Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
Chuck, I have reframed from entering this discussion because of the emotions that become entangled. You should apologize for that comment since it is out of order. What good would it do if people on the other side directed the same type of attacks toward you? We recently went through a long d

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
I realize that you were just using the sine wave process as an example. I pointed out that the time period spanned by the data is important to help catch issues of this nature. I acknowledge that it is possible for a very long delayed effect to come into play during or after the samples. The

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
Hi Craig, and fellow vortexians, I'm looking at your graph on temperature anomalies and every data point is above 0. Shouldn't some of you anomalies be negative. You have 16 years of positive anomalies but not a single negative. I think that proves the point that temperatures are trending

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
Yes, that might be what they need. I am concerned about the calibration used for the earlier Celani publication where a forth order radiation (S_B) assumption was used to calculate the power. The MFMP guys have very clearly demonstrated that this is not happening with their cells. I recently

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Chuck Sites wrote: Congratulations for proving the point that the deniers are idiots. I'm sympathetic to the idea that climate change deniers are in denial. But everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, and to be honest it doesn't seem like the matter of the

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
Vorl bek says: Look at this authoritive website for answers, and it points to a rightwing funded propaganda machine called whatsupwiththat. Congratulations for proving the point that the deniers are idiots. Best Regards, Chuck On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Vorl Bek wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 20

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
The reality of AGW IS an no-brainer, and it IS the deniers that are plain stupid. That is a fact jack. Tere are 2 scientist that say so against your 5.Give it up deniers, you lost this debate in like 2009. Chuck On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: > The reality of AG

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Harry Veeder
The area in sine wave example was not intended to represent any particular physical variables. It was just intended as metaphor to show that the conclusions one draws from data are not necessarily transparent or undeniably correct. Harry On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM, David Roberson wrote: > F

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Harry Veeder
The reality of AGM is often presented as a no-brainer and that deniers are just plain stupid. However, this shows that global warming is not transparently self-evident and that an additional level of analysis is required to tease out the proof. I personally think the climate scientists speak down t

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, David Roberson wrote: You mention one of the situations that I have a bit of concern about. The > curve fit is achieved by using the internal curve fitting routine of Excel > in its X-Y chart menu. I am fortunate that it is a quadratic equation that > is require

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
"They have known causes, such as volcanoes and el nino" So what causes Volcanoes and El Nino Jed? I am not saying that CO2 does not have a contribution to our climate, I just want us to all realize we are a freckle on the Sun's butt and at its mercy whenever it decides to fart. Stewart darkmatt

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Craig wrote: > > Here's a graph: > > > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4QESdNmbCJSbFFScjJZdUhWdU0/edit?usp=sharing > > So the temperature stall is still above the 50 year trend line, and can > continue flat for quite some time before it falls below the first standard > deviation. > Interesting.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 04:20 PM, Craig wrote: > On 02/06/2013 04:08 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> >> It is a myth that temperatures have not increased in 16 years. The >> people making this claim started with the highest outlier point 16 >> years ago. See: >> > > I don't agree with that, but you can see it her

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chuck Sites
Hi Craig and other vortexers. I would like to respond to several of your comments. First on the issue of Solar Irradiance or the solar forcing as it's described in the computer models. it is certainly the main contributing factor to heat of the atmosphere. No doubt about it. Sometimes it

Re: [Vo]:Skynet Advances

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
The Rise of the Drones http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.html An upcoming Nova program featuring, among other amazing things, Argus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p4BQ1XzwDg

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
James Bowery wrote: The tragic thing is that the economy actually would benefit if half the > unemployed were paid to dig holes in the ground and the other half paid to > fill the holes in. > That would be something like war. WWII was a tremendous boost to the U.S. economy, even though it mainly

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
If it does not show up, how could it be measured? Actually, this can be accomplished in an interesting sort of way with the program. On occasions I intentionally restrict the range of data used in the optimizer. If I want to concentrate upon the rising edge fit, then I do not include the l

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 04:08 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Vorl Bek mailto:vorl@antichef.com>> wrote: > > > I don't follow. Did the predictions of increased temperature say > that there would be no increase for the past 16 years, which is > the case? > > > It is a myth that temperatures have n

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Vorl Bek wrote: > I don't follow. Did the predictions of increased temperature say > that there would be no increase for the past 16 years, which is > the case? > It is a myth that temperatures have not increased in 16 years. The people making this claim started with the highest outlier point 1

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread James Bowery
The tragic thing is that the economy actually would benefit if half the unemployed were paid to dig holes in the ground and the other half paid to fill the holes in. This is the result of insane political economics. So it is true that even if there is no global warming, paying unemployed people t

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Brad Lowe wrote: > One thing we can agree on: Any "solution" proposed to fight global warming > will cost trillions of dollars (short of a breakthrough in LENR, or a > nuclear renaissance). > I guess so, but to put it another way, any solution will *earn* trillions of dollars. The money will no

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Vorl Bek
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 15:40:49 -0500 Jed Rothwell wrote: > Brad Lowe wrote: > > > > It doesn't help that Al Gore's graphs showing a hockey stick increase in > > temperatures (and hurricanes) has been flat-lined for a decade.) > > > > That is incorrect. Temperatures have increased in line with ma

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Brad Lowe wrote: > It doesn't help that Al Gore's graphs showing a hockey stick increase in > temperatures (and hurricanes) has been flat-lined for a decade.) > That is incorrect. Temperatures have increased in line with mainstream global warming predictions. Please stick to the facts. - Jed

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
Can't you simulate a few types of dummy systems with extra heat where the extra heat would not show? 2013/2/6 David Roberson > That is what should be showing up as time progresses. If the calibration > values are determined by the faster acting phenomena, then a set of values > is obtained tha

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
That is what should be showing up as time progresses. If the calibration values are determined by the faster acting phenomena, then a set of values is obtained that is accurate for fast moving changes. The time domain fit to power steps demonstrates that this is happening and fitting the calcu

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Gluck
the experimenters are writing about essential things here: http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/follow/follow-2/206-tgoc The Genius of Celani Peter On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: > That was not directed to you, but to Jed... > > > 2013/2/6 David Roberson > >> By all mean

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
That was not directed to you, but to Jed... 2013/2/6 David Roberson > By all means Dan. I hope that the calorimeter shows excess power, but I > would not be surprised to see otherwise after reviewing the data. > > Dave > > > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Rocha > To: John Milstone

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
By all means Dan. I hope that the calorimeter shows excess power, but I would not be surprised to see otherwise after reviewing the data. Dave -Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha To: John Milstone Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:39 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result I guess you di

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
For this to be a problem, the data must be of restricted range. The more sine waves worth of data that are processed, the more closely your result becomes to zero. This is one reason that I believe that the result is so well established. Around a week of data is analyzed during which the rela

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Zell
Please stop referring to economic considerations of climate change as 'hijacking'.

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
What if excess heat a slow igniting process with very soft variations? And where higher order correction are important but they are distilled by hours? Say, the effect of excess power follows a slow accumulation of some "potential" with the subsequen slow release of this potential? 2013/2/6 Davi

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
You mention one of the situations that I have a bit of concern about. The curve fit is achieved by using the internal curve fitting routine of Excel in its X-Y chart menu. I am fortunate that it is a quadratic equation that is required and not a higher order. If excess heat were an issue I f

Re: [Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
I agree with that. The transmutation and transformation of Earth did not just happen EONS ago, it is continuing to happen today right under our eyes and includes we humans. I think the bad mutations trigger cancers and the good mutations help create things like Kate Upton... On Wed, Feb 6, 2013

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
I guess you did not understand the question or I don't know how to express myself well. Either way, let's wait to see the flow calorimetry. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell > Daniel Rocha wrote: > > >> That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting excess >> heat with his curve and thus g

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: > That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting excess heat > with his curve and thus giving false negatives. > I am saying I think it is just a slight instrument bias. Anyway, even if it is 0.6 W positive, that is not significant. - Jed

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Harry Veeder
Suppose someone asks you to calculate the area under y = sin(x) over one wavelength? Since half the curve is above the x -axis and half the curve is below the x-axis you might calculate the net area as zero, but that would be false "null" result. harry On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Jed Rothwell

RE: [Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread Jones Beene
In fact, if the paper below can be believed - we already know that bacteria can feed on high level nuclear waste – so low-level (EUV) should be a cakewalk. http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/VysotskiiVsuccessful.pdf From: David Roberson …. if it is assumed that LENR can be released a

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Brad Lowe
AGW supporters have a number of mostly derogatory names for people who aren't on board with their theories: Deniers, skeptics, lunatics, morons, anti-science. A lot of "us" in the skeptic camp aren't so much skeptical of the science (although there is plenty to be skeptical of, as predictions have

Re: [Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Dave, If the interaction of Dark Matter/Energy (~95%) and Baryonic Matter(~5%) results in Beta Decay/LENR, transmutations and mutations, I would say life is possible anywhere as long as the level of Dark/Vacuum Energy is not to high in that region of space. Weak Anthropic Principle at work. http

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
That was not my question. I want to know if he is also fitting excess heat with his curve and thus giving false negatives. 2013/2/6 Jed Rothwell > Daniel Rocha wrote: > > How can you tell whether these are falso positives and not false negatives? >> > > 0.2 to 0.6 W with this system is zero. N

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Daniel Rocha wrote: How can you tell whether these are falso positives and not false negatives? > 0.2 to 0.6 W with this system is zero. Not positive or negative. That is within the noise. As I said before, no instrument can produce exactly zero. - Jed

Re: [Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
How can you tell whether these are falso positives and not false negatives? 2013/2/6 David Roberson > I just completed a long time frame program test run for the recent > downloaded data for one of the Celani cells. I am using the time domain > curve fit program that I developed recently that

Re: [Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
And then there is the report of Rossi and Defkalion. Well, at least they insist that their systems are working and I have my fingers crossed that one day soon we will hear about good confirmation. In my estimate, there is some evidence that these and others are seeing good excess power. The

RE: [Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread Jones Beene
Dave, Here's the problem. If you look at the reliable Ni-H experiments going back to Thermacore's work for DARPA, up to Celani and the replications - the proved COP is rather low - and there is no evidence that it is really "nuclear," even if we call it LENR. There are really no other tru

Re: [Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
This would be a fine development if it turns out that LENR is used by these organisms. Some of the parameters required for the use of LENR might be revealed to help us in our quest. Do you think that the quantity of rocks consumed would give some indication of whether or not LENR were active?

[Vo]: MFMP Null Result

2013-02-06 Thread David Roberson
I just completed a long time frame program test run for the recent downloaded data for one of the Celani cells. I am using the time domain curve fit program that I developed recently that uses the solution for a non linear differential equation describing the behavior of these types of cells.

[Vo]:Chemolithotrophs and Ni-H

2013-02-06 Thread Jones Beene
If life on earth has ever evolved to use LENR for survival in extreme conditions, then evidence of that would likely be found in deep cold lakes in Antarctica. We talked about this earlier when it looked like the Russians were about to drill deep enough - but they had equipment failure. Now, for

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: Same Old stuff

2013-02-06 Thread fznidarsic
Did you know the Paul stole his exclusion principle from Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck? This cannot happen in this age of digital information. Reject as they will I have already published in IE and at Amazon. I was going to expand Equation #26 in the form of the cross product of the nuclear velocit

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Exactly, and just like on Earth, most low pressure atmospheric disturbances, as gasses are collapsed and condensed are very cold. Same thing when you collapse and condense Hydrogen in the sun's atmosphere. In space orbiting particles less than 1e+20 kg are very hot because there is no surrounding

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Alexander Hollins
Sunspots look dark because they are cooler, not because they put out less light. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Chuck Sites wrote: > Sunspots do reduce the solar input and during peak sunspot activity it can > be as high as 15% more or less. Think about it. Sunspots are dark; Dark > spots e

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Vorl Bek
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:36:38 -0500 ChemE Stewart wrote: > Speaking of cows and CMEs... > > I believe some of those energetic particles/micro black holes/ball > lightning/plasmoid particles expelled from the sun are causing cattle > mutilatios on Earth. The low momentum ones move towards heat, li

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Speaking of cows and CMEs... I believe some of those energetic particles/micro black holes/ball lightning/plasmoid particles expelled from the sun are causing cattle mutilatios on Earth. The low momentum ones move towards heat, like a cow's butt. Keep an eye on your wife, especially when it is

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
Please stop hijacking this discussion. Thanks, Craig On 02/06/2013 09:27 AM, Chris Zell wrote: > Blah, blah, blah.."living from paycheck to paycheck". > > The discussion begins and ends there, simply by defining what the > phrase means. With greater advances in automation soon, that phra

RE: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Chris Zell
Blah, blah, blah.."living from paycheck to paycheck". The discussion begins and ends there, simply by defining what the phrase means. With greater advances in automation soon, that phrase will often become 'welfare check to welfare check'. But fear not for the climate ! The Drudge Report

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM, ChemE Stewart wrote: > I guess bovine=cow, duh I thought you were joking. Whew! > Is she Holstein? Jersey? Did you meet in a field?... Kobe. Massage parlor.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
I guess bovine=cow, duh Is she Holstein? Jersey? Did you meet in a field?... On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, ChemE Stewart wrote: > Ouch! > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Terry Blanton > > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, ChemE Stewart >> > >> wrote: >> > You forgot cows >

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Ouch! On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, ChemE Stewart wrote: > > You forgot cows > > Leave my wife out of this. > >

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, ChemE Stewart wrote: > You forgot cows Leave my wife out of this.

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
You forgot cows On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: > Earthworms? And I thought it was termite and bovine flatus. > >

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Terry Blanton
Earthworms? And I thought it was termite and bovine flatus.

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: Same Old stuff

2013-02-06 Thread fznidarsic
Thank you Daniel. I posted a pdf at the link below. http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/zpt/pdf/refactoring.pdf Frank Znidarsic -Original Message- From: Daniel Rocha To: John Milstone Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:30 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Fwd: Same Old stuff Where is the preprint of the p

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread Craig
On 02/06/2013 02:48 AM, Chuck Sites wrote: > Sunspots do reduce the solar input and during peak sunspot activity it > can be as high as 15% more or less. Think about it. Sunspots are > dark; Dark spots emit less light. So more sunspots, less light. Less > light, less Solar input. Less solar i

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: Same Old stuff

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Rocha
Where is the preprint of the paper so that we can take a look? 2013/2/6 > > I set the velocity of sound in the nucleus = the velocity of light in the > electronic structure and got the radii of the atoms, the energy and > frequency of the photon, and the velocity of the atomic electrons. > No c

[Vo]:Fwd: Same Old stuff

2013-02-06 Thread fznidarsic
I set the velocity of sound in the nucleus = the velocity of light in the electronic structure and got the radii of the atoms, the energy and frequency of the photon, and the velocity of the atomic electrons. No cold fusion or anti-gravity was included. I would understand if he did not agree w

[Vo]:Same Old stuff

2013-02-06 Thread fznidarsic
I regret that I have not been able to understand this paper. What I find here are equations from various areas of physics -- electrostatics, quantum mechanics, etc -- together with a a few general remarks about those equations. So, for example, it is not clear to me what is the central result

Re: [Vo]:OT Global Warming

2013-02-06 Thread ChemE Stewart
Sunspots also correlate with higher rates of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The average CME is 1e+12 kgs of energetic "stuff". Don't you believe that stuff affects Earths energy balance also? On Wednesday, February 6, 2013, Chuck Sites wrote: > Sunspots do reduce the solar inpu