Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan

2005-02-21 Thread Grimer
At 01:45 am 21-02-05 -0600, you wrote: snip I've been reading about the Yuri Popatov's Yusmar machine, which AFAIK, produces LENR's in an aquas solution by means of a vortex. Heat is a big item with Russians, and electricity costs something there too. The fact that he has lots of orders for

Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan

2005-02-21 Thread Edmund Storms
thomas malloy wrote: thomas malloy wrote: Ed Storms responded' Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, not cold fusion. I don't understand how hot fusion in bubbles differs from what the

Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan

2005-02-21 Thread thomas malloy
thomas malloy wrote: thomas malloy wrote: Ed Storms responded' I've been reading about the Yuri Popatov's Yusmar machine, which AFAIK, produces LENR's in an aquas solution by means of a vortex. Heat is a big item with Russians, and electricity costs something there too. The fact that he has

Re: Math Problem, humor (OT)

2005-02-21 Thread Steven Krivit
Uggh :)

RE: [OT] Naval Irony

2005-02-21 Thread Keith Nagel
Hi Terry. I laughed too when I saw this, then I got kind of annoyed. Naming a nuclear attack submarine like this after him is in poor taste at best. http://cryptome.org/mmp/jimmy-carter.htm As well, that the name should invoke some fear in the enemy; even the common swamp rabbit is nonplussed

Re: Evangelical environmentalists

2005-02-21 Thread leaking pen
the thing to recognize also is that the evangelical christians are a minority of christians. being christian does not mean following falwell and robertson, believing that god created the earth in 7 days (i say to let people correct me, they love to) or that homosexuality is an abomination (as is

RE: [OT] Naval Irony

2005-02-21 Thread Terry Blanton
Note: forwarded message attached. Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! – What will yours do?---BeginMessage--- Yea, I bet neither the crew nor the prez are too happy about it these days. Thanks for the web ref. I wondered how that bloody minisub got deployed so quickly in "Hunt for Red

Re: NASA: Evidence of Life on Mars

2005-02-21 Thread Standing Bear
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:52, Horace Heffner wrote: At 11:45 AM 2/16/5, Terry Blanton wrote: There, they finally said it: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html It's about time. However, they seem to be barking up the wrong tree, or is that down the wrong hole?

Re: [OT] Seasonal Adjustive Disorder

2005-02-21 Thread Horace Heffner
At 6:18 AM 2/21/5, Terry Blanton wrote: (Are you paying attention, Horace?) Yep, I'm here, now, if a bit late. This is truly SAD: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148207,00.html ANCHORAGE ó Anchorage (search) police said a woman upset about an impending break-up with her boyfriend cut off

Incredible battery and TOE

2005-02-21 Thread Jones Beene
One of the most frustrating things about the internet, especiallyto any alternative energy advocate who seeks to find, weed-outand support, in every reasonable way, or even try to replicate ... the *best reasonable* solutions available which address the looming fossil-fuel-reliance

Some Potapov at LANL highlights

2005-02-21 Thread Horace Heffner
At 10:46 AM 2/21/5, thomas malloy wrote [in the BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan] thread: Do you recall what the thermal efficiency that LANL observed was? It was measured 98 percent, which I assume includes a 2 percent error. Following or some hilights from the vrtex posts at the time. At

Re: NASA: Evidence of Life on Mars

2005-02-21 Thread Horace Heffner
At 2:32 PM 2/21/5, Standing Bear wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2005 16:52, Horace Heffner wrote: At 11:45 AM 2/16/5, Terry Blanton wrote: There, they finally said it: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html It's about time. However, they seem to be barking up the

Some Potapov at LANL highlights

2005-02-21 Thread Horace Heffner
Slight correction: At 10:46 AM 2/21/5, thomas malloy wrote [in the BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan] thread: Do you recall what the thermal efficiency that LANL observed was? It was measured 96 percent, which I assume includes a 4 percent error. Regards, Horace Heffner

Re: Incredible battery and TOE

2005-02-21 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:58:28 -0800: Hi, [snip] here, mixed in with lots of potential BS. Caveat Lector. But remember, if you do not adequately separate the wheat from the chafe... well, you get the extra fiber, so that is not all bad, and helps keep you

For neutron aficionados

2005-02-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Neutron aficionados will enjoy these papers by Menlove et al. from 1990 and 1991: MenloveHOlowbackgro.pdf MenloveHOreproducib.pdf Neutrons from titanium hydrides. - Jed

Sci. Am. comments on CF

2005-02-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006colID=5articleID=00059015-99C5-1213-987F83414B7F011C PHYSICS Back to Square One Government review repeats cold fusion conclusions By Charles Q. Choi After 15 years, cold fusion got a second chance at legitimacy from the U.S. Department of Energy,

Re: For neutron aficionados

2005-02-21 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell Neutron aficionados will enjoy these papers by Menlove et al. from 1990 and 1991: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MenloveHOlowbackgro.pdfMenloveHOlowbackgro.pdf Most interesting. Especially in regard to recent past postings and speculation about

Re: Incredible battery and TOE

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Carrell
Robin wrote: In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:58:28 -0800: Hi, [snip] here, mixed in with lots of potential BS. Caveat Lector. But remember, if you do not adequately separate the wheat from the chafe... well, you get the extra fiber, so that is not all bad, and helps

Re: Incredible battery and TOE

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Carrell
I just finished with Robin and I find some of the same ideas here form Jones. (Deep breath) here we go again: snip Instead the really frustrating information is the tantalizing stuff which appears from brilliant, well funded, probably genius-level researchers like Mills/BLP who will publish

Re: Incredible battery and TOE

2005-02-21 Thread Jones Beene
Mike, Mills' is reluctant to have any association with CF, LENR, CANR and nuclear phenomena. Does that sound rational to you? Does that sound like the well-considered logic of a person committed to solving our looming ecological crisis? The cynic might say that it sounds more like an egoist

Good shot, Dr. Gonzo

2005-02-21 Thread Jones Beene
I suspect most Vorts are fans of Jules Verne and Arthur C. Clark, even if they are not whole-heartedly into Sci-Fi. Those two prophetshave shown us that good Sci-Fi easily presages real technological progress. Two other candidates, coming in from the cold, arenames to add to that list of