[Vo]:Rossi's E-Cat: modulable output or not?

2011-03-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, Have a look here: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360&cpage=11#comment-27734 [...] Is it easy to adjust the output power of that unit or is it just “on” or “off” 10 kW? # Andrea Rossi March 14th, 2011 at 2:16 PM Dear Mr Mats Heijkenskjold: Yes, you can adjust it,

[Vo]:More questions to Rossi from Ny Teknik

2011-03-18 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, Have a look here: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3126617.ece Many interesting additional questions from Ny Teknik readers have been recently answered by Rossi, regarding his E-cat. Cheers, S.A.

Re: [Vo]:CERN Researchers and Focardi Rossi Cold Fusion Cell

2011-03-19 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-03-19 20:04, Jed Rothwell wrote: Rossi tells IE, “We are making a thorough series of tests with the University of Bologna, which will be 12 months long with a reactor in operation 24 hours per day. During this year we will make a long theory of measurements and tests, also in collaborat

Re: [Vo]:Rossi radio interview

2011-03-29 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-03-29 15:56, Jed Rothwell wrote: Steve Krivit's Rossi Portal has two new items. A short article and audio interview from a radio station: http://radio.rcdc.it/archives/energia-ad-ottobre-parte-la-prima-centrale-a-fusione-fredda-73932/ And a transcript from that broadcast audio track: h

Re: [Vo]:OT: google trends

2011-03-29 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-03-30 03:38, Harry Veeder wrote: The decline in cold fusion google searches has leveled off... http://tinyurl.com/64dqn7d I've been keeping track of that too. This query is interesting as well, it shows that interest about Rossi's E-Cat is not short lived, actually it's quite steady

[Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: “It’s a nuclear reaction” / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, A detailed and quite long (even too much to post here completely) english article on Rossi's Energy Catalyzer has been posted today on Ny Teknik. Here's its summary: "In a detailed report, two Swedish physicists exclude chemical reactions as the energy source in the Italian ‘ene

[Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: “It’s a nuclear reaction” / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 13:51, Terry Blanton wrote: Ah! Piccys of naked ECats! In the technical report itself there are even more pictures of them: http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3144960.ece/BINARY/Download+the+report+by+Kullander+and+Ess%C3%A9n+%28pdf%29. http://tinyurl.com/68wqoyy Cheers, S

[Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, A *very* interesting (revealing many previously unknown details, to tell the truth I'm not sure if he was supposed to disclose them all) three-part audio interview in italian to Sergio Focardi by a local web radio has been submitted here: http://radio.rcdc.it/archives/sergio-foc

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 18:58, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Maybe something got lost in the translation here, but find it surprising that Focardi apparently doesn't know the composition of the catalyzer used in Rossi's reactor. Are we to assume Rossi hasn't told him? I'm quite sure Focardi told

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 19:10, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: Really! Does he say why he doesn't want to know? The only speculation that makes any sense to me might be for personal safety reasons. He doesn't, and I don't think he seriously means that either, but maybe he simply doesn't want to j

Re: [Vo]:How small Rossi devices might be ganged together

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 22:06, Jed Rothwell wrote: A few weeks ago I mentioned that I think ganging together many small Rossi devices will call for some complicated engineering. Perhaps it will slow down the development of the 1 MW reactor. I'm sure that 100 units can be coordinated but it may take a team

Re: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: "It's a nuclear reaction" / The used powder contains ten percent copper

2011-04-06 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 23:01, Alan J Fletcher wrote: &prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vof.se%2Findex.php Seems new to me. Proper link to the relevant bit: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vof.se%2Faktuellt.php%23notis472

Re: [Vo]:Ongoing Rossi Blog stuff

2011-04-08 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-05 20:51, Alan J Fletcher wrote: Rossi continues to answer and/or avoid answering questions. I find this of interest too: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473 "[...] The walls of the reactor are made of stainless steel, copper free. Yes, I have understood why scaling

Re: [Vo]:Are you falling for it?

2011-04-08 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-08 14:03, Terry Blanton wrote: energy. All they suffered was heartbreak. Then comes the final tragedy: the professor has contracted a terminal disease. It may sound like a joke, but Focardi did really contract cancer several years ago. He has recovered from it completely, howeve

Re: [Vo]:Rossi says "we have signed a contract"

2011-04-08 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-08 23:20, Jed Rothwell wrote: On April 8, Rossi wrote in his blog: ". . . yesterday we signed a very important contract in the USA." [...] On March 23rd he wrote this: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360&cpage=12 "[...] Also in the USA we are making tests with an extre

Re: [Vo]:Rossi says "we have signed a contract"

2011-04-08 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-09 00:40, Jed Rothwell wrote: I do not think so. I believe I know Rossi well enough to say that the scattered and poorly organized nature of his web site is not intentional. He is not the blog webmaster. He did not develop it. So we can't blame the structure on him. But he does not s

[Vo]:Sven Kullander's additional comments on Rossi's Energy Catalyzer

2011-04-09 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, I just found this in the comments section in the Swedish edition of Ny Teknik's last article on Rossi's Energy Catalyzer (by the way, lots of information and interesting insights can be found there!): http://aleklett.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/rossis-energikatalysator-–-en-stor-blu

Re: [Vo]:Sven Kullander's additional comments on Rossi's Energy Catalyzer

2011-04-09 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-09 12:51, Göran Crafte wrote: [...] google-translation of the Swedish text that "There are many scientists who criticise Sven that he even has sexual relations with the experiment"! The Swedish word which is used in the text is "beblanda" which should be translated to "mix with" or "in

Re: [Vo]:Rossi says "we have signed a contract"

2011-04-09 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-08 23:20, Jed Rothwell wrote: On April 8, Rossi wrote in his blog: ". . . yesterday we signed a very important contract in the USA." More info: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473 * * * Dr Rossi, Are you able to tell us any more regarding the nature of the contract

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi interviewed (not yet in english!)

2011-04-09 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-06 18:51, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Hello group, A *very* interesting (revealing many previously unknown details, to tell the truth I'm not sure if he was supposed to disclose them all) three-part audio interview in italian to Sergio Focardi by a local web radio has been submitted

Re: [Vo]:Rossi says "we have signed a contract"

2011-04-09 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-09 17:37, Jed Rothwell wrote: Ah. Now he says he will not be able to announce the identity of the customer for "months." More related info. It looks like we'll have to wait until October, after all: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360&cpage=14#comments * * * 1) You

Re: [Vo]:E-cat facebook page

2011-04-10 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-10 19:11, Jed Rothwell wrote: http://www.facebook.com/EnergyCatalyzer I have never looked at a Facebook page before. It seems chaotic, no better than Rossi's blog. What is it with modern programmers that they cannot organize and categorize information? I think they depend too much on

Re: Fwd: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat CATALYST Speculation Thread

2011-04-11 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-11 23:04, Axil Axil wrote: -- Forwarded message -- [...] This is an extremely interesting, well thought post; you're definitely onto something. Iron oxide (=rust) would also be quite cheap to add to nickel power which is consistent to what we've read so far on char

Re: Fwd: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat CATALYST Speculation Thread

2011-04-11 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-11 23:57, Axil Axil wrote: The following speculation is offered as a springboard for discussion as regards to the chemical and physical processes that underlie the Rossi reactor. This is another attempt to connect the dots. " I haven't seen that part appear here. Should I sent it a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi addresses Ni enrichment issue

2011-04-12 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-12 16:25, Jed Rothwell wrote: As I said to Jones Beene, Rossi is often secretive. You might say he is openly secretive, meaning he makes no bones about the fact that he is hiding information. That is partly what he did in his response to me, below. By the way, I'm under the impressio

Re: [Vo]:What Rossi Says list

2011-04-13 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-13 23:00, Jed Rothwell wrote: This was formerly titled What We Know from Rossi. It is a list of major assertions made by Rossi and others, mainly Rossi in his blog You made me remember that a few weeks ago I started writing down (or more like, copy/pasting) a list of questions answe

Re: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat CATALYST Speculation Thread

2011-04-13 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-13 23:25, Jed Rothwell wrote: I do not understand what this means. Someone should please rewrite "works in a homogeneous phase with nickel powder." Does that mean the powder is homogeneous? What is a "homogeneous phase"? Maybe he meant this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous

Re: [Vo]:What Rossi Says list

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-14 01:16, Jed Rothwell wrote: [...] We could organize this info in a Wiki, with categories: Materials, Operation method, Performance characteristics . . . [...] This is a good idea and I was thinking exactly about it yesterday when I sent that list to the group. The end result shou

Re: [Vo]:Rossi addresses Ni enrichment issue

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-12 17:00, Jed Rothwell wrote: I do not think he is more unwilling than usual. Sorry for replying here only now. The reason behind what I've written is that I'm noticing as time passes that the amount of "Can't answer" and "Already answered" answers on his blog has been increasing

[Vo]:Hanno Essén: "follow up experiment next week"

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, In answer to a question from a concerned person regarding water flow measurements during the last Rossi E-cat test/demonstration, Hanno Essén added, perhaps unconsciously, that there will be a follow-up experiment next week. Here's the original email as posted by him on an italian

Re: [Vo]:Hanno Essén: "follow up experiment next week"

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-14 21:33, noone noone wrote: What forum was this on? This one: http://www.energeticambiente.it/fusione-fredda-e-trasmutazioni-nucleari-bassa-energia/ There are a few regularly updated threads scattered around there about Rossi's E-Cat. Cheers, S.A.

Re: [Vo]:take a look to 22passi...

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-14 22:02, Peter Gluck wrote: interesting anti E-cat at Daniele's blog.. Here's a link to his blog (in Italian) for the clueless: http://22passi.blogspot.com/ By the way, I've read much worse things (mean, irrational, plain ignorant, etc) around from people discrediting Rossi's wor

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Hanno Essén: "follow up experiment next week"

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-14 22:16, noone noone wrote: I found it! Mind if I post the link? It's a public website after all, go ahead. Cheers, S.A.

[Vo]:Sergio Focardi, the father of “Ni-H Cold-Fusion" [English translation]

2011-04-14 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, A human translation in English of the interview to Sergio Focardi linked here several days ago has been posted on Daniele Passerini's "22passi" blog: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/04/sergio-focardi-father-of-ni-h-cold.html By request of the original interviewers and because th

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi, the father of “Ni-H Cold-Fusion" [English translation]

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 03:01, Jed Rothwell wrote: I assume this part is accurately translated: "So there were two parallel lines of research: on one side, the deuterium and palladium people, who never got anything . . ."[...] Yes, it is. Several people on discussion boards I read on the matter have cr

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi, the father of “Ni-H Cold-Fusion" [English translation]

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 16:04, Jed Rothwell wrote: But Peter Gluck wrote: ". . . one word is missing: 'technological.'" What do you mean by "missing word"? Did Focardi say this and it is missing from the translation? Or did he fail to say this and he should have? He didn't say that in the interview and

Re: [Vo]:Sergio Focardi, the father of “Ni-H Cold-Fusion" [English translation]

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 21:07, Jed Rothwell wrote: I am surprised no one else has picked up on this. This part of the Focardi interview is likely to put the President of Greece and the Min. of Energy in the hot seat: [...] Does it? Personally when I heard that in the original audio I assumed what Focard

Re: [Vo]:Notes on Rossi device

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 23:46, Jed Rothwell wrote: NOTES ON ROSSI DEVICE [...] Good job! I'll try collecting other questions/answers from various posts in Rossi's blog. I'll post them in this thread unsorted. By the way, I think the question/answer date is important and should not be taken out of con

Re: [Vo]:Notes on Rossi device

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 23:46, Jed Rothwell wrote: The 1 MW (thermal) device will be made of many smaller ones ganged together. It was originally planned to be made up of ~130 10 kW units, where 30 were held in standby to replace or augment older ones as the power decreased. They now plan to use ~300 unit

Re: [Vo]:Notes on Rossi device

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 23:46, Jed Rothwell wrote: The effect can be quenched with the following methods: [...] Inject N to displace the H. Recently he added: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=64 * * * 2. I’ve read that you once had to stop the machine by insufflating nitrogen and that t

Re: [Vo]:Notes on Rossi device

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-16 00:37, Jed Rothwell wrote: This was either a misunderstanding or he has retracted it. It is not important. The purpose of the list is to present an up-to-date description of what Rossi now thinks, not to hold him to previous statements or find out how often he has changed his mind.

Re: [Vo]:Notes on Rossi device

2011-04-15 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-16 01:36, Jones Beene wrote: Yes. Do not delete this ! It is important. Add this one to the growing 'contradictions' list, because I am sure that at one time he said he can operate the device for a period of time with no electrical input. How can it then be possible to shut down auto

Re: [Vo]:Notes on Rossi device

2011-04-16 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-15 23:46, Jed Rothwell wrote: [...] You could also add this important piece of information: * * * http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360&cpage=16#comment-0 Is it in general possible to regulate the power output of the E-cat in a continous way and if yes in what limits

Re: [Vo]:Rai News 24 "the inquiry" on LENR

2011-04-17 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-17 07:13, Peter Gluck wrote: Grazie. a Vi prego- la seconda parte? It was very well organized and had logical fluency... Part 1: http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/canale-tv.php?id=22918 Part 2: http://www.rainews24.rai.it/it/canale-tv.php?id=22919 Cheers, S.A.

Re: [Vo]:Rai News 24 "the inquiry" on LENR

2011-04-17 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-17 15:15, Jed Rothwell wrote: Is there no mention of Rossi? That's ungracious. He is the reason they have gained credibility with the public, and they are being interviewed on TV. There was absolutely no mention of him, but from what I've read around it appears this was due to an a

Re: [Vo]:Strange position of heater in mini-Rossi device

2011-04-21 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-21 21:37, Jed Rothwell wrote: [...] I do not know what to make of it. Maybe I'm looking too much into it, but I often wonder if the name "Energy Catalyzer" chosen by Rossi isn't itself a hint regarding the internal reactor construction. Given that his English language skill isn't

Re: [Vo]:Strange position of heater in mini-Rossi device

2011-04-21 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
On 2011-04-21 22:49, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: The exterior copper pipe lining/jacket which encases the external reactor "torus" wall might assist in the transfer of reactor heat to the adjacent flowing water. If the reactor "torus" had been built entirely outside of the copper tubing

[Vo]:A.Rossi interview from 22passi blog - english translation

2011-01-28 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Original link: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/01/energy-catalyzer-funziona-e-non-e.html This is my human translation. Enjoy! == Energy catalyzer: It works and it's not cold fusion Interview to Eng. Andrea Rossi 22PASSI. Good day Eng. Rossi, I thank you for accepting this intervie

[Vo]:February 13th A. Rossi interview from "22passi" blog

2011-02-16 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello group, Daniele Passerini from "22passi" blog interviewed again Andrea Rossi on February 13th. This is the original link: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2011/02/energy-catalyzer-facciamo-un-po-di.html And this is an English translation courtesy of PESN, edited by Hank Mills from a Google tr