MOTTO
One must care about a world one will not see. (Bertrand Russell)
I care about the new LENR ENERGY ERA and I know it will come, however my bet is that it will have a different name. It will bring plenty of cheap, healthy, tamed, well tempered energy in different forms sizes and shades. I had the privilege to witness the Information Era; now all I want to is to see the dawn of the energy era- the very first ray of warmth of the new sun. So many good friends of mine, from Gene Mallove to Mike Carrell have not lived enough to "be there when it happens" I well know and apply the wisdom of
"it's choice- not chance that determines your destiny (Jean Nidetch) and i dare to think that I made good LENR choices- in the very limits of my possibilities and impossibilities. It was not my choice that I could not work
doing CF and later LENR experiments. I was forced by fatal circumstances
(the illness of my son) to leave my leader of research position at OLTCHIM,
and I like industrial research not lab level studies. So my activity was reduced or extended (?) to trying to make what I was able to, from the results of many
fine experimenters.
Today, after almost 26 years I am sure that working exclusively for CF/LENR with the best instruments and an excellent team- I could NOT solve the problem Uncle Albert also could not solve it, if PdD was a sine qua non condition of the tests.
One of the best papers intensely discussed - is the one written by my discussion partner Abd:
Speaking about chances and choices- please read with attention what AXIL SAYS
DAILY INFO
The most realistic and focused-on-the present-and-the-future paper in the Special issue of Current Science is:
"Lattice-enabled nuclear reactions in the nickel and hydrogen gas system"
One must care about a world one will not see. (Bertrand Russell)
I care about the new LENR ENERGY ERA and I know it will come, however my bet is that it will have a different name. It will bring plenty of cheap, healthy, tamed, well tempered energy in different forms sizes and shades. I had the privilege to witness the Information Era; now all I want to is to see the dawn of the energy era- the very first ray of warmth of the new sun. So many good friends of mine, from Gene Mallove to Mike Carrell have not lived enough to "be there when it happens" I well know and apply the wisdom of
"it's choice- not chance that determines your destiny (Jean Nidetch) and i dare to think that I made good LENR choices- in the very limits of my possibilities and impossibilities. It was not my choice that I could not work
doing CF and later LENR experiments. I was forced by fatal circumstances
(the illness of my son) to leave my leader of research position at OLTCHIM,
and I like industrial research not lab level studies. So my activity was reduced or extended (?) to trying to make what I was able to, from the results of many
fine experimenters.
Today, after almost 26 years I am sure that working exclusively for CF/LENR with the best instruments and an excellent team- I could NOT solve the problem Uncle Albert also could not solve it, if PdD was a sine qua non condition of the tests.
One of the best papers intensely discussed - is the one written by my discussion partner Abd:
Lomax,
A., Replicable cold fusion experiment: heat/helium ratio. Curr.
Sci., 2015. 108(4).
It is about the central certainty of the PdD system, it is fusion but by an unknown mechanism- "who" does it? The certainty is rock-solid- however the story looks a bit like an opera in which there are no precise roles or a movie with a partially unknown cast. A mystery- as an almost fanatical problem solver I dont like mysteries.
Recently we also have discussed much about the cast/roles of the opera taking place in the Lugano-Parkhomov Hot Cat Alumina House. Who participates and who not?
More tomorrow- I choose to finish here and eat my dinner.Speaking about chances and choices- please read with attention what AXIL SAYS
DAILY INFO
The most realistic and focused-on-the present-and-the-future paper in the Special issue of Current Science is:
"Lattice-enabled nuclear reactions in the nickel and hydrogen gas system"
by David J. Nagel
Abstract
"Thousands of lattice-enabled nuclear reaction (LENR)
experiments involving electrochemical loading of
deuterium into palladium have been conducted and
reported in hundreds of papers. But, it appears that
the first commercial LENR power generators will employ
gas loading of hydrogen onto nickel. This article
reviews the scientific base for LENR in the gas-loaded
Ni–H system, and some of the tests of pre-commercial
prototype generators based on this combination. "
Commented here:
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/02/25/current-science-article-detailing-e-cat-tests-may-be-a-first-in-a-peer-reviewed-journal/
Open Power Association Reveal Parkhomov Replication Setup
Protons, ultracapacitors, F-P and other LENR modes
Open Power Association Reveal Parkhomov Replication Setup
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/02/23/open-power-association-reveal-parkhomov-replication-setup/
An island of nickel in a sea of palladium.
An island of nickel in a sea of palladium.
http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/1141-Protons-ultracapacitors-F-P-and-other-LENR-modes/?postID=2894#post2894
The current LENR development scene is a complex one and difficult to understand. I have written a number of recent posts that attempt to grapple with this Gordian knot even as this complex issue was percolating through the grounds of my subconscious. In this post, I attempt to bring this issue into sharp focus in my minds eye to apply the analysis that it deserves. Here in this post, let us attempt to make sense of these things.
The fundamental issue is successful product development. Rossi set this stage when he declared in 2011 to prove LENR by bringing a successful LENR based product to the marketplace. Only by doing this would Rossi prove the viability of LENR as an important engineering and scientific topic.
But conceiving and building a successful commercial product is most difficult. Take Microsoft as an example. That elite industry dominating company has been trying to get into the mobile marketplace with a competitive product to compete with Apple's IPhone for a decade or more, but has yet to be successful. Even at this juncture, billions of dollars dedicated to new product R&D and acquisitions budget does not guaranteed success. Far from it, this most admired of companies, has endured nothing but well publicized embarrassment, and repeated failures.
Drawing insight from recent LENR history, let us remember that in order to offload the product development task from his long and encyclopedic list of product development concerns, Rossi farmed product development out to DGT. From the very beginning, DGT had a very confident yet fatally flawed approach to product development because of the nature of LENR at that very early stage. Because they had always fiercely protected their independence and management prerogatives, DGT never deviated from this ill fated strategy.
This strategy involved the development of dozens of dissimilar products that were to be based on a prototype that was configured by the engineers as a home heating unit.
DGT was to license this basic LENR technology and reactor design to ship engine builders, and aircraft and car engine manufactures just to name a few of scores of applications, but where was the LENR product design engineers to come from to develop these very dissimilar products. Only Rossi had any expertise and he was secretive and paranoid. Rossi was not disposed to train the DGT personnel or DGT customer design engineers necessary to do this wide ranging product development.
In those early times, Rossi's reactors self destructed far to often to allow the development of any commercially viable product, so Rossi and DGT parted ways. After this breakup, DGT looked to duplicate Rossi's technology and Rossi looked for a new product development partner.
In the due course of time, both these now bitter rivals were successful, with Rossi teaming with Industrial Heat (IH) and DGT out on their own with a home grown LENR technology that was both controllable and responsive. IH had a commercial product concept in mind, a concept that they had warm feelings about, and Rossi was perceptive enough to change his reactor design sufficient to eventually meet most requirements of that concept save control as demonstrated by an acceptance test, and the one megawatt industrial LENR power plant was born.
As IH shaped this product, the IH product concept became highly specialized to satisfy the functional requirements of their very limited American customer base. Being exclusively an industrial steam heat plant, IH reactor approach is ill suited as a generalized solution to any other segment of the energy market.
DGT suffered great disadvantage because of an ill fated product plan from their very beginning. They were doomed to eventually fail. There were no legend of trained LENR engineers to build all the LENR products that were needed to satisfy the needs of their varied customer base. Having said that, their R5 reactor did function as a LENR product demonstration tool. DGT was far more forthcoming both publicly and privately in revealing engineering and R&D details than Rossi ever was so there was sufficient data to base a judgment that the LENR R5 reactor in fact worked. Failure of DGT as a business does not mean that their prototype reactor was not functional. That reactor served well the LENR marketing function that it was designed to serve.
The world energy market is varied and requires an eclectic and vast ensemble of custom solutions. The key question that we as LENR product acceptance strategists must determine is what particular energy product is most likely to introduce LENR in the best light to the world.
I have made my decision even if it was an unconscious one. As reflected in one of my recent posts, I believe that the self charging lithium ion fuel cell would be most impactful to convince the world that LENR is useful as a power source for transportation including cars, planes, trains, and ships.
Each LENR company and LENR developer, has made their decision also. Black light power is developing a small scaled electric grid compatible generator. Brillouin is doing the same but on a larger scale. The Nanor of MIT is a designed to be a small electronic device power source.
The Pd/D or the Ni/H open source community does not have a product plan. This fact is incompatible with Rossi's wise strategy to produce a wizbang product to introduce LENR to the world. Like DGT, even if an open source reactor works, the open source community will not succeed in selling LENR capability to anyone.
Walter Cronkite: "And that's the way it is."
Thursday, March 05, 2015, 14.00 hour at VNIIIAES(All Russian Scientific Research Institute
for Exploitation of Atomic Energy Stations) it will take place a Seminar for: "Processing of radioactive wastes usin the reactor of A.B. Vachayev based on LENR>http://lenr.seplm.ru/seminary/05-marta-2015-g-chetverg-v-14-00-vo-vniiaes-sostoitsya-seminar-pererabotka-radioaktivnykh-otkhodov-s-pomoshchyu-reaktora-av-vachaeva-na-baze-lenrSpeaker Alexander Alexandrovich Shadrin, PhD phys.sci., from the expert-reseaech laboratory for the implementation of of innovative projects, AIST It is about the process of treating radioactive wastes used in the installation
"Energoniva-2" of A.B. Vachaev from the Magnitogorsk University. (if you are interested -search for Anatoly Vachaev) In Russian e.g. at:
Permission to participate only by e-mail from:
prosvirnov@vniiaes.ru till March 4, 2015
Italian paper re the LCITIES Meeting with Industrialists, February 27, Milano http://e-catalyzer.it/news/nuovo-appuntamento-lenr-cities-milano-27-febbraio-2015
About the 1MW plant of Rossi-IH:
Andrea Rossi
February 24th, 2015 at 11:41 PM
Frank Acland:
The Customer has a back up, just in case we’d have interruptions.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
No problem, backup is necessary,, that is reasonable..
Andrea Rossi
February 24th, 2015 at 11:41 PM
Frank Acland:
The Customer has a back up, just in case we’d have interruptions.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
No problem, backup is necessary,, that is reasonable..
AXIL DIXIT
The current LENR development scene is a complex one and difficult to understand. I have written a number of recent posts that attempt to grapple with this Gordian knot even as this complex issue was percolating through the grounds of my subconscious. In this post, I attempt to bring this issue into sharp focus in my minds eye to apply the analysis that it deserves. Here in this post, let us attempt to make sense of these things.
The fundamental issue is successful product development. Rossi set this stage when he declared in 2011 to prove LENR by bringing a successful LENR based product to the marketplace. Only by doing this would Rossi prove the viability of LENR as an important engineering and scientific topic.
But conceiving and building a successful commercial product is most difficult. Take Microsoft as an example. That elite industry dominating company has been trying to get into the mobile marketplace with a competitive product to compete with Apple's IPhone for a decade or more, but has yet to be successful. Even at this juncture, billions of dollars dedicated to new product R&D and acquisitions budget does not guaranteed success. Far from it, this most admired of companies, has endured nothing but well publicized embarrassment, and repeated failures.
Drawing insight from recent LENR history, let us remember that in order to offload the product development task from his long and encyclopedic list of product development concerns, Rossi farmed product development out to DGT. From the very beginning, DGT had a very confident yet fatally flawed approach to product development because of the nature of LENR at that very early stage. Because they had always fiercely protected their independence and management prerogatives, DGT never deviated from this ill fated strategy.
This strategy involved the development of dozens of dissimilar products that were to be based on a prototype that was configured by the engineers as a home heating unit.
DGT was to license this basic LENR technology and reactor design to ship engine builders, and aircraft and car engine manufactures just to name a few of scores of applications, but where was the LENR product design engineers to come from to develop these very dissimilar products. Only Rossi had any expertise and he was secretive and paranoid. Rossi was not disposed to train the DGT personnel or DGT customer design engineers necessary to do this wide ranging product development.
In those early times, Rossi's reactors self destructed far to often to allow the development of any commercially viable product, so Rossi and DGT parted ways. After this breakup, DGT looked to duplicate Rossi's technology and Rossi looked for a new product development partner.
In the due course of time, both these now bitter rivals were successful, with Rossi teaming with Industrial Heat (IH) and DGT out on their own with a home grown LENR technology that was both controllable and responsive. IH had a commercial product concept in mind, a concept that they had warm feelings about, and Rossi was perceptive enough to change his reactor design sufficient to eventually meet most requirements of that concept save control as demonstrated by an acceptance test, and the one megawatt industrial LENR power plant was born.
As IH shaped this product, the IH product concept became highly specialized to satisfy the functional requirements of their very limited American customer base. Being exclusively an industrial steam heat plant, IH reactor approach is ill suited as a generalized solution to any other segment of the energy market.
DGT suffered great disadvantage because of an ill fated product plan from their very beginning. They were doomed to eventually fail. There were no legend of trained LENR engineers to build all the LENR products that were needed to satisfy the needs of their varied customer base. Having said that, their R5 reactor did function as a LENR product demonstration tool. DGT was far more forthcoming both publicly and privately in revealing engineering and R&D details than Rossi ever was so there was sufficient data to base a judgment that the LENR R5 reactor in fact worked. Failure of DGT as a business does not mean that their prototype reactor was not functional. That reactor served well the LENR marketing function that it was designed to serve.
The world energy market is varied and requires an eclectic and vast ensemble of custom solutions. The key question that we as LENR product acceptance strategists must determine is what particular energy product is most likely to introduce LENR in the best light to the world.
I have made my decision even if it was an unconscious one. As reflected in one of my recent posts, I believe that the self charging lithium ion fuel cell would be most impactful to convince the world that LENR is useful as a power source for transportation including cars, planes, trains, and ships.
Each LENR company and LENR developer, has made their decision also. Black light power is developing a small scaled electric grid compatible generator. Brillouin is doing the same but on a larger scale. The Nanor of MIT is a designed to be a small electronic device power source.
The Pd/D or the Ni/H open source community does not have a product plan. This fact is incompatible with Rossi's wise strategy to produce a wizbang product to introduce LENR to the world. Like DGT, even if an open source reactor works, the open source community will not succeed in selling LENR capability to anyone.
Walter Cronkite: "And that's the way it is."
OTHER
Information is not Knowledge, Knowledge is not Wisdom
http://qaspire.com/2015/02/25/information-is-not-knowledge-knowledge-is-not-wisdom/
I also think this difference is essential.
Chances Lead To Choices Lead To Changes:
I also think this difference is essential.
Chances Lead To Choices Lead To Changes:
This has also inspired my editorial of today.
"A mystery- as an almost fanatical problem solver I dont like mysteries."
ReplyDeleteOkay, give up the "-atical" part and simply be a fan of mysteries. Mysteries are *fun.* Unless, of course, we are living in a horror movie, where the mystery is going to kill everyone if we don't find it and kill it.
I find that kind of fear-based mystery boring, since we are all going to die anyway. The ultimate mystery, life and death.
What cold fusion has done is to demonstrate that we do not understand much. It is possible the mystery of cold fusion will not be resolved in our lifetimes, Peter. But it's real. The origin of the heat is no longer a mystery for PdD.
So what do you do? Emphasize NiH, calling it LENR+. Obviously, you *must* love mysteries. Secret sauce? Mystery.
And how Parkhomov manages to see lots of heat from evaporating water, but no elevated temperature of the reactor corresponding to it? Mystery.
Dear Abd,
DeleteMysteries belong to the artistic and the spiritual life and to the fundaments of Science.
Scientifically thinking cold fusion is not a mystery but a mess- volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous.Nothing deep in not understanding and not ruling it.
Techniology- and technology was the destiny promised by the Founding Fathers has not much to do with mysteries. Will you drive a mystery car- it is suicidal. Use a mystery stove, eat mystery food. No place for mysteries in technology.
NIh a la hot Cat gives much more heat than Pd D- it is different.
I sincerely believe you are not asking seriously why calorimetry of Parkhomov is good and thermometry contradicts it.
Water evaporated depends on toatal heat, the temperature depends both on heating and cooling (a complex function of temparature). You can see if the reactor is insulated with corundum powder (alumina) the temperatures are higher.
Cooling restricted...Please do not make me to change my appreciation of your ability to judge and analyze.
You well know how this idea was launched and why.
Peter
Peter
Dear Abd,
DeleteMysteries belong to the artistic and the spiritual life and to the fundaments of Science.
Scientifically thinking cold fusion is not a mystery but a mess- volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous.Nothing deep in not understanding and not ruling it.
Techniology- and technology was the destiny promised by the Founding Fathers has not much to do with mysteries. Will you drive a mystery car- it is suicidal. Use a mystery stove, eat mystery food. No place for mysteries in technology.
NIh a la hot Cat gives much more heat than Pd D- it is different.
I sincerely believe you are not asking seriously why calorimetry of Parkhomov is good and thermometry contradicts it.
Water evaporated depends on toatal heat, the temperature depends both on heating and cooling (a complex function of temparature). You can see if the reactor is insulated with corundum powder (alumina) the temperatures are higher.
Cooling restricted...Please do not make me to change my appreciation of your ability to judge and analyze.
You well know how this idea was launched and why.
Peter
Peter