Re: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:Oil Price.com features Brillouin CF Reactor

2012-04-24 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: What gives the Rossi type reactor its power is the secret sauce and the Rossi reaction is different from and more powerful than the Brillouin reaction. Considering that Rossi hasn't revealed how the E-Cat system works I

Re: [Vo]:Obituary: Fleischmann, 85

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Gibbs
Re-read that sentence ... carefully, this time. [Mark Gibbs] On Sunday, August 5, 2012, Terry Blanton wrote: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2012/08/04/the-state-of-the-cold-fusion-market/ Many have argued that the discrediting of Fleischmann and Pons was driven and used by others

Re: [Vo]:Obituary: Fleischmann, 85

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Gibbs
Thanks for the welcome. Comments inline ... [mg] On Sunday, August 5, 2012, Eric Walker wrote: Le Aug 5, 2012 à 12:21 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com javascript:; a écrit : Re-read that sentence ... carefully, this time. [Mark Gibbs] Hi Mark, Good to see you on this list. Your

Re: [Vo]:Gibbs article is annoying

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Gibbs
Jed and Craig, It's interesting that you both want the mainstream media to pay attention to cold fusion yet you complain when we don't write *exactly* as you think we should write. You complain endlessly about sloppy journalism and how the theories of cold fusion aren't clearly laid out (as you

Re: [Vo]:Gibbs article is annoying

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Gibbs
I rest my case. [mg] On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: It's interesting that you both want the mainstream media to pay attention to cold fusion yet you complain when we don't write *exactly* as you think we should

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

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
kilowatts of excess heat and temperatures of up to 1,200C, the wait will have been trivial. If, if, if ... As my grandmother used to say: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. [Mark Gibbs] On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Sterling Allan sterlin...@pureenergysystems.com wrote: ** We could

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

2012-08-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
on the topic and with all of your connections can only, at best, come up with what are ifs and hopes and theories. [m] On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Randy wuller rwul...@freeark.com wrote: ** Mark Gibbs: Mark, I agree with you. However, I am not a journalist. As a journalist, I would

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Gibbs
If the Godes/McKubre system has 100% reproducibility why isn't it the poster child for CF/LENR?! And why hasn't the CF/LENR research community exhaustively investigated the system and built working models that would show, irrefutably, that CF/LENR is real? In following this list I've read about

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Gibbs
://newenergytimes.com/ the document isn't dated (in fact the only date I noticed in it is 1992 embedded in the URL of a citation). [mg] On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:16 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netresponded snarkily: Mark Gibbs asks rather impatiently, “Can anyone explain why this system isn't

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Gibbs
Thanks, Ruby ... Jed just asked the same question I was going to ask ... [mg] On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: *One possible private donor seeking a technical evaluation was informed by a **National Science Foundation**

Re: [Vo]:question about passive solar heat

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Gibbs
How about keeping the tank on the roof and using a thermosiphon [1] or, better still, a passive vapor heat pipe [2] to transfer heat to the tank from a collector below? The height difference between the collector and the tank would only have to be a foot or two and you'd want the tank on the roof

Re: [Vo]:October is here : Pordenone program

2012-10-04 Thread Mark Gibbs
Alan, ( He,he,he,he…) ... I see you left out the next sentence ... Dear Steven N. Karels: Your question is inspiring: well, I will not go to Pordenone to clean the tops of the Dolomites with the wax: it is possible that in the Pordenione convention I will bring the final results regarding the

Re: [Vo]:A little more positive article on Cold Fusion from Gibbs

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
If you go back and re-read my previous columns on cold fusion you'll see that my interest has *always* been in useful cold fusion ... The cold fusion phenomena, while scientifically intriguing, amounts to to nothing of practical interest if you can't do something useful with it ... rather like

Re: [Vo]:A little more positive article on Cold Fusion from Gibbs

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
I don't have the time to review the huge amount of literature you people have already looked at ... if any of you, Rothwell included, would like to help build a list of successful experiments I'd be happy to build it into an article with full attribution to all contributors. I'd like to see a list

Re: [Vo]:We should employ new methods of persuading the public

2012-11-08 Thread Mark Gibbs
there is no hope to convince people until there is a working prototype that we can put on the client table, and that clearly work, even roughly. I could have sworn that was what I've been writing on and off for the last year or so! No one but scientists care if CF exists but isn't useful in the

Re: [Vo]:The new normal

2012-11-09 Thread Mark Gibbs
Exactly. [mg] On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: But no one is sure what how far you can go with rock solid COP of 1.5 ... in terms of a commercial item... Essentially that is Gibbs' point, no?

Re: [Vo]:Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

2012-11-27 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.comwrote: the gibbs like it might be wrongly done or use, so just don't do it You should read what I write more carefully: I didn't say CF/LENR shouldn't be used but that possible unintended consequences should be considered.

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
Something I haven't seen any discussion about is the amount of energy required to load materials with hydrogen to be used in these various LENR/CF devices. If that energy is taken into account, are the claims of excess energy from the operation of the devices still valid? [mg]

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
And what about in the MFM Project? [m] On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, McKubre takes the endothermic loading and exothermic off loading into his calculations in his work at SRI. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, McKubre takes the endothermic loading and exothermic off loading into his calculations in his work at SRI. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Something I haven't seen any discussion about is the amount

Re: [Vo]:Direct heating of Celani's wire at EU cell of MFMP

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Something I haven't seen any discussion about is the amount of energy required to load materials with hydrogen to be used in these various LENR/CF devices. If that energy is taken into account, are the claims of excess energy from

Re: [Vo]:A Proposal to stop all Off-Topic posts (was: Continued trolling by Jojo Jaro)

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Gibbs
Is it worth pointing out that if you all did what Jed does -- filter Jojo out -- you wouldn't have to be annoyed over what he says. The end result would have the same result as banning him without the need for appeals to the list mom to do the dirty work. [mg] On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM,

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Moon God, Dozens of wives, and marriageable age

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Gibbs
Pig breeding, Birthers, attacks on Islam, attacks on each other ... what is the matter with you people? Jojo throws out blatant nonsense that isn't intended to achieve anything constructive and that only the most generous would treat as reasonable discussion and everyone rises to the bait. Abd,

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Moon God, Dozens of wives, and marriageable age

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Gibbs
29, 2012 2:24 AM *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:[OT] Moon God, Dozens of wives, and marriageable age Unfortunately I sense lots of bad mojo behind many of the posts in this exchange On Friday, December 28, 2012, Mark Gibbs wrote: Pig breeding, Birthers, attacks on Islam, attacks on each other ... what

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Moon God, Dozens of wives, and marriageable age

2012-12-28 Thread Mark Gibbs
. What's needed is a moderator who can enforce adult, civilized behavior. [m] On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Does anyone know how to get William Beaty to manage the conduct on this list? He is probably busy

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Friday, December 28, 2012, Peter Gluck wrote: but it raises the question if/when will enter LENR such lists? When there is a testable theory or a demonstrably practical device. So far, LENR is, to be perhaps somewhat poetic, no more than a willow-the-wisp ... [mg]

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: FURTHERMORE, the notion that cold fusion results are unconvincing or close to the noise is also gross ignorance. People who say this know nothing about experimental significance. I never said the results were

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
James, Which theory is that? [mg] On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:01 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Sure, there's lots of interesting experiments but is there a testable theory? Yes, there is a widely accepted

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
of this preamble to the DoE panel's report as an alternative to his resignation from the panel. On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: James, Which theory is that? [mg] On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:01 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Dec

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: I am sorry to be abrasive, but this is ignorant nonsense. Alas, you really aren't sorry. That's just a technique to try to avoid being called out for incivility. No, it is pro

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: No, it is pro-forma, Japanese style. It is what you say before you are forced to be uncivil. One is never forced to be uncivil. I cannot describe the facts of the matter

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
in, I'd definitely tell him or her to talk to Ed Storms. So, what are you doing about getting funding for you or someone else to test your theories? Regards, Mark. On Dec 29, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Mark Gibbs wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: So, your considered and thoughtful way to address what you see as someone's misunderstandings and to educate them is to be insulting and to attack the man while you address

Fwd: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
-- Forwarded message -- From: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com Date: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic To: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com Cc: Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com On Dec 29, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: Ed, On Sat

Re: [Vo]:(OT) epidemic and endemic

2012-12-29 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:56 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: From Mark Gibbs And remember, this whole discussion is Peter's fault ... Peter's fault? Whatever... I was joking. Of course it wasn't his fault ... this may not be the place for levity

Re: [Vo]:Suppose Watson tells people cancer treatment does not work?

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ** What if the entire corpus of physics is loaded, and Watson concludes that LENR is the superior energy solution for the future of humanity, far more so than hot fusion or fission ? ** What if Watson concludes

Re: [Vo]:Suppose Watson tells people cancer treatment does not work?

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Gibbs
not be surprised, so it's kind of boring. 2013/1/17 Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ** What if the entire corpus of physics is loaded, and Watson concludes that LENR is the superior energy solution for the future of humanity, far

[Vo]:Nanor

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
Does anyone know what the status is of the Nanor device at MIT? Has it been kept running? Has anyone duplicated the device and successfully run it? Thanks in advance. [mg]

Re: [Vo]:Nanor

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Swartz has been very secretive. His web site: http://world.std.com/~mica/jettech.html Yep, that's a lot of ... er, stuff. Probably the

Re: [Vo]:Nanor

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: And the video is AWOL. Sigh. Damn. Well the .pdf is there: http://coldfusionnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HagelsteinPdemonstra.pdf

Re: [Vo]:Nanor

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
here and there for support, but there is no NANOR video included (I didn't get through it to the end though!) From the release on his website, it seems that there may be some video from the Swartz portion of the course soon. On 1/31/13 7:28 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7

Re: [Vo]:Nanor

2013-01-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
is magnificent, technology works for us. Peter On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mgi...@gibbs.com'); wrote: I must be behind the curve ... and what might KILOR and MEGAR be? [m] On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Peter Gluck peter.gl

[Vo]:Tech Predictions

2013-02-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
http://www.polratings.com/predictions Currently they're all IT predictions but anyone care to predict what will happen in CF in 2013? If you have an insight, fire away: http://www.polratings.com/predictions/prediction-submission/ [mg]

Re: [Vo]:Tech Predictions

2013-02-13 Thread Mark Gibbs
How about throwing in some predictions on world resource use, nuclear power, wind power, robots, the erosion of funding for HF, or the zombie apocalypse? [mg] On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The IT predictions are interesting! I have sworn off

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Yes, but more exactly a trial-and-errorist. Which is hardly god-like ... it seems to me that the Catholic god (omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent) is what a true god should be ... the alpha and omega ... all other

Re: [Vo]:Science Set Free

2013-02-15 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chris Zell chrisz...@wetmtv.com wrote: However, that still allows for a transcendent impersonal God who operates as a system - and might even answer prayers. A true god would not answer prayers as he would have created the conditions that required your

Re: [Vo]:Deadly insect drones of the future

2013-02-19 Thread Mark Gibbs
Too late: http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1658702 ... basic version to be priced at $250 without camera and a camera-less silent version at $280 (perfect for stealth toxic chemical delivery). Surveillance version with two cameras (one HD) with an on-board computer that may be powerful

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
When I recently suggested in response to Peter Gluck's question [1] that a testable theory was a necessity for LENR to be recognized as a great invention [2], it sure seemed like you all disagreed. It sure sounds like you now think a theory is required ... [m] [1]

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: It makes no sense to demand a testable theory or a demonstrably practical device. Science does not work that way. It usually starts with discovery and then progresses to theory, to practical device. (On rare occasions

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: explaining LENR - II

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: They did not need to put first-principles theories of flight in their patent. Gibbs seems to think this has been a requirement all along. O'Malley is making unfounded assumptions. Gibbs never wrote or implied any such

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kevin O'Malley kevmol...@gmail.comwrote: They did not need to put first-principles theories of flight in their patent. Gibbs seems to think

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Gibbs didn't say anything about the Wright Brothers ... that was Ed Storms: Wrong person! Ed was speaking loosely. Ah, so if Ed speaks loosely it's OK and forgivable but if I do

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
A question for Ed: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: The definition of success rate in these experiments is fuzzy. Ed stated with 90 cathodes. He tested them and identified 4 that met all of his criteria. These 4 worked robustly, and repeatedly. So,

Re: [Vo]:Violante and others are trying the engineering approach

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
looking for the critical feature, but I believe they have not yet looked at small enough scale to see the active sites, which I believe are in the 1-5 nm range. Ed On Feb 21, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Mark Gibbs wrote: A question for Ed: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw

[Vo]:Gizmag: NASA's basement reactor

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
BTW, did everyone see the Gizmag article NASA's basement reactor ( http://m.gizmag.com/article/26309). It's a bit fluffy and hand-waving but I was intrigued by this section: According to Zawodny, LENR isn’t what was thought of as cold fusion and it doesn't involve strong nuclear forces. Instead,

[Vo]:Rethinking wind power

2013-02-25 Thread Mark Gibbs
“People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says Harvard University applied physicist David Keith. After all, gusts and breezes don’t seem likely to “run out” on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry. Yet the

[Vo]:Fwd: NASA Does Cold Fusion

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Gibbs
I don't think this link has been posted to this list yet: http://futureinnovation.larc.nasa.gov/view/articles/futurism/bushnell/low-energy-nuclear-reactions.html ** ** [m]

[Vo]:Light particles illuminate the vacuum

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Gibbs
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/light-particles-illuminate-vacuum In an article published in the PNAS scientific journal, researchers from Aalto University and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland showed experimentally that vacuum has properties not previously observed. According to the

[Vo]:Is a Comet on a Collision Course with Mars?

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Gibbs
http://www.universetoday.com/100298/is-a-comet-on-a-collision-course-with-mars/ There is an outside chance that a newly discovered comet might be on a collision course with Mars. Astronomers are still determining the trajectory of the comet, named C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), but at the very least,

[Vo]:Is a Comet on a Collision Course with Mars?

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Gibbs
(Sing to the tune As Time Goes By) And so, it's come to this A miss is just a miss When a comet's passing by The fundamental laws apply Across the sky ... [mg] On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jedrothw...@gmail.com'); wrote: So, a

[Vo]:Nanotubes generate huge electric currents from osmotic flow

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Gibbs
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/nanotubes-generate-huge-electric-currents-osmotic-flow

[Vo]:13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Gibbs
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?full=true And #13 is ... [m] 13 Cold fusion AFTER 16 years, it's back. In fact, cold fusion never really went away. Over a 10-year period from 1989, US navy labs ran more than 200 experiments to

Re: [Vo]:13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Gibbs
Bugger. Missed that. I assumed that they'd link from a current article [1] to a current article, not to history and now I find that that original article, which was linked to a current article wasn't any such thing ... it was also from 2005! I am now very suspicious of New Scientist but welcome

Re: [Vo]:Novam Research comments on eCat

2013-04-07 Thread Mark Gibbs
Interesting lack of objectivity: During the congress I met Andrea Rossi for the first time. In my estimation he is kind, competent and reputable. [mg] On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Further to the thread about gammas, here are these money quotes

Re: [Vo]:Novam Research comments on eCat

2013-04-07 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Interesting lack of objectivity: During the congress I met Andrea Rossi for the first time. In my estimation he is kind, competent and reputable. Why do you say this reflects

Re: [Vo]:Why you should believe the Toyota Roulette data

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Gibbs
Are the fine details of the Toyota experimental set up known? Has anyone tried to replicate that configuration? On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.comwrote: Others said that the Toyota research and the NEDO program were stopped because progress was too slow (I

Re: [Vo]: ECAT Time Domain Response

2013-05-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Arnaud Kodeck arnaud.kod...@lakoco.bewrote: Rossi has recently stated in JONP that local hot spots in its reactor were the main issue. If a spot come to a certain upper threshold, the reactor goes out of control. Does anyone know what happens when Rossi's

Re: [Vo]: ECAT Time Domain Response

2013-05-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
So, in run away mode the reactor can do/always does emit radiation (of what type? X-rays and/or gamma?) is it possible that the casing of the reactor and the other components would not become radioactive? Is there any information as to what type of detector Celani used? If the spectators at the

Re: [Vo]: ECAT Time Domain Response

2013-05-20 Thread Mark Gibbs
Consider yourself asked ... oh, and what type of radiation was/would be involved? [mg] On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Axil Axil janap...@gmail.com wrote: If you require the theory behind this overview, just ask.

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
, this is the Internet ... you can cite a link as Alan Fletcher did so people can get directly to the original article (which, BTW, has been updated). Copying the entire piece to hundreds of people just wastes bits. William, please delete Kevin's post from the archive. Yours, Mark Gibbs. On Tue, May

Re: [Vo]:Levi Hot Cat paper is a gem

2013-05-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: There's another way to perpetrate the output hoax, and that's to secrete infrared lasers in the ceiling and heat the device up remotely. Lasers?! Don't you think that seems just a little farfetched? And it raises, once again, as

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
reputation. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Kevin, Publishing a summary or abstract of my piece would have been fine (under the concept of Fair Use) but posting my article in full to a list (and a public list at that) is a breach of both my copyright and Forbes

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
on the hit list. Wrong. I don't have time to educate you but you are simply wrong. [mg] On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: ** I am with Mark. Kevin needs to grow some ethics. Andrew - Original Message - *From:* Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com

Re: [Vo]:Gibbs' article featured on major Italian newspaper

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
We both thank you. [mg] On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote: That's pretty good! Bravo for Mark Giggs . . . And for Mark Gibbs. Him too. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
a different address. Please standby until he has a chance to respond. This list has benefited you in the past. I suspect your gain exceeds your loss. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Kevin, Publishing a summary or abstract of my piece would have been

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: CMNS: Rossi's 3rd party test released:

2013-05-22 Thread Mark Gibbs
...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Terry, Thanks. The issue has become a moot point and Bill needn't bother. I really don't care what you do to the offender; but, injuring this list is not in your best interest. After all, didn't you get

[Vo]:E-Cat Tester's Bios

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Gibbs
Does anone have any more in-depth bios of the group that tested the E-Cat. This is what I have so far: Giuseppe Levi Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy Bologna University Bologna, Italy Bio:

Re: [Vo]:Secret wiring hypothesis [second copy?]

2013-05-23 Thread Mark Gibbs
Which author is a vet? I didn't find any such thing ... [mg] On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: Rossi has stated that the testers brought their own cables. A poster here asserts that they were Rossi's cables. As usual, this issue is not addressed by the paper.

Re: [Vo]:Hartman's not a vet...

2013-05-24 Thread Mark Gibbs
Sunil, May I quote you in a Forbes posting? If I may, may I cite your name? Thanks in advance. Yours, Mark Gibbs. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Sunil Shah s.u.n@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, My first post, after a couple of year's hiding in the shadows.. Just want to settle a couple

Re: [Vo]:Hartman's not a vet...

2013-05-24 Thread Mark Gibbs
...@gibbs.com Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:29 -0700 Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hartman's not a vet... To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sunil, May I quote you in a Forbes posting? If I may, may I cite your name? Thanks in advance. Yours, Mark Gibbs. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Sunil Shah s.u.n

Re: [Vo]:More delusional scientists, and over 60,000 publications!

2013-05-28 Thread Mark Gibbs
Mark, If I get a chance may I quote you? [mg] On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Mark Iverson markiver...@charter.netwrote: There have been more than 60,000 papers published on high-temperature superconductive material since its discovery in 1986, said Jak Chakhalian, professor of physics at

Re: [Vo]:Gibbs: Rossi's A Fraud! No, He's Not! Yes, He Is! No, He Isn't!

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect hand waving began as a derisive reference to occult activities since these might involve the waving of hands and/or a wand. . You would be completely wrong. In fact, that is perhaps the most ridiculous

Re: [Vo]:Of NAEs and nothingness...

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
What is a Hydroton? I googled the term and all I could find were references to a clay-based plant growing medium much prized by marijuana growers ... [mg] On Thursday, May 30, 2013, Harry Veeder wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.comjavascript:_e({},

Re: [Vo]:On deception

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Cude has waved his hands and said there might be a method of deception that he has not thought of yet. As I have often pointed out, such assertions cannot be tested or falsified. There might be an error in Ohm's law we

Re: [Vo]:Rossi is suing Wikipedia for libel

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
Daniel, The link you gave (May 31st, 2013 at 2:53 PMhttp://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=806cpage=10#comment-708958) doesn't have a posting with the text you quoted and I can't find that text on the site. Can you send a link to the letter from Rossi you quoted? Thanks. [mg] On Fri, May

Re: [Vo]:Rossi is suing Wikipedia for libel

2013-05-31 Thread Mark Gibbs
Rossi is infuriating. And his caps lock key is stuck. [mg] On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: No, that's all I had. Probably he deleted. Well, I hope someone else printed the screen... 2013/5/31 Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com Daniel, The link you

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Gibbs
Even though I'm still wearing my skeptic's hat (that's the one with the propeller on top) isn't the argument about the need for calorimetry made irrelevant the amount of energy observed to have been generated? In other words, even with more precise measurements the exact energy output couldn't

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:22 PM, DJ Cravens djcrav...@hotmail.com wrote: yes, calorimetry is not needed IF you believe the claims, methods, and the effect. The claims are that the device produces significantly over unity, the methods have been alluded to but Rossi is definitely not public with

Re: [Vo]:A Couple Hundred Bucks Maybe...

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Ah, now we have it ... it's the questions of reproducability and controlability, But these questions have no bearing on whether the effect is real or not. We're talking about

Re: [Vo]:Why are pseudoskeptics so relentless in their mission to debunk?

2013-06-04 Thread Mark Gibbs
Might I suggest using a smaller point size and any typeface other than Comic Sans (it's a typeface that give us type nerds bad dreams). [mg] On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Roger B rogerbi...@hotmail.com wrote: But, seriously, that was an excellent description. Can you supply a link to it?

[Vo]:Why are pseudoskeptics so relentless in their mission to debunk?

2013-06-05 Thread Mark Gibbs
: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: Might I suggest using a smaller point size and any typeface other than Comic Sans (it's a typeface that give us type nerds bad dreams). I think Comic Sans is a perfect typeface for this list, since it scares away anyone who

[Vo]:Reifenschweiler effect rediscovered in Japan

2013-06-09 Thread Mark Gibbs
Are there any indications the Reifenschweiler effect produces excess heat along with the decrease in radioactivity? [m] On Sunday, June 9, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: I do not see where I can add a comment to that article in ColdFusionNow but anyway, here are three papers from Otto:

Re: [Vo]:Molecular Impact Steam Technology

2013-06-11 Thread Mark Gibbs
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: ... Richard Aho … or “Smokie” CEO or MIST - tries to defend his device to skeptics. It is not easy to do. There are many red flags and the so-called testing stinks. Now where have we heard that before ... ? He may or

Re: [Vo]: About the March test

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
I've been following the endless arguments about how the tests could have been rigged and it seems like every theory has been repeated over and over again but no one who claims it's a fraud seems to be willing to admit they just don't know even though they have no actual evidence of fraud and can't

Re: [Vo]:A partial list of skeptical objections to Levi et al. in Forbes

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
[mg] On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: I've been following the endless arguments about how the tests could have been rigged and it seems like every theory has been repeated over and over again . . . I have

Re: [Vo]: About the March test

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
I don't know if you ever looked at my fakes document (the lost post which never DID show up ...) Did you post that on Technobabble? I never saw anything like that ... only the two posts we discussed. [m]

Re: [Vo]:OT: Way out there! Simon Parks government officieal UFO /Alien encounters

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Gibbs
The mere appearance of being normal doesn't mean someone is normal. [mg] On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:27 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: It’s the weekend! Time for a brief break! ** ** For all those Vorts who might be interested in some OT far out

Re: [Vo]: About the March test

2013-06-23 Thread Mark Gibbs
If it can be agreed that the IR measurements were, to within some reasonable margin of error, accurately measuring output power then the only issue in dispute is how much input power was provided. If, and this obviously may not happen, Rossi were to allow another test and the only point at which

Re: [Vo]:MFMP cells in Europe and US now showing signs of excess heat

2013-06-26 Thread Mark Gibbs
Am I missing something here? Surely if the control cell is producing some small amount of energy from an LENR process due to contamination but it's less than that being produced by the experimental cell then while a baseline might be hard or even impossible to establish wouldn't a significant

Re: [Vo]:MFMP cells in Europe and US now showing signs of excess heat

2013-06-26 Thread Mark Gibbs
was not a reasonable explanation for the excess. -Mark I ** ** *From:* mark.gi...@gmail.com [mailto:mark.gi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark Gibbs *Sent:* Wednesday, June 26, 2013 4:31 PM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:MFMP cells in Europe and US now showing signs of excess heat

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