Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 19.09.2011 05:28, schrieb Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint: Peter wrote: So steam speed is about 64 m/s if the pipe diameter is 10^2 cm. A pipe diameter of 100cm is one heck of a big pipe! I think you mean cross-sectional area? Correction: So steam speed is about 64 m/s if the pipe cross sectional

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Ron Wormus
Peter, As far as I can see Naudin has never tried an experiment that did not work for him. His MAHG power measurements are in error (which has been pointed out to him). His write ups are beautifully presented but in my opinion generally unreliable. Ron --On Sunday, September 18, 2011 10:01 AM

Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on the eCat and 130C steam

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 16.09.2011 21:26, schrieb Alan J Fletcher: At 11:57 AM 9/16/2011, Peter Heckert wrote: The important information is: There is no superheated steam because inside the ecat is everything almost at boiling temperature. For superheated steam you need an extra heater that heats the steam and

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Esa Ruoho
Why are you guys referring to really old JLN stuff in 2011!? http://pesn.com/2011/09/14/9501914_Steorn_Drops_Four_Bombshell_Documents_Validating_Orbo/ September 14, 2011Steorn Drops Four Bombshell Documents Validating Orbo *The Dublin based, Irish free energy company Steorn, has allowed PESN to

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 19.09.2011 17:10, schrieb Ron Wormus: Peter, As far as I can see Naudin has never tried an experiment that did not work for him. His MAHG power measurements are in error (which has been pointed out to him). I did not analyze his power measurements. It is clear to me that an error with

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: If I did the calculations right, then this indicates the device could blow up. If there are emergency steam relief valves on the devices the steam could be released inside the container. Some friends of mine who wish to remain anonymous know a

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 19.09.2011 19:30, schrieb Esa Ruoho: The next step for Steorn may be when a client licenses one of their technologies and produces a working product. ;-)

Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on the eCat and 130C steam

2011-09-19 Thread Alan J Fletcher
At 05:52 PM 9/18/2011, Colin Hercus wrote: Woops, sorry Alan. I should be more careful. Good grief ... no problem!! The superheater chamber idea was directly from Lewan's report (and the literature).. All I added was direct overflow (which may or may not be true).

RE: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Robert Leguillon
My Two Cents-- I must confess that I'm unfamiliar with the effect of electromagnetism on conductive heating. I thought that I'd throw out a few questions regarding the observations of the 4th paper, hoping to learn: Background for the questions: Alternating current (dependent on the

Re: [Vo]:John Maddox, editor Nature magazine around 1989

2011-09-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
Bastiaan Bergman bastiaan.berg...@gmail.com wrote: At min 4:24 John Maddox Editor of Nature magazine says: It [cold fusion] will remain dead for a long long time This to me means that it is not dead for forever, or 'temporarily dead' be it for a long time. Does anyone know what Mr. Maddox

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 19.09.2011 20:21, schrieb Robert Leguillon: My Two Cents-- I must confess that I'm unfamiliar with the effect of electromagnetism on conductive heating. I thought that I'd throw out a few questions regarding the observations of the 4th paper, hoping to learn: You must first kow, it is

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net wrote: If I did the calculations right, then this indicates the device could blow up.  If there are emergency steam relief valves on the devices the steam could be released inside

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: I agree with you and Horace.  If it can explode, it will explode, and at the worst possible moment (Murphy's law and first corollary). It's quite odd to notice that on the skeptical side of the fence the subject of CF continues to be perceived as a bogus completely unproven source

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Joe Catania
I'm not going to take it on faith about the AC power being less than DC. I've done these types of calculations before and I can tell you they are not simple. A sawtooth wave can generate some extremely high harmonics which have a large skin effect. I'd need to see the formula used to evaluate

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Peter Heckert wrote: Am 19.09.2011 19:30, schrieb Esa Ruoho: The next step for Steorn may be when a client licenses one of their technologies and produces a working product. ;-) I was going to quote that line, but you saved me the trouble. 8^) The next

Re: [Vo]:John Maddox, editor Nature magazine around 1989

2011-09-19 Thread Harry Veeder
For some context see 1:45 of this video posted by Steven Krivit.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Jp9L_6-BI   Harry From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 2:30:59 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:John Maddox, editor Nature magazine around 1989

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 19.09.2011 22:22, schrieb Joe Catania: I'm not going to take it on faith about the AC power being less than DC. I've done these types of calculations before and I can tell you they are not simple. It is simple. The simplest way to calculate such problems is to use the law of enery

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Joe Catania
Now you are asking me to take it on faith from you. I find you less convincing than Steorn. - Original Message - From: Peter Heckert To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo Am 19.09.2011 22:22, schrieb Joe

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:46 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence many who have followed CF for decades, and whose opinions I've learned to heed, are beginning to raise concerns,. . . Please understand that most fences

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Peter Heckert
Am 19.09.2011 22:33, schrieb Joe Catania: Now you are asking me to take it on faith from you. I find you less convincing than Steorn. Let me explain. All known rules about electricity and magnetism are compatible with energy conservation. It is therefore impossible to derive an extra energy

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: It's quite odd to notice that on the skeptical side of the fence the subject of CF continues to be perceived as a bogus completely unproven source of energy. Therefore, one would infer from such conclusions that Rossi's 1 MW

RE: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Robert Leguillon
Okay.. Two More Cents: Just for clarification, references to the skin effect were made as an effort to explain the temperature difference without a magical violation of CoE. I was proposing a circumstance where misinterpretation of observations are the root cause of the apparent power.

[Vo]:A letter from a DoE official about cold fusion

2011-09-19 Thread Jed Rothwell
[This just in, sent by a friend. I don't write to the DoE. I wouldn't bother.] Monday, September 19, 2011 Dear Mr. Owens: This is in response to your e-mail message to Secretary Chu dated September 13, 2011 in which you asked to know where the Department of Energy stands on “cold fusion.”

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: It's quite odd to notice that on the skeptical side of the fence the subject of CF continues to be perceived as a bogus completely unproven source of energy. Therefore, one would infer from such conclusions that Rossi's 1 MW

Re: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Joe Catania
Ok, Peter. What I'm saying is I've run into this kind of thing before. There was an electrical engineering professor on TheEEStory.com blog who thought a patent was invalid and falsified because it showed a fuse blowing at a current that (if it were DC) would be insufficient to melt the fuse. I

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Joe Catania
Why do you think the device is under pressure? - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant. On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson

[Vo]:Jeds Letter from the DoE ...Business as Usual ( we don t want any progress)

2011-09-19 Thread Ron Kita
Greetings Vortex-L Re: Jed s letter from the DoE on non-funding of CF It appears the Opdenaker is in the Office of Fusion Sciences...hmm. I guess that the great promises of Hot Fusion are near, perhaps the perinnial 5 years from now. A Zeno s Paradox time frame. This letter is merely

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Man on Bridges
Hi, On 20-9-2011 0:11, Horace Heffner wrote: It is not necessarily true that the E-cat can not harm a fly if there is no excess energy produced. This is because purely normal electrical input may be enough to blow the thing up.The 4 metric tons of mostly steel constitute an enormous

Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on the eCat and 130C steam : New version

2011-09-19 Thread Alan J Fletcher
I've updated my Sept ecat analysis http://lenr.qumbu.com/rossi_ecat_sep11_e.php No radical new conclusions, but I shifted the analysis point from 130C to 118C, when the output fluid measurement was made, and interleaved the calculations with the explanatory text. (And the pressure calculations

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Joe Catania wrote: Why do you think the device is under pressure? See end of: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3264362.ece Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Joe Catania
The device is open to atmosphere- therefore its at atmospheric pressure. The steam is being created upon water contacting hot metal. - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:29 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 19, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Man on Bridges wrote: It's funny to notice everyone (believers and skeptics) is talking about a 1 MW power plant, but if it has at least a COP of 6, which Rossi claims, then the input is a maximum of 167 kW! So if it's fake, there is only a 167 kW that can be

[Vo]:Les Case, what where is he?

2011-09-19 Thread Bastiaan Bergman
Hi Vortex-l eskimo's, Anyone knows what happened with Les Case's energy catalyzer? It seems to work in a similar way as Rossi's. Why did he not build the 1MW plant he was planning? Is he still working on this? Anyone knows where? (what lab/company?) Thanks, Bastiaan.

Re: [Vo]:Les Case, what where is he?

2011-09-19 Thread Terry Blanton
He passed: LENR Researcher Les Case Dies From SeacoastOnline NEWFIELDS, [N.H.] - Leslie C. Case, 79, died Thursday, July 15, 2010, at his home in Newfields. He was born Sept. 11, 1930, in Tulsa, Okla., the son of Leslie and Julia (Catron) Case. Mr. Case received his doctorate of science degree

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Horace Heffner
It seems with regard to the E-cat that one of the most basic scientific methods, known to every high school student who studies science, is overlooked. That is the importance of using experimental controls. In the case of the E-cat it is clearly important to calibrate any calorimetry

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Horace Heffner
On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Joe Catania wrote: The device is open to atmosphere- therefore its at atmospheric pressure. The steam is being created upon water contacting hot metal. That is an assumption, not a measurement. When the valve is opened it looks to me the device is under

Re: [Vo]:Calulations for 1 MW plant.

2011-09-19 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/20 Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: It seems with regard to the E-cat that one of the most basic scientific methods, known to every high school student who studies science, is overlooked. That is the importance of using experimental controls. Uh. No way it is important! What is

RE: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint
From: Robert Leguillon [mailto:robert.leguil...@hotmail.com] Subject: RE: [Vo]:Debunking Steorn Orbo [deleted] Thus the original question set: Q1) Does this uneven current flow (skin effect) translate to potentially uneven heating - even at equilibrium**? [deleted] R.L.

Re: [Vo]:John Maddox, editor Nature magazine around 1989

2011-09-19 Thread Bastiaan Bergman
Thanks, Harry, Jed, Its clear now what his opinion was at least. Never liked Nature anyway :-). On Sep 19, 2011 1:29 PM, Harry Veeder hlvee...@yahoo.com wrote: For some context see 1:45 of this video posted by Steven Krivit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Jp9L_6-BI Harry From: Jed

Re: [Vo]:Thoughts on the eCat and 130C steam

2011-09-19 Thread Susan Gipp
2011/9/19 Peter Heckert peter.heck...@arcor.de . Someone had the idea Rossi might have multiple small e-cats in this big box. Peter Me too. I don't know why but I haave a strong feeling that inside the fat-cat there are the 4 well known e-kittyes that Rossi showed us in the past demos plus