Re: [Vo]:Re:

2013-12-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 11:56 PM, P.J van Noorden wrote: Now comes the big question. Are there any new nuclear reactions possible > which produce for instance 4He without particles or gamma emission? > I'm thinking we've made the missing gamma problem harder than it needs to be. My guess -- ther

Re: [Vo]:cold fusion plant deliverable next year

2013-11-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: This keeps popping up. This is the website that Mats told me has not > changed in years. For some reason news of it is echoing around the > cybernetic continuum. > I wonder whether there's a little bit of an echo chamber going on in this parti

Re: [Vo]:What if we live in a simulated reality?

2013-11-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Of course, the gamers are risking "exposure" now that A.I. is becoming > closer to reality. A.I. may have developed a life (reality) of its own > which > clears up everything, and possibly within a few decades. > I think whether the universe is

Re: [Vo]:Rossi Publishes His Theoretic Notes vis Focardi

2013-11-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Bob Higgins wrote: This is likes a Schaum's outline math reference in Italian. I don't think > there is anything useful here, but I could be proven wrong. > It was a strange thing indeed to put up a link to that. The math is basic, and I suppose it is useful in

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-19 Thread Eric Walker
Dave, I've asked our question on phsyics.stackexchange.com -- here's what has come back so far: http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/87047/6713 On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:44 PM, David Roberson wrote: As I have mentioned on occasions, I see plenty of evidence that both forms > of relativity are s

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Eric Walker wrote: About the muons -- I don't have enough confidence in statements in the wiki > article or in your derivation from them to conclude with much confidence > that the muon perceives its acceleration to have integrated up to 10x c. &

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-18 Thread Eric Walker
ng at approximately 10 times c according to its > internal clock, etc. We all realize that an Earth bound observer sees it > moving at .995 times c and that its apparent internal clock seems to be > slowed down by the SR relationships. This is an analogy to the spaceman > that w

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM, David Roberson wrote: I am confident that the world he sees before him will appear warped by his > velocity when he compares notes to other spacemen traveling at a different > clip. To compare notes, they will have to send him photons that are emitted from charg

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:19 AM, David Roberson wrote: I do not expect to see any problem exceeding c according to our internal > calculations provided fuel holds out. > I don't have much sense of what would happen with regard to the fuel. One question I have is whether it would even be an iss

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM, David Roberson wrote: It seems real to each one of these guys, but not overly important to the > spaceman. He sees no time dilation within his ship. > I think we're in agreement about the mind-bending lack of a fixed point by which to assess the rocketship pilo

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:27 PM, David Roberson wrote: In that case, each new velocity could be considered at rest and a new delta > added during the next drive period. This process could be continued > indefinitely as long as the fuel lasts. I'm thinking here that "indefinitely" gets to be a

Re: [Vo]:Local Calculated Velocity of Space Ship

2013-11-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:44 AM, David Roberson wrote: > After a modest period of time, we calculate that our super rocket engine > which uses anti matter as fuel and attached ship, has reached a calculated > velocity of 10 times the speed of light. This number is calculated by > integrating th

Re: [Vo]:Time, Mass, Gravity

2013-11-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:59 PM, H Veeder wrote: GR says it is because time itself slows down as gravity intensifies > Is it gravity that causes time to slow down in the reference frame, or acceleration, e.g., due to gravity? This is one of those points that is hard to pin down. (Another subtl

Re: [Vo]:MFMP detects GAMMA rays in LENR experiment!

2013-11-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: So, in reality, the LeClair effect can't be duplicated either because > LeClair won't permit it or because it doesn't actually exist. > One should resist putting LeClair's claims in the same basket as those of McKubre, Miles, Storms, etc., as wel

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-11-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: Another thing ... if low energy gamma is being blocked by the reactor wall > after some prolonged period of operation wouldn't the inside of the wall > show an elevated level of radiation? > I'm not a nuclear scientist, but I'll try this one -- I

Re: [Vo]:Face-Palm moment: Essen et al did it again! [Abd's open letter]

2013-11-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Mark Gibbs wrote: Why does the MFMP produce such execrable writing? That article reads that > it was translated from Urdu into English. > Not everyone with MFMP are native English speakers. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Re: The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics

2013-11-01 Thread Eric Walker
You can't edit an email once it's been sent out. ;) Wikipedia is the site that everyone loves to hate, and that almost all younger people, including those in the top tier of the journalism industry, love to consult as a starting point to find out about a new topic. It's an unruly democracy/techn

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Infusion Institute Inc. (AKA III)

2013-10-31 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Peter Gluck wrote: how will we characterize Defkalion's mass spectrometry study? > I vaguely recall spectrometry of the substrate, and definitely recall claims about activity/inactivity of different isotopes of nickel. I'm curious if there has been a systematic

Re: [Vo]:More on 3D printing: A brave new world is coming soon. Adapt or die.

2013-10-28 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:54 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: Yo! Vorts, > > ** ** > > More 3D printing news. This from CNN. Indications strongly suggest that 3D > printing has the potential of being just as disruptive to modern societies > as what CF/L

Re: [Vo]:Waltzing Hammers

2013-10-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > Again, let's be clear: AmpEnergo holds the EXCLUSIVE and only E-Cat license > for the USA (and the Caribbean). The "manufacturer" which is unnamed as of > now is a customer found by AmpEnergo for a heating device to replace the > fossil fuel

Re: [Vo]:Waltzing Hammers

2013-10-25 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > but... the nature of both mechanical > loss and the mental delusion (of a perpmo) - is that when things become > chaotic, they become unpredictable... and this may be preferable to the > alternative. > Perhaps a good energy accountant would

Re: [Vo]:2014 History of Cold Fusion Calendar Available Now!

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Ruby wrote: cold fusion, LENR, LANR, AHE, quantum fusion, and HENI. > Maybe CFLLAQFH? Eric

Re: [Vo]:House of cards - the "big bang" model...

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jones Beene wrote: A galaxy red-shifted to appear 30 billion years old is "really" much younger > when you apply the funky logic of "inflation" Kinda sounds like voodoo > economics to me. > Another variable in the abstract subject to creative bookeeping -- s

Re: [Vo]:Elforsk publish a "perspective" mini magazine, with E-cat among the stars

2013-10-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: If they had something like a commercial prototype years ago, suitable for > testing, why are they still working with this crude gadget? > I recall seeing a link to slides somewhere on this list with advice to people giving demos -- something t

Re: [Vo]:Switzerland considers giving every citizen $2,800 a month

2013-10-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Craig wrote: Yes, I'm referring to the law. The law is backed by violence and threats > of violence. Library fines are agreed upon when a person signs up for > the library; but it's not valid to take a large geographic area and > claim the authority to control the

Re: [Vo]:Switzerland considers giving every citizen $2,800 a month

2013-10-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, James Bowery wrote: Since the banks don't have anything profitable to invest in, they instead > invest in ... politicians and government officials. > See: http://imagecache5d.allposters.com/watermarker/71-7117-T2BM100Z.jpg Eric

Re: [Vo]:Switzerland considers giving every citizen $2,800 a month

2013-10-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: " It means there is less disposable income in circulation. " > > Yes, which is why a negative income tax rate probably makes sense. > However, you still have to work for it. > Honestly, I have no strong opinion on this last point. I say, pu

Re: [Vo]:Switzerland considers giving every citizen $2,800 a month

2013-10-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Blaze Spinnaker wrote: There are levels of socialism which increasingly make more sense. > When people talk about "socialism," there's a huge spectrum of possibilities concerning what is intended. One one side you have the old style authoritarianism that was Sovi

Re: [Vo]:Switzerland considers giving every citizen $2,800 a month

2013-10-19 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:28 PM, James Bowery wrote: This has resulted in such an enormous demographic collapse in the US -- 10s > of millions children foregone for financial reasons ... You just can't do > this kind of thing to a nation and believe you're going to get away scott > free. Someth

Re: [Vo]:Guest Editorial by Dr. Stoyan Sarg

2013-10-18 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Axil Axil wrote: > In conclusion, Rossi has strongly and consistently stated many times that > his reactor contains no radioactive isotopes. > Moreover, Rossi's device appears to be activated by heat. So my guess is that if there's a beta emitter involved (as su

Re: [Vo]:U.S. Researcher Preparing Prototype Cars Powered by Heavy-Metal Thorium

2013-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:54 PM, wrote: The gas is contained within a cavity that is dimensioned and tuned to the > laser > light wavelength, just like an ordinary gas laser. AFAIK the protons are > accelerated along the axis of the laser. > My thought was that the light would go back and forth

Re: [Vo]:U.S. Researcher Preparing Prototype Cars Powered by Heavy-Metal Thorium

2013-10-15 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:38 PM, wrote: The fast particles from the thorium fission process could excite a gas > causing > it to lase. The laser light would then accelerate protons in the same gas > which > would fission more thorium. > If the protons are within the lasing medium, how does it ac

Re: [Vo]:OFF TOPIC How to survive a robot uprising

2013-10-12 Thread Eric Walker
The future is becoming the present very quickly. In this case, on one hand, the cheetah robot makes it clear that it will be possible to track down suspected criminals with tireless, relentless efficiency. You can evade the law for a period of time, but the robots will eventually collect you. On

Re: [Vo]:Spy drone ... available now

2013-10-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Jones Beene wrote: http://www.stratus-productions.com/multirotors.htm > > range is 5 miles today but next year it will be 7.5 and so on... > As a followup, see: http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/10/07/aerospace-company-develops-drone-that-can-fly-continuously-for

Fwd: [Vo]:Spy drone ... available now

2013-10-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Adrian Sampaleanu wrote: I suppose you haven't been following the relatively recent developments > where pretty much anyone can now 3D print the bulk of the parts needed for > quad-copters and similar drones, which, along with generic electronics, > cameras can get

Re: [Vo]:Spy drone ... available now

2013-10-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: The only solution I can think of is other robots to guard us. I suppose > they would be owned by the police. We have to hope the police are good > guys, on our side. It is the same problem we have with the NSA. > There is another partial solut

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion calorimetry updated

2013-10-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Sunil Shah wrote: Mats has posted some pictures, a short interview with John Hadjichristos, > and updated with some comments regarding the setup. > > http://matslew.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/update-on-defkalions-reactor-demo-in-milan/ > /Sunil > Elsewhere I have n

Re: [Vo]:News from Italian Athanor open-source LENR project

2013-10-03 Thread Eric Walker
That's really funny. I've never seen English used less clearly to communicate something with real meaning. (Wikipedia's translation: "Buffalo bison that other Buffalo bison bully, themselves bully Buffalo bison." "Buffalo," with a capital "B," is a city in New York.) Eric On Wed, Oct 2, 2013

Re: [Vo]:Sound in a Vacuum

2013-10-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:36 AM, David Roberson wrote: Eventually the energy would become heat which I assume appears like > incoherent phonons, but initially it would be generated as waves > propagating outwards from the point at which it is thermalized. Here > outwards should be interpreted a

Re: [Vo]:Sound in a Vacuum

2013-10-01 Thread Eric Walker
ric, > > I do not believe that IR can travel through a solid metal for a > significant distance. Do you have reason to suspect that the energy can > escape by that method other than when it is emitted at the surface? > > Dave > > > -Original Message- > From: Er

Re: [Vo]:Sound in a Vacuum

2013-10-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:54 AM, David Roberson wrote: The thermal power exiting each square centimeter of surface area is well > within reason when 10 micrometer material is used and should not cause a > meltdown according to preliminary figures. > If the mass energy of the fusion events is deli

Re: [Vo]:Sun's 11-Year Cycle Caused by Dark Matter

2013-09-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:06 PM, David Roberson wrote: Dark energy, matter and gravitational effects are likely not involved to > any major degree. I like Robin's approach -- perhaps there's an intrinsic process driving the sun's 11 year cycle, and it has influenced where the planets formed and

Re: [Vo]:Sun's 11-Year Cycle Caused by Dark Matter

2013-09-30 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: ** > I found it odd that nobody mentions the *positions* of the planets > (Jupiter, mainly), during solar max. Maybe to try to avoid the association > with astrology, the constellations, and related pseudo-scientific stuff? > Could there be some

Re: [Vo]:New LENR Patent Application

2013-09-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, wrote: One is led to wonder what "powdered hydrogen hydride." is? > It sounds a little like hydrogen gas, but in powder form. ;) Eric

Re: [Vo]:A great, pleasant meeting

2013-09-29 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Terry Blanton wrote: which is probably a very advisable thing to do: get away from nuclear > fusion. > >From the standpoint of regulators, I think this makes tactical sense. >From the standpoint of what we know about physics, there seem to be these options for

Re: [Vo]:Was the Navy shooting far more significant than it seems?

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:24 PM, John Berry wrote: The most interesting and somewhat topic relevant portion of this discussion > is that of why belief systems that support trust in leadership, authority > and beliefs that support general social cohesion are likely to be strongly > selected in evo

Re: [Vo]:Was the Navy shooting far more significant than it seems?

2013-09-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM, David Roberson wrote: Perhaps someone might want to offer a location to which this topic could > be pursued. > Vortex-B? Southern Poverty Law Center? ;) Eric

Re: [Vo]:Cravens report on NI Week demo

2013-09-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:41 PM, David Roberson wrote: Do you have any idea what function is performed by his catalyst? > I can only guess. My guess at this point is that a beta emitter is involved here. Perhaps it is stimulating rydberg states in the hydrogen, or perhaps it is altering the e

Re: [Vo]:Cravens report on NI Week demo

2013-09-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, David Roberson wrote: I have begged Rossi to produce a curve of energy generated versus > temperature applied to his material to no avail. With that type of > information one can begin to actually engineer a device that functions on > demand provided the material

Re: [Vo]:Improved calibrations from Mizuno

2013-09-20 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jack Cole wrote: But doesn't hydrogen/deuterium absorption by palladium/nickel produce heat? > I'm not saying this is not LENR. I'm trying to see if there are > alternative explanations. > The absorption of hydrogen and deuterium by palladium produces a lot of

Re: [Vo]:Rossi and his Nickel LENR- "AHHHH-HA Moment"

2013-09-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:13 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: > I suspect any new reader who begins to acquire an earnest interest in LENR > related subjects will eventually discover lenr-canr.org. They will so in > short order. > I think after seeing a YouT

Re: [Vo]:Neutron Bursts in Lab Lightning

2013-09-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Axil Axil wrote: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.115003 > > Neutron Bursts in Lab Lightning [... snip ... ] > We here at vortex know that LENR is an electromagnetic based reaction. > There have been complaints here and elsewhere that o

Re: [Vo]:Brilloun Energy Interview

2013-09-13 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:46 AM, wrote: I'm perplexed that Google wouldn't provide funding after observing some > of the experiments. > I didn't hear anything about Google's decision after the neutron measurements -- perhaps they did go ahead with funding after all? I think it's pretty cool th

Re: [Vo]:Neutron Bursts in Lab Lightning

2013-09-13 Thread Eric Walker
this abstract indicates that fast neutrons are detected over 10 > MeV. That finding almost certainly eliminates LENR as the source, since the > fastest neutrons ever documented in cold fusion are under 3.5 MeV, which is > the expected spectrum for deuterium fusion. > > ** **

Re: [Vo]:Neutron Bursts in Lab Lightning

2013-09-13 Thread Eric Walker
It's pretty cool that these authors have gotten a LENR-ish paper into Physical Review Letters in 2013. I suspect this paper should be understood to be in the line of LENR papers, proper, rather than that of an outside group looking at something akin to LENR. At least two of the authors, for examp

Re: [Vo]:Global warming...

2013-09-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:39 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: Pro-Walker Outside-of-the-state financial campaign funds went > obscenely through the roof in an effort to assure that their favorite > conservative would remain in the seat. > I have no opinion

Re: [Vo]:We abandon vast amounts of infrastructure, buildings, and so on

2013-09-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: The patents will have to expire. The knowledge of how to make them will > have to spread. > I have been wanting to get to the patents before too long. I know very little about patents at this point. But I would not be surprised if the existi

Re: [Vo]:Parallels between Ball Lightning and LENR

2013-09-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:49 PM, wrote: Another related video is at - > "U.F.O.Shoots Down U.S.Nuclear Missile.Retired Military Man Bob Jacobs, > Explains The Event" > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8wFmtr05Ko The UFO was observed to have a raised bubble (i.e., a round cockpit window). ;) Wh

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Shocking Story That Could Derail Attack on Syria

2013-09-04 Thread Eric Walker
The piece by Polk was interesting. While I am respectful of the ambivalence towards and disagreement about taking action in connection with the recent chemical weapons incident, I feel that Polk's piece is alarmist and only partly succeeds in casting doubt on the details of the incident in questio

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:[OT]Shocking Story That Could Derail Attack on Syria

2013-09-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Vorl Bek wrote: Excellent question. And to extend it a bit, why should we be > involved in a proxy war between Israel and the Islamic Arab world? > > Why should America spend blood and money defending Israel by > attacking Syria (or Iran or Iraq), when Israel is a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi and his Fermi inspiration

2013-09-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Just knowing the principles of fission was not enough to make a bomb. You > had to master many other subjects. > Also, Fermi didn't know he was looking at fission prior to 1939. He thought he had discovered transuranic elements (elements heav

Re: [Vo]:Rossi and his Fermi inspiration

2013-09-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Funny Rossi mentions Fermi in 1939 instead of 1934. LOL - what a putz > Andrea can be on occasion. He is an inventor – not a scientist and > certainly not a historian. It was in 1939 that Fermi collaborated with Leo Szilard to create the first

[Vo]:Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter

2013-08-25 Thread Eric Walker
I'm including a brief synthesis of some of the thoughts that have been discussed on this list concerning a possibly novel interaction between gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter. This synthesis elaborates on a thought experiment that at this time lacks the rigor of something tha

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Just wanted to tie this thread to the one that Robin and I have been > discussing -- lanthanum hexaboride is a thermionic emitter [1]. > Axil has also been part of that thread, and he was the one who inspired the idea of a thermionic emitter from a comment here [1]. Eric [1] http://ww

Re: [Vo]:In defense of cracks...

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jones Beene wrote: This is exactly why a special nickel alloy, and not pure nickel, could be > used by Rossi: one that sucks up hydrogen like a sponge - to wit: LaNi5. > This is an amazing alloy which we have mentioned before. Just wanted to tie this thread to t

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:59 PM, wrote: Note that fast ions will also lose energy by ionizing atoms, creating more > angry > bees, so it doesn't really matter which path is followed. > The amount of energy used to create bees is pretty much the same, either > way. > It's also interesting to note

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Walker
I'm glad you seem to have signed off on the basic soundness of the angry bees, even if only as one possibility among many. Do you know if this kicking-of-the-beehive approach has been described somewhere (apart from the context of the Polywell)? It seems a lot like Peter Hagelstein's theory, exce

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-23 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Axil Axil wrote: The dipoles become entangled in the micro particles of the proper size. > To get the general level of electron energy to increase in a metal, I imagine you can't allow it to drain off from a localized region into a larger body of infinite size.

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Does anyone (maybe Robin?) know enough about quantum mechanics to clarify > whether it would be possible for the ~5.5 MeV in the case of p+d -> 3He + Q > to be transferred to several electrons, rather than a single one? Is it > necessary that the energy be transferred to a single target?

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Eric Walker wrote: What I will now try to think about is seeing whether that energy might be > dumped instead into a nearby electron in the ambient electron cloud that > fills much of the volume of the metal. In this case, the daughter 4He > would

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Axil Axil wrote: Do some research into the Shukla-Eliasson effect. > > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.0914.pdf > Thank you, Axil. I will take a look. Eric

Re: [Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-22 Thread Eric Walker
A few days ago I wrote this about a 1989 paper in Physical Review B by a group at UC Berkeley: What the 1989 paper did not look at was the possibility that you might be > able to excite lattice atoms into Rydberg states, where some of the > electrons have additional energy, but not enough to ioniz

Re: [Vo]:More problems in Japan

2013-08-21 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:10 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson < orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: > If the local wildlife has ingested 600 times the amount of radioactivity > to be eaten by humans, I find myself asking myself: how the hell can they > continue to survive and presumably reproduc

[Vo]:electron screening of fusion precursors within a metal substrate

2013-08-18 Thread Eric Walker
I'd like to give an update on the question of electron screening and Rydberg states in metals, recently discussed here [1]. As a background to this note, I encourage anyone who has the time and inclination to read a 1989 paper by X.W. Wang, S. Louie and M.L. Cohen, published in Physical Review B [

Re: [Vo]:the future of PdD LENR is not technological

2013-08-17 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: It is not sufficient to get measurable heat in one of these devices and not > see x-rays; it would be necessary to get high power densities. It is this > latter observable that I have yet to see correlated with low radiation > levels. > I did not say that as clearly as I meant to -- it

Re: [Vo]:the future of PdD LENR is not technological

2013-08-17 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Yes! They sure do assume that. So far, there has been practically no > evidence that cold fusion produces dangerous radiation. > I'm less concerned about radioactive byproducts (e.g., tritium -- although this is an excellent point I forgot abo

Re: [Vo]:the future of PdD LENR is not technological

2013-08-16 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: A laptop nowadays draws 50 to 100 W. I assume future ones will draw ~25 W. > Imagine a small but intense 50 W heat source powering a thermoelectric > chip, with a large radiator behind that to spread out the heat. That would > be doable I think

Re: [Vo]:My ICCF18 presentation

2013-08-15 Thread Eric Walker
Very nice table talk. You included these good-natured observations: "If you want great science, you must settle for lots of schlock science, and also many *odd people*." And, "by his own account, Watson was always ready to cut corners and goof off. He described a conference in Italy in 1951, a y

Re: [Vo]:FYI: Does tritium hydride exhibit measurable spontaneous fusion via proton tunneling?

2013-08-14 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: It seems that the "tunneling" in this instance refers to a chemical rather > than a nuclear reaction. The "barrier" in this case would be for the > chemical reaction. If this is true, this paper is probably talking about > something more mundane than what we're interested in. > I see t

Re: [Vo]:FYI: Does tritium hydride exhibit measurable spontaneous fusion via proton tunneling?

2013-08-14 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: Accelerated chemistry in the reaction between the hydroxyl radical and > methanol at interstellar temperatures facilitated by tunnelling > Robin J. Shannon, Mark A. Blitz, Andrew Goddard & Dwayne E. Heard > http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/va

Re: [Vo]:just published -with permission- a paper about DEFKALION

2013-08-13 Thread Eric Walker
I'm not so sure. I think the main discovery was set out sometime back in my paper, here [1], with a little help from the Internet [2]. Eric [1] http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/399/scimakelatex.51556.Eric+Walker.html [2] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ (Check it out -- it's pretty cool w

Re: [Vo]:just published -with permission- a paper about DEFKALION

2013-08-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Peter Gluck wrote: I have studied history and so I am aware that when Christopher Columbus has > discovered the New World,the North American mass media was unanimous in > rejecting his business model as "primitive, > dis-informed and inadequate for discovering an

Re: [Vo]:just published -with permission- a paper about DEFKALION

2013-08-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: I get a sense they are floundering around, trying out one plan after > another. > The complexity (branches in Canada, Greece, Italy, etc.), the numbers (40 million, 8 zeros, etc.) and similar details make me nervous. I am willing to write off

Re: [Vo]:just published -with permission- a paper about DEFKALION

2013-08-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:27 PM, blaze spinnaker wrote: Man, what does it say for Defkalion when everyone on Vortex is a doubter... We're very fickle, here. Once some solid information comes from defkalion (e.g., via a reliable third party such as National Instruments), we'll all be saying we b

Re: [Vo]:just published -with permission- a paper about DEFKALION

2013-08-12 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Edmund Storms wrote: Peter, a magnetic field has not been discovered. A claim has been made > without any evidence or even a logical explanation. The claimed high > intensity of a magnetic field is impossible under the circumstance. > Therefore the reading on the

Re: [Vo]:Norman D. Cook @ ICCF18: Isotope shifts in LENR

2013-08-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Teslaalset wrote: IInteresting analysis of LENR experiments by Norman D. Cook and Valerio > Dallacasa, presented at ICCF 18. Shifts in isotopic percentages in LENR > 'fuels'. > It has some interesting hooks with Rossi's claim on Ni62 being essencial > and Defkalion

Re: [Vo]:Re-adjusting odds on Rossi/Defkalion being real lower, now ~27%

2013-08-08 Thread Eric Walker
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:18 AM, blaze spinnaker wrote: Of course, another possibility may be that LENR isn't real so the market is > ignoring it. > The thought occurred to me. But even if the majority of people didn't think LENR is real, I assume that a portion of them would think it might be r

Re: [Vo]:Re-adjusting odds on Rossi/Defkalion being real lower, now ~27%

2013-08-07 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:02 AM, blaze spinnaker wrote: I am thinking of a new formation of a bet. > Just to go off on a tangent here (I'm good for that), I'm open-minded about the possibilities of prediction markets. It seems like people have the ability to use bayesian reasoning (a.k.a. intuiti

Re: [Vo]:MFMP on a possible independent report of DGT's Hyperion

2013-08-06 Thread Eric Walker
On Aug 6, 2013, at 11:05, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Energy companies will face ruin. I wonder whether they can slow that process down through a well-conceived campaign of lobbying for commercial and industrial regulation. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Test to show LENR?

2013-08-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: It would be nice to get some statistics out of that, any links? > Although this is a reasonable request, there are two difficulties in addressing it. The first is that the experiments span a range of qualit

Re: [Vo]:Test to show LENR?

2013-08-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: Tell me if I'm spaming ... > Not in the slightest. You seem to know something about statistics. I hope you will be very critical and complain about any mistaken reasoning you see. There are many electrica

Re: [Vo]:Test to show LENR?

2013-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: > But I would like to keep the discussion to the original FP experiment. > Ah, yes. Sounds good. It seems you are pretty familiar with the details, then. > There is a reason why heavy water is typically

Re: [Vo]:Test to show LENR?

2013-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: So if the test concerns the *existence* of LENR, rather than a parameter > that affects it, I think another control should be sought out. Whatever > that other control is (input power turned off, a different substrate or > cathode, or some other property), could be varied in the manner y

Re: [Vo]:Test to show LENR?

2013-08-04 Thread Eric Walker
Hi, On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < stefan.ita...@gmail.com> wrote: H0: the seen effect if it's seen, does not depend on the type of water > H1: It does depend on the type of water. > I think this would be an interesting test to whether there is a possible isotope effe

Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog

2013-08-03 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Axil Axil wrote: All the isotopes that work have 0 spin(high PNC) and the ones that don't > have non zero spin(low PNC). > > Look up parody non conservation(PNC) in nuclear theory to understand why > this is important in the LENR reaction. > > PS- and important cl

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog

2013-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Peter Gluck wrote: Eric, > all you need is a bit of patience and you will get the specific > data and info you want/need. What exactly has high priority for > you? Can I help you? > Peter > I have questions for them, but I'm a little worried about an infinite reg

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog

2013-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Peter Gluck wrote: Things would be so much easier if: > - we accept that LENR and LENR+ are very different; > - we do not try to extract definitive conclusions from data in evolution > - abstain from claiming we are omniscient- for example re business. > - seee th

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog

2013-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Axil Axil wrote: I know that it is absolutely true because John Hadjichristos has stated it > in public and without reservation. > So you're going off of John Hadjichristos's word. That's fine, and it makes sense on a certain level. I suppose I would do the sam

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog

2013-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > There is a pernicious tendency on the forums to ignore or even replace > facts that are inconvenient to the interests of the poster. > > Specifically and unfortunately here, the 1.6 T magnetic field. > Thank you. Now to the next question -- how

Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Some comments by me at Mats Lewan blog

2013-08-02 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Axil Axil wrote: There has been detailed data presented by Dr, Kim on radiation in the ICCF > paper and you chose to disbelieve it. What right do you have to expect more > data for another ill-informed prejudiced evaluation of what Defkalion > truthfully and publi

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