RE: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Catania, ... As I've said before I think thermal inertia neatly explains it all. I don't know of anyone who was not disappointed in the abrupt ending of the experiment, after input power had been turned off. Yeah, yeah, I know, they tell us it was late in the evening and they needed their

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-18 Thread Joe Catania
Subject: RE: [Vo]:The September E-Cat From Catania, ... As I've said before I think thermal inertia neatly explains it all. I don't know of anyone who was not disappointed in the abrupt ending of the experiment, after input power had been turned off. Yeah, yeah, I know, they tell us

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 18.09.2011 17:25, schrieb OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson: From Catania, ... As I've said before I think thermal inertia neatly explains it all. I don't know of anyone who was not disappointed in the abrupt ending of the experiment, after input power had been turned off. Yeah, yeah,

RE: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
From Catania: ... The write-up that Lewan gives shoes his lack of general physics knowledge and that he is most likely a paid biased spokesperson. That is your speculation. However, since you seem convinced of such speculation, how do you plan on going about convincing... let me rephrase

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 18.09.2011 19:03, schrieb OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson: From Peter: ... Also it shows us, the experiment still cannot run unattended. As far as speculation goes, I find myself in sympathy with such speculation. What I find interesting about such speculation is that it suggests to me

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 18.09.2011 19:26, schrieb Peter Heckert: Yes, Rossi repeatedly said selfsustained mode is unstable it can runaway. Therefore now he runs it selfsustained only for 50% of time now. Thats what he says. He must have done experiments for this. He has Labview on his computer. So I would think he

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-17 Thread Joe Catania
Subject: Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat On Sep 15, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: [snip] As metal content of the E-Cat is at the same temperature as water content, This is an assumption with no (apparent) foundation. All 80 kg of E- at will not be at the water temperature. If the new E

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: 2011/9/15 Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: The claims made for months that all the water was being converted to steam has been utterly crushed! Krivit was clearly right on his seven points. True, but his seven points had nothing

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: More importantly, the claim that all the water was being converted to steam, the repeated, defended, and heralded basis for thinking something practical has been created, the basis for the calorimetry of the public demos, is now shown to be

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Joe Catania
-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: More importantly, the claim that all the water was being converted to steam, the repeated, defended, and heralded basis for thinking something

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Rich Murray
You can lead a mule to a barrel full of hot water from an Ecat, but you can't make him think... Well, actually, having just ragged the Pros here, I owe them an apology, as they offer politely and clearly expressed views in this forthright, fair debate in dialogue with the convincing comments of

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat Volume

2011-09-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 08:25 AM 9/15/2011, Joe Catania wrote: There would appear to be from 17 to 20L of water stored in the E-Cat. Rossi said the reactor volume is 30L -- but this includes space for water and for steam. Taking the time from when the pump was started to when overflow started -- 1.77 hrs x The

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-09-15 10:49 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net mailto:hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: More importantly, the claim that all the water was being converted to steam, the repeated, defended, and heralded basis for thinking something practical has been

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Sorry -- I'm afraid I crossed over the line in my previous post into sneering. The truth is I feel kind of bitter about this whole thing. Ever since I put together what I knew about the early results with the statements made by Rossi, Levi, and Galantini it's been obvious to me that

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Daniel Rocha
WTH?!?! http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/09/15/collected-comments-on-sept-7-afternoon-rossi-test/ Krivit posted an Horace's post without the context, that is, Jouni's post and answer to that! It looks like Krivit is trying to smear someone he disagrees with an aggression! That's unethical!

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: And we know the probe came out dry because Galantini said so. Right? Yes, of course. It is very easy for a person to observe that a probe is wet or dry. A small child could do this. Galantini, the man who claimed to have tested the steam and

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 10:45 AM 9/15/2011, Daniel Rocha wrote: WTH?!?! http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2011/09/15/collected-comments-on-sept-7-afternoon-rossi-test/ Krivit posted an Horace's post without the context, that is, Jouni's post and answer to that! It looks like Krivit is trying to smear someone he

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-09-15 01:49 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: I would get testy if people addressed me the way they have addressed him. Also, if I were Levi I would have tossed Krivit... I wasn't talking about the Krivit interview, which I

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat Volume

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alan J Fletcher a...@well.com wrote: There would appear to be from 17 to 20L of water stored in the E-Cat. Rossi said the reactor volume is 30L -- but this includes space for water and for steam. I asked Lewan about this. He said: The volume of the cell was at least 22.5 liters, as shown

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: ** Sorry -- I'm afraid I crossed over the line in my previous post into sneering. The truth is I feel kind of bitter about this whole thing. Don't fret about it. Forget it. Ever since I put together what I knew about the early results with the

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: I would get testy if people addressed me the way they have addressed him. Also, if I were Levi I would have tossed Krivit... I wasn't talking about the Krivit interview, which I haven't read. I was thinking in particular of a response from

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-09-15 02:15 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: Sorry -- I'm afraid I crossed over the line in my previous post into sneering. The truth is I feel kind of bitter about this whole thing. Don't fret about it. Forget it.

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-09-15 02:23 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: I would get testy if people addressed me the way they have addressed him. Also, if I were Levi I would have tossed Krivit... I wasn't talking about the Krivit

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: But my opinion is the only one I've got, so naturally, I believe it. You have no choice. Belief is not voluntary. A person cannot persuade himself that 2+2 does not equal 4. That is the problem with some arguments in favor of religion such as Pascal's

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: My concern is actually rather different. My concern is that I suspect he knows perfectly well what the flaws were in his analysis, and realizes that the steam wasn't dry. And that, in turn, leads me to question any testimony from Galantini. You

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 15.09.2011 21:02, schrieb Jed Rothwell: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: My concern is actually rather different. My concern is that I suspect he knows perfectly well what the flaws were in his analysis, and realizes that the steam wasn't dry.

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 11-09-15 03:02 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com mailto:sa...@pobox.com wrote: My concern is actually rather different. My concern is that I suspect he knows perfectly well what the flaws were in his analysis, and realizes that the steam wasn't dry.

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Joe Catania wrote: There would appear to be from 17 to 20L of water stored in the E-Cat. It takes ~5MJ to heat 17L of water from 30C to 100C. So it would appear that there are 25MJ stored elsewhere at this point. Stored somewhere, you say. Where? The metal? There are 80 kg of metal, mainly

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 15, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: More importantly, the claim that all the water was being converted to steam, the repeated, defended, and heralded basis for thinking something practical has been created, the basis for the

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 15.09.2011 21:31, schrieb Jed Rothwell: If as you say the heat does not balance no doubt that is because the machine radiates a great deal and this is not accounted for. The machine is insulated but no insulation is perfect. The insulation is more perfect than this insulation that I have

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner wrote: As I showed numerically, it was not reasonable that no water was ejected in the prior demonstration tests unless the tests were run at precisely the right input power (from electric plus LENR) at all times to just boil all the water yet not raise the steam temperature.

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 15, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: But my opinion is the only one I've got, so naturally, I believe it. You have no choice. Belief is not voluntary. A person cannot persuade himself that 2+2 does not equal 4. That is the problem

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/15 Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: This would have been far superior to doing nothing.   Better to insulate the barrel.  Also, better to run the output through a heat exchanger first and do flow calorimetry on the cooling water, and isoperibolic calorimetry on the cooling water

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Horace Heffner wrote: As I showed numerically, it was not reasonable that no water was ejected in the prior demonstration tests unless the tests were run at precisely the right input power (from electric plus LENR) at all times to just

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
I must say that there is significant amount of metallic thermal inertia, what is perhaps mostly in the thick metal boiler that can withstand the steam pressures of several megapascals. 25 kg water contains the most of the thermal mass, but in both respect this type of E-Cat is different to others

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Horace Heffner wrote: This would have been far superior to doing nothing.   Better to insulate the barrel. On Sep 15, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: That is not necessary. Just use a lot of water and keep the test limited to around 5 min. As long as the overall water temperature

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 15, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: [snip] As metal content of the E-Cat is at the same temperature as water content, This is an assumption with no (apparent) foundation. All 80 kg of E- at will not be at the water temperature. If the new E-cat is heated by a band heater,

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-15 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/16 Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com: But as I have previously estimated that 60-80% of inlet water was needed to vaporize in the temperatures above 123 to explain over 100 kPa steam pressure, therefore proper estimation for required excess energy during 35 minutes self-sustaining

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-14 Thread Horace Heffner
The following post seems to be utterly out of touch with reality, a total fantasy. It is shocking to read. I don't know whether to respond or not. The claims made for months that all the water was being converted to steam has been utterly crushed! Krivit was clearly right on his seven

Re: [Vo]:The September E-Cat

2011-09-14 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/15 Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: The claims made for months that all the water was being converted to steam has been utterly crushed! Krivit was clearly right on his seven points. True, but his seven points had nothing to do with Rossi, but it was all to do with Levi and