Re: [Vo]:Krivit relents

2011-01-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Playing devil's advocate in situations like this serve a useful purpose. Honoring our skeptical bones hopefully help keep our feet firmly planted on the ground, particularly when our wings would love to start flapping right now! ...to soar into the stratosphere is everyone's dream. Nevertheless,

[Vo]:Popular Science as weighed in on Focardi and Rossi: "Dubious"

2011-01-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
See: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-01/italian-scientists-claim-dubious-cold-fusion-breakthrough http://tinyurl.com/4c768rx After casting dispersions they had the following to say: > But the duo does have something going for them in > the fact that they’ve demonstrated their device

Re: [Vo]:Removing All Doubt

2011-01-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Here's a handy-dandy "Table of Nuclides" http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Announcements from Rossi about paper, next demo, ICCF16

2011-01-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > WARNING TO ALL OUR READERS: THE REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF > BOLOGNA WILL BE DELIVERED MONDAY , JAN 24, ANYTIME. > YOU WILL FIND IT ON THE JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND WE > ALREADY GIVE TO EVERYBODY TO REPRODUCE IT EVERYWHERE, FOR > ANY PURPOSE, FREE. > WARM REGARDS, > THE BOARD OF

Re: [Vo]:Discovery News Article

2011-01-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Harry, > Article uses Robert Park as an authority on the subject. > > http://news.discovery.com/tech/cold-fusion-claims-resurface.html As predicted by Mr. Rothwell, it would appear that the majority of popular news organizations willing to stick their necks out and file a brief report on th

Re: [Vo]:Monday Update to Release Information on Self Sustain Mode

2011-01-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > We have about 1,000 readers a week normally. I do not know how many are > repeat visitors. Word is getting out, gradually, but the population of the > world is large, and people like Robert Park have access to the mass media, > which reaches a far larger audience than LENR-CANR.org

Re: [Vo]:Monday Update to Release Information on Self Sustain Mode

2011-01-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
About an hour ago I sed: > Shouldn't we have expected commentary from the doctor [Dr. Park] by now? > I wonder what's going on in that department. Does he have a cold or something? Well, the doctor has finally spoken http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/index.html ... and he has decided not to mentio

Re: [Vo]: The tides have changed... The genie is out of the bottle.

2011-01-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mark Iverson: > Good or bad, the genie is out of the bottle and there's > no way anyone can stuff it back in... I sincerely hope, > pray, that the human species has matured enough to accept > the responsibility that comes with this kind of discovery. I agree, Mark. Potential change of th

Re: [Vo]: The tides have changed... The genie is out of the bottle.

2011-01-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: > Personally, I hope that 2012 will usher in a new sun.  Not a supernova > of Betelgeuse; but, a slow, cold fusion which will render the > petrodollar obsolete.  May the end of the Mayan calender on the winter > solstice be the day that megawatt H-Ni steam engine goes online. In which

Re: [Vo]:EETIMES publishes report

2011-01-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: ... > … maybe there should be martinis all around – which drink – BTW could be > called the rossi … if you want to get into a trivia contest Bottom’s up > !  and put it all on Park’s tab. Regarding the honorable Dr. Park: Latest weekly issue, Friday, January 21, 2011: "What's New"

Re: [Vo]:Levi report uploaded

2011-01-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > I uploaded a version of the report with some corrections to the English > grammar and spelling, here: > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LeviGreportonhe.pdf > > I have not cleared it with them yet, but I'm sure it is okay. It is night > there. Is this "the" report we've been waiting for?

Re: [Vo]:Levi report uploaded

2011-01-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Wait a minute: My eyeballs scanned the following paragraph: Page 6: Conclusions The amount of power and energy produce during both tests is indeed impressive and, TOGETHER WITH THE SELF SUSTAINING STATE REACH DURING [caps mine] [TEST 1] could be an indication that the system is working as a new

Re: [Vo]:Levi report uploaded

2011-01-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
My eyeballs then scanned the following paragraph: On page 4: --- Before ending [Test 1] all the power was reduced and then switched off from the resistors and also the hydrogen supply was closed. No pressure decrease was noted in the H2 bottle. EVEN IN THIS CONDITIONS THE SYSTEM KEPT RUN

Re: [Vo]: Where have all the neutrons gone...

2011-01-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mark > Now sing along with me... from that ol' folk song... > "Where have all the neutrons gone..." I did start singing. ;-) '> ...perhaps into heavy fermions?  ;-) > > This from the comment section of the Knol page on CF... > > Consider "heavy fermion" superconductors > The August 2009 is

Re: [Vo]:Times of India reports on ICCF16 and Rossi

2011-01-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > See: > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Cold-fusion-turns-hot-city-to-host-meet-/articleshow/7357005.cms Excerpt: > According to Dr M Srinivasan, chairman of the organizing > committee, "the conference will deal with the recent > breakthrough in cold fusion theory e

Re: [Vo]:Times of India reports on ICCF16 and Rossi

2011-01-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > See? This is an example of wild guessing and unfounded speculation. This is > what I was complaining about before, in the thread, "Your suspicion is not > proof there is a problem." BUT, it would only be a problem if I were to make > this back-of-the-envelope calculation, then jump

Re: [Vo]:EETIMES publishes report

2011-01-26 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Bill: >> and he has also related to me that on more than one occasion, the 'firing' >> of the Z-pinch machine has resulted in anomalous energy that could not be >> explained, and instruments all seemed to be working properly... don't think >> they ever tracked it down since they have deadlin

Re: [Vo]:Name of Rossi's blog says it is a blog

2011-01-26 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Does anyone recall if the subtitle: "Nuclear experiments blog" was there all along, or is it a recent addition. I don't remember. Actually, I don't care either way. Actually, I kinda hope it is a recent addition. From my POV it would suggest that perhaps Rossi does actually give a hoot what peopl

[Vo]:Russian perspective on Rossi-Focardi - aka From Russia with Love

2011-01-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/01/28/41688958.html Excerpt: [sed: president of the Kurchatov Institute and Academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences] > There is not a single study indicating that cold fusion > is essentially impossible. There is a notion called muonic > catalysis, in the cours

Re: [Vo]:Three interesting messages from Rossi blog

2011-01-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
I think it would behoove us to acquire some familiarity with this Greek based company called: DEFKALION Energy Group. My initial Google searches haven't brought up anything of significance, though my searches are still preliminary. The email address for making inquiries is, "stsalikog...@gmail.com

[Vo]:Where is Dr. Park?

2011-01-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Another Friday has come around. I wunder if the honorable Dr. Park will continue his distinctive silence on the Rossi-Focardi matter in his "What's New" column. Dr. Park has GOT to be aware of it. Inquiring minds what to know. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orion

Re: [Vo]:Where is Dr. Park?

2011-01-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Peter: > too small a subject for such a Great, Omniscient, Man Not likely. ;-) In all seriousness, Dr. Park's silence strikes me as unusual. The following is pure speculation on my part, so take it FWIW. With that disclaimer in place - lemme say this about that... As Dirty Harry once sai

Re: [Vo]:Where is Dr. Park?

2011-01-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mr. Lawrence: ... > (The only possible spoke in the wheel at this point would be if it's not for > real.  That, of course, would be an insurmountable problem.) LOL Very deadpan of you, Mr. Lawrence. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Rossi describe how they flushed the steam

2011-01-31 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Good detective work, Jed. I hope they hook it up to a generator. In the fickle PR world, it seems to me that the device generating 1 megawatts of electricity would be the most convincing demo of all, especially if it can be clearly proved that there cannot possibly exist the equivalent of a one M

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Energy has no knowledge of Rossi, and Leonardo Company is defunct

2011-02-03 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From: S. Krivit's NET Installment #31 http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2011/36/3616ideologies.shtml 16. Cold Fusion Versus LENR: Competing Ideologies Paragraph excerpt: > In January 2010, Melich and his second wife, Marianne Macy, > who writes for Infinite Energy magazine, began producing > d

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Energy has no knowledge of Rossi, and Leonardo Company is defunct

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Please keep in mind that the following quotes have been extracted from individuals whose opinions may have changed (or moderated) in subtle ways later on in the on-going thread. >From Mr. Lawrence: >> I would bet a dollar to a doughnut that Levi >> doesn't believe it's for real, no matter what >

Re: [Vo]:http://leonardocorp.com/ does not exist

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mark Iverson: ... > Just assume for one second that the demo was real, and > that you are Rossi and have been pouring in your financial > livelihood into making those first 100 reactors... Would > you publish the location for all the world to see... > Hell NO!!! That would be the most idio

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Energy has no knowledge of Rossi, and Leonardo Company is defunct

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Much of the on-going speculation, of which I, too, am guilty of having propagated, reminds me of a poignant and all-too-brief scene I recall from the recent apocalyptic film titled, "2012", - which by the way was a really awful film. 100% special effects - 0% plot. Out in the wild snow-capped moun

Re: [Vo]:ICCF16 Rossi section

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > From a PDF file just received: ... > 12.30 F . C elani > M.Melich > : Brief Report on Rossi-Focardi 10 KW Demo > : Additional Remarks on Rossi-Focardi Experiment For me this truly begs a nagging question. Of what importance, if any, could actually be discussed at such a meeting con

Re: [Vo]:ICCF16 Rossi section

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: Some follow-up comments. >> For me this truly begs a nagging question. Of what importance, >> if any, could actually be discussed at such a meeting >> conducted by Melich. > > A great deal. Melich has a lot of technical info on this. > He has read the papers published by Rossi and unde

Re: [Vo]:ICCF16 Rossi section

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Mr Lawrence sez: > What's a BoD? In this case: Board of Directors But right now, I could use a doughnut. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:ICCF16 Rossi section

2011-02-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
It would seem advantageous to all participating ICCF-16 participants to track down a legitimate witness to the December/January Italian demonstration, hopefully a physics professor. Make an offer he can't refuse. Personally fly him to ICCF-16, promise to pay his hotel room, and all his meals... SPA

[Vo]:Another Indian article: "Call for inter-disciplinary studies in ‘cold fusion'"

2011-02-07 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From: The Hindu -> Science and Technology section "Call for inter-disciplinary studies in ‘cold fusion'" See: http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article1165494.ece Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:group seeks to discredit Rossi

2011-02-07 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
SUBJECT: Group seeks to discredit Rossi >From Abd: ... > But I will note a generic way to fake Rossi's > work, others have proposed other possibilities, > and, if it's fake, the truth might even be a > hybrid. I have no doubt but that it could be > done, that even more convincing demonstrations

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Let me second and third some of the counter claims raised about the steam temperature issue. >From Mr. Lawrence, ... > If the water flow rate is fixed, and the power level is allowed > to vary, then, if steam is coming out, its temperature will vary, > and will be determined at any moment by how

Re: [Vo]:Re: Levi's interpretation of the two Rossi demos does not hold water, decisive critique by Joshua Cude: Rich Murray 2011.02.08

2011-02-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mr. Lawrence: ... > You are making an unconscious assumption here, which is that > water is being added just exactly fast enough to replenish > the water which is boiled away. > > That's not what's happening! The water is being added at > a constant rate, with no feedback from the reactor!

Re: [Vo]:Here Comes Skynet

2011-02-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12400647 > > Robots to get their own internet > By Mark Ward > Technology correspondent, BBC News > > European scientists have embarked on a project to let robots share and > store what they discover about the world. > > Called RoboEarth it will be

Re: [Vo]:Krivit praises Miles while dismissing his results

2011-02-10 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones ... > This field cannot be simplified into an either/or situation. > > Ockham has no place in this field – LENR it is inherently > complex. > > Krivit and his sponsors are half-right (but half-wrong), > as is anyone who says that LENR is pure fusion and nothing > else. > > There are c

Re: [Vo]:OT: another damned test

2011-02-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry Sez: > Probably not since you sent the unsubscribe message to Vortex-l. > > You must send it to vortex-l-request for it to work. I immediately realized my mistake and resubmitted it to " vortex-l-request". But of course nobody will see that! I just look dumb! So, what else is new. ;-) I th

Re: [Vo]:Mubarak steps down: This is actually on-topic.

2011-02-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Yes, Mr. Lawrence, Indeed, this is very on-topic. The news is spreading like wildfire through out the internet. I think you and Jones have pretty much nailed the pertinent issues. We stand here wondering if Rossi and/or Mills will put out in short order. Or maybe someone else will suddenly be f

[Vo]:Where's Dr. Park?

2011-02-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
A month has gone by since the Rossi-Focardi event transpired, and Dr. Park continues to remain silent. Nothing pertinent has been mentioned in his "What's New" weekly rant. I find it impossible to believe that Dr. Park has not heard of the proceedings. Therefore, it seems to me that his continued s

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

2011-02-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
svj sez: > A month has gone by since the Rossi-Focardi event transpired, and Dr. > Park continues to remain silent. Nothing pertinent has been mentioned > in his "What's New" weekly rant. I find it impossible to believe that > Dr. Park has not heard of the proceedings. Therefore, it seems to me >

Re: [Vo]:BLP Presentation

2011-02-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: > Brian Ahern says it seem Rossi has put the fear of God > into Mills. Mills put out a "me too!" paper with dozens > of viewgraphs mainly ones showing that if he would, he > could build a a big energy generating system too, and by > golly it might be as good -- or maybe lots better! -- th

Re: [Vo]:Irish times reports on Rossi

2011-02-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Harry: > Why haven't they invented... > cold fusion? > > http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/bang/2011/0216/1224289927976.html H This from the Irish Times. Doesn't another Alternate Energy firm come to mind??? In psychological terms, it's called displacement. The mind is often ver

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

2011-02-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Peter ... > 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, his method > of scale-up is strange, but he answers patiently to hundreds of questions of > diverse levels of IQ and good/ill-will. Put

Re: [Vo]:Experts have concerns about an upcoming Wiley physics textbook

2011-02-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > By the way, I am just Mr. Rothwell. No PhD. > My background is linguistics, programming, > and translating Japanese technical articles into English. Methinks Jed is shilling a unique proposal of his own: "How to Read Japanese for Dummies" I bet you'd be good at it too. ;-) Reg

Re: [Vo]:The Wicked Problem

2011-02-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Robin: ... > Note that as Hydrino molecules shrink, the protons get closer > together, so their magnetic fields get stronger. If the magnetic > field increases with the inverse cube of the distance, and the > distance itself goes with the inverse square of the primary > quantum number, then

Re: [Vo]:an unofficial Rossi E-cat test

2011-02-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Peter Gluck: > As I wrote in my Ego-Out blog 2011 is a very bad year for skeptics. By the > way Bob Park is ignoring the subject with great enthusiasm. Yes indeed. More than a month has passed by and Park's conspicuous silence on this matter strikes me personally almost as if it is a kind o

[Vo]:Rossi and the micromanaging bug

2011-02-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed recently pondered: > He [Rossi] would gain much more credibility if he would only > allow the NRL to test his machine, but I doubt that will happen. > I do not understand why, but he does not want more independent > tests of his machine. It sure makes him look bad, doesn't it? I am, of course

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Just a comment to Jed and Abd, and a few other patient participants. I've enjoyed being a spectator to this thread. I guess that makes me somewhat of a sadist. By all means continue clarifying all the misconceptions being spewed out from this particular thread. Many of you have harder skulls than

Re: [Vo]:Joshua Cude does not believe in the scientific method

2011-02-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Abd: ... > Younger scientists are becoming educated in what actually > happened in 1989-1990. ... > The skepticism is most entrenched among physicists, who > seem to be unwilling to acknowledge that there might be > something happening that they don't understand. The irony here is that enco

Re: [Vo]:Russian Oilies Invest in LENR

2011-02-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
As Terry pointed out in: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/cold-fusion-predicted-10-yrs-183 Excerpt: > Igor Goryachev, a scientist from Research Institute of Nuclear > Instrumentation, Russia, said there has been considerable > interest in LENR projects in his country. “Interestingly, oil >

Re: [Vo]:Russian Oilies Invest in LENR

2011-02-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Terry: > Yes, but you are discounting the fact that the Russian oil tycoons are > nouveau riche.  Russia's Siberian Khatru has been a long time in > development and they many not have the mindset that exists in Western > Oilers. Hmmm... Should we welcome the "mindset" of Russia's Siberian

Re: [Vo]:Yes, cold fusion is a fringe subject by the standards of Wikipedia

2011-03-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Abd sez: ... > It means nothing about the science itself. As Jed has pointed out, there is > a definition of "mainstream" that's different. Judging "mainstream" has to > do with publication by independent publishers who are dedicated to general > science or to some particular science (or engineer

Re: [Vo]:Aviso Ponders Open Sourcing his Self-Running Electric Car Technology

2011-03-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Robin sez: > ...sounds to me as though he is tapping into the Van Allen belt energy. > This is the resonant transfer concept. Oh dear! If this takes off I bet one can wager their suntan lotion that in another hundred years or so or we'll experience a Van Allen shortage and increases in skin cance

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones ... > Others apparently feel as I do, that a device that cannot be "safely" > unplugged makes me nervous. > > Yes. Nuclear reactors (fission type) make me nervous. I wouldn't want > to live near one. Indeed, the current lack of a clear understanding of the engineering (and theory) inv

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones ... > Others apparently feel as I do, that a device that cannot be "safely" > unplugged makes me nervous. > > Yes. Nuclear reactors (fission type) make me nervous. I wouldn't want > to live near one. Indeed, the current lack of a clear understanding of the engineering (and theory) inv

Re: [Vo]:Anticipating skeptical objections to a 1 MW demonstration

2011-03-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: >> From Jones: >> Yes. Your fear would be shared by the majority in the USA, >> and that is likely to be the major reason that Rossi is not >> doing it here. He knows he would not see this device sold >> here during his lifetime, due to the NRC. > > I think you are exaggerating the powe

[Vo]:OT: Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle

2011-03-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Hey, Jed and all, Have you all seen the following commentary: "Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle" http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/04/amazon.free.kindle/index.html?hpt=C2 http://tinyurl.com/4catda6 Excerpt: Last year, nearly $1 billion in e-books were sold, according to

Re: [Vo]:OT: Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle

2011-03-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
> "Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle" > > http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/04/amazon.free.kindle/index.html?hpt=C2 > > http://tinyurl.com/4catda6 > Additional excerpt: According to Kelly, Bezos "merely smiled and said, 'Oh, you noticed that!' And then smiled again." ... Ma

Re: [Vo]:OT: Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle

2011-03-04 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: ... > If they were to give away the Kindle hardware gadget at > this stage, I imagine the government anti-trust people > would look askance. Amazon would be giving away the gadgets > at a substantial loss, and I suppose regulators would see > that as an unfair way to squelch competing

Re: [Vo]:Latest Rossi news at PESN

2011-03-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Terry: >> Note: Rossi told me he would demonstrate the unit in Florida. > > I wouldn't.  It could be confiscated on the basis that is poses a > radiation threat to people in the US.  I'd just ship it and test it > there. >From Noone Noone > That would be a huge win. > If they confiscate it

Re: [Vo]:Latest Rossi news at PESN

2011-03-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: >>Terry Blanton wrote: >> I don't trust our government. > I trust the government most of the time, in most situations. > It is no worse than General Motors or Toyota, and much better > than most Wall Street investment firms. ...except in Wisconsin. We are currently experiencing technic

[Vo]:CNN.COM: The race to make the world's strongest magnet

2011-03-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Worth reading: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/09/rare.earth.magnet.race/index.html?hpt=Sbin Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

[Vo]:Off Topic: Wisconsin Republican Senators create an unprecedented outrage, history being made

2011-03-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
http://www.youtube.com/user/OrionworksVideos?feature=mhum#p/u In the dark of the night, without notice to the public, without any debate, without even printing copies of the bill, 18 Republicans used procedural trickery to strip hundreds of thousands of workers in Wisconsin of their collective bar

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic: Wisconsin Republican Senators create an unprecedented outrage, history being made

2011-03-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
This is the more interesting footage: http://www.youtube.com/user/OrionworksVideos?feature=mhum#p/a/u/1/UJBbdVJ9G0U > http://www.youtube.com/user/OrionworksVideos?feature=mhum#p/u > > In the dark of the night, without notice to the public, without any > debate, without even printing copies of th

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion GT announcement

2011-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Ledin: > Defkalion GT ... > You all are kindly ask not to confuse our Hyperion technology with > others’ (eg.ecat). We are not willing to answer any questions > pertaining to third party initiatives in LENR. We have made our own > progress, both on technical and business matters. So we wil

Re: [Vo]:Rossi's interview with "Tom and Doug"

2011-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
A former girlfriend of mine, for which I'm happy to say I'm still on good terms with, has a rated IQ of 150 or higher. Don't ever play a game of GO with her. You will be humiliated. She cannot tell her right hand from her left without manually taking the effort of looking at them. Regards Steven

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: ... > Why did Rossi even go? What was he thinking? > He does at least make it clear that he cannot reveal anything about this > because he has no patent. He does not actually say "I do not want widespread > publicity because I have no patent -- I want to cash in while I can" but I > am

Re: [Vo]:Report on Rossi's visit to Boston

2011-11-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed > ... Maybe there is more to it. I just heard this in a 5-minute phone call. > Summary: He said the same stuff he has been saying all along in his blog > and in the magazines. > Well, at least he is consistent. IMHO, (and granted it might be an incorrect opinion) I can't help but specu

Re: [Vo]:Article about trip of andrea rossi to massachusetts from boston globe

2011-11-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Thanks Jouni, Excerpt: "Rossi said he would also like to develop small household cold fusion power generators in Massachusetts. "I'm already planning to come back soon," [Rossi] said, "We are hoping to get something started in a matter of weeks, not months." * * * * Looks to me as if Rossi is

Re: [Vo]:Article about trip of andrea rossi to massachusetts from boston globe

2011-11-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
orionworks sez: ... > ... looking like the personification of God > Almighty himself (circa Old Testament) Akshully, the more I think of it, I suspect Randi is trying to emulate the Darwin look. http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/darwin.html Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.co

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion

2011-11-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
FWIW I would recommend if at all possible trying to find a place of neutrality on the Rossi/Defkalion matter. In my view, there is too much rampant anticipation going on - and that's not a good thing. Inevitably, unbridled anticipation tends to generate profound disappointment when the anticipated

Re: [Vo]:Rossi opens 10 KW expression of interest list and sets 10 kW price

2011-11-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Ahsoka, > Unbeknownst to the cold fusion enthusiasts, Rossi is really doing a > phenomenological study on the perception and judgement of those who > believe in in LENR. ... Assuming you're serious, and that Rossi's entire eCat endeavor has been nothing more than a phenomenological study o

Re: [Vo]:Virtual Particles are Gravitational Dipoles

2011-11-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Gee wiz! I sed something sort of like this about three to six months ago in the Vort Collective. However, I'm sure what I said was stated much more crudely. I recall conjecturing that the aggregate "mass" existence of all those fleeting virtual particles could possibly in themselves contribute to

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Prepares

2011-11-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Is the unit basically a small furnace, perhaps to heat a few rooms or water? What's the COP on this configuration? I haven't been able to determine that yet. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Prepares

2011-11-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Orionworks sez: > Is the unit basically a small furnace, perhaps to heat a few rooms or water? > > What's the COP on this configuration? I haven't been able to determine that > yet. Let me clarify. It sez it's for Domestic or Building, Agricultural and Industrial uses. It looks to me like it's

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion Prepares

2011-11-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Peter: > minimum COP is 25 so far I remember. > Details are here: > http://www.defkalion-energy.com/files/HyperionSpecsSheetNovember2011.pdf 25? On page 18 it sez: COP Better than 1:25 / 1:32 Big discrepancy here. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionwork

Re: [Vo]:eCat/Hyperion output level control

2011-11-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: ... > I assume that a unit used for space heating only would have something > like a thermoelectric device and a storage battery to keep itself going, > or to wake itself up. So there would be no waste of external AC power. > Perhaps early models will depend upon AC power. Soon there w

Re: [Vo]:Andrea Rossi responds to Defkalion Hyperion technical spec release

2011-12-01 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From MY: >> From Rossi: >> >> ...   E-CATS ARE FOR SALE ONLY FOR WHAT CONCERNS 1 THERMAL MW PLANTS, >> BECAUSE THE 10 KW E-CATS ARE NOT YET CERTIFIED ... I made the mistake of browsing through my filter pile. I found this from MY: > I'm confused. Megawatt nuclear fusion plants are certified >

Re: [Vo]:I urge Defkalion to allow a third-party test

2011-12-02 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
At present I'm inclined to conclude that DGT stole Rossi's sauce. The impression I get is that the BoD suspects that if they showed all the evidence it would strongly indicate the fact that they reversed engineered significant portions of Rossi's eCat design. I suspect that is why Jed has gotten th

[Vo]:Scientist [aka: Rossi] Makes Pitch for Massachusetts Cold Fusion Plant

2011-12-05 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Live Science: TITLE "Scientist Makes Pitch for Massachusetts Cold Fusion Plant" http://www.livescience.com/17310-scientist-pitch-massachusetts-cold-fusion-plant.html Mostly harmless The energizer bunny seems to keep on going and going. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com ww

Re: [Vo]:Bill Gates to build a new nuclear reactor -- with China

2011-12-07 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Alan, > http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/07/bill-gates-to-build-next-gen-nuclear-reactors-with-china/ > > BEIJING –  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed Wednesday he is in > discussions with China to jointly develop a new and safer kind of nuclear > reactor. > > "The idea is to b

Re: [Vo]:Bill Gates to build a new nuclear reactor -- with China

2011-12-07 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: >> It has been a conservative business strategy that has worked very well for >> BG. Nevertheless, I lament the fact that BG appears to have rarely shown >> much backbone towards exploring and subsequently exploiting >> unproven/cutting edge technologies such as those purported from Ro

Re: [Vo]:Article - Quantum Entanglement Allows Diamonds to Communicate

2011-12-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Robert & Michele http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Quantum-Entanglement-Allows-Diamonds-to-Communicate-120511.aspx?xmlmenuid=51 > Next time we send out some Mars Rovers, we swap the communications antennae > with a Quantum Entangled Crystal (QEX) array, and, voila! > Real-time communi

Re: [Vo]:Yo: Peter Heckert! Is a 0.1 mm gap a problem or not?

2011-12-08 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Peter, > Jed, if I find the time tomorrow during work, I do the test myself. > This is better. I fear your test will not be correct. It is good that you are performing the experiment yourself and that you will post the results. We all would love to see the results. OTOH, what is behind thi

Re: [Vo]:Defkalion addresses "ashes"

2011-12-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Interesting. I wonder if DGT will also propose what kind of nuclear/LENR steps are most likely being taken to produce the copper. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Nickel salts for sale?

2011-12-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From James, > Where can I get small quantities of soluble nickel salts?  Nickel chloride > would be fine.  Reagent grade would be nice but not absolutely necessary. > > Hopefully I won't have a SWAT team of wannabe secret police attack dogs > bashing down my door if I get my mitts on such an obvi

Re: [Vo]:The dark side of cold fusion

2011-12-12 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Axil Axil: >> No matter what Jed Rothwell says, poisoned by the deepest failings of >> uncaring and debased human nature, Cold fusion could usher in a new dark age >> of human exploitation and misery for all mankind. > From Jed: > I said that too. See chapter 19, "Making things worse . . ."

Re: [Vo]:New Posting from Lattice Energy - LENR compared to CF

2011-12-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
The statement from Lattice Energy LLC strikes me as essentially saying: Accept no other theory than our own. IOW, product placement. If LE LLC eventually gets around to unveiling their own Dog & Pony show, meaning the presentation of a product (or just a prototype), then by all means, let the chip

Re: [Vo]:New Posting from Lattice Energy - LENR compared to CF

2011-12-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Randy Wuller: ... > ... I also don't care if the name given to the process is > particularly accurate from a scientific standpoint, > you guys can call it whatever you want once you figure it out. Many on this list have argued this very issue. So have I. Before I was asked to resign, while

Re: [Vo]:Higgs, Alpha, and Ebenezer

2011-12-13 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: ... > What a bunch of unmitigated pomposity. Give them a continuing > 5 billion per annum - and in few decades, wow - they could > probably get it right. Isn’t it about time for a big dose > of “Occupy CERN”. From: http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/

Re: [Vo]:Off Topic- Russian UFO or Drone..UK Telegraph

2011-12-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Kita > I guess that most have seen this by now..It seems to have "gone viral". > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8951086/Russian-protesters-film-UFO-over-Moscow.html > > A drone seems probable..yet...if it is a drone..will it reappear? Most likely a surveil

Re: [Vo]:E-cat impact

2011-12-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
I'd be dead without spell checker. I suspect I'm not alone on that. I wonder if MY is taking lessons from Mr. Krivit. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:Bob Park is back!

2011-12-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Thanks for posting the actual paragraph, Peter. > 3. LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS AN ENORMOUS FIELD > There are, I think, many more of them than there are of us. Let me mention > just a few of the more notorious:  Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishman, who > gave us Cold Fusion in 1989, are

Re: [Vo]:Bob Park is back!

2011-12-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed, Peter can correct me if I error on this point but I believe he has repeatedly attempted to contact Dr. Park specifically in regard to the Rossi saga. Numerous times. I believe Peter as posted the fact that Park has never responded to any of his repeated inquiries. I'm sure others have attemp

Re: [Vo]:E-cat impact

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mr. Lawrence: > However, I do have an observation: When a woman (or apparent woman) shows up, > she gets *far* more responses to her posts than a man (or apparent man) would > by posting the same sort of material. So, being a woman on the fringe lists > is enough to garner an awful lot of

Re: [Vo]:Bob Park is back!

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Josh: > My guess is that he knows it will irk the believers even more if he ignores > Rossi, than if he dumps on him. It seems to be working. Keep guessing Joshua. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Cold Fusion from a critical logical point of view.

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: ... > Terminology is often inaccurate and usually a generation behind. We often > pick a word for something new that describes the older object better than > the new one. Because there isn't a word for the new thing. ... This is why many (myself included) have felt that recent attempt

Re: [Vo]:LENR and Cold Fusion from a critical logical point of view.

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Robert: > The words may eventually be elimanated, but the next generation is adopting > them without care of origin. But our generation is just as guilty of committing the same type of crimes. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

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