Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic Improbability

2012-08-07 Thread Colin Hercus
at the peak of development > today that we fail to see the declining status of our physical and mental > capacities. > > Doesn't Darwinian Evolution say we should be improving? > > Jojo > > > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Colin Hercus

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic Improbability

2012-08-07 Thread Colin Hercus
ies the random > testing of results based on random inputs to the problem. Not the best way. > > And before you claim you know more about programming than I, let me just > say I'm an Electrical Engineer and I have programmed many times before. > > Jojo > > > > -

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic Improbability

2012-08-07 Thread Colin Hercus
icles, and I am suitably "impressed" by the > level of its scholarship and integrity. > > > Jojo > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Colin Hercus > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:45 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:T

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacis of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic Improbability

2012-08-06 Thread Colin Hercus
ll does not solve your > abiogenesis problem. > > > > - Original Message - > *From:* Colin Hercus > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 07, 2012 1:40 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:The Fallacis of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic > Improbability >

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacis of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic Improbability

2012-08-06 Thread Colin Hercus
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Jojo Jaro wrote: > Abd, I appreciate your comments. > > After reading your post below and rereading it and rereading it several > times, I am still at a lost on what you are contending. Please restate > your contentions in simpler prose that dumb people like me ca

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacis of Darwinian Evolution - Genetic Improbability

2012-08-06 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Jojo, I think you need to rethink your maths, if the earth has been here 4billion years (according to science) then what is the chance there is life. First if we just have one self replicate molecule, simple DNA or RNa and that molecule spreads through the seas then we could have billions of b

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Microevolution vs. Macroevolution

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Daniel, That's a great list, never seen it before. Thanks for sharing Colin On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Rocha wrote: > What is your criteria to rule out all other creation myths except for the > biblical one? > > 2012/8/4 Jojo Jaro > >> ** >> I noticed that you have not actually

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Microevolution vs. Macroevolution

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Hercus
Richard Dawkins when he does not have an answer. He obfuscates > and rattles out a bunch of irrelevant and unrelated facts hoping that his > opponent would be so overwhelmed by his "apparent" knowledge and capitulate. > > Good luck using that strategy with me. > > >

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Microevolution vs. Macroevolution

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Hercus
Petersburg June 2012** > *** > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rFmAMDdbjs&feature=plcp > > ** ** > > -Mark > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Colin Hercus [mailto:colinher...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, August 03, 2012 6:01 PM > *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com > > *Subje

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Microevolution vs. Macroevolution

2012-08-04 Thread Colin Hercus
ted a lot of time. Cheers, Colin On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Axil Axil wrote: > The post of Colin Hercus interests me greatly, and I am greatful that he > took the time to explain how things work for a bioinformatician. > > > > When a library of DNA fragments are fina

Re: [Vo]:The Fallacies of Darwinian Evolution - Microevolution vs. Macroevolution

2012-08-03 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Jojo, I work as a bioinformatician and study DNA and mutations in DNA every day. I develop software for this that is used in 100's of Universities and we have over 200 citations on Google scholar. Darwin had a view of evolution that we now know was rather simple. A few things about DNA that I

Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to?

2012-05-20 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Brad, I was thinking it was just a high pressure plug, no electric pas thru as none of the pictures showed any evidence of a connection especially a HT connection. It would be a hack but it does provide easy access to Ni chamber. There is no evidence Rossi ever used a spark. Good luck with your

Re: [Vo]:Spark plugs... thoughts and how-to?

2012-05-18 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Brad, I've been wondering if the spark plug was just being used as a high pressure plug for the Nickel/H chamber. I checked all the photos for ones where the spark plug was connected and couldn't find anything definite. Colin On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:07 AM, ecat builder wrote: > Hi Vortex,

Re: [Vo]:Tungsten?

2012-02-28 Thread Colin Hercus
Interesting thought but checkout the spectrum for Ni -> http://www.xrfresearch.com/component/content/article/71-periodic-table/160-xrf-spectrum-nickel.html Colin On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Mark Goldes wrote: > I've copied this from ecat news. > > A very interesting Comment on the e-catworl

Re: [Vo]:Mathematical modeling versus a blacksmith

2011-12-22 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Jed, Google have published some details of their algorithm and that's pretty much how it works. If they want to do say English/Italian translation they find a lot of text (books, menus etc.) that exist in both languages and then they analyse the text counting words by frequency. This gives fir

Re: [Vo]:Why not duplicate Rossi's setups and see how they work without LENR?

2011-12-10 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Jed, I think the simple test would be to put a 25kg block of lead (for big ecat simulation) on the gas with a pan of water on top of the lead, all well insulated. Turn on the gas and heat until the water boils. Turn off the gas and with whole container well sealed and insulated see how long the

Re: [Vo]:The 6 Oct Rossi test heat exchanger model

2011-12-10 Thread Colin Hercus
Did you see in the specs that the heat exchanger should be mounted vertically when used for phase change. Having it horizontal should reduce effectiveness and err in Rossi's favour On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > The heat exchanger is Swedish, make and model: SWEP E8T-SC-

Re: [Vo]:Domestic LENR steam/electricity front end

2011-12-06 Thread Colin Hercus
Could you have a problem with the 30kWH of excess heat. It seems a bit much to get rid of for space heating and hot water especially in a suburban situation. I was also looking a FIT rate in Australia and it seems you can get money back from the power company. Could you do this for ecat power? On

Re: [Vo]:JNP site down

2011-11-10 Thread Colin Hercus
ing, it > should have charged him for any excess data traffic. > > AG > > On 11/10/2011 5:13 PM, Colin Hercus wrote: > >> I expect his traffic volume has gone up and he's gone foul of limits >> imposed by his web hosting service. >> >> On Thu, No

Re: [Vo]:JNP site down

2011-11-09 Thread Colin Hercus
I expect his traffic volume has gone up and he's gone foul of limits imposed by his web hosting service. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Peter Gluck wrote: > It is not for the first time, it happens...for a few hours. > Let's see... > What's strange- the blog reader rossilivecat.com is also > n

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-07 Thread Colin Hercus
Or 25kg per module if we just bring the water to 105C and make very little steam On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Berke Durak wrote: > Cement has more specific heat capacity per mass, but not > per volume. > > One cubic meter of iron can hold something like 3.5 MJ per > kelvin, while the same vol

Re: [Vo]:Minor progress

2011-11-07 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Horace, I was wondering if it's possible to do this with lead rather than another material as long as you have sufficient insulation to reduce the heat flow from the lead to the water. I did a simple simulation and it looked like about 25kg of lead with about 12W/C heat flow would do the tric

Re: [Vo]:Pipe diameter October 28 - new considerations

2011-11-03 Thread Colin Hercus
t. ;-) > > Peter > > > - Original Nachricht > Von: Colin Hercus > An: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Datum: 03.11.2011 02:43 > Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Pipe diameter October 28 - new considerations > > > Hi Peter, > > > > It could only be a vacuum if t

Re: [Vo]:Pipe diameter October 28 - new considerations

2011-11-02 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Peter, It could only be a vacuum if they were pumping the water out of the heat dissipater and they'd need a pretty good pump to get a vacuum. Colin On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I recalculated the pipe diameter needed for the 1MW plant. > There is an important considerat

Re: [Vo]:Re: Rossi 1MW : Why is the energy hidden behind pressboard?

2011-11-01 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Peter, I'm not familiar with these pumps but it has variable rate and stroke and I wonder if someone changed the stroke would the sound change, certainly the frequency wouldn't and it would be really easy to do without being noticed. Colin On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Peter Heckert wrote:

Re: [Vo]:Making Sense of ECAT Water Pump Flow Rate

2011-10-26 Thread Colin Hercus
The manufacturers data sheet indicates it has variable rate and *variable stroke* pump and doesn't indicate that a tube can be replaced or even that it's a peristaltic pump. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Alan J Fletcher wrote: > At 10:34 PM 10/19/2011, David Roberson wrote: > > I have been t

Re: [Vo]:Possible mechanism-Excess Power Reading of ECAT

2011-10-24 Thread Colin Hercus
this contradictory information. Best Regards, Colin On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:14 PM, wrote: > > > > - Original Nachricht > Von: Colin Hercus > An: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Datum: 25.10.2011 03:54 > Betreff: Re: [Vo]:Possible mechanism-Excess Power R

Re: [Vo]:Possible mechanism-Excess Power Reading of ECAT

2011-10-24 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Peter, The primary flow is interesting problem. Rossi states 4g/sec which is close to 15 kg/h. The specs of the pump give a maximum of 12kg/h at 1.5 bar so if we believe Rossi then the pump must have been running at maximum volume but then how can we explain the flow rate of the peristaltic pum

Re: [Vo]:Rossi 1 MW plant - is there a cooling system?

2011-10-18 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Horace, I find your posts quite interesting and you seem to have a rational rather than emotional approach which makes for good reading. I just read your reply to Dave and as it seemed to make the ECat (and my kettle) impossible I thought I'd double check some of your calculations and I think

Re: [Vo]:Please stop making unsupported, physically impossible assertions about stored heat

2011-10-11 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Jed, I can design a device where heat in the output goes up after power is turned off. A simple analogy would be a steel bar, if apply heat to one end with a torch and measure the temperature of the other end there will be a temperature difference along the bar. When I stop applying heat there

Re: [Vo]:Rossi heat exchanger fitting / SOME flow data

2011-10-11 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Robert, If this excess energy over what is required to heat .9g/s of water to 124C is somehow stored in the eCAT (say, as thermal energy in a fairly well insulated block of steel) then it would be enough energy to possibly give the impression of a self sustaining reaction for at least 3 hours.

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

2011-09-18 Thread Colin Hercus
Woops, sorry Alan. I should be more careful. On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Alan Fletcher gets the credit for that scenario. > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > On Sep 16,

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

2011-09-16 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Horace, Your 3rd scenario may be right. From mats Report "According to Andrea Rossi the increased dimension is due to a larger volume inside where the water is heated, approximately 30 liters, and a larger heat-exchanger with a greater surface which should result in a more effective heat transf

Re: [Vo]:E-cat news at Nyteknik

2011-09-15 Thread Colin Hercus
Mmm.. So you think if they'd used a smaller orifice and changed nothing else the power would have jumped to 27KW? On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jouni Valkonen wrote: > Colin wrote: « Funny that this module should produce 20Kw if it's part of a > 1MW reactor and if it was then how much back pr

Re: [Vo]:E-cat news at Nyteknik

2011-09-15 Thread Colin Hercus
, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Colin Hercus wrote: > > >> Of all the demos reported this new one is the least convincing and is a >> major disappointment. >> > > I tend to agree, because power input was high and they did not measure > total enthalpy. However, the last

Re: [Vo]:E-cat news at Nyteknik

2011-09-15 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi Finlay, I mean if you take temperature of two chambers to be 130C at time power is turned off, and allow cold water to flow in at 11l/h and hot water to flow out based on the simulated temp in the chimney then the rate of drop in temperature is virtually identical to that reported by Mats. This

[Vo]:E-cat news at Nyteknik

2011-09-15 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi, I haven't posted here before, I've just been lurking. A few months ago I wrote a simple finite element simulation for the eCat, it's a simple model based on two chambers each with a thermal equivalent of water with cold water entering chamber 1, being heated by the heater and reactor and then

Re: [Vo]:Ecatreport part 2

2011-07-14 Thread Colin Hercus
Just consider this sentence... After the initial meeting with NASA, Defkalion GT and Ampenergo will sit down and develop a joint program for the introduction of the E-Cat as a main energy source to the world. and break it down... After the initial meeting with NASA, Defkalion GT and Ampenerg

[Vo]:Lead & Boron

2011-05-09 Thread Colin Hercus
Hi, Reading Rossi's patent it seems Boron & Lead are used not just for shielding but to absorb the energy from the radiation. What I was wondering if there is any specific radiation that would need lead vs a cheaper metal (and thicker) or even concrete to absorb the energy. So is lead essential? A