[Vo]:Villa and Ferrari answer question

2011-06-10 Thread Harry Veeder
On facebook 'Rats Gautam' sent emails to all the individuals mentioned in Loris Ferrari's article but only received responses from Mauro Villa and Loris Ferrari himself. He posted their responses here: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/EnergyCatalyzer The short answer is they are not current

Re: [Vo]:Reverse engineering

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: > More on the difficulty of reverse engineering: > > I just dismantled an expired ink cartridge from a Brother printer. > > The complexity and subtlety of the design was amazing, with its check > valves, pressure relief valves, ambient pressure compensators, serpentine

[Vo]:Reverse engineering

2011-06-10 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
More on the difficulty of reverse engineering: I just dismantled an expired ink cartridge from a Brother printer. The complexity and subtlety of the design was amazing, with its check valves, pressure relief valves, ambient pressure compensators, serpentine flow paths, not to mention the undoub

Re: [Vo]:Interesting flow of disinformation

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
This seems more like confusion than disinformation. The account is garbled. That often happens. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:New way to convert heat into electricity

2011-06-10 Thread Axil Axil
Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc has the patent on the “fractal resonator” that can convert the alternating current produced by the antenna to direct current necessary to interface with the power grid. >From the FAC as follows: However, at RF, the complexity of a fractal structure cannot be describe

Re: [Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-10 21:30, Jed Rothwell wrote: Interesting. So it is fairly prestigious. A government-affiliated web page, sort of like the U.S. National Public Radio. This kind of positive statement about cold fusion would not be published in any government-affiliated U.S. web site. A short but int

Re: [Vo]:Congress.org

2011-06-10 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-11 01:12, Michele Comitini wrote: Someone in U.S. Congress is getting informed? http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?letter_id=6988991981 Probably not: * * * http://www.congress.org/faq#affiliated Q. Is Congress.org affiliated with Congress? A. No. We are a nonpart

[Vo]:Congress.org

2011-06-10 Thread Michele Comitini
Someone in U.S. Congress is getting informed? http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?letter_id=6988991981 mic

[Vo]:Rossi to do a demo for NASA only if they agree to purchase an operating plant

2011-06-10 Thread Akira Shirakawa
Hello group, To tell the truth there is nothing particularly relevant here, but have a look at what I found with Google Alerts: http://www.davidniebauer.com/rossi-energy-catalyzer-the-new-fire/ Apparently, David Niebauer, a corporate and transaction attorney recently met with Rossi (the phot

Re: [Vo]:Cold Fusion Ready for Commercial Production?

2011-06-10 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 02:00 PM 6/10/2011, Harry Veeder wrote: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Cold_Fusion_Ready_for_Commercial_Production.php I submitted a comment with a couple of Bushnell quotes and (yes), a shameless plug for my "proof" paper.

Re: [Vo]:New way to convert heat into electricity

2011-06-10 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:11:39 -0400: Hi, [snip] >*Just like a radio, the weakness of this technology is that the wave length >of the heat radiation must be tightly confined to an exact frequency for the >infrared signal to be received with efficiency. The key to impr

RE: [Vo]: New driving force for chemical reactions...

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Iverson
So the $64M question is... "What are the conditions that make it favor the QM-tunneling mechanism as opposed to the traditional chemical processes" -Mark _ From: Mark Iverson [mailto:zeropo...@charter.net] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 3:30 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo

[Vo]: New driving force for chemical reactions...

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Iverson
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-chemical-reactions.html This might explain what's going on in LENR systems... with emphasis on these 3 statements: "... the observed product of the reaction, acetaldehyde, is the least likely outcome among conceivable possibilities." "...Tunneling c

Re: [Vo]:2011 Colloquium MIT Tomorrow

2011-06-10 Thread Axil Axil
*A cold fusion kit would be the best thing that could be done to popularize cold fusion. The acceptance of cold fusion by government and their agencies (the patent office) is an important political exercise.* *Having wide spread cold fusion experiments done in condensed matter courses throughout t

[Vo]:Cold Fusion Ready for Commercial Production?

2011-06-10 Thread Harry Veeder
ISIS Report 06/06/11 Cold Fusion Ready for Commercial Production? Prototype device tested in public with impressive results, and commercial production scheduled to begin end of 2011, but naysayers call it a scam. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Cold_Fusion_Ready_for_Commercial_Production.php (from t

Re: [Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Michele Comitini
It is not state owned: Social News is a magazine of an indipendent non profit organization which in turn is sponsored by govt entities. A shallow difference indeed, so yes it can be considered a "serious/official" magazine both online and on paper. > This kind of positive statement about cold fu

Re: [Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini wrote: It is a non-profit online magazine. It looks like it is sponsored, among others, by the national TV RAI and some govt department (justice and internal affairs) for its social utility role. Interesting. So it is fairly prestigious. A government-affiliated web page, sor

Re: [Vo]:New way to convert heat into electricity

2011-06-10 Thread Axil Axil
*Just like a radio, the weakness of this technology is that the wave length of the heat radiation must be tightly confined to an exact frequency for the infrared signal to be received with efficiency. The key to improving this approach is to allow wide band infrared reception. * On Thu, Jun 9, 20

Re: [Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Michele Comitini
It is a non-profit online magazine. It looks like it is sponsored, among others, by the national TV RAI and some govt department (justice and internal affairs) for its social utility role. Not just a blog, anyway it is not related to science or technology. mic 2011/6/10 Jed Rothwell : > Terry B

Re: [Vo]:Online virtual stopwatches and clocks

2011-06-10 Thread Michele Comitini
just push the "+" sign on upper left corner to add a named interval mic 2011/6/10 Jed Rothwell : > There are several free virtual stopwatches, interval timers, clocks and so > on here: > http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ > You can download them to your computer and use them away from the net. > I

Re: [Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: http://www.socialnews.it/ARTICOLI2011/ARTICOLI201105/fusione.html Thanks. Can one of our Italian friends tell me what this is? A blog? An online magazine? I do not doubt this is real but I am wondering what the professor is doing here, and where else this person has publ

RE: [Vo]:2011 Colloquium MIT Tomorrow

2011-06-10 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman > Did you mean "palladium" instead of "platinum"? That could be really good news... Yes. Palladium is not required, nor any noble metal. The cost of the bulk metals would be in the range of $20.00/kg but to get them to the correct nanostructure is c

Re: [Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Here is something quoted in peakoil.com and available in various other > places on the net. Where is the original version? http://www.socialnews.it/ARTICOLI2011/ARTICOLI201105/fusione.html T

Re: [Vo]:2011 Colloquium MIT Tomorrow

2011-06-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:34 PM 6/9/2011, Jones Beene wrote: Any high school student should be able to perform a version for less than the cost of an X-Box- since it is an UNPOWERED experiment, without deuterium or platinum. The reaction gives excess heat simply from the nanopowder contact with hydrogen at ambient

[Vo]:Where is the original version of the Ferrari statement?

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is something quoted in peakoil.com and available in various other places on the net. Where is the original version? I assume it is in Italian. This reads as if a human translated it. "Recently, a device invented and patented by Andrea Rossi, based on nickel hydrogen, has enabled us to produc

[Vo]:Online virtual stopwatches and clocks

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
There are several free virtual stopwatches, interval timers, clocks and so on here: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ You can download them to your computer and use them away from the net. I cannot figure how the "interval timer" works. Maybe it doesn't. - Jed

RE: [Vo]:2011 Colloquium MIT Tomorrow

2011-06-10 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell > Brian told me about the spin-melting process but I do not understand the details. If you do understand them, please outline them here... I think it is similar to what Yamaura et al. did in their 2002 paper. Yes, it is basically that same process. T

Re: [Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread Peter Gluck
What seems to be encouraging, the Greek partners of Rossi claim they have tested thoroughly the E-cats and are contented with the results. Let's hope they and their customers will be contented on long range. Peter On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Akira Shirakawa wrote: > On 2011-06-10 16:13, Jed

Re: [Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: "Not very informative." I meant regarding technical issues. There is lots of information about the company such as the Board of Directors. There are many different companies involved: Defkalion Green Technologies, Greece Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies (Global) Ltd., Cyprus -- the

Re: [Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread Michele Comitini
Maybe Rossi makes some confusion between sales and production? They will start selling on November , before production has started? mic 2011/6/10 Jed Rothwell : > Akira Shirakawa wrote: > >> Wasn't production originally supposed to start in November this year? >> It's now planned for 2012. > >

Re: [Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
If I were a government employer positioned in a high supervisory/managerial role charged with the responsibility of securing affordable energy for my country I would have discussed information gathering procedures with intelligence gathering agencies. I would have then sent discrete observers who k

Re: [Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Akira Shirakawa wrote: Wasn't production originally supposed to start in November this year? It's now planned for 2012. I have read that it will begin in November or December after the 1 MW demonstration. That's almost 2012. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:2011 Colloquium MIT Tomorrow

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Brian Ahern will be presenting a chance discovery - which could lead to mass replication, even at MIT this time if they do not balk at the simplicity :-) Well said! As many of you know, Brian has had ongoing success with energetic nano-materials in an attempt to discover w

Re: [Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-06-10 16:13, Jed Rothwell wrote: See: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3194216.ece Wasn't production originally supposed to start in November this year? It's now planned for 2012. Cheers, S.A.

[Vo]:Nyteknik reports on Defkalion

2011-06-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3194216.ece Not very informative. - Jed