[Vo]:I wonder...SWOT

2011-04-25 Thread Peter Gluck
I wonder why we are worried for a strong opposition to Ni-H LENR as a form of cold fusion...not the scientists will decide The initial problem of cold fusion is one well known to the players of 'contract bridge' game- bidding too high, promise of cheap, inexhaustible rich source of energy. But even

[Vo]:Space has no time dimention

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Iverson
FYI: Here's an article for all you theorists... "Scientists suggest spacetime has no time dimension" http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-scientists-spacetime-dimension.html -Mark

RE: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Iverson
Jed wrote: "let us prepare for more trouble"... and "I think we should marshal arguments and prepare to present our views, if the mass media calls. Let's face it, they are not likely to get a good initial impression of Rossi, from his blog or the way he talks. The field has suffered from the wors

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mark Iverson wrote: Have to disagree with Jed's conclusions as to the extreme level of > opposition that this will face... > Those are not conclusions so much as worst case scenarios. I think we should be prepared for a continuation of what we have seen for the past 22 years. However much we mi

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Harry Veeder
One of the early uses will be in green houses, followed by the construction of multistory green houses. With the ability to grow food year round the demand for fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides will drop, and more food will be grown locally. Harry From: Mark Iverson >To: vortex-l@eskimo

RE: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Iverson
Have to disagree with Jed's conclusions as to the extreme level of opposition that this will face... I don't think there is any situation in the history of modern economics that can compare with what is happening... Sure, there are powerful centers that don't want to see this technology make

Re: [Vo]:PET Scans and Rossi - was: Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread francis
on Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:20:32 Robin wrote in reply to Axil [snip] >*The motivation to reduce the size of the Cat-E down to a very small size >may well be that a small Cat-E produces far less nuclear radiation than a >large one. The scaling factor on this characteristic may be exponential.* >

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: > *With the exception of the natural gas industry and the centralized > electric industry, all cold fusion obstructive forces are unpopular, weak > and can be overcome.* > I think you are right. I hope you are right! Still, I expect severe opposition, especially in the early s

Re: [Vo]:PET Scans and Rossi - was: Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
wrote: I believe the E-kitten actually used for the test was the one which still > had > cladding (far right). The stripped ones were just to show the construction. > Not > actually used in the test. > I think so. > I think the smaller size is because the instability has turned out to be > la

Re: [Vo]:PET Scans and Rossi - was: Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:28:40 -0400: Hi, [snip] >*The nuclear radiation production and residual latent radiation levels may >well be a function of the power production level of the Rossi Cat-E. * > >* * > >*The motivation to reduce the size of the Cat-E down to a ver

Re: [Vo]:ROSSI FAKE or REAL

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Rock_nj wrote: Rossi is either going to have something named after him (like a scientific > unit, how about the cold fusion input/output ratio, the Rossi Ratio?) for > being famous as the one who commercialized cold fusion or he will go down in > history as one of the greatest hucksters. I have

[Vo]:Why the US will become a banana republic if we do not import or allow cold fusion

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote something that seems contradictory, but isn't. I said: * It is possible that vested interests may block the development of cold fusion in the US for decades. * If this happens we will soon become a banana republic that imports all important technology from other countries. If cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:ROSSI FAKE or REAL

2011-04-25 Thread Rock_nj
Rossi is either going to have something named after him (like a scientific unit, how about the cold fusion input/output ratio, the Rossi Ratio?) for being famous as the one who commercialized cold fusion or he will go down in history as one of the greatest hucksters. I have been disappointed many

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Axil Axil
*Large international oil companies have little power over the oil producing nation states that they depend upon. They would like nothing better then to divorce their business plan away from OPEC.* * * *When a country gets it in their mind to get off oil, it can happen. Brazil’s ethanol industry i

Re: [Vo]:ROSSI FAKE or REAL

2011-04-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Alan, >> I'll fix it on Monday ... UNLESS, of course, there's a new report to >> evaluate! > >  http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_frames_v323.php >  http://lenr.qumbu.com > > Updated -- with PDF file.  (why would anyone want to print out the 60+ pages > ???) Works! Thanks! Sometimes a P

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The opposition may win this political battle. Cold fusion may never be allowed. . . . Big Oil's lobbyists could conceivably render the United States irrelevant to the world's energy future, but that's about it. Yes. Right. I should not have said "never be allowed

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 04/25/2011 02:12 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > ... Big oil, big coal, nuclear power, wind power and other vested > interests will wage all-out political war, saturating members of > congress > > The opposition may win this political battle. Cold fusion may never be > allowed. There are someth

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Mattia Rizzi wrote: There was a new test with Essén last week. I wrote to Essén. He's writing > the report. > Great! > The proposed method to check the water flow (major issue in last experiment > since it was not checked during the experiment) was weighting the water tank > before and after

Re: [Vo]:ROSSI FAKE or REAL

2011-04-25 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 04:40 PM 4/23/2011, Alan Fletcher wrote: I'll fix it on Monday ... UNLESS, of course, there's a new report to evaluate! http://lenr.qumbu.com/fake_rossi_ecat_frames_v323.php http://lenr.qumbu.com Updated -- with PDF file. (why would anyone want to print out the 60+ pages ???) > Rega

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Mattia Rizzi
With 'this week' i mean between 18 april and 21 april. From: Jed Rothwell Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 3:38 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test Akira Shirakawa wrote: According to Daniele Passerini (22passi), who knows some inside information he is not a

Re: [Vo]:PET Scans and Rossi - was: Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Axil Axil
*The nuclear radiation production and residual latent radiation levels may well be a function of the power production level of the Rossi Cat-E. * * * *The motivation to reduce the size of the Cat-E down to a very small size may well be that a small Cat-E produces far less nuclear radiation than a

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Mattia Rizzi
There was a new test with Essén last week. I wrote to Essén. He's writing the report. The proposed method to check the water flow (major issue in last experiment since it was not checked during the experiment) was weighting the water tank before and after. From: Jed Rothwell Sent: Monday, Apr

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
I assume the Rossi device is producing cold fusion, the same as the Pd-D systems. Call it what you will, it is what it is. If it produces radioactive byproducts such as tritium, that fact will soon be known. I expect many laboratories will soon look closely and learn more about it than we have

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: > Adding more to the goose chase, let us not forget the fact that there > are those who would like to denigrate the word "fusion", and replace > it with what they believe is a more accurate term: "nuclear reaction." This one

[Vo]:PET Scans and Rossi - was: Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jones Beene
Steven - A milder "label" is not going to work when your commercial enemy is big oil. The best we can hope for is that the nuclear reaction is easily shielded and predictable. It would not hurt if it is a reaction often used in human Medicine, either. Ref: the Pet scan http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: ... > OTOH - we keep getting back to the problem of NRC approval, > or even UL approval. With proved particle detection and > real fusion, then we are back to being years away from > having the device approved in the USA. Adding more to the goose chase, let us not forget the fact that

RE: [Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Jones Beene
This cartoon says it all, no? However, one contrarian slant on Jed's comment about particle detection, is that this may not be a net "positive" . although yes, it would literally crush skepticism. For that we would all be grateful. OTOH - we keep getting back to the problem of NRC approval

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Is Real and Commercial Development Is Near

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
There have been a number of blogs discussing Rossi lately, but no mainstream reports since NyTeknik. Some mainstream reporters are sniffing around, but they have not published anything as far as I know. The high-quality blogs are a valuable sources of information for us, but they do not influe

[Vo]:Cold Fusion Is Real and Commercial Development Is Near

2011-04-25 Thread Rock_nj
Cold Fusion Is Real and Commercial Development Is Near Cold Fusion has been a pariah to the skeptical mainstream scientific community since it was first announced by electrochemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann on March 23, 1989. But despite its status as an outcast from the scientific comm

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Well, there is no point to speculating. But I shall speculate anyway. Establishment scientists + quite important + peer review = particle detection! This is the skeptics' worst nightmare. - Jed

[Vo]:Comic gets it right

2011-04-25 Thread Esa Ruoho
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1868#comic

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:If Rossi could speak freely, what would he say.

2011-04-25 Thread Roarty, Francis X
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 05:25, Axil Axil mailto:janap...@gmail.com>> wrote: “With temperature above the set the reactor is automatically stopped” Axil, We see the Mill’s powder in the Rowan confirmations totally run-away but yet we get mixed messages about the Rossi reactor whic

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-04-25 15:38, Jed Rothwell wrote: Well, I hope no one was hurt. I mean blown up or irradiated. When I hear about "something quite important" in cold fusion I get a bad feeling. Er, I mean... positively important! Citing the original source, "an important step further for the scientifi

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Akira Shirakawa wrote: > > According to Daniele Passerini (22passi), who knows some inside information > he is not allowed to divulge right now, something quite important happened > on April 21st and apparently not just a simple test . . . Well, I hope no one was hurt. I mean blown up or irradi

Re: [Vo]:Clock synchronisation is a red herring

2011-04-25 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/25/2011 01:21 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: > Maybe I missed your reasoning, but do you expect this experiment > will produce non-null result unlike the MM experiment? Just for clarity: The quantum version of the experiment should consistently produce non-null results. The classical version should

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-04-25 14:54, Jed Rothwell wrote: Has there been any news about this test? Where did you hear about this? I would love to hear more! According to Daniele Passerini (22passi), who knows some inside information he is not allowed to divulge right now, something quite important happened o

Re: [Vo]:Coastzone Radio / James Martinez

2011-04-25 Thread fznidarsic
Thank you Mike from Buffalo. I also like the universal auto link to my papers on the web now. Callers continued to phone in to talk about cold fusion. Mike from Buffalo, New York, told George about a man named Frank Znidarsic who developed mathematical formulae to help explain why cold fusion

Re: [Vo]:21 of april 2011 test

2011-04-25 Thread Jed Rothwell
Angela Kemmler wrote: There was a test the day 21 of april 2011 (last week, thursday). Has there been any news about this test? Where did you hear about this? I would love to hear more! - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Clock synchronisation is a red herring

2011-04-25 Thread Mauro Lacy
On 04/25/2011 01:21 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: - Original Message From: Mauro Lacy To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, April 24, 2011 4:24:41 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Clock synchronisation is a red herring On 04/24/2011 04:58 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: It occured to me that a one wa

Re: [Vo]:If Rossi could speak freely, what would he say.

2011-04-25 Thread .:.gotjosh
Thanks for this post Axil, i have some comments and questions below... On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 05:25, Axil Axil wrote: > * > * > > *“With temperature above the set the reactor is automatically stopped”* > > * > * > > *It the temperature continues to rise above another set point, the control > bo