michaelrflora | 7 Sep 2004 04:19

Ion-electron collision cross sections

Hello, it would help me tremendously if someone could point me to 
references showing ion-electron collision cross sections for various 
plasmas, versus temperature.

Thanks,
M.R.F.

Mike Carrell | 9 Sep 2004 01:49

New BLP paper

"Evidence of Catalytic Production of Hot Hydrogen in RF Generated Hydrogen/Argon Plasmas." Principal
investigator is Jonathan Phillps at the U of New Mexico Ferris Engineering Center [nuclear
engineering], with Chen and Mills at BLP. 

The paper is detailed and continuing investigation of line broadening as a function of time, pressure, gas
mix and observation position in the reactor. Over 1500 spectra were collected and analyzed. The reactor
is a GEC cell 36 cm long and 14 cm ID, with parallel, centrally located, disc electrodes spaced 1 cm apart and
excited with 13.6 MHz RF. 

Line broadening was observed in H2/Ar mixtures and pure H2, both upstream and downstream 15 cm from the
ionization zone. By fitting gaussian curves to the measured h alpha lines, it was possible to identify
emissions from hot (>10 eV), warm (<3 eV) and cold (0.2 eV) H atoms. Mills-type reactions producing
energies in these categories were identified. 

>From the structure of the experiment, line broadening was clearly due to doppler effect from BLP
reactions and not to any other causes. 

The paper is quite detailed and requires careful study. 

Mike Carrell

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Nora Baron | 10 Sep 2004 16:50

The Silence

I am curious to know why postings to the HSG, particularly from the True 
Believer
side, have dropped almost to zero - has Someone suggested that the ongoing
discussions should be ignored, or what?

I realize Luke Setzer has probably been preoccupied or possibly 
(electronically)
disabled by an unusual hurricane season, with more to come. In fact, I 
would love
to read a first-hand description from Luke of what conditions have been. I 
know it's
off-topic, unless you regard hurricanes as a plentiful source of Free Energy 
-

Nora B.

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Luther Setzer | 10 Sep 2004 17:54

Re: The Silence

--- In hydrino@..., "Nora Baron"
<norabaron <at> h.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> I realize Luke Setzer has probably been preoccupied or possibly 
> (electronically) disabled by an unusual hurricane season,
> with more to come. In fact, I would love
> to read a first-hand description from Luke
> of what conditions have been. I know it's off-topic,
> unless you regard hurricanes as a plentiful source of
> Free Energy.

Meteorologists tell us that hurricanes serve as Nature's way of 
releasing excess heat buildup in the atmosphere, transforming thermal 
energy into kinetic energy when then dissipates into destructive 
energy via massive entropy upon landfall.

Frances delivered some entropy to my home in the form of a loss of 
one third to one half of my shingles followed by a commensurate set 
of leaks through the roof and ceiling into my normally dry living 
space. Now my house smells like a basement. The energy-saving thick 
layers of fiberglass insulation throughout the roof of my house 
harbor dirty rain water incubating massive cultures of mold. I 
anxiously await the backlog of even worse damage in other areas to 
clear so I can get an estimate from various repair specialists for 
rectifying this damage.

I cannot whine too much. Many others had much worse losses largely 
due to the staying power of Frances as she lay on top of us and 
ground upon us. Call her the weather rapist. At least I can still 
live in my house and at least I only went about a day without power.
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Mike Carrell | 10 Sep 2004 19:34

Re: The Silence

Nora wrote:

> I am curious to know why postings to the HSG, particularly from the True
> Believer
> side, have dropped almost to zero - has Someone suggested that the ongoing
> discussions should be ignored, or what?

Dear me, am I "zero" or "almost zero", or has Nora been paying attention?
What I find equally interesting is the deep silence which followed my last
Lurker Advisory concerning confirmations of BLP phenomena by other
investigators, namely Conrads and Phillips. Silence also follows my short
review of the new Phillips/Cehn/Mills paper posted on the site, again work
done at the University of Newe Mexico with a GEC cell.

Mike Carrell

woogie_the_cat | 10 Sep 2004 20:35

Re: The Silence

--- In hydrino@..., "Mike Carrell" <mikec <at> s.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> Nora wrote:
> 
> > I am curious to know why postings to the HSG, particularly 
> > from the True Believer side, have dropped almost to zero - has 
> > Someone suggested that the ongoing discussions should be 
> > ignored, or what?
> 
> Dear me, am I "zero" or "almost zero", or has Nora been paying 
> attention?
> What I find equally interesting is the deep silence which followed 
> my last Lurker Advisory concerning confirmations of BLP phenomena 
> by other investigators, namely Conrads and Phillips. Silence also 
> follows my short review of the new Phillips/Cehn/Mills paper 
> posted on the site, again work done at the University of Newe 
> Mexico with a GEC cell.
> 
> 
> Mike Carrell

Conrads published his work with Mills, as did Phillips. The Rowan 
work was done with Jannsen (spelling) who did his MS thesis based 
upon work done at HydroCatalysis. Is this really independent?
Who paid for the work at U. New Mexico/Los Alamos? Usually in 
papers of this sort, there is a requirement that if Federal funds 
were used in support of the work that a reference to a grant/project 
number be included in the acknowledgments. If the money for the 
research came from the University, it is usually acknowledged in the 
paper, as well. [Make the Dean happy.]

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Nora Baron | 10 Sep 2004 21:10

Reply to: HSG #8483, Re: The Silence

Reply to: HSG #8483, Re: The Silence

--- In hydrino@..., "Mike Carrell" <mikec <at> s.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>Nora wrote:
>
> > I am curious to know why postings to the HSG, particularly from the True
> > Believer
> > side, have dropped almost to zero - has Someone suggested that the 
>ongoing
> > discussions should be ignored, or what?
>
>Dear me, am I "zero" or "almost zero", or has Nora been paying attention?

Mike,

Given that the number of posters has to be an integer, you (one
poster on that side of the fence) are as close to zero as you can
get without actually being zero.

No, seriously, you're not a zero or almost a zero, and I was paying
attention. I have not read the Philips et al. paper, but I notice that you
mentioned that there is line-broadening when only pure H2 is present.
Doesn't this go right against Mills' claims that the only way hydrinos
can be formed in the lab is in the presence of catalysts? This in turn
seems to undercut some of the theory: the main reason hydrinos have
not been observed previously is that the required conditions for
formation usually do not occur: hydrogen + an appropriate catalyst
in sufficient quantity (argon, e.g.) + ionizing conditions. Looks
like either you don't actually need the catalyst, or else the 
line-broadening
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Ron Howard | 10 Sep 2004 21:39

(unknown)

I'd like to know why the post I sent yesterday referencing a great article
in the 'Wall Street Journal" that I think everyone would have been
interested in, was not posted. Talk to me moderator.

[Uh... What post? Sometimes these things disappear into cyberspace. --LS]

mhuemoeller | 10 Sep 2004 23:18

Re: The Silence

--- In hydrino@..., Ron Howard <rhoward <at> c.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
> I'd like to know why the post I sent yesterday referencing a great 
article
> in the 'Wall Street Journal" that I think everyone would have been
> interested in, was not posted. Talk to me moderator.
> 
> [Uh... What post? Sometimes these things disappear into 
cyberspace. --LS]

I know which piece you are talking about Ron. It was about the 
Raytheon Corps research division they call the "Bike Shop". In the 
article they were mostly focused on a UAV that can stay aloft for 
days at a very low cost high altitude etc. In the article it mentions 
that while being given the tour the writer was shown three test tubes 
of a very secretive nature. He was told that what was in the test 
tubes would totally change everything we know in our current 
understanding about how electrons work. They would tell him no more.

But it made me think about our discussion here as well. What was in 
the test tubes? Perhaps some hydrino componds?

Interesting article though. If anybody has some contacts at Raytheon 
maybe you can ask about this.

MH

Mike Carrell | 10 Sep 2004 23:32

Re: Re: The Silence

Charles wrote:

Conrads published his work with Mills, as did Phillips. The Rowan
work was done with Jannsen (spelling) who did his MS thesis based
upon work done at HydroCatalysis. Is this really independent?

+++Depends on your definition of "independant", which can be pushed to the
point that only determined enemies being sued by BLP could be considered
independant. In the Phillips and Conrads cases, The observations were not
done at BLP labs or with instruments used inother reports. In the case of
Jannsen, he used a Calvet calorimeter on Hydrocatalysis premises, but did
the work himself.

Who paid for the work at U. New Mexico/Los Alamos? Usually in
papers of this sort, there is a requirement that if Federal funds
were used in support of the work that a reference to a grant/project
number be included in the acknowledgments. If the money for the
research came from the University, it is usually acknowledged in the
paper, as well. [Make the Dean happy.]

The lack of any such acknowledgment, leads me to believe that this
was a work-for-hire from BLP. Nothing wrong with this. Even the
tobacco companies give money to Universities to pay for tobacco-
related research. I would argue though that this does not quite
seem like independent replication of results. Especially when Mills
is a co-author on the papers-in-question.

+++I believe I did state that the degree of independance would not satisfy
you or Peter. Sponsorship does not falsify their results, either.

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