RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Roarty, Francis X
IMHO grain size and geometry of these other alloys as powders will have a major effect on their LENR activity. Fran From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 5:16 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems From:

RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Roarty, Francis X
Bob, Much discussion regarding micro “tubule” geometry of Rossi powders leads many of us to consider the hair like protrusions as forming nano geometry between the grains as they pack to form a bulk powder. Fran _ From: Jones Beene

RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
From: Roarty, Francis X Bob, Much discussion regarding micro “tubule” geometry of Rossi powders leads many of us to consider the hair like protrusions as forming nano geometry between the grains as they pack to form a bulk powder.

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread ChemE Stewart
morphing through some kind of process of entropy I think you are right, Vacuum = Entropy = Uncertainty! On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Does anyone have the citation for Rossi's

RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
As Eric realizes, this is a critical issue for anyone wanting to replicated Rossi. In fact, the material shown in the previous image, could indeed be called “micron sized” and one would not be dishonest. However the importance of hollow nickel tube could be the sine qua non of the Rossi

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Higgins
Rossi has stated that he starts with 10 micron sized particles (since identified as a nickel powder produced from the carbonyl process), adds a catalyst (widely believed to be a nanopowder of some kind), and processes the mix in a way that leads to amplified tubercles on the surface. A search of

RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
Ah. tubercles instead of tubules . Thanks Bob From: Bob Higgins Rossi has stated that he starts with 10 micron sized particles (since identified as a nickel powder produced from the carbonyl process), adds a catalyst (widely believed to be a nanopowder of some kind), and processes the

[Vo]:A new twist on the lost wax process for nickel nanotubes

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
Most everyone who has worked in an industrial setting is probably familiar with the lost wax process for fine detail casting of molten metal. Wiki has an entry. Based on extending or commercializing the (presumed) concept which is shown in the Enculescu paper, there is very likely to be a version

[Vo]:An Open Letter

2014-02-07 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Friends, I think/hope Big Money is able to help both Deep Science and Savior Technology to achiev their aims and I have written: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2014/02/open-letter-to-bill-gates.html I am tired of being a realist all the time. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- Your bring up some interesting questions about the Rossi reactor. The information I have included come from Rossi and Focardi's international patent application noted below. 1. Is Rossi separating Ni isotopes for the Ni he uses in the reactor? This would be expensive. The natural

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Bob--Bob Cook here Your comments are revealing. I believe quantum systems that are big enough to handle the energy fractionation that Hagelstein identifies in his lectures are a requirement for any solid state nuclear reaction. A thermal conductor to get the heat out is also necessary.

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Fran-- I agree fully. Bob Cook - Original Message - From: Roarty, Francis X To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 5:36 AM Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems IMHO grain size and geometry of these other alloys as powders will

[Vo]:Ante Up - Annual Vortex Fund Raisin'

2014-02-07 Thread Terry Blanton
Vortex-L Rules: 1. $10/yr donation 2. NO SNEERING 3. KEEP MESSAGES UNDER 60K 4. DON'T QUOTE ENTIRE MESSAGES NEEDLESSLY 5. DON'T CC OTHER LIST SERVERS 6. NO SPAMMING The time comes again where we help pay for the canvas on which we splatter our speculations and opinions. Bill, which

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Higgins
I believe that some fractionation must be taking place, but not to phonons. Phonons are contra-indicated by the experimental evidence. Phonons dissipate rapidly to heat with a decay constant that is based on the acoustic velocity. This means that the temperature will be extremely high near the

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Edmund Storms
Bob and Eric, the issue of transmutation is basic to understanding LENR. First of all, transmutation has a very high barrier requiring an explanation of how this can be overcome. Second, the resulting energy has to be dissipated in ways known to be possible. I propose the hydrogen fusion

RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
Agreed. The issue of a nearly complete lack of transmutation in many types of Ni-H is revealing. It narrows the range of possible energetic reactions which are possible, given that everything else probably conforms to normal physics. In some experiments (Piantelli) has shown far more

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Ed-- One simple question--In all the Ni-H systems has there been a good evaluation of the residuel radioactivity? What do you mean by fragmentation and Ni fission? For example, what are possible fission products? Lighter isotopes which are radioactively stable? Is the fission process

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Does anyone have the citation for Rossi’s nickel lattice having “tubules”? Cannot find it. But check this out. Yes, please. If anyone has a reference to Rossi using nickel with tubules, nanotubules, nanohairs, etc.,

[Vo]:Violation of Theory! Stop the Presses at Nature!

2014-02-07 Thread James Bowery
So we all know -- or at least we _should_ all know -- about Nature's rejection of Oriani's paper reporting reproduction of the FPE which it did despite its own peer review approving the paper. Its justification was that it flew in the face of theory and that other labs hadn't reproduced it.

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Ed--Bob Cook here-- Another question is if D is formed in the Ni-H system as you propose, why not the generation of He-4 as in the Pd system without the nasty fragmentation or fission of the Ni? The key to controlling the Rossi process maybe controlling the formation of D. The energy

[Vo]:Celani solid state H-pump replicated

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
This is in Italian so you may have to run it through a translator. http://gsvit.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/esperimento-di-verifica-della-compress ione-elettrochimica-dellidrogeno-utilizzando-un-catodo-di-palladio-aggiornam ento-del-4-gennaio-2014/ Celani had published earlier that hydrogen could

[Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
It is often said that people cannot predict future technology, even a few decades in advance. Some people cannot, but others can. Here is something Arthur Clarke wrote in 1972. He and others predicted the Internet and many of its ramifications. . . . It will be a future in which men do much less

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
- Original Message - From: Edmund Storms To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Edmund Storms Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems Bob and Eric, the issue of transmutation is basic to understanding LENR. First of all,

Re: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Jed-- Thanks for the observations of Clarke--its is an optimistic observation as are many regarding LENR. The pessimistic ones don't seem to be coming up as often. Bob --an old optimist - Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday,

[Vo]:So close but so far away ... or was it?

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
http://www.google/patents/US4489049 In 1982 - several years before PF made the big splash, scientists working under US Navy contracts filed for what became US 4489049 for Solid state hydrogen pumping and storage material. Abstract: A solid-state hydrogen storage system. A layer of an amorphous

Re: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread H Veeder
A 1968 view of future communications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOELouwBDI (note the gender stereotype - she buys, he pays) A 1976 highway as envisioned in 1956 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak Harry On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote:

[Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread a.ashfield
RAR are progressing with the construction of their second gravity engine and posted four new photos today. Presumably they have now had some operating experience of the first model yet continue to build the second one. http://www.rarenergia.com.br/gilman%20oficial%2019%20eng.JPG ref

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Alan Fletcher
There was a throw-away line in McKubre's interview with Sterling Allen -- he pointed across the lab and said he was doing a fundamental experiment on phonon interactions with Hagelstein. Maybe there'll be some real data points.

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Mark Gibbs
Is there an explanation somewhere of how this machine is supposed to work? Who's funding the projects? [m] On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:29 PM, a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: RAR are progressing with the construction of their second gravity engine and posted four new photos today.

Re: [Vo]:Clarke describes the Internet in 1972

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: A 1968 view of future communications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOELouwBDI (note the gender stereotype - she buys, he pays) They got the basic ideas right, but the mechanics wrong. You would think that by 1968 people would realize that video text

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Edmund Storms
On Feb 7, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Bob Cook wrote: Ed-- One simple question--In all the Ni-H systems has there been a good evaluation of the residuel radioactivity? Bob, evidence shows that when Pd or Ni experience transmutation, the resulting nucleus breaks into two parts. These two parts

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread a.ashfield
Mark, Click on the second link. Starting at image #53 (and later) there are some diagrams. If you can understand how it works from those, or from the patent, please let me know ;-) It is the brainchild of RAR Energia and funded by them

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Edmund Storms
On Feb 7, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Bob Cook wrote: Ed--Bob Cook here-- Another question is if D is formed in the Ni-H system as you propose, why not the generation of He-4 as in the Pd system without the nasty fragmentation or fission of the Ni? That answer is too complicated to explain here.

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
It is wonderful in a way, but why not build a desktop version? Even if it produces only milliwatts excess, if it can overcome friction and keep going it will convince everyone. After the superconducting supercollider was abandoned, some Young Turk physicists began to rethink the whole idea. I

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: It is wonderful in a way, but why not build a desktop version? Even if it produces only milliwatts excess, if it can overcome friction and keep going it will convince everyone. Maybe it can't overcome friction? Maybe the gadget resembles a Tokamak, as in: You can't make a small one

Re: [Vo]:An Open Letter

2014-02-07 Thread Lennart Thornros
Dear Peter, I like your letter. I am glad Athena has been consulting with you. The problem is that politics is involved. I have tried, for almost as long as you have done work in different areas, to move that hindrance out of the way. However, it seems as if when an organization (in a very

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread a.ashfield
Jed wrote: It is wonderful in a way, but why not build a desktop version? Even if it produces only milliwatts excess, if it can overcome friction and keep going it will convince everyone. They claimed they had a small model working first. I think you need something bigger to be believed and

Re: [Vo]:So close but so far away ... or was it?

2014-02-07 Thread Nigel Dyer
Some years ago I was on a Church walk and got chatting with an elderly gentleman from the Church and I found that he had been a metallergist, so we got to talking about LENR. It turned out that in the 50's he had been working on a project that involved hydrogen and palladium and noticed a

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: They claimed they had a small model working first. I think you need something bigger to be believed and attract attention. Okay, but surely not THIS big! There are several small magnet motors that the inventors claim work but no one believes

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread a.ashfield
Jed wrote: Okay, but surely not THIS big! Ah, but you missed the bit about getting attention. AA There are several small magnet motors that the inventors claim work but no one believes them. Many people would believe them if they would perform a proper demonstration. It is not difficult

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
a.ashfield a.ashfi...@verizon.net wrote: Let it run for a long time on a glass table. There is always some claim. It has a battery hidden in it etc. It is easy to eliminate that objection. Weigh the entire device and compute how much energy it could hold if the entire device is a battery.

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Ed--Bob Cook here Thanks for you response. I need a little more time to think about your ideas. I need to look at the respective products you identify and the likely other respective fission pieces to see if I agree with what you say makes sense. Just roughly thinking, I would expect a

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: And why do they make laser fusion gadgets so huge? Because only the big ones cost billions of dollars. Eric

Re: EXTERNAL: RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Bob Higgins rj.bob.higg...@gmail.comwrote: Rossi has stated that he starts with 10 micron sized particles (since identified as a nickel powder produced from the carbonyl process), adds a catalyst (widely believed to be a nanopowder of some kind), and processes

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: 1. Is Rossi separating Ni isotopes for the Ni he uses in the reactor? This would be expensive. I can only imagine. I'm not sure how one would go about enriching select isotopes of nickel. Perhaps they have sufficiently

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Agreed. The issue of a “nearly complete lack” of transmutation in many types of Ni-H is revealing. Rossi has claimed this: THE AMOUNT OF COPPER WE FIND AFTER 6 MONTHS OF OPERATION IS OF ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE THAT THE

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Ed--Bob Cook here Spin states of a quantum system reflect the angular momentum of the system and hence the energy associated with that angular momentum. High spin quantum numbers reflect the higher energy of the system. The allowable states are quantized. In magnetic fields the direction of

Re: [Vo]:So close but so far away ... or was it?

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- Bob Cook here-- I doubt there was no connection. I would guess the work at SPAWAR became a black project. LENR clearly has potential for ship propulsion and other high energy density fuel needs in the Navy. Bob Cook - Original Message - From: Jones Beene

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: NO copper isotopes are formed. The detected copper has normal isotopic composition, which is not possible to produce from transmutation. I suspect copper results from contamination by materials in the cell. You may

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Even adding a p to Ni requires about 6 MeV be dissipated. I know of no example of this much energy being transferred by any kind of coupling mechanism. Do you? That is the question that once answered will win someone

[Vo]:Not from Fusion paper by Steven Jones

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
http://pesn.com/2012/11/19/9602225_Steven_Jones_replica--Pons_and_Fleischman n_XS_Heat_not_from_fusion/StevenJonesSeminarAtUnivMissouriOct2012.pdf This is a perspective which goes back before PF - some on Vortex will not like to revisit. The most interesting finding is the RF signature - which is

Re: [Vo]:Not from Fusion paper by Steven Jones

2014-02-07 Thread David Roberson
The link does not work for me. -Original Message- From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, Feb 7, 2014 11:53 pm Subject: [Vo]:Not from Fusion paper by Steven Jones

RE: [Vo]:So close but so far away ... or was it?

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Bob Cook Jones-- Bob Cook here-- I doubt there was no connection. I would guess the work at SPAWAR became a black project. LENR clearly has potential for ship propulsion and other high energy density fuel needs in the Navy. Bob, Yes - that is my feeling as

RE: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
Yes Rossi did promote Ni-Cu at one time, but it is not his current spiel. AFAIK – since the death of Focardi, Rossi no longer strongly promotes any theory for gain - but it may still be on his blog. Kullander also admitted the copper found was of natural isotope distribution. Copper is well-known

RE: [Vo]:Not from Fusion paper by Steven Jones

2014-02-07 Thread Jones Beene
You may have the plain text truncation problem. If you are using plain text: Instead of clicking - copy this entire string all the way to pdf and paste it in the address bar http://pesn.com/2012/11/19/9602225_Steven_Jones_replica--Pons_and_Fleischman

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread H Veeder
Bob, I like your approach. In june I whimsically imagined all the resulting energy of fusion being transformed into He with linear momentum. This would preserve conservation energy but violate conservation of momentum. At the time it did not occur to me that the energy could be transformed into

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Eric--Bob Cook here-- It may be that laser radiation at selected frequencies could activate organic Ni compounds selectively based on the mass of the Ni isotope. The activation may be ionization or other molecular changes to increase or decrease solubility and the opportunity for separation.

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: I think you have the decay scheme for Ni-59 wrong. It has a 76,000 year half life and decays by electron capture as you said. It's good that you seem to know your way around these nuclear transitions. That makes you and

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: I'm thinking of this reaction: https://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor/servlet/X4sSearch5?reacc=28-NI-62(P%2CG)29-CU-63%2C%2CSIG Sorry, that should have been: https://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor/servlet/X4sSearch5?reacc=28-NI-58(P%2CG)29-CU-59%2C%2CSIG Eric

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- I am looking at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Chart of the Nuclides, Thirteenth Addition Revised as of July 1983. This chart does not include proton capture cross sections. I do not believe I have seen proton capture cross sections for any isotopes. The cross section would

Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine

2014-02-07 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, the person you want to convince is Terry Blanton. He is our resident expert in magnetic motors. He says he looked at some of them closely and found they did not work. Skeptical by experience. We tested

Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems

2014-02-07 Thread Bob Cook
Eric--Bob here I looked at the link and have now seen a list of cross sections for the Ni-59, P reaction. I must study the protocol for measuring the specified cross sections to understand the sig and dsig data. Off hand I do not understand these labels. My guess is that the energies listed

Re: [Vo]:Not from Fusion paper by Steven Jones

2014-02-07 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: http://pesn.com/2012/11/19/9602225_Steven_Jones_replica--Pons_and_Fleischman n_XS_Heat_not_from_fusion/StevenJonesSeminarAtUnivMissouriOct2012.pdf This is a perspective which goes back before PF - some on Vortex will not