Motto:
“Sacred cows make the best hamburgers” (Mark Twain)
The usual, let’s say traditional, totems and taboos of the
Cold Fusion /LENR field/movement have generated the certainty that the
phenomena are real and many interesting scientific data, however no usable energy.
It increasingly seems these symbols/concepts are ripe for a rather radical metamorphosis
and replacement.
The situation of the initial positives: palladium is good,
it has to be combined with deuterium, electrochemistry is the way, pure
scientific method will create all the solutions for research and development-
seem to be too weak and fragile; ugly facts are increasingly eroding and
destroying them.
Recently something much unexpected, even unbelievable has
happened: the last sacred cow- NUCLEAR is marching vigorously toward slaughter
house, suggesting me a title for this essay.
It is not difficult to write volumes about the complex and
diversified relationships between excess heat release and nuclear signals in
many-many CF/LENR experiments. However, the conclusion is simple: thermal and
nuclear phenomena coexist but it is very difficult to find a univocal
correlation between them and no causal relationship could be established.
Melvin Miles’s 22 years old experiments in which heat and helium are relatively
commensurate, needs new solid and extended proofs. Do not forget the 1 = 0 rule!
Thermal and nuclear phenomena are usually just simply parallel; the founders
have opted for nuclear because all the possible and even impossible chemical
reactions from the successful systems could not explain the quantity of heat
energy released in the few successful experimental systems. If not chemical,
then what? Only nuclear can explain so much heat- quantities sufficient to be a
problem but not to be a solution.
The snobbish ambition of Cold Fusion to be as nuclear as hot
fusion was used by ill-willed, envious, closed-minded and by simply prudent
skeptics to stigmatize and pauperize and marginalize our field- but this is
history and will be ended when
the first commercial metal-hydrogen based generators will
enter the market. To be nuclear is not a virtue per se for a source of energy-
ask your ecologist friends.
It is fascinating to follow how fast data indicating that
the “cold fusion is nuclear axiom’ will fade away- it is about an idea whose
time has arrived. See the messages coming from Defkalion,
study
the discovery and process building, explaining work done by
our colleague Axil Axil. Or why not? Take a look to this blog for Nanoplasmonics.
Jeane Manning has brightly understood the essence of the
Defkalion process and has described it in her new Infinite Energy paper see
please: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infinite-energy.com%2Fimages%2Fpdfs%2FManningIE110.pdf
“However, readers who are aware of nanoplasmonics—a
new area of science dealing with the interaction of
photons
with matter including nuclei or sub-nuclear
particles—will
be interested to read how scientists at the Defkalion
Green
Technologies (DGT) lab now describe phenomena that
they
see happening in DGT’s excess-heat-producing Hyperion
product. Instead of using the term low-energy nuclear
reactions (LENR), DGT has been calling the process HENI—heat energy from
nuclear interactions. A recent breakthrough
resulted in a change; instead of the “N” standing for
nuclear,
it now stands for nanoplasmonics. I expect that this
simpler
interpretation of the phenomena could help with the
public
image of this field and its products. Could it also
build
alliances with other academic fields.”
Coincidence or not- the nuclearity/non nuclearity problem
was discussed very intensively on our forums. However, not very openly still.
Our colleague Felix Scholkmann, author of a really good
study about Andrea Rossi has signaled today this paper that demonstrates the
formidable possibilities of nanoplasmonics:
Plasma Nanoscience: from Nano-Solids in Plasmas
to Nano-Plasmas in Solids
This month will take place an important event- ICCF-18 and I
will ask you, dear readers- take it
Survey regarding ICCF-18
1-What do you think, which interesting questions will
be put and which important problems of the field will be raised at ICCF-18?
2- What answers will be given and solutions will be
presented to the issues from 1?
3- Globally, ICCF-18 will be characterized better by
Change or by Continuity?
Peter
Hi Peter,
ReplyDeleteI am going to hold off on commenting on anything related to ICCF-18, until after it is over.
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If the main players in the cold fusion/LENR field continue to support Andrea Rossi and the e-Cat scam and fraud like they did at ICCF-17 : I am going to seriously reconsider my position in support of anything relating to cold fusion/LENR.
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This is disgusting and I will not be a part of anything or any group that continues to support Andrea Rossi until a TRUE INDEPENDENT 3rd party test is done on one of the 10KW reactors (a component of the 1MW plant) that Rossi claims is for sale right now as I write this.
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Good luck with your projects.
Warm Regards,
Gary Wright
Dear Gary,
ReplyDeleteIt is not rational, not sane to judge everybody and everything based on how it is connected to Rossi.
ICCF-18 is not sending money or other forms of encouragement to
Ross you have no reason to be angry with them, organizers or participants
You are no judge and still you hve not started any legal action against Rossi, you are- excuse me- just talking.
Why should Rossi allow and support any INDEPENDENT test just to convince you that he is NOT a fraud and scammer? An independent test comprises borrowing an E-Cat to some organization, helping it to discover the secrets of the E-Cat. My guess is thta Rossi
does not like you so he will not do much to make you happy.
He does not like me either despite the fact that I have never asked that he should be shut up...or something similar.
I wish you less emotions and more reason in your actions.
Peter
Agreed, judging based on proximity to Rossi is insane. That's like saying Hitler was german therefore germans should never be trusted.
ReplyDeleteMr Gluck, you ask why would Rossi allow any independant test, since it would reveal its "secret". The reason is very simple. First, LENR/CF has been called the "new fire". What would you think if only one person had the secret to make fire, but would keep it to himself or try to patent it, and let the rest of humanity dependant of him and his knowledge. You just don't keep "new fire" a secret, that's basic human moral. And of course, as soon as Rossi would be proved right, he would become a worldwide hero and wouldn't have to worry about money for the rest of his life.
ReplyDelete"1-What do you think, which interesting questions will be put and which important problems of the field will be raised at ICCF-18?"
ReplyDeleteA consensus will develop as to how to proceed to involve the entire scientific and research communities in LENR, so that major resources, practical, scientific, commercial, etc., will be brought to bear on the open issues.
"2- What answers will be given and solutions will be presented to the issues from 1?"
An understanding will arise as to the errors of the past, and how to move beyond them.
"3- Globally, ICCF-18 will be characterized better by Change or by Continuity?"
Better by transformation. Cold fusion will come out of the cold, and into acceptance.
Peter, above, you misrepresent the situation.
"The situation of the initial positives: palladium is good, it has to be combined with deuterium, electrochemistry is the way, pure scientific method will create all the solutions for research and development- seem to be too weak and fragile; ugly facts are increasingly eroding and destroying them."
No. Commerical LENR will likely be with nickel and hydrogen. However, some approaches with scientific research will continue with PdD. Electrochemisty is not *the way*, it is merely a convenient way to generate deuterium or hydrogen gas, and high lattice loading, for certain experiments. There is very little sign that a successful application will use electrochemistry.
Scientific research will develop solid data for theoreticians to work with. Exploration of the parameter space will be done with increasing rigor. As long as a reaction is unreliable, careful controls are necessary. All of this will proceed in parallel with commercial research, which is likely to focus on NiH and gas-loading. Until the NiH ash is identified, NiH will remain a relative mystery, but PdD is also a mystery, we do not know the mechanism. All that we know is that deuterium is being converted to helium, and we know that from controlled experiment.
"Recently something much unexpected, even unbelievable has happened: the last sacred cow- NUCLEAR is marching vigorously toward slaughter house, suggesting me a title for this essay."
Peter is taking the vagaries of some discussions on LENR and extrapolating to the position of an entire field. "Nuclear" is firmly established with PdD. Not with NiH. It remains likely with NiH, but there is only circumstantial evidence for this.
1-What do you think, which interesting questions will be put and which important problems of the field will be raised at ICCF-18?
ReplyDeleteWho are currently demonstrating readily repeatable anomalous heat from their energy generators ?
2- What answers will be given and solutions will be presented to the issues from 1?
I would hope DGT and Brillouin/SRI can claim they are
3- Globally, ICCF-18 will be characterized better by Change or by Continuity?
I am *hoping* that ICCF-18 becomes remembered as the conference where current science was opened up enough to accept the probability that there is non nuclear and non chemical anomalous heat that can be generated from the experimenters in this new field of energy generation.
DSM
I'll be there. Does anyone have specific questions to ask of the various people in the field?
ReplyDeleteThis may prove interesting ...
ReplyDeletePatent filed by Pekka Soininen for Etiam LLC (Etiam Oy)
http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013076378A2?cl=en
Abstract
System and method for producing thermal energy is based on a very large number of nanoscale particle accelerators in a volume accelerating electrons and hydrogen ions at very high local electric fields. Nanoscale particle accelerators comprise a dielectric material possessing electric polarizability and a metallic materialcapable of forming an interstitial and/or electrically conductive metal hydride and capable of enhancing the local electric field by the geometry and/or by the sufficiently small dimensions of the said metallic material. Low to medium strength local electric fields are utilized for the generation of Rydberg matter and inverted Rydberg matter in the presence of a material capable of forming and storing Rydberg atoms. Destabilization of Rydberg matter and inverted Rydberg matter leads to solid state physical reactions that release energy.
DSM
PS I meant to thank Axil for that link.
DeleteThanks Axil !
DSM
Everyone involved have already shared their papers with each others and therefor already knows most of the outcome. (?)
ReplyDeleteI hope to be proven wrong and positively surprised.
If I had the money, I would not have hesitated if going or not but unfortunately that's not gonna happen this year either :(