Posts by Mike Wryley

Quote from Alan Smith

I don't care if renewable electricity is more expensive - we should be using as much of it as we can for the planet's sake. He who wants to eat cheap may often eat dirty.

A rather cavalier attitude as the cost of energy has a lot to do with people’s standard of living, especially in developing countries.

Natural gas is hardly a “dirty” fuel, and modern coal plant stack emissions are pretty innocuous if the mercury is scrubbed.

Just where in the hell do you think all that carbon came from in the first place ?

Quote from Wyttenbach

from Mike Wryley The capital costs of wind power, availability, losses in collection and power factor, high maintenance costs , backup requirements and land leases make any claim of being “competitive” highly suspect. A trip down I 80 in Iowa is a testament to the so called “wind farm” being an assault on the environment, wild life and serenity of the outdoors. I guarantee that my electrical utility bills have only increased during the last 10 years. Wind energy is a total farce as a national energy policy, a scam on the ratepayer and taxpayer alike, and all predicated on a lie.

Seems you are very knowledgeable in carbon burning propaganda!

The lowest price tag for energy is e.g. solar in southern deserts with installation costs of 2-3cents/kwh. Wind in Europe is around 6cents/kwh. Both technologies have moderate follow up costs.

Carbon burning comes at the price of destruction of ocean live, health destruction of man due to micro particle emission and nitrogen gases. Further the nitrogen gas emission leads to unwanted fertilization of e.g. forest ground that leads to a destruction of the symbiotic live between trees and soil fungus.

Wind turbines sometimes kill a bird, fracking kills a whole landscape and an unknown number of living species. The same holds for oil exploration in the ocean. To compensate deep water horizon, we have to build 100'000's of wind turbines to reach the same level of destruction...

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Nothing in my post is unsupported, or propaganda. The average German pays 36 cents per kWh, and his economy is basically in recession. You parrot the tripe of the AGW hysteria industry and apparently do not have the intellectual scientific curiosity to check the validity of your information.

Quote from JedRothwell

,',,,,,,,,,,,,He may be a good economist, but evidently he does not know much about technology, or even commerce. I could have told you back in 1990 that if present trends continued, and subsidies were maintained, wind would soon be competitive in the middle of the North American continent.

The capital costs of wind power, availability, losses in collection and power factor, high maintenance costs , backup requirements and land leases make any claim of being “competitive” highly suspect. A trip down I 80 in Iowa is a testament to the so called “wind farm” being an assault on the environment, wild life and serenity of the outdoors. I guarantee that my electrical utility bills have only increased during the last 10 years. Wind energy is a total farce as a national energy policy, a scam on the ratepayer and taxpayer alike, and all predicated on a lie.

Quote from magicsound

I like the HP/Agilent 65XX series of analog supplies. They're widely available on eBay and surplus electronics dealers for $500 or less. I got a 6555A for this project, $220 with shipping. It's 0-120 vdc @ 0-4a, and 500 watts max. It has both constant current and constant voltage adjustments, and fully isolated output. These weigh around 35 kg and are beautifully built and very reliable. Some versions with GPIB interface may cost a bit more.

AlanG

just don’t use the HP 65 series for large battery chargers, any back emf ( IE you dial the voltage back or the main quits) and they make a lot of smoke and they are a pain to repair

Quote from JedRothwell

Note that you have to gradually replace generator plants anyway. They wear out. You might as well build gas fired plants, wind turbines and solar cells instead of coal plants. Natural gas is cheaper than coal, which is why the Trump policy of making coal the top fuel again will never work. Wind is also cheaper than a new coal plant, and far cheaper over the life of a turbine because there is no fuel cost. Solar is rapidly falling in price and will soon be the cheapest source of electricity in many geographical areas (depending on how much sunlight they get).

See Table 1 here:

http://www.eia.gov/outlooks/capitalcost/

Table 1, here:

http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusionb.pdf

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Wind energy is the most ignorant solution to a national energy plan possible, and no utility would put up a single turbine without the heavy government subsidy, meaning the tax payer takes it in the ass.

The capital costs are multiples of alternatives, the efficiencies are low due to transmission losses, maintenance is high and expensive, they decimate large quantities of migratory birds, and the availability

sucks. And while wind may be free, there is a lot more to the price of a delivered kWh than the base energy component, the cost of the coal for 10 cent per kWh electricity is just under a penny. The availability issue causes all kinds inane discussions about batteries, capacitors and pumping water, all hugely inefficient and or polluting in their own right, so one is left with building gas plants of EQUIVALENT CAPACITY. In the final analysis, the true cost is at at least 3x-4x more conventional sources. Real genius at work making your industry uncompetitive and you people poor.

Quote from JedRothwell

If that were the case, we would not see a dramatic rise in CO2 and large changes in temperature and weather. But we do see them, so obviously plant life cannot keep up.

Here is one of the best illustrations of the change in temperature. Scroll to the bottom:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

except for one small fact,

there is no "dramatic" rise in CO2

the effects of CO2 decrease at the log of the concentration, once over 100 ppm the effects are negligible,

and blaming global temps on CO2 concentrations is massive misdirection of the facts

Quote from Zephir_AWT

Trump team prepares to "roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels"

Sooner or later the cows come home, and the fact that trillions of dollars have been spent by the dept of energy and other government agencies, with one out of every three dollars borrowed, and paying no regard to the utility or probable benefit to the taxpayer has led to an unsustainable situation. Average Joe Sixpack works his entire life to pay federal and state taxes and if he is lucky and frugal, he will have a small nest egg made worthless by inflation. Any small increase in interest rates on a debt of $20 x 10>12 will make us all poor.

The dept of energy became a cash machine for well connected individuals and companies and spent money like a drunken sailor. Case in point, CO2 "remediation projects". We have things called plants that done that job admirably , without complaint or cost, at CO2 levels ranging from near extinction at 170 ppm to 8000 ppm, for billions of years.

The dept of energy was created to make this country energy independent, which it has failed miserably at, and is about as useless as the government subsidy on sugar.

Quote from Alan Smith

Just a passing mention of cold fusion here- but interesting that it was mentioned at all in such a meeting.

"The glassy waters barely disturbed the Sanssouci Star, a 174-foot yacht on which William Doll was hanging out one evening last August, anchored at a distance from the voluble quayside bars and restaurants of Stavanger.

On board was a gathering of Doll’s “private society,” a club whose primary condition of membership is at least a billion dollars in wealth. He and around a dozen members and guests, lolling around a long, candle-lit table, and dining on baked turbot served by a chef flown in from Copenhagen, were discussing a big new play in advanced batteries.

Shares were available for $100 million each, in case anyone was interested. That got the group chatting admiringly of Tesla Motors, the electric car company, which led to smaller huddles debating cold fusion, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving and billion-dollar startups. "

https://qz.com/844487/meet-the…rom-destroying-the-world/

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unfortunately, having a billion dollars has no effect on your IQ or wisdom, and admiring Tesla Motors is proof

At one point in time, SRI corroborated Yuri Geller's spoon bending deception. Not saying SRI is bad, but anyone can be had.

Zephyr,
sorry, just noticed this, holidays got in the way,,
will get the link, but I think it would be as simple as a search for
"null result Poher "

part of of me wonders why the Poher boys made such an error,
( an arc at the connection at the superconducting pellet created a pressure wave in the LN)
but then I have to ask why the effect was not present in the same pellet when not
a super conductor, as I would the arc to be even worse, I probably need to retread the
null paper

What a deal ! A high efficiency, high temp, high irradiance PV array and three phase electronics that OUTPUTS 250 kW after ALL THE LOSSES ARE ACCOUNTED FOR, with an added factor for PV efficiency "fade" due to aging during 20 years, but wait there's more !!!! Taking a SWAG,
there might be another 500 to 700 kW of heat to warm your building, make your water hot of even deice your parking lots and driveway.

Hey, my Fluke BS meter just blew a fuse,,,,

The 20 meter ham band is in the 14 MHz freq range,
a quarter wave (good length for resonant things like antenna and cavities),
is still a whopping 5 meters,
still H field coupling can make conductors red hot,

i suggest that that the "match" is a starter plasma that gets the salt water fumes ionized for additional heating by Rf,

300 watts of Rf isn't trivial and could generated hundreds of volts depending on the impedance and SWR of the "circuit" the Rf generator was being coupled into, whether the conductor was a copper wire or salt water. The "flame" in this case could simply be a plasma of ions pumped by the Rf field, a conductive part of the circuit including the saline solution.

Guess I missed the part about Rossi using square waves, and

yes hot hot and noisey motors, and short lived, even if designed for inverter use

Subsequent research in Germany, 2016, produced null results when arcing was eliminated in the LN, and measurement errors accounted for
due the the EMP of the discharge,, thin film phenomenon non addressed

Alan,
a three phase VFD will always have all three phases at the same frequency and with a constant 120 degree phase difference phase to phase,
recent units have multi kilowatt capacities at very economical prices, it would make no sense to design a custom unit, the frequencies of off the shelf units usually top out in the 400 Hz range

Zephir

thanks for for that link, astounding stuff, now looking into the last six years of followup
study/research/comments

also something that one might be able to try on his own

Using the hydrogen in water is no more a fuel than winding a spring or charging a battery,
it is merely a energy transport mechanism,

"By simulation"

This is good, a great first step,

I have some lengths of nickel rods out of an old delay line, a machine shop, power electronics, instrumentation and resources adequate to the task, but have been waiting for someone to step up who is willing to share the meat and potatoes of their successful forays into LENR.