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

2012-09-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I've been looking through my personal archives. I declared on Wed Apr 22, 2009 02:07pm I'm changing my position from 'maybe' to 'yes'. and came across a Jed quote : Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Chemists taken in by Cold Fusion . . . AGAIN!

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

2012-09-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: The NRL recently repeated the Arata experiment several hundred times in a row with automated equipment, completely degassing the samples between runs. It worked every time. So I do not see why you say that nothing has changed. (Got a quick link to the

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

2012-09-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I found Miles at the 2010 ACS reporting 6/6 (Though for my purposes his $50 calorimeter got the press's attention).

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

2012-09-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 01:02 PM 9/25/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: They described a lot more about it at ICCF17. Kidwell finally agrees it is anomalous. Does Kidwell say so in a paper?

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

2012-09-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: They described a lot more about it at ICCF17. Kidwell finally agrees it is anomalous. Does Kidwell say so in a paper? As of a few weeks ago he had not yet turned in a paper for ICCF17. But that is what he and Dawn Dominguez said in their presentations.

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

2012-09-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:02 PM 9/25/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Alan J Fletcher mailto:a...@well.coma...@well.com wrote: The NRL recently repeated the Arata experiment several hundred times in a row with automated equipment, completely degassing the samples between runs. It worked every time. So I do not see why

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

2012-09-25 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:43 PM 9/25/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: Having David Kidwell to say anything unequivocally positive about cold fusion is the fourth miracle of cold fusion. The three previous miracles, brought to you by Huizenga, pale in comparison. The Coulomb barrier is nothing compared to the Kidwell

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

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

2012-09-20 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Alain, this order is bad in real lifen and the rejection of LENR is caused by that pseudo-rational pathology... I appreciate Your fight against pathoskepticism and partly agree. To converge on the issue, let me comment: in real life the inventors discover a phenomenon, try to make it

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

2012-09-20 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Well, Let me tell You: As an 'inventor' myself, not of the trivial Apple sort, the non-obviousness is in the eye of competent. My 'invention' was about an interferometer which is insensitive to five of six degrees of freedom. Not an easy task. BUT: it was completely within existing physical

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

2012-09-19 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
@eskimo.com Gesendet: 2:59 Mittwoch, 19.September 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability 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

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

2012-09-19 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability my five cents: a) aim at reproducibility, whatever the COP or power-level. b) produce a working hypothesis c) investigate 'ash' and side-effects: radiation, energy bursts, etc. d) repeat (a), (b), (c) until convergence a robust 'theory-experiment

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

2012-09-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Guenter Wildgruber gwildgru...@ymail.com mailto:gwildgru...@ymail.com wrote: And when SRI does this, it puts itself outside the scientific method of rigorous interpersonal replication. SRI and Godes are presently engaged in commercial RD, not rigorous fundamental scientific research.

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

2012-09-19 Thread Craig Haynie
On 09/19/2012 10:58 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: [...] This has nothing to do with me. I am not in charge of policy at the U.S. Patent Office. They are the source of the problem. The purpose of a patent is to promote progress in technology by sharing information while protecting intellectual

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

2012-09-19 Thread James Bowery
No. Patentability criteria are: Novel, non-obvious and useful. The utility of a patent does not exist if it doesn't actually work. On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.comwrote: I wonder why the Patent Office cares if the device actually works? The criteria

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

2012-09-19 Thread Teslaalset
pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Is this the first paper in which one group has reported100% success in multiple tests (over 150)? Yup, it may be. I do not recall seeing such a high success rate before. There may have been

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

2012-09-19 Thread Robert Dorr
Craig, I noticed several times in the cat patent, they mention invisible light. That's interesting, possibly an invalid patent, or possibly, one could patent one, using visible light. Bob On 09/19/2012 10:58 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: [...] This has nothing to do with me. I am not in

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

2012-09-19 Thread Craig Haynie
On 09/19/2012 11:44 AM, Robert Dorr wrote: Craig, I noticed several times in the cat patent, they mention invisible light. That's interesting, possibly an invalid patent, or possibly, one could patent one, using visible light. Bob I'm sure you've seen this. You take a laser pointer and

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

2012-09-19 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
this principle specifically to scientists ... Von: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 17:25 Mittwoch, 19.September 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability No.  Patentability criteria are:  Novel, non-obvious

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

2012-09-19 Thread Alain Sepeda
. Guenter --- *Von:* Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com *An:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Gesendet:* 2:59 Mittwoch, 19.September 2012 *Betreff:* Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability Godes probably wouldn't agree. Fwiw, he seems to be an advocate

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

2012-09-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery wrote: No. Patentability criteria are: Novel, non-obvious and useful. The utility of a patent does not exist if it doesn't actually work. Correct. I think useful means usable. That is, the invention does something, however trivial. It works. The purpose it is applied to may

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

2012-09-19 Thread mixent
In reply to Craig Haynie's message of Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:13:21 -0400: Hi, [snip] These are nonsense, and threaten the whole concept of intellectual property, whereas original, creative, labor intensive, design, is denied. ..now you understand the true purpose of the patent office! ;) Regards,

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Is this the first paper in which one group has reported100% success in multiple tests (over 150)? Yup, it may be. I do not recall seeing such a high success rate before. There may have been a few poorly documented reports of 100% success that I suspected

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 Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: If the Godes/McKubre system has 100% reproducibility why isn't it the poster child for CF/LENR?! Because it just happened. They only began this work 6 months or a year ago as I recall, and this is the first paper. The official collaboration with SRI just

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
By the way, those 150 tests were not conducted at SRI. SRI cannot yet officially put their seal of approval on them, although they do say they have confidence in the work. That's what McKubre told me. Tests of this system will soon begin at SRI. It is not shocking to me that something like this

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

2012-09-18 Thread fznidarsic
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Is this the first paper in which one group has reported100% success inmultiple tests (over 150)? Yup, it may be. I do not recall seeing such a high success rate before. There may have been a few

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

2012-09-18 Thread fznidarsic
]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: Is this the first paper in which one group has reported100% success inmultiple tests (over 150)? Yup, it may be. I do not recall seeing such a high success rate before. There may have been a few poorly documented

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

2012-09-18 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
will go a long way to achieving what you ask. -Mark Iverson From: mark.gi...@gmail.com [mailto:mark.gi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark Gibbs Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:20 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability If the Godes/McKubre system has

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

2012-09-18 Thread Mark Gibbs
Iverson ** ** *From:* mark.gi...@gmail.com [mailto:mark.gi...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Mark Gibbs *Sent:* Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:20 AM *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability ** ** If the Godes/McKubre system has 100

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: How disappointing. Once again, it looks like yet more jam tomorrow. It takes a long time to do research. Months and months to set up an experiment. You have to live with that. It is like building a house with 2 or 3 people, or writing a million-line computer

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

2012-09-18 Thread Axil Axil
In order to be commercially viable, the Godes reactor must move to a high temperature hydrogen gas phase reactor. If enough RD funding is available to do this, why go public. A few months ago, Godes went public when he needed more RD funds. This strategy worked and he got the additional funding

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

2012-09-18 Thread David Roberson
. Dave -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 5:07 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability Mark Gibbs mgi...@gibbs.com wrote: If the Godes/McKubre system has 100% reproducibility why isn't

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: If you had any idea how difficult it is, you would be amazed at how quickly they do it, and how much progress they have made. . . . Setting up and running an experiment is painstaking, time consuming work. You can see what I mean in these photos of Celani's demonstration

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

2012-09-18 Thread Ruby
Mark, I did this QA with Robert Godes July a year ago. I had already spoke with him one-on-one in an interview I could not publish about early January 2011 (before the Rossi demo). Though the electrolytic cell generated a small COP, he had 100% reproducibility then, turning on and off

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

2012-09-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Ruby r...@hush.com wrote: *One possible private donor seeking a technical evaluation was informed by a **National Science Foundation** member (whose review entailed “a quick scan” of the Brillouin Energy website) that it was “quite possible they had created the ‘instant death’ version of

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 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]:Godes/McKubre 100% reproducability

2012-09-18 Thread Ruby
Yes, that's what they meant; the idea being, if it was really fusion, there would be deadly radiation that would have killed everyone around. In addition, if it /were/ to be true, in the hands of the wrong people could be dangerous for our planet. My next paragraph in the article was:

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