Posted on 12/10/2012 5:50:12 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
U.S. institutional politics, government agencies, and academic science have been caught in denial so strident they’re now shouting “no” while stark raving naked. The nakedness is because of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR, or an evolution of the famed cold fusion.
The intellectual embarrassment is tattooed to the naysayers forever and disqualifies many people.
Steve Krivit reports from behind his paywall physicist Yasuhiro Iwamura from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that researchers at Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories performed an independent replication of a Mitsubishi low-energy nuclear reaction transmutation experiment.
Iwamura spoke of the replication at the American Nuclear Society’s LENR session on Nov. 14th 2012 in San Diego. Krivit reports Iwamura saying the Toyota researchers confirmed that nuclear changes from one element to another took place without the use of high-energy nuclear physics.
Toyota is being said to have used a LENR deuterium-permeation transmutation method that Iwamura invented. This follows the information that Osaka University and Iwate University had previously reported similar replications.
Iwamura is said to have been working with this LENR method for 14 years.
The target of the work in Japan seems directed to the transmutation of elements, something that has been seen in many past experiments of LENR. Direct potential commercial applications could be processing of nuclear waste or the production of rare earth elements such as platinum.
The story is leading to two different camps, the LENR people trying to produce energy and the Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation (LENT, a new short form to remember) people trying to change an element into another. The process is doing about the same thing; each pathway is optimized to achieve one result or the other.
Now Mitsubishi and Toyota, two major international industrial firms are releasing information. The firms obviously understand that the money from product sales will be vastly more important than research grants.
Politics, bureaucrats and academia are being scooped by big business. It’s probably a good thing.
Private enterprise isn’t just after LENR in Japan.
Dr. Francesco Celani has announced a successful 3rd party replication of his LENR system, which apparently has been improved since he did the demonstration at National Instruments Week in Texas earlier this year.
Celani said the reactor used is completely different from the one he and his group developed and used. As a result, he says, the probability of a systematic error in the measurements has become highly unlikely.
The private firm involved in this effort is believed to be STMicrolectronics, a French-Italian electronics manufacturer based in Geneva, Switzerland. The firm’s logo is part of the photos Dr. Celani has released.
What is one to make of all this? The first major point is academia has utterly let the world down. Now that LENR obviously functions there are almost no experimental experts available or organized training underway. The world economy is completely out of the loop, so far. The second is governments worldwide have set up a patent barrier, which is still in place that keeps the potential dowsed down. Only the very brave and eccentric have ventured out with Andrea Rossi leading the way.
At the human level the price of condemnation is beginning to show. For those who followed the press, media and academic lead to condemn Pons and Fleischmann, while some knew full well that a few very careful experimenters were able to replicate the work, the guilt is the harm done to science progress, intellectual expansion and economic growth.
At the frontier of knowledge there is no disgrace at an experiment that fails. Disgrace comes from denial of the opportunity for research and experimentation. Denial of a venture into the unknown is one of the ultimate scientific dishonesties.
Your problem, not mine. I neither lie nor exaggerate about matters of science. It's a question of personal ethics.
"Pull some one else's leg. You liked it.
Only in your imagination.
"It was still flamebait regardless, for this forum and though Krivit otherwise a critic of Rossi, still mentioned him in a positive light? Inconsistent.
Is this sentence supposed to make some kind of sense?? WTF are you talking about?? The posted article?? Krivit?? The ONE SENTENCE that refers Rossi??
"That was part of the bait, whether you planned it or not."
Still not getting your point.
"I guess you can see that by now, so some progress has been made."
All I see is that you have a very fertile imagination.
It wasn't about the "science". But you've got the play dumb portion of the denial/ego/self preservation act down pat.
Only in your imagination.
If you didn't like the editorial tone of the article, why did YOU bring it here? Oh, that's right, it was just first stop not "E-CAT" GARBAGE. And it fit like a glove with your overall approach nicely. No imagination needed to see it. Why do you keep lying about it?
Is this sentence supposed to make some kind of sense??
In context with all the rest, why yes. If you can't see it --- why how convenient for you! I have to repeat everything all over again each post? The writer began with "tattooed on the foreheads", then finished with calling Rossi -- what was it --- a leader? Perfect for the revenge seekers...like you.
Still not getting your point.
That you are a prick, when it comes to LENR? What's so hard to get about that?
All I see is that you have a very fertile imagination.
You wish.
It certainly was "about the science", specifically the Imawura conference talk.
"If you didn't like the editorial tone of the article, why did YOU bring it here?
Didn't say I didn't like it. Didn't say I did. I simply didn't pay attention to it. My sole interest in the article was that it was a gateway to the Imawura information.
"Oh, that's right, it was just first stop not "E-CAT" GARBAGE.
Yes, it was.
"And it fit like a glove with your overall approach nicely. No imagination needed to see it.
Why don't you lay out what my "overall approach" is.
"Why do you keep lying about it?
Because I'm not lying about it.
"The writer began with "tattooed on the foreheads"
LOL, I didn't even SEE that particular line.
".....then finished with calling Rossi -- what was it --- a leader?
Yes.....ONE SENTENCE out of the entire article. And I've already told you in what sense I consider it to be correct. Fraud or not a fraud, Rossi has blown open the wall of the cold fusion ghetto, and brought the real science of LENR into public view.
"Perfect for the revenge seekers...like you.
So you fly into a fit of rage when an article criticizes those who have fraudulently attacked LENR? A criticism from a blog owner who is himself critical of Rossi??
"That you are a prick, when it comes to LENR? What's so hard to get about that?"
As I said, a very fertile imagination. But I begin to understand. You're upset because your fraud-perpetuating heros have failed to keep LENR suppuressed, and have been called on the carpet for it. And indeed, I "am" a prick about FRAUD. That might be because I'm interested in finding out what is true and what isn't.
whatever blows your skirts up mr. scientist. tell it to the hand.
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