MIT Cold Fusion - The Revolution has Begun!

[Jussi]

for anyone interested ,  a short informative video on the current state of LENR/cold fusion understanding..

[Mike Hawtin]

Hmm, very interesting, however, the gentleman doth protest too much methinks.

p.s. Don't forget to subscribe.

[ronin]

What use is cold fusion?

Unless it gets hot there is nothing that we can really do with it.

Cannot generate stream to drive turbines or much else.

The whole idea is that the process generates energy (heat and lots of it preferably) so we can use that energy.

[Tiki]

Is cold fusion science? I always thought that it was hypothesis.

[acey]

I thought it was a hoax. (Or just bad science).

[ollypenrice]

There seems to be quite a leap in the clip from something possibly getting slightly warm to flying cars. This man would have no trouble, giving such leaping power, in hopping over the San Francisco Bay without the need to fork out for the Golden Gate's toll.

Olly

[Claire Dymond]

Is David Icke working on this too? 

[Jussi]

" I think we're almost over the ' we don’t understand it ' problem.  I think we’re almost over the ' this doesn’t produce anything useful ' problem.

So I think this will go forward fairly rapidly now and, if it does, this is capable of, by itself, completelychanging geo-economics, geo-politics and solving climate and energy.“  

audio link

Dennis Bushnell
Chief Scientist
NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia

[Jussi]

Good news from  https://animpossibleinvention.com/blog/

Historic event: One-year 1 megawatt E-Cat trial completed

  On February 17, 2016, a 350-day commercial test of a One Megawatt heat plant based on Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat was completed. The event must be considered historic since it’s the first time an industrially useful amount of energy is produced over such a long time from this kind of yet unexplained radiation-free nuclear reaction—LENR or Low Energy Nuclear Reactions.

To be clear, the report from the one-year trial, which has been controlled by a major Independent third party certification institute, will be released only in about a month, and until then no official information is provided on the test result. However, multiple sources have told me that the test has been successful.

Earlier, some sources having visited the test plant told me that the COP, Coefficient of Performance, i.e. the ratio between output power and input power for control, was in the range 20—80, meaning that the heat plant was consuming 12—50 kW while producing 1 MW—the average consumption of about 300 Western households, including electricity, space heating, water heating and air conditioning.

I have also been told that the total amount of fuel—mostly harmless elements such as lithium, hydrogen and nickel, according to Andrea Rossi’s granted patent on the technology—was in the range of tenths of grams. And supposedly the charge has never been changed during the year. On the other hand, after one year’s run, the reactors are now being recharged for further operation.

All this might be confirmed by the third party institute, that has been controlling the heat plant 24/7 with video cameras.

  The test has been undertaken by Andrea Rossi and his US industrial partner Industrial Heat, and according to Rossi, commercialisation of similar industrial heat plants will be initiated as soon as possible, provided that the result is positive. Industrial Heat has acquired the right to produce and sell E-Cat based technology in, as far as I have been told, North, Central and South America, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.


  Needless to say, the consequences of such an energy source for the world will be huge. And the consequences for industry, finance and society is also the focus of the New Energy World Symposium or NewS, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 21, 2016, provided that the report from the test is clearly positive.

So, now we all wait for the report. Personally, however, I will put the champagne on ice. Now.    by Mats Lewan

also:

www.e-catworld.com

[acey]

"An Impossible Invention" - the blog title says it all. Personally I think this "yet unexplained radiation-free nuclear reaction" will only be worthwhile once it achieves the 1.21 Gigawatts needed to power Andrea Rossi's flux capacitor and send him back to the future. But I'm just a narrow minded sceptic who isn't interested in buying shares in Industrial Heat.

From Wikipedia ("Energy Catalyzer"):

Theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel and nuclear physicist Peter Thieberger argue that the claims for the E-Cat are incompatible with the fundamentals of nuclear physics.^[46][47] In particular, the Coulomb barrier for the claimed fusion reaction is so high that it is insurmountable anywhere in the known universe, including the interior of stars. The reaction also would create gamma radiation that would have penetrated the few inches of shielding apparently provided by the E-Cat, inducing acute radiation syndrome in persons in the vicinity of the purported demonstrations.^[46] Given numerous other scientific inconsistencies – such as the ratio of isotopes in the supposed copper "fusion product" being identical to that in natural copper^[48] – the authors argued that it is now time "for the E-Cat's proponents to provide the provable, testable, reproducible science that can answer these straightforward physics objections."^[46]

Peter Ekström, lecturer at the Department of Nuclear Physics at Lund University in Sweden, concluded in May 2011, "I am convinced that the whole story is one big scam, and that it will be revealed in less than one year."^[49] He cited the unlikelihood of a chemical reaction being strong enough to overcome the Coulomb barrier, the lack of gamma rays, the lack of explanation for the origin of the extra energy, the lack of the expected radioactivity after fusing a proton with ⁵⁸Ni, the unexplained occurrence of 11% iron in the spent fuel, the 10% copper in the spent fuel strangely having the same isotopic ratios as natural copper, and the lack of any unstable copper isotope in the spent fuel as if the reactor only produced stable isotopes.^[49] Kjell Aleklett, physics professor at Uppsala University, said the percentage of copper was too high for any known reaction of nickel, and the copper had the same isotopic ratio as natural copper. He also stated, "Known chemical reactions cannot explain the amount of energy measured. A nuclear reaction can explain the amount of energy, but the knowledge we have today says that this reaction cannot take place."^[50]Scientific skeptic James Randi, discussing the E-Cat in the context of previous cold fusion claims, suggested that it will eventually be proven to be a fraud.^[51]

Other reactions to the device have been mixed. In 2011 Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, described LENR as a "promising" technology and praised the work of Rossi and Focardi.^[52]

Theoretical nuclear physicist Yeong E. Kim of Purdue University has proposed a potential theoretical explanation of the reported results of the device,^[53] but has stated that, for confirmation of this theory, "it is very important to carry out Rossi-type experiments independently."^[54] Kim had previously put forward this theory to explain the results of the discredited Fleischman and Pons cold fusion experiment in 1989.^[55]

Steve Featherstone wrote in Popular Science that by the summer of 2012 Rossi's "outlandish claims" for the E-Cat seemed "thoroughly debunked" and that Rossi "looked like a con man clinging to his story to the bitter end."^[56]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer

[saac]

I won't be switching my gas and electricity supplier just yet!

 

Jim

[DaveS]

Not catalysed by snake-oil is it by any chance?

[symesie04]

Lol i see whats happened hear its a typo. Someone has mistakenly typed the word "fusion" when the title should of read "Cold Custard"

[saac]

Cold custard as a non Newtonian fluid, fill up a swimming pool with the stuff and then you have something to smile about never mind cold fusion.

 

Jim

[Dave In Vermont]

It smells like a scam. Walks like a scam. And quacks like a scam! So it must be a...a..  )*< KWAK!

As an MIT Affiliate, I am left wondering why this sort of garbage is always attributed to MIT? What did we ever do to deserve this? We didn't create Fleischmann–Pons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Once again - the bats have gotten out of the belfry.

Dave

[Jussi]

Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project have made a breakthrough in their replication:

&  Published their LENR Recipe for All to use and experiment:
 

The Cookbook is in the signal…
Prepare thoroughly (Ni + LiAlH4 + Li)

1. Bake Ni
2. Reduce Ni
3. Hydrogenate Ni
4. Mix: Ni + LiAlH4 + Li
5. Bake and vac reactor, add Nickel, vac warm, add H2, Vac
6. Heat to above Mossbauer determined Ni Debye (say 135C), pressure regulated to approx 1bar abs.
7. Hold, pressure regulated to approx 1bar abs.
8. Heat slowly to as close to Ni Curie as comfortable (Say 340C), pressure regulated to approx 1bar abs.
9. Hold, pressure regulated to approx 1bar abs.
10. Slowly lower temp to above highest known Ni Debye (Say 220C), pressure regulated to approx 1bar abs.
11. Hold, pressure regulated to approx 1bar abs.
12. Go as fast as possible through Ni Curie
13. Hold, pressure regulated to approx 0.5bar abs.
14. Cycle through 500C internal, pressure regulated to approx 0.5bar abs.
15. Hold, pressure regulated to approx 0.5bar abs.
16. Raise internal temperature to over 1200, pressure regulated to approx 0.5bar abs.
17. Drop to around 1000 and hold, pressure regulated to approx 0.5bar abs.
18. Raise internal temperature to near boiling point of Lithium
1h Thermal > x/β- emissions > Pb > IR/THz > 5h (SSM)
where ‘>’ means ‘leads to’

The End of the Carbon Age is Nigh

Thankyou to all those that helped us
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http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/en/

[saac]

Add a pinch of salt and serve with a cold beer.  Now who wants a pint of snake oil

 

Jim