Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Andrea Selva
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I wrote: > > >> I mean that no sane person would simply insert a probe into a hole without >> checking where the probe ended up, and also checking to be sure it is >> properly positioned and leak-tight. You don't just "insert" a thermocouple,

Re: [Vo]:Ongoing Rossi Blog stuff

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
I think the problem is heat management and control; it seems that there very frequent heat peaks at the start- and local overheating can destroy the active sites. In the same time the triggering of the reaction needs uniform heat. One problem to be solved is that of design- a good commercial aspec

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
Dear Friends, the Ni powder has a fine structure- in form of clusters- at Piantelli please take a look to this: http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2010058288 Described in many other publications of Piantelli et al. No clusters,no reaction. No *very thorough* degassing - no reaction. I don't

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread francis
I think the shape of the powder and the packing geometry is equally as important as size for varying suppression values . I give a lot of weight to a Cornell report by Peng Chen that catalytic action in nano tubes only occurs at openings and defects - therefore I suspect that catalytic action is a

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:56 PM, wrote: > (Does someone have a reference for the photo? I can't remember exactly which > report it was in.) The image is in their patent app: http://freeenergydocs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Andrea-Rossi-Method-And-Apparatus-For-Carrying-Out-Nickel-And-Hydrog

Re: [Vo]:Ongoing Rossi Blog stuff

2011-04-05 Thread mixent
In reply to Alan J Fletcher's message of Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:51:18 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Dear Mr. Gluck: >I prefer to use small modules for economy scale and safety issues. To combine >even thousands of modules in series and parallels is easy, and zero risk time >thousands is always zero. Why risk?

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread mixent
In reply to Peter Gluck's message of Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:51:15 +0300: Hi, [snip] >There are zero data re Rossi's nanopowder, but if it is nano, the specific >surface is much greater as that of the wire. ...from the photo provided, it would appear that the granules have a diameter on the order of 1

[Vo]:How to Execute a TEPCo Executive

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
Backlash due to the Fukushima disaster: http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/04/03/cnn-reports-about-anti-tepco-2channel-threads/ T

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > Surface area: When you go down in size, every time you reduce the radius by > half (for a sphere) you increase the available surface area by ~50 times for > the same weight. But, a non-spherical particle would have greater surface area. I thin

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
I wonder if the Patterson beads were too perfect when replicated? Maybe the working batch used a sloppy substrate. T

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > I mean that no sane person would simply insert a probe into a hole without > checking where the probe ended up, and also checking to be sure it is > properly positioned and leak-tight. You don't just "insert" a thermocouple, > you loosen up the T connector, slide it in, and tighten the

[Vo]:We have always known nuclear fission reactors are dangerous

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
The writer and civil engineer Samuel Florman is in favor of technology, as am I. But he is a realist. I cannot find the quote, but in one of his books he says "there is a reason we put nuclear power plants far from cities." He was criticizing advocates of nuclear power who insist that the reactors

RE: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
Surface area: When you go down in size, every time you reduce the radius by half (for a sphere) you increase the available surface area by ~50 times for the same weight. The problem with this rule of thumb is that true nanopowder is expensive, yet there are a few kinds of useful nickel having s

[Vo]:Coldest Star

2011-04-05 Thread Harry Veeder
Coldest Star Found—No Hotter Than Fresh Coffee http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110323-coldest-star-discovered-cup-coffee-brown-dwarf-hawaii-space-science/ http://tinyurl.com/4btxw3d   "With surface temperatures hovering around 206 degrees F (97 degrees C), the newfound star is

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Peter Gluck wrote: There are zero data re Rossi's nanopowder, but if it is nano, the specific > surface is much greater as that of the wire. Nano or cornsilk, as far as I know any powder has far more surface area than wire. The definition of nanopowder, by the way, is something with "ultrafine

RE: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
Thermacore used potassium carbonate as the catalyst. This was NOT optimal IMO. I think Rossi is using (perhaps unknowingly), something that works with nickel as a spillover catalyst. Nickel alone - is a fair spillover catalyst, but as Arata discovered adding 15% palladium as an alloy increase

[Vo]:Column in Chemistry World

2011-04-05 Thread Harry Veeder
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2011/April/ColumnThecrucible.asp "The insistence on replication - as the motto of the Royal Society puts it, 'take no one's word for it' (Nullius in verba  ) - has indeed long been one of science's great strengths. It explains why pathological science suc

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
There are zero data re Rossi's nanopowder, but if it is nano, the specific surface is much greater as that of the wire. On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Dennis wrote: > Is anyone out there good at running numbers? > what is the comparison in surface area of Rossi's nanopowder and Mill's > fine N

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Dennis
Is anyone out there good at running numbers? what is the comparison in surface area of Rossi's nanopowder and Mill's fine Ni wire? Dennis -- From: "OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson" Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 1:34 PM To: Subject: Re: [Vo]:So cl

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mattia Rizzi wrote: > >You need to get that idea out of your mind. > > You dont' get my idea. Probes INSIDE pipes BUT OUTSIDE reactor. The reactor > is a black box. You can't trust black bloxes. You can trust what you see. > No one trusts black boxes. The probe is inside the pipe, which is insi

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Interesting speculation, Jones. I never read Stolper's book. Nevertheless, I remember his scrappy posts from the old Yahoo Hydrino group, particularly as he incessantly went after Zimmerman. Does Stolper's book reveal any kind of useful detail as to what kind of additional "catalysts" might have

Re: [Vo]:Ongoing Rossi Blog stuff

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
I have asked him because I dislike the planned method of scale up. I hope he has already tested step-wise combinations of, say 3, 12, 25 E-cats working together. As with the airplanes- the start period is critical- heat peaks or inhibition, oscillations (I think) An "E-lion" must have a more sophi

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Gluck
There are two essential conditions necessary for a Ni-H system to work: a) proper nanometric structure- i.e active sites NAE at high density; b) the surface of Ni should absolutely free of adsorbed gases that could compete with hydrogen for the active sites Piantelii has discovered this and has o

Re: [Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: > Essentially, back in March 1992 almost twenty years ago – Thermacore put > into operation the prototype Ni-H cell which operated for nearly a year at > greater than 3:1 excess energy (50 watts continuous of excess energy for > about a year, but catch-22 ... the damn thing req

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Mattia Rizzi
>You need to get that idea out of your mind. You dont' get my idea. Probes INSIDE pipes BUT OUTSIDE reactor. The reactor is a black box. You can't trust black bloxes. You can trust what you see. >It is the same thing! A university consists of professors. No, it's not the same thing if Levi cert

[Vo]:Radiation risk from Fukushima vs Atomic Bomb

2011-04-05 Thread Harry Veeder
Question: How does radiation released from Fukushima compare with Fat Man and Little Boy fallout? http://www.quora.com/How-does-radiation-released-from-Fukushima-compare-with-Fat-Man-and-Little-Boy-fallout http://tinyurl.com/4x9buue Final paragraph of the answer(dated March 29):  "Overall, t

[Vo]:So close, so far away

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
RE: Genius Inventor by Thomas E Stolper. Highly recommended, available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Inventor-controversy-historical-contemporary/dp /1419643045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302024882&sr=8-1 This book by former vortician Tom Stolper is the detailed history of Randel

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
I mean to say "You can sure that Levi PUT the probe into the outlet tube flow." I mean that no sane person would simply insert a probe into a hole without checking where the probe ended up, and also checking to be sure it is properly positioned and leak-tight. You don't just "insert" a thermo

[Vo]:Ongoing Rossi Blog stuff

2011-04-05 Thread Alan J Fletcher
Rossi continues to answer and/or avoid answering questions. http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=360&cpage=14#comments Andrea Rossi April 5th, 2011 at 5:24 AM Dear Mr Antonio Di Stefano: Thank you for your suggestions. The minimum size is a module of 2.5 kW of power, so far. Warm re

[Vo]:Quark Power - Strangelets and dark matter

2011-04-05 Thread francis
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:08 Jones wrote [snip] In fact, quarks may operated in a different way when they are associated closely as in "pycno" or dense hydrogen (IRH), and they may become somewhat fluid to an extent, in two dimensions. Let me backtrack one step - dense-hydrogen ONLY exists in 2-sp

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mattia Rizzi wrote: Because a single-phase calorimetric test is so easy and because they (dept. of physics) will instantly become internationally famous if they certificate "a new cheap energy source" . . . Not at all. No one gets famous because they certify cold fusion. Thousands of scienti

Re: [Vo]:Drone Images Fukushima Daiichi

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Wow. You can see it would be impossible to send a robot up to the pools. Even if there were no radioactivity, a person would have difficulty getting through the debris. - Jed

[Vo]:Quark Power - Strangelets and dark matter

2011-04-05 Thread Jones Beene
Here is a theoretical possibility for a special kind of nuclear power - Quark power of the LENR or 'latent variety', i.e. no neutrons, low radiation, non-fusion, non fission, . and the only indicia is excess thermal energy and the "disappearance" of protons. We can call it "quark power" or dark ene

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Mattia Rizzi
>Do you think the professors suddenly become criminals when they drive a few >kilometers from the campus? Or do you think they suddenly become very stupid >and unable to do experiments? I think that the Dept. of Physics have a LOT of professor and researchers. Because a single-phase calorimetric

[Vo]:the nonsense of SR by Richard Moody IE 96 letter to editor

2011-04-05 Thread francis
I just got IE #96 that contained a letter to the editor by Richard Moody which IMHO is flawed because it chooses what he declares clever use of reference frames within reference frames to prove SR gives conflicting results when dealing with real bodies. I think the Gamma formula points to the flaw

[Vo]:Drone Images Fukushima Daiichi

2011-04-05 Thread Terry Blanton
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm Linked from this pessimistic article: http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-is-horrifically-worse-than.html T

Re: [Vo]:Independent test of Rossi E-Cat

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: > Actually, it may not really matter if he gets a patent or not. If he > applies for > one, then no one else can get a patent, and if it's rejected he can still > build > and market the device keeping the Ni powder preparation process secret. > You could not keep this process secret for

Re: [Vo]:Vortex Transmutation and ORME Conference

2011-04-05 Thread David VanDerryt
I thought that I would let everyone know in this group about a conference coming up. It is selling out so, if you are interested in it you may want to book quickly. David Hudson, David Wolfe, Joe Champion, Michael Tellinger, Don Nance are speaking as well as many other alchemist. Hudson, as som

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Andrea Selva wrote: > What possible difference can the physical location of the experiment >> make?!? The laws of physics are uniform throughout the universe and also >> off-campus. >> > > Oh, just that the testers could pretend to see what's getting out of the > exit pipe instead of simply flus

Re: [Vo]:Levi can commit fraud as easily at the University as off campus

2011-04-05 Thread Andrea Selva
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Mattia Rizzi wrote: > >> I'm not saying that Levi is lyng. I don't make these assumptions. >> If Dept. of Physics will publish the results of a calorimetric test inside >> U. of Bologna, then i trust them, even if Levi is inside the group t