10/3 Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com On 2012-10-03 08:50, Alain Sepeda wrote: yes, after collaboration with Kresenn, he is working with LENR Cars CTO (Antoine

Re: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

2012-10-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:02 AM 10/2/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: It doesn't rule out. They just find lower neutron production rates, which are merely 200x smaller. That's an error plus it's misleading. They find 300x smaller as a rate, *using an optimistic value of the mass renormalization factor.* Essentially,

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:57 AM 10/2/2012, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: It has now been one year since Rossi's big demonstration. Products were to come out at the end of last year, then in the Summer of 2012. Now its one year later and there is nothing. No products, no independent tests by a reputable group. I

RE: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

2012-10-03 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax Slow neutrons have high capture cross-sections, ultra-low-momentum neutrons will simply have very high capture cross-sections. They will be efficient at producing transmutations (neutron activation). That appears to be incorrect, as a

[Vo]:Brillouin's presentation to Sunrise Securities

2012-10-03 Thread pagnucco
I don't think this has been posted before. Pardon if it was. The a link at the URL below leads to the Brillouin presentation (Slideshare) which won them $20M second round funding. http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/09/brillouin-energy-has-conditional.html

Re: [Vo]:Designer of 3-D Printable Gun Has His 3-D Printer Seized

2012-10-03 Thread LORENHEYER
Because there is alot more to steal, and therefore great motivation to steal it. They come here from all around the globe to try to get their hand on this Countries wealth in one way or another. I mean, look what has slimed it's way into the ill-faded White House.

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin's presentation to Sunrise Securities

2012-10-03 Thread Terry Blanton
Slide 17 shows their Power Plant Retrofit Model showing a 5-10 MW power plant. Most coal-fired plants are at least 100 x that size.

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Stout
I have increased the current in my setup to 200 milliamps. It has been running at that current level for more than 12 hours now and no anomalous heat has shown up yet. - Has anybody been able to replicate Chuck Sites results? I have not seen any claims to that yet. - Paul

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Harry Veeder
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: e) There are multiple reports of NiH generating excess energy (So Rossi must be faking something real?) That's the point I was trying to make when I noted there have been many

Re: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

2012-10-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:09 AM 10/2/2012, Daniel Rocha wrote: I am actually surprised that they found a high neutron rate. I thought they'd find nothing. Those are conventional nuclear physicists, as you can see in their publication list. Read the paper itself. They found that the W-L estimates were high by a

Re: [Vo]:Designer of 3-D Printable Gun Has His 3-D Printer Seized

2012-10-03 Thread Harry Veeder
How does one measure hard work? How much harder does Bill Gates work in comparison to someone who works two jobs at minimum wage? Do you seriously he imagine he works 100 times harder if his income is 100 times greater? Do you believe a man with backhoe works 100 times harder than a man with

Re: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

2012-10-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:27 AM 10/2/2012, Moab Moab wrote: mainstream scientists reading LENR papers and replying to them ? What happened, did LENR become noticeable overnight ? No, it took something like fifteen years of steady decay of the totally skeptical position, with accumulation of evidence and

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: Time will tell. A lot of people are now working openly on NiH. Yup. I think Rossi deserves a lot of the credit for that. Not all of it. As far as I am concerned, Rossi has done no harm and plenty of good for this field. He is a rascal at times

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread Jack Cole
I had a lot of heat, whether it is anomalous or not, I don't know. I think it is somehow resistance heating through the borax or chemistry with creating boric acid. Just a speculation. I had heat 130F (I say it this way because my thermometer was electroplated or something causing it to register

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin's presentation to Sunrise Securities

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The mention of the 10MW plant is a proof of concept on which some additional funding is contingent. It does not appear to be a product proposal. Jeff On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Slide 17 shows their Power Plant Retrofit Model showing a 5-10 MW power

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:49 PM 10/2/2012, Alan J Fletcher wrote: At 07:57 AM 10/2/2012, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: It has now been one year since Rossi's big demonstration. Products were to come out at the end of last year, then in the Summer of 2012. Now its one year later and there is nothing. No products,

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread David Roberson
Jack, can you make a voltage measurement across the electrode you have connected to the positive supply terminal? Place your probe as close to the electrode as possible without touching it on the side that is opposite to the location of the negative connected electrode. The other probe is

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin's presentation to Sunrise Securities

2012-10-03 Thread David Roberson
I would think that a modest sized test facility would be an ideal way to evaluate their device. Hopefully it can be scaled up in the near future if operation within the power grid is the desired outcome. Dave -Original Message- From: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com To: vortex-l

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Jed Rothwell
Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: b. Safety certification can be obtained with a nonfunctional product. Are you sure about that? I doubt it. Rossi has successfully created the appearance of being a con artist. Some of his defenders think that he is doing this deliberately,

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Stout
My anode is a motor brush so its surface area is larger than that of the nickel coin. I have increased the current to 400 milliamps. With the active and control beakers in series, the power supply is at 30 volts to drive that current. - I was hoping to avoid the higher currents, which could

[Vo]:OT: The 23 Enigma

2012-10-03 Thread Jones Beene
There is a meme out there about cycles of 23 years. It is the so-called 23 Enigma and refers to the belief popularized by Robert Anton Wilson and others that meaningful incidents and events are connected to the number 23 (and alternatively by the rule of fives 2+3=5). Some of this is found in

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread Jack Cole
It seems like from the experiments I've run that if you want heat, put enough borax in so that it settles to the bottom. Then put your electrodes down into the borax powder in the bottom. Eventually, the borax powder disappears leaving yellowish nearly transparent crystals on the electrodes and

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:20 PM 10/3/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.coma...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: b. Safety certification can be obtained with a nonfunctional product. Are you sure about that? I doubt it. Safety certification is according to codes that cover design. I

Re: [Vo]:October is here

2012-10-03 Thread fznidarsic
Still, I also have some stainless steel yarn (12 micron wire, 2x275 strands) and it would be fun to use a nickel cathode with the stainless as an anode and see what it does to some LR-115 radiation detectors. I have done this with several solvents, potash, sodium hydroxide, and weak acid

Re: [Vo]:A New Spin on Solar Cells

2012-10-03 Thread mixent
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:28:25 -0400: Hi, [snip] On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:22 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: This makes no sense to me. It seems that at any given instant only some of the cells are exposed to direct sunlight, the other half to indirect

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread David Roberson
The temperature the bath reaches depends upon the input power you deliver to the system as well as any excess heat that may be generated by the electrodes and the ability of your system to trap heat. If you are delivering 12 watts to your device and getting a temperature rise of 60 F from

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread Axil Axil
You have read what Ed Storms theories about how cracks are the source of LENR activity, but you haven’t applied this lessen to your experiments. In order to produce crack, the area were nuclear active sites are formed, the metal used in the cathode needs to be pre-stressed enough to produce these

Re: [Vo]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-03 Thread David Roberson
Do you recall whether or not PF made cracks in their material? I have been assuming that the high pressure of the hydrogen due to electrolysis would cause the nickel - copper material to generate internal dislocations as the hydrogen forces its way in. I understand that hydrogen makes metals

[Vo]:Nov.14 LENR Panel Session at Am. Nucl. Soc. Nat'l Meeting

2012-10-03 Thread pagnucco
Steve Krivit has posted a note of about the Nov-14 upcoming event: --- LENR Panel Session at American Nuclear Society National Meeting On Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, the American Nuclear Society will hold a panel

Re: [Vo]:Nov.14 LENR Panel Session at Am. Nucl. Soc. Nat'l Meeting

2012-10-03 Thread Eric Walker
It's great to hear about this. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:46 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: LENRs are weak interactions and neutron-capture processes that occur in nanometer- to micron-scale regions on surfaces in condensed matter at room temperature. Although nuclear, LENRs are not based on