tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post6192957804103588913..comments2024-03-27T21:35:04.988-07:00Comments on EGO OUT: ENGINEERING IS THE WAY TO MAKE LENR USEFUL. (First part) Georgina Popescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04628821029016016988noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-71699890644755686442014-01-23T17:03:43.997-08:002014-01-23T17:03:43.997-08:00Besides, I see no need for a 1MW unit to do a 167-...Besides, I see no need for a 1MW unit to do a 167-kW job...Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076464153340489316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-80962239713936174222014-01-23T17:01:46.695-08:002014-01-23T17:01:46.695-08:00The question was not why Rossi wants the $1.5M, bu...The question was not why Rossi wants the $1.5M, but why anyone would agree to pay that much. Heating water does not require a new and complex technology, and while more expensive cars do provide more style and comfort as you get from A to B, I don't see how that applies to electric water heaters.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076464153340489316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-55603394233147941922014-01-22T07:14:08.302-08:002014-01-22T07:14:08.302-08:00Any car can take you from A to B, but cars don'...Any car can take you from A to B, but cars don't all come with the same price tag. The 1 MW unit is expensive because: 1. it's new & complex technology, 2. Andrea Rossi only makes 1 unit every few years, & 3. Andrea Rossi needs to make some money too.Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08891697597391791744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-13784889753656409552014-01-21T08:19:51.482-08:002014-01-21T08:19:51.482-08:00I wonder if anyone here can elaborate on the claim...I wonder if anyone here can elaborate on the claim that ECAT produces 1MW of heat. According to the specs (http://ecat.com/ecat-products/ecat-1-mw/ecat-1mw-technical-data), ECAT heats 1,500 kg/hr of water, from just above freezing (4C) to, presumably, below boiling (99C). With specific heat capacity of water, 4.2kJ/(kg*C), you only need 167kW to do the job - which is exactly the average electric power ECAT is supposed to get from the grid. Electric water heaters have their elements immersed in the tank, so that the conversion efficiency is close to 100%. Where does that 1MW go, if it is indeed generated?<br /><br />Another thing - why should it cost $1.5M? A 4.5kW tankless water heater costs $250; 40 of these cost $10K, easily fit in the dimensions of ECAT container (together with all necessary plumbing), and deliver 180kW of heat to the water. Is there a reason one would pay $1.5M for a $10K job? Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076464153340489316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-9525858209564727022014-01-21T07:27:29.262-08:002014-01-21T07:27:29.262-08:00To win the Nobel, one needs to share information a...To win the Nobel, one needs to share information and knowledge in peer-reviewed publications. To make the billions, one has to share information and knowledge with whoever provides the startup funding. Getting everyone working together is only required on a crash program like Manhattan Project. Hertz, Marconi, Tesla and Edison were not working together, and yet we do have electricity and wireless communications everywhere.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076464153340489316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-81423762629628564022014-01-19T14:42:27.092-08:002014-01-19T14:42:27.092-08:00Zombie Science and Junk Journalism
In a curious c...Zombie Science and Junk Journalism<br /><br />In a curious case of journalistic missing in action, LENR (LENR+, Cold Fusion, etc.) never shows up in the so called scientific journals of our time. Even very clean, simple to replicate, well-documented, well planned experiments, such as those of Dr. Iwamura’s deuterium permeation tests, fail to find wide spread publication. It is curious indeed. Even when companies form up on all sides, and secure millions of dollars of private equity money, very little is said in confirmation of an obvious reality. Curiouser and curiouser.<br /><br />Journalists, however, tend to be technically incompetent, swayed by Scientists with big money, and who are, therefore, correct by ordination. That tends to make journalists simply the parrots of the scientists living off the immense public dole that is hot fusion. Journalists also like to do historical “research” that consists of a few web searches and a quote or two from a once notable scientist like Huizenga. They are quick to point out that some of those in the LENR field have had legal and possibly ethical difficulties. For example, it is a matter of record that Rossi had some legal disputes (fair or unfair) in his homeland of Italy. But here, it is clear; the collective journalistic memory is a bit selective. You don’t see objections to Galileo and Kepler the astrologers, or Newton the alchemist, or Einstein whose test results excluded him from his chosen school. And have they ever once asked someone like Huizenga to put down his ego and invest a few hours reading the published technical papers on lenr-canr.org, visiting the University of Missouri’s research department, attending ICCF, or discussing face-to-face his objections with companies like Defkalion, Brillouin, Leonardo Corporation, Blacklight Power, and Thunder Fusion Corporation, etc.? Would Huizenga then believe in miracles?<br /><br />Science, Discovery, and Nature seem to have become junk journalism. Peer review has become incestuous, editing has become censorship. When it comes to hot fusion, the emperor has no clothes. Hot fusion has progressed from a science, to a religion, to a zombie science. Hot fusion is dead. Unfortunately, like a zombie, it still walks the earth wreaking havoc, sucking down billions of misspend dollars and wasting the best talent of the scientist welfare society. A promise of “clean” energy (someday) still entrances political leaders into thinking hot fusion is viable (just don’t talk about tritium containment or neutron activation when you talk about “clean” hot fusion).<br /><br />So what should we do? We should ask congress persons and energy department officials to de-fund hot fusion now (it’s easy -they have websites and email addresses). If you own stock in a major industrial company (outright or through a mutual fund) you should contact the company and suggest they back LENR now (or risk becoming a zombie company). If you know a technically competent young person, talk sense to them before they seek for employment in hot fusion.<br /><br />Money is the Achilles heel of hot fusion. Money is like the streetlight where the drunk looks for his lost keys -he knows he lost them elsewhere, but he searches for them under the streetlight because the light is better there. Billions of dollars vaporized into plasma, decades of data desiccated to nothing. We should move the streetlight. Stop hot fusion now.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-79607325749384020312014-01-19T14:32:20.081-08:002014-01-19T14:32:20.081-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-8677493034066914932014-01-18T10:45:32.589-08:002014-01-18T10:45:32.589-08:00My theoretical position is a simple and a logical ...My theoretical position is a simple and a logical one.<br /><br />Beside neutrons, there is another less traveled road to the initiation of nuclear reactions that has been under the radar in the nuclear community.<br /><br />Many years ago, it was shown that high energy lasers could induce fission and fusion if the power of the laser pulse was strong enough<br /><br />http://physics.aps.org/story/v5/st3<br /><br />Photo induced nuclear reactions begin to occur when the power density of the infrared light reached just under 10^^20 W/cm2.<br /><br />Since the time of unaided photo nuclear reactions were demonstrated at the turn of this century, it has been shown that gold nano-particles used as nano-lenses can amplify and concentrate infrared light by 9 orders of magnitudes. This is experimentally verified performance that comes out of the science of Nanoplasmonics.<br /><br />Now with gold Nano-particles, it is logical to expect nuclear reactions will occur when laser light with an intensity of 10^^10 W/cm2 to 10^^12 W/cm2 will occur. If you are interested, experimental results have been published as verification. That is 9 orders of magnitude less than unaided photo irradiation. Experiments using gold nano-particles in water suspension irradiated by laser light of this reduced level of intensity do in fact occur.<br /><br />Since then, experimentally verified light amplification by nano-structures has been observed to reach a top end of 10 to the 15 power.<br /><br />The idea is that if more and more nano-particle infrared photo concentration is applied to a system, then less and less infrared photon input energy will produce a nuclear reaction.<br /><br />In current photo reactors under development, with additional tweaking of more effective methods and materials, together with improved nano-structure shapes and topology, it is not unreasonable to expect that 10 to the 20th power concentration or more of photo application might be reached.<br /><br />In current photo based nuclear reactors, that means that it is reasonable to assume that nuclear reactions will occur if UNAPMLIFIED infrared light were to interact with properly engineered nanostructures.<br /><br />Increased infrared photo amplification is what has been done in the design of the current crop of Nickel/Hydrogen reactors.<br /><br />By the way, both the Mills reactor and the Santilli process are other examples of photo reactors but these inventors just don’t know it yet.<br /><br />The Open Physical Chemistry Journal, 2013, 5, 17-27 <br /><br />Confirmations of Santilli’s Intermediate Controlled Nuclear Fusion of Deuterium and Carbon Into Nitrogen Without Harmful Radiations <br /><br />J. V. Kadeisvili, C. Lynch and Y. Yang<br /><br />Abstract: We present five independent confirmations of the intermediate controlled nuclear fusion of Nitrogen from Deuterium and Carbon without the emission of harmful radiations or the release of radioactive waste, first achieved by R. M. Santilli [12] following extended mathematical, theoretical and experimental research, and preliminarily confirmed by<br />R.Brenna, T. Kuliczkowski, and L.Ying [13].<br /><br />http://www.benthamscience.com/open/topc ... 7TOPCJ.pdf<br /><br />This is just another spark driven nanoplasmonic LENR system. <br /><br />The photo driven anapole magnetic field produced by nanoparticles is recognized by the inventor but it is called a Santilli magnecules.<br /><br />A pattern is forming involving spark driven nanoparticle based LENR systems: Santilli, Mills, Rossi and DGT.<br /><br />The inventors of these systems all have a differing theoretical explanation of their reaction, but they are all basically the same nanoplasmonic driven photo reactors.<br />Axilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07190120527431077518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-77099535197742141532014-01-15T23:30:32.357-08:002014-01-15T23:30:32.357-08:00Dear Axil,
I'm often cautious about you theore...Dear Axil,<br />I'm often cautious about you theoretical position, but on engineering it is brilliant.<br /><br />What you resume give us much home for very nice future.<br /><br />even the weird theory of Blacklight, if interpreted as a pet-theory inspiring a practitioneer, coul joind what Brillouin and DGT do with electricity.<br />Mills, like Brillouin should however join Lenuco, DGT,Rossi, Piantelli about nano-structured micro-powders.<br /><br />One lesson I learned for following science and engineering since 30 years is that the new frontier of engineering is not forbiding randomness, but harnessing it, accepting it, using it.<br />The second point is that chaos is not random, and can be controlled toward a useful state, not stable, but usable.<br />A last point is that feedback is all.<br /><br />what make me happy on LENR engineering, is that ther are many solutions already, and that it will allow many innovations, and allow no monopoly.Alain_Cohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352476615242858677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-8671321245327018502014-01-15T19:53:34.315-08:002014-01-15T19:53:34.315-08:00Let’s talk details about how better engineering ca...Let’s talk details about how better engineering can make for a better cold fusion system.<br /><br />Brillouin has both good and bad design items in their system. Starting off with the bad part, Brillouin uses wire as a substrate for their reaction. The limited surface area that contains the cavities and bumps on the wire surface where the LENR reaction takes place is limited. Because of this fundamental limitation, Brillouin will likely never achieve a high coefficient of performance (COP) that marks superior operation of a dominant cold fusion system.<br /><br />In contrast, the systems from Rossi and DGT due to the use of very small particles have orders of magnitude more surface area and therefore very many more cavities owing to the topology of nano-particle piles.<br /><br />Furthermore, a critical added performance booster in these Ni/H reactors is the use of low boiling point metals to catalyze copious nanoparticle production. This helps a great deal.<br /><br />But the method of stimulation in these Ni/H reactors is very poor in the Rossi system and just a little better in the DGT system… but not as good as it could be… owing to the nature of their low voltage drawn out 24 kv pulse.<br /><br />On the other hand, Brillouin partially makes up for their poor numbers of nuclear active sites by using a sharp excitation pulse to excite the NAEs into energy production.<br /><br />By sharp excitation, I mean very high voltage and short duration nanosecond electrical pulse that is fast enough in duration to avoid destroying the NAE. Unlike both Rossi and DGT, Brilloiun has demonstrated that pure electrical stimulation can produce cold fusion.<br /><br />When the Brilloium system is taken as a whole taking into account the good things in the system with the bad things, the system is a below average performer forever constrained by its use of a wire substrate.<br /><br />It may be possible to combine the use of billions of small particles together with a sharp nondestructive low amperage and high voltage electrical stimulation producing a large instantaneous power pulse. This may result in a totally controllable high performance reaction with a very high COP potential. As far as I can tell, nobody has yet tried such a Brilloium/Rossi hybrid system yet, but it just might work.<br /><br />Axilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07190120527431077518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-21224283429334176472014-01-15T12:44:08.480-08:002014-01-15T12:44:08.480-08:00Peter,
It is getting increasingly hard for me to u...Peter,<br />It is getting increasingly hard for me to understand exactly what you think the people working in cold fusion should actually be doing. <br /><br />Everyone knows you must be able to do the same thing over and over again getting your expected results.<br /><br />What is not clear to me is what you think the "engineers" must do that the scientists have failed at.<br /><br />I am speaking literally here.<br /><br />How are you going to get everyone working together to share information, knowledge and resources, when all are out to be the one to win the Nobel and make the $billions?<br /><br />Keep the faith,<br />Gary WrightAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com