Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > > I look forward to the report. This is obviously well beyond chemical if > the consumables actually are H and Ni. The energy E per H is: > >E = (270kwh) /(0.4 g * Na / (1 gm/mol)) = 2.52x10^4 eV / H = 25 kEv per > atom of H. > >

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Horace Heffner wrote: > > >> As a double check on concepts, if you plug x=0.02856 into >> x/((x+(1-x)*0.0006)) then you get 0.98. That is to say, 98% of the mass of >> the volume expelled is water, and 2% steam - your starting assumptions.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > That said, let's proceed on with your defined problem where 2% of the water > is vaporized, i.e. the ejecta is 98% liquid by mass, 98% wet by mass. > > > >> |For an input flow rate of 300 cc/min = 300 mg/min, >> > > The above should read g

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > > >> Excess heat is an experimental result. Excess heat is an interpretation of experimental results. > If it is the result of an artifact, it should be possible to identify the > artifact. Maybe, but it takes time and effort. Ti

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 03:01 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > By whom? >> >> >> Maybe you're new to the field. >> > > Well, not exactly. It was a joke. > Promises have been made by Pon

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Joshua Cude wrote: > > One should also bear in mind that it takes only 2% steam by mass to make >> up 97.5% of the expelled fluid by volume. And since the steam is created in >> the h

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > > > If you examine what's being published, you don't find an attempt to prove > it's real, not lately, anyway. You find, in primary research, reports of > phenomena that imply reality, discussion of possible explanations that > assume C

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 12:47 PM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jed Rothwell <> jedrothw...@gmail.com>jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Cude has added that he is not "

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 10:33 AM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <> a...@lomaxdesign.com>a...@lomaxdesign.com> wrote: >> > > So I'm going to ask, as

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > Your faith is irrelevant to the purpose, and as voiced above actually > contrary to the stated purpose, of this list. Yes, I am aware that I do not belong here. I

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Cude has added that he is not "convinced that nuclear reactions in cold > fusion experiments have produced measurable heat." From my point of view > that puts him in the category of creationists who are not convinced of the > evidence that

Re: [Vo]:What will convince Joshua Cude?

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > Subject was Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from > Rossi device > > At 04:12 AM 2/21/2011, Joshua Cude wrote: > > Not true. I have described what it would take to convince me (and so h

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > There can be no rational question that these people can read a weight > scale, and use a graduated cylinder. There are no rational reasons to doubt > the flow rate. The reasons you come up with are mere excuses. You are moving > the goalposts

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > > On 02/18/2011 06:56 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Putt putt boats draw in water which flashes into steam and is then > ejected > > mostly as fluid. Given that the water was delivered to Rossi's device in > pulses, >

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Terry Blanton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Joshua Cude > wrote: > > Gotta run. I'll catch up in 3 or 4 days. Don't take my absence as a > > concession. > > Concession to what? We are truthseekers, not competitors.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I wrote: > > The scientific method demands that an arbitrary limit be placed on >> objections. It is a matter of opinion how much proof is needed, and how many >> objections should be met, but you cannot leave the question undecided >> indef

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> Well, it is if an experiment can be easily designed to make such >> suspicions impossible. As would be the case here, if the claims were true. >> > > Seriously, It is nearly imp

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-21 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> The professors tested and calibrated this machine for 6 weeks. They would >>> have discovered that it has a large hidden thermal mass. >> >> >> They did. It takes 30 minute

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
Gotta run. I'll catch up in 3 or 4 days. Don't take my absence as a concession. JC On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> Well, it is if an experiment can be easily designed to make such >> suspicions impossible. As

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > > On 02/17/2011 11:41 AM, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> >> I do not think this demo required any trust. >> > > But

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > I do not think this demo required any trust. > But you said, if you trust... then there's no point.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > I suspect it is designed to have large thermal mass (maybe in hot oil, or >> even water under pressure), so that after the power is turned off, the >> thermal mass keeps the output at the bp fo

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Peter Gluck wrote: > >> However a good report must answer in advance to all the possible (and >> impossible too) questions of the amateur and professional skeptics. >> > That is impossible. Skeptics can come up with an unlimited number of > s

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> With 1 kW, you can raise the temperature of the water at 300 mL/min about >> 50C to give 65C or so, definitely too hot to touch. >> > > That is true, but the power was not 1 kW.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > And a good way to measure car speed is with a speedometer. But if someone >> claims have driven 250 mph in a chevy Volt, I'm gonna suspect the honesty >> first, and the speedometer second.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> With 1 kW, you can raise the temperature of the water at 300 mL/min about >> 50C to give 65C or so, definitely too hot to touch. >> > > That is true, but the power was not 1 kW.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> With 1 kW, you can raise the temperature of the water at 300 mL/min about >> 50C to give 65C or so, definitely too hot to touch. >> > > That is true, but the power was not 1 kW.

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-17 Thread Joshua Cude
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Joshua Cude wrote: > > >> Questioned by who? For what reason? Lots of people have questioned lots of >>> things, but there is no rational reason to doubt the flow rate. >>> >>> >>> How abou

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Also, the actual flow rate has been questioned. >> > > Questioned by who? For what reason? Lots of people have questioned lots of > things, but there is no rational reason to doubt the flow rate. > > > How about a commercial pump that loo

Re: [Vo]:Revised version Celani reports on gamma emission from Rossi device

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua Cude
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > > >> Now we hear the input power was unstable, fluctuating between 400 and >> 800 W, so was actually probably 600 W. >> > > Actually that is not what the power meter showed in Fig. 5 of the Levi > report. That was Celani's mistaken impres

Re: [Vo]:Where's Dr. Park?

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua Cude
The difference is, your plan depends on the device working. His may not. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Peter Gluck wrote: > >> As regarding Rossi's bad PR he is just following Pitigrilli's "Do not give >> me advices, I can err myself" The lack of a theory is disturbing,

Re: [Vo]:Economic Reality setting in

2011-02-15 Thread Joshua Cude
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > Has there been a demonstration with it producing 400 C steam? Do you >> know who witnessed it? >> > > The steam has not been pressurized as far as I know. Unless there is significant water content in the exp

Re: [Vo]:pump and flow rate

2011-02-11 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Joshua Cude wrote: > > > I don't think the calorimetry needs to be that good if there are no energy > inputs (electrical or chemical), and the test is run long enough. The world >

Re: [Vo]:pump and flow rate

2011-02-11 Thread Joshua Cude
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > The flow rate was stated as *measured* at 292 ml/min, or 17.5 liters/hr. > If it actually was 7.6 liter/hr then that is either fraud or major > incompetence on the part of someone. > They collected the water for 30 s and then weighed it. M

Re: [Vo]:pump and flow rate

2011-02-11 Thread Joshua Cude
falsified somehow as well? > > > > Also, it is not hard to confirm that 18 liters per hour is being pumped > through. You can't miss it; you have to replenish the reservoir, which is a > large transparent plastic box. > > > > > > > > > > *From:* J

[Vo]:pump and flow rate

2011-02-11 Thread Joshua Cude
Response to the query fwded by Rich Murray (appended): I think the only people who can answer your questions are people who attended the demo, the best person being Levi himself. But I agree that the pump is suspicious. It looks exactly like the J5 pump you refer to, that has a max flow rate of 2

Re: [Vo]:Levi's interpretation still full of holes

2011-02-10 Thread Joshua Cude
;vapore secco" based on a measuring > instrument (not adequate?) when actually he had "vapore umido?" > > Thank you, > Peter > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Joshua Cude wrote: > >> Rich Murray wrote: >> >> >> >> "probably,

[Vo]:self-sustaining Rossi device?

2011-02-10 Thread Joshua Cude
Jed Rothwell wrote: "Celani said that on Monday. That was his somewhat arbitrary definition of self-sustaining, during his talk. However, Levi et al. mentioned that the machine self-sustained completely, with no power, for about 15 minutes. No power and no way to turn it off. They exhausted the

[Vo]:Levi's interpretation still full of holes

2011-02-10 Thread Joshua Cude
Rich Murray wrote: "probably, the Rossi demos have a complex control box with thermal controls that lower the electric input heater power when the reactor gets too hot" You concede to easily. I don't believe there is any feedback in that system because the wires are all heavy power cables,

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