Re: [Vo]:Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2010-09-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > Fran, > > > > I think you may know this but if not – it is clear and beyond doubt that > Naudin made serious measurement errors in calculating the input current in > the MAHG experiment, and these have never been corrected, AFAIK. > > > > As for

RE: [Vo]:Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2010-09-09 Thread Jones Beene
Fran, I think you may know this but if not - it is clear and beyond doubt that Naudin made serious measurement errors in calculating the input current in the MAHG experiment, and these have never been corrected, AFAIK. As for Langmuir and the hydrogen torch, I think there could still be som

[Vo]:Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2010-09-09 Thread Roarty, Francis X
s is true, then increasing the repetition rate of short pulses should show changes in the thermal performance of the cell. So far, Naudin has not made such tests to my knowledge. The heat pulses could also launch cascades of BLP H/hydrino catalysis reactions. Such are my thoughts to date. Mike Car

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Mike Carrell
Jones is making good points, but > You (Robin, at least) is willing to accept Mills equally > surprising claims - whereas Mills gives almost zero detail, and > often bases his P-out claims on guess-timates of what the power > would be IF the photon radiation were converted, and yet in > comparison

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Terry Blanton > > From: "Jones Beene" > > > This is something that should be pretty easy to ascertain right > > away... > > I was under the impression that the values on his chart were rms (root mean > square) since that's what the Fluke measures. http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/tests

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Jones Beene
Hi George,   Not wanting to waste anymore bandwidth on this device than is necessary, if it is not OU, I sent the following message to intereseted parties, which I hope gets to JNL or to Nicholas Moller very soon - as they are difficult to contact directly. COPY of posting:   A serious quest

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > This is something that should be pretty easy to ascertain right > away... I was under the impression that the values on his chart were rms (root mean square) since that's what the Fluke measures.

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread George Holz
Hi Jones, > > OK, now I see what you are saying but how does an auto battery > > provide 166 amps, even if it is peak? Is this what you really > > think is really happening ? It certainly looks possible. Batteries are capable of surprisingly high peak currents and the pulse width here is only

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Jones Beene
Hi George, One more thing... OK, now I see what you are saying but how does an auto battery provide 166 amps, even if it is peak? Is this what you really think is really happening ? IF he is getting a reading at the battery itself - of about 1/3+ amp average current - then you would agree

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: George, Actually 166 A (peak)* 12 V(peak) * .05 (duty factor) gives about 100 watts input at an average current of about 8 A and an average voltage of .6 V. OK, now I see what you are saying but how does an auto battery provide 166 amps, even if it is peak? The sh

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread jonfli
Jones, > George, > > > Actually 166 A (peak)* 12 V(peak) * .05 (duty factor) gives > > about > > 100 watts input at an average current of about 8 A > > and an average voltage of .6 V. > > OK, now I see what you are saying but how does an auto battery > provide 166 amps, even if it is peak? Is th

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Jones Beene
George, Actually 166 A (peak)* 12 V(peak) * .05 (duty factor) gives about 100 watts input at an average current of about 8 A and an average voltage of .6 V. OK, now I see what you are saying but how does an auto battery provide 166 amps, even if it is peak? Is this what you really think i

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread George Holz
Hi Jones, You wrote: > Hey, Robin and George... wait a minute > > Naudin apparently incorporated the low duty cycle in his > calculations (in a non-standard way) by figuring the "average > value" by multiplying the peak voltage (from a 12 volt power DC > battery power supply) by the duty c

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-08 Thread Jones Beene
Hey, Robin and George... wait a minute Naudin apparently incorporated the low duty cycle in his calculations (in a non-standard way) by figuring the "average value" by multiplying the peak voltage (from a 12 volt power DC battery power supply) by the duty cycle to give an average voltage

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to George Holz's message of Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:38:08 -0400: Hi, [snip] >What assumptions did you make to allow the calculation of input >power during the pulse? Are the numbers that JLN reports actually >average voltage and current as the labels, now changed, on his >web site once indica

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Mike Carrell
Jones wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Carrell" > > > Yes, these reactions could go to completion, as Peter and > Jones have > > observed, but none of Naudin's runs have gone on long > enough to test this. > > Two hours just isn't enough. > > But its the same cell, Mike, ove

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Mike Carrell
Steve wrote, > Perhaps a form of Finite Element Method Analysis might help in reducing the amount of guesswork involved. > > Mike, it seems to me that this kind of analysis might actually be up your alley! Steve, I appreciate your confidence, but FEM is heavy duty math, beyond my capability to u

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Fickle
I've made no assumption regarding input power, except to comment that it's not enough to heat the filament- based solely on the specific heat of tungsten.  To supply 200 Joules in a 10-ms pulse, for example, would require a power of 20 KW.  Ain't happening. George Holz wrote: Bob Fickle wro

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Jones Beene
Bob Fickle wrote: " I have " ...attempted to estimate how fast the filament will heat up. From the description on JLN's web page, I estimate the filament has a mass of about 1.2g, and would require about 200 Joules to heat from an average temperature of ~700K to the "operating" temperature o

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread George Holz
Bob Fickle wrote: > I have " ...attempted to estimate how fast the filament will heat up". > From the description on JLN's web page, I estimate the filament has a > mass of about 1.2g, and would require about 200 Joules to heat from an > average temperature of ~700K to the "operating" temperatu

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread thomas malloy
- Original Message - From: "Mike Carrell" Yes, these reactions could go to completion, as Peter and Jones have > observed, With only a few milligrams of H2 as fill - if fusion or hydrino reactions were going on - as Terry and others noticed immediately, even the few micrograms remove

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Fickle
I have " ...attempted to estimate how fast the filament will heat up". From the description on JLN's web page, I estimate the filament has a mass of about 1.2g, and would require about 200 Joules to heat from an average temperature of ~700K to the "operating" temperature of 2000K. The input d

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread orionworks
> From: "Jones Beene" > > From: "Mike Carrell" > > > Yes, these reactions could go to completion, > > as Peter andJones have observed, but none of > > Naudin's runs have gone on long > > enough to test this. Two hours just isn't enough. > > But its the same cell, Mike, over and over ! He > has

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Mike Carrell" > Yes, these reactions could go to completion, as Peter and Jones have > observed, but none of Naudin's runs have gone on long enough to test this. > Two hours just isn't enough. But its the same cell, Mike, over and over ! He has nearly 100 doc

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-07 Thread Mike Carrell
This is getting most interesting. Moller threads together some ideas derived [perhaps not correctly] from Langmuir and builds a cell. Naudin runs tests on the cell and finds interesting apparently OU heat anomalies. The cell is an ideal black box and we don't get to peek inside to see what is going

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread thomas malloy
Jones Beene wrote: Ed, Perhaps, but I suggest the more likely reaction is p + d = He3. This possibility can be tested by adding a little D2O to the cell. Going from the normal 6000 ppm to 1% should make a big difference in heat generation. Excellent idea Jones. Given the rarity of He3,

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
Ed,   I believe I do have fusion reaction products. In 2001 (or so) I had the good fortune to talk with Tom Clator about fusion from my device. His later experiments and literature also reveal Tritium production from a different type of Plasma. As I recall it was about 2000 volts but I do not rem

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jones Beene
Under the general category of "I'd rather be lucky than good" we find a list of discoveries which were not exactly precisely anticipated, but yet required a fair share of diligence and/or insight in order to develop into a "real" invention. I think Moller's "Eureka moment" may fit in this categ

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Jed Rothwell > "Wha th' matter with you? Cat got your tungsten?" > > "Yeth, and she won't le' go." LOL! I think it was comedian Steve Wright: "I gave my cat a bath the other day. She really enjoyed it but I hated all that hair on my tongue."

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread orionworks
> From: Jed Rothwell > Terry Blanton wrote: > > >Yes, but the symbol on the periodic table is W. To > > me 'tungsten' sounds > >like anatomy. > > Ah . . . As in: > > "Wha th' matter with you? Cat got your tungsten?" > > "Yeth, and she won't le' go." > > > - Jed (who has spent the last 6 ho

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Yes, but the symbol on the periodic table is W. To me 'tungsten' sounds like anatomy. Ah . . . As in: "Wha th' matter with you? Cat got your tungsten?" "Yeth, and she won't le' go." - Jed (who has spent the last 6 hours wading through Japanese papers on isotopes, SIM

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Jed Rothwell > Wolf . . . You mean tungsten. :-) Yes, but the symbol on the periodic table is W. To me 'tungsten' sounds like anatomy.

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: According to the referenced paper, the presence of water can kill the reaction due to oxidation of the Wolfram. Wolf . . . You mean tungsten. . . . But, obviously one cannot have much confidence in Moller if he confuses c & C. And obviously ve cannot have much confi

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Edmund Storms
Well Chris, looks like you already have some evidence for nuclear reaction products. Your set up is identical to the plasma cells using water, in as far as interaction at the W surface is concerned. You split H2 into H+ at the W surface, while a plasma using H2O also forms H+ at the W surface

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Edmund Storms
In this case, he should add D2 to the H2. Ed Terry Blanton wrote: From: Edmund Storms > This possibility can be tested by adding a little D2O to the cell. According to the referenced paper, the presence of water can kill the reaction due to oxidation of the Wolfram. But, obviously one

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Edmund Storms > > This > possibility can be tested by adding a little D2O to the cell. According to the referenced paper, the presence of water can kill the reaction due to oxidation of the Wolfram. But, obviously one cannot have much confidence in Moller if he confuses c & C.

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
Ed,   Perhaps the vanishing coulomb barrier would explain why gas I produce in my reactors registers as radioactive in my tritium monitor, and why SEM w/EDS spectrum is so strange as to suggest transmutations and why Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrum produced from my materials comes back as unid

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Edmund Storms
Jones Beene wrote: Ed, I would like to suggest that all plasma experiments, including Naudin's obtain their extra energy from cold fusion. Then what would be the reaction? H+H -->D + e ? Perhaps, but I suggest the more likely reaction is p + d = He3. This possibility can be tested by a

Re: Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Terry Blanton > > From: "Jones Beene" > > > that should be H+H+e -->D > > Then hydrogen will be consumed and the cell efficiency should decrease over > time. We should also see transmutation products in the reactor vessel metals.

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Christopher Arnold
Ed, that was a refreshing post.   ChrisEdmund Storms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to suggest that all plasma experiments, including Naudin's obtain their extra energy from cold fusion. In this case, the tungsten cathode is the nuclear active environment into which p+ and d+ are driven b

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > that should be H+H+e -->D Then hydrogen will be consumed and the cell efficiency should decrease over time.

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jones Beene
oops... Then what would be the reaction? H+H -->D + e ? that should be H+H+e -->D

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jones Beene
Terry, Yes. The sequential process of dissociation/recombination in a plasma or gas is not OU. Too bad that error keeps getting repeated. You realize, of course, that this is the entire basis for Naudin's M(oller)AHG experiments. Not exactly. I think they realize that the tungsten metal i

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jones Beene
Ed, I would like to suggest that all plasma experiments, including Naudin's obtain their extra energy from cold fusion. Then what would be the reaction? H+H -->D + e ? A transmutation reaction with the W would need to overcome far higher Coulomb repulsion forces, no? Jones

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Edmund Storms
I would like to suggest that all plasma experiments, including Naudin's obtain their extra energy from cold fusion. In this case, the tungsten cathode is the nuclear active environment into which p+ and d+ are driven by the high voltages used. The unstable nature of the plasma, either by natu

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > Yes. The sequential process of dissociation/recombination in a > plasma or gas is not OU. Too bad that error keeps getting > repeated. You realize, of course, that this is the entire basis for Naudin's M(oller)AHG experiments. I am continuing to look into this. Unfort

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message - From: "Terry Blanton" Well, it is the "c/C" error in the original article ... if we are on the same page. "From Langmuir's experiments and findings we know that the minimum calorific value for the recombination of atoms was agreed to be in the region 90.000 cal

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-06 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > Well, it is the "c/C" error in the original article ... if we are > on the same page. Quoting: "From Langmuir's experiments and findings we know that the minimum calorific value for the recombination of atoms was agreed to be in the region 90.000 cal/gram molecule.

Re: Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Jones Beene
Mine or the Inet's? Pls to explain the error. Well, it is the "c/C" error in the original article ... if we are on the same page.

Re: Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" ... so how does > one stop this pathology? Mine or the Inet's? Pls to explain the error.

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Jones Beene
Okay, Jonesee: http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/article.htm p. 12 toward the bottom. It's all relative. Pls 'splain. I wasn't saying that the error was not there, just that errors often keep reproducing themselves indiscriminantly over the internet ( I've probably been responsible for

Re: Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: Terry Blanton > > From: "Jones Beene" > > > > In a word, no. > > > > I think someone musta left out a "k" ... or else was on the diet > > of worms.. ;-) ... as the dietary Calorie (the oft-neglected > > use of upper case 'C') equals 1000 'physics' calories. > > Okay, Jonesee: >

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Terry Blanton
> From: "Jones Beene" > > In a word, no. > > I think someone musta left out a "k" ... or else was on the diet > of worms.. ;-) ... as the dietary Calorie (the oft-neglected > use of upper case 'C') equals 1000 'physics' calories. Okay, Jonesee: http://jlnlabs.imars.com/mahg/article.htm

Re: Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Jones Beene
T.B. > Sorry, I'm slow; but, I finally read the referenced paper from JLN's web page. If I read it correctly (I hate it when Europeans use periods instead of commas), the dissociation energy of H2 is 103 cal/gram-mole while the recombination energy is 90,000 cal/gram-mole giving a COP of about

Nicholas Moller on Langmuir

2005-07-05 Thread Terry Blanton
Sorry, I'm slow; but, I finally read the referenced paper from JLN's web page. If I read it correctly (I hate it when Europeans use periods instead of commas), the dissociation energy of H2 is 103 cal/gram-mole while the recombination energy is 90,000 cal/gram-mole giving a COP of about 874. I