Re: [Vo]:LENR and Fermi Acceleration

2012-08-15 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Here's an older article I found: http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GodesRquantumfus.pdf Jeff On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:09 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote: Lou suggests: If so, the effectiveness of the stimulus could be quite sensitive to waveform shape and frequency.

[Vo]:Wow

2012-08-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I just attempted to post a comment to a well-known cold fusion web site that appears, on the surface, to be doing independent reporting. In the comment, I mentioned a competitor of A. Rossi (the competitor I mentioned: Brillouin). The comment was subject to automatic moderation. Curious, I then

Re: [Vo]:Wow

2012-08-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The mod software on the site doesn't appear to be quite that simple minded. Dunno. Sorry for the noise. Jeff On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: I just attempted to post a comment to a well-known cold fusion web site that appears, on the surface, to be doing

[Vo]:Additional paper have been posted on Krivet's site

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Within the last few hours. http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17.shtml Jeff

Re: [Vo]:Additional paper have been posted on Krivet's site

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Krivit, sorry. Sheesh. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: Within the last few hours. http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17.shtml Jeff

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Widom Larsen postulate that the neutrons are produced when a proton captures an electron. The process is endothermic (energy must be supplied or it will not occur) so the neutrons initially have extremely low energy (cold). As a result they are nearly stationary and don't leave the material. Also

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
explanations. The underlying physics of the Ni/light water systems may have nothing to do with the physics of Pd/Deu systems and so on. Jeff On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: Widom Larsen postulate that the neutrons are produced when a proton captures an electron

Re: [Vo]:Miley, et al - 62M Neutrons within 5 minutes - dangerous?

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
This comment has apparently turned out to be astute ... On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: If it involves a shock procedure it sounds similiar to the piezonuclear systems studied by Cardone et al and they too obeserved neutrons. Piezonuclear neutrons

Re: [Vo]:Additional paper have been posted on Krivet's site

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The sheesh was because in my original mail, I spelled his name wrong. Which seemed rude when I realized I had done it. I was not intending to say anything about content with the sheesh. Jeff On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: All of the pre-prints were

Re: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Good calorimetry is difficult, but comparisons are not. Wouldn't it be sufficient to demonstrate two parallel implementations, one with an unprocessed CONSTANTAN wire and no H2, one with a processed wire and H2, and measure the difference using the same approach? Why do I even have to pose this

Re: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
So I understood, but then the flip side: why the questions about the calorimetry? Again, what am I missing? On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: He did it... 2012/8/18 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com Good calorimetry is difficult, but comparisons

Re: [Vo]:Rossi FIRST?? 1MW : gas-fired COP = 3 minimum 6 maximum

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I think the point of (b) in the original message was that today's posting by Rossi talks about a 1MW plant using the future tense. Which seems to conflict with some prior statements by Rossi. Jeff On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: The efficiency of a gas

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I am curious about the weak and erratic comment. What about evidence like this - http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Dash-Effect%20of%20Recrystallization-Paper.pdf This doesn't look that hard to reproduce - the main problem is access to the spectrometer-equipped SEM,

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Thanks for writing this, I was also scratching my head trying to figure out whether Godes and W-L were saying the same thing or not. Minor comment: I think you typo'd 782MeV when meaning 782KeV. Jeff On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 03:06 PM

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I saw this too. It's a quote. The word proprietary actually appears 6 times in the Godes document, in relation to this and other aspects of the work. It seems unlikely to be an accident or temporary. Celani also describes the large help of an unnamed Italian company with respect to processing the

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
This is a very refreshing response. I certainly hope you are correct. Jeff On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose that if this work all holds up, the mainstream scientific community may get what it deserves

Re: [Vo]:Nano-particle sodium borohydride encased in nickel shells

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
On the one hand I think there may be some bad science reporting at work here - the abstract (as opposed to the phys.org summary) doesn't use the term energy release, only hydrogen release and hydrogen absorption/desorption. On the other hand, I recognized hydroborate from the ICCF papers on

[Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
If you open this link: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Vysotskii-Stimulated-LENR-Paper.pdf It turns out that the PDF contains three separate and unrelated LENR papers stuck together end to end. The second of the three papers is analysis of the applicability of W-L to

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device

2012-08-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
grin right, the author has nothing nice to say about W-L. On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: Better save it before Krivit purges that! 2012/8/19 Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com If you open this link: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin ICCF17 Presentation

2012-08-19 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I was thinking about this overnight and I think the right answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Suppose you are able to obtain a working LENR device containing e.g. powdered Ni or a Pd-coated cupronickel wire or whatever. You can certainly put the active material under and SEM and a

Re: [Vo]:Some doubts expressed about Celani demonstration

2012-08-19 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Thanks. Very much appreciated (both of them). Jeff On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 02:02 AM 8/18/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: So I understood, but then the flip side: why the questions about the calorimetry? Again, what am I missing? I've

Re: [Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device -- Third paper

2012-08-19 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
of the experiment? Jeff On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Alan Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: From: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:08:15 PM Subject: [Vo]:Analysis of W-L theory as applicable to Rossi device If you open this link: http://newenergytimes.com

Re: [Vo]:RE: Stunning slide from Technova

2012-08-19 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
(measuring instrumentation aside). But my total lack of academic credibility would mean I'd be unable to influence the larger discussion in a meaningful way. Jeff On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 07:30 PM 8/18/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: I am curious

Re: [Vo]:Dominguez ICCF17 abstract

2012-08-20 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Radio-Frequency Emissions !? Is there prior history of the detection of RF emissions from F-P type experiments? Jeff On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-08-20 21:23, Peter Gluck wrote: [...] I am very sorry but Pd is not good

Re: [Vo]:Celani's patent on nickel preparation

2012-08-20 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
In between the time of the patent application and the ICCF paper, Dr. Celani also made available these slides: http://www.iscmns.org/work10/Celani.pdf which also speak to materials processing, including SEM photos of prepared wires and failed attempts to prepare wires. My interpretation of the

Re: [Vo]:Re: Existence of 1,200C E-Cat Test Report Confirmed

2012-08-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I don't know, but there was a Fredrick's of Hollywood ad on the page. Coincidence? I think not. ;-) Jeff On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:26 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: from Jed: ... ... ...

Re: The size of our vehicles (was: Re: [Vo]:If You Liked Segway)

2012-08-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I wouldn't opt for a physically larger car just because it was cheap to run it. I would opt for a heavier small car, though, for safety reasons. Jeff On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Andre Blum andre_vor...@blums.nl wrote: On 08/24/2012 12:54 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at

Re: [Vo]:video: An Explanation of Low-energy Nuclear Reactions (Cold Fusion) by Edmund Storms

2012-08-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Just out of curiosity, does the Thermite reaction work with nickel, i.e. something like ... Fe2O3 + 3 Ni = 3 NiO + 2 Fe? Jeff On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Arnaud Kodeck arnaud.kod...@lakoco.bewrote: Is Iron another catalyst of Rossi? If I’m not wrong he said that there are more than one

Re: [Vo]:video: An Explanation of Low-energy Nuclear Reactions (Cold Fusion) by Edmund Storms

2012-08-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
not absolutely sure. Jeff On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Arnaud Kodeck arnaud.kod...@lakoco.bewrote: Good idea! I’m not sure Fe2O3 + 3 Ni = 3 NiO + 2 Fe is exothermic or even if this reaction may exist. ** ** -- *From:* Jeff Berkowitz [mailto:pdx...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:video: An Explanation of Low-energy Nuclear Reactions (Cold Fusion) by Edmund Storms

2012-08-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Having a neutrino detector in your lab would be quite an undertaking. The small one in Sudbury is 40 feet in diameter and full of D2O. Back of the envelope, I make its weight about 1000 metric tons (which is about 2.2 million pounds for metrically-challenged people). Jeff On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at

[Vo]:Does anyone on the list happen to have a copy of this book?

2012-08-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I have a specific question and there might be relevant information in the book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Metal-Hydrogen-System-Properties-Materials/dp/3642055990 This is just curiosity on my part. The answer is unlikely to lead to much of anything. Jeff

Re: [Vo]:McKubre in New Scientist

2012-08-26 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I have used that quote myself many times, always in the sense that author Cartwright says is incorrect. So I sent him a polite email asking why he believed that the more conventional interpretation is the wrong one. I will email the list if I get a response. Jeff On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:23

Re: [Vo]:McKubre in New Scientist

2012-08-26 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I see your point. Glad I was polite. I will follow up with him. Jeff On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: I have used that quote myself many times, always in the sense that author Cartwright says is incorrect. I

Re: [Vo]:Terawatt.com, magnetic-based power production device

2012-08-28 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
To me their privacy policy looks like a lot of other web sites - in fact better than some. But yeah, that is a really weird list of people and their backgrounds for a technology start-up, no matter what you may think of their technology. Jeff On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:10 AM, John Page

Re: [Vo]:Terawatt.com, magnetic-based power production device

2012-08-28 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Or perhaps you meant something in the Terms of Use page? On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: To me their privacy policy looks like a lot of other web sites - in fact better than some. But yeah, that is a really weird list of people and their backgrounds

Re: [Vo]:Rossi said...

2012-08-29 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Would that be Russell's Teapot you're referring to? ;-) On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: And tea kettle. T

Re: [Vo]:Rossi said...

2012-08-29 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
My back of the envelope scratching suggests that a like-sized three-dimensional region of a fuel bundle in a conventional LWR fission core produces just about the same amount of energy. That volume would accommodate ~4 linear feet of ~100 fuel rods which would produce ~1 MW. Note: I am not a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi said...

2012-08-30 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
used for the thermal number in the previous mail. So I think the thermal density Rossi describes is about 1/3 of an operating commercial LWR fission core. Jeff On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: My back of the envelope scratching suggests that a like-sized

Re: [Vo]:Important claims are patented or published as quickly as possible

2012-08-30 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
A patent is not the only way to protect an idea. In practice, trade secret law may be more important. This is particularly true when the idea to be protected is not the product itself, but the process used to produce it. Consider the high-K metal gate process used by Intel at the 45nm and 32nm

Re: [Vo]:Rossi said... Domestic certification problem?

2012-08-31 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzLobQxY6gg On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.comwrote: A cold fusion nuclear reactor that that puts out as much energy and density as a common nuclear reactor cannot possibly be dangerous. 2012/8/31 Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com

Re: [Vo]:a new interview with Defkalion

2012-08-31 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
It's a question with many nuances. I generally agree with Jed about the realities and the regulatory issues. Yet at the same time, we have an example: the terminology change from NMR to MRI. It was significant from perspective of consumer acceptance, and therefore it was economically significant.

[Vo]:New Energy Times

2012-09-01 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
There is an interesting update on Krivit's site - about the site itself, not about LENR. Jeff

Re: [Vo]:New Energy Times

2012-09-01 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
and accessible to the public. All news stories published before Sept. 15 will also remain free. Jeff On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: There is an interesting update on Krivit's site - about the site itself, not about

Re: [Vo]:Heresy warning: variable isotope decay. Also noted, the ether is(?) involved...

2012-09-01 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I keep wondering who else might have accumulated data that could be analyzed. I.e. who might have collected data from a long-lived source under consistent conditions over a long enough period of time. Maybe monitoring equipment from cold war era waste sites. Jeff On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 3:04 PM,

Re: [Vo]:RSH in Electric Fields

2012-09-03 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I don't know how Kim at Purdue is regarded in this group, but aside from his theoretical work, his ICCF-17 paper proposes three experiments along these lines. They are: (a) Determine the velocity distribution of deuterons in metals, which he states is expected to be different from an ideal gas.

Re: [Vo]:Fusion Demon Finds Easy Path

2012-09-03 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Aside from the issue of getting an electron be modified as you describe, the electron would tend to be taken up into the s1 orbital by one of the protons, forming a stable 1H atom, would it not? In other words, you're describing a metastable state, like the proverbial dog who starves to death

Re: [Vo]:Nanomagnetism, QCD Goldstone bosons (part 1)

2012-09-03 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Yeah, this might be interesting enough to motivate another few weeks of frantic reading. And I just got done with electron capture, sheesh. ;-) On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:06 PM, helloke...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Energy comes from proton mass depletion So... the way to test this theory is to weigh

Re: [Vo]:Brillouin Energy patent granted in China

2012-09-06 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Similarly, I think the point to item (6) is that you cannot patent the *substance *that is produced by nuclear transformation. I think the reason for this statement appears right in the paragraph Jed quoted: in general, you *can *patent new compositions of matter, e.g. a new plastic, etc. Their

Re: [Vo]:Link to live stream from E-cat convention

2012-09-08 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
They're not Navy Seals, silly. They're aliens. The Navy Seals thing is just cover. On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Those aren't body guards, those are his Navy Seal handlers making sure he does not escape or give out too much information. T ;-)

Re: [Vo]:Link to live stream from E-cat convention

2012-09-08 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
All right, I stand corrected. Just one alien under the cover of being an ex-Navy Seal then. On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:30 PM, h...@haikolietz.de wrote: ** I was wrong, just one bodyguard. the strong funny guy is FLAVIO FABIANI, a LEONARDO engineer. Am 08.09.2012 22:17, schrieb Andre Blum:

[Vo]:Nature publishes obituary for Martin Fleischmann

2012-09-08 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
New Energy Times' blog has been updated to report that Nature has published an obituary for Martin Fleischmann. It costs $18 to get the whole text. At least they're consistent. http://blog.newenergytimes.com/ Jeff

Re: [Vo]:High temperature E-Cat - preliminary report published

2012-09-08 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
You can use various on-line charts like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature to guess at the inside temperature, and this calculator http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/stefan.html to run various estimates of the heat radiation of the open end and of the rest of the black

Re: [Vo]:ECat convention (Report day 1)

2012-09-09 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I think it's fairly simple actually. Mr Rossi has chosen to organize his efforts as a commercial enterprise, rather than as a scientific enterprise. Therefore, proof occurs when somebody can buy one, and the customer reports that it works, even if just to some limited extent and with extensive

Re: [Vo]:ECat convention (Report day 1)

2012-09-09 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Inline... On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: Scientific publication approach or commercial enterprise approach: choose one. Why choose one? They are not mutually exclusive. Mainstream companies routinely

Re: [Vo]:Wikipedia E-Cat article for deletion

2012-09-09 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I have been meaning to ask about this! I will start a separate thread. Jeff On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote: yes we should keep archive, for a future Nuremberg Trial on Wikipedia... same for peer-review, magazines, and other insults 2012/9/9 James

[Vo]:Best tasting CF/LENR quotes through history.

2012-09-09 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Just in case this all pans out the way we hope, I think it would be great to assemble the historical quotes about CF/LENR that would taste best when eaten, if you know what I mean. Someone might already have done this, in which case a pointer is fine. Otherwise, hoping for quotes that can be

Re: [Vo]:Best tasting CF/LENR quotes through history.

2012-09-10 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
quotes sent to me a while back. I put them on an XML file, to learn XML. The stuff only runs on Microsoft Explorer now. The quotes are linked below open with IE. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/chapter0.html Frank Znidarsic -Original Message- From: Jeff Berkowitz pdx

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-11 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Lasers not necessary? Hasn't Celani been reporting a negative temperature coefficient of resistance that appears about the time his processed wires begin producing heat? I might have this wrong ... Jeff On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:59 PM, pagnu...@htdconnect.com wrote: Low Energy Neutron

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-11 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
coincidence. Jeff On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote: Lasers not necessary? Hasn't Celani been reporting a negative temperature coefficient of resistance that appears about the time his processed wires begin producing heat? I might have this wrong ... Jeff

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-12 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
-boost-superconductivity -- Lou Pagnucco Jeff Berkowitz wrote: To answer my own question: yes, here http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CelaniFcunimnallo.pdf on page 3, in item (3) of the numbered list. Of course, it could be some unrelated effect; but decreasing electrical resistance

Re: [Vo]:New Lattice Energy on Hi-Temp Superconductivity LENR

2012-09-12 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Fractals boost superconductivity http://physicsworld.com/cws/**article/news/2010/aug/13/**fractals-boost- **superconductivityhttp://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2010/aug/13/fractals-boost-superconductivity -- Lou Pagnucco Jeff Berkowitz wrote: To answer my own question: yes, here http

Re: [Vo]:New Miley Patent

2012-09-12 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
http://www.google.com/patents?id=WhIgAgAAEBAJpg=PA1lpg=PA1dq=%22Low+Energy+Nuclear+Reaction%22source=blots=Xuf1yRH2vBsig=142QFcoB_2WmhjeCiLVn9AuUGlUhl=ensa=Xei=qEROUKH4JsjSrQHKmIGoBwved=0CD4Q6AEwBQgoback=.gde_4132340_member_161859049#v=onepageqf=false Isn't this sort of big deal? Not so much

Re: [Vo]:New Wired UK article

2012-09-15 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I'm old, so I'm old school. I'm not a physicist, just an experienced observer with a basic science education. After a few months of intensive reading, I'm squarely in the transmutation don't get no respect camp. I particularly like this one:

Re: [Vo]:New Wired UK article

2012-09-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
That comment is a bit over my line. I think Abd's position is appropriate at this point in time. Jeff On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: It's simply the order in which the

Re: [Vo]:New Wired UK article

2012-09-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I didn't mean to take a shot at you Terry. Answers to your three questions. How long? Not long (although I've followed the subject on and off since 1989) - no credentials here. Trying to deceive us? No. Incompetent people? No. I believe we do them a favor by being professionally skeptical and

Re: [Vo]:New Wired UK article

2012-09-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
This page is not widely known? -- Dozens of scientific papers were published between 1905 and 1927 concerning the mysterious appearance of hydrogen, helium and neon in vacuum tubes. The matter never has been resolved. http://www.levity.com/alchemy/nelson2_6.html Jeff On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at

Re: [Vo]:Question Concerning Celani's Charts

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The calibration wire is just a nichrome wire, or so it says on the slide. Nothing was said about doing any special processing on this wire. There's something else weird about the slide. The last bullet at bottom says the R/R0, of both wires, just slightly increased (as expected), increasing the

Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I read Mr. Godes paper the day it appeared on the New Energy Times site (I think that was back in July?). I immediately had the feeling it was important. At the same time, the word proprietary appears six times. It seems clear that Mr. Godes believes the road to progress is a working device, not

Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Godes probably wouldn't agree. Fwiw, he seems to be an advocate of an electron capture kind of hypothesis as opposed to a fusion kind of hypothesis. Electron capture hypotheses roughly substitute the miracle of coming up with a missing ~0.8MeV (along with some quantum mumbo jumbo) for the miracle

Re: [Vo]:A LENR route to green fission?

2012-09-19 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I'm having a hard time making sense of this on several levels. For a one thing, the Mosier-Boss results (including the paper you link below and previous papers, all found in a page on their site) document fast neutrons, not thermal neutrons. For another thing, fission would put the lie to their

Re: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Jones, did you take pains to keep the wires and connections out of the electrolyte? How did you attach the wires to the coins? Did you do anything special to prepare the surface of the coins, or just use dirty old circulating nickels? ;-) Thanks! Jeff On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Jones

Re: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I got email on the from a lurker about this too. Agree. In an electrolytic cell, the cathode is the one connected to the negative terminal of the power supply, and this is the business end for H2. Jeff On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:07 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Interesting, but

Re: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: At 04:14 PM 9/21/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: I got email on the from a lurker about this too. Agree. In an electrolytic cell, the cathode is the one connected to the negative terminal of the power supply, and this is the business

Re: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites

2012-09-21 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The dissolving in salt water is a matter of course, actually. I used to work on fixed sonar equipment. It's astounding - the first time - what happens to dissimilar metals in salt water when there is a small current flow for one reason or another. But quickly you just learn from your elders: tell

Re: [Vo]:Good Alloy for Celani type reaction costs 5 cents : Chuck Sites

2012-09-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Based on comments in this thread you should be prepared to run for considerably more than 8 hours. Give yourself at least a day and then you should be prepared to run for a while if you want to make sure you're observing anything interesting, so call it 48 hours. Again based on comments in the

[Vo]:Save the Balloon!

2012-09-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
The world faces an unimaginable fate: the demise of the helium balloon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19676639 Only LENR can save us! ;-) Jeff

Re: [Vo]:The Human Fauna

2012-09-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
More generally, there is some evidence that if you just give the immune system something external to worry about, autoimmune activity may subside. Warning, link describes a therapeutic approach you may find gross. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy Jeff On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:48

Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability

2012-09-25 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Regarding the Dardik/Ultrasonic paper, I wonder if anyone has tried vapor deposition of palladium (or nickel, titanium, lithium???) directly onto a material with piezoelectric properties? Or for that matter, deposition on to a SAW device, over a very thin passivation layer that in turn lies over

[Vo]:Godes patent application - apparent confusion over anode vs. cathode

2012-09-26 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I'm looking at the Godes/Brillouin patent application: http://www.google.com/patents/US20110122984?hl=en In figure 3C, the circuit diagram of the drive circuitry, there are effectively three outputs at right: the two connection points labeled J1-1 and J1-2, and the bulb-shaped object that is

Re: [Vo]:Godes patent application - apparent confusion over anode vs. cathode

2012-09-27 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
the Q-pulses to follow this weekend. Jeff On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: At 11:54 PM 9/26/2012, Jeff Berkowitz wrote: I'm looking at the Godes/Brillouin patent application: http://www.google.com/**patents/US20110122984?hl=enhttp

Re: [Vo]:Alan's Sites Effect Experiment

2012-09-27 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Yes. Sanity is remarkably like cold fusion - it is only observed in sporadic pulses, and many people deny it exists. On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Has everyone her gone totally insane?

[Vo]:Ongoing mainstream work on cracks and stresses

2012-09-29 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-probing-mysteries-stresses.html Jeff

Re: [Vo]:Replication of Chuck Sites Nickel/Boron Experiment

2012-10-01 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Did you measure current or voltage at any time? Jeff On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chuck, My experiment has ended for today with my power supply blowing out. I think my last test was not a good test of the nickel vs copper. I was using what looks

Re: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

2012-10-02 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I wish they wouldn't use Angstrom units. Come on. I think eq. (10) says R ~= 0.4 * 10^-12. But the text says ...that the electron should be confined within its Compton radius, which is completely unrealistic. Various references say the Compton radius of an electron is more like 2.8 * 10^-15. So

Re: [Vo]:WLT Disproof

2012-10-02 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Under QM, the position of an election in an atom is stated as a probability density function. That is, under QM we can only state that an electron has a certain probability of being any particular location at any time. Apparently this very ordinary bit of QM doesn't appear in W-L theory. The

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]: Experimental Results with Nickel and Sodium Carbonate

2012-10-04 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
This morning I found a link that may be related to the borax and nickels thing: http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/borax-el.htm I found it, believe it or not, here: http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-159040.html I had thought mods generally ban CF/LENR topics there, but I guess not

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

2012-10-04 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
And, by golly, here's another interesting note: the energy required to split water molecules by electrolysis is dramatically reduced in the presence of ... nickel borate. http://phys.org/news193055742.html Jeff On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:nice cold fusion article

2012-10-04 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Another patent application, also with pulse generator circuitry. Since we all know cold fusion can't be real, it must be something in the water. ;-) ;-) Jeff On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:19 AM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: http://e-catsite.com/2011/12/07/ahern-cancels-citi5-appearance/

Re: [Vo]:A new economic system will be needed in the next 20 to 100 years - Easter Island

2012-10-10 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Yes, I agree. I believe that work originated here: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/rethinking-the-fall-of-easter-island/1 Feature article, so apparently not paywalled - I'm not a subscriber, but I can see it. Jeff On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:27 PM, David L Babcock

Re: [Vo]:Replication of Chuck Sites Nickel/Boron Experiment

2012-10-10 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Here is an unrelated paper from ICCF that includes processing the electrode material with heat: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/conferences/2012/ICCF17/ICCF-17-Dash-Effect%20of%20Recrystallization-Paper.pdf Jeff On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Jack Cole jcol...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all of

Re: [Vo]:OT: Mars Rover Spots Small Bright- Metallic Object

2012-10-10 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I'm shocked, shocked I say. ;-) Thanks Jed. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: False alarm. It was a piece of plastic that fell off the Rover. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:New Experiment Started

2012-10-13 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
A couple of us tried electrolysis with nickels in Borax today. No excess heat was observed. There are details here: http://pdxlenr.blogspot.com/2012/10/no-heating-observed-while-electrolyzing.html Jeff On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: You might try to erode

Re: [Vo]:November Popular Science- not kind to Rossi

2012-10-15 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Mr. Krivit (New Energy Times) has also updated his critical comments about Mr. Rossi, and the result is not paywalled. FYI. http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/Andrea-Rossi-Energy-Catalyzer-Investigation-Index.shtml Jeff On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:New Experiment Started

2012-10-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
As others have pointed out, the only safe answer is to treat all electrolysis experiments with respect, doing them with adequate ventilation, whether that means under a fume hood or outdoors or the like. Of course we may break these rules and get away with many things, up until the unfortunate

[Vo]:Cracks me up

2012-10-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
When I read vortex, Google is constantly trying to sell me a Ford Fusion. If only ... ;-)

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

2012-10-16 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Sure it can. I make such a comparison right here. http://pdxjjb-econ-politics.blogspot.com/2012/05/parable-of-smart-frugal.html It's not that your arguments are incorrect, but they are not very strong arguments, either. Jeff On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Craig Haynie

Re: [Vo]:New Experiment Started

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
It's possible that as the electrolyte evaporates, and there is not sufficient electrolyte to make a fully-immersed path from anode to cathode (you'll have to confirm that), there are moments when the liquid withdraws from point(s) on one of the electrodes - because of the tendency of water to form

[Vo]:How long?

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Eventually, Mr. Rossi will have to show something that can be independently examined and verified completely outside of his control, or the inevitable media and marketplace counter-reaction will set in because of the very public nature of the claims. I'm sure even Mr. Rossi himself would agree

Re: [Vo]:New Experiment Started

2012-10-17 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
to himself as he experiences a short period of brain death due to his attempt to describe the indescribable.) Dave -Original Message- From: Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 12:24 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:New Experiment Started It's

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