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The Fusion Revolution
The Renewable Energy Disaster ^ | Nov 2011 | Christopher Calder

Posted on 11/14/2011 11:34:43 PM PST by Kevmo

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To: Wonder Warthog
I am not the one making extraordinary claims. The entirety of my argument is that the thermodynamic measurements are relatively simple and can be expressed in everyday terms that people are familiar with, say KWh. It is entirely possible to construct an unambiguous experiment that would conclusively prove Rossi's theories without revealing the contents of the magic box. This has not been done and seeing that it is the first and simplest experiment to do one has to wonder why.

So, to answer you question a bit more directly, no, I don't want to root about looking for the hidden information that should have been published up front. I have things to do that I can actually make work. My whole purpose here is to try and affect locally the abysmal state of what is referred to in the mass media as "critical thinking".

41 posted on 11/15/2011 7:09:14 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: Mycroft Holmes
"This has not been done and seeing that it is the first and simplest experiment to do one has to wonder why."

If you will actually look at the reports, you will see that what you want has indeed been done. Apparently, you have bought into the FUD arguments that have been circulated/circulating. The arguments brought forth about those demonstrations are BS from one end to the other. ONE legitimate criticism was made, and that was about the "wet vs.dry" steam notion from the first two demos. That was verfied as "not happening" in the third demo, which was run so as not to generate steam. And, in actual fact, the third demo was un-necessary, as the criticism about the methodology used to measure "steam quality" in the first two demos was also wrong.

But the data is there.

"So, to answer you question a bit more directly, no, I don't want to root about looking for the hidden information that should have been published up front.

You don't have to "root about". I've told you where the reports are available. In abbreviated form in the "News" section, and in full in the "Library" section of LENR-CANR.ORG.

42 posted on 11/15/2011 7:45:29 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

What you have described is not useful. The experiment produces low grade (waste) heat as the output so the issue is confused when steam is included with the output as well as water. You want a mass of water with a starting temperature and an ending temperature and a volume. Forget steam, it’s too hard to measure. If your process requires producing steam, capture the output energy in the mass of water described earlier, measure, and get back to me when you have actual numbers. The whole setup is designed to generate confusion when simplicity is easily achieved. That is not how science proceeds.


43 posted on 11/15/2011 7:57:30 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: Wonder Warthog

And you keep asking me to look at the raw data and sort through it and do the calculations that should properly be done by those in a position to profit. I find this remarkable. You might think on this a bit.


44 posted on 11/15/2011 8:00:37 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: Mycroft Holmes
"And you keep asking me to look at the raw data and sort through it and do the calculations that should properly be done by those in a position to profit. I find this remarkable."

If you have not, and will not, actually even LOOK at the reports, how can you know whether or not I'm asking you to do any such thing??

THAT is remarkable.

45 posted on 11/15/2011 8:55:43 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Mycroft Holmes
"The experiment produces low grade (waste) heat as the output so the issue is confused when steam is included with the output as well as water. You want a mass of water with a starting temperature and an ending temperature and a volume.

Which is precisely what was done in the third 18-hour "no-steam" demo.

46 posted on 11/15/2011 8:56:55 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

If you have a convincing demo with numbers that make sense and work, present that. Don’t present nonsense that doesn’t add up and then spend your energy explaining where the “real” data is. Whining when people are unwilling to go get the data and sort the wheat from the chaff with no hope of ever eating the bread makes you look like an Academic looking for graduate slaves. Not interested.


47 posted on 11/15/2011 9:27:58 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: Lexinom
Because when you pull scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum you get electrons emitted at such a high energy level Xrays are produced.

Saw that on a video yesterday ~ very interesting stuff.

Or, crunch WintoGreen mints in the dark in front of a mirror. See the flash. Same thing! Hotter than the Sun!

When you have temperatures like that you can create nuclear fusion.

48 posted on 11/15/2011 10:37:32 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: JRandomFreeper
Great Britain did the Wood to Coal transition 100 years before America.

In fact, while UK was moving rapidly into coal due to the disappearance of wood the United States had people IMPROVING the jack tar pine breed to produce more combustible oil in ever larger quantities.

The only JARRING TRANSITION occurred when electric motors replaced drive belt systems that provided power from a central belt in factories. As fast as wires could be threaded through a factory machines were converted to electric drives.

You can make a pretty good argument that the productivity improvements that derived from that transition was a major cause of the deflation that appeared coincidentally with the Great Depression.

49 posted on 11/15/2011 10:56:28 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I hosted a talk given by Seth Putterman on sonic fusion some time back. See: http://home.fuse.net/clymer/snf/ He arrived with a pile of transparencies and wanted to know how long he had to talk. I asked him what he was comfortable with. He replied anywhere between a half and six hours. It was very interesting with absolutely no smoke and few mirrors. Small joke.


50 posted on 11/15/2011 10:57:12 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: STD
The Rossi project is fundamentally PRIVATE SECTOR. Billions of your tax dollars are poured down the rat hole of high energy physics version of fusion every year ~ billions upon billions upon billions, and it has been that way for 60 years!

Let me say about that ~ scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam and scam!

51 posted on 11/15/2011 11:00:33 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: dinodino
Henry Firestone perhaps?

Then there's Edison. You stack his credentials up against Tesla's and what do you get?

52 posted on 11/15/2011 11:03:57 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: dinodino

Yeah. Usually I gotto pay $11.00 for that.


53 posted on 11/15/2011 11:09:58 AM PST by Awnest (Live free or die.)
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To: muawiyah

Tesla v. Edison Hmm, brilliant innovator with a deep understanding of physical reality and no business sense vs. brilliant manager who understood the power of an industrial research lab with much business savvy. Well, I know who I would bet on to come home with his lunch money. Tesla was robbed. It is ever such.


54 posted on 11/15/2011 11:11:49 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: dinodino

One thing to dismiss Rossi, but what about the other bonafide scientists? Focardi, Levi, Essen, Kullander (Chairman Energy The Royal Academy of Science) is giving a public lecture on LENR and Rossi’s implementation. And Bushnell Chief Scientist at NASA Langley?? Mills, Miley, SPAWAR, 2200 peer-reviewed papers on LENR effects??

How does one Italian fake all these guys out?? Maybe he pays them??


55 posted on 11/15/2011 11:18:35 AM PST by Awnest (Live free or die.)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

Putterman’s discussion was absolutely fascinating. Looking at his equipment it seems he actually has some “desk top” devices that easily produce varying levels of electrons, protons and neutrons and varying electron volt power levels (I can only guess that’s in terms of mass and velocity so you can tell us ~ he didn’t).


56 posted on 11/15/2011 11:20:57 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Mycroft Holmes
Thanks for the ref. I think I've read most of it ~ elsewhere over the last couple of months ~ even years.

I keep my Science at the throne in the main throne room so it is ever present to read as conditions permit or require.

For shorter snippets I keep Science News there.

I have a FREE SUBSCRIPTION from Science ~ a reward for finding errors and reporting them. One of the ways folks outside of the realm of the degreed masterminds can contribute.

57 posted on 11/15/2011 11:26:24 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Kevmo

Hey Kevmo,

if this science is real and Rossi is just the beginning. Won’t we be free of imported oil from the camel countries? Can we keep some of the $500B we pay for foreign oil annually? Could we pull outta some of those backwards countries with oil?

Would we have our own electric appliance at home and not fork over $$hundreds to CON Ed each month? Could we manufacture these machines in the USA?? WTF? Who wants to be energy independent?? I’d rather pay more taxes.


58 posted on 11/15/2011 11:27:45 AM PST by Awnest (Live free or die.)
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To: muawiyah

The executive summary of Putterman’s work is that there is fusion happening in a provable way but there isn’t very much. Scaling up is a problem, there is no clear path to break even power. But there are commercial possibilities as a small nuclear source. At least that’s what I remember from the talk. I’m working my own problem currently so I didn’t re-read the site to check for updates.


59 posted on 11/15/2011 11:29:55 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Returned for regrooving...)
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To: Mycroft Holmes
NOTE ON TESLA. He had a little remarked talent that made him exceedingly effective in his field ~ he claimed he could come up with a device or system, imagine all the parts, stick them together in his mind, keep it clicking or whatever for a period of time then examine them for wear and other problems.

It's not something you can train for but it is a necessary mental skill for folks who write legislation, regulations and instructions. Not to change the subject but Tony Wiener claims he was the guy who wrote ObamaKKKare ~ the whole thing! Having done volumes of rules of even greater complexity and extent I believe him. However, he wasn't the best for the job ~ he couldn't keep all the loose ends together in his mind and evalute how they meshed over time. The result is a POS which will be crushed under the weight of reconsideration.

At any one time all of Washington DC has maybe a dozen guys with that particular skill set so it's not all that common. Most of them are treated like cr*p by the guys who "make decisions and set policy". You could wipe out the ability of the federal government to mess with people by buying up all the rule writers with a few million bucks.

60 posted on 11/15/2011 11:32:43 AM PST by muawiyah
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