Re: [Vo]:Innovation tends to come from outside

2012-04-12 Thread Axil Axil
The defense and intelligence competition has produced much innovation and technology improvement to commercial interests spinoffs which includes nuclear power, the computer, software, GPS, TNT, space science, the internet, air travel, electronics, RADAR, to name just a few. The defense use and d

Re: [Vo]:Innovation tends to come from outside

2012-04-12 Thread Alain Sepeda
that is a rule that I've learn in professional training about innovation. inovators are: - foreigners in their domain (other country, culture, industry, diploma, speciality). so they understand that the things can be different from what it is in their company/industry/domain... - they gave a networ

Re: [Vo]:Toyota demos 60 km/l hybrid prototype

2012-04-12 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:32:28 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Toyota showed an advanced hybrid car at the Geneva International Auto Show. >It gets 60 km/l (141 mpg). In Japanese: > >http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/atmoney/news/20120411-OYT1T01265.htm > >- Jed It's appallingly ugly!

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > I seriously doubt any procurement officer would be involved in > this transaction. I would think all this would occur at a much higher > pay grade. > Given the way he treated the people from NASA and others, you would have to be crazy to deal with him at any level. It wo

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > He told me he did not want the technology used by the military because he is > a pacifist. Capitalism trumps being a pacifist. :-) > I have no idea if that is how he truly felt. Perhaps, as you suggest, it was > actually because he was alr

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: > > The way I took it was that, he already had a relationship with the > military and no military licenses were available. > He told me he did not want the technology used by the military because he is a pacifist. I have no idea if that is how he truly felt. Perhaps, as you

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Last year, Rossi insisted that he would never do business with the military. Is that what he said? I remember it differently. He was talking about selling licenses but not for military applications. The way I took it was that, he already h

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
Von: Jed Rothwell An: vortex-l@eskimo.com Gesendet: 21:13 Donnerstag, 12.April 2012 Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose" > Last year, Rossi insisted that he would never do business with the military. Now this! He is inconsisten

[Vo]:Innovation tends to come from outside

2012-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Many writers such as Christensen have pointed out that innovation tends to come from outside an industry. Containerized shipping is a classic example. It was developed by Malcom McLean, and industry outsider. That is why cold fusion is unlikely to be developed by mainstream energy companies. Inno

RE: [Vo]:It's "only" chemistry

2012-04-12 Thread Jones Beene
Strange paper, don't you think? Excess heat due to isotope exchange cannot be more than a small fraction of an eV per atom exchanged, and alumina does not absorb all that much water... so what are we talking about? A few joules at most ? What a wasted effort. I cannot imagine the motivation to ex

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Axil Axil
Rossi’s reactor is attractive to the US military because of its very high power density. The E-Cat catalyst (AKA secret sauce) reduces the size and weight of the LENR core by a factor of 100 over a non-catalyzed reactor. One gram of nickel in a E-Cat does the work of 100 grams in non-catalyzed reac

[Vo]:LENR in lithium batteries ?

2012-04-12 Thread Jones Beene
Going back over a decade to when several top level LENR researchers at a National Lab were using lithium hydroxide with deuterium (Claytor and Tuggle) in cold fusion cells, and getting results including the production of tritium and 4He - there has been speculation in an ostensibly unrelated field.

Re: [Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Last year, Rossi insisted that he would never do business with the military. Now this! He is inconsistent, to say the least. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:It's "only" chemistry

2012-04-12 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 09:33 AM 4/11/2012, Jones Beene wrote: The most interesting distinction in all of physics comes into focus with Ni-H, assuming that it is NOT a nuclear reaction (as normally understood). There is no proof that Ni-H is primarily nuclear, and many indications that it is not, and there are also i

[Vo]:Toyota demos 60 km/l hybrid prototype

2012-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Toyota showed an advanced hybrid car at the Geneva International Auto Show. It gets 60 km/l (141 mpg). In Japanese: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/atmoney/news/20120411-OYT1T01265.htm - Jed

Re: [Vo]:In the foodsteps of Jules Verne

2012-04-12 Thread Guenter Wildgruber
a fun-back-of the-napkin-calculation wrt interstellar space travel. Suppose, you have the technology to accelerate a spacecraft to 0.5 lightspeed. The distance to travel is 10 lightyears, which takes some 20years. Now consider that: You need a fairly large vehicle, which is not the size of your t

Re: [Vo]:In the foodsteps of Jules Verne

2012-04-12 Thread Jed Rothwell
Robert Lynn wrote: The energy costs for launching via a gun launch or a rocket won't be > much different to a space elevator given the parasitic weight of the > climber's laser receivers, motors, radiators, wheels etc The payload of a lifter is 70% of the mass, with present technology. The payl

[Vo]:Rossi: "The 1 MW plant is for military purpose"

2012-04-12 Thread pagnucco
IF Rossi's e-cat is real, it never made sense that anyone would use a world changing technology for something as mundane as heating a industrial building. What are the odds Rossi is stating the facts? (See below.) Lou Pagnucco http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=614&cpage=1#comment-21

Re: [Vo]:In the foodsteps of Jules Verne

2012-04-12 Thread Robert Lynn
The energy costs for launching via a gun launch or a rocket won't be much different to a space elevator given the parasitic weight of the climber's laser receivers, motors, radiators, wheels etc plus <25% efficient electricity transmission to the elevator so need on the order of 100kWh per kg paylo