Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Ni61 is non reactive as stated by DGT and confirmed by Mizuno as presented in Cook's !CCF-18 presentation I interpret the depletion analysis differently than presented in Cook's presentation (e.g., slide 52 [1]). If 61Ni

[Vo]:An Interesting Calculation

2014-10-19 Thread David Roberson
We have noticed that the large mounting rings at the ends of the HotCat do not appear to glow in the same manner as seen on the smaller body of the device. The testers measured the power being radiated and conducted from these rings just as with the inner body and I decided to look into an

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread David Roberson
I looked at that reference and went away about as confused as ever. Did you look at the two references that I found? I think it is important for us to follow up on this issue since it seems to be one that will not go away. Do metals appear differently than the materials that Mizuno was

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Do metals appear differently than the materials that Mizuno was viewing? Nope. As I said, all materials are incandescent at about the same color. It is only temperature dependent. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread David Roberson
I saw the photo of the block and of course it seems to be similar as well. I am not convinced that the casting that was treated for 12 hours and quickly removed had time to cool that much. I may be wrong, but the first reference I located showed roughly the same color as well. This also

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
Should the reactor radiate like a normal incandescent body ​of 1400C or does the reactor radiate according to some other rules? Jed (and Mizuno?) assume it behaves like a normal incandescent body of 1400C so it should glow white. Since it doesn't glow white they assume the output power estimate

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread David Roberson
Yeah, they leave that out. Reminds me of some one else that we have been dealing with lately. I suppose that the wiki articles can confuse people very easily. I may have found some support for the lower temperature. Look at my latest calculations concerning the caps and how they might be

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread David Roberson
This is the question that I have been wrestling with for so long Harry. I may have found a method of getting to the real temperature value. The technique need a lot more calibration before it can be trusted. Dave -Original Message- From: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com To:

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
In the report they said they were unable to attach a thermocouple to the exterior of tube. They should have put the test on hold until they figured out how to do it. Harry On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: This is the question that I have been wrestling

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: In the report they said they were unable to attach a thermocouple to the exterior of tube. But there is one inside. I asked whether they have readings from it. - Jed

RE: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-19 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
There are a lot of assumptions, but you are probably right. It would be surprising that the team didn't have a look from the 4 mm hole. What is inside of the eCat is the most important to witness (even more important that the COP1). A 4 mm hole is enough for an eye to see the inside of the tube.

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Dave-- I agree with your logic and that some of that mass will be associated with spin energy and its conversion to heat. Bob Cook - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
I understand why Jones thinks his latest idea is radical. But, it fits many of the observations--what about the observed nuclear transmutations in LENR? Bob Cook - Original Message - From: Jones Beene To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:08 PM

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- Yeh--You are probably right. However, the idea related to a little project I was assigned in the early 1980's to look into a news report of a professor at the U of Arizona (as I remember) that had developed a procress for transmutation of nuclear wastes. He had written a nuclear

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno, Rossi copper transmutation

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Eric-- I had the same thought about Ni-61 as you had in reviewing Cook's slides. I did not go thought the logic as you have. However, my general conclusion from a quick review of the presentation is that there seems to be definite evidence of transmutations of various Ni, Fe, Cr isotopes.

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Jed and Dave- Glass is not a black body in my estimation, and I would expect it to look different at any given temperature from a true black body. If Mizuno's correspondence with you Jed was relative to glass experience, I would say it is not applicable to a like-temperature black body. My

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Craig Haynie
The temperature of a Pāhoehoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava#P.C4.81hoehoe lava flow can be estimated by observing its color. The result agrees well with measured temperatures of lava flows at about 1,000 to 1,200 °C (1,830 to 2,190 °F). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pahoehoe_toe.jpg

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Jed-- I hope you get an answer. This question has caused me to resist getting into a give and take about the camera data. The thermocouple must have been used to calibrate the camera at operating conditions, IF IT WERE WORKING. The lack of this obvious information suggests the T/C was not

Re: [Vo]:temperature of the resistor wire.

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Arnaud-- As I understand, the hole was not open during operation. Operators could not look in during operation. After shutdown, without a good light source it would be hard to see anything through a 4 mm hole. Bob - Original Message - From: Arnaud Kodeck To:

RE: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
There is one other important detail in the discussion of light vs. temperature – the coherence or semi-coherence of the radiation. This is a step above “intensity”. If it is semi-coherent, the term “superradiance” is used. Even “invisible” IR light can be extremely visible – blindingly visible,

RE: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
The discussion of color and temperature only mask the glaring reality that an inexpensive way to be certain of thermal gain in the TP2 device is flow calorimetry. Of course, Levi knew that from TP1 – he was told this by dozens of peers - that he should have performed this task, yet he did not.

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: I understand why Jones thinks his latest idea is radical. But, it fits many of the observations--what about the observed nuclear transmutations in LENR? Suppose the mass of the electron is absorbed by a proton in the

RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Bob Cook wrote: I understand why Jones thinks his latest idea is radical. But, it fits many of the observations--what about the observed nuclear transmutations in LENR? Suppose the mass of the electron is absorbed by a proton in the nucleus

[Vo]:invitation to nuclear scientists

2014-10-19 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Friends, An other late weekend lecture. http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2014/10/ethan-siegels-third-bomb-thrown-on-cold.html Tomorrow will bring very serious professional work. Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread David Roberson
Jones, you are being unfair to Levi and the others. Putting together a calorimetric system that the skeptics would accept as accurate would not be an easy task. I appreciate the work that these guys performed. There are shortcomings that many have pointed out, but I suspect that this will

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: The temperature of a Pāhoehoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Lava#P.C4.81hoehoe lava flow can be estimated by observing its color. The result agrees well with measured temperatures of lava flows at about 1,000 to

[Vo]:MFMP on Lithium

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
From the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project facebook page: --- Is this the catalyst? As we reported in a previous Facebook post, we know for a fact that Pons and Fleischmann had a key Lithium compound in their lab,

RE: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
I disagree Dave. If you were to count the many hundreds if not thousands of hours which have been wasted arguing over the thermometry, multiplied by the hourly rate of the arguers, the actual cost to do excellent water flow calorimetry would have been a small fraction of that – probably less

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I disagree Dave. If you were to count the many hundreds if not thousands of hours which have been wasted arguing over the thermometry, multiplied by the hourly rate of the arguers, the actual cost to do excellent water

Re: [Vo]:invitation to nuclear scientists

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
Russian LENR researchers (D.V. FILIPPOV) have developed a phenomenological model for interpreting the low-energy nuclear transformations seen in LENR experiments and have embodied that model in a computer program that matches resident input and output LERN reaction products against all applicable

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
Light bulbs are described by the color of the light that they produce. In that regard, a temperature of 1200C would correspond to a red orange.

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
We need to enlarge our model space rather than limiting ourselves to one model that is inconsistent with the observations. Consider the difference between the sun at noon and the sun at dawn/dusk. The interior of the HotCat glows white but from the outside it glows red like a sunrise because it

Re: [Vo]:MFMP on Lithium

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
I must have produce 500 posts identifying an alkali metal as the Rossi secret catalyst and even better, I provided the theory behind that recommendation. Lithium is a simplistic conclusion to draw from the Rossi TPT results. The alkali metal selected must match the operational temperature of

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: I keep going back to the SPP and to NASA, etc. It's not like they are doing a lot these days, eg no rocket science.

[Vo]:OT: Where are we?

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
Are you ok? 'cause this place can sometimes make people feel a bit... ...you know... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw Harry

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Terry-- That's a good supplement to Jone's idea, that he may not think is too radical:) Bob - Original Message - From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor On Sun, Oct

Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- I thought you might like Terry's idea. Bob - Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:20 AM Subject: RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Bob Cook

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Nick
Only a Thermal Camera is calibrated to show accurate readings when imaging glowing hot objects, a normal consumer camera will automatically make ISO adjustments to bring the scene into a visible range. Depending on how you have the camera aimed and pointed, you can make a dull red glow appear

[Vo]:Why are Lockheed and Rossi are Dangerous/Evil

2014-10-19 Thread Blaze Spinnaker
One thing I don't hear a lot of people discussing is the FUD generated by cold fusion and hot fusion. Industries are investing billions of dollars trying to make solar work. Something that works today and is actually trying to solve global warming and dangerous pollution. Companies like Lockheed

Re: [Vo]:MFMP on Lithium

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
well done. harry On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: I must have produce 500 posts identifying an alkali metal as the Rossi secret catalyst and even better, I provided the theory behind that recommendation. Lithium is a simplistic conclusion to draw from the

RE: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Bob Cook I thought you might like Terry's idea. Awkshully, Bob... it could work, but is the proton then neutralized as a neutron? Having a free neutron creates problems. What I had been thinking is a bit different- that the electron itself goes into the Dirac

Re: [Vo]:Why are Lockheed and Rossi are Dangerous/Evil

2014-10-19 Thread Foks0904 .
I don't believe that so much money is being dumped into Rossi/Cold Fusion that we should compare it to the parasitism of the hot fusion industry. Lockheed is an established, billion-dollar-a-year military-industrial-complex mainstay -- how can you possibly compare/conflate the two? Yeah let's

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Jed-- I hope you get an answer. This question has caused me to resist getting into a give and take about the camera data. The thermocouple must have been used to calibrate the camera at operating conditions, IF IT

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- As you may remember I was at the University of Bologna on September 19th exactly 1 month ago with the objective of visiting Levi. I do not believe he was well paid for his work at Lugano. The University would not accept a donation from me to assist in LENR research at the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Harry-- I have the same trusting assumption that your have professed. However, I do not consider mine are completely naive, nor absolutely founded on solid facts. Bob - Original Message - From: H Veeder To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 12:47 PM

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Consider the difference between the sun at noon and the sun at dawn/dusk. The interior of the HotCat glows white but from the outside it glows red like a sunrise because it is shinning through an atmosphere of alumina. It does not work that way. If the

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: The temperature of a Pāhoehoe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Lava#P.C4.81hoehoe lava flow can be estimated by observing its color. The result agrees well with measured temperatures of lava flows at about 1,000 to 1,200 °C (1,830 to 2,190 °F). And

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: The discussion of color and temperature only mask the glaring reality that an inexpensive way to be certain of thermal gain in the TP2 device is flow calorimetry. I think flow calorimetry with this device at these temperatures would be problematic. For

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jack Cole
Dave, I did some calculations based on some formulas provided here: http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/8949/how-do-i-calculate-the-color-temperature-of-the-light-source-illuminating-an-ima I set up a spreadsheet to do the calculations, and pulled the RGB values with a graphics editor

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread a.ashfield
Bob Cook wrote. Glass is not a black body in my estimation, and I would expect it to look different at any given temperature from a true black body. Having looked inside 100 operating glass melters at temperatures ranging from ambient to 1500C, at any temperature where things start to glow

RE: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jones Beene
From: Jed Rothwell The discussion of color and temperature only mask the glaring reality that an inexpensive way to be certain of thermal gain in the TP2 device is flow calorimetry. I think flow calorimetry with this device at these temperatures would be problematic. For one thing, you

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
Any directly connected sensor may be unreliable and erratic because of the production of intense RG radiation especially in a reactor without RF shielding. The only way to get good temperature data is through remote sensing, On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Jones-- Common practice would be to calibrate the thermocouple before and after the test. I think that, if the thermocouple were not working it would be obvious and there would be data to confirm it did not work. The differences between the camera and the thermocouple, if it worked, should

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Bob Cook frobertc...@hotmail.com wrote: Common practice would be to calibrate the thermocouple before and after the test. I think that, if the thermocouple were not working it would be obvious . . . If the thermocouple were not working the cell would overheat, wouldn't it? I think it is a

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Bob Cook
Axil-- From my experience, I would doubt that is a major concern for these simple thermocouples. It there were a 50,000 watt antenna near by you might get a pick up which could be detected in the voltage output of the thermocouple. However, the external leads of a T/C are generally in a

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
There are types of magnetic EMF that cannot be shielded. Furthermore, if large amounts of electrons are being produced as a reaction byproduct, their chaotic interaction with the directly connected sensors and connectors may not be predictable over time. There may be an agreement in place between

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: H Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Consider the difference between the sun at noon and the sun at dawn/dusk. The interior of the HotCat glows white but from the outside it glows red like a sunrise because it is

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
The surface temperature of the Sun is effectively several millions of degrees. The atmosphere of the Sun is heated by magnetic fields from deep within the core of the Sun. Yes, the surface of the Sun is cool, but the roiling Corona is the plasma that produces the bright white light that we see

[Vo]:Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

2014-10-19 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230 Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

Re: [Vo]:Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

2014-10-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Yup. This has often been in the Japanese news. The labor contractors are known for having many tattoos (meaning they are gangsters). - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread ChemE Stewart
I think the fact you can the see the possible outline of a coil and possibly fins shows a difference in visible//translucent light radiation in those areas. I also find quite a bit of research on translucent sintered alumina and its ability to scatter light through rayleigh and mie scattering.

Re: [Vo]:The Big Banks are Certainly Paying Attention to the E-Cat

2014-10-19 Thread CB Sites
Thanks for the report Axil. That is an impressive shift and certainly not coincidental. Gas is $2.90 at the pump. Is this just a reaction to the idea of cheap fusion energy? I'm still reading Vortex-L although I don't have as much time to participate as I would like. I haven't abandoned the

Re: [Vo]:Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

2014-10-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Yup. This has often been in the Japanese news. The labor contractors are known for having many tattoos (meaning they are gangsters). Yakuza?

Re: [Vo]:The Big Banks are Certainly Paying Attention to the E-Cat

2014-10-19 Thread Kevin O'Malley
started thinking about new concept of 1D strings of Boson ***Sounds like my V1DLLBEC theory. https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg95060.html et al On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:36 PM, CB Sites cbsit...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the report Axil. That is an impressive shift and

Re: [Vo]:Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: Furthermore, if large amounts of electrons are being produced as a reaction byproduct ... How is conservation of charge maintained in this context? Eric

Re: [Vo]:Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up

2014-10-19 Thread Foks0904 .
Pretty sick...bless this neo-liberal free market nightmare we find ourselves enmeshed in. On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Yup. This has often been in the Japanese news. The

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
Other examples of light emitting bodies which do not follow the incandascent temperature rule are phosphorescent and fluorescent bodies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence Harry On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:27 PM, H Veeder

Re: [Vo]:The Big Banks are Certainly Paying Attention to the E-Cat

2014-10-19 Thread Kevin O'Malley
When a reaction occurs, Do the lattice atoms on the end of the BEC chain participate? It's fascinating to speculate on this. ***Here's a speculation. Inside of a BEC, fusion takes place. And due to the nature of a BEC, the nuclear reactive products (gammas) are dispersed quite evenly.But

Re: [Vo]:Re: Color Temperature

2014-10-19 Thread H Veeder
Many different types of Luminescence are listed here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminescence quote Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat; it is thus a form of cold body radiation. It can be caused by chemical reactions, electrical energy, subatomic motions,

Re: [Vo]:The Big Banks are Certainly Paying Attention to the E-Cat

2014-10-19 Thread CB Sites
Thanks for the reference Kevin. I see you and Axil really got into this idea. I read your-all's whole thread exchange and it's inspiring. What I also should add is that Storm is inspiring as well. I really asked him several times what he meant by NAE (the Nuclear Active Environment) and it