Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-29 Thread mixent
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:27:40 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Now, considering the amount of hydrogen required, why not supply a H2 >pressurized cartridge with the powder magic mixture? If you do the >math, I think you will see that no new hydrogen will be required for >the

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Terry Blanton
Where does it end? Remember quad audio systems? "Steve Martin buys a stereo and days later he's not satisfied — the system sounds like shit. He moves up the audio chain to, finally "the Googlephonic," the be-all, end-all of audio systems. After a couple days, that one sounds like shit. Martin con

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Michele Comitini wrote: > 2011/4/29 OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson : >> Aren't they manufacturing triple blades now? Where will it stop! > > penta blades! Truth: http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/14/news/fortune500/gillette/ Fiction: http://www.theonion.com/art

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
2011/4/29 OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson : > Aren't they manufacturing triple blades now? Where will it stop! penta blades!

RE: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson
Terry sez: > Gillette learned long ago that you can give away the > razor holder and make money on replacement razors. Indeed. Then someone comes along and shatters the status quo with a bold new paradigm shift in the history of shaving: Double blade cartridges. Ergo: Twin e-Cats! Aren't they m

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Terry Blanton
Gillette learned long ago that you can give away the razor holder and make money on replacement razors. T

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jay Caplan
PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others > I'm not convinced that the ECat will require a hydrogen source. He > once stated that the ECat will run off a "replaceable cartridge" that > will be replaced every 6 (?) months. > > Now, conside

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Terry Blanton
I'm not convinced that the ECat will require a hydrogen source. He once stated that the ECat will run off a "replaceable cartridge" that will be replaced every 6 (?) months. Now, considering the amount of hydrogen required, why not supply a H2 pressurized cartridge with the powder magic mixture?

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread mixent
In reply to Michele Comitini's message of Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:36:12 +: Hi, [snip] >With 1 g of Ni I got 750 kW. >Again thank you for your attention. [snip] Note that at 5 MeV / (Ni62 or Ni64) 1 gm of Ni could sustain 750 kW for about 9 minutes. Probably just long enough to melt the reactor. ;)

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: According to one of my zany new age sources (Meaning the following is a > totally unscientific analysis) Rossi & Focardi have worked together through > many past lives associations. As a result of experiencing many past-life > associations they have forged a c

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Michele sez: > Rossi's previous life, when he was the "taxi driver"? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E > > ;-) Oh dear! I can't help it... I just gotta blurt out something blatantly OT here! According to one of my zany new age sources (Meaning the following is a totally unscientif

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Akira Shirakawa wrote: > Maybe it's off-topic here, but some more interesting answers have been > posted on his blog, although they are not very technical this time: > > http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473&cpage=4#comment-35562 > > > 1. How many e-cats are in continuous operation t

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
Rossi's previous life, when he was the "taxi driver"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E ;-) 2011/4/28 Akira Shirakawa : > * * * > AR, > Some good E-Cat trivia for the fans: > > 1. How many e-cats are in continuous operation today? > 2. How many geographic locations are e-cats running to

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-04-28 20:23, Jed Rothwell wrote: Thank you Akira! So it was 37 times, not 32. No wonder I could not find it. We should add this to the Wiki. Maybe it's off-topic here, but some more interesting answers have been posted on his blog, although they are not very technical this time: ht

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Axil Axil wrote: As in nuclear light water reactor designs, high pressure is inherently > unsafe. > > > > Rossi is no paragon of engineering safety and has shown that he has not > learned any nuclear engineering lessons. The use of a large amount of > compressed hydrogen storage is inherently uns

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
2011/4/28 Axil Axil : > As in nuclear light water reactor designs, high pressure is inherently > unsafe. > > > > Rossi is no paragon of engineering safety and has shown that he has not > learned any nuclear engineering lessons. The use of a large amount of > compressed hydrogen storage is inherentl

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Axil Axil
As in nuclear light water reactor designs, high pressure is inherently unsafe. Rossi is no paragon of engineering safety and has shown that he has not learned any nuclear engineering lessons. The use of a large amount of compressed hydrogen storage is inherently unsafe. The high pressure hydro

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
I'd say that nuclear reactor design is an engineering disaster as it is now. There are too many chances that something bad happens. Why is it so? In the "2nd generation" they just took reactors used for nuclear marine propulsion, adapted to electrical energy production. That would have been fine

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Axil Axil
The quality of engineering, operation and management has the primary impact on the safety and cost of a system. For example, "The Sporty rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair " (unsafe at any speed) was a engineering disaster area for the automotive industry. Today a formula one race car can hit a w

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Thank you Akira! So it was 37 times, not 32. No wonder I could not find it. We should add this to the Wiki. I should not trust my memory for numbers. I usually remember them as the nearest power of 2: 16, 32, 64, 128 . . . - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Akira Shirakawa
On 2011-04-28 20:07, Jed Rothwell wrote: Did Rossi really admit to this? Just the other day I thought he said it exploded 32 times, but now I cannot find the original source. This is annoying! My e-mail search feature does not work well. Here: * * * http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.co

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Good points - "keep it understated" but where is the reference to numerous prior explosions of E-Cat? Did Rossi really admit to this? Just the other day I thought he said it exploded 32 times, but now I cannot find the original source. This is annoying! My e-mail search

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=211 - Andrea Rossi July 13th, 2010 at 2:50 PM Dear Prof. Celani, I am really pleased from the fact that you looked at our work. I know who you are and I thank you really for your attention. Our standard module consumes 500 watts and yields constantl

RE: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Michele Comitini > Well IMHO the cold fusion people should stop the "completely/ absolutely > safe" claim, that even being true is not believable in people experience. > They should stay conservatively on "safer" or "safest" level. "absolutely > safe" triggers

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
2011/4/28 Jed Rothwell : > Michele Comitini wrote: > >> >> IMHO there is no need to fear that explosions will stop cold fusion. We >> have had all kinds of explosions in the history of energy production and/or >> extraction. > > Yes. For example, when Rudolf Diesel developed his engine, one of the

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michele Comitini wrote: > IMHO there is no need to fear that explosions will stop cold fusion. We > have had all kinds of explosions in the history of energy production and/or > extraction. Yes. For example, when Rudolf Diesel developed his engine, one of them exploded. However, nowadays peopl

Re: [Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-28 Thread Michele Comitini
> Vasudev Godbole and others have expressed fears that Rossi's cells may not > be safe, because they require lead shielding and 32 of them exploded. I > share these fears. I think it may be premature to begin selling reactors > around the end of the year. IMHO there is no need to fear that explosi

[Vo]:Success for Rossi will bringing funding for others

2011-04-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
I believe that if Rossi succeeds, the floodgates will open and many other deserving experiments will be funded. I wrote to Mizuno: "Rossi's results with Ni-H are similar to your results with phenanthrene. I think that if he succeeds, the mass media and people everywhere will believe that cold fusi