RE: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Mark Iverson
Are the hot fusioneers so threatened by what's going on with CF that they are now trying to relabel their projects as 'cold fusion'??? The second paragraph of the NIF article starts out with this... Cold fusion is one of the main goals of scientific research today, for the simple reason that

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Terry Blanton
Indeed the tides are turning. This reporter clearly knows it is not CF when he speaks of the effect on the hohlraum: It works by focusing the light from 192 gigantic laser beams onto a small hydrogen pellet, with the purpose of obtaining temperatures that are high enough to initiate and sustain

RE: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton The shrewed fellow is taking advantage of recent news since he has CF as his first tag or keyword. I bet Steven was alerted by a news service because of that keyword. So they are claiming that 192 HUGE lasers focused on a pellet the size of a pea

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: snip The first thing that comes to mind is where is Frank Grimer when we need him. He's hanging in the Steorn forum still. Got quite a following there, both pro- and antagonists. Terry

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread OrionWorks
From Jones: ... In LENR, when isotopes that occupy a substantial space (i.e. cubic volume) at STP are encouraged to become adsorbed into what is essentially solid metal - then yes, they can be both cold technically, but so effectively pressurized in the confines of this environment that the

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Steven Krivit
At 04:12 AM 4/1/2009, you wrote: Indeed the tides are turning. This reporter clearly knows it is not CF when he speaks of the effect on the hohlraum: Terry, Did *I* miss something? I thought for sure the reporter made an ignorant yet innocent mistake...how confident are you that the fellow

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steven Krivit wrote: I have alerts on all uses of the F word. I use the following search string to eliminate references to the programming language: cold fusion -coldfusion -web hosting - Jed

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Steven Krivit
Maybe I need to modify my string to exclude NIF ;) At 09:53 AM 4/1/2009, you wrote: Steven Krivit wrote: I have alerts on all uses of the F word. I use the following search string to eliminate references to the programming language: cold fusion -coldfusion -web hosting - Jed

Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Terry Blanton
I'm not sure of anything. :-) However look at the bottom tag words. He placed CF first. Or he could just be stupid. I guess we could apply Hanlon's Razor here. Terry On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Steven Krivit stev...@newenergytimes.com wrote: At 04:12 AM 4/1/2009, you wrote: Indeed

RE: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;)

2009-04-01 Thread Mark Iverson
Subject: Re: [Vo]:NIF Ready to Prove Cold Fusion, according to Softpedia ;) I'm not sure of anything. :-) However look at the bottom tag words. He placed CF first. Or he could just be stupid. I guess we could apply Hanlon's Razor here. Terry On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Steven Krivit stev