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NASA Releases More About Its LENR Research

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Admin

NASA has released another video disclosing its ongoing LENR research. Entitled Abundant Clean/Green Energy, the latest video is much more understated than the one released on January 12. I suppose with this video NASA is attempting to avoid the firestorm of criticism and inquiry that it received after its last video. Instead of talk about practical home heating units that may be just around the corner, the latest video shows futuristic space planes floating out in orbit that may be available sometime in the more distant future. However, even so, Dr. Zawodny mentions that NASA has contracted with a company to come up with preliminary designs for a futuristic space plane, indicating that perhaps the research process is farther along than this video addresses, and may in fact be as far as long as the original video from January seemed to indicate.

Much of the video focuses on an apparatus designed by NASA to test different aspects of the Widom-Larsen Theory of LENRs. With this test apparatus, which is actually quite small, 1.5 cm wide by 2.5 cm long, Accordingly to Dr. Zawodny, NASA is attempting to confirm that WLT is “at least in part correct” in explaining the phenomenon.

The device consists of 48 small tiles, with each tile in fact being a separate test device. This allows 48 different experiments to be run simultaneously and for multiple comparative measurements to be made simultaneously during testing. Although small, the device is really quite ingenious.

NASA WLT Test Device

In conjunction with the release of this video by NASA, is an article posted by Dennis Bushnell on another NASA web site, Future Innovation. The article is entitled Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, the Realism and the Outlook. The title of the article is self-explanatory concerning its content, and basically provides a very brief overview of the history of LENR and the state of current research, at least from the viewpoint of Mr. Bushnell. I strongly recommend this article to all readers of this site. Here are some of the conclusions arrived at:

Something real is happening.
The weak interaction theories suggest what the physics might be.
There are efforts ongoing to explore the validity of the theories.
There are continuing Edisonian efforts to produce “devices” mainly for heat, or in some cases transmutations.
There are efforts to certify such devices.
NASA LaRC has begun LENR design studies guided by Weak Interaction Theory.

In the article Bushnell also makes an interesting point that I have not heard before but is really quite insightful, perhaps even profound:

“When we concentrated upon nuclear engineering beginning in the 1940′s we “jumped” to the strong force/ particle physics and leapt over the weak force/condensed matter nuclear physics. We are going “back” now to study and hopefully develop this arena.”

In other words, NASA is going Back to the Future! The idea that weak force/condensed matter physics was put on the back burner in view of the advent of the atomic age largely defined by nuclear fission, has a certain logic and “common sense” to it. Perhaps this line of thought will ease the minds of those in the mainstream scientific community who out of hand reject LENR simply because of the thought that it requires “new physics,” when in fact it may involve an aspect of comfortable and well-established “old physics” that has been long overlooked. The idea that LENR is not fusion of any sort, as espoused by Bushnell and other adherents of WLT, will also go a long way to open otherwise closed minds. Perhaps that is the intent. Dr. Zawondy’s statement that NASA is attempting to confirm that WLT is “at least in part correct” suggests to me that there are those within NASA, even perhaps Zawondy himself, that do not believe that WLT is entirely correct, although it may be correct enough to be of great utility. Some would argue that the same could be said about quantum theory as a whole, but I digress.

Two disclosures by NASA about their involvement in LENR in such a short time span tells me that NASA is either very close to a breakthrough or that one has already occurred. I say this because this is a very controversial subject and I doubt NASA would engage in even this level of disclosure if there were not some substance to it. If NASA is willing to disclose this much, one has to ask what is really going on? Of course, I have no hard evidence that NASA will hold some kind of world-changing press conference any time soon to announce to the world that they have solved the mystery of “cold fusion,” but I think that there is certainly more going on here than meets the eye.

In any event, it certainly is uplifting to those of us who hope we are the verge of an energy revolution to have confirmed once again that there is much more than mass delusion to this whole thing. I think most people already realize that but, still, sometimes it is good to be reminded.

In addition to disclosures by NASA, Widom-Larsen Theory co-author, Lewis Larsen, just put up a slide show presentation entitled “Gold production using LENR,” the Athanor cold fusion device of the Pirelli Industrial High School is currently undergoing two separate validation attempts in Italy, and a video of the NANOR cold fusion device at MIT has just been posted. It seems that cold fusion is heating up just in time for summer.

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Can Defkalion Survive the Greek Crisis?

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Admin

As reports come in that a run on Greek banks has begun, and the EU continues to waffle and hedge about what to do about the “Greek Problem,” it should give us pause as to the ultimate fate of Defkalion Green Technologies. Economic and political stability are important to the ultimate success of any new business, and this would be especially true as it regards a totally new technology that has the potential to change the geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape of the entire planet. Yet, it is in the midst of political and economic chaos that Defkalion finds itself. Even if Defkalion does have a commercially viable “cold fusion” reactor, the chances of it ever making its way out of the chaos engulfing Greece seems less and less likely as the situation in that country continues to deteriorate. One has ask themselves how the company is going to operate in a country where even the currency by which business operates is in question. In addition, Greece may soon be engulfed in social unrest, as well as essential commodity shortages such food and oil, in addition to shortages in other, less important commodities that DGT will need to continue with construction of its facilities and production of the Hyperion itself in terms of raw materials, etc. One can imagine that these are concerns of current and potential future investors as well.

This weekend G8 leaders are gathered at Camp David, Maryland, USA, and the ongoing Greek crisis has apparently been at the center of the discussions. Public statements indicate that Western industrialized nations are committed to supporting the Greeks and ensuring that they remain in the EU, thus stabilizing the situation at least in the near term. But privately, there are different stories leaking out. Business network CNBC reported this morning that it’s such a foregone conclusion that Greece will be forced to return to the Drachma, that bookies in the UK (who will accept bets on anything) are no longer taking bets that Greece leaves the Euro. Other reports suggest that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has privately pressured Greek leadership to hold a referendum on whether or not to leave the Euro and the EU. The bottom line…who really knows what is going on in Greece right now and the situation can only be described as “fluid.” Again, this is hardly the environment to develop and implement an entirely new technology.

Aside from the question of whether Defkalion can launch a revolutionary, game-changing technology in such a chaotic environment, the questions remains whether it would be able to from a purely technical standpoint. While early reports indicated that independent testing was “very positive,” more recent reports suggest that perhaps not so much. Sterling Allen of PESN recently reported that there are still stability issues with the Hyperion, which is something that was also reported to me recently by a very reliable source with knowledge of the situation. This has apparently delayed the debut of the Hyperion prototype until at least August, at which time I can imagine the instability in Greece will be even worse.

Even further delays may come as the result of international political rivalries. Several foreign governments, including those from the United States and the China, among others, are rumored to have been involved in the independent testing. If the Hyperion is anywhere near to being commercially viable, one has to wonder what kind of posturing is going on behind the scenes in terms of access to the technology. If there is doubt about the ability of the Greeks to continue to develop the technology in a climate of chaos, will there be a bidding war for exclusive rights to manufacture the technology overseas based on plans provided by Defkalion? Defkalion has publicly stated it will not attempt to market or manufacture its version of the technology in the US, but involvement by the US military may change minds and allegiances, especially if the Hyperion proves to be more robust, reliable and market-ready than the e-Cat. There is evidence that the US Military is already involved in procurement of the e-Cat, the case for which I laid out in a previous article, The e-Cat and the US Navy. Given what is at stake if the technology proves to be viable, I am sure the US will have no problem buying into (and perhaps buying out) both the Hyperion and the e-Cat. Of course, they may have to do so with money borrowed from the Chinese, and this raises a whole other set of issues and complications. The Chinese have the money but the US still holds the advantage in terms of being the world’s only Superpower.

In The e-Cat and the US Navy, I pointed out the figure of Michael Melich. He is on the board of advisors of Andrea’s Rossi Journal of Nuclear Physics, listed as a representative of the US Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Melich is a senior scientific advisor to the Pentagon, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and chief scientist at PHLburg Technologies, a company by its own description that “represents inventors by identifying and then obtaining the exclusive economic rights to their advanced novel technology, by securing intellectual property protection for the technology, and then by commercially exploiting the technology.”

In pictures released by Defkalion recently, an astute blogger noted Melich’s name associated with some of the pictures, along with the name of fellow Naval Research Lab professor and researcher Dr. David Nagel. The names were removed a day later when this fact made its way around the blogosphere. There is not a lot of information available about Michael Melich on the Internet, and most of what is available comes from the New Energy Times. In an article posted on January 31, 2011, a quite extensive background on Melich was given. According to the article, when asked at one point what his interest in cold fusion, Melich replied “I’m doing this on behalf of our country and to make sure that the interests of the U.S. are protected.”

I strongly encourage all readers to review this article, not only for further background on Michael Melich, but also for some rather startling assertions made against other researchers in the field, including an accusation that Dr. Michael McKubre of SRI once threatened Krivit and the local police were called in to investigate.

Other highlights and assertions were:

Melich’s father was influential in the uranium mining business beginning the 1950s (I don’t know if that fact is relevant, but it is interesting).
Melich has been involved with cold fusion since 1989. He was a member of a body formed in 1989 by the State of Utah, the Fusion Energy Advisory Council, in an attempt to exploit the possibilities of the P&F discovery.
Later Melich was closely associated with a company called ENECO, who obtained the rights to a number of cold fusion patents, including the original patents of P&F held by the University of Utah.
Melich has been instrumental in obtaining some funding for cold fusion research for entities associated with the US military.
Melich is known to, respected and perhaps even feared by many in the cold fusion community, even those in Russia. He has allegedly has been instrumental in obtaining or denying visas for cold fusion researchers seeking to enter the US.
Melich has been involved with personnel at the Naval Research Laboratory to DISCREDIT some cold fusion/LENR research, including that done by SPAWAR.
Melich has been involved in efforts to manipulate media reporting of cold fusion/LENR research.
Melich has been involved with LENR research being done at the University of Missouri.

I must caution readers to consider the source of this information and take it for what it is worth. Some of the accusations are rather startling but, even if not all are entirely accurate, they do paint a picture of Melich as being very involved in cold fusion research since its entry into the public consciousness in 1989, including perhaps now with Defkalion Green Technologies.

To be perfectly frank, I have been quietly rooting for Defkalion since the split with Rossi in August of 2011, as their stated business model has always been more focused on smaller units for the consumer market, as opposed to industrial units that Rossi seems to have been fixated on since day one. This difference in philosophy was felt to be one of the reasons for the dissolution of the partnership between the two parties. At the time of the split, Defkalion spoke of Rossi succumbing to “external pressures.” Unfortunately, it now seems that Defkalion may be succumb to external pressures, both in terms of the turmoil surrounding Greece and quite possibility the same military entities Rossi succumbed to.

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MIT Physicist Nixes Cold Fusion Funding

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Admin

Of all the interesting tidbits to come out of The Atom Unexplored conference in Turin, Italy in May 4, perhaps the account by Dr. Peter Hagelstein of MIT on how a prominent physicist actively worked to cut cold fusion funding was the most eye-opening. In the question and answer session held after the morning LENR portion of the proceedings, a member of the audience asked a rather poignant question regarding why scientists often fail to develop clear “road maps” from the laboratory to the “real world.” In responding to this question, Dr. Hagelstein gave a quite detailed and thoughtful answer regarding this problem as it relates to cold fusion/LENR. As the final part of his answer, he stated the following regarding his own recent personal experience regarding this issue:

“The other issue is how to get support for such work. In the United States at the moment, outside of a program under Dennis Bushnell at NASA, there is no currently, as far as I’m aware, there is no other government support for any work in this area for such experiments. I recently had the experience of working with a large company in the U.S. who was interested in pursuing experiments in this area and helping out. So we put in, we discussed with the technical people at this company of the possibility that they might put in some money for the support of the replication of the Piantelli experiment. So they got the agreement, they got the money, they got it to MIT, and we thought “good, now we can make some progress.” However, a very famous physicist at MIT, who is involved in the energy program, found out what we were trying to do, and he cancelled the program. And he called up the vice president of the company and said some things that weren’t very polite about the research. And not only did the funding not come and the experiments didn’t happen, but my colleagues at the company were very worried about where they’re going to work next. As you know, there are unemployment issues currently in our bad economy, so there’s a fundamental difficulty with respect to getting support for the experiments, and what that means is that the science can be expected to go very slowly for these reasons, until a solution is found to this problem.”

As many know, MIT was at the forefront in the effort to discredit cold fusion in 1989, and the report issued by that institution detailing a failed replication attempt carried an enormous amount of weight in forming the public perception that cold fusion was a hoax and “junk science.” The MIT report was the first document listed in the Department of Energy’s negative assessment of the technology in 1989. A story that appeared in the Boston Herald, with the headline MIT Bombshell Knocks Cold Fusion “Breakthrough” Cold is felt by many to have set off the feeding frenzy in the media that cold fusion was a hoax. However, in a report published by the late Dr. Eugene Mallove in 1999, he extensively detailed the efforts of some high-ranking individuals at MIT to falsify positive replication results in order to ensure that MIT continued to receive tens of millions of dollars in US government funding for its plasma fusion (“hot fusion”) program. You can read the detailed accounting here. This article is a first-hand account of what took place at MIT, since Dr. Mallove was the head of MIT’s Science Information Office at the time of these events. He subsequently resigned in protest over the alleged fraud of his colleagues.

Yet, over the many years since the alleged fraud perpetuated by the staff and administration at MIT, that institution has come a long way in distancing itself from this stain on its otherwise stellar reputation. MIT now holds regular cold fusion colloquium’s and just this year held a class detailing cold fusion history and current research. The class included a demonstration of the NANOR cold fusion device built by MIT graduate Dr. Mitchell Swartz. As Dr. Hagelstein pointed out in his lecture (see link below) at The Atom Unexplored, this device has run since January and demonstrated energy gains up to 14 times that of the input power. Most of Dr. Hagelstein’s presentation on May 4 covered the NANOR and included detailed technical data about the device. He even offered an open invitation to the public to visit MIT to witness the device function.

If any readers want to see a functioning cold fusion device first-hand, I would highly suggest you make a pilgrimage to MIT to see the NANOR sooner rather than later. I cannot imagine that the experimental NANOR device will run indefinitely, nor that its opponents in the physics department, who continue to receive generous grants from the US Government for competing energy research, will allow this demonstration to continue that much longer regardless.

Honestly, I really regret that the bulk of this article is about the efforts of some in the physics department at MIT to squash cold fusion research once again. I say this because The Atom Unexplored conference was really quite informative and the presentations quite good. If you have not taken the time to view the videos from the conference, I would highly recommend that you do so. All the presentations may be viewed here. I have also taken the liberty of posting the presentations of Dr. Hagelstein and Prof. Piantelli (given by his associate and Nichenergy executive Valerio Ciampoli) to You Tube. I have also posted the question and answer session that followed the LENR portion of the proceedings. It is also quite interesting. The last 2 minutes of the Q&A is Dr. Hagelstein’s account of the funding cancellation noted above.

Just a note about the Piantelli presentation. While the tone of the presentation emphasizes the research aspect of the work being done at Nichenergy, Mr. Ciampoli, speaking on behalf on PIantelli, seems to suggest industrial products “in a couple of months.” That statement is in the first couple of minutes of the presentation. Make of it what you will.

The Atom Unexplored: Hagelstein Part 1

The Atom Unexplored: Hagelstein Part 2

The Atom Unexplored: Hagelstein Part 3 (funding cut at MIT)

The Atom Unexplored: Ciampoli/Piantelli Part 1

The Atom Unexplored: Ciampoli/Piantelli Part 2

The Atom Unexplored: Question and Answer Session

A special thanks to the organizers of The Atom Unexplored, not only for holding the conference but also for streaming it live and making the videos available to view. Also thanks to inventor/scientist/blogger Pekka Janhunen for transcribing from the video of Dr. Hagelstein’s account of his recent experience with funding cancellation at MIT.

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LENR Meets HENR in Turin

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Admin

A unique conference will begin tomorrow in Turin, Italy, entitled the “The Atom Unexplored.” This conference will be unique because it will explore both low energy nuclear reactions and high energy nuclear reactions, with the former being covered in the morning session and the latter being covered in the afternoon session. In the last 2 decades rarely have these two technologies been discussed simultaneously in the same venue, unless they were the result of some sort of quibble. The fact that this is a planned discussion of both technologies at the same conference should be seen as a step forward for LENR. It seems there is a first for everything. It is refreshing to see that more people are beginning to realize that there are still many things to discover and still many unsolved mysteries to explore, especially amongst those at established scientific venues like the Polytechnic University of Turin, who is hosting the conference. While cold fusion/LENR researchers have held conferences on a regular basis for the last 20 years, the inclusion of this technology outside the realm of the close-knit community of researchers and followers has begun to spread. Of course just recently Francesco Celani and Yogendra Srivastava were hosted at CERN for an LENR colloquium, Dr. George Miley and Y.E. Kim were given the opportunity to expound the benefits and underpinnings of this technology at NETS (New Emerging Technologies for Space) and Prof. Peter Hagelstein and Dr. Mitchell Swartz held a class and gave a demonstration at MIT.

The Atom Unexplored conference from Turin will be streamed live at this link beginning at 9:00 CET, 5:00 EST.

Unfortunately, closed mindedness still persists in all too many places. Just within the last couple of weeks there was a cancellation of a presentation by Celani and Srivastava at La Sapienza University in Rome. The cancellation was abrupt and by the edict of the head of the Department of Physics at this University. No plausible explanation was ever given for this abrupt cancellation. There was some chattering about Srivastava having improperly discussed or disseminated an e-mail to someone who shouldn’t have gotten it, but no details were ever given to justify cancelling such said presentation at the last minute. The pitiful explanation suggested (not officially given mind you) more closely resembled a pretense rather than a justification.

Several Italian sites, including EnergeticAmbiente , NEXUS , Disinformation , For the Common Good , luogoComune , beneFacta , The Democrat , and The Painted Porch launched a public protest demanding that the conference be rescheduled at a later date, and all sites circulated a petition to that same end, to be sent to the offices of several of the involved parties. Also, on 22Passi all readers were encouraged to send e-mails in protest.

We invite all readers to send an email with the following text to the Directors of the Department of Physics ( Giancarlo.Ruocco @ roma1.infn.it ) and INFN ( diemoz@roma1.infn.it ) and, for information, to Rector of La Sapienza ( rettore@uniroma1.it ), the President of INFN ( ferroni@roma1.infn.it ), the organizers of the seminar (brunello.tirozzi @ roma1.infn.it , Fabio.Ferrarotto @ roma1.infn . it ) and we ( petizione22@gmail.com ), with the subject: DEMAND THAT THE DISCUSSION ON THE WISDOM OF ROME COME LENR. (translated from Italian via Google).

I applaud our Italian friends for stepping forward and raising their voices in protest. And, even if you are not Italian, it probably wouldn’t hurt to put in your 2 cents either. These types of decisions and attempts to mute or stifle the conversation about LENR affect us all. It is time to let people know that this sort of behavior is unacceptable.

Going back to conference in Turin tomorrow, May 4, two of the scheduled speakers are Dr. Peter Hagelstein and Prof. Francesco Piantelli. Dr. Hagelstein is scheduled to give an overview and update on the NANOR device demonstrated in late January at MIT. Hopefully, Dr. Hagelstein will give some more data about this device which ran for several months, and perhaps is still in continuous operation. Just 2 weeks ago Massachusetts State Senator Bruce Tarr visited the lab at MIT and the NANOR device was still functioning. Mind you this was late late April and the device was started in late January.

Prof. Francesco Piantelli will perhaps give some more insights into his LENR theory and the status of his device. He was scheduled to speak last month at the conference in Siena but was said to be suffering health problems and was not able to attend. His presentation was given by Bill Collis of Coolescence, an American LENR company based in Boulder, Colorado. Honestly, I found this a little bit odd as several other scientists from Piantelli’s company, Nichenergy, gave presentations at the conference in Siena. Given that, I really do not see why Mr. Collis was the one to give Piantelli’s presentation. Not only that, the presentation consisted primarily of dated information, while the itinerary for the conference gave no outline or released no abstract for the Piantelli lecture whatsoever. Don’t get me wrong, from what I have seen from the presentation there was solid documentation of Piantelli’s prior work, but really nothing new or earth-shattering.

Adding to the oddness, long-time Piantelli associate Roy Virgilio was supposed to attend the conference and hinted at a “scoop,” although he was admittedly coy about it. Then, as it turns out, Roy did not attend the conference either. I am not really into conspiracies and the like (no, wait, actually I am) but I find this confluence of events a little odd. Daniel Passerini of the 22Passi blog spoke a couple of weeks ago about a number of things going on behind the scenes involving politicians, major corporations, etc., etc., so if it makes me wonder what really is going on behind the scenes in Italy. More specifically, I wonder if the lawyers (politician=lawyer) have become involved in some capacity. Perhaps the sudden silence of Defkalion can also be linked to things that are going on unseen. Andrea Rossi may boast about being ready to take legal action against DGT but, as mentioned previously, it is still Piantelli that holds the cards (patents) right now. Hopefully, there is some negotiating going on behind the scenes and this does not turn into a pissing contest between Rossi, DGT and Piantelli over patents and intellectual property. As a historian will tell you, the development of the airplane was plagued by patent disputes between various parties. However, a unique legal arrangement was able to be hammered out amongst the various interests and development of the technology continued.

Hmm. I guess in this case we will have to be like Passerini and go down by the river and wait, wait, wait.

While waiting by the river, perhaps Pianteill will give us some meat to go with our water. Based on early indications, and given the nature of the conference, I would expect more of a revelation about Piantelli’s theory rather than experimental data. Piantelli is planted firmly in the “It’s not fusion” camp but has yet to fully disclose his theory for LENR. From what I have heard, his theory may nr in the realm of biological transmutations. He is a biophysicist. It was roughly 6 months after the announcement of Pons and Fleishmann in 1989 that Francesco Piantelli first became involved in LENR. In August of that year he was working with a biological specimen and noted the anomalous production of heat that defied any known explanation. With the news of P&F still fresh in his mind, and with many of his Italian countrymen still not convinced that “cold fusion” was a hoax, Piantelli began his research into the field.

He has done some of the best work in the field to date but has yet to produce a device that produces useful amounts of energy, even though his devices are reported to be stable and highly reliable. Yet, in the end, he may not have to produce a commercially viable device to be considered a leader in the field. As mentioned, he does hold several International patents and has applied for several more. In addition, his theory may be more important than a commercially viable device. One of the longstanding criticisms of cold fusion has been t fact that there is not one viable theory that explains all that has been observed experimentally. If Piantelli has such a theory, then he may be able to counter that persistent criticism once and for all. In addition, if he can prove that this effect is inherent in nature, as in biological transmutation, he will also be able to take down a second widely-held belief, that nuclear processes such as fusion occur only in the stars. But, of course, Piantelli does not claim his the reaction is fusion, so who knows.

Down to the river I go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgVL-rBq9Fw

The Atom Unxplored Schedule

10:30 Session I – Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Walter Pecorella
University of Rome
”Tor Vergata”, Ansaldo Energia

Alberto Carpinteri
Polytechnic of Turin Research Institute National Metrology
Piezonuclear Fission Reactions in Rocks: Evidences from Microchemical Analysis, Neutron Emission, Transformation and Geological

Peter L. Hagelstein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JET Energy NANOR: The Role of the Nanoengineered Latex Enabling the CF / LANR Activity

Coffee break

Francis Piantelli
Nichenergy, Imo Center – University of Siena

Valerio Ciampoli
Nichenergy
Anomalous Phenomenon in Ni-H Systems

Giovanni Cherubini
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Research Center Radioactivity CRR, ARPA Lazio
Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions Induced by Cavitation

15:00 Session II – High Energy Nuclear Reactions

Maurizio Cumo
University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Douglas Bartlett
European Commission DG-RTD, UNIT K5 – ITER
The European Key Role in Design, Construction and Operation of ITER

John Rich
University Of Genoa, National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Alessandro Alemberti
Ansaldo Nuclear
Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Nuclear Reactors

Mark E. Ricotti
Milan Polytechnic
The New Age of Nuclear Fission: A Roadmap for the Generation IV Lead Cooled Fast Reactors

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Athanor: Open Source LENR Steps Forward

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Admin

Italian high school teacher and engineer Ugo Abundo has released detailed plans thru the Italian blog 22Passi on how to build an LENR reactor like the one designed, built, tested and patented by himself and a group of professors and students at the Leopoldo Pirelli High School in Rome. The reactor is an electrolytic cell much in the tradition of the one first built by Dr. Martin Fleishmann and Dr. Stanley Pons at the University of Utah in 1989. However, modifications have been made and the current device most closely resembles a Ohmori-Mizuno cell, an early test cell built by 2 Japanese researchers with those respective surnames. The cell has been further modified by Eng. Abundo and his group to include a proprietary cathode that serves as the “heart” of the unit. This cathode has been patented. However, accordingly to Eng. Abundo, the purpose of this patent is not to protect intellectual property rights per se, but more to ensure that no one else patents this device and subsequently attempts to prevent others from replicating it. In fact, it is the goal of Eng. Abundo to see this cell widely replicated, thus aiding in confirming the results of his group in particular and LENR in general. Three Italian universities have reportedly already stepped forward and volunteered to confirm the results of the Leopoldo Pirelli High School group but the names of these institutions and the time table of their involvement is not clear.

Reportedly the Athanor cell produces energy at a coefficient of performance (COP) of 4, or 400% over the input energy. By comparison, Andrea Rossi’s e-Cat reportedly has a COP of 6 and the device of rival Defkalion, the Hyperion, has a COP of 20. But, rest assured, the goal of the Pirelli HS Group is not to compete with Rossi or Defkalion, but to widely disseminate this technology in hopes of definitively providing proof of principal to a skeptical world.

Before providing links to the instructions on how to replicate an Athanor cell, first a little history on the etymology of the word “athanor.” According to the Wiki:

In alchemy, an athanor is a furnace used to provide heat for alchemical digestion. An athanor is a self-feeding furnace, designed to maintain a uniform temperature. The athanor was also called Piger Henricus (“Slow Harry”), because it was chiefly used in slower operations, and because when once filled with coals, it keeps burning a long time. For this reason the Greeks referred to it as “giving no trouble”, as it did not need to be continually attended. It was also called the Philosophical furnace, Furnace of Arcana, or popularly, the Tower furnace.

Athanor Image

If your eyes glazed over and your mind disconnected as soon as you read the word “alchemy,” let me just remind you that alchemy was a precursor to modern science and its methods have been highly influential on such scientific disciplines such as chemistry and medicine. Two alchemists, Jābir ibn Hayyān and Robert Boyle, are both credited as being the fathers of chemistry, and it is said that the study of alchemy also influenced Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity. Futhermore, “The attempts of alchemists to arrange information on substances, so as to clarify and anticipate the products of their chemical reactions, resulted in early conceptions of chemical elements and the first rudimentary periodic tables. They learned how to extract metals from ores, and how to compose many types of inorganic acids and bases.” (per Wiki alchemy article)

While the production of gold and silver from base metals was the primary goal of the practitioners of alchemy, to this point these elements have not been widely reported in cold fusion experiments, although there have been sporadic reports of such. However, there can be little doubt that repeated reports of transmutation of elements in cold fusion experiment are highly evocative of alchemy. Transmutation of elements is such an integral part of cold fusion experimental results that the term low-energy nuclear transmutation (LENT) is gaining increasing traction in some circles as the preferred term for the phenomenon. Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winner and one of the “fathers” of nuclear fission, once said “Give me enough neutrons and I will give you the entire periodic table.” Of course the lack of detectable neutrons has long been a primary criticism of nuclear physicists against cold fusion, with many failing to realize that in cold fusion the neutrons are an integral part of the transmutation and heat production process, and not largely a hazardous byproduct as in “hot fusion.”

Now, the links on how to replicate an Athanor cell can be found at 22Passi and E-Cat World. The instructions at 22Passi were originally in Italian and the link provided on E-Cat World is a Google translation of these. Needless to say, the Google translation is inexact. The instructions at E-Cat World have been translated by an Italian speaking reader of that site, “Francesco,” and are much clearer than the Google translation. I have taken the liberty of formatting the translation from E-Cat World into PDF format for easing downloading and reference. It may be download and/or opened by clicking here. I did make some minor changes to make the document easier to read, especially the included diagram.

Some notes for those wishing to attempt replication of the Athanor cell:

Be mindful of all instructions provided, including but not limited to the SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS.
This is not a kitchen or garage project. It is recommended that all experiments be carried out in a properly equipped laboratory by persons having the proper skills and training to conduct such experiments.
Be advised that the calorimetry (measurement of heat output) is extremely challenging. As above, to ensure accurate results make sure you have the proper equipment and expertise to perform the proper measurements accurately.
Ongoing testing results, additional instructions, updates and information will be provided on this page on 22Passi and I will provide pertinent updates on this site as they become available.

Happy (and safe) replication!

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LANR by Coulomb Explosion

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Admin

Previously I posted an article, Belgian LANR patents, covering the LANR patents of former chemist and patent attorney Jan Van den Bogaert. Mr. Van den Bogaert spent his career at AGFA, the Belgian multinational corporation that has long specialized in photography-related technology. He filed, and had granted, numerous LANR-related patents, which that for the last 20 years have not been available for review to those who did not speak Flemish, a Belgian variation of the Dutch language. The previous article included a link to the PDF file to two of those patents that had been translated into English. In this article I will publish for your review the third of these patents.

In the last article, it was said that a third patent had been sequestered and publication delayed by the Belgian Ministry of Defense for a period of 2 years. It was stated that this was applicable to patent BE1003296, the patent presented here. After having further conversation and receiving further documentation from Mr. Van den Bogaert. it has come to my attention that this is not entirely accurate. In fact, ALL 3, patents were sequestered and prevented from publication for a period of 2 years according to the edicts of the Belgian Ministry of Defense. This restriction was in fact first applied to one of the patents covered in the last article, patent BE1002780, and subsequently applied to patent BE1002781 and to this patent BE1003296 because they both referenced the first patent. Said letter from the Belgian Ministry of Defense had not been translated into English at the time of the last article but Mr. Van den Bogaert has provided a translation for inclusion with this article, and reads thusly:

Dear Sir,

I have the honour of informing you that the demand for a Belgian patent filed on 21/4/1989 under the application number 08900444 is the object of an inquiry of the Ministry of Defense by application of article 4 of the law of January 10, 1955 concerning the publication and application of inventions and factory secrets regarding the defense of the territory or the security of the State.

In accordance of article 5 item 1 of said law, it is forbidden to you from now on, except for explicit permission, the invention for which you have filed a patent application to publish its contents and especially to file a patent application in a foreign country or to assign a licence.

The grant of a Belgian patent or the possible transfer of the patent application to the European Patent Office or International Office of the World Organization for Intellectual Property will be postponed or retarded if such is necessary in view of the examination of the Ministry of Defense.

You will, as fast as possible, be informed of the decision that will be taken in consensus by the ministers of Economic Affairs and of State Defense what kind of measures will be taken – or will not be taken – provided by articles 2 and 3 of the law of January 10, 1955 depending the case, such at last:

six months taken from the filing date of the application, when it concerns an application for a Belgian patent, or

before the expiration of a period of four months taken from the filing date of the application when such concerns the filing of a European patent, or

before the expiration of the thirteenth month taken from the date of filing when such concerns an international patent application according to the Treaty of Cooperation for Patents (PCT).

The authorized civil servant,

L. WUYTS
Director

While the letter states time periods of 6 months and 13 months wherein the patent could be prohibited from publication, license and disclosure, the actual period was over 2 years! BE1002780 and BE1002781 were not published until June 4, 1991 and BE1003296 was not published until February 18, 1992.

So, blocked by the Belgian government at the outset, and then lost to obscurity over time because “cold fusion” had become discredited thoroughly by 1991, and the applications and patents was never published in English, these works were lost to in time so to speak…until now.

As I stated previously, I do not have the technical expertise to vouch for the usefulness of any of these. However, as before, I do present these document to readers to acknowledge Mr. Van den Bogaert’s participation and contributions to this field. His experience with the Belgian Ministry of Defense also illustrates a point that Tom Baccei and I have made frequently on this site, i.e. military entities, regardless of nation, DO actively take an interest in blocking and/or slowing down this technology. There has been much criticism of this contention but here we have documented evidence that illustrates the point.

It is also may hope that someone amongst the readers of this site may be able to take some of the information here and be able to produce a workable device from it. If not that, at least take the information provided to adjunct their own theories and knowledge of LANR. If you are such a person, remember this is a chemists approach to the technology. Many of the pioneers in cold fusion have been chemists of some ilk and this is a fact that has never sat well with physicists, who could consider fusion at any temperature their domain. In his presentation at CERN recently, Francesco Celani made allusion to this, stating something to the effect that physicists have often felt uncomfortable doing the “kind of math” that chemists use to arrive at their conclusions. I think that an insightful and perhaps significant assertion.

I must note that although all of this patent application and the ones previously reviewed were submitted shortly after the 1989 “cold fusion” announcement at UU, Mr. Van den Bogaert in fact had a patent granted entitled “Nuclear Energy Generation by Fusion Constituents in Non-fusionable Envelope Using Interial Containment by Implosion of Envelope” (BE892579) as far back as March of 1982, and an additional patent was granted in September of 1986. So, in short, Mr. Van den Bogaert has been at this quite a while.

As Coulomb explosion is the postulated mechanism for the proposed reaction as proposed in the current patent being reviewed, here is a brief definition of this process per the Encyclopedia of Concise Science and Technology (2^nd Edition, p. 489)

Coulomb explosion: A process in which a molecule moving with high velocity strikes a solid and the electrons that bond the molecule are tom off rapidly in violent collisions with the electrons of the solid; as a result, the molecule is suddenly transformed into a cluster of charged atomic constituents that then separate under the influence of their mutual Coulomb repulsion.

Coulomb explosions are most commonly studied using a particle accelerator, normally employed in nuclear physics research (Van de Graaff generator, cyclotron, and so forth), to produce a beam of fast molecular ions that are directed onto a solid-foil target. The Coulomb explosion of the molecular projectiles begins within the first few tenths of a nanometer of penetration into the foil, continues during passage of the projectiles through the foil, and runs to completion after emergence of the projectiles into the vacuum downstream from the foil. Detectors located downstream make precise measurements of the energies and charges of the molecular fragments together with their angles of emission relative to the beam direction. The Coulomb explosion causes the fragment velocities to be shifted in both magnitude and direction from the beam velocity.

Coulomb explosion experiments serve two main purposes. First, they yield valuable information on the interactions of fast ions with solids. For example, it is known that a fast ion generates a polarization wake that trails behind it as it traverses a solid. This wake can be studied in detail by using diatomic molecular-ion beams, since the motion of a trailing fragment is influenced not only by the Coulomb explosion but also by the wake of its partner. Second, Coulomb-explosion techniques can be used to determine the stereochemical structures of molecular-ion projectiles.

As a final note before patent BE1003296 is presented, I would point out that both this patent and the ones published on this site earlier have two different numbers. One number is the patent application number and the other the number assigned when the patent was actually granted. For this particular patent, the application number was 9000034. For BE1002780 the application was 8900444 and for BE1002781 the application number was 8900607. I mention this because mention is made of previous patents in this application.

So, without further delay, I present for the first time in English, Belgian BE1003296. (Link to downloadable .pdf at the end of this article).

Nuclear Fusion

The present invention relates to nuclear fusion of fusionable matter with the aid of a solid substance wherein said matter can be absorbed and/or by means of which it can be enveloped.

By Fleischmann and Pons in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry, April 1989 – Elseviers Publishing Company – a method is described wherein at a hydrogen-absorbing palladium electrode nuclear fusion reaction is achieved with deuterium ions obtained by electrolysis of D2O. Said fusion reaction which occurs at relatively low temperature is called “cold fusion”.

In non-published Belgian patent application 8900444 filed April 21, 1989 a method for nuclear fusion of fusionable matter is described, wherein said matter in the form of a gas is adsorbed to and/or absorbed in a hydrogen absorbing metal or metal alloy, while said metal or alloy is kept at negative electrostatic potential during and/or after the adsorption and/or absorption of said fusionable matter without making contact with an electrolyte, and said gas either or not is ionized before its adsorption and/or absorption. According to an embodiment the fusionable matter is applied as a gas in a space containing at least two electrodes at opposite polarity, wherein the negatively charged electrode can adsorb and/or absorb the fusionable matter, and wherein the potential difference between said electrodes is sufficiently large to ionize the fusionable matter and to achieve the fusing of its positive ions.

In the non-published Belgian patent application 8900607 filed June 5, 1989 a method for the production of nuclear energy is described, wherein nuclear fusionable matter is absorbed in the crystal lattice of a hydrogen absorbing material having a negative electrical polarity, characterized in that said fusionable matter is absorbed in a hydrogen-absorbing material being in the form of separate particles that are negatively electrostatically charged and wherein after the absorption of said fusionable matter the electrical polarity of said particles is changed from negative to positive.

In the periodical Science, vol. 244, June 2, 1989, p. 1040 has been reported that with deuterium under pressure neutrons can be produced in palladium and titanium without electric current (Frascati experiment reproduced in Los Alamos by Howard Menlove). In said experiment titanium curlings were put in a cylinder in contact with deuterium gas under a pressure of 20 to 50 atmosphere. After cooling the cylinder down to 77 K (-196 °C) with liquid nitrogen the cylinder was warmed up gradually to room temperature. On reaching -30 °C bursts of neutrons coming from inside the cylinder were detected. Such should point to the proceeding of a nuclear reaction.

In the Belgian newspaper “De Standaard”, Dec. 3/4, 1989 has been reported that Japanese researchers should have noticed the production of neutrons when using palladium electrodes in deuterium gas while applying a much higher current than used in electrolysis of heavy water. The neutron production reached 20,000 times the concentration of normal background level, lasted only one minute and started immediately after applying a high electrical voltage. Thereupon within a period of several hours the neutron production dropped to ten times the background level. The neutron production is ascribed to a nuclear fusion reaction. A heat production was not measured.

The above published methods are up till now not suited for the production of energy on an industrial scale.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide a method for nuclear fusion with industrial utility and minimal radioactive contamination of the environment.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description and drawing.

The present invention provides a method for nuclear fusion of fusionable matter, wherein said matter is absorbed in an electrically conductive material and/or is enveloped with a shell of electrically conductive material, whereupon the conductive material is connected with the positive electrode of a current source, whereby electrons of the conductive material flow away and in said material a positive surplus charge is created which makes that on the positive fusionable nuclei of the fusionable matter a pressure sufficiently strong for nuclear fusion is reached.

According to an embodiment the positive voltage put to the electrically conductive material that has absorbed fusionable matter is in the range of 1000 to 3 x 10^6 volt.

According to a preferred embodiment said electrically conductive material that has absorbed said fusionable matter is a metal or metal
alloy being in crystalline form and having the property of absorbing hydrogen gas.

The absorption of fusionable matter into said conductive material proceeding prior to its electrical charging can be carried out according to one embodiment at low temperature and high pressure as described in the above mentioned periodical Science. However, the absorption of fusionable matter in said conductive material can take place likewise at room temperature, either or not by electrolysis.

According to a first embodiment described already in said Belgian patent application 8900444 and appropriate also for use in the present invention the absorption of fusionable matter proceeds by bringing the matter into plasma form in a space containing at least one electrode, wherein positively charged fusionable ions of the plasma are absorbed. Said electrode consists of or contains a metal or metal alloy that can absorb hydrogen and is electrostatically negatively charged, while – another electrode is at positive potential.

A plasma is an ionized gas that contains practically equal amounts of positive particles (ions) and electrons and which is susceptible to a magnetic field.

According to a second embodiment also described in said last mentioned Belgian patent application the absorption of fusionable matter is realized by introducing said matter in a space containing at least two electrodes at opposite potential (polarity), wherein the negatively charged electrode is capable of absorbing said matter and wherein the voltage difference between said electrodes is sufficiently large to ionize the fusionable matter.

In said embodiments relating to the absorption of fusionable matter the potential difference between said electrodes may be a lot higher than is usual in electrolysis, e.g. in the range of from 40 to 3 x 10^6 volt.

The voltage may be applied continuously or pulsating using therefor known apparatus, e.g. a direct current generator.

Suitable nuclearly fusionable matter is e.g. deuterium and tritium or mixtures thereof. In admixture with said matter atomic hydrogen may be present. Hydrogen can be brought into atomic form by activation with palladium (ref. The Chemical Elements and Their Compounds, by N.V. Sidgwick, Vol. II, (1950) Oxford At the Clarendon Press, p. 1557).

The transformation into plasma of the fusionable matter to be fused is carried out e.g. with heat and/or electrical discharge and/or high frequency electromagnetic energy.

The ionization to produce a plasma can be carried out in a space connected to the fusion reactor or between electrodes in the reactor. In addition to deuterium also lithium and/or borine can be brought into plasma form. A plasma is in general, but not necessarily, formed at low pressure. Suitable methods for forming a plasma are described e.g. in Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics, J. Thewlis – Pergamon Press, New York, Supplementary Volume 1 (1966), p. 242-246.

The electrode material at which the nuclear fusion takes place consists of or contains a metal absorbing hydrogen in an exothermic way. The absorption in such metal increases with gas pressure and drops with increasing temperature.

Examples of such metals are : titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum and palladium [ref. Inorganic Chemistry by E. de Barry Barnett and C.L. Wilson - Longmans Green and Co., London (1955) p. 108]. Further are mentioned hydrogen absorbing rare earth metals, e.g. yttrium, wherein hydrogen can be absorbed up to YH2 which substance as is the case with the metal is electrically conductive [ref. Mc Graw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 2nd ed. Sybil P. Parker - Editor in Chief - (1989), p. 2043].

Endothermically hydrogen absorbing metals, e.g. nickel and iron are likewise useful at high temperature, e.g. at 800 °C. The “sorption” of hydrogen as a function of temperature and pressure to Pd is described in the above mentioned book “Inorganic Chemistry”, whereas the sorption of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium to titanium is described in JACS 78 (1956), 5155-5159.

According to a particular embodiment said metals are present on a carrier material, e.g. applied in vacuum deposited form. The carrier material is e.g. carbon or a metal that has a good thermal and electrical conductivity and optionally slows down or absorbs fast neutrons.

The hydrogen-absorbing electrode can be porous, e.g. consists of sintered metal but exists preferably in the form of separate particles, e.g. with a diameter of 0.001 micron to 10 cm.

According to an embodiment the metal that absorbs the fusionable matter is used in the form of separate particles which individually function as an electrode such as in a polarograph (ref. analytical chemistry). The separate particles can be dispersed in a dielectric liquid wherein they form a suspension or in a gas wherein they form an aerosol, in which they have a particle size from 0.001 to 100 micron.

The present invention is with regard to the embodiment wherein the fusionable matter is absorbed in an electrically conductive material, e.g. metal or metal alloy, illustrated by means of a drawing.

In said drawing, Figure 1A represents a transversal section and Figure 1B a side view of a nuclear reactor suited for application according to the present invention.

Referring to Figure 1B the reactor chamber 1 has two oppositely situated openings 2 and 3. Opening 2 is the inlet for the introduction of fusionable matter in the form of an aerosol, e.g. deuterium gas that contains in dispersed form palladium or titanium particles wherein deuterium has been absorbed. Opening 3 is the exhaust for the non-reacted gas and gaseous reaction products. Opening 4 at the bottom of the reactor chamber serves for the discharge of the solid matter (palladium or titanium dust). In the reactor, as in a Cottrell-apparatus, electrodes are present at high voltage. The positive electrodes at high voltage are the wire grids 5 electrically connected to a positive electrode plate 6 which is insulated electrically with respect to the reactor wall 7 and is connected to a positive high voltage main 8, e.g. at 30,000 to 2,000,000 volt. The conductive reactor wall 7 is connected to the earth 9 and herewith also the metal plates 10 which are positioned parallel to the positively charged wire grids 5. The palladium or titanium particles entering the reactor chamber 1 through inlet 2 give away their electrons to the wire grids 5 and become strongly positively charged. Hereby in the palladium or titanium particles a strong electrostatic pressure is exerted on the thus formed positive deuterium nuclei which thereby become fusing. The pressure can be thus strong that a “Coulomb explosion” takes place. The positively charged metal particles are pushed away from the positively charged wire grids 5 towards the smooth metal plates 10 being preferably cooled internally with liquid, and at which the positively charged matter is discharged.

The solid matter slides down towards the exit-opening 4 for periodical removal of metal dust. During the fusion of deuterium tritium is formed which desorbs from the heated palladium and/or titanium particles.

The notion “Coulomb explosion” is explained in the already mentioned book : Mc Graw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 2nd ed. Sybil P. Parker – Editor in Chief – (1989), p. 489. In a Coulomb

explosion the atomic elements of an atom group, e.g. crystalline particle (cluster), are suddenly separated by the fast removal of electrons, so that remaining positive particles, e.g. crystal lattice ions, are withdrawn from each other under the influence of the Coulomb repulsion. Such brings about an inwardly directed pressure, that just like in inertial laser fusion gives rise to nuclear fusion of fusionable matter confined in the conductive material, e.g. colloidal particle from an aerosol.

Examples of Cottrell-apparatus for dust removal of e.g. smoke are described in the Dutch book “Apparaten voor de Chemische Industrie” by G. Wertwijn en E.H.C. Barkhuijsen, deel I, 2de druk, (1956), p. 50-51, in Rompp – Chemie Lexikon, 6. Auflage – Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart (1966), p. 1266, and in “Kolloidchemie” von Joachim Stauff, Springer Verlag, Berlin-Göttingen – Heidelberg (1960), p. 534, wherein has been described how an aerosol is first conducted through a chamber containing a wire system at high voltage (12,000 to 15,000 volt) and then through a chamber with many at 2000 to 5000 volt alternatively charged and earthed plates whereon the particles are deposited.

In a practical embodiment according to the present invention into said apparatus an aerosol of of Pd-particles containing absorbed deuterium is introduced in a carrier gas substantially consisting of deuterium. The carrier gas can be present under more than atmospheric pressure in order to inhibit as much as possible electrical breakdown. The palladium particles are of colloidal size, e.g. have a particle diameter of 0.01 micron . It is possible by positively charging Pd-particles of said diameter to withdraw from them practically all valency electrons (these from the Pd and those from the absorbed deuterium atoms) by applying a positive voltage of about 5 x 10^5 volt. Using Pd-particles with particle size of 0.1 micron the voltage for practically complete withdrawal of the valency electrons is about 6 x 10^6 volt. Hereby not only electrons at the surface of each colloidal particle but also electrons belonging to the more centrally located crystal lattice ions of the Pd-particles are withdrawn.

According to Gauss’s law only the surface of a conductor is electrostatically charged, but by using sufficiently small conductive particles (atom clusters) and by applying thereto a sufficiently high positive voltage also the centrally located conductivity electrons can be withdrawn producing thereby an electrostatic pressure on the absorbed

positive deuterium nuclei (deuterons) to make them fusing. High voltages of the order of a few MV can be generated with a van de Graaff generator.

Palladium is less electronegative (electronegativity being +2.2) than hydrogen (electronegativity being +2.1) so that by applying a positive voltage first the electrons of the absorbed deuterium will be withdrawn and then the valency electrons of palladium. On working however, with the above mentioned high potential differences it does not matter which kind of hydrogen absorbing metal is used and therefore even good results can be obtained e.g. with yttrium that after absorption of hydrogen remains electrically conductive. Yttrium and cerium are available in nature in larger quantities than lead. The crystal structure of yttrium is hexagonal close-packed as is the case with titanium, and the crystal structure of cerium is face-centered cubic as is the case with palladium.

According to an alternative embodiment the conductive particles which have absorbed fusionable matter are charged negatively, so that with regard to the apparatus of Figure lA the wire grids are charged, negatively and the plates and reactor wall are earthed. The proceeding of nuclear fusion is in that case based on electrostatic orbital enlargement and fusion of atomic orbitals of fusionable matter as explained in the Belgian patent applications 8900444 and 8900607.

According to another embodiment of the present invention nuclear fusion is carried out by using Coulomb explosion having fusionable matter confined in a shell of conductive material that is charged positively up to a sufficient strength to result in Coulomb explosion. In said embodiment the fusionable matter being e.g. in liquid or solid form, e.g. by cryogenic cooling, is confined in a metal skin.

In a particular embodiment the fusionable matter, e.g. deuterium and tritium, is confined in a microcapsule with metallic outer wall comparable to the “pellets” used in inertial laser fusion.

By the application of a sufficiently large positive voltage, i. e. positive charging, e.g. by bringing the pellets in contact with a plate or wire at positive high voltage (e.g. 10^4 to 10^7 volt) electrons are withdrawn very quickly from the metal shell and Coulomb explosion takes place, resulting in a strong centrally directed pressure on the fusionable matter which thereby is compressed and fuses. In the nuclear fusion method operating with said electrically conductive shell, the shell material has not necessarily to absorb the fusionable matter, but may consist of a metal or metal alloy having absorption power for the fusionable matter.

According to an embodiment the fusionable matter is separated from the metal shell by a dielectric (i.e. electrically insulating) inter-wall made e.g. from insulating resin or glass, so that during the positive charging of the microcapsule wall no electrons are withdrawn from the fusionable matter, which thereby itself is not subjected to Coulomb explosion. The insulating inter-wall serves as a so-called “pusher” in the compression.

According to another embodiment the fusionable matter is enveloped with an envelope of superconductive material as described in laid-open Belgian patent 892579 which relates to a variant of inertial laser fusion. In Figure 5 of said patent an apparatus is illustrated wherein fusion pellets having a built-in superconductive ring or coil serving as energy-accumulator is used for starting the nuclear fusion of the confined fusionable matter. Said apparatus can have for application in the present fusion process a target plate axially arranged in the centre of the reactor. Onto said target plate being at high voltage, e.g. 0.1 to 10 MV, the microcapsule, preferably at small angle (grazing angle smaller than 20°) are injected into the apparatus. Said target is cooled internally with water to produce steam by the heat set free in the nuclear fusion.

Literature concerning inertial laser fusion and microcapsule; composition is available e.g. in Proc. of the IEEE, vol. 64, no. 10, October 1976, p. 1460-1482 and in Applied Optics, June 1, (1981), p. 1902-1925.

In a particular embodiment of nuclear fusion according to the present invention the inertial compression of enveloped fusionable matter proceeds by thermal explosion of the micro-capsule wall, e.g. by laser irradiation, combined with the compression pressure exerted by Coulomb explosion of said wall that is charged positively with a voltage high enough to withdraw therefrom a substantial part of the conduction electrons.

CLAIMS

A method for nuclear fusion of fusionable matter, wherein said matter is absorbed in an electrically conductive material and/or is enveloped with a shell of electrically conductive material, whereupon the conductive material is connected with the positive electrode of a current source, whereby electrons of the conductive material flow away and in said material a positive surplus charge is created which makes that on the positive fusionable nuclei of the fusionable matter a pressure sufficiently strong for nuclear fusion is reached.
A method according to claim 1, wherein said electrically conductive material that absorbs said fusionable matter is a metal or metal alloy in crystalline form having the property of absorbing hydrogen gas.
A method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the absorption of fusionable matter takes place at low temperature and high pressure.
A method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the absorption of fusionable matter takes place by electrolysis of D20.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the positive voltage applied to the electrically conductive material that has absorbed fusionable matter is in the range from 1000 to 3 x 10^6 volt.
A method according to claim 5, wherein said voltage is applied continuously or pulsating.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the fusionable nuclear matter is deuterium either or not applied in admixture with tritium.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said electrically conductive material consists of or contains a metal capable of absorbing hydrogen in an exothermic way.
A method according to claim 8, wherein said electrically conductive material consists of or contains at least one of the following elements : titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum and palladium.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said electrically conductive material consists of or contains yttrium.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the conductive material that has absorbed fusionable matter consists of sintered metal.
A method according to any of the claims 1 to 10, wherein the conductive material that has absorbed fusionable matter consists of separate particles having a diameter from 0.001 to 10 cm.
A method according to claim 12, wherein said particles are available as an aerosol with particle diameter in the range from 0.001 to 100 micron.
A method according to claim 13, wherein the nuclear fusion is carried out in a Cottrell-apparatus at the positively charged electrode(s).
A method according to claim 1, wherein the fusionable matter is confined in liquid or solid form in a microcapsule having a metallic outer wall.

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In Defense of Hope

Posted on April 13, 2012 by tombaccei

It is a time of great promise, and a time of terrifying consequence. It is in the contradiction of hope and certainty that we teeter, lifted by the thrust of hope at times in defiance of the captivating passivity of those who are certain. It is a time when our great scientists, led by numerology, proclaim an infinite collections of universes, none reachable, none palpable, a phantasm. By their predictions, we are led to spend many tens of billions of dollars in search of the useless Higgs Boson, the only value of which would be to further fortify their position as ministers of gloom. Billions more to build bottles for the sun, with magnets and lasers and a stellar record of failure.

We live on a planet losing the stability of its climate in a fascistic, idiotic debate of its cause. The debate is led by those who profit greatly from that cause and used as a distraction from the obvious fact that, whatever the cause, we are in a position to do something about it but fail to act because it would be difficult and uncomfortable, especially for the promoters of confusion and greed.

Our numbers are far too large for this poor planet to support the way in which we have chosen to live. At the same time the suicidal and fatalistic spiritual leaders would banish birth control AND deny a woman’s right to decide to have or not have a child. The many millions of homeless, suffering, orphaned and ill roam the refugee camps and die in our alleys. Our religious institutions and spiritual leaders are bankrupt. They not only lack relevance to the problems of the modern world, they perpetuate them. None in the midst of the so called spiritual leadership has the ability to look this squarely in the eye and proclaim their failure.

The great inventions of the computer age have interconnected us in unimaginable ways and have put the collected knowledge of the human race at our very fingertips. However, a dispassionate look at it shows a degeneration into advertising, self indulgence, warfare, hatred and mind control that are truly the stuff of despair. We are willfully building the tools for becoming a race of zombies living in an artificial world. “The Matrix” was not far off in some very important ways, but I fear that the human race, in the end, will not be subjugated but will volunteer to live in a fantasy world until the tree that was the human race rots at the root and falls to decay. I could go on and, so too, I suppose could you.

The pathoskeps in their relentless drive to discredit and defuse the advent of LEARN, have sometimes accused me of believing in LEARN research because “I want it to be true,” and that my position is based on hope alone. I am guilty as charged and, further, I not only agree that that is true, I present the idea that OF COURSE I advocate for a huge project, bigger than the Manhattan Project, to understand and master the forces and reactions involved in LEARN based on that HOPE. I defend my hope, and accuse the pathoskeps of being without hope, fatalistic and moribund!

Look for instance to the Cosmological Anthropic Principal. It is a rich and important new area of philosophical reflection on the nature of the reality in which we find ourselves. Briefly it examines the concept that in order for us to exist, the various constants which make up the assumptions used by science to describe reality must have values in a very tiny range. The “standard model” requires 25 such constants, and many other constants are needed to explain the various and many emergent properties. The question is “why is it that the universe has those values required for us to be here observing it?”

See Anthropic Principal on Wiki. The following is copied from that article.

Paul Davies’s book The Goldilocks Enigma (2006) reviews the current state of the fine tuning debate in detail, and concludes by enumerating the following responses to that debate:

1. The absurd universe: Our universe just happens to be the way it is.

2. The unique universe: There is a deep underlying unity in physics which necessitates the universe being the way it is. Some Theory of Everything will explain why the various features of the Universe must have exactly the values that we see.

3. The multiverse: Multiple Universes exist, having all possible combinations of characteristics, and we inevitably find ourselves within a Universe that allows us to exist.

4. Intelligent Design: A creator designed the Universe with the purpose of supporting complexity and the emergence of Intelligence.

5. The life principle: There is an underlying principle that constrains the universe to evolve towards life and mind.

6. The self-explaining universe: A closed explanatory or causal loop: “perhaps only universes with a capacity for consciousness can exist.” This is Wheeler’s Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP).

7. The fake universe: We live inside a virtual reality simulation.

Out of hand I reject 1, 5, 6, and 7. You may not, but I do. If anyone is interested send me an email, and I will briefly tell you. That leaves #2 The unique universe, #3 The Multiverse and #4 Intelligent design. In fact, I also throw out The Multiverse because I just find it to be insane to use our existence as the basis for proposing an infinite number of other universes, none of which we will ever be able to detect. So, IN MY VIEW, either we have a universe in which there is a yet to be discovered unifying mechanism which makes it necessary that the universe is that way we find it, OR, there is, to be brief, a GOD who created the universe in such a way as to permit our being here.

So, one source for my “hope” is just this: The origin and evolution of life, the emergence of self awareness, of consciousness, the march to civilization, the advent of the scientific method, the hand in glove connection of scientific insight and technology, the fact that reality is understandable at all in mathematical terms, the appearance of solutions to problems as if the universe were a giant puzzle put here to test us and reward us, and lead us to a further development of consciousness and further existence all lead to believe in some mystical, spiritual content to reality itself and our being here at all.

Now, all of the dark, unavoidable problems sketched out at the beginning of this article cannot be denied and, yet, looking backward in time, ala Richard Dawkins in “The Ancestors Tale,” reveals not only a universe which is uniquely suited to our existence but also to a HUGE series of improbable events, real long-shots, which all needed to have occurred for us in particular to be here. Again, we are here, so all of those unlikely things must have happened. I am aware of the paradox of “survivorship bias”, but hope springs to my heart from the faint possibility that we are, in fact, SPECIAL! Not only is the universe constructed in such a way as to make it possible for us to exist, our particular history of countless unlikely events, each of which needed a particular unlikely outcome, has made it such that we DO exist. So, I have hope, and use that as a source of energy to continue looking for the next miracle to continue the sequence, the unlikely run of luck that has put us here and me at this keyboard. The pathoskeps can spin on a divot in their relentless efforts to return us to the putrid passivity that has come to define the stagnation of our entire world culture.

Oh, and if you don’t think it is possible that professional bloggers are used to influence public opinion in a number of areas, including LEARN, read this. Anyone who cannot understand that a conspiracy to silence LEARN is POSSIBLE, even LIKELY is a self-deluded patsy. In fact, I see the existence of many of the relentless propagandists attempting to control public perception of the advent of LEARN on some other sites as strong evidence that LEARN is real. In an interesting and quite enlightening post on another site, one of the more notorious and infamous propagandists was recently called out because his campaign of disinformation had become so over the top and, quite frankly, obvious. Click here to read (comment by user “Barking Monkey” on April 2, 2012 at 8:23 pm). This prolific pathoskep never returned in defense of himself (or his team) …but I would expect that is only a temporary respite as the advent of LEARN marches forward.

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Italian LENR Workshop April 10-14

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Admin

An LENR workshop, the 10^th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals, is slated to begin tomorrow, April 10^th, in Siena, Italy. The conference’s schedule and participants are listed at the bottom of this article, and include Francesco Celani, Dr. Peter Hagelstein of MIT and Prof. Francesco Piantelli. Nichenergy, the company founded to market Prof. Piantelli’s device, is one of the sponsors of the conference. He is scheduled to give a presentation on the last day of the conference, Saturday, April 14^th.

The workshops goals are stated thusly:

“High temperature gas loading is a promising technology to reliably create thermal and nuclear anomalies. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together an international group of experts to present their results and encourage discussion. The emphasis is on experimental innovation, methods, instrumentation, diagnostics and theory. In addition there will be afternoon discussions on topics of interest including explanations for the anomalies.”

Since the purpose of the conference is to “present their results and encourage discussion,” it is hoped that after nearly a year of silence, the father of nickel-hydrogen “cold fusion,” Prof. Piantelli, will finally publicly announce the results and progress of his ongoing work. Last time anything was publicly announced regarding Pianteill’s research was July of 2011, when Pianteilli associate Roy Virgilio gave the following summation of Piantelli’s work:

Experiments are being performed in a lab near Siena, Italy (near the site of the upcoming conference).
Older units worked continuously for months and produced 2 to 4 times energy gain, but the actual energy balance was higher, as the cells reached self-sustaining mode.
Several unnamed third parties have confirmed that the older units worked in self-sustaining mode for long periods of time.
Several of these older units were recently reactivated. After some maintenance they turned on easily and produced 2 to 3 times energy gain but they haven’t yet been pushed to high excess energy levels.
New units with new fuel should be completed in about two months, and are expected to produce 200 times energy gain.
The new units will be tested gradually in several steps of increasing power, beginning from a few hundred watts up to high levels of power on the order of kilowatts.
The scale-up will take as long as is necessary. Smaller devices will be ready for sale first.
No catalyst is necessary. The trick is in the preparation of the nickel.
Piantelli has a theory that doesn’t require exotic reactions, but can be explained using known physics and mathematics. A semi-complete theory has been provided to the University of Siena and will be published shortly. The complete theory will probably be disclosed after the first commercial units have been sold.
No Italian public institutions are involved in the current research, but a US government agency that has had the opportunity to review the research will probably validate and certify the reactor, as well as contribute to its development.
Piantelli’s group is also in talks with several large industrial corporations to develop generators operating at certain power levels.
The research is protected by three pending patents, the latest of which was filed last week.

Piantelli’s group will create a supporters’ trust. In two to four months the public will be able to buy shares in the trust to support the research, to prevent the technology from suddenly disappearing, and to share in any future revenues. Piantelli’s group doesn’t need money: the aim is protect the technology by putting it under the control of a multitude of stakeholders.

It is hoped that after nearly a year of additional work, the cells are indeed now able to produce 200 times (or more) energy input as the above report indicates was the goal. Admittedly, it has been rather frustrating for us observers to have no progress updates on Prof. Piantelli’s work for this length of time. However, we need to remember that Piantelli is not Rossi, in that he does not have Rossi’s seeming need for attention or run a blog where he makes regular comments. It should also be noted that Piantelli currently holds several EU LENR patents and has applied for several more. It is felt by some that Rossi’s e-Cat and Rossi’s Hyperion may in fact infringe of some of Pianteill’s existing patents and that there will be a legal battle at some point between the parties.

Besides the presentation of Piantelli, I can imagine the presentations of Hagelstein and Celani will be of great interest as well. Dr. Y.E. Kim, who gave a presentation on March 23 at NETS will give a presentation at the conference regarding his theoretical cold fusion framework. Long-time Japanese researcher Dr. Akira Kitamura will give a presentation as well.

If one reviews the lists of participants below, there is actually quite a long list of scientists giving presentations. While I am unfamiliar with many of the names, I do note a sizable contingent from Russia and an additional presenter from Piantelli’s company, Nichenergy, a Dr. Valerio Ciampoli.

Unfortunately, it does not appear that this conference will be streamed or televised. If any of our Italian friends are able to attend the conference, please feel free to post any first hand accounting of the proceedings here…and if not here, SOMEWHERE! Thank you.

Official Conference Poster

List of Participants

Mr Dmitry	Baranov		RUSSIA
Prof Yuri	Bazhutov		RUSSIA
Prof Jean Paul	Biberian	University of Marseilles-Luminy	FRANCE
Mssrs Rick	Cantwell	Coolescence LLC	USA
Dott Francesco	Celani	INFN – LNF	ITALY
Dr Valerio	Ciampoli	Nichenergy srl	ITALY
Dr Pierre	Clauzon	CNAM	FRANCE
Ms Lucia	Colletta Frisone		ITALY
Mr William	Collis	ISCMNS	ITALY
Ms Olga	Dmitriyeva	Cooleseence	USA
Dr Nataliya	Famina	MADI	RUSSIA
Dott Giuseppe	Fasano	University of Siena	ITALY
Dr Fulvio	Frisone	University of Catania	ITALY
Prof Igor	Goryachev	Kurchatov Institute	RUSSIA
Mrs Irina	Goryacheva	Russian Research Center ‘Kurchatov Institute’	RUSSIA
Prof Peter	Hagelstein	MIT	USA
Mr Vincenzo	Iorio		ITALY
Prof Yeong	Kim	Department of Physics, Purdue University	USA
Dr Akira	Kitamura	Division of Environmental Energy Science	JAPAN
Dr Guy	Lauvergeon		FRANCE
Dr Loic	Lietar		FRANCE
Dr Cesare	Lorenzetti		ITALY
Dr Emanuele	Marano		ITALY
Ing Ubaldo	Mastromatteo	ST Microelectronics	ITALY
Dr Fabio	Mastromatteo		ITALY
Dr Alessandro	Meiarini	Nichenergy srl	ITALY
Ms Susan	Mobberley	Advanced Energy Technologies	UK
Mr Peter	Mobberley	Advanced Energy Technologies	UK
Dr Anna	Nuvoli	INFN	ITALY
Dr Marco	Pagani	ENEL	ITALY
Dr Enrico	Paganini	ENEL	ITALY
Mr Alexander	Parkhomov	Lomonosov Moscow State University	RUSSIA
Dr Walter	Pecorella	Ansaldo Energia	ITALY
Prof Francesco	Piantelli	University of Siena	ITALY
Dr Jacques	Ruer	Saipmem SA	FRANCE
Dr Alexei	Rusetski	P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute	RUSSIA
Dr Alain	Samoun		USA
Mr Hans-Dieter	Seeliger		GERMANY
Dott Antonio	Spallone	INFN – LNF	ITALY
Dr Matthias	Streiff		SWITZERLAND
Prof Akito	Takahashi	Osaka University	JAPAN
Prof Sergey	Tsvetkov		RUSSIA
Dr Mathieu	Valat		FRANCE
Dr Joris	Van Der Schot		FRANCE
Ms Jenny	Vinko	H.E.R.A.	ITALY
Dr Vladimir	Vysotskii	Kiev National Shevchenko Univ., Radiophysical Dept.	UKRAINE
Dr Mykhaylo	Vysotskii	Kiev National Shevchenko Univ., Radiophysical Dept.	UKRAINE
Mr Dag	Zeiner Gundersen	Norrønt a.s.	NORWAY

Workshop Program – Presentations and Papers

		Poster Papers
Posters		A bronze medal will be presented for the best poster paper. Oral papers may also be presented as posters.
William Collis		Improved Local and Global Mass Relations p21 CollisWimprovedlocal.ppt
I. Goryachev		Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation is the Way for Remediating Waste Radioactivity p18 GoryachevIlowenergyn.ppt
I. Chernov		Nuclear processes in metal-deuterium systems stimulated by radiation ChernovInuclearproce.ppt
		Tuesday 10 April 2012
16:30	Registration	Sala Focolare
19:30		Welcome buffet

		Wednesday 11 April
09:00	Registration	Sala Focolare
09:30	W. Collis	Opening Address CollisWopeningaddres.ppt
10:00	P. L. Hagelstein	Modeling excess heat in PdD HagelsteinPmodelinge.ppt
10:30	A. Takahashi	Are Ni + H Nuclear Reactions Possible? p12 TakahashiAarenihnucl.ppt
11:00		Coffee
11:30	P. L. Hagelstein	Modeling collimated x-ray emission in the Karabut experiment HagelsteinPmodelingc.ppt
12:00	N. Famina	Excess heat power registration in high voltage electrolysis cell (flow calorimeter) with deuterated Pd cathodes FaminaNexcessheatpow.ppt
12:30	P. L. Hagelstein	Modeling excess heat in NiH HagelsteinPmodelinge.ppt
13:00		Lunch
14:00		Excursion by coach to San Gimignano
19:30		Dinner

		Thursday 12 April
09:00	N. Famina	Excess heat power registration in high voltage electrolysis cell (flow calorimeter) with deuterated Pd cathodes FaminaNexcessheatpow.ppt
09:30	P. L. Hagelstein	Demonstration of excess heat in the JET nanor at MIT HagelsteinPdemonstra.ppt
10:00	V.I.Vysotskii	About the effectiveness of Widom-Larsen theory for explanation of LENR phenomena VysotskiiVabouttheef.ppt
10:30	V.I.Vysotskii	Application of correlated states of interacting particles in nonstationary and modulated LENR systems VysotskiiVapplicatio.ppt
11:00		Coffee
11:30	A.S. Rousetski	Nuclear processes in metal-deuterium systems stimulated by radiation p6 RousetskiAnuclearpro.ppt
12:00	Yury Bazhutov	Heat Generator of Rossi & Focardi and its Theoreticial Erzion Model Interpretation p7 BazhutovYheatgenerat.ppt
12:30	A.G.Parkhomov	Registration of radiation and thermal effects at saturation LaNi4,75Al0,25 by hydrogen p8 ParkhomovAregistrati.ppt
13:00		Lunch
14:30		Free
16:00		Coffee
16:30	Peter Hagelstein	What CMNS Models are possible?
19:30		Dinner

		Friday 13 April
09:00	M. Vysotskyy	Subbarier Nuclear Interaction of Channeling Particles at Self-Similar Formation of Correlated States in Periodically Strained Crystals p9 VysotskyyMsubbariern.ppt
09:30	A.S. Rousetski	Charged particle emission from Ti/TiO2:Dx system stimulated by X-ray radiation p11 RousetskiAchargedpar.ppt
10:00	F. Frisone	Nuclear reactions in condensed matter p13 FrisoneFnuclearreact.ppt
10:30	Y. Kim	Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation Nuclear Reactions in Deuterium/Hydrogen Loaded Metals p16 KimYtheoryofboseeins.ppt
11:00		Coffee
11:30	D. Baranov	The Experiments with Bismuth Salts in Aqueous Solution and New Ideas for CMNS Explanation p17 BaranovDtheexperimen.ppt
12:00	J. Biberian	Anomalous excess heat during absorption of hydrogen in: Pd-Ni-Zr02 nano powder p19 BiberianJanomalousex.ppt
12:30	F. Celani	Experimental results on sub-micro structured Cu-Ni alloys under high temperatures Hydrogen/Deuterium interactions. p20 CelaniFexperimentalr.ppt
13:00		Lunch
14:30		Mini excursion
16:00		Coffee
16:30	Antonio Spallone	Discussion – What experiments should we do now?
19:30		Banquet (Sala Caminetti)

		Saturday 14 April
09:00	O. Dmitriyeva	Effect of temperature gradient on calorimetric measurements during gas-loading experiments p22 DmitriyevaOeffectoft.ppt
09:30	A. Kitamura	Summary of the latest results of gas loading experiments p10 KitamuraAsummaryofth.ppt
10:00	O. Dmitriyeva	Control of excess heat production in Pd-impregnated alumina powder p23 DmitriyevaOcontrolof.ppt
10:30	F. Piantelli	To be announced PiantelliFtobeannoun.ppt
11:00		Coffee
11:30	R. Cantwell	Search for excess heat in metals exposed to pulsed hydrogen plasma p23 CantwellRsearchforex.ppt
12:00	William Collis	Closing Remarks CollisWclosingremark.ppt

Conference Abstracts

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What Happened to Dr. Miley?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Admin

I cannot count on any number of appendages the amount of times I have been asked this question over the last 2 weeks. As many of you are aware, Dr. Miley was scheduled to give a lecture on March 23, the 23^rd anniversary of the announcement of Drs. Pons and Fleishmann, at the New Emerging Technologies for Space conference in the The Woodlands, TX. The lack of any coverage of this event has left many puzzled and bewildered. Based on the abstract released before the conference, his lecture was to be entitled “A Game-Changing Power Source Based on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.” This was shaping up to be another significant LENR disclosure, coming on the heals of the presentation at CERN by researchers Yogendra Srivastava and Francesco Celani, where Celani matter of factly announced “The Fleishmann effect confirmed.”

Celani Slide from CERN Presentation

So, with the stage set for a cold fusion 1-2 punch, what happened? Pretty much nothing. The organizers of NETS apparently felt it not of importance to publicize to Dr. Miley’s presentation. It should be pointed out that a major sponsor of the NETS conference was…NASA! Again, NASA finds itself squarely in the middle of this story. Dr. Miley was obviously invited to the conference and its organizers obviously knew the nature of his presentation…yet strangely elected not to utter a word about it. If it were not for the appearance of Dr. Miley’s abstract on the Internet prior to the conference, few would have known about his pending presentation. It is a little odd that the day after CERN allowed an LENR presentation to be broadcast live across the world over the Internet, the organizers of the best little space conference in Texas found it unimportant.

I am left to wonder if the inappropriately critical report that appeared about Dr. Miley on New Energy Times 3 days before his scheduled presentation had anything to do with NETS organizers choosing not to broadcast Dr. Miley’s lecture. Perhaps they did not want the negative publicity that the New Energy Times report may have generated, either real or imagined. The report was odd in that took an accusatory tone towards Dr. Miley’s previous statements regarding his recent work, most specifically comments he made in October of 2011 at the World Green Symposium in Philadelphia. The report was also odd because it appeared 3 days before Dr. Miley’s scheduled March 23 presentation, even though the interview the report was based on took place back in December. The timing was curious to say the least.

One might argue that a conference about emerging technologies in space should not be affected by the utterings of a self-appointed LENR “journalist” and “expert” with degrees in neither journalism or science, but such arguments would come from a place of naivete’. With the exception of CERN, Missouri University and some notable others, apparently major companies, institutions and news outlets still do not want to have their names associated with anything even remotely related to “cold fusion,” even after 2 decades of experimental affirmation of the technology. This is not just a general observation, this impression comes from conversations I have had with persons “in the know” over the last year or so.

But, rest assured, Dr. Miley did give his presentation. Cold Fusion Now’s Ruby Carat was in attendance at NETS and will do a write-up about it sometime in the near future. She was able to get an interview with Dr. Miley when she was there. As I am sure many of you do, I look forward to her article and whatever information she is able to provide about the proceedings.

I also exchanged e-mails with Dr. Miley the week prior to his presentation regarding an unrelated matter. He gave me no indication that the presentation would not take place. He also indicated to me that there would be further news about his research efforts in the coming months, although I am not at liberty to disclose any details about said news at the present time. There are still some particulars that still need to be worked out.

I also need to point out here that Dr. Miley is still in need of funding. Everything he (and most cold fusion researchers for that matter) have accomplished to this point has been on a shoestring budget. Dr. Miley is being as thorough with these experiments as one would expect from a scientist of his pedigree and experience. However, this work is being held back due to lack of funds. If anyone is interested in funding Dr. Miley’s research, please contact him at the e-mail address provided in his abstract. However, DO NOT BOTHER HIM IF YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS! Apparently his e-mail address at the university is stuffed full of spam and inquiries from the merely curious. As a result, serious inquiries are not being received and are being filtered out. Sidney Kimmel just provided Missouri University with 5.5 million to fund “cold fusion” research and I am absolutely positive that this kind of contribution would be a great boon to Dr. Miley’s research. So all you corporate lurkers out there need to cease with the voyeurism already and help the man out.

From all accounts, the research at Missouri University to this point has been very primitive compared to what Dr. Miley is reporting. As he said in October, there are no “show stoppers” in the form of technical barriers to the progress of his work. Right now issues revolve around funding and additional engineering. However, I must caution, that this does not mean his work is commercially ready today, right now. As the saying goes, “when the journey is 90% complete, one is halfway there.” In another words, the last steps in any process can provide formidable challenges. However, those challenges cannot be met in a timely and prudent fashion without the proper resources.

If any serious party out there is interested in helping Dr. Miley and you are not able to contact him at the university address, please e-mail me at the address below. He has provided me with a second address as a back-up. However, I will not provide that to anybody or anyone who is not serious. The man has work to do.

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Framing the Debate

Posted on March 23, 2012 by tombaccei

A new look at the economics of LEARN (Low Eneregy Lattice Assisted Reactions – Nuclear)

Now to our friends in the corporate world, here’s the good news. Due to the protracted, hilarious and surrealistic march of “Peter the Hermit” and the “Mad Greeks,” and the slow, painful but inevitable crawl of real science in pursuit of the Holy Grail of LEARN technology, THERE IS STILL TIME! The presentations at CERN by Drs. Srivasta and Celani and at the “Emerging Technologies for Space” conference in Texas by Dr. Miley certainly reinforce the growing acceptance of LEARN in the world of mainstream science. These are NOT foolish institutions or events. Although there is no official endorsement of the claims made by the presenters, you can bet your next suborbital flight that these groups would take every precaution to prevent their reputations being tarnished by allowing dubious claims being made under their tent.

I was educated as a mathematician, and physics is way outside my realm. But I have steadily over the years read the various non-technical descriptions of modern physics written by the many brilliant physicists who have cared to share their developing understanding of reality with, well, the rest of us. One thing is certain, however. The greatest of the physicists relied heavily on physical intuition as a foundation for their theoretical work, like Einstein and Feynman to name a couple, in attempting to understand the many attempts to provide a theoretical understanding of what might be going on in the LEARN reactions.

It does seem there is a growing consensus, if not about the underlying nuclear and subatomic processes, at least about the physical conditions involved in the reactions themselves. I will not attempt to go into very great detail but my take on it, and my guess as to where progress will be made, is this:

A very specific configuration of atoms and ions, some metallic, some hydrogen, and some impurities, when stimulated in the right way result in some one or several “not chemical” exothermic events taking place. It seems likely that more than one basic reaction is involved. These configurations exist at the nano scale. They are not very well understood, nor is it well understood how to abundantly create them. The impurities, or flaws, in the nano structure play a key role. The reactions, when they are energetic enough, destroy the configuration that gives rise to them. The physical explanation of what is going on, when it is finally derived, will likely NOT involve any basic inconsistency with the standard model or quantum physics but will, in all likelihood, involve an emergent property and, thus, may well be considered to be a previously unknown state of matter.

It is my further opinion that borrowing from the tools involved with nano scale manufacturing, and research in the computer chips and electronics, will prove to be of great value in materials manufacturing of the most efficient “fuel” for use in LEARN reactors. Various forms of doping, etching and lithography may well provide the basis for creating a sufficient density and organization of these configurations , along with a supporting and moderating matrix to insulate, isolate and/or remove the configurations, if necessary, as they are consumed or changed by their own actions.

So, the good news for corporate America (and the rest of the world too!) is this: As basic research reveals more and more about the nano configurations which create the conditions for LEARN reactions, there will be an opportunity for patent protected manufacturing techniques and technologies needed to create both the configurations and the supporting framework which will make LEARN a reality. In that, a bold entrepreneur might really corner this multi-trillion dollar business! But, even better, and I mean REALLY BETTER, is this: Thus far everyone has thought that the e-Cat would be cheap, and the fuel would be plentiful and cheap. But the fuel NEED NOT BE CHEAP! The fuel itself, while being made of cheap ingredients, might very well be a HUGE profit maker, like computer chips, if the analysis above is on target. The matrix of configurations and support structure might require very sophisticated (and profitable) manufacturing, even though the basic ingredients are not expensive at all, like (hmmmmm) silicon into computer chips.

So, this scenario, if it plays out, completely changes the game as far as the fears of a destabilizing LEARN rollout. Please take this VERY seriously, those of you in the energy world, or the nano tech world, or the computer chip world. This would be the Holy Grail of a new energy technology. A plentiful, non-polluting source of energy, but one requiring a super-high technology to produce and deliver the fuel. It would provide an economic stability and balance while providing huge rewards for the companies with the courage and foresight to take on the challenge. Let us just hope that those with such foresight and courage take up this opportunity and pave the way for the continued growth of human potential!

On a different note, I think a “PLAN X Prize” for achieving notable milestones in LEARN research would be a very powerful way to promote further developments. I would respectfully ask that any active researchers in the field to please contribute ideas for proper and useful descriptions of such milestones, which would be as unambiguous and convincing to the real skeptics as possible (not the pathoskeps of course, because for them there seems to be no possibility of movement at all…too bad!). Anyhow, not being Dick Smith, who used the opportunity to create such a prize of significant size, and then promptly produced a negative smell in the air with his emphasis being on “exposing frauds,” rather than using his wealth to promote the growth of human potential, I can only make a modest contribution in this quest.

So, I therefore pledge $5,000 US to the goal of creating such a PLAN X Prize and, with some help from others in the LEARN world, perhaps we can create a prize which is positive and useful in promoting LEARN research. Please, any of you who take the time to read this, I challenge you to also pledge whatever you feel is reasonable to this goal. Just send me an email, or respond to this posting, with YOUR pledge.

Send ideas or suggestions of what might be the best milestone for winning the $$$. How about you Dick Smith?. Maybe even match my paltry $5K in an honest effort to PROMOTE discovery? If we get something really developing we can set up a “PLAN X Prize site with escrow accounts, safeguards and a “rules” committee. Why not!

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The device consists of 48 small tiles, with each tile in fact being a separate test device. This allows 48 different experiments to be run simultaneously and for multiple comparative measurements to be made simultaneously during testing. Although small, the device is really quite ingenious.

Something real is happening.

The weak interaction theories suggest what the physics might be.

There are efforts ongoing to explore the validity of the theories.

There are continuing Edisonian efforts to produce “devices” mainly for heat, or in some cases transmutations.

There are efforts to certify such devices.

NASA LaRC has begun LENR design studies guided by Weak Interaction Theory.

In the article Bushnell also makes an interesting point that I have not heard before but is really quite insightful, perhaps even profound:

“When we concentrated upon nuclear engineering beginning in the 1940′s we “jumped” to the strong force/ particle physics and leapt over the weak force/condensed matter nuclear physics. We are going “back” now to study and hopefully develop this arena.”

In any event, it certainly is uplifting to those of us who hope we are the verge of an energy revolution to have confirmed once again that there is much more than mass delusion to this whole thing. I think most people already realize that but, still, sometimes it is good to be reminded.

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Other highlights and assertions were:

Melich’s father was influential in the uranium mining business beginning the 1950s (I don’t know if that fact is relevant, but it is interesting).

Melich has been involved with cold fusion since 1989. He was a member of a body formed in 1989 by the State of Utah, the Fusion Energy Advisory Council, in an attempt to exploit the possibilities of the P&F discovery.

Later Melich was closely associated with a company called ENECO, who obtained the rights to a number of cold fusion patents, including the original patents of P&F held by the University of Utah.

Melich has been instrumental in obtaining some funding for cold fusion research for entities associated with the US military.

Melich is known to, respected and perhaps even feared by many in the cold fusion community, even those in Russia. He has allegedly has been instrumental in obtaining or denying visas for cold fusion researchers seeking to enter the US.

Melich has been involved with personnel at the Naval Research Laboratory to DISCREDIT some cold fusion/LENR research, including that done by SPAWAR.

Melich has been involved in efforts to manipulate media reporting of cold fusion/LENR research.

Melich has been involved with LENR research being done at the University of Missouri.

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The Atom Unexplored: Hagelstein Part 3 (funding cut at MIT)

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The Atom Unexplored conference from Turin will be streamed live at this link beginning at 9:00 CET, 5:00 EST.

Hmm. I guess in this case we will have to be like Passerini and go down by the river and wait, wait, wait.

Down to the river I go.

The Atom Unxplored Schedule

10:30 Session I – Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Walter Pecorella University of Rome ”Tor Vergata”, Ansaldo Energia

Alberto Carpinteri Polytechnic of Turin Research Institute National Metrology Piezonuclear Fission Reactions in Rocks: Evidences from Microchemical Analysis, Neutron Emission, Transformation and Geological

Peter L. Hagelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology JET Energy NANOR: The Role of the Nanoengineered Latex Enabling the CF / LANR Activity

Coffee break

Francis Piantelli Nichenergy, Imo Center – University of Siena

Valerio Ciampoli Nichenergy Anomalous Phenomenon in Ni-H Systems

Giovanni Cherubini University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Research Center Radioactivity CRR, ARPA Lazio Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions Induced by Cavitation

15:00 Session II – High Energy Nuclear Reactions

Maurizio Cumo University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Douglas Bartlett European Commission DG-RTD, UNIT K5 – ITER The European Key Role in Design, Construction and Operation of ITER

John Rich University Of Genoa, National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Alessandro Alemberti Ansaldo Nuclear Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Nuclear Reactors

Mark E. Ricotti Milan Polytechnic The New Age of Nuclear Fission: A Roadmap for the Generation IV Lead Cooled Fast Reactors

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Before providing links to the instructions on how to replicate an Athanor cell, first a little history on the etymology of the word “athanor.” According to the Wiki:

Some notes for those wishing to attempt replication of the Athanor cell:

Be mindful of all instructions provided, including but not limited to the SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS.

This is not a kitchen or garage project. It is recommended that all experiments be carried out in a properly equipped laboratory by persons having the proper skills and training to conduct such experiments.

Be advised that the calorimetry (measurement of heat output) is extremely challenging. As above, to ensure accurate results make sure you have the proper equipment and expertise to perform the proper measurements accurately.

Ongoing testing results, additional instructions, updates and information will be provided on this page on 22Passi and I will provide pertinent updates on this site as they become available.

Happy (and safe) replication!

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Dear Sir,

In accordance of article 5 item 1 of said law, it is forbidden to you from now on, except for explicit permission, the invention for which you have filed a patent application to publish its contents and especially to file a patent appli­cation in a foreign country or to assign a licence.

The grant of a Belgian patent or the possible transfer of the patent application to the European Patent Office or Inter­national Office of the World Organization for Intellectual Property will be postponed or retarded if such is necessary in view of the examination of the Ministry of Defense.

six months taken from the filing date of the application, when it concerns an application for a Belgian patent, or

before the expiration of a period of four months taken from the filing date of the application when such concerns the filing of a European patent, or

Walter Pecorella
University of Rome
”Tor Vergata”, Ansaldo Energia

Alberto Carpinteri
Polytechnic of Turin Research Institute National Metrology
Piezonuclear Fission Reactions in Rocks: Evidences from Microchemical Analysis, Neutron Emission, Transformation and Geological

Peter L. Hagelstein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JET Energy NANOR: The Role of the Nanoengineered Latex Enabling the CF / LANR Activity

Francis Piantelli
Nichenergy, Imo Center – University of Siena

Valerio Ciampoli
Nichenergy
Anomalous Phenomenon in Ni-H Systems

Giovanni Cherubini
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Research Center Radioactivity CRR, ARPA Lazio
Neutrons from Piezonuclear Reactions Induced by Cavitation

Maurizio Cumo
University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Douglas Bartlett
European Commission DG-RTD, UNIT K5 – ITER
The European Key Role in Design, Construction and Operation of ITER

John Rich
University Of Genoa, National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Alessandro Alemberti
Ansaldo Nuclear
Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Nuclear Reactors

Mark E. Ricotti
Milan Polytechnic
The New Age of Nuclear Fission: A Roadmap for the Generation IV Lead Cooled Fast Reactors

In accordance of article 5 item 1 of said law, it is forbidden to you from now on, except for explicit permission, the invention for which you have filed a patent application to publish its contents and especially to file a patent application in a foreign country or to assign a licence.

The grant of a Belgian patent or the possible transfer of the patent application to the European Patent Office or International Office of the World Organization for Intellectual Property will be postponed or retarded if such is necessary in view of the examination of the Ministry of Defense.

L. WUYTS
Director

As Coulomb explosion is the postulated mechanism for the proposed reaction as proposed in the current patent being reviewed, here is a brief definition of this process per the Encyclopedia of Concise Science and Technology (2^nd Edition, p. 489)