DEC 11, 2016 LENR LEGO- INSPIRED BY SIMON DERRICUTT

ANTE- MOTTO

Dedicated to Ed Storms.

Solutions for really difficult, complex and wicked problems cannot be found or discovered, they have to be built, created, invented. (Problem solving truism)

MOTTO


To iinvent you need a good imagination and a pile of stuff. (Thomas  Edison)

LEGO has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world, and made it into the building block of our imagination. (Ayah Bdeir)


DAILY NOTES

a) Discussing LENR essentials with Ed Storms.Ed Storms

Ed Storms wrote the followings two days ago- re. heat released in LENR systems and generously gave me the permission to answer/comment

LENR will not be made at high rate and with reliability until the process is better understood. Wishful thinking and imagination will not do the job.  Two different and separate process must be mastered. These are creation of certain required and unique conditions in the material, i.e. the NAE.  The second process requiring mastery involves the nuclear mechanism that can occur ONLY in the NAE.   Acknowledging this sequence is important.  Once the NAE is produced, the nuclear process occurs automatically without any need to understand its mechanism.  Therefore, we must first focus on the material and not on the nuclear process.   Nevertheless, we now know that the nuclear process involves a novel kind of slow fusion and some novel kinds of  transmutation at a very small rare.  We do not yet understand the mechanism.

The first step is to acknowledge the existence of a NAE.  The second step is to identify the nature of the NAE. And the third step is to discover ways to create the NAE in high concentration on demand.  Each of these steps must be taken in this order and each conclusion must be largely correct before progress can be made.   How can these requirement be accomplished?

Both Ni and Pd are known to form the required NAE. Of these two metals, the most detailed information is known about how Pd behaves.  Therefore, Pd provides the best platform for gaining this understanding.  The next discussion has to focus on just how Pd can be used.  If people show interest  in this approach, I will go into more detail in later e-mails.

Yes, Rossi and other people have shown that Ni can form the NAE. However, this work is poorly described and can not be used to guide research.  Therefore, I choose not to focus on use of Ni.

MY answer:
 Re the first sentence "LENR will not be made at high rate and with reliability until the process is better understood."- I created the ante-Motto
Ed says - and is scientifically perfectly correct- science finds the explanation, ctrsyrd thr understanding and then based on this understanding, technology will be able to enhance/scale up/stabilize/optimize the heat release- and a new energy technology will be born.
I think differently- science cannot give he desired explanation, in any case not in the cradle system-the P&F Cell because there LENR is not fully grown up, not complete, deeply sub-optimal.  My formulation is that actionable parameters are missing in the fundamental, simplistic system and LENR has to be moved in an advanced system created by technology. Explanation and accomplishment of high energy will be quasi-simultaneous, there is no other way! And explanation will be a mixture of principles, good practice rules and genuine Theory. Details were discussed many times.  

Further Ed knows it well,  I was strongly pro-NAE starting from 1992. Just we define differently the structure and functionality of NAE.
Ed does not agree with my idea that strongly dynamic NAE-genesis is the KEY to LENR.
I fully agree with Ed's idea that it is necessary to organize systematic gathering of know-what, know-how and know-why for the Ni-H system and all the transition metals- hydrogen systems to come. 
Just take a look to the initiative 1) please.


b) Simon Derricut's alternative and inspiring metaphor

A collateral and positive effect of the W-L theory's invasion over classic LENRis the calming down of the useless and unproductive disputes around the Rossi -Darden Trial; actually what is relevant happens in the Court ; hatred, envy and hostile imagination cannot replace  real dat that are what they are and will generate the decision.
So, Simon Derricutt with whom I had more disputes (but decent ones) re the trial wrote now a comment re the W-L theory and continued with an idea for which I am grateful to him.

For LENR, I prefer the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle, where the pieces may not be all there and in any case they are scattered around. The Thermacore meltdown tells us that Ni/H is valid, and the P+F meltdown does the same for Pd/D with the backup of Miles' heat/Helium correlation. Piantelli put his Nickel in a cloud-chamber and saw radioactivity - something people tend to ignore since it's against the "no radiation" story. 

Given the jigsaw pieces we have from the history so far, can we fit them together to get a consistent picture? Such a picture would predict that if we do this we'll measure that. We then test the predictions, and if they don't match then the explanation isn't right yet. It's how science is done. 

. I opted for the kaleidoscope because it is so dynamic, but Simon is right because the puzzle is associated wuth  problem solving.
This can and has to be discussed.
My 10 years old granddaughter, Nora has advised me to replace the jigsaw puzzle with LEGO- it has volume, she says. So her 3D argument has convinced me to use Mottoes for LEGO and to think about a LENR LEGO

(see please also Greg Goble's comment below)

DAILY NEWS

1) A great initiative:
Mr Self Sustain at the LENR Forum:
The Nickel-Hydrogen Brain Trust

https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/4724-The-Nickel-Hydrogen-Brain-Trust/?postID=43459#post43459

2) An answer to Krivit's Fusion Fiasco:
Scientific American hoaxed by Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

http://coldfusioncommunity.net/scientific-american-hoaxed/

3) Experiments Prove the Transmutation of Cesium 137 into Stable Barium Isotope

http://revolution-green.com/experiments-prove-the-transmutation-of-cesium-137-into-stable-barium-isotope/

4) From Andrea Rossi's JONP

Frank Acland
December 10, 2016 at 4:00 PM

Dear Andrea,

Congratulations on the successful test with the engineer, you must be very gratified. Can you say what you will do with the results of this test?

Best wishes,

Frank Acland
Andrea Rossi
December 10, 2016 at 10:16 PM

Frank Acland:
End of the test now, at 10.10 P.M. of Saturday December 12th.
The results are confirmed. I was afraid that my results were too good to be true, so I said to the third party engineer that I was paying him to find my measurements’ errors. He is saying my measurements were not wrong, basically, with exception of minor errors, so the results are confirmed. I am very encouraged. We go to close for the 5Sigma.
Warm Regards,
A.R.5) 'When it rains, it pours'- an other new book by Steve Krivit
Lost History: Explorations in Nuclear Research, Vol. 3 https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Explorations-Nuclear-Research/dp/0996886400/

6) LENR Cold Fusion is real!
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1151453/pg1


THE OPINION OF GREG GOBLE

I consider both schism and deep cognitive chasm to be a result of LENR being a wide bandset of phenomena. Also a result of how system complexity troubles understanding and development of a clear working theoretical model.

Fascinating puzzle, as Simon says, both Pd and Ni meltdowns. LENR is all the puzzle pieces; I know coherence lies within that pile. Theories flourish, as they should. 

I like to creatively think of a few 'golden threads'… gas is within the wet cell bubbles… nano particles are within the cracks… excitation… fractal harmonics… superfluidity… dampening frequencies… control...

Kaleidoscopic reading helps… thanks Peter

"Spontaneous alpha particle emitting metal alloys and method for reaction of deuterides" https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160314856A1 Publication date: 2016-10-27

"System and method for generating particles" https://www.google.com/patents/US8419919B1 Grant 2013-05-13

"A hybrid fusion fast fission reactor" http://www.google.com/patents/WO2009108331A3 Publication date Dec 30, 2009

"System for electrolysis" https://patents.google.com/patent/US5494559A
Grant 1996-02-27

"LENR: Superfluids, Self-Trapping and Non-Self-Trapping States" 
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/ChubbTAlenrsuperf.pdf
Talbot A. Chubb 2003

Off topic yet relevant…
From a 'sister field' to LENR which is the 'low energy' branch of 'high energy' nuclear physics.

"Novel Role of Superfluidity in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.10261v1.pdf
Magierski, Piotr 2016-01-01

We demonstrate, within symmetry unrestricted time dependent density functional theory, the existence of new effects in low-energy nuclear reactions which originate from superfluidity. The dynamics of the pairing field induces solitonic excitations in the colliding nuclear systems, leading to qualitative changes in the reaction dynamics. The solitonic excitation prevents collective energy dissipation and effectively suppresses capture cross section. We demonstrate how the variations of the total kinetic energy of the fragments can be traced back to the energy stored in the superfluid junction of colliding nuclei. Both contact time and scattering angle in non-central collisions are significantly affected. The modification of the capture cross section and possibilities for its experimental detection are discussed. 
LENR IN CONTEXT-1

Thanks to Sam North who sends 2 videos about hope for Fusion Energy

Fusion: How to Put the Sun in a Magnetic Bottle - with Ian Chapmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn1SJOPgewo&feature=youtu.be

Nuclear Fusion: Has Its Time Finally Arrived?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWjAJKPLMEo&feature=youtu.be


LENR IN CONTEXT-2

Design Thinking as a Disruptive Force in Higher Education.
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/54316/20161209/the-role-of-design-in-higher-education.htm