RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:41 AM 7/5/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: Wait! Suddenly you admit that the authors don't believe the field is 3000V/cm within the electrolyte? Maybe you should read the paper again in order to fully understand it. No. While I'm not a mind reader, it does appear that the authors believe t

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-05 Thread Finlay MacNab
omaxdesign.com > Subject: RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of > effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: > Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 > > At 12:00 PM 7/4/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: > >Your argume

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:29 PM 7/4/2012, Rich Murray wrote: Well, there's a saying in Zen about swallowing the Niagara Falls in one gulp -- perhaps a tsunami of verbal arguments by Lomax may float visions that are plausibly contrary to the visions aired by Murray -- but the possiblities of micro and nano level stor

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
We do not know what the reaction is. Storms proposes that d e d (two deuterons with an electron in between) are trapped in cracks in the Pd, and that a slow process results in fusion with release of energy as a series of X-rays resonant in the crack. I and, I suspect, most physicists, don't

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Values are found in some work substantially higher, but it is generally consistent with a theory that the actual reaction Q is the deuterium value, but roughly half if the helium is being trapped in the cathode or otherwise escaping detection. Helium *is* apparently trapped in the cathode, ne

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:00 PM 7/4/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: Your argument assumes that the there is no air gap between the dielectric and the charged plates. It also assumes that the electrolyte behaves like a regular 100ohm resistor. The plates are against the cell walls. Sure, you can make up an air gap.

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread David Roberson
the source. As you are suggesting, reliable data must be available to support the conclusions. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 5:27 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Rich Murray
Well, there's a saying in Zen about swallowing the Niagara Falls in one gulp -- perhaps a tsunami of verbal arguments by Lomax may float visions that are plausibly contrary to the visions aired by Murray -- but the possiblities of micro and nano level storage and release of chemical energy by bubbl

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Assuming for the moment that the 40 MeV/4He result is solid and can be > reliably replicated, and going with helium as a predominant non-radiative > byproduct, what does this say about the reactions involved? Does it mean > that there would need to be more than helium generation, or is t

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Actual experimental results are more toward double, the value, over 40 > MeV/He-4, which very likely reflects the difficulty in capturing all the > helium (if helium is not captured and measured, particularly if it remains > trapped in t

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, if one presumes that it means anything. At 12:11 AM 7/4/2012, Rich Murray wrote: I'm glad to see my post has ignited a local hot spot in Vortex-L... Some good will come out of it. I do intend to take this to the original authors for comment, privately

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Finlay MacNab
012 11:12:02 -0500 > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com > From: a...@lomaxdesign.com > Subject: RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of > effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: > Rich Murray 2012.03.01 201

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:46 PM 7/3/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: Sorry, I fail to see why the voltage drop is 3kv across the acrylic layer. Why is that exactly? There are three regions involved, between the plates that are connected to a high voltage supply, 6 KV. There is the first cell wall, 1/16 inch (1.6 mm)

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-04 Thread Jeff Driscoll
varying electric field by redistributing the ions in solution. > >> Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:17:01 -0400 >> Subject: Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of >> effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: >> Rich Murray

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread David Roberson
: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 I think your assessment is spot on Jeff. The only question in my mind is whether or not the mixing of the electrolyte

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
s is still present. -Mark -Original Message- From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:a...@lomaxdesign.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:47 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Rich Murray
MacNap: It should be noted that in an electrolyte the current results from a chemical reaction at the anode and cathode (in this case the generation of hydrogen and oxygen) there are no free charge carriers in the solution itself. The cations and anions are bound together by electrostatic attract

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Rich Murray
I'm glad to see my post has ignited a local hot spot in Vortex-L... Lomax: Um, very highly unlikely. The plastic walls are intact, or electrolyte would leak out. They have high dielectric resistance. If this is acrylic, it's about 1/16 inch thick. Current will be very, very low. If there is leaka

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Finlay MacNab
claimsof > effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: > Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 > > At 08:02 PM 7/3/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: > >To clarify: > > > >An electrolyte does not conduct. Chemical reactions occur at the >

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:17 PM 7/3/2012, Jeff Driscoll wrote: Here are my two cents from reading up on dielectrics: With the 6000 V capacitor isolated from the electrolyte by the plastic, the electrolyte acts as a dielectric which reduces the E field in the electrolyte almost to zero in the middle but increases t

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Finlay MacNab
400 > Subject: Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of > effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: > Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 > From: hcarb...@gmail.com > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > > Here are my two

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:47 PM 7/2/2012, Rich Murray wrote: Robert V. Duncan shows a slide from SPAWAR Navy lab (Pamela Mosier-Boss) that claims a 6 kv DC electric field from plates external to a wet conducting electrolyte has effects within the electrolyte -- but the reality in simple electrostatics is the electr

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Jeff Driscoll
Here are my two cents from reading up on dielectrics: With the 6000 V capacitor isolated from the electrolyte by the plastic, the electrolyte acts as a dielectric which reduces the E field in the electrolyte almost to zero in the middle but increases the the capacitance of the capacitor. If ther

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 08:02 PM 7/3/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: To clarify: An electrolyte does not conduct. Chemical reactions occur at the electrodes that accept and give up electrons. Current flows through the metal conductors between the anode and cathode. An electrolyte does conduct. That is, there is mov

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:26 PM 7/3/2012, MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: There was one figure which shows the visual manifestations photographed from the experiments, with the theoretical model of the E-flds (on the right). It was very clear that fields were present in the electrolyte, as one could see the manifestati

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Finlay MacNab
Hey Mark, Very interesting links (although I dont have full access to the second one). From: zeropo...@charter.net To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Finlay MacNab
them, and then put your two probes into the air gap? > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 19:13:40 -0500 > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com > From: a...@lomaxdesign.com > Subject: RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of > effects of external h

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
A quick web-search verifies that E-fields most assuredly CAN exist in conductive electrolytes. for both DC and AC conditions. Electric fields in an electrolyte solution near a strip of fixed potential http://jcp.aip.org/resource/1/jcpsa6/v123/i13/p134705_s1 Excerpt from Abstract: "Ele

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
From: Finlay MacNab [mailto:finlaymac...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:45 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:44 PM 7/3/2012, Finlay MacNab wrote: It should be noted that in an electrolyte the current results from a chemical reaction at the anode and cathode (in this case the generation of hydrogen and oxygen) there are no free charge carriers in the solution itself. The cations and anions are b

RE: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Finlay MacNab
dunca...@missouri.edu; rmfor...@gmail.com > From: a...@lomaxdesign.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of > effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: > Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 > > At 11:47 PM 7/2

Re: [Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:47 PM 7/2/2012, Rich Murray wrote: SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 Coldfusionnow.org posted the following video today: 68 minutes April, 2012 Robert Duncan

[Vo]:SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02

2012-07-02 Thread Rich Murray
SPAWAR has yet to respond re simple error in claims of effects of external high voltage dc fields inside a conducting electrolyte: Rich Murray 2012.03.01 2012.07.02 Coldfusionnow.org posted the following video today: 68 minutes April, 2012 Robert Duncan discusses experiments at Sidney Kimmel Inst