DAILY SHARED LENR ACTIVITY, December 21, 2014

LENR-CITIES event(s).

Yesterday, the following was announced:

LENR Cities to hold Event for Industrialists in Italy, February 2015

http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/12/20/lenr-cities-to-hold-event-for-industrialists-in-italy-february-2015/

I have many reasons, some objective and some personal to be happy for this. Thanks to my early correspondence and friendship with Michel Vanderberghe I could follow the LENR-Cities Project from its start- have seen how a bright managerial idea  is becoming a Project and how now it is developing in an Organization. It can be of paramount importance for the advent and implementation of new energy source LENR and for the unstoppable start of the LENR revolution. 
A special reason to welcome with joy this initiative is the European origin of  LENR-Cities and its Euro-centric character; it is not about competition with the US based LENR, it is more about Europe new voices and Way.
The first LENR Cities will take place next month in Great Britain:                          http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/12/06/lenr-cities-announce-conference-at-oxford-university/    It is a meeting between an group of LENR scientists quite homogeneous from the point of view of theory; a good idea I think because the externalization of  in-LENR disputes 
regarding theory and understanding could be counter-productive. I am convinced that many LENR  and meta-LENR scientists will establish mutually advantageous collaborations with LENR CITIES. One of their first tasks will be to learn the managerese language for a most fluent and harmonious communication with the
industrialists. This meeting will be kind of pilot episode of the LENR CITIES saga.

Now the second event...in Italy a part of the organization's effort with scientists
and industrialists.

Michel Vanderberghe, CEO of LENR Cities has answere to one 'naturaL" FAQ like 
question regarding this Italian event:

MICHEL: 

LENR-Cities has no connection with Rossi. LENR-Cities is a pure player in ecosystem development, with a focus on developing an European-centric LENR ecosystem, open to any scientist who is willing to join in order to develop his own activity.

What seems to be strange for many people is that we are talking about an ecosystem, concretely about a kind of  "market sandbox', a tool to make the market, The reason is simple. scientists, industrialists and investors need to have mutual self interest to make things happen.  We think that Innovators and players in place must find a win-win deal. What we are doing is to operationalize a business model to implement this deal.

and, very astute, significant and complex what Michel also says:

Sometimes people ask me what I'm thinking about Rossi. What is really interesting to me is the market and Rossi' story. This shows that if LENR scientific challenge is huge, it is nothing compared to the market challenge. 

If you explore LENR Cities website, you will learn that the organization has opted for an extended, "largo sensu" understanding and approach to LENR- energy and beyond. I risked already from ancient times (1995, more precisely) to think that N is the letter with the most perishable sense  from our basic acronym and many new facts and ideas converge to suggest: "nuclear but less nuclear than thought and not only nuclear energy" LENR Cities has a rather pragmatical reason to change the sense of that endangered letter N:

MICHEL: 

I'm not a scientist and consequently, I need to keep things simple, that is to say, to have a vision.  I'm listening scientists, and what I've heard is that beyond changing matter properties, there's a way to change the matter itself at low energy,  that is to say making changes that are usually not happening at low energy input, including freeing energy but not only. Energy itself is “structured” and transformed during that kind of reactions or triggers reactions such as Nuclear but within structures which makes them parts of complex changes.

Our thinking is it's a disruptive and paving the way to a disruptive field of science and engineering: (Quantum) Matter engineering; that is to say, producing energy and resources, what the world needs: Energy and capabilities to transforming matter to address global challenges in sustainability and more…

We have a focus on this new field and we've chosen to use the term ‘Low Energy Nanoscale Reactions’, a reference to this field of Science and Engineering about  Energy and beyond energy, nuclear waste mitigation, transmutation, superconductivity, hydrogen production, direct production of electricity and so on. 

We've also chosen this name to foster the recognition of the work done during more than 20 years by pioneers in Cold fusion and other related topics 

Moreover, ‘Nanoscale’ term makes also the connection with materials science which incorporates elements of physics and chemistry, and is at the forefront of nanoscience and nanotechnology research. In recent years, materials science has become more widely known as a specific field of science and engineering.

So much now about the second European event. But the third, fourth and so on?
We here in Romania have just installed a new president -3 hours before I am writing tbis, a former Physics professor of German origin- very dedicated to praxeology- well done work. Romania is a member of European Union- we have creative industrialists too- so there are chances that one of the future LENR Cities events should be organized in my country, and, why not, in my town, Cluj there are many companies and universities here. The problem is only when?

My personal, ab definitio, shortsighted vision (so am I) about LENR Cities:

LENR Cities came just-in-time because 2015 is the game changer year of the breakthrough, of the great progress for LENR. As the Berlin Wall has  fallen 25 yeras ago, now the imaginary but impenetrable wall between energy dream and energy generation will fall too. And LENR-Cities is here, well prepared for what will follow, ready to lead the changes for countries, regions, industries, technologies and people. So be it!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Comment

A very smart, balanced comment on my blog: 

2B2 has left a new comment on my post "THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION ABOUT LENR!": 

Sure. I think the energy density is nuclear in nature and I think there is good evidence of transmutations but I don't think there is good indication of how the transmutation occurs, whether it's beta decay, some kind of fusion fission chain, neutron nucleosynthesis, etc. I think at this point it's reasonable to conclude there is a good chance we are dealing with multi body physics, and quantum effects of some yet understood nature.

I do think it exists for both PdD and NiH but I think right now the evidence suggests the reaction is stronger with Ni. 

Life asmodel for LENR
  Related-correlated- or just comparable news/discovery today- LENR is like life
created by a Synergy, and life is marvelous, powerful existing in the most extreme
conditions where food exists:

Scientists discover fish living deeper than any previously recorded:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/scientists-discover-fish-living-deeper-than-any-previously-recorded

The meaning of life is...life itself, however the meaning of LENR is energy for Mankind not LENR per se.

Deep reading- for understanding the context of LENR:

Review of Michio Kaku’s, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/messerly20141215

I make routinely lots of stupid things; what' much worse some uselessly. An example is ostentatively not reading the writings of or about great classic physicists who have spoken unfriendly about cold fusion/LENR, I do harm only to myself. The wise physicist futurist Mikio Kaku is an example. Actually the poor guys have the mistaken vision of a cold hot fusion and
their premises are different from reality or from whta we have learned. And the say some very smart and instructive things- as Michio Kaku says about Synergy - the very fundament of LENR. I promise myself to be more open minded. 

LENR's cousin surprises us again

First direct evidence that a mysterious phase of matter competes with high-temperature superconductivity
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141220104104.htm

This is something rather negative, isn't it? 

Peter

DAILY SHARED LENR-RELATED THOUGHTS. December 20, 2014

For LENR it is slack season; the things are going step by step and this necessarily involves some short episodes of LENIN's classic "one step forward, two steps back".
In contrast with this state of facts, I am enchanted by the incessant fast growing of Nanoplasmonics a still new scientific-technological discipline that is part of the foundation of LENR+ even if only few scientists, thinkers, entrepreneurs are aware of this. now.

I am pleased that my blog has mediated the direct meeting of two people I admire
for their knowledge and mental energy having "very" opposite views  and modes of thinking: Abd(ul) Rahman Lomax and  Axil; please read and follow their discussions at Comments, despite the rather high dose of parallelism from them- I wonder what will they discuss next year this time. 
For me as blogger it is not relevant that I am on Axil's side- audiatur et altera pars!
Comments at: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2014/12/daily-shared-lenr-recipes-december-18.html still coming!

No news for Cold fusion, but news- catastrophic- for Hot Fusion.
Energy Research
U.S. fusion effort melts down
Adrian Cho

Dysfunctional, broken, in complete disarray: That's how numerous insiders describe the United States' research effort in fusion, which aims to generate energy using the same process that powers the sun. A rift has opened between officials in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program and the research community it supports. Many scientists say Edmund Synakowski, DOE's associate director for FES, and his staff operate opaquely, but the community itself has a reputation for being unmanageable. The discord has muddled an effort to draw up a strategic plan for the program, due in Congress next month. It could jeopardize the program's already strained $505 million annual budget.
U.S. FUSION EFFORT MELTS DOWN

Science 19 December 2014:
Vol. 346 no. 6216 pp. 1436-7

Unfortunately I have no access to the complete text, but I doubt it could be captivating. "Schadenfreude" is in the Wikipedia 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude  however I don't think this disaster is good for cold fusion in any way. It is no strong, quasi causal correlation between 
LENR and major economical events. I also do not swallow the very well written paper on Vessy's blog.  :
Why the E-Cat is responsible  for the fall of the oil price: 

http://www.ecat-thenewfire.com/blog/e-cat-fall-oil-price/

I think that LENR + (+Rossi ans DGT)  is still not an important geo-economical factor 

What follows is surely very good for LENR, but it does not make it less complex:

Quantum physics just got less complicated: Wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are same thing  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141219085153.htm

I think Axil says here something related to that:

"When two quantum mechanical items are connected electromagnetically, they will tend to become entangled. In LENR, entanglement is important. The orderly transfer of energy occurs under entanglement. A spherical EMF wave(a SPP soliton) reaches out and influences proximate subatomic particles under its zone of influence. The spherical wave and the proximate subatomic particles under its influence share properties including quantized energy and the levels of those properties become equivalent during the entanglement process."

I missed this on Rossi's JONP:

Wladimir Guglinski

December 19th, 2014 at 9:21 AM

Experiment proposed for the researchers of the Martin Fleischman Memorial Project
https://www.facebook.com/MartinFleischmannMemorialProject/posts/886318188065548?comment_id=886327334731300&offset=0&total_comments=8&notif_t=feed_comment

The experiment proposed by Guglinski is VERY expensive; however it is a smart comment:

So, anyone who is trying to explain cold fusion thinks that there is need only of proposing the nuclear reactions, and the energy produced in each of the reactions.

Nobody wishes to realize that there is need to understand the cold fusion mechanisms occurring in the phenomenon.

It is like to want to understand how the planets are attracted by the Sun, without to know the existence of the gravitation.

Any logical step toward understanding complexity of LENR is a step forward. All you have to do is to add: otherness, diversity, metamorphosis, dynamicity- and a lot of creativity to this vision.

It is always very useful for a LENR-ist to read about the Scientic Method: "
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2014/12/19/method-and-its-discontents/

OTHER HBR- is one of the highest quality publications worldwide nad I aleeays wnted to read it but could not afford it. The psychology paper that follows is about good thinking. rational and pragmatic:

Rats can be smarter than people:

https://hbr.org/2015/01/rats-can-be-smarter-than-people

Rodents don’t try to force data to fit rules that don’t apply

Just don't take it as personal or too seriously. Think!

Peter

DAILY SHARED LENR DISCUSSIONS, December 19, 2014

Today's quote is longer - a rational statement of David Roberson our colleague on Vortex (Vortex is open and citable):

"I just completed another brief review of the interesting report that was produced using the measurements from the Lugano, Switzerland test.  When the isotope changes and the over unity gain seen in power production by the Hotcat are taken into proper consideration, there is very little doubt that the device is as remarkable as many of us believe.  It is amazing that there remains a significant skeptical attitude among some groups." 

Amazing? But if the report is true,  nuclear but not fusion, not nuclear reactions but interactions and 4 orders of magnitude intensification of heat effect compared to classic LENR then the Old Paradigm of LENR is treated by these unaesthetic facts as sadistically as the ISIS fighters treat the prisoners.
It is painful to lose certainties obtained with great efforts, both experimental and of imagination- even if these certainties did not lead to the expected/promising useful things. 
For me to see that after 25+ years of conceptual stagnation, LENR slowly hesitantly chaotically but irreversibly starts to participate  at the global nano-bio-info- techno-cogno revolution.
http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/1/NBIC_report.pdf  
The formulation borrowed from this excellent blog paper: 
http://jarche.com/2014/12/becoming-collectively-smarter/

LENR+ is nano-dynamic, bio-similar, info-dependent, techno-created, cogno-ressurected. At the end of this revolution, it will have an entirely new identity.

I well know you want the most to see news here, however towards the end of year
we cannot expect significant announcements.

However the E-Cat sites tell us:

a) that USPTO has an oppressive politics toward Cold Fusion/LENR patents, but actually this is info over 20 years old.
http://www.natlawreview.com/article/uspto-has-shadow-program-subjecting-patent-applications-to-heightened-scrutiny-and-i 
The great question is IF the politics would have been more open and friendly and today there had been tens or hundreds of CF patents around - what then? What is the real worth of a patent that cannot be applied in practice- except the inventor's CV seems a bit more impressive? Who or what has oppressed the patentable technologies?

b) It is laudable that many people try to help Rossi with his battery problem:
 http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/12/18/battery-power-e-cats-rossi-asks-for-help/
After a 25 years good collaboration with the Romanian car battery industry- for the plastics parts mainly separators. I hope that a new high tech generation of batteries will be on the market soon.

My message of yesterday regarding Russ George's cooking has generated comments. My CF encyclopedic discussion partner, Abd is, seemingly discontented
with what I have written and says this:

"Russ George is an entertaining writer, but his understanding of cold fusion is appallingly poor. First of all, for some history, see
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/companies/RussGeorge/Russ-George-Low-Energy-Nuclear-Reaction-Research-LENR-and-Plankton-Carbon-Credit.shtml

Krivit is a yellow journalist, one must factor for that. However, I do know that Russ George became persona non grata in at least one major lab. And then I see this today on the page you linked, Peter:

"Hydrogen readily enters into palladium and in fact there can be upwards of 1000 times more hydrogen inside a bit of palladium as there is palladium!"

No way. The palladium loading of Pons and Fleischmann was state-of-the-art. It approached a 1:1 ratio, i.e., where there would be as many deuterium atoms as palladium. Not 1000:1.

Then he has:

"Martin’s forte was ultra density and by following his recipes the hydrogen broth achieves a density far in excess of metallic hydrogen and indeed may reach the density of hydrogen quark soup that is thought to exist in the center of some stars."

Martin (Fleischmann) loaded palladium more intensely than had apparently been done before, going from sixty or seventy atom percent to more than ninety. It is possible to think of highly loaded palladium deuteride as a metallic alloy. But it is not as dense in hydrogen as metallic hydrogen. Skeptics often made the point that the interatomic distance between deuterons in palladium deuteride is greater than the average distance in liquid deuterium.

The idea that the Fleischmann-Pons Heat Effect was due to very high pressure was an error that dogged the field; it resulted in a belief that the effect took place in the interior of the metal, whereas the bulk of the evidence is that it is a surface effect. It is still a very unusual material, palladium deuteride, that's true. But this stuff about quark soup is pure fluff.

The core of the sun has a density of about 150 g/cm^3, which is not high density as stars go. Palladium metal has a density of about 12 g/cm^3. Palladium deuteride would have a density in the same ballpark. The deuterium would add a little weight, but it's only 2% of the atomic weight of palladium, and the palladium expands a bit when highly loaded.

A neutron star may have a density of roughly 7 x 10^14 g/cm^3, if I did the math right. That is more like quark soup, which is *not* thought to exist at the center of any stars. Rather, quark soup is a hypothesized stage of the Big Bang, perhaps up to the first few milliseconds, when the entire mass of the universe was concentrated at the Singularity and exploded.
Peter, I'm amazed that you were taken in by this.

First, if he does not like what Russ has stated, the best place to express this is the author's Atom Ecology blog- in a firm, civilized manner.

Second, I do not admit that my words should be interpreted in a different manner
than i have told them, my words are in good harmony with my thoughts, If I say that Russ's paper is inspiring, my unique reason is that I was inspired by it, and this on the background of some modern papers written or sent by my friend Tibor Braun about molecular and supra-molecular gastronomy or foods in form of aerosols.
I disagree that Russ a low understanding of cold fusion; by the way this is such a bad spell you can apply to everyone who thinks differently than you and not only in the case of cold fusion.
What Krivit has written about Russ is not new for me, I have collaborated with Steven very closely from 2007 to 2011 and I  have translated a lot about Russ' activity in Hungary- from the Hungarian press. Steve was an excellent journalist and a good friend of mine- however a terrible illness has hit him- at some time he started  to believe, deeply, seriously with no returning that he is the only person in the wprld who understands LENR, much better then anybody else, all the others have an apallingly low comprehension of the field. I was almost an exception but when I took the risk tp think that Andrea Rossi may "have" excess heat I joined the group of LENR-illiterates and my name was erased from the list of his friends. This Steven Krivit Syndrome is one of the most destructive illnesses, Steven has invested all his hopes in the Widom-Larsen non-fusion theory that produces beautiful images but no new energy. Will this cure the Syndrome? Till then I am reading what Steve writes but why should I take seriously anything except the facts?
With a bit of attention and healthy sense of humor, Abd could have observed that the soup from Russ' cooking paper is a playful metaphor- and in other sense a poetical interpretation of the reality. Martin Fleischmann's initial interpretation was a fusion reaction enforced by electrochemistry. Then, later has he bought the Giuliano Preparata collective effect theory.
The first period has generated the axiom/myth/fact of high D/Pd ratio- minimum 0.95
molar (if I remember well the cathode 64 of Energetics that generated the highest excess heat ever (documented) had a 0.6 D/Pd ratio so it is something unexplained or unknown here. Russ has alluded to the high solubility of h or D in Pd- he will explain it better.
Then Abd mixes in the Sun and the neutron stars and also the Big Bang, OK these  are good scientific Jolly Jockers in any discussion. But why does he ask this nasty 
implicit question: "Peter, I'm amazed that you were taken in by this."
This is unjust, I have told  the Cooking paper is inspiring,  I consider it well written, nice LENR lecture- but "taken in?" Do I think it is inerrant truth on the way to a Solution?
Generally and especially in my blog posts I make increasingly desperate efforts to be or at least to seem intelligent; this virtue is defined in the dawn era  of my blog:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2011/01/first-seed.html
 "To be intelligent means to NOT mix (confuse) the points of view"

Therefore, I am not mixing paper and author, inspiration with taking in, experimental fact with speculation, existence with imagination wishful thinking with thoughtful wishes and so on. I am also not mixing LENR with LENR+, the former being a heat effect 20000 times smaller that the later. For a faithful LENR classic believer the right solution is to deny the existence of LENR+ as long as possible. And to focus on uncertain certainties.

My thanks go to Axil who has answered first to Abd's comment.


Other
LENR's cousin continues to reveal his/its secrets:
Electron spin could be the key to high-temperature superconductivity
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-electron-key-high-temperature-superconductivity.htm

Peter

DAILY SHARED LENR RECIPES December 18, 2014

It seems many LENR colleagues were impressed by the sorrows of the Lugano tester professors- to obtain so huge excess heat and to do not be able to explain how and why it has happened.
I think the very pleasant surprise this morning: Russ George publishes 

COLD FUSION AS EASY AS DUCK SOUP… IF INGREDIENTS SAY ‘QUARK’ INSTEAD OF ‘QUACK’.
http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/2014/12/17/as-easy-as-duck-soup/

was also motivated by the noble desire to help the world to eventually comprehend what LENR is, how useful and decisively important it can be. Russ is an excellent personified example for the thesis that INITIATIVE is the great differentiator of the people- read "Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions." (Bo Bennett)- Russ has a soul of leader- please look at his website to see what he is doing.  I am trying to teach this to my grandsons.
Initiatives- in this case an gastronomy-inspired search for the essence of LENR are ideas first. 
I don't want to hurt the elegance and logical consistency of Russ' s paper by trying to explain it, please read it and be inspired. I envy Russ especially for his many enemies.
It is in harmony with my Credo that LENR's best metaphor is Life, both being results of synergies. This was the first event; then see who was the first to comment my yesterday's Info: my young Vortex colleague Bob COOK - I hoep to meet him in person next Fall. Nomen est omen. Bob's message is intended actually to Bo Hoistadt as suggestion and help. Then third- my wife has annaounced me that today's episode of Columbo is about a gourmet killer (in English "Murder under Glass") Too many coincidences and seemingly no real LENR news (?) today we must think about the connections and correlations of LENR and cooking.
The quasi patents of cooking are named recipes and there are millions of them.
The ladies and the publishers of cooking books of know that when you give  recipe to somebody it must be real, detailed and complete with all the necessary details.
First of all you have to tell what are all the ingredients;  as both Bob Cook and Axil show in their comments at Lugano "the fuel had some C, Ca, Cl, Fe, Mg, Mn and these are not found in the ash." Now e know that the sample remained at the testers

but we know only the results coming from 10 mgrs- is the sample so homogeneous?
Not a good cooking book this Report.

In the good old Web search days when your search ability depended on the knowledge of the best sources, I wrote the most voluminous weekly newsletter
INFO KAPPA, 437 issues (2002-2010). The part dedicated to current information had the following columns:

SEARCH: (Internet, What and where to search, Blogs, Google), Words, books, libraries, Science,  Technology, Education, culture, art, Business, Medicine and health, Gastronomy and food, Miscellanea- about dangerous things on the Web  

Between 150 and 200 new links per issue, then I was really well informed. To search about news in the world of food and cooking was quite captivating.
Now  random search - resulted in the flowing link:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/ Presented as: "To cook well ia  science, to cook excellent is an art" I always thought life on Earth will be the best when gastronomy will be the most important science. A bright and realistic idea, however my best classic scientist friend has explained me that Gastronomy is NOT  a science! Perhaps it isn't but it is one of the greatest blessings of Mankind. I am tired today(due to shopping) and unable to write an ode to it.

I just will remember you a special encounter of cold  fusion and high level cooking.

At one memorable Asti Workshop organized by Bill Collis a Great Contributor to the scientific field- the TRuffle Prize was instituted see please

http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/astiworkshop.pdf 

for me this is a precious memory. Truffle prizes were received by Piantelli and 

Celani

At the gala dinner the participants had eaten this exquisite food - its variant from Piemont. 

Truffle- the diamond of the kitchen (Brillat Savarin) 

Truffle - the Mozart of the mushrooms. (Gioacchino Rossini)

I have forgotten its taste, however I remember well the events from the Workshop.

No more Ati workshops, addio sogni delle gloria! 

We were then very optimistic regarding the future if Cold fusion and i am so regarding the future of LENR. My problem is that I am extremely pessimistic now, regarding LENR's present. 

Peter

   

DAILY SHARED LENR QUESTIONS December 17, 2014

To the discussion of yesterday about ICCF-19- Andrea Rossi says he will not be there:
. 
 Andrea Rossi

December 16th, 2014 at 8:51 PM

DTravchenko:
I will not be able to attend, because in that period I will be in the USA in symbiosis with the 1 MW plant. I take this chance to say that I wish the greatest success to all the scientists of the ICCF.
Warm Regards,
A.R.

This is regrettable but perhaps not definitive. The ideological chasm between LENR and LENR+ is still abyssal.

Eventually, we can enjoy the complete Bo Hoistadt interview in English:
http://freeenergyscams.com/andrea-rossi-e-cat-industrial-heat-llc-complete-bo-hoisted-interview-on-radio24-in-english/
Not exactly an orgasm (intellectual orgasm in this case!)- as my late dear cousin Gerda
said about her cataract surgery. As we already know the report/interview includes  a rather long lasting, big "we don't know" regarding the surprising isotopic shifts. If he really has no idea of what happens is in part Prof. Hoistadt unpardonable  error, he has not read my "Nuclear physics turned over its head" essay 
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2014/10/nuclear-physics-turned-on-its-head.html 
 so he does not know that the solution of the puzzle is already sketched. Very unfortunately we have a case in which the problem simply CANNOT be solved in the frame of the existing Nuclear Science box/tool-box. It is something very similar to the ultra-classic nine dots puzzle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_box
We can go even deeper, to the basic problem solving rules, this isotopic shift case is just an application of Problem Solving Rule No. 18 by adding somethings new to the premises as I have descibed it so simply in my ancient opus:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/05/concept-of-miscovery-and-what-it-means.html

Look there please for the story of the Father and son. The carriage to be added to nuclear physics in this case is not only condensed matter physics but also the strategical scientific thinking of this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2-l5cWWRE
https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/36783/TheoreticalAnalysisReactionMechanisms.pdf
If he reads all these, I bet the isotopic shifts will not be more such a terrible enigma. 
It would be perhaps too much to wait that he will accept the exotic idea that LENR is a fundamental form of Synergy in Nature and in order to convert it in something useful, the addition of human creativity is a must: 
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2014/12/the-most-fundamental-question-about-lenr.html

However, I guess actually the professors and Rossi plus his IH team know and understand much more than they claim. I hope so.
A paper about isotopic shift in this case was published on Daniele Passerini's blog:
 http://22passi.blogspot.ro/2014/12/e-cat-e-shift-isotopico-fen-fenomeni.html

It is authored by Francesco Santandrea: " E-Cat and the isotopic shift.NEF Nuclear Electromagnetic Phenomena. The Electromagnetic Nuclear Model of the charges of Energy and of Matter".
It is inspired/motivated by the interview and tries to show in great lines (principle) how can be calculated the energy produced in LENR reactors- based on those isotopic shifts.  Then an  simplified example of calculation is shown- easy task for Google Translate.  The results are similar to those known.

The author has an original theory about why LENR is based on SOFT nuclear ewaction se his paper in English here: http://www.atlantedinumerielettere.it/energie2006/pdf/labor-ingl.pdf
Quite remarkable-especially for theorists.

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AXIL DIXIT:

Regarding: “the connection that transforms weak LENR in the super-strong LENR+. I I have asked first of all AXIL for help.” He answered prompily

In LENR, there is a weak energy transfer path between the soliton and the fuel nulei. In LENR+, there is a strong one.

The BEC enables this because the BEC entangles the soliton with the fuel nuclei so that the nuclear energy can flow easily from the fuel to the soliton.

A BEC is easily formed in a gas, but not so easily in water. In water, an powerful electric arc must turn the water into a plasma. It is a hard job to maintain a BEC in water.

FYI: a surprise for HTSC, LENR's happier cousin

Superconductivity record breaks under pressure
Everyday compound reported to conduct electricity without resistance at a record-high temperature, outstripping more exotic materials.
Edwin Cartlidge   http://www.nature.com/news/superconductivity-record-breaks-under-pressure-1.16552 It is about hydrogen sulphide at very high pressure.

INITIATING A DISCUSSION ABOUT ICCF-19

No real news today? Not even new rumors? Later afternoon (for me) EcatWorld  the leading LENR blog publishes a paper about oil prices (falling) and LENR (coming!): 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/12/16/the-impact-of-oil-prices-on-lenr/ A wise paper, it does not correlate strongly LENR -strategic and permanent with the temporary fall of oil prices. A reader, Billy Jackson characterizes brightly LENR as: "Right now LENR is in its Infancy trying to find who and what it is. We have a long road ahead of us before OIL becomes history as a energy generating commodity." Anyway lower prices do not make oil a clean source of energy. 

However we have  this: "Italian Prime Minister's office gives ICCF-19 Cold Fusion Conference High Patronage: 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/12/15/italian-prime-ministers-office-gives-iccf-19-cold-fusion-conference-high-patronage/

Obviously this is good, positive, fine. What is its significance? First at all thta the chief organizer of the Congress, Antonio La Gatta is an influential person with good connections in the upper Italian circles. His Linked-in page is impressive; TSEM his company is high class engineering- the first company to organize an ICCF. Reading about ICCF-19 at the website in construction, I am starting slowly to understand why  Antonio La Gatta is a personality and why TSEM is a successful company.
Please explore these sites:
http://iccf19.com/home.html
http://www.infinite-energy.com/resources/iccf19.html
http://coldfusionnow.org/new-dates-announced-for-i

Initially it was rumored that ICCF-19 will be centered on materials science and LENR - that is 
mainly advanced morphology  and metallurgy studies i.e.  a new sub-variant of the slogan of the previous ICCF: "Applying the Scientific Method to Understanding Anomalous Heat Effects , Opportunities and Challenges" Scientifically orthodox, correct, however not good for solving the existential problems of the field. Thinking in the frame of the Old Paradigm. 
Actually, I have already sent an Open Letter to ICCF-17 asking for radical changes:
 http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2012/08/open-letter-to-iccf-17.html

The main issue now is accepting from inside, mentally and wholeheartedly  the existence of LENR+, combining science with technology for giving a new life to the field, recognizing that engineering is the key, not considering a blasphemy the idea that LENR will be completely understood only when it is already commercial.
Therefore I have been very pleased to read in their welcome message this:

Another innovation within ICCF-19 is the establishment of a new committee: The Engineering Applications Committee. The EAC appointees are engineers and investors whose goal is to form a bridge between academia and industry thereby encouraging the generation of products derived from years of scientific research. 

Technology was discussed and very smartly by former ICCFs but I am waiting a radical change a qualitative leap. I don't know if a representative of LENR+ will be present at Padua but I hope
the very idea of LENR+ will be there.
I want to be a participant and I will speak about alternative views of LENR- in case no serious health or financial health problems will hit me.
I am looking to this European ICCF with optimistic expectations.
Peter

DAILY SHARED LENR URGENCIES December, 14/15 2014

Motto

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. (Les Brown)

This is not an advice that brings you a lot of happiness; following it leads both
to effectiveness and to blunders. It is not a good (life)strategy to sacrifice the important things for the urgent ones, however sometimes the circumstances are forcing you to appreciate speed, urgency, immediacy, "instant" more than other, higher, deeper, more permanent values and virtues. I have learned that 80% of all requests are fulfilled immediately or never. One of my slogans was always 
"Bis dat qui cito dat" ("he gives twice who gives promptly")- see the QUI CITO newsletter on my blog.
The slogan is not in harmony with what happened in the history of Cold Fusion
and what happens now in LENR- there patience and ability to regenerate  th dead hopes- rather large scale production of Phoenix Birds are the most desired qualities. Things, for LENR,  are going slowly like a snail on a slope- this is the suggestive metaphor used by Russ George in a fine cold  fusion-in-context paper on his Atom Ecology blog: http://atom-ecology.russgeorge.net/2014/12/11/we-are-as-snail-on-a-slope/ 
Actually, the problem is worse- the slope is coated with coarse emery paper and there are some special obstacles for our poor gastropode.
My, possibly not realistic, sense of urgency has determined me to develop a too forward looking vision of LENR- LENR+. Other colleagues think we can find the truth in already done experiments and that first we have to explore  the original PdD  scientifically in its deepest detail in order to understand  exactly what happens there and only after that - in complete safety, to progress systematically, step by step
toward applications. 
This being given as the dominant ideology, for me the most urgent task is to get LENR+, Rossi and /or DGT should demonstrate beyond any doubt, including the most pathologically irrational skepticism, that it works, works well.. This is what I hope and again, I need dangerously and painfully much patience p
in disharmony with my overly mature age.

Perhaps LENR as science-technology-business could learn from the experience of the best; one of the greatest success stories is that of Google - the company that has contributed so much to the solution of information transport and transfer I apologize
to repeat that everything that happens is transport, transfer and transformation of matter, energy and information., in infinite forms. The basic truth is: 
INEXISTENCE IS EXISTENCE IN MOTION" as I wrote to Albert Einstein, Princeton Univ. in 1953 but my letter did not went through. Uncle Albert has demonstrated  the equivalence of mass and energy - these are bound by the well known equation 
E=mc2, however the equivalence and synergy of information and energy still is missing such a fine, expressive  equation. We don't know E= f(i). This includes the vital connection between human creativity and energy, the connection that transforms weak LENR in the super-strong LENR+. I will ask you, first of all AXIL
for help.
Google can inspire LENR as being a good example. See please and read with envy:             "The Google Way of Attacking Problems" by Greg Satell

https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-google-way-of-attacking-problems/ 
I can declare that: "Ich bin ein Googler" have discovered their first paper in 1999 and have predicted in those Alta Vista times, that they will be the great winners in Web-search. From all men called Peter Gluck, the standard Google address belongs to me despite the fact that some of my namesakes- as the greatly successful US architect from GLUCK+ is more famous than me.

Probably the paper is a bit idealized and schematic but definitely interesting and inspiring.         It is about the company culture of Google: oriented toward problem solving, people proud to extremely difficult unique jobs and tasks, people "living" what they do, very deeply interested,

all the members of teams having the sense of the mission and purpose. It is, to cite the paper, a culture that attacks problems not people.

They are good in problems solving, that's obvious, we, CF/LENR have not solved many of our existential, developmental problems- but I have already written too much about this. Could we have somewhere an institution totally dedicated to LENR+ highly googlized? A LENR institution aware of the fact that you actually do not solve a problem if your solution does not come fast enough

Google, on the other side is nearing to LENR. They have earned very big money with solving the info problems and want to spend a part of the money solving the energy problem of Humanity. See please:

Google's Suggestion fo Climate Fix by jd  sweeney

http://www.londont.blogspot.ca/2014/12/googles-suggestion-for-climate-fix.html

and discover Londont- a nice, smart blog. The Google authors still have to discover the real virtues of LENR+  and to organize the coronation as emperor of the Energy Sources.

''Understanding LENR, LENR + better

Rossi has said recently that isotopic shift, the great and mysterious clue of the Lugno experiment is not fusion. Now he goes a bot further:

Andrea Rossi
December 13th, 2014 at 9:03 PM

Herb Gills:
The issue is much more complex than you say; isotopic shifts are caused by reactions and themselves cause further reactions, about which, obviously, I cannot give information, as I wrote many times.
The role of hydrogen is foundamental. All I meant is just that the main nuclear reactions are not necessarily fusion.
Warm Regards,
A.R.

Actually Rossi never says much or says completely and I understand his reasons but he likes to communicate.

Anyway he has also told today:

Andrea Rossi

December 14th, 2014 at 9:10 PM

Bob:
One of the things we have to test is the duration of a charge under the stress of a 1 MW plant in a long period. We plan not to change the charge until we have a decrease of efficiency, to check which is its real duration under stress. Due information about this issue will be given at the end of the test, probably within one year. Good question.
Warm Regards,
A.R.

It is an unbelievably small quantity of fuel in the e-cats, If the Lugano results are real, then the heat release intensity, per unit of weight of metal is some 20000 times greater in LENR+ than in LENR (Fleischmann Pons cell) Is it the same phenomenon?

More tomorrow,
Peter

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