On 01/24/2011 03:11 PM, Horace Heffner wrote: > The Casimir effect is significant in the binding potential of the > deflated state, and thus in elongating the duration of the state > pre-fusion, though the net energy imparted by the Casimir effect is > zero, by symmetry. A nuclear Casimir effect is also extremely > significant in binding hadrons together in a nucleus. Yes, the Casimir > effect is not a major player in creating (nuclear) heat, but > uncertainty energy due to the ZPF is. See: > > http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/NuclearZPEtapping.pdf > <http://mtaonline.net/%7Ehheffner/NuclearZPEtapping.pdf> > > A clue to the truth of this, and to the fact that uncertainty energy > is extractable, is the fact Sandia surprisingly obtained over-unity > shots when using helium to test the Z-machine. > > Even if Rossi and BLP and all the other cold fusion efforts, and hot > fusion efforts like ITER, turn out to not be commercially viable, I > think Sandia's ambitious z-pinch program will produce a viable energy > technology, and within a few years. For general info see: > > http://www.sandia.gov/z-machine/ > > I think it is wise to not over commit to the Rossi technology being > both real and useful until an actual MW producing plant is built and > functioning long term. If this is a hoax it will of course set cold > fusion research financing back years, and the pie will be in our faces.
And after reading Levi's report, that's what it looks to me like it is. In short, it's a disaster on wheels for the field of cold fusion. The problem which hits me in the face isn't in the data, the problem is in the apparently off-hand, sloppy way the report was put together (almost no readable graphs, no raw data, hardly any data of any sort, the one graph which is readable obviously is two graphs silently pasted together with a bogus time axis...). This is earth shaking stuff -- it's surely worth more of Dr. Levi's time to examine it and report on it than the time it would take him to respond to a Facebook post, but that's about what the report looked like to me. And incidentally, if Levi was /already/ convinced of the reality of the thing, due, perhaps, to his knowledge of the two-year-long run to which Rossi refers, he wouldn't have bothered to look under the device for hidden power cords. On the other hand, if he was /not/ already convinced of its reality, then ... well, the report doesn't sound much like a report from a skeptical eyewitness observer of a worldshaking event. Not to me, anyway. It's very tempting to believe in this. But remember: It's not really true that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". However, it certainly /is/ true that *a claim by an outsider to have solved an intractable problem to which everyone desperately wants a solution, and which you, personally /really/ want to see solved, requires air-tight proof.* Not just pretty-good proof, not just it-would-be-hard-to-fake-it proof. So, I look forward to the 1 MW reactor, since that would provide the air-tight proof which is so far lacking ... but I'm not going to be holding my breath. > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Jones Beene wrote: > >> Ironic in a way, Fran ... (that you would hold back your enthusiasm >> now) but yes, the possibility of a 'very elaborate scam' involving >> dozens of participating strangers and doctorate-level scientists - >> has not been completely ruled out. >> >> 95% certainty is arguably "uncertain" to the strictly scientific >> mentality. >> >> But it is ironic nevertheless ... since this device might well depend >> on the Casimir effect at the most fundamental level (not for the >> heat, per se, but for maintaining 'pycno' - dense hydrogen, following >> spillover). >> >> If nothing else, your blog and posts have identified you as the chief >> proponent of the general idea that at least the first step in the >> anomalous heat processes, in many prior experiments, depends on >> cavity-QED. >> >> Everything that follows would then depends /a priori/ on the Casimir >> effect, even if it is "only" a force, and not a dynamic source of >> heat in itself. It is then clearly the most fundamental part of a two >> (or more) step process. And it is what LENR has lacked, until "nano" >> came along with Arata as the icon of that advance, since even Mills >> himself did not appreciate what was going-on in his similar experiments. >> >> Few observers who have delved into this deeply doubt that Raney >> nickel provides the easiest commercial route to a massive level of >> Casimir cavities in nickel, nor that Rossi is using it as his "nano >> nickel" (nor that it is responsible for the two lab fires in New >> Hampshire)... nor even that that the many of the prior [problems with >> LENR stem from the fact that crystal 'dislocations' are a poor >> substitute for engineered cavities. >> >> If the Casimir effect is NOT involved, I would be completely amazed. >> >> If the Casimir effect is a /sine qua non / to the reaction happening >> at a robust level, I would not be surprised in the least. >> >> Hey ! Let's celebrate with a toast to Hendrik (Casimir) and >> especially to Murray (Raney)! who actually preceded Casimir by twenty >> years !! not to mention P&F and Rossi !!! >> >> ... maybe there should be martinis all around -- which drink -- BTW >> could be called the rossi ... if you want to get into a trivia >> contest <g> Bottom's up ! and put it all on Park's tab. >> >> Later, we can add a round for Mallove, Puthoff (ZPE) and even Mills, >> after we have had a few - and all the others who have pushed this >> along in their own way --Storms, Swartz, McKubre, Miley, Mizuno etc. >> etc. etc. not to mention Jed who has been the /force majeure/, so to >> speak - in the face of constant criticism from the meatheads of science. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jones >> >> *From:* francis >> >> http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212428/Italian-scientists-claim-cold-fusion-success >> >> This is a widely read publication with a huge audience among >> government contractors. The major media will be next. To be honest I >> only forwarded my own comments with this news to certain peers at >> Lockheed this morning for fear of this being some elaborate hoax. > > > > > >
