Posts by stefan

Quote from JedRothwell

That is a shame.

("Lose" not "loose.") I have no respect for people who go around breaking laws and endangering society. During the recent riots in the U.S., I was strongly in favor of cracking down on the looters, and the people who shot to death a child in Atlanta. I don't care if people get "obstinate" as long as they follow the laws. Anyone who objects to emergency short term rules that will save ~100,000 lives is an anti-social nutcase. You cannot reason with them, so you might as fine them. The people who object to masks are ninnies. Crybabies. Wusses. They need to grow up.

Th problem is that masks here would not save 100 000/33 much less so, again evidences show that if you social distance masks is not needed, just in crowded situations so why focus on the wrong thing and in stead concentrate on making sure the people not go to parties, do not do non essential shopping,, go to the gym in stead of a walk in the park etc etc. That is way more effective than masks everywhere.

Quote from JedRothwell

If you are isolated, you do not need a mask. Obviously.

It is not a false notion. The infection rates in cities in the U.S. where masks are widely used are far lower than cities where they are rare. Masks are proven effective. People who say they are a false notion are ignorant, or deluded.

OBVIOUSLY!!! For goodness sake, of course you need a mask in that situation. You are crammed into a car right next to the person.

That is one of the strangest comments yet in this discussion.

Yes, you also need a mask in a subway car with people from other households. Or in an elevator. Why is that any different from being in an automobile?

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deluded? we can't force people to where mask here, we can't fine them if they do not use it, we are really concerned that pushing masks too much will make people obstinate and less cautious with other measures as well and loose the trust towards authorities. Also masks usage is confounded with many other facts like states implementing masks takes covid more seriously in general. I agree that masks are important in USA as people have to work when sick etc. But countries that have other measures in place like a proper sick leave and social distancing, masks become less important as the Danish study shows e.g. when people are socially distancing masks makes less of an improvement then not, not that it does not have an effect. And we are keen that less is more. Also explain why Norway and Finland, mask less countries, are much much less affected then countries in Europe that has masks mandates. And yes if I would get into a crowded bus I would wear a Mask, but that does not happen atm when I basically stay home and go to the shop at times with no crowding.

Quote from JedRothwell

The people here who are opposed to masks should please address these two questions:

1. Are you also opposed to other public health and safety rules, such as the rule against urinating on grocery store vegetables, or running through a red light? If you do not oppose the latter it seems to me you are only against novel, temporary rules, not established ones. This is irrational.

2. If we could magically bring back to life 200,000 dead people by wearing masks, would you wear one? If you would, why will you not wear a mask now to keep 100,000 more people from dying? Again, this is irrational.

Jed, why should I wear a mask when it does not help anyone, I keep the distance and are very isolated. What I'm oppose to is to get a false notion of safety, and start taking risks by socializing more and stop keeping a distance. Also when one in 10 wear a mask people will avoid them, if everybody where a mask you can't distinguish. Norway Sweden and Finland have decided that masks is not proven to work in real life. We have many cases but Norway and Finland has very little. The big thing is that people here was not following the recommendations and we believe that it is double difficult if we implement to much and people get tired and do not follow anything, less is more philosophy one could say and everything (actually a lot of details) is towards keeping people separated.

this Danish study showed that you get a marginal improvement from masks in normal life and use. I believe from this that it is a mistake to open up the society and only counter that with mask usage. Personally I believe more in proper social distancing like, do not do shopping if it's crowded that is not nesessary, work from home if you can, do not meet with people outside your family, stay home if you have any symptoms, or that someone in your familly have symptoms (yes we get well paid if we stay home). Norway and Finland either do not implement masks and we are usually compared to them, and they have very few cases and deaths compared to other countries in Europe. In my experience form real life, people are very careful, and the non careful bunch now starts to reach herd immunity it looks like. We can actually see from the numbers of ICU cases that the increce is much less rapid although steadily upward then last spring, which means that recommendations have had an effect to give room to act on numbers. It looks like we will hit maybe an intensity of 50% less icu cases a day then spring, before the recommended lockdown starts to have an effect. We have atm 20 deaths a day on a population of 10 million which translates to 650 deaths a day if we where USA the number of cases is about 4000-5000 a day that translates to 120-150 thousands of cases if we where USA. It's kind of amazing that ASIA is so spared, maybe they are much better trained to use masks properly than Denmark etc. We did contact tracing, still not able to stop the spread, perhaps to few resources to implement this properly, but I have no knowledge with more than Norway, a very rich country has tons of tracers. Oh to all USA people, congratulation to your new Precedent, Biden and a very strong implementation of democracy that are under heavy attack.

500 000 cases and 1000 more deaths are projected in Sweden to 1 of January if nothing is changed. That's 15Million cases and 30000 deaths if we where US (multiply by 30). Again we have strict recommendations and the streets are empty, very few go to restaurants etc. The death rate is lower now as we are better at protecting the elderly at the nurseries and much improved hospital care. There is a risk of flooding the Hospitals though so we need to socially distance ourselves. Lot's of angry nurses in the media calls for better behavior. But with cold and winter the virus becomes much more potent and it is difficult to hold it back, we do see less R0 than in spring so there is an effect of people behaving, just that this virus is very contiguous and that's the nature of it and we need to live with that. Interestingly the spread is now more in wealthier areas that was spared in spring. I guess we will start vaccinating in February that will decrease the deaths but still we need to make sure not to flood the health care so most likely spring is lost next year as well as it is projected that vaccination for everybody in second or third quarter.

Quote from Shane D.

I still think the Swedes have handled this crisis in the most pragmatic, non-political, and scientific way. Many around the world think that also. They have yet again resisted peer pressure to follow the pack, and shutter their economy...opting instead to do it their way:

https://justthenews.com/politi…wns-ordered-across-europe

It reminds me of Tegnell's comment early in the pandemic, when he countered criticism of his policies by saying "Let us wait 3 years, and then we will see who had the better policy". As I watch the deaths/million pile up in country after country, and surpass Sweden's...well, I have even more respect for the man. It would have been easy for him to take the easy way out, and go along. But by standing firm, he may have saved a lot of lives.

Cases are surging now not as dramatic as chart show as the number of tests has surged as well, icu cases, which is a better figure of the amount of spread has just started to climb and quadrupled in 3 weeks time from a low value. Deaths remains low, but I read that some nurseries has gotten bitten again. Half of Sweden is now under the recommendations to work from home and not socialize outside the family. People seam to care less about the recommendations now though so we will continue to see cases move up, we'll see where we end. I expect to see similar trend as in France and UK with deaths starting to climb when the virus is common in the population. Our medical staff is exhausted after the spring and summer. We have a long cold dark time ahead of us.

The successfull applicatoin of suncell of GUTCP is a mystery. QED does calculate a lot of values very exactly, but is so different from GUTCP Now I have tried to compiled a sketch of how to find another solution of QED that has the property of yielding the same exact energy solution and have a feature of a sperical shell non-linearity manifesting that the second derivative is not continuous on a spherical shell. With this approach it is plausable that QED and GUTCP is the same theory or share much more than believed. Here is a link to the sketch of a new solution to QED that yields the same energy.

QED Calculations

Quote from THHuxleynew

What policy? I had not noticed one...

Well protect the vulnerable but keep the society open, no lock down, he also thinks that the evidences for masks is weak and that there is no strong scientific evidence for it. Social distancing is enough. Pretty much what we have in Sweden now. You may not agree with this guy but it is a great discussion.

We have some surge of cases in a local regions with a very high fraction of young people (A university area) and recommendations there is to work from home, avoid public transport and avoid contact with people you are not living with e.g. the recommendations we had last spring. The number of deaths have not risen but the number icu cases went within half a week to 20% of max for that region. Which means that the spreading is quite dramatic. We expected these kind of bursts of infections. There is also a slight slow general increase of icu cases as well in the whole country. Experts where telling us that this virus would not be affected by which season it is, don't look like that now.

Hmm

Here is one of one of the main characters behind the current US corona policy

interesting intervue

Quote from Max Nozin

I sense some ECW mood in these words. Rossi was called genius many times there for doing unexplainable.

Comparing Mizuno or these people with Rossi is silly. Rossi is hiding the tech and is called a genius these guys seam to want to get a public confirmation. They seam to me to be the opposite of Rossi and that I applaud.

I think that for demonstrating the effect, radiation is not bad as it is an easy mark that we have a nuclear effect. But yes as a practical device one would head for non radioactive one. The thing is that demonstrating that we have an effect will open the floodgates of human exploration power as companies and people all over the world would start to try to find the best solution, something that LENR is missing badly. Perhaps the inventor is a real economic genius as well as he get's to collect a percentage of an existing multi trillion market compared to people hiding in the dark and want everything by them self not finding the practical solution and gets a percentage of nothing.

En ny BrLP-video från deras 100-timmars test här .

Vad som är intressant är att påståendet i berättelsen 10 gånger mer ström ut än antändning av powe5r. De hävdar också att 200 gånger mindre väte behövs än att bränna väte till vatten för att uppnå detta överskottsenergi. Ser ut som en slam dunk eftersom dessa siffror borde vara ganska lätt för dem att kontrollera nu. Jag kallar det en framgång nu eftersom jag inte kan se detta som en bluff och det kan inte vara självbedrägeri.

Quote from THHuxleynew

Yes, I'd like to have better understanding of how transmission happens from all these asymptomatic cases. I'd guess that you need quite close contact because children only seem to infect about 20% of other household members. Presumably your teachers are not hugging children nor within 1m very often.

Another thing to factor in is the average age of teachers - unless you are testing them enough that you reckon the figures will catch all infections?

The one stating this are expert of stats, I think that age groups are factored in, that's standard procedures if you know the stats of this decease. Anyway they do take measures in school by being careful to send home children when they have symptoms, washing hands and keep distances. No masks for children, people that ask for such measures are seen to be unrealistic by us and a bit weird. Also when we do not have much outbreaks in school why bother. Gymnasium have been closed or teachers taught at distance. They are opening now with a ton of precautions, a few outbreaks that are under control have been the result and currently things go well. No masks, but they are making sure there is no crowding and that people do not meet outside the study groups.

we have had the schools open all the time in Sweden and the teachers were better of then other work groups

Guardian have an article that describes findings in genetics that is exiting and can lead to great treatments. That we have mild and severe cases is actually great as we can data mine the cause of the tough cases and produce a good treatment.

Quote from Wyttenbach

Currently Panasonic delivers the stacks. The next one is made in China. Sorry Tesla only owns high level patents and produces at lot of hot steam with feature nonbody realy needs.

What, a 50% cut in production price of the battery is what no one needs. That's 95% of their show. They could add on top of this a self aware HALL computer as your autonomous driver but this was just mentioned in a passing. Personally I would skip the high tech stuff and have a simple car with good range an price an comfort and nice to drive as I enjoy driving. But then I'm not commuting every day am I. High level patents are the good patents that protect the most, low level ones tend to be easy to side step.

Quote from Wyttenbach

There is nothing to license as Tesla owns no battery patents! The only thing they own is traction control software what includes accumulator balancing etc.. But all major companies engage in formula E and formula one where all cars use cutting edge electric solutions like super caps for ultra fat power recovery! So it could turn out the other way round...

I would never buy Tesla stock as it is massively overrated. But this always happens when people are blinded or try to blind others for profit.

May be you once should have look in a Tesla giga accumulator factory. You would be surprised how few space really is occupied... Potemkin...

So you are saying that the tech they talk about is not patented but common knowledge. This is not how corporations work, trust me, from the presentation it is clear that we are talking about a massive amount of patents they own, all else would be crazy. Also formula e is not attacking the problem of cheap manufacturing far from that. Just wh/kg not wh/$ as I said look at the stats for the cost of kw/$ it's stationary! although we have these formula E event. It is like buying tomatoes and other vegetable. They are good looking but taste like water. If they would start selling proper tomatoes people would eat them like crazy. Again the target of optimization is not the right one.

Quote from axil

To background this issue, some old posts connecting static magnetism to LENR:

[Vo]:RE: An experiment you never heard of

Russ George Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:31 PM

Reply-To: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

I had the privilege of standing in the parking lot of the hotel where Chukanov had his demo running for several hours in the company of Martin Fleischmann fusing some of our little grey cells over that device. Chukanov answered or at least responded to every single question we posed to him and we sent many his way. It was a fascinating and captivating demo. Martin was the kind of man who had insatiable curiosity and not a mean molecule in his body and showed it in his sincere interest and professorial manner. Chukanov sent us both away with several large chunks of his metal.

Meanwhile the hundreds of ICCF conference attendees almost entirely shunned the ‘parking lot demo’ and Chukanov, especially the self-appointed high priest insiders of cold fusion. There was little but derision and snide attacks behind Chukanov’s back at the meeting.

After a couple hours in hot afternoon sun with Chukanov and his machine Martin and I adjorned to the beach and floated for a long time like basking whales chatting about this and that.

Somewhere in my collection of ‘cold fusion’ holy treasures I have some of Chukanov’s SmCo5 metal. I think I will dig it out and see if some of the recent ‘activation’ ideas make it work even better!

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Most of what the anonymously posted notions of 'Axil' are indeed not new. Martin Fleischmann, Kiril Chukanov, and I had a spirited conversation about very similar ideas more than 20 years ago while examining Kiril's working device as it was making prodigious 'anomalous heat.' There was no denying the heat or the measurement of it at hand. SmCo5 loads hydrogen at a ratio of 5:1 by the way, far above Pd's 1:1. If you want nano-fractures in metals I defy anyone to make more such nano-features than what occur in SmCo5 that is hydrogen loaded and deloaded repeatedly. The 5x hydrogen loading shatters the lattices causing hydrogen embrittlement to such a degree that after many such cycles one can crush the metal to nano-dust with your fingertips! What Kiril, myself, Martin and others were missing at the time was the very high intentional temperature zone that Rossi's work has engendered! Not to say that we were not familiar with dramatic effects at such high temperatures as Fleischmann's Singularity and my cavitation sono-fusion metal volcanoes clearly proved. http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/

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Aha – so that’s where Dennis Cravens probably got the idea to use SmCo in his famous NI Week Demo. Notably, samarium has a high percentage of radioactive isotopes which could be activate by fractional hydrogen.

From: Russ George

What about the demo of Chukanov at the ICCF meeting in Hawaii many years ago. In large cylinders crushed and powdered SmCo5, magnetic metal, was cycled with hydrogen loading and deloading and produced kilowatts of apparent excess heat!

From: Jones Beene

… but wait, there’s more… (best Billy Mays’ tin cup plea)

In another experiment you may not have heard of - from Bockris and Sundaresan in 1994 - it was shown that magnetic stimulation boosted excess heat substantially in a Pd-D electrolysis cell. This line of work leads up to the Letts-Cravens effect – wrt understanding the influence of a magnetic field on LENR.

“After the cathode had been charged with deuterium for 48 hours at a current of 80 mA, the cell was placed in the field of a permanent magnet of 200 Gauss strength. The cell electrolyte temperature rose to 5°C above ambient after 230 seconds. After 576 seconds, the magnet was replaced by two Neodymium magnets with a 800 Gauss field. The temperature immediately started increasing and reached 13.5 °C above ambient in about 15 minutes and remained constant. The temperature returned when the magnet was removed… [end of Bockris quote]

The $64 question - why isn’t a magnetic field fully employed in the glow-stick experiments? By “fully employed” it is meant that: yes, the heater wire does provide a minimal field but increasing the field strength by an order of magnitude could be beneficial.

… relevant comment: those who do not remember the past cannot benefit from its insight- paraphrase of famous Santayana quote, which is the logic behind the LENR-CANR library.

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Axil static magnetic field does not radiate. That's why longer lasting effects probably must be static. That has nothing to do that there is a difference in nature between dynamic and static fields, the y are the same in all known equations for them.

Quote from JedRothwell

The percent found infected is shown here:

Percent testing positive for Coronavirus in Georgia

https://www.ajc.com/news/coron…d/jvoLBozRtBSVSNQDDAuZxH/

It has been ~10% lately, which is too high, according to the CDC and the White House. It is in the Red Zone.

I cannot find the absolute numbers or a breakdown by age, but the local press says patients are trending younger.

Total tests from the beginning, and tests per million are shown here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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I cannot read the paper cause I'm from europe (GDPR). But anyway I take your word for it to have been stable and not going up. Then another explanation is that there is a change in the underlying population that is tested. If we previously tested less persons with symptoms than now you would at the same percentage catch more mild cases before than now and hence the number

of severe cases go up. This is natural as in the beginning folks are more inclined to test in the beginning and for no special reason, after a test or so things probably wear out and essentially the people testing have got some kind of clue that things may be bad and motivate them to do a test. To verify this hypothesis you need to distinguish between mild and severe cases in the stats. perhaps combining icu cases with these numbers can give a hint.

Quote from JedRothwell

Not in Georgia yet. It is a warm climate. This is the first week it has been chilly outside.

It may be that more people are going back to work. But that would explain why more young people are getting sick. The mortality rate should be falling compared to the infection rate. I have no idea why it is not.

Do you have the number of tested and the number of found infected. If the group that is tested is similar you get some kind of sampling of the overall population and the fraction of found infections is a better measure how things goes than just the cases found. I got the feeling that there is a political pressure to do fewer tests just to fix the statistics because of election and such. In sweden we do not look much on the cases, but the fraction infected found is more often used as a base for actions our fraction are now increasing and here people are significantly more indoors.