Ascoli65
QuoteJR, which for sure is one of the most attentive and informed persons on these arguments
I fully disagree; JR is only interested in cold fusion, not in its academic counterpart. If cold fusion is rejected by GANS it is no worth a dime. Has JR ever quoted Stefan Pomp, for example? I hope so. I don't know. I don't want to be naughty, but I'm afraid JR only cares the bibliography "pro". His work is partisan.
I fully disagree; JR is only interested in cold fusion, not in its academic counterpart. If cold fusion is rejected by GANS it is no worth a dime.
Reading your comments, I get the strong impression that you live on the EXFOR planet. 
If cold fusion is rejected by GANS it is no worth a dime.
Are nuclear reactions cause by low energy muons covered by GANS? If not, why not? I told you a dozen times that muons are causative in LENR. Did you look into this reaction? Have you told GANS to include this reaction in this List?
Looks like the wye to delta hypothesis will survive. It does put a sort of limit on heat transfer from adjacent areas of the reactor assembly, when compared to the alternatives.
There is not enough heat, or too much heat in other scenarios it seems.
Nifty.
When I said, earlier, I agree with Ascoli, it was about the immediately previous post he made. In general, I rarely *understand* what Ascoli is saying and of course, I believe Rossi's ecat and everything surrounding it, to be not just a scam (Rossi's scam) but an extremely obvious and classical scam highly similar in origination and development to scams by Steorn, Carl Tilley, Dennis Lee, Otto, Bedini, and many many other magnetic motor, free energy, so-called HOH, Brown's Gas and similar scams. So far, of the list, Carl Tilley (on the run when last seen) and Dennis Lee, were convicted and sentenced for those scams. One can only hope that Rossi will be next to taste a trial for fraud.
I hope you know a little Italian.
queryonline.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Demo-FR1.pdf
I do not know any Italian, but Google translate works remarkably well from Italian into English, so I shall read this. Thank you.
I believe Rossi's ecat and everything surrounding it, to be not just a scam (Rossi's scam) but an extremely obvious and classical scam highly similar in origination and development to scams by Steorn, Carl Tilley, Dennis Lee, Otto, Bedini, and many many other magnetic motor, free energy, so-called HOH, Brown's Gas and similar scams
Ascoli65's contention seems to be that focusing on Rossi and on his being a scammer is misguided at best. If one really wants to know where the action is, one should look to the University of Bologna, to the DoD and to other agencies and institutions, some of which may be orchestrating LENR fandom behind the scene, through some kind of black ops. Ascoli please correct me if I have misstated your position.
Looks like the wye to delta hypothesis will survive. It does put a sort of limit on heat transfer from adjacent areas of the reactor assembly, when compared to the alternatives.
There is not enough heat, or too much heat in other scenarios it seems.
Nifty.
I worked around Your problem by assuming that the heat-conduction did change a bit (+50%, just speculation..) at higher T. The reason is that the Cu - cables are ideal heatconductors and that the delta T for the cable is larger than for the rest. A made this assumption to satisfy TC, to avoid a complete disgrace of his arguing. Thus I proposed the COP 2 argument.., alltough the caps/rods seem to prove the validty of the Lugano report...
QuoteAscoli65's contention seems to be that focusing on Rossi and on his being a scammer is misguided at best. If one really wants to know where the action is, one should look to the University of Bologna, to the DoD and to other agencies and institutions, some of which may be orchestrating LENR fandom behind the scene, through some kind of black ops. Ascoli please correct me if I have misstated your position.
Yikes! That would be absolutely impossible and anyone thinking that it could be done and that there was a motive for it (one that would work) would be totally deluded. That hypothesis attributed to Ascoli, is so far out, no wonder I didn't even grasp it. U of B orchestrating LENR fandom for reasons of black ops? Completely hilarious. Even Levi has other things to do like studying intensively and writing about the brewing of coffee.
Ascoli65's contention seems to be that focusing on Rossi and on his being a scammer is misguided at best. If one really wants to know where the action is, one should look to the University of Bologna, to the DoD and to other agencies and institutions, some of which may be orchestrating LENR fandom behind the scene, through some kind of black ops. Ascoli please correct me if I have misstated your position.
Eric, you nearly got it, with some warnings.
First, I would change the order of priority between UniBo and DoD, and fully differentiate their possible aims.
Second, these are only hypotheses. They deserve to be taken into consideration, but have to be carefully verified, and hopefully confirmed by the proper level, in the proper site. The next briefing at the US House would be the best occasion. Until then, talking about the Ecat affair as a possible Rossi's scam is not only unfair, due to the fact that whichever crime should be discussed only in a court, but ìt could be intentionally spread in order to divert from the real causes.
I think that the first and simplest questions to be answered are those posed by Krivit in March 2010, when the JoNP appeared on the web:
"http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-[email protected]/msg38052.html"
"http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-[email protected]/msg38061.html"
IMO, a confirmation of the Krivit's innuendos would be incompatible with any scam hypothesis.
Ascoli, say again the motivation for this black ops.... in simple language please. Krivit says to discredit Ni-H work. If the work is valid, how could that be done? All that is needed to refute it are a few clear and incontrovertible experiments. So, Ascoli, you think Ni-H fusion works? Whose?
Ascoli65
QuoteReading your comments, I get the strong impression that you live on the EXFOR planet.
Yes indeed. Are you interested in Japanese EXFOR?
http://loci.cc/annual/2006/2006_102_progress.pdf
Reading your comments, I get the strong impression that you live on the DoD planet. What will you write about after September 22, 2016? It seems to me that it is your deadline.
Ascoli, say again the motivation for this black ops.... in simple language please.
Again? I can't say "again" any motivation, because I never said IT IS a black ops, so I never gave any motivation for it. I just said that it is an hypothesis which deserve to be taken into consideration, contrary to you that consider it absolutely impossible.
To be more simple, I just consider possible, what you deem impossible. I'm talking about possibility, not ascertain reality.
Even Krivit, which is an American journalist and has first hand information on the CF/LENR world, takes into consideration the possibility of "false flags" in this field. I just rely on his words (for this specific respect).
QuoteKrivit says to discredit Ni-H work. If the work is valid, how could that be done? All that is needed to refute it are a few clear and incontrovertible experiments. So, Ascoli, you think Ni-H fusion works? Whose?
No, I think that no CF/LENR approach works. I hoped to have been clear to this respect.
So I really don't understand your objection. Would you, please, explain better what you mean?
I worked around Your problem by assuming that the heat-conduction did change a bit (+50%, just speculation..)
I apologize for my earlier rant (moments ago, on another thread, and in advance of your scathing reply to be expected there).
I guess you have been number juggling.
I will post some summaries once I get the Active Runs organized, and then re-do the aspects with TC-like temperatures and then we shall see how that hangs together. I will post it whether it supports a positive COP or not. But I want to decompress from a hectic schedule for a day or two, now that I am back home. I am a bit more short tempered than I am normally, and not at all focused at the moment.
Edit: I have decided, based on all simulations/comparisons I have done that heat transfer from adjacent areas does comprise a substantial contribution of the total heat from any given, adjacent, lower temperature area. (Main to caps, caps to rods). There was no version which could support solely electrical heating in either the caps or the rods for means of modelling. This is why I mentioned the Wye-Delta thing again. In some versions, there is too much of a theoretical-hypothetical contribution by only Joule heat (caps and rods only being discussed), and in others there is far too little. By which I mean that the main body must conform to being the primary heater in the whole device, and supply enough heat to actually get the required power overall. This essentially eliminates some scenarios, while adding confidence to others.
Hi Ascoli65 and Mary Yugo.
Just so I understand, so please help me.
I think that MY said the below in brackets. I want to ensure I am not mixing quotes and authors.
{No, I think that no CF/LENR approach works. I hoped to have been clear to this respect.
So I really don't understand your objection. Would you, please, explain better what you mean? }
I think its MY but the answer changes my argument. if one believes that CF is a farce.
Thanks!
Sorry Ascoli, the question is too complex for the time I have to read the details of your hypothesis. What I do know is that all the evidence I have ever seen about Rossi points to a classical free-energy style scam and Rossi would need no external help to perpetrate such a scam. All he would need would be luck in finding marks and as I have already noted, that seems to be his best talent. That is not PROOF of a classic scam and does not exclude other explanations but it's my firm opinion based on long, if distant, observation of the development of Rossi's claims and tests and demos.
Rigel, the question you cite was from Ascoli, not me. I also doubt LENR although I have no firm basis to discredit the lower power claims. For those, I simply don't know. As for Rossi, once more, I doubt that there needs to be any other explanation other than fraud-- no black ops or secret agents at all, no need to discredit high power cold fusion which plentifully discredits itself (ie: Miley, Celani (if that is high power), Defkalion, Rossi, and Nanospire). And Brillouin seems rapidly headed in the same direction though there is not enough real evidence yet to evaluate.
@Wyttenbach
Before I get into a few Manhattans, and self-censor, I will explain a bit more about where the Wye-Delta comes back into this Rod discussion.
The numbers I will give here are rounded, and from memory, but are close enough for basic discussion. Even the ε problem does not really enter much into the Caps and Rods discussion, since the T is low enough for each that the potentially large logarithmic increases due to T4 don't have a huge impact on power results compared to the small multiples of power (x 3 or /3) increases/decreases based on hypothetical Delta or Wye configurations.
So, for the dummy, using ~0.4Ω for each resistor in a delta, the overall power for the reactor would be about 165 A, too low. Using 0.4Ω in a Wye gives the right amount of total power, while a 1.23Ω each resistor in a Wye gives 3 times more power than reported for the dummy (about 1450 W).
If we calculate the power produced by the leads exiting the Caps and into the Rods (I am using 4.7 cm each, x 6, for a few reasons, but this is negotiable), we can see in what sort of ballpark these leads might be adding power. The Caps have similar leads, but limited to 4 cm (x 6), and we could used 4 cm for the rod part to simplify further... (Resistors will be discussed as single units for naming, although there are always three of them).
Anyways, regarding the Dummy, for a 0.4Ω set up, in a delta, these Rod leads would only contribute ~20A. Too little, since the Caps would be less, plus the reactor contribution, which is only 165 W total. Not going to get the reported ~ 129 W for all the Rods there.
In the 0.4Ω Wye, the result is about 60 W for the Rod leads. I gave this figure earlier, as about 1/2 of what the Rods were supposed to have made. I am at peace with it now. It is reasonable to consider that the Rods are not entirely heated by the wires inside them. At least by the amount I will elaborate on a bit more, just below.
In the 1.23Ω Delta, the leads are also making about 60W at the Rods, but the Reactor is making three times more total power than reported in the Active Run, even though in the Dummy it works out almost perfectly. (1.23Ω each resistor makes the COP =1 for the Active Run, before chopping away at the emissivity, and could potentially mean a calculated COP of ~ 0.33).
So the 0.4Ω Wye looks pretty good in this scenario. This means that about 70W heat is contributed to the Rods from the Caps (in one way or another) using this assumption.
The Active Runs seem to go the same route, except that the 0.4Ω version (each resistor) must be in a Delta configuration to look reasonable compared to all other power measurements recorded and/or reported in the Lugano report. (By this I mean electrical measurements).
Ascoli65
QuoteSecond, these are only hypotheses. They deserve to be taken into consideration, but have to be carefully verified, and hopefully confirmed by the proper level, in the proper site.
They are not widespread hypotheses, they are only yours. Why should fandom take them into consideration? Do you think that in the University of Bologna still exist physicists working on cold fusion, but Levi whose career has probably been killed?
Do you think that in the University of Bologna still exist physicists working on cold fusion,
I do not know about this university, but I know many Italian scientists in other universities and in the ENEA working on cold fusion.
Sorry Ascoli, the question is too complex for the time I have to read the details of your hypothesis.
My previous question to you was not about "my" hypothesis, but it was about your objection to my appeal to get at first the answers to the questions that Krivit posed in his 2 mails to vortex in March 2010. I know, those mails contain many questions, some alluding to a hypothetical tentative to discredit the Ni-H approach. I'm not referring, and I don't give any credit, to this specific suspect of him.
I believed to have clearly specified in some previous comments (1), which ones of the Krivit's questions I'm referring to. Anyway I repeat here below:
March 13, 2010 – "http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-[email protected]/msg38052.html" :
“… why the good Dr. Melich, allegedly representing the entire “DoD”, is involved with this?”
March 14, 2010 - "http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-[email protected]/msg38061.html"
“Whoever registered the name is probably an American because of the California registration. […] I wonder which of the people involved in journal-of-nuclear-physics.com are familiar with the Russian science scene and which of them might be conversant in Russian and who has been a frequent co-author on Russian LENR papers?” (I guess, Krivit was clearly alluding to Melich, again.)
These are not "my hypotheses", these are questions posed by Krivit which, independently from whichever his motivation, did clearly allude at the possibility that the JoNP has been put at disposition of Rossi by a functionary of the DoD, who allegedly represented (in the JoNP's Board of Advisers) the entire DoD-USA.
These are two very simple questions. For sure the US Secretary of Defense knows, or may easily know, the answers, and, if he will be asked about during the next briefing at the US House, he can, if he wants, reveal them to the US Representatives. Is it so complex what I meant?
Finally, if (IF) the two above specified KRIVIT's innuendos will be confirmed at an authoritative level, there is no space, for my common sense, to consider the Ecat affair as a scam, more specifically a "Rossi's scam", because it would mean that a worldwide scam of dozen millions dollars would have been perpetrated along 6+ years, by using as a propagandistic tool a web Journal put at disposition of the presumed scammer by the DoD, which was also officially represented in its Board of Advisers.
Therefore, due to the fact that IMO there is no reasons to believe that the Ecat did ever behave contrary to what established by the mainstream science, ie there is no reason to believe that it did produce any excess heat, and it is also unbelievable that a controversial philosopher could have convinced so many physics professors to be able to subvert in such an extraordinary way the well established laws of the physics, there should necessarily be some other reasons for such DoD involvement in the Ecat affair. Which ones? I don't know. Ask somebody else. Maybe JR knows more.
Is it clear now?
(1) http://ecatnews.com/?p=2686&cpage=6#comment-143697
Hi Ascoli65 and Mary Yugo.
Just so I understand, so please help me.
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Hi Rigel, as already said to you by MY, the words you put in brakets are mine. I hope you resolved meanwhile your doubts.
