LENR Aircraft gets NASA research grant

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The NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) was established to pursue “deliberate investments in innovative, early-stage, and potentially revolutionary aviation concepts and technologies.”

NARI announced the 2013 (Round 3) Seedling Fund Phase I Awards on January 28, 2013 and twenty NASA civil servants received awards of $150,000 for research efforts lasting 12 months.

NASA Langley Research Center’s Doug Wells of the Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch was awarded a grant as Principal Investigator for a concept project titled Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) Aircraft. The discipline area is Propulsion/Airframe integration.

Wells holds a 2007 Bachelor’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Western Michigan University, and is expecting to graduate with a Masters Degree from Georgia Institute of Science this year!

Wells was also named in the Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research – Phase II report [.pdf] as a member of the Virtual East team in the workshop that developed advanced concepts and a future timeline for Boeing, NASA and others to generate green aircraft. The team evaluated LENR as having “important advantages, but extremely high risk – if it works, revolutionary to World energy.”

Period of performance for the NARI project grant is February 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014. Efforts that show significant progress after a year could be selected to receive a larger grant for 12 more months of research.

By Gregory Goble|Thursday, June 20, 2013|Science and Technology, Transportation|5 Comments About the Author: Gregory Goble

Would this be good enough for a “premier” science comic to publish and confirm what is known about Cold Fusion from Research, or will science as with many subjects, continue to censor, distort and deny anything outside of the religious excepted dictates of their “opinion” experts, who just show how corrupt and incompetent our scientific establishment is in many areas. It seems amazing how most scientists allow themselves to be led by the nose by these people, there seem to be very few that are able to think for themselves and demand that the establishment start following that almost obscene word in this day and age, TRUTH.

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when you see what happend to a leading scientist http://www.lenr-forum.com/showthread.php?1634-John-bockris-Example-of-Bullying-against-leading-electrochemist-who-dissent

imagine what can happen to a small physicists… and given that no powerful physicist dare to oppose the terrorists, the small physicists follow their opinion without daring to doubt. both by lasy trust and by rational fear.

you may also read the detail of the Roland benabou paper (many gem are hidden in obscure discussions in that paper) http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/Groupthink%20IOM%207p%20paper.pdf

page18: “Implications. The types of enterprises most prone to collective delusions are thus: (a) Those involving new and complex technologies or products that combine a generally profitable upside with a lower-probability but potentially disastrous downside – a “blackswan” event. High-powered incentives, such as performance bonuses affected by common market uncertainty, have similar effects, as do highly leveraged investments that put the firm at risk of bankruptcy.

(b) Those in which participants have only limited exit options and, consequently, a lot riding on the soundness or folly of otherís judgements. Such dependence typically arises from irreversible or illiquid prior investments: speciÖc human capital, company pension plan, professional reputation, etc. Alternatively, it could reflect the large-scale public good nature of the problem: state of the economy, quality of the government or other society-wide institutions which a single individual has little power to affect, global warming, etc ”

“ Directions of cognitive influence. Going beyond multiplicity, interesting results emerge for organizations in which members play asymmetric roles. Thus, (18)-(19) embody the intuition that an agent’s way of thinking is most sensitive to how the people whose decisions have the greatest impact on his welfare (in state L) deal with unwelcome news…. Workers thus risk losing their job if management makes overoptimistic nvestment decisions, whereas the latter has little to lose if workers put in more e§ort than realistically warranted. When the asymmetry is sufficiently pronounced it leads to a testable pattern of predominantly top-down cognitive influences,…”

“The proposition’s second result shows how cognitive interdependencies (of both types) are amplified, the more closely tied an individualís welfare is to the actions of others. Groupthink is thus most important for closed, cohesive groups whose members perceive that they largely share a common fate and have few exit options. This is in line with Janis’(1972) findings, but with a more operational notion of ‘cohesiveness’, 1 : Such vesting can be exogenous or arise from a prior choice to join the group, in which case wishful beliefs about its future prospects also correspond to ex-post rationalizations of a sunk decision.”

beware, part of the model should also warn us about our exuberance, or some LENr scientists delusion. the problem is that it happens too, and mainly in the mainstream community, when funding is controlled by centralised system of value. attacking the system of value is s suicide.

for a LENR scientist, abandoning his research have no negative consequences except for his ego&illusions, but it can be very good if he succeed in busting ex-colleagues. So according to Benabou theory, if a LENR scientist find a way to disprove LENR he have strong incentive to do it.

the problem is in organization like mainstream where seeing the truth give you no advantage, on the opposite (you get punished for realism). then delusion is a normal state.

However if you are a businessman in real world (not finance), the more the others are stupid, the best it is to be realist. Finance is different because you cannot fight against the market… you only benefit from leading the crowd, not from being right alone.

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Science is the tool we use to find the truth about reality. People are the problem not science.

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getting a grand for “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Aircraft” for ” Propulsion Airframe Integration ”

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Sorry, you'll need to wire the Sun into the circuit directly so we can verify that you are actually using Sunlight ~ that stuff coming our way every day has the light of numerous stars mixed in ~ in unknown proportions, and there are unaccounted frequencies not easily accessed.

Wire in your tokamak ~ let's see it light up a control panel light ~ had them around for more than half a century ~ should be trivial ~ BTW, that's with excess power ~ not the baseload stuff.

Sorry, you'll need to wire the Sun into the circuit directly so we can verify that you are actually using Sunlight ~ that stuff coming our way every day has the light of numerous stars mixed in

Pretty sure those other stars use hot fusion as well.

you might be sure, but light can be emitted from all sorts of sources ~ for all we know might be an enormous lump of coal.

Big universe; anything is possible ~ you can’t rule that out. Remember, there’s a slim probability that an atom will spontaneously fly apart ~ and create some light and heat ~ so we need to account for that. You get much beyond our own sun, we just can’t reach out and touch the coronasphere.

What makes you think such large dirigibles do not already fly missions for the military? ... albeit very large triangular shaped. Decades ago such craft were in planning as flight decks for helo squdads, although the lifting gasses were not heated with LENR technology.

"What makes you think such large dirigibles do not already fly missions for the military? ... albeit very large triangular shaped. Decades ago such craft were in planning as flight decks for helo squdads, although the lifting gasses were not heated with LENR technology.

There may well be. I haven't seen any info one way or the other. I know there are blimps in use, but any use of dirigibles must be "black ops" related.

But the military does a lot of things that aren't economically feasible for the private sector. A dirigible powered and "lifted" by LENR seems to me to offer unique advantages for economy, longevity, safety, and versatility in an aeronautical platform, and opens up whole new vistas in air transportation.

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