NASA’s Bushnell: LENR Most Promising Energy Alternative, and It’s Not Fusion [Rossi E-Cat Alert!]

New Energy Times ^ | June 1, 2011 | Steven Krivit

[Liberty1970]

*snip* Then, as you mentioned, in January of this year [Andrea] Rossi, backed by [Sergio] Focardi, who had been working on this for many years, and in fact doing some of the best work worldwide, came out and did a demonstration first in January, they re-did it in February, re-did it in March, where for days they had one of these cells, a small cell, producing in the 10 to 15 kW range which is far more than enough to boil water for tea. And they say this is weak interaction, it’s not fusion.

So I think were almost over the “We don’t understanding it” problem. I think we’re almost over the “This doesn’t produce anything useful” problem. And so I think this will go forward fairly rapidly now. And if it does, this is capable of, by itself, completely changing geo-economics, geopolitics of solving quite a bit of [the] energy [problem.]

[stboz]

Beta decay is a lot more manageable from a personal-use standpoint, since a thin shield of lead or other dense material would be more than enough to keep any radiation escape to virtually nil.

What about bremstralung? High Z materials might not be the best thing.

[muawiyah]

In this process bremstralung radiation might well result in COOLING.

I think that eliminates the freon threat as well

[aNYCguy]

Why do you say it does not produce copper?

Well, you know, for the same reasons I think it doesn't work at all.

Although just the fact that the copper produced is isotopically the same as natural copper would be enough to convince me that it's not making copper. Rossi or someone else apparently mixed copper powder with nickel powder and declared it to be spent fusion fuel.

[Liberty1970]

Although just the fact that the copper produced is isotopically the same as natural copper would be enough to convince me that it's not making copper. Rossi or someone else apparently mixed copper powder with nickel powder and declared it to be spent fusion fuel.

You know, I caught sight of that same data myself, and have mentioned it several times on FR as my chief 'red flag' regarding this thing. I don't have a good explanation for it. But one thing that's occurred to me is that LENR reactions may have played a greater role in our planet's natural history than we've realized. Perhaps the reason the copper they offered had a 'natural' isotope ratio is simply because this process is how natural copper came into being? That's a thought I need to bounce off some people with expertise in these areas, to see if it is (A) flatly impossible, (B) implausible for good reasons, (C) possible or (D) has extant evidence that would even support such a remarkable idea.

[Kevmo]

the author is a freeper

[lkco]

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