RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-23 Thread JonesBeene
Well - I would suggest writing to ZG directly - to ask what catalyst Norront now favors… However, I have heard that he is not responsive to questions which involve trade secrets. Which stands to reason – after all they do plan to go to market with a commercial product. From: Teslaalset I

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-23 Thread Teslaalset
I watched his presentation via YouTube, but it was not mentioned there (including the questions part). On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 2:06 PM JonesBeene wrote: > Check Zeiner-Gundersen’s presentation at ICCF-21. Not sure but it could > have come out in later questioning. > > > > > > *From: *Teslaalset

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-23 Thread JonesBeene
Check Zeiner-Gundersen’s presentation at ICCF-21. Not sure but it could have come out in later questioning. From: Teslaalset "In fact, it is now becoming evident what Sindre Zeiner-Gundersen may have meant when he said that they are no longer using the Shell catalyst (iron oxide) of Holmlid

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-23 Thread Teslaalset
"In fact, it is now becoming evident what Sindre Zeiner-Gundersen may have meant when he said that they are no longer using the Shell catalyst (iron oxide) of Holmlid but have made an improvement." What is the source of this statement? On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 5:00 PM JonesBeene wrote: > Here

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > It increases the output/input ratio (COP) simply because it takes less > electric power to heat the inside to the same temperature. > That has no scientific significance. I just thought I should add it to the list.

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: If the main function of the Mizuno heater wire (very thin resistance wire) > was merely to raise the gas temperature of the reactor – then an external > heater could do the same. > Note that he did use an external heater before, and it worked, but nowhere near as well. Perhaps

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > I asked Mizuno what sort of sheath heater he uses. He uses a 500 W model, > such as the Flexible heater "M2 type micro heater" available at this > website: > By the way, the 500 W version is 2 m long. I don't know how he folded it to fit it into the cell. I asked him. 500 W:

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
H LV wrote: Commercial for Kyukyuto. > > https://youtu.be/W4rOA20hZvw > I love it!

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread H LV
Commercial for Kyukyuto. https://youtu.be/W4rOA20hZvw Harry On Wed., Jun. 19, 2019, 8:49 p.m. Jed Rothwell, wrote: > > > By the way, the name of that detergent is cute. It is Kyukyuto which is > the sound clean wet dishes make when you wife them. Kyu! Kyu! Literally and > figuratively cute. >

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread JonesBeene
If the main function of the Mizuno heater wire (very thin resistance wire) was merely to raise the gas temperature of the reactor – then an external heater could do the same. However, if the more important function of the heater wire is to provide a IR light source for plasmon/polariton

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread JonesBeene
Here is a further comment about the Mizuno heater and its possible non-obvious functionality. Think of the heater as a IR light source. The heat is actually not the purpose so much as the photons, which may be close to coherency at the best setting. IOW the “heater” may server the same

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-22 Thread Jed Rothwell
I asked Mizuno what sort of sheath heater he uses. He uses a 500 W model, such as the Flexible heater "M2 type micro heater" available at this website: https://www.monotaro.com/g/03032749/ He says they are all pretty much the same, so he goes by price. I would add that it has to withstand high

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-20 Thread Brian Ahern
: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat I wrote: By the way, the name of that detergent is cute. It is Kyukyuto which is the sound clean wet dishes make when you wife them. Kyu! Kyu! WIPE them. Not wife. That has to be some kind of Freudian slip. Ahem, let's keep this here, shall we? What

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > By the way, the name of that detergent is cute. It is Kyukyuto which is > the sound clean wet dishes make when you wife them. Kyu! Kyu! > WIPE them. Not wife. That has to be some kind of Freudian slip. Ahem, let's keep this here, shall we? What happens in Vortex stays in Vortex. I

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: He probably needs to include more data. > There is lots more data in the first paper.

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
H LV wrote: In your paper you describe a certain brand of orange scented detergent. Do > you think a successful replication requires it? Harry > See p. 18: It is not clear whether the choice of detergent or the type of plastic in the scrubbing brush has an effect on the outcome of this

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jack Cole
> > It is a normal heating curve! It is a calibration. It looks pretty bumpy > to me. That's ambient temp fluctuations, I think. Not so. I used the data from his active run to create that chart. He re-calibrates everything, every time he puts reactors into the box and > seals it up. He does

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread H LV
In your paper you describe a certain brand of orange scented detergent. Do you think a successful replication requires it? Harry On Wed., Jun. 19, 2019, 8:23 p.m. Jed Rothwell, wrote: > Axil Axil wrote: > > >> This replication method goes without saying. But what is the plan for >> continuing

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Franck Lefebure
Hi (I've been lurking VortexL since a long time and this is my first contribution - sorry for my poor frenglish) IMO Mizuno is one of the most interesting case in the field of lenr/CF. Much more solid than people like Rossi for example. I wonder why Google CF team doesn't integrate him or try to

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: > This replication method goes without saying. But what is the plan for > continuing improvement of this type of reactor? > Here is my plan. First we get a few people to replicate. Then a few more, say 10. They tell others and 20 more replicate. Then 50 more, then a chain

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: It's not really clear to me whether he re-calibrated everything with the > new reactor. > He re-calibrates everything, every time he puts reactors into the box and seals it up. He does the procedures graphed in the Calorimetry section of the new paper. The traverse test and so

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: This experiment is so similar to what has been done before over 30 years – > what is the one detail which makes it so much more robust? > Mizuno has some ideas about that which I hope to translate and put in a new paper soon. Ed Storms thinks it is the Pd mechanically bound

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
Many thanks to Jed. His long connection to Mizuno is valuable for sharing research with others. Bob Cook From: bobcook39...@hotmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:38:26 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat My

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat Here is a bit of a shocker if you haven’t been following this breaking news closely. The connection of Mizuno to the Holmlid UDD (ultra dense deuterium) phenomenon may be closer than most observers are aware. Late last

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jack Cole
It's not really clear to me whether he re-calibrated everything with the new reactor. In the first set of experiments (first paper), he had two reactors and would switch between them. The second set, he only shows a 50W calibration and 0W. I graphed input power by reactor temp, and it looks

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is some more info. from the invoice for the nickel meshes, from Inada Kanaami, Inc. It says: ニッケル200 綾織金網 0.055X180mesh 200X300 5枚 Let me insert commas. That means: Nickel 200, twill wire mesh, 0.055 x 180 mesh, 200 x 300, 5 sheets Nickel-200 is 99.6% nickel. It is described here:

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread bobcook39...@hotmail.com
ect: RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat Robin, Another looming possibility is that only sparse nuclear fusion reactions are happening but most of the thermal gain comes from BEC dominated processes where mass is converted into energy in such a way that the thermal gain is more t

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread JonesBeene
Here is a bit of a shocker if you haven’t been following this breaking news closely. The connection of Mizuno to the Holmlid UDD (ultra dense deuterium) phenomenon may be closer than most observers are aware. Late last year – after the earthquake – Mizuno supplied a test reactor to Sindre

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread JonesBeene
Robin, Another looming possibility is that only sparse nuclear fusion reactions are happening but most of the thermal gain comes from BEC dominated processes where mass is converted into energy in such a way that the thermal gain is more than chemical but less than fusion. Most likely the

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
I made some minor changes to the paper and uploaded a new version. Biggest change, p. 12: Rubbing is done with a palladium rod, 100 mm long, diameter 5.0 mm, 99.95% purity. Before rubbing the mesh, weight it with a precision scale. Then vigorously rub the entire surface, left and right and up and

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
I have always thought it important to be isotopically pure when it came to the material that is active and participate in the LENR reaction because of quantum mechanical issues. The reason why deuterium is functional in the R20 reactor may be because it is isotopically pure. Protium might work as

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread mixent
Hi, Should separation distance between metals prove to be important, then a very small separation between two metal sheets can be obtained by etching a honeycomb pattern into fine gold leaf, and using it to separate the two target metal sheets. This could allow gas pressures as high as 17 atm.

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread mixent
Hi, Observation:- When Hydrino formation energy is used to clone more Hydrinos of the same size, the maximum energy gain is a factor of about 6. This is pretty close to what Mizuno is getting. I wonder if he tried Hydrogen vs. Deuterium, and if the result was different? (BTW cloning depends on

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:50:45 -0400: Hi, [snip] >This lack of dense deuterium loading speaks against the old fusion meme, >doesn't it? The working gas pressure is .003 bar. At that pressure the MFP ~= 0.2 mm. Maybe the separation distance between Pd cladding and

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > But, in this system, when you load the Ni high, that reduces or prevents > adsorption into the Ni surface . . . > Onto, not into. People have asked some good questions. I will update the paper to answer them. Such as: Q: How long should I rub the mesh? A: Until the weight

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: This lack of dense deuterium loading speaks against the old fusion meme, > doesn't it? The working gas pressure is .003 bar. > Yup. Mizuno's opinion is that to generate cold fusion in pure Ni, you need to load it as high as possible. But, in this system, when you load the Ni

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
This lack of dense deuterium loading speaks against the old fusion meme, doesn't it? The working gas pressure is .003 bar. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 7:40 PM JonesBeene wrote: > Here is another question for Jed – probably factually unanswerable but > informed opinion will suffice. > > > > This

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
This replication method goes without saying. But what is the plan for continuing improvement of this type of reactor? On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 7:29 PM Jed Rothwell wrote: > Axil Axil wrote: > > I would like to suggest and experimental modification as follows: . . . >> > > I would like to

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread JonesBeene
Here is another question for Jed – probably factually unanswerable but informed opinion will suffice. This experiment is so similar to what has been done before over 30 years – what is the one detail which makes it so much more robust? On the basis of a few reads – it looks to me like the one

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: I would like to suggest and experimental modification as follows: . . . > I would like to suggest that before you make ANY modifications, no matter how slight, you should first do it exactly the way we told you to. Then, if it works, go ahead and modify it to your heart's

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Axil Axil
I would like to suggest and experimental modification as follows: Instead of using an internal sheath heater, generate heat by applying a high frequency square wave alternating current directly to the nickel mesh. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 6:15 PM Jed Rothwell wrote: > wrote: > > >> A molten

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread JonesBeene
… that’s good, Robin. Even better would be na organic Rankine cycle (ORC) to convert the modest temperature gain in the warm fluid into electrical power. Forget calorimetry when you have enough COP for self-power which is the present claim. Nothing proves “net gain” like “self-powering” …

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > A molten salt coolant in a flow calorimeter with an inlet temperature of > e.g. > 300 C and an outlet temperature of 300+ C, would allow both accurate > measurement > and high power operation concurrently. The whole should be well insulated > to > ensure low losses. > That would hold

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:13:26 -0400: Hi, [snip] >We recommend air-flow calorimetry for this experiment. The reactor walls >must be hot for this reaction to occur. In previous experiments we used >water-flow calorimeters with cooling coils up against the reactor

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread JonesBeene
Of course the major assumption will be that this is typical “cold fusion” – should it be duplicated. But is there more to it than the normal P effect? Definitely there could be more since this is neither electrolysis nor glow discharge. It is worth noting that in some ways the mechanism of low

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jed Rothwell wrote: > I think it is important that the calorimeter not cool the outside wall of > the reactor much more than this air-flow calorimeter does. I think that > would interfere with the reaction, or prevent it. That was a problem with > Mizuno's earlier calorimeter, as we described

Re: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread Jed Rothwell
JonesBeene wrote: > Why not put the reactor in a water bath and confirm the excess heat that > way? … or water flow. > I think a water bath would kill the heat. As we wrote in the paper: We recommend air-flow calorimetry for this experiment. The reactor walls must be hot for this reaction to

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread JonesBeene
Jed, Quick question. Why not put the reactor in a water bath and confirm the excess heat that way? … or water flow. Few observers are going to be satisfied with air flow alone. Does high heat transfer quench the effect? Jones From: Jed Rothwell …Tadahiko Mizuno will report increased

RE: [Vo]:Mizuno reports increased excess heat

2019-06-18 Thread JonesBeene
From: Jed Rothwell …Tadahiko Mizuno will report increased excess heat with nickel mesh coated with palladium. The results are dramatic, so we decided to upload a preprint of his paper. Wow ! This could be huge if it can be replicated – finally an experiment with high COP at the kilowatt