Monday, January 19, 2015

INFO AND STARTING THE +LENR+ BABEL COLLECTION



1) A traditional Cold Fusion teaching event

 Tomorrow it starts, a very  important,very LENR traditional event:

Cold Fusion 101 at MIT for 2015 Introduction to excess power in Fleischmann-Pons experiments

http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-BD6D0CF8E170B284E0400312852F4A61.html
A very rich, interesting program presenting the process that gave us the certainty of existence of cold fusion-excess heat:

 "The Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments course will run again on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) over the IAP winter break Tuesday through Friday Jan. 20-23, 2015.  Professor Peter Hagelstein of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and Dr. Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy, Inc., will present the course with topics such as: Excess power production in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment; lack of confirmation in early negative experiments; theoretical problems and Huizenga’s three miracles; physical chemistry of PdD; electrochemistry of PdD; loading requirements on excess power production; the nuclear ash problem and He-4 observations; approaches to theory; screening in PdD; PdD as an energetic particle detector; constraints on the alpha energy from experiment; overview of theoretical approaches; coherent energy exchange between mismatched quantum systems; coherent x-rays in the Karabut experiment and interpretation; excess power in the NiH system; Piantelli experiment; prospects for a new small scale clean nuclear energy technology."
Only the technology purists could nit-pick saying the last 10 words are not as true and valuable as the rest.

 2) Toward a technological future of LENR

 How a technology develops:

Definitely, a smart, well written paper, with many parts valid for LENR. What it needs is a second part much more LENR-specific- with possible parallels between the new energy source
and the recent great industrial success stories
The paper distinguishes 6 stages of development of an industry/technology:

 First stage:Discovery/Concept;
Second stage: Working Prototype
Third stage: Early Commercialization
Fourth stage: Enthusiasts
Fifth stage: Widespread Adoption/Disruption
Sixth Stage: Acceptance 
It is not clear in which stage actually LENR is, but in few months we will know it better.
I quote from this paper, this time just for the "science-first! purists:
" Note: people can build technologies without understanding the theory or science behind them. People were building firearms, canons and explosives centuries before anybody understood either the chemistry or physics involved in those devices." 

 However, they must understand principles and safety.

3) An initiative. Its time will come.

Crowd funded Mass Spectrometry for A. Parkhomov                                                      http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/1051-Crowd-funded-Mass-Spectrometry-for-A-Parkhomov/

I think it is a good idea, however perhaps premature,;rather long times can be necessary to make the changes, as isotopic shifts (these are so captivating)  easily measurable. At Lugano the time was 32 days!
Parkhomov will come with his analysis, as good as any other high quality analysis (see what he has shown us about nickel particle size analysis). It would be useful to get confirmations  from reputed western laboratories.

 4) The tortuous and practically closed way to get a cold fusion patent in the US
(thanks to Jed Rothwell!)


Patenting Your Basement Fusion Reactor: Utility Requirements Under U.S. Patent Law
http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/patenting-your-basement-fusion-reactor-48879/
A delight for masochists; however I think that it is rational tp patent only what really works. OK, if you are very rich you can collect vanity patents.

5) ORGANIZING A + LENR+ BABEL COLLECTION

Dear Readers from everywhere,
I need your help. I intend to go to the real leaders of my country, Romania, sons and daughters of my colleagues of generation and tell them:

 "You are retarded and under-informed again! The LENR revolution is coming, smart people are preparing - you have no idea. It is the time for change and awakening!"

 And I must demonstrate them that the world is preparing for LENR.
I need for this an impressive collection, at least 50 papers fulfilling the following requirements:
a) + LENR- that is clearly supporting and promoting LENR:
b) LENR+ that is about enhanced LENR, post-Lugano events
c) in as many as possible languages present on Google Transkate
d) If possible- decent quality sources and journalism.

 Obviously I search the Web as deeply as possible, but there are limitations-
an example is a paper in Nordisk Energi, I am not able to get access to it.

 Some examples found today:

 This is translated in many languages but it is not entirely + LENR, too many questions and doubts:

E-cat news- positive approach- in Italian:

We already know these events implying warm and hot cats, but for many Polish readers they can be new- and promising. It enters the +LENR+ collection. 

6) A warning from AXIL

 It is a bit subtle, but very important.

So sorry, please excuse me but I have developed an opinion. These heater power failures are caused by the LENR reaction and if not immediately countered, these power drops will delay the onset of the LENR reaction. A 5 seconds response time to counter is far to long a time delay to increase the current flow to the heater. I don't believe that MFMP  counters this heater behavior at all since they have no constant power circuit mechanism in their heater power supply. Like MFMP, the Russian experimenter sees temperature variations of up to 100C. This is very primitive an unsophisticated experimentally.   A nanosecond might be enough of a response time lag to counter the heat circuit current drop. This unusual superconductor onset behavior is causing long startup times for the onset of the LENR reaction. I hope that Brian Ahern will develop constant power circuitry to add elegance to his experiment  to greatly increase the response time for the onset of the LENR reaction and thereby increasing experiment turnaround times.

Other interesting things will happen this evening and I will tell you about them, tomorrow.

Peter

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  1. Abd ulRahman LomaxJanuary 19, 2015 at 10:53 AM

    Quoting Axil:
    "[...]These heater power failures seen widely in current Hot Cat replications are caused by the LENR reaction"

    How? There is an obvious cause with Parkhomov. These are not "heater power failures." They are heater failures, i.e., the heating coil breaks, probably. The thermocouple in Parkhomov showed, at the time of failure, temperature oscillating between 1237 and 1286 C. (Variations of 100 C are not shown.) From the photo in the Parkhomov report, the heater coils are *much* hotter than the thermocouple, so they could be over 1400 C, approaching the melting point of the coil material.

    Heat from the reaction would affect the thermocouple *first.* The temperature record with Parkhomov has no room for major XP. See https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cold_fusion/Nickel-hydrogen_system/Parkhomov for a study of the Parkhomov thermometry.

    "and if not immediately countered, these power drops will delay the onset of the LENR reaction inordinately."

    This makes no sense. The heater coils are external to the reactor tube. "Power drop" has not been explained by Axil at all. If the ambient temperature of the coil rises, it will -- *slowly* -- increase the resistance, so if a constant current supply is used, the input power will increase. If a constant-voltage supply is used, the input power will decrease. There are no ordinary "constant power power supplies," that is done, if it's done -- bad idea, my opinion -- by computer control, typically with a 1 minute time lag. It makes a mess of the data.

    "A 5 seconds response time to counter is far to long a time delay to increase the current flow to the heater."

    so he is thinking constant-voltage, with voltage then being set to maintain constant power. That delay will not cause cooling. It will simply not increase the temperature quite as rapidly. Parkhomov does not describe the details of his power setup, but this is not a "heater power failure." It is not clear that Parkhomov set the power in any way other than manually. If it had been set by computer, we would not see input powers of "300, 394, and 498 W," as we do. He'd have set the nominal powers on the computer. Instead, he simply turned a dial, my guess, and then reported the product of current and voltage. There are no details of time variation, but the temperature data does not show a temperature variation that would have a major impact on input power.

    This is excepting the 8 minutes before heater failure. In that period, the temperature oscillated with a period of roughly 1-2 minutes, with a range of 49 degrees. Some experienced researchers, looking at this, have suggested thermocouple failure, which could also explain the "thermal arrest." Notice that when power is increased by 100 W, the temperature increases by about 100 C, and that takes 4-5 minutes.

    What is missing in Parkhomov, most obviously, is calibration data, both for the evaporative calorimetry and the thermometry. That would also include characterisation of the heater. What kind of power input does it take to burn out the heater? I'd expect this to be variable, but within what range?
    I don't believe that MFMP counters this heater behavior at all since they have no constant power circuit mechanism in their heater power supply. Like MFMP, the Russian experimenter sees temperature variations of up to 100C. This is very primitive an unsophisticated experimentally. A nanosecond might be enough of a response time lag to counter the heat circuit current drop. This unusual superconductor onset behavior is causing long startup times for the onset of the LENR reaction. I hope that Brian Ahern will develop constant power circuitry to add elegance to his experiment to greatly increase the response time for the onset of the LENR reaction and thereby increasing experiment turnaround times.

    (more below)

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  2. Abd ulRahman LomaxJanuary 19, 2015 at 10:54 AM

    (continuing, quoting Axil)

    "I don't believe that MFMP counters this heater behavior at all since they have no constant power circuit mechanism in their heater power supply."

    "A nanosecond might be enough of a response time lag to counter the heat circuit current drop."

    Axil's language is confused and he may be writing the opposite of his intention in part of this. For background, the use of constant current power supplies is the norm in electrochemical cold fusion research. I am not aware of any power supplies with a "constant power circuit." Rather, there are constant current supplies, typically, that are then computer controlled to adjust the current setting if it is desired to maintain constant power. These supplies typically have response times on the order of a microsecond. Computer control depends on the update rate of the computer data, and is often on the order of one minute. Having spent a fair amount of time analyzing data out of such a system, I'll say that it makes it very difficult to interpret the record, as several variables change at once. Most work uses constant current, records the voltage as averages, and as long as there is no high-frequency noise, the computed and then integrated power will be accurate. Dieter Britz studied this in response to questions that were originally raised on Wikiversity.

    Bodies with significant thermal mass do not change temperature rapidly, unless exposed to truly massive energy release. And what would change temperature first, here, would be the thermocouple, in intimate contact with the alumina cylinder, and having less thermal mass than the heating coils.

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    1. AxilJanuary 19, 2015 at 11:02 PM

      Dr. Alexander Parkhamov comments on our(Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project ) DB2Day data.

      MFMP question: Could the strong fluctuations be the result of processes in the reactor?

      Dr. Alexander Parkhamov answer: I observed strong fluctuations of temperature affecting the variable power supply too.

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