NASA Publicly Reveals LENR Research

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[Kevmo]

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NASA Publicly Reveals LENR Research

January 12, 2012

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has announced that it is working to develop a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) or cold fusion power source. The agency has posted a video online that features a senior research scientist discussing LENR and explaining how it works.

The scientist is Dr. Joseph Zawodny a Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia near Washington DC.

Joseph Zawodny courtesy NASA

“It has demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts of energy cleanly without hazardous ionizing radiation without producing nasty waste,” Zawodny told the camera. In the video Zawodny stated that NASA’s method for enhancement of surface Plasmon Polaritons to initiate and sustain LENR releases energy by adding neutrons. When enough neutrons are added they sponteaneously decay into something of the same mass but another element.

 

In the video an announcer describes the system as:

“NASA’s method for Enhancement of Surface Plasmon Polaritrons to Initiate and Sustain LENR in Metal Hydride Solutions a clean nuclear energy for your power operated technology.”

 

This sounds a lot like Andrea Rossi’s e-cat LENR device. The video shows images from the US Navy SPAWAR  which was reportedly working on LENR devices of its own. A recent internet rumor has stated that SPAWAR has shut down its cold fusion research. No Mention is made of SPAWAR the Navy’s research arm in the video.

 

Zawodny did not mention Rossi or e-cat but he described a home use of the process that sounds a lot like Rossi’s. He mentioned that it could be used for heating, cool, water heating and electricity production in the home.

 

“The easiest implementation of this would be for the home. You would have a unit that would replace your water heater you would have some sort of cycle to derive electricity from that,” Zawodny said. “It would be a dual use thing it would produce heat, the waste heat would be used for environmental control and warm water.”

 

Interestingly enough Dr. Dennis M. Bushnell another senior scientist at Langely who is also involved in LENR research is not mentioned or shown in the video.

Nor or are any high level NASA officials shown. Scientists are shown working at computers but no LENR devices are shown. Instead stock footage of planes, trains and trucks is shown and fossil fuels are mentioned.

Facilities and Personnel at NASA's Langley Research Center

This is a very interesting development especially when there is widespread public interest in LENR and public pressure to investigate it. Combined with reports that the US Department of Energy could be changing its mind on the topic this is really good news. LENR skeptics won’t be able to dismiss Zawodny as a “cold fusion crank.”

 

There are some interesting implications from this, NASA could be getting ready to ask Congress for funding for LENR research. Or the Agency could be getting ready to patent a process. If that happens it could affect both Andrea Rossi and the Greek company Defaklion that claim to have working LENR heating devices. Rossi is selling such a device right now. Both he and Defkalion are planning to bring out home heating units using LENR this year.

 

One interesting development could be that NASA is planning to commercialize LENR. That could lead to a legal battle with Rossi and the companies he has licensed. There have been some unconfirmed rumors that NASA has purchased one of Rossi’s e-cat cold fusion devices. Other rumors indicate that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon or DARPA was the customer.

 

I also have to wonder if NASA has a working LENR device of some sort. If it does that could be a real game changer. We would also have to wonder why NASA hasn’t revealed the device to the public or the press. Perhaps they’re waiting for tests or a patent.

Concept drawing of a 5KW E-cat for home use Courtesy Ecat.com

Another possibility is that President Obama is keeping the device under wraps and planning to publicly unveil it during the Presidential campaign this fall. That would certainly get him a few votes. This is highly probably because it would justify his green energy technology agenda which has received a lot of criticism in recent months.

 

Either way it looks like the LENR deniers are going to have to change their tunes and eat their words. It also looks like this revolutionary energy source has high level support in Washington.

Related search:

• nasa lenr
• NASA Langley Low Energy Nuclear Reaction LENR
• lenr nasa
• nasa on cold fusion
• nasas method for a clean nuclear energy for your power operated technology

Post by jennifer in Breakthrough, E-Cat, Energy, Experiments, Investment, LENR, News, Products, Rossi

[Kevmo]

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[bigbob]

Smells like...credibility!

I’m waiting for that home CHP unit so we can all go off the grid.

[null and void]

I’m waiting for that home CHP unit so we can all go off the grid.

Ask yourself, would Obama remove militant islam's sole source of income?

[Moonman62]

This sounds a lot like Andrea Rossi’s e-cat LENR device.

Yet another blog post "copy and pasted" as an excuse to mention ex-con Rossi.

[Kevmo]

This will be my standard post to moonboy that says you’re not worth trying to have reasonable discussion, also says “buzz off” & doesn’t leave crickets. But if it offends you to the point that you get it removed like my prior innocuous citation then I’ll have to come up with some other ‘ignore button’ post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2800058/posts?page=55#55
To: Moonman62

This means I have nothing more to say to you about LENR. Bye.

55 posted on Sunday, October 30, 2011 4:41:07 PM by Kevmo (Caveat lurkor pro se ipso judicatis: Let the lurker decide for himself)
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[Moonman62]

This is not the first time NASA has dabbled in scams.

[Kevmo]

This will be my standard post to moonboy that says you’re not worth trying to have reasonable discussion, also says “buzz off” & doesn’t leave crickets. But if it offends you to the point that you get it removed like my prior innocuous citation then I’ll have to come up with some other ‘ignore button’ post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2800058/posts?page=55#55
To: Moonman62

This means I have nothing more to say to you about LENR. Bye.

55 posted on Sunday, October 30, 2011 4:41:07 PM by Kevmo (Caveat lurkor pro se ipso judicatis: Let the lurker decide for himself)
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[babygene]

“This is not the first time NASA has dabbled in scams.”

What the hell is wrong with you???

[Explorer89]

Smells like the article is wrong from the get-go when it says that Langley Research Center is outside of Washington. I guess a six hour drive to Hampton Roads/Norfolk counts as outside of Washington. When a basic fact like that was wrong, I cannot trust anything else that the author says.

[Moonman62]

Well....

As long as you promise to keep it to yourself.

I'm Distraught!

How can NASA discuss LENR without mentioning LENR's biggest superstar, Andrea Rossi?

[Bellflower]

I wonder if NASA has in some way stole it from Rossi. I hope not. I sure hope that Obama doesn't get any credit for it as he likely try to take it all. Hope he doesn't get one vote because of this. I imagine it was in the works long before he came around. If NASA has the right to it does that mean that we will have to buy it from the government? Will it make a profit and bring down our deficit in that way as well as be a huge shot in the arm for our economy because of cheap energy?

[ronnie raygun]

This will not be for the commoner

[Johnny B.]

I wonder if NASA has in some way stole it from Rossi.

NASA looked at Rossi's E-Cat. It didn't work on the two days they were there to observe it, and Rossi threw them out when they asked questions about how it worked. LINK

[Wonder Warthog]

"NASA looked at Rossi's E-Cat. It didn't work on the two days they were there to observe it, and Rossi threw them out when they asked questions about how it worked."

It's interesting that some of the people "panning" Rossi most strongly just happen to fortuitously be coming out with their own patents and research announcements. To wit...Ahern, NASA.....

Think about that, conspiracy-boy.

[saganite]

This guy is a climate scientist

[Moltke]

This sounds a lot like Andrea Rossi’s e-cat LENR device.

No, it sounds NOTHING like Rossi's device. NASA says it adds neutrons while Rossi adds hydrogen, that is protons. Neutrons don't have the Coulomb barrier to deal with. You just need a neutron source (and therein lies the rub)...

[Moonman62]

From your link:

In the timeline shown in Nelson’s slides, Nelson omitted the Sept. 5 and 6, 2011 Rossi device tests performed in Bologna for engineers representing Quantum Energy Technologies. NASA representatives were present both days.

One of the eye-witnesses, a former NASA staff member, saw problems from the moment they arrived there.

“Rossi changed the game totally.” the witness said. “From the test plan, the device, everything. There was nothing there that we had agreed on. He had a 30 liter reservoir in there and he wouldn’t even let us see what was in the box or weigh the box.”

The Sept. 5 demonstration was inconclusive; Rossi’s device sprang a leak. The Sept. 6 demonstration was inconclusive; there was no outflow of steam or water.

On the second day, when the former NASA staff member asked Rossi if his device had an internal reservoir, Rossi became enraged. Quantum’s engineers left but NASA engineers offered to come back in a few days to give Rossi time to fix the flow. Rossi declined their offer. He said he was “too busy.”

[Johnny B.]

It's interesting that some of the people "panning" Rossi most strongly just happen to fortuitously be coming out with their own patents and research announcements.

Not as interesting as the fact the Rossi's gadget won't work when qualified outside observers are there to examine it.

Not as interesting as Rossi becoming "enraged" when they dared to ask meaningful questions about his gadget.

[PapaBear3625]

As I said in the other thread:

Here we have NASA pursuing the same line of research, validating the same theoretical basis for it (eg Widom/Larson, from a year and a half ago), talking about Ni/H reactions, and making similar claims about the potential and applications as Rossi.

NASA from the youtube: "It has the DEMONSTRATED ability to produce excess amounts of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation."

You can't have it both ways. NASA can't be making independent claims validating Rossi's approach if Rossi was a complete fraud. NASA is now confirming that there is something there.

NASA would not be putting their reputations on the line if they were not confident they could produce a device like Rossi's