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

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

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Robert: > There is a huge industry of focus-group research that would vehemently > disagree.  Changing terminologies can entirely restructure a debate, and > affect changes in perception: > "Global warming" to "climate change"? > "Pro-choice" to "women's health"? > "Gay marriage" to "marriag

Re: [Vo]:CF as a historical phenomenon

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > (By the way, I did not love the challenge of making programs work > in 4 kB, but I did meet it.) Back in the 70's I was hired by the State of Wisconsin to work on an IBM 360 Model 20, with 32k of memory. This was a mainframe computer. I was in charge of the edit check program that

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

2011-12-16 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Robert sez: > He who controls the language controls the argument. > The examples I'd provided were all to demonstrate the utility of changing > the terminology. You will not immediately remove stigma, but can restructure > the entire nature of the dispute. The change in name can have the largest >

Re: [Vo]:CALL FOR REDIRECT OF SOME TOPICS OR DISCUSSIONS TO VORTEX-B

2011-12-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Regarding the matter of: > RE: On the topic that Horace brings up re: moving all > non-technical postings to the other vortex list... I presume this is in reference to vortex-b. Unfortunately, vortex-b is set up as a no-holds bar forum where anything goes. Long ago I stopped subscribing to "b" be

Re: [Vo]:CALL FOR REDIRECT OF SOME TOPICS OR DISCUSSIONS TO VORTEX-B

2011-12-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Bek: > Your 'b' must be different from the one I subscribe to. No, it's the same one. > I haven't seen a post there in months, aside from the > test I just did. Yes, and why do you suppose that is so? It's called the "scorched earth" syndrome. Things got so bad that most, myself included

Re: [Vo]:CALL FOR REDIRECT OF SOME TOPICS OR DISCUSSIONS TO VORTEX-B

2011-12-19 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Bek: >> It's called the "scorched earth" syndrome. Things got so >> bad that most, myself included, simply subscribed out of >> "b". I suspect the trolls are still however. They are >> still subscribed to "b", abiding their time, waiting to >> pounce. > If everybody feels that way, 'b' will

Re: [Vo]:Once again, I advise Defkalion to show Stremmenos their reactors

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Glad you responded to DGT, Jed, You conclude with: > I do not think I can get the message through. > I suppose they do not want to hear it. I'm inclined to speculate that, yes, they HAVE gotten your message. They probably got your message long ago. But perhaps, for strategic business reasons, th

Re: [Vo]:Once again, I advise Defkalion to show Stremmenos their reactors

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Let me expand on some thoughts. I gather Stremmenos has yet to visit DGT's labs. Why? Several scenarios come to mind: * If Stremmenos were to discover the fact that DGT's hyperons are authentic, and that have created their own version of "the secret sauce", it would essentially authenticate DGT'

Re: [Vo]:Once again, I advise Defkalion to show Stremmenos their reactors

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Robert: ... > Whether the decision is based on strategy or attorney's recommendation > is anybody's guess. IMO, both are good guesses. ...a little of both. I bet lawyers on both sides of the fence will make a bundle of money. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazz

Re: [Vo]:Once again, I advise Defkalion to show Stremmenos their reactors

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Stephen: > Perhaps they *are* stupid. > > That issue is quite independent of whether they're honest.  Not everybody in > business who is in a position to control substantial sums is highly > intelligent, after all. > > And if they're actually con guys, well, most criminals are, after all, ki

Re: [Vo]:Once again, I advise Defkalion to show Stremmenos their reactors

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Giovanni sez: > How come Mary Yugo explanations of the "current events" > sounds always the most rational, well thought and coherent? > It just fits all the facts. According to your personal paradigm. There will always be mutual admiration societies. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWork

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mr. Lawrence, ... > Good. Nice. The prototypes (mockups?) apparently look > pretty, and the paper specs look good. (So did the > Batmobile I saw at a car show some years back. It had > great specs, too, by the way.) But do they work? Do > they do anything at all? This statement says *

Re: [Vo]:Next Rossi customer update

2011-12-20 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>> Could it be Black Light Power? > Hmmm ... they're in New Jersey, so it qualifies as "North East". > But I think Rossi would regard them as a snake/competitor. Hah! Great speculation. I wish BLP *would* find a way to "acquire" one of Rossi's contraptions. Alas, me thinks this would be too muc

Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: ... > And Pai Mei taught the Black Mamba Dim Mak, aka the > Five-Point-Palm-Exploding-Heart Technique, used to dispatch Bill; a > far better way to die than in real life via autoerotic asphyxiation. > > Carradine's life will make a great movie one day. Probably so. We are an interest

Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>> We are an interesting species. It's probably one of the reasons why we >> are being studied... at a discrete distance ;-) > > Or not so distant as in Doc Smith's "Triplanetary". I loved reading Doc's Lensman series. Doc gave great space opera. And now... back to regularly scheduled programmin

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Happy Solstice

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: > At 11:30 tonight the countdown clock begins.  Will the > chaos erupt suddenly or become asymptotic? > It appears to have begun: > > http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/atmosphere-becoming-more-turbulent-unusual-cloud-patterns-seen-in-skies-over-alabama/ > Cool cloud

Re: [Vo]:[OT] Happy Solstice / Let it Snow

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Alan, > Try typing "let it snow" into google. Glad they included a "DEFROST" button. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Giovanni: > Until LENR is something that every amateur enthusiast can > reproduce and post on youtube, it will remain in the realm > of pseudoscience. I disagree with that assumption. What the hell do amateur enthusiasts have to do with validation? Assuming the technology is valid, all I t

Re: [Vo]:A competent observer's assessment of Defkalion

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Giovanni recently expressed the following proclamation: > Until LENR is something that every amateur enthusiast can > reproduce and post on youtube, it will remain in the realm > of pseudoscience. Soon afterwards, Mr. Rothwell followed up with: > I suspect you [Giovanni] are making up unreasonab

Re: [Vo]:Krivit goes Berserk against "Cold Fusion" research to promote WL theory.

2011-12-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Akira, >> McKubre's M4 bogus experiment index: >> >> http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/McKubreM4/McKubre-Experiment-M4.shtml > > > http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/McKubreM4/20111221ToWhomItMayConcern.shtml > > In the above link it appears to me that Krivit is not just attacking > McKubre, but

Re: [Vo]:Mathematical modeling versus a blacksmith

2011-12-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Mary Yugo: >> Am I to assume you examined the mathematical modeling and resulting curves >> in the links I provided and have analyzed and rejected them for some good >> reason? I assume you addressed this query to Mr. Rothwell. Nevertheless, I have two cents of my own to add. Having run th

Re: [Vo]:Mathematical modeling versus a blacksmith

2011-12-22 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: > Wow! That gives us an interesting look at how Google translation works. The > computer picks a word that is functionally similar. One that has similar > uses, distribution or frequency. > > Or maybe it is a database error. > > The word "roth" also means red, in Middle English. Hence the

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

[Vo]:JAPAN

2011-03-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed, My heart goes out to you and any family, extended family, friends and associates you might know living in Japan. When you can please let us know the status of Japan from your unique perspective and knowledge base. It's my understanding certain nuclear plants have been shut down... mostly as

Re: [Vo]:Rossi on-line Q&A posted

2011-03-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Just another excellent opinion being express here... (MINE, of course!) There seems to be much discussion about "tactics" and MOs... and, sigh..., I think we miss the most important point of all. Much of Rossi's predilections, warts and all, strike me as highly altruistic in nature. Altruism is a

Re: [Vo]:Rossi on-line Q&A posted

2011-03-11 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... >> As the VISA commercial goes: "Priceless." > MasterCard! People like you are the bane of public relations > departments. Here the MasterCard company spends millions to > promote their brand, and you confuse their ads with the > competition's. (That happens all the time.) Aw shuck

Re: [Vo]:Number 2 reactor core fully exposed

2011-03-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Japan's nuclear tragedy will of course bring into question the wisdom of constructing new nuclear power plants in the U.S., and just when it was beginning to experience another renaissance. There has been a push to develop Thorium based reactors, a technology that can't produce nuclear bombs. It i

Re: [Vo]:Prediction of a winner

2011-03-14 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones The only winner in Japan from this tragedy will be Toshiba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S Excerpt: "The technical specifications of the 4S reactor are unique in the nuclear industry.[2] The actual reactor would be located in a sealed, cylindrical vault 30 m (98 ft) undergro

Re: [Vo]:Energy Catalyzer on Wikipedia

2011-03-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Esa: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer Succinct, and to the point. I wonder how long it will take before the anti-CF police take notice and proceed to correct it. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

Re: [Vo]:The story/development of the E-cat continues in Greece

2011-03-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Peter > I know it is not in English, I am using Google Translate What language is the source written in? Doesn't appear to be Italian or Russian. Can you help me out here? Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks

[Vo]:PESN: Welcome Worry-Free Nuclear Power: Rossi's Energy Catalyzer

2011-03-17 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Title: Welcome Worry-Free Nuclear Power: Rossi's Energy Catalyzer March 17, 2011. http://pesn.com/2011/03/17/9501791_Welcome_Worry-Free_Nuclear_Power--Rossis_Energy_Catalyzer/ http://tinyurl.com/63tavuv I love the E-Cat mock-up (conceptual interpretation). Looks like a tiny fridge. Regards Ste

Re: [Vo]:Bismuth telluride as a topological insulator

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones, I did my best to comprehend the gist of your post. It was a complicated read for me. Perhaps you can distill portions of it down to my comprehension level. ;-) Are you implying that the so-called Rossi effect does not actually involve any kind transmutation what-so-ever? I'm a little fuzzy

[Vo]:Defkalion Green Technologies plans to install a 1MW E-Cat in a Factory in Xanthi, Greece

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Free Energy Times: Translated from Greek (I believe): "Defkalion Green Technologies Preparing Factory in Xanthi, Greece to Build Rossi/Focardi Energy Catalyzers" http://www.freeenergytimes.com/2011/03/18/defkalion-green-technologies-preparing-factory-in-xanthi-greece-to-build-rossifocardi-

Re: [Vo]:Bismuth telluride as a topological insulator

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Thank you Jones, I was actually able to wrap my brain around most of that. I especially like the falsifiable conclusion. The sooner the better. An afterthought: If Rossi (and probably Mills as well) don't currently possess an accurate understanding of what's actually happening on the atomic and

Re: [Vo]:Washington Times comments on Rossi

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/17/nuclear-future-beyond-japan/ > This is the first I have seen in a major U.S. mass media general newspaper. > > QUOTE: > > Just as Japan’s earthquake raises fears of catastrophe from a nuclear > meltdown and Mideast turmoil jeopardizes th

Re: [Vo]:Washington Times comments on Rossi

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Harry, > I don't wish to sound negative, but that is the Washington Times and not the > Washington Post. It is owned by reverend Sun Myung Moon who heads the > Unification Church. Sigh... For more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Times Excerpt: RECENT CHANGES: In January 200

Re: [Vo]:Rossi to answer questions on Ny Teknik

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Alan, > http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3126617.ece > > And here are 36 more questions – with Rossi's answers Thanks, Alan, Last Q&A caught my eye: Q: Karl-Henrik Malmqvist: In the reactor there might be a flow of electrons. Is it possible to directly take care

Re: [Vo]:Krivit stays on the ball with Rossi Portal

2011-03-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: ... > Conventional nuclear power is now a great deal more vulnerable than fossil > fuels, because of the crisis in Fukushima. It's recent "industrial accidents" (as coined by ACC in "Profiles of the Future") that can occasionally cause one wonder if Someone Above might be pulling a fe

Re: [Vo]:The ZPED theory of quasi-nuclear gain (long post)

2011-03-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones: ... > 9) The gain per metastable atom is at least ~100,000 times chemical but far > less than fission or fusion - and the only ash seen is in a change isotope > ratio of the tellurium (or other metastable fuel) with occasionally nuclear > transmutations due to the small proportion of

Re: [Vo]:Rossi live tonight

2011-03-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > I gather he [Icke] also believes that reptilian humanoids are secretly > in charge of humanity. Last year on a YAHOO discussion group, "DNNY", I participated in a series if stimulating conversations with a lady who believes blue skinned reptilian aliens, whom she calls the Syrians

Re: [Vo]:Addendum to "Student's Guide"

2011-03-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed > See: > Storms, E., What is now known about cold fusion? (Addendum to Student's > Guide). 2011, LENR-CANR.org. > > http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEwhatisnowk.pdf > This was prompted by recent progress in the field, and also, in part, by > confusion about the role of helium and the W

[Vo]:How cheap must electricity be in order to make desalinization cost effective?

2011-03-23 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Here's a question that I hope some resident Vort experts might be able to answer. Assuming, in due course, that Rossi's E-Cat, or some new and improved CF version eventually drops the price of electricity down to just under a penny a KwH... But, then, for the sake of argument, let's assume that th

Re: [Vo]:What's New

2011-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Terry: > From bobpark.org > > "DALLAS: THE APS MARCH MEETING NEXT WEEK. > > I'll be there to give an invited talk about what's new in Voodoo > Science, Thursday, March 24 at 8:36AM, in C1." > > Anyone care to guess?  Hmmm? Goodness me! That's today. ...as we speak. Regards Steven Vincent J

Re: [Vo]:What's New

2011-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Terry: > Anyone care to guess? Hmmm? Based on Park's past performance I suspect he would prefer to scrupulously avoid discussing Rossi... unless someone in the audience deliberately confronts him with a pointed question: "Dr. Park. What is your opinion on the recent claims made in Bologna,

Re: [Vo]:What's New

2011-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
A hypothetical conversation in room C1: * * * * AUDIENCE PARTICIPANT: Dr. Park, what are your thoughts on Rossi's "Cold Fusion" device? DR. PARK: There isn't much I can say on the subject. AP: But... but... but why haven't you come out and exposed it for what it is! The device is after all just

Re: [Vo]:What's New

2011-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Another hypothetical conversation in room C1 (This version is probably even less likely, but what the hey! I'm speculate'n here!) * * * * * AUDIENCE PARTICIPANT: Dr. Park, what are your thoughts on Rossi's "Cold Fusion" device? DR. PARK: There isn't much I can say on the subject AP: But... but.

Re: [Vo]:What's New

2011-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > Ah. So it is pure fantasy after all. Guilty as charged. > Either that or your bug picked up the wrong voice. I try to keep the "voices in my head" from bugging the predilections of others. It's the polite thing to do. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.z

Re: [Vo]:What's New

2011-03-24 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Terry, ... > What!  No CF!?! A smart bully, if he wishes to stay in power, always makes sure he has an escape route planned, a plan that can more-or-less be gracefully executed if warranted. Say what you want about Dr. Park, but I think he is definitely smart. (IOW: I think he's hedging

Re: [Vo]:Upcoming mass spec tests remove all doubts about Rossi's claims

2011-03-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones: ... > The burst of radiation, witnessed by Celani, could be a clue. > The idea that it was cosmic rays is preposterous. Let's > assume the worst. Why assume "the worst" ??? But, yes, agreed. I think the burst of radiation is an essential ingredient. > For instance, it could have be

Re: [Vo]:Upcoming mass spec tests remove all doubts about Rossi's claims

2011-03-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > There was no electromagnetic pulse. > Celani had two RF meters as well as two particle detectors. > The former detected nothing. And what of the latter? Unfortunately, my careless use of the term "EMP" was too imprecise an interpretation. Let me rephrase my previous commentary. Cor

Re: [Vo]:Upcoming mass spec tests remove all doubts about Rossi's claims

2011-03-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones: ... > Heck, Rossi might have been recruited for this ! even planned it out from > Day-one with the help of skeptics like Park & Co (or more likely the > Pentagon or spooks at some 3-letter org) as a sponsor, for all we really > know. That would explain Park's unaccustomed silence. Ma

Re: [Vo]:Upcoming mass spec tests remove all doubts about Rossi's claims

2011-03-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jones ... > At any rate, I strongly believe that there has been an ongoing > 'black' or military project since around 2000, which has been > funded under the UAV umbrella, and which could be directly > related to this. > > We know for sure that this program involves hydrogen > (not deuteriu

Re: [Vo]:Upcoming mass spec tests remove all doubts about Rossi's claims

2011-03-25 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sed: ... > ... People kept underestimating him [Edison], and he kept blowing > his critics out of the water. He gave his investors nightmares > while he struggled to pull off these things. In regards to Rossi, it is a good thing you are only playing the role of honorable scholar and meticulo

Re: [Vo]:Another Asperger's "Victim"

2011-03-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Alexander and Jed >> I take issue with the diagnosis. One of the primary symptoms of >> asberger's is an inability to relate and discuss with other people, >> and he seems to have no issue doing that. > I agree. Einstein also had this ability, as I said. > > Not every genius has Asperger's

Re: [Vo]:Artificial leaf from MIT uses Ni and Co as catalysts

2011-03-28 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed, > See: > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1370839/Scientists-Holy-Grail-science-mastermind-worlds-artificial-leaf.html It's a cool idea. However, I have no idea how good it really is. (Maybe it's not!) For example, when they say it's 10 times more efficient than photosy

[Vo]:Deep-Ocean Vents: Power 5 Times Greater than Nuclear Power Plants

2011-03-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
At first glance, the engineering would probably be ambitious. However, considering the fact that we have been accumulating lots of experience in off-shore drilling: * The Marshall System claims to be the first and only system to unlock the awesome power

Re: [Vo]:Hysterical comment in Wikipedia discussion

2011-03-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: > Someone named TenOfAllTrades deleted my remarks, with a comment "rv, banned > User:JedRothwell" > > That's probably good for me. It will prevent me from wasting any more time > posting message there. Someone unknowingly has just paid you a very high complement. You know better than to

Re: [Vo]:The Riser

2011-03-29 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jones sez: > One odd design characteristic of the E-Cat is the “Riser” > – this is the vertical component giving the device the > “reclining L-shape”… What is the purpose of the Riser? > Antenna for a directed beam? … homage to Italy? > The vortician submitting the best answer … err … > (non-phall

Re: [Vo]:Physics Forums discussion of Rossi with comments by Brian Josephson

2011-03-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>From Jed: > A well-known skeptic shown up in this discussion. See: > > http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=484427&page=5 > He is intellectually dishonest. He described experiment 1 as follows: ... > He also demands an "independent" test. That was an independent test. > Levi had no con

Re: [Vo]:Physics Forums discussion of Rossi with comments by Brian Josephson

2011-03-30 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jed sez: ... > Really, there isn't much more we can ask for. Well, I was thinking about that. Maybe when Rossi starts marketing the E-Cat in the United States he should trademark and then rename his energy catalyzer "Mr. Fusion" (I bet Mr. Spielberg wouldn't mind sharing his trademark one bit!)

Re: [Vo]:PESN reports zirconium cold fusion in Poland

2011-03-31 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
> Somewhat similar to Rossi. See: > http://pesn.com/2011/03/30/9501800_Zirconium_Flavored_Cold_Fusion_from_Poland/ As Spock would say: "Fascinating." This would tend to lend credence to speculation that what has been described as the "lenr-canr" process, as revealed/implied by Rossi, Mills, and n

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