Re: [Vo]:Mills's theory

Here's what my intuition tells me about the 1/137 level. An index label (the principal quantum number) has been confused for a physical constant. It has the aspect of a rookie error. It's understandable on one level, because there's a lot going on before you get there. One can almost piece toge

Re: [Vo]:Mills's theory

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:55 PM, James Bowery wrote: The theory is a photon like zitterbewegung model describing states that > retain locality in phase space with circular cycles of a trapped photon > representing the usual eigenstates. The Maxwell quanta hbar(c) becomes a > classical angular m

Re: [Vo]:Mills's theory

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:47 AM, David Roberson wrote: If he eventually does include these two well supported phenomena, then the > 1/137.0359 fraction most likely will be changed to a new one. Then, my > hope for inclusion of all the integer and fractional values might reappear > as a conseque

Re: [Vo]:Industrial Heat Acquires E-Cat Technology

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Eric Walker wrote: > > Gates was at the helm of Microsoft when it acquired DOS. DOS came out >> many years after and was an anorexic imitation of UNIX. >> > > That is incorrect. They brought it out within months, not

Re: [Vo]:Digital Journal reports on Industrial Heat deal with Rossi

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Nigel Dyer wrote: I tend to go to the mail archive site to search for historical postings > > http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/ > > which seems to allow seqrches of the last 10 years of the list > This list goes back to 1996 or so -- it would be n

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote: It reminds me of a woman who said she was willing to drive 12 miles to a > restaurant but not 12 & a half. But on the way to the restaurant, she > detoured to buy a dress, travelling 40 miles out of her way. It's no big > deal until she sta

Re: [Vo]:Industrial Heat Acquires E-Cat Technology

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:34 PM, leaking pen wrote: I've never heard anyone malign his programming skills. moral character, > visual design skills, absolutely, but never his coding chops. > Gates was at the helm of Microsoft when it acquired DOS. DOS came out many years after and was an anorex

Re: [Vo]:Digital Journal reports on Industrial Heat deal with Rossi

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Jones Beene wrote: That is the big unanswered question which I have: why did Ampenergo unload? I got the impression along the way that Ampenergo was not an entity that was independent of Rossi; sort of a Leonardo Corp. II. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Digital Journal reports on Industrial Heat deal with Rossi

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: See: > > http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1700070 > Kudos to Frank Acland and the fellow who broke this story well before it was announced to the public. >From the press release: Since acquiring Rossi's technology, IH has engaged in a broad-

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:54 PM, David Roberson wrote: Are you sure that you accurately understand the source of that radiation? > It would seem more reasonable for the energy to be transferred as a well > defined chunk that is accepted by the catalyst. The activity of the > catalyst as a result

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, the reason for non-radiation is that there is a lower > limit > to radiation as a phenomenon. According to the presentation at zhydrogen [1], when the electron "spirals down" to a more redundant level, there is a broadband emission of

[Vo]:some thoughts on hydrinos

People who are following this list are already acquainted with my views on hydrinos -- I do not believe they are plausible. This is despite the fact that some smart people here take them seriously. Nonetheless, because they upset so many assumptions, I have enjoyed thinking about them in the cont

Re: [Vo]:Nanoparticles make steam without bring water to a boil.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:05 PM, David Roberson wrote: Why on earth would they let such an opportunity get away? It just doesn't > add up. > Just to play devil's advocate, perhaps Papp had onerous licensing terms. Given that he is reported by Axil to have taken the specific step of making it m

Re: [Vo]:BLP demo - the energizing electrodes

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Axil Axil wrote: By the way. the patent is written to confuse and it is successful. The > patent defines every voltage, amperage, pulse rate and arc duration, and > every chemical that exists. In short, it says everything and its says > nothing. That is consist

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:05 PM, David Roberson wrote: Eric, if you are asking me this question, I would refer most of it to the > Mills experts. I am sorry if I mixed up the quantum theory with Mills' > theory in that post. > Ah, no doubt my mistake. The hypothesized situations were so simila

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, David Roberson wrote: All they need to do to ensure that no radiation is emitted at a stable > orbital is to force the electrons to be distributed per above instead of > existing as a single moving point. If I recall correctly, those models do > not attempt to tr

Re: [Vo]:Understanding BLP

I've had a chance to read Jeff's helpful slides [1] and have some questions. But first I want to make sure I've gotten the basic points right. Here is my current understanding of Mills's theory (there are several related ones going around). I am trying to understand the main points of Mills's ex

Re: [Vo]:Re: BLP's announcement

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Mike Carrell wrote: Erik, conservation f energy applies. Understood. I'm not saying that hydrinos would violate conservation of mass/energy. I was making a point about what measurements would seem to record -- that instruments might tell the observer that visi

Re: [Vo]:Re: BLP's announcement

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:42 PM, David Roberson wrote: Can a loss of mass attributed to the formation of hydrinos and their > subsequent escape from the system be shown? This would be strong evidence > as well. > I think the transition from hydrogen to hydrino would show up as an apparent viola

Re: [Vo]:Patent application on Least Action Nuclear Process (LANP)

The author lives in Davis, California, which is not that far from me. Here is the abstract: This invention describes the Least Action Nuclear Process (LANP). What > makes this process different than that occurring in LENR or cold fusion > devises is the temperature at which the nuclear process oc

Re: [Vo]:The photo reactor

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Hot Electrons Do the Impossible - Plasmon-Induced Dissociation of H2 > http://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/faculty/carter/EAC-267.pdf > > Did I explain this to you before? > You have mentioned this before. From the abstract: Surface plasmons

Re: [Vo]:The photo reactor

I wrote: For this reason, people proposing a p+p reaction of some kind in the > context of LENR ... (Widom and Larsen) > That was a little poorly thought-through. Widom and Larsen are not proposing a p+p reaction. They're proposing a p+e electron capture reaction, which also relies upon the wea

Re: [Vo]:The photo reactor

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:30 AM, David Roberson wrote: One of my favorite concepts is that the electric field induced by the > rapidly changing magnetic field could accelerate protons so that they > fuse. This would be a form of hot fusion if active. > In the context of known physics, a p+p re

Re: [Vo]:[OT] What's Up at Minot?

I wrote: An exam every month? A requirement like this gives one the impression that > its main function is to signal to outside stakeholders that program > managers are taking their responsibility for keeping nuclear warheads safe > and under competent care ... > On further reflection I think th

Re: [Vo]:Understanding BLP

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Mike Carrell wrote: His patent disclosers are descriptive of many possible strategies and > ingredients [to catch any copiers] while concealing in plain sight the > optimum path which s disclosed to licensees. Why would he intentionally make it hard for people t

Re: [Vo]:[OT] What's Up at Minot?

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: ... after it came to light that > they were cheating—or complicit in cheating—on monthly exams to ensure > that they were capable of safely babysitting the nuclear warheads atop > their missiles. An exam every month? A requirement like thi

Re: [Vo]:Observation on a BLP (patent?) document

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Jones Beene wrote: To be brutally honest, this makes no sense. You cannot have it both ways. > The underlying reaction is either hot or it isn’t. Plus, the larger > problem: > Boltzmann’s tail (of the Maxwellian distribution). > I think we agree more than may be

Re: [Vo]:Observation on a BLP (patent?) document

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:02 PM, wrote: "Hairy metal laser show produces bright X-Rays" > -- Setting metallic wires on fire creates a bright X-Ray glow > > http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/11/hairy-metal-laser-show-produces-bright-x-rays/ Thank you, Lou, for the references. In the one abo

Re: [Vo]:Increasing probability of Rossi being real upwards, to 35%

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: > But the reality is 99% of the scientific world probably thinks I'm a total > crank for putting that much faith into Rossi. > If not that, they would surely think you're a crank for being on this list. Personally, I suspect it is closer t

Re: [Vo]:Observation on a BLP (patent?) document

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:55 AM, wrote: Yes. Once established the large current densities generate huge magnetic > fields circulating the current flow, or equivalently a magnetic vector > potential field pointing in current flow direction. If the current > suddenly stops, oppositely charged par

Re: [Vo]:Sterling Allan interviews McKubre about Brillouin

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > They both use low boiling point metals to catalyze copious nanoparticle > production. This helps a great deal. > Can you provide a reference for the "low boiling point" part? To the extent that the active materials Rossi and DGT use are not ref

Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

> On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:59, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Eric Walker wrote: > >> Without offering an opinion about whether Blacklight Power actually has a >> gainful reaction, I will say that this particular detail sounds like pure >> huxterism. > > Why? Th

Re: [Vo]:More on the Higgs field in LENR - as a portal

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:31 PM, David Roberson wrote: Not so fast with doing away with CoE. I have not seen any proof that it is > violated in any of these reactions. My suspicion is that it remains valid. > I don't have any compelling hunch against COE at this point, either generally or in t

Re: [Vo]:BLP's announcement

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, James Bowery wrote: the detailed chemistry and identification of Hydrinos by ten analytical > methods that laboratories can follow and replicate are given at > http://www.blacklightpower.com/. Without offering an opinion about whether Blacklight Power actually h

Re: [Vo]:Re: CMNS: BLP's announcement

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Nigel Dyer wrote: I was not aware of anything in the definition of LENR that says that it > has to be solid state. Some of the better public examples at the moment > are solid state, but I am aware of other systems that appear to be low > energy nuclear reactio

Re: [Vo]:More on the Higgs field in LENR - as a portal

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Jones Beene wrote: At any rate, if we vorticians want to propose a more specific kind of straw > man for consideration of how the gain comes into nickel-hydrogen LENR- but > without the normal indicia of nuclear reactions, one possibility is ... One question I h

Re: [Vo]:Cern Colloquium: Low Energy Nuclear Reactions?

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Foks0904 . wrote: And while W-L is likely smoke and mirrors, lack of neutron detection does > not refute the theory, because as W-L states their "Ultracold" Neutrons are > captured so quickly as to evade detection. Convenient, no? > Even the fact that the neutro

Re: [Vo]:Basil Hiley Comments on Theoreticians and Experimental Science

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Axil Axil wrote: If that loss of confinement hydrogen explosion does not occur, how high > would that meltdown temperature have gotten to? > Daniel Rocha, who I believe has a special hotline to DGT, thought it might be a Langmuir torch reaction. Wikipedia says

Re: [Vo]:Basil Hiley Comments on Theoreticians and Experimental Science

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: Nor did the inside stainless steel melt. > In Rossi's description, I recall parts of the stainless steel *sublimating*. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Basil Hiley Comments on Theoreticians and Experimental Science

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Edmund Storms wrote: You need to use some facts. Sparks do not occur during electrolysis because > the voltages are too small and bubble collapse does not occur. > I would be surprised if transients did not occur between grain boundaries during electrolysis when t

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Star Object Ejection Process

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:20 PM, David L Babcock wrote: A continent-melting crash requires that more than a continent-melting > supply of fuel has been applied to/used by the craft. > You make an excellent point. But we should not become too complacent in feeling safe that no mis-aimed spacesh

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Star Object Ejection Process

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. wrote: What would happen if a million mile per hour 1 ton rock impacted? > There's an interesting xkcd writeup on a similar question (posed by an eight year-old): "If a meteor made out of diamond and 100 feet in diameter was traveling at the s

Re: [Vo]:[OT] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: by the way, as a foreign english speaker, could you say what does mean > "outspoken", as you use it, as Charles Beaudette use in his book... > "Outspoken" has mildly negative connotations. It vaguely suggests that one is a little bit of a boo

Re: [Vo]:[OT] ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: Unlike some critics against mainstream scientist, > my main feeling is that many scientists share with pseudo-scientists a > love for theory, teleology, coherence, and when facing reality, > serendipity, anomalies, they refuse to accept it. > I

Re: [Vo]:PESN reports on Rossi and other LENR news

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: http://pesn.com/2014/01/06/9602412_LENR-to-Market_Digest_January6/ > You've been busy, Frank. Some interesting links from Sterling Allan's outline: - Cherokee Investment Partners has been connected to the establishment of an industrial

Re: [Vo]:AXIL's Efitorial

Concerning the possibility that China will quietly pursue LENR technology with the help of Rossi's knowledge transfer and then break out all of a sudden, this is something to think about. Doing this could give them an edge over western countries, where entrenched interests are threatened by LENR a

Re: [Vo]:AXIL's Efitorial

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, James Bowery wrote: China seems to be pursuing a hybrid command economy not unlike that often > called "fascism". ... Which is superior when it comes to exploiting > technological opportunities? > China seems to be pursuing the path that Singapore pursued during

Re: [Vo]:Isaac Asimov predicts the world of 2014 in 1964

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I do not think there has been an actual increase in autism. More cases are > being diagnosed. I think some are not real. Alzheimer's and cancer is > increasing mainly because there is no cure for them and the population is > aging. > My guess

Re: [Vo]:Forbes brief article on $10M ARPA-E fund

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: > LENR technology has suffered from confusion with “cold fusion”, which has largely been dismissed by the scientific community. It's encouraging to see that a journalist at Forbes has taken up the LENR scoop again. This one does not appear t

Re: [Vo]:McKubre visitors who peer-reviewed his lab, then get (unethically) silent

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I agree with Ed that they were brave to believe their own calorimetry, > given the deficit of neutrons. Martin later said, "it is the easiest thing > in the world to dismiss your own results; to say 'that must be a mistake' > and to ignore it."

Re: [Vo]:McKubre visitors who peer-reviewed his lab, then get (unethically) silent

About the neutron measurements with the health dosimeter, I wrote: Fleischmann and Pons ... carried out procedures of their own devising to > look for evidence completely outside of their field ... > This was inaccurate. For the neutron measurements, they used two approaches. First they used an

Re: [Vo]:McKubre visitors who peer-reviewed his lab, then get (unethically) silent

The safest course is to take Garwin and Lewis and the others at their word and to limit consideration to what was said and written. One can have one's suspicions about their genuine motives, but this is only speculation in the final analysis. Remember that Pons's lawyer sent a stiff letter to Mic

Re: [Vo]:Isaac Asimov predicts the world of 2014 in 1964

I wrote: It would be something else to see Americans emigrating en mass to Ireland, > Italy and eastern bloc countries in order to make a better life for > themselves and their children. > No offense intended to anyone in these countries. This was just an allusion to the large migrations of peop

Re: [Vo]:Isaac Asimov predicts the world of 2014 in 1964

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:14 AM, James Bowery wrote: To be fair, Ed, the left wing fights the solution too. The solution being > the unconditional basic income. It was the last thing Martin Luther King, > Jr. recommended as the proper solution to inequality -- just before he was > assassinated.

Re: [Vo]:Isaac Asimov predicts the world of 2014 in 1964

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Edmund Storms wrote: For example, people look forward to having their work done by robots but > each robot puts several people out of work, who now cannot afford to buy a > robot or anything else. In spite of this problem becoming obvious, the > right wing fights

Re: [Vo]:Tickle The Dragon

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: I don't know if it is real, but sure a negative retro-action is needed, and > that it is done through electricity is a good point. > If the "mouse" provides active cooling, how can it have a COP in excess of 1, as has been mentioned in comments

Re: [Vo]:Tickle The Dragon

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, David Roberson wrote: The latest discussion of the mouse having a reverse relationship to the > main cat does seem out of line unless he is using words to obscure the > meaning. > This was my thought, too. I wonder if Daniel Rocha's detail concerning MgH had any

Re: [Vo]:Book: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: "... They flew hundreds of exhibition flights, in spite of dangers: five of > the original nine died in crashes of Wright airplanes." > Whoever they were, they were did not let sentiment get in the way of what they were trying to do as they se

Re: [Vo]:The Kibble boson

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: Mouse, cat, dogs . . . quite the e-menagerie. > They're called cates and doges these days [1,2]. ("Doge" is probably pronounced "dohj," although this is a point that is in dispute.) These names refer to a "meme," a series of silly images

Re: [Vo]:from Rossi's blog -- destructive tests -- 1MW in 10 secs

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Daniel Rocha wrote: The "mouse" is nothing more than a ceramic canister within his SS tube > full of (most probably) MgH and Ni acting as a catalyst to brake the > released H2 to atomic from its solid state MgH at high temperatures. If H > or Mg are in contact wi

Re: [Vo]:from Rossi's blog -- destructive tests -- 1MW in 10 secs

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote: > the cylinder was cherry red, then in 10 seconds all the cylinder became > white-blue, starting from the white dot you see in the photo ( after 1 > second) becoming totally white-blue in the following 9 seconds, and then an > explosion and t

Re: [Vo]:from Rossi's blog -- destructive tests

Sorry about that; I accidentally pressed "send" when I didn't mean to. Eric > On Dec 28, 2013, at 12:27, Eric Walker wrote: >

Re: [Vo]:from Rossi's blog -- destructive tests

> On Dec 28, 2013, at 9:49, Alan Fletcher wrote: > > Jed Rothwell > December 27th, 2013 at 4:13 PM > > Hi. You wrote: > 113615 after they published the first study. I look forward to reading it. > > - - - > Andrea Rossi > December 27th, 2013 at 6:54 PM > > Jed Rothwell: I mean the th

Re: [Vo]:Beaudette book : "Excess Heat"

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Yup. Beaudette assigns some of the blame for the fiasco to F&P. I have to > agree, because of this. You might blame it on the lawyers but F&P were the > ones who followed their advice. > > Still, people did manage to replicate, so this should n

Re: [Vo]:Beaudette book : "Excess Heat"

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:20 PM, David Roberson wrote: I suspect that his calculation is in error if he in fact derived that 5 > milliwatts was the amount generated by the 1 cm cube. This would not be > enough to heat that cube significantly, certainly not enough to burn wood. > Perhaps the wood

Re: [Vo]:Beaudette book : "Excess Heat"

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Edmund Storms wrote: Gradually the challenges were answered and this answer was accepted as true > or the critic ran out of rational ways to attack. Now the evidence is so > overwhelming, a critic looks foolish by challenging the basic claims. > This may be true.

Re: [Vo]:Beaudette book : "Excess Heat"

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Perhaps what he meant was that Lewis was one of the few people to address > the calorimetry and the electrochemistry. The technical details. > The papers from Harwell and the German group were looking at calorimetry and electrochemistry too, i

Re: [Vo]:Beaudette book : "Excess Heat"

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Eric Walker wrote: > > I like Charles Beaudette's book a lot, but I think this is inaccurate. >> There were many articles in 1989-1991 that were implicitly critical of >> Pons and Fleischmann and Jones et al., inc

Re: [Vo]:Beaudette book : "Excess Heat"

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Alain Sepeda wrote: "The upshot of this conflict was that the scientific community failed to > give anomalous heat the evaluation that was its due. Scientists of orthodox > views, in the first six years of this episode, produced only four critical > reviews of the

Re: [Vo]:diagram of a current of protons confined within the magnetic field of a strong transient

I wrote: I'm trying to get a better understanding of an interesting scenario that > maybe some people with relevant expertise can help to pin down. ... > For those who might have been wondering why there are bare protons in the area outside of the spark discharge, here is an updated diagram: htt

[Vo]:diagram of a current of protons confined within the magnetic field of a strong transient

Hi, I'm trying to get a better understanding of an interesting scenario that maybe some people with relevant expertise can help to pin down. Suppose a strong transient develops in a gap between two electrically isolated surfaces of a metal (e.g., there is a spark discharge), and suppose there is

Re: [Vo]: Collective Phenomena

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:36 AM, John Franks wrote: Really, the MB distribution should allow for these outliers then CF would > be happening with a non-vanishing probability. > I think you're referring to what goes on in nature, outside of CF labs, on the assumption that cold fusion does not occ

Re: [Vo]: Collective Phenomena

Hi :) On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:05 AM, John Franks wrote: I was thinking about your desire to have quasi-particles, which are low > energy collective phenomena operating over several 10s of nm, somehow do > the impossible and behave like a real particle with reduced charge etc. > Personally, I

Re: [Vo]: White Dwarves

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, James Bowery wrote: > Indeed, it would be sinful for him to look through that telescope. > Seems hunting cold fusioners has become a sport of some kind. Perhaps there are anecdotes going around, and young, inexperienced physics students want to be able to reli

Re: [Vo]: White Dwarves

> On Dec 19, 2013, at 1:45, John Franks wrote: > > If CF is real, why doesn't it occur in white dwarves with their high > temperature and pressure electron degenerate matter? This is an interesting thought experiment. But it begs three questions: * Does the effective pressure created by the

Re: [Vo]:[Vo] That BEC paper

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Foks0904 . wrote: Yeah Goodstein even commented how good the work of Scaramuzzi was, but just > avoided the question of whether excess heat was real or not. > I rather like Goodstein's piece. The question facing him (whether he perceived it or not) was: do I wa

Re: [Vo]:Official policy of Nature/Science/SciAm on cold fusion publishing

Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:00 AM, John Franks wrote: It's because cold fusion is rubbish.There's no data, no mechanism, it's > inhabited by cranks with a bunker mentality. You talk lies about 100% > repeatability and offer youtube videos as evidence, instead of proper > conferences, attended

Re: [Vo]:possible explanation with illustrations

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Jones Beene wrote: -Original Message- > From: Nigel Dyer > > I'm intrigued by the 'fusion observed in the vicinity of transformers' > comment. ... > > Nigel > > This could be a reference to nuclear transmutation associated with high > voltage power lines.

Re: [Vo]:possible explanation with illustrations

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Axil Axil wrote: The principal use of lanthanum hexaboride is in hot cathodes, > either as a single crystal or as a coating deposited by physical vapor > deposition .

Re: [Vo]:possible explanation with illustrations

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Axil Axil wrote: How do you explain the Rossi reaction where only a heat spike is used to > initiate the reaction? > My best guess at this point: he's using a thermionic emitter such as lanthanum hexaboride, which will emit sparks at higher temperatures (this id

[Vo]:possible explanation with illustrations

Hi, I just discovered a free vector graphic illustration program that runs on a Mac and have taken the opportunity to create some illustrations that describe what I think might be happening with LENR: http://rolling-balance.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-i-think-might-be-going-on-in-lenr.html The dif

Re: [Vo]: What is Faraday Efficiency?

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:00 AM, John Franks wrote: Delusional, just lies or maybe incompetence. The onus is on you to rule out > mistakes and other artifacts before shooting off that it's nuclear reaction > in an otherwise chemical setup. So far, no one is listening. The discussion of objectio

Re: [Vo]:More versatile Maxwell's demons

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Axil Axil wrote: What the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (FQHE) shows is that charge > screening in topologically constrained fermions will occur in the direction > of complete charge screening as the strength of a tightly focused magnetic > field is increased (t

Re: [Vo]:More versatile Maxwell's demons

I wrote: In my own case I'm not thinking of hydrinos. I'm thinking of brief but > sharp transients in the electronic structure of the host metal that > intervene between two fusion precursors. > Btw, for those who are interested, here is a drawing I put together to give a sense of this particula

Re: [Vo]:More versatile Maxwell's demons

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 2:08 AM, John Franks wrote: >> Perhaps sufficient screening can bring nucleons within 10s of fermis of > one another. > In my own case I'm not thinking of hydrinos. I'm thinking of brief but sharp transients in the electronic structure of the host metal that intervene be

Re: [Vo]:More versatile Maxwell's demons

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:04 PM, John Franks wrote: LENR has been going on for years and I and others just can't see how you can > bring nucleons within 10s of fermi of each other to fuse, lattice or no > lattice. > About twenty four years, if Paneth and Peters aren't considered. Perhaps suffic

Re: [Vo]:Exponential growth in Solar Energy

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: I also have this weird fear that we might create a drag that slows the spin > of the earth's rotation. :D > If we could work out a global windmill installation that could accomplish that, I think our energy problems would be solved for a wh

Re: [Vo]:The end of EESTOR?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Foks0904 . wrote: Unfortunately there remains very little evidence that hints at a > correlation between transmutations and excess heat. The Miley work has not > been replicated and remains ambiguous, albeit interesting. Results cited by > Krivit in Naturwissensch

Re: [Vo]:Exponential growth in Solar Energy

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: There is a lot to be said for PV solar, but it cannot meet 100% of our > energy needs unless an improved battery comes along. > I think if we found ready sources of energy, demand would increase and we'd find new ways of using it. Similar dev

Re: [Vo]:In honor of the Hour of Code initiative

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: > *A Programming Language (APL) *has an interesting provenance: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) > Here is a simple function from the article that is part of an implementation of the common "life" program with the

Re: [Vo]:In honor of the Hour of Code initiative

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: There are three things a man must do > Before his life is done; > Write two lines in APL, > And make the buggers run. > APL -- I've just learned about a programming language I hadn't heard of before. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Asked & Answered

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:09 PM, wrote: > There is a claim that successive transmutations threw addition of protons > or deuterons actually is an mass spectroscopy error made from formations of > molecules. > I remember some details along those lines. Using mass spectrometry of an insufficient re

Re: [Vo]:Asked & Answered

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Sunil Shah wrote: This would produce a number of more (or less) likely chains of reactions, > that together yield the EXACT mass spectrum of the transmutation products. > I like this idea, too. Keeping track of potential transmutations is relatively recent -- per

Re: [Vo]:Re:

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Bob Higgins wrote: One could compare the gamma emission of the metal as a powder with a > corresponding similar mass of the same metal as a solid geometric form (say > a sphere). Then using ordinary rules for absorption (not extraordinary > rules), what should the

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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Jones Beene wrote: They originally built (or bought, from an impoverished > inventor) a small device - which showed a possible gravity anomaly (or > something like the Aspden effect) but did not self-power reliably. Then ... > in the way that rich industrialists of

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I wrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:36 AM, wrote: > > Surely that depends on the distribution of the radioisotope within the >> metal? >> Since you created this hypothetical substance, it's up to you to say >> whether or >> not that's the case. ;) >> > > No doubt. :) But for my hypothetical subs

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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:36 AM, wrote: Surely that depends on the distribution of the radioisotope within the > metal? > Since you created this hypothetical substance, it's up to you to say > whether or > not that's the case. ;) > No doubt. :) But for my hypothetical substance, I will choose

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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Eric Walker wrote: Consider a metal, a proportion of which is a radioisotope. I have several > questions: > One more question: - Consider that electrons close to the lattice sites of a metal or other solid are effectively taken up, in a sense,

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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:56 PM, wrote: Sounds pretty good doesn't it? However consider the fact that gamma emitting > radioisotopes are common, even in solids, so apparently the coupling > mechanism > that might allow the energy to be transferred to the neighbouring > electrons is > missing. :(

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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:25 PM, David Roberson wrote: I suppose that we should be trying to understand why the normal fusion > paths lead to the emission of a proton or neutron generally with the gamma > as the rare case. There are some very obscure physics going on under the hood. I think, b

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