Posted on 03/08/2014 6:43:45 PM PST by Kevmo
Is the Cold Fusion Revolution Here? Published March 8, 2014 |
There seems to be a lot happening in the world of cold fusion/low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) right now. So we can now rightly say that a cold fusion revolution could be beginning.
Some of the most important developments include:
Peter Hagelstein and Mitchell Swartz’s 2014 Cold Fusion Independent Activities Period (IAP) Course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January. Jerry Rys the Alien Scientist blogger attended the course and created a great video about it which does an excellent job of describing cold fusion what cold fusion is and laying out its early history. In particular Rys does a tremendous job of describing the science in such a way that even a history major like me could understand.
He doesn’t seem to be up on recent developments but hopefully that will change. The video is worth watching and showing to cold fusion skeptics. He also makes one important point:
Mitchell Swartz at work
“While critics and skeptics like to call cold fusion pathological science in light of recent events it seems that their denial is pathological,” Rys says of the skeptics. Rys seems to hit the nail on the head here. Rys has posted all of Swartz and Hagelstein’s lectures on his website.
He notes that Swartz started out as a skeptic who was out to debunk LENR. After doing some real research Swartz became a true believer and recently launched NANORTech a company working to commercialize cold fusion. Swartz has essentially been blacklisted by big science they’ll probably forgive him when he makes a billion dollars.
The IAP is really a set of lectures and not a course. There is no credit attached, Hagelstein himself noted that working in LENR can destroy your scientific career in Big Science.
Scenes from the 2014 MIT Cold Fusion IAP
Yet another cold fusion patent has been granted by the US Patent Office to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. USA.
EP 1202290 B1 issued on December 4, 2013, issues a patent for a “Nuclide Transmutation Device and Nuclide Transmutation Method” which would be used as a disposal process for long lived nuclear waste.
The US Patent Office it seems has quietly changed its mind about cold fusion and one of the world’s largest corporations is interested in it. I wonder what the big oil conspiracy theorists will make of this.
NASA is still showing a lot of interest in LENR aircraft. Its Aeronautics Research Institute discussed an LENR aircraft. A slide from the conference shows a giant aircraft called a comfortable global transport with a flight range of 12,500 miles and minimal noise pollution. It also mentions an autonomous package delivery package in other words a drone. That sounds like the US Air Force is interested in LENR.
Over in the United Kingdom Her Majesty’s military like the Pentagon is also interested in LENR. A PDF document put out by the UK’s Ministry of Defense called Global Strategic Trends Out to 2040 actually mentions LENR as something that strategists should worry about. It states:
“For example, the development of commercially available cold fusion reactors could result in the rapid economic marginalization of oil-rich states. This loss of status and income in undiversified economies could lead to state-failure and provide opportunities for extremist groups to rise in influence.”
Basically British generals and admirals think a new energy source is about to appear and that energy source will cause the collapse of states and governments reliant on oil profits such as Venezuela, Nigeria Saudi Arabia and Russia. It names that energy source as cold fusion.
That means the cold fusion revolution will be neither peaceful nor entirely beneficial. It will bankrupt some people and could increase political instability. The military men it seems believe in cold fusion if the so called scientists do not.
“Again, posted to someone whom I have asked multiple times to stop posting to me, “
Then stop responding to my posts!
“I haven’t posted a “Rossi Says” article for more than 2 years “
Two months ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3118054/posts
>>”After I pointed out to you how ignorant it was to suppose that solar power is an example of Controlled Hot Fusion. “
Oh, good grief. My post was: Nuclear fusion exists - in the sun and stars.
It does exist. It’s specious to lean on ‘controlled’ to try to compare it in it’s proof to cold fusion.
One is a known credible fact, the other not.
“One is a known credible fact, the other not.”
We don’t know what the LENR reaction is. Al we know is that it has been replicated 14,720 times and Dr. Hagelstein has had the NANCOR LENR running for months with public access but a conspiracy exists and only Kevmo knows about it.
Signing off this thread. Only 20 more days till I get my Rossi Home Power Unit and go off the grid forever.
"Ordinarily, new scientific discoveries are claimed to be consistent and reproducible; as a result, if the experiments are not complicated, the discovery can usually be confirmed or disproved in a few months. The claims of cold fusion, however, are unusual in that even the strongest proponents of cold fusion assert that the experiments, for unknown reasons, are not consistent and reproducible at the present time. (...) Internal inconsistencies and lack of predictability and reproducibility remain serious concerns.You just don't have credible evidence that stands up to critical review. When you examine what's claimed, it just doesn't hold up.
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Thanks for your reply.
Now why would you give greater credibility to a book on the subject by an electrical engineer than to one by a nuclear physicist specializing in the study of nuclear fission and nuclear reactions? Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century
Oh, my. I am most guilty of the rapid-fire-replying-without-reading syndrome. My apologies.
>>>> Dr. Hagelstein has had the NANCOR LENR running for months with public access but a conspiracy exists..”
Yes.. I’m learning this technology is based on conspiracies.
Stop polluting threads with your seagull CRAP!!1!
That isn’t a “Rossi Says” thread, numbnuts. It is a thread where someone else talks about Rossi. I suppose we can’t expect idiot skeptopaths to know the difference.
It also exists in Condensed Matter.
It does exist. It’s specious to lean on ‘controlled’ to try to compare it in it’s proof to cold fusion.
Specious? That shows just how incredibly STUPID your argument is. Scientists have spent hundreds of $billions of YOUR money trying to chase the chimera of controlling the fusion reaction so that they could harness it for energy and we got diddly squat. That is money they spent well after generating the h-bomb. Specious? That is just about the stupidest argument one can come up with against cold fusion because these noble souls have generated a viable energy plan with a few tens of $millions of private money while your fraudulent guvmint trough-eaters have generated less than pig squeezings after spending hundreds of $billions of YOUR friggin money.
One is a known credible fact, the other not.
Then go back to your original stupid freeping post. Where is the power being generated after all those hundreds of $billions on your "credible" energy source? Where is the IP being sold on the open market? What is the corner-turn, a hundred years? Fifty? With Cold Fusion we have IP being sold on the open market for $20M, Corner Turn in about 3 years rather than 50 as opposed to your incredibly ridiculous science frauds. And YOU can buy a device, TODAY, from either Celani or Hagelstein or, if you dare & have the funds, Rossi.
If you had the means, you could buy a NANOR device, or a Celani Wire, or even for $1.5M, a Rossi Reactor. That is 3 sources, one of whom demonstrated his device for 6 months, another who has had his device tested (and Gamma rays were found!!!!) in an open source project so you can just follow the recipe & do it yourself, and the third who demo’d his technology to a VC & they promptly reached into their pockets with $20M. Your little conspiracy theory is growing wider every day, with nothing to show for it.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
Consistent? Where do you get that ridiculous anti-scientific requirement? Dolly the sheep was only paraded as a success after more than a hundred thousand failures. Consistent? That would mean that she simply doesn't exist because for every Dolly the Sheep there is 99,999 failures. It only takes ONE to prove the existence of the effect. What we have here is 14,700 proofs, but skeptopaths like you are simply joining in the adamhenry*bandwagon choir to shout it down.
The difference between Cold Fusion and its similar Condensed Matter cousin, High Temperature Superconductivity, is that with HTSC there wasn't an entrenched group of guvmint trough-eating sucklings who perceived it as a threat to their livelihood.
Once someone goes down that skeptopath, they can't seem to turn back from it. You seem to be a classic example of this psychological phenomena.
Why not lend credibility to NOBEL PRIZE WINNING physicists like Schwinger and Josephson, or the NASA chief scientist? Oh, I know: Because it would go against your already entrenched belief system, that’s why.
It is the opponents of this technology who are relying on conspiracy theories. For instance, there is the conspiracy theory that somehow all of the researchers who got those 14000 positive results CONSPIRED with each other, which would include that long list of notables that I posted to you.
Oh, my... indeed.
And we don't know what causes high temperature superconductivity, either. But it exists. We also don't know what causes acceleration due to gravity, and that sure as hell exists, too. There's a dozen theories, but none have been proven.
I wonder how long it will take this particular skeptopath to realize the difference between an UNcontrolled reaction and a controlled reaction. Kinda like the difference between Chinese gunpowder and the internal combustion engine, 700 years later.
Uh, perhaps because Beaudette's book is based on EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE and not a rehash and summation of theory?? Apparently Huizenga and a large number of other physicists "have forgotten that "physics is an experimental science" (Julian Schwinger.....Nobel physicist).
Replicated experiment trumps theory.
1) Has anyone asked for a nanor device? I’m pretty sure they’ll kick one down for almost nothing and you could experiment to your heart’s content.
2) What was the name of the researcher who had the two spheres in a bath during a conference and one generated a regular amount of heat energy? He cut them both open after the conference and they both appeared hollow although I’m pretty sure the hot one had hydrogen in it. Also, what type of LENR was it using, P&F cell or Rossi type LENR???
3) I’m still trying to read the book Excess heat; it’s very interesting. The book’s copyright is 2002 so why has no decent theory come out yet?
4) Is MIT teaching anything on LENR at their campus? Someone said that they would believe LENR works if MIT is teaching it although I don’t know how they get around the fact that they originally went out of their way to say that nothing was there. Did they blow off LENR so they could get a head start on it?
5) Still not a peep out of BLP. I don’t know if that is good or bad. I expected them to have a controlled experiment that showed excess heat but they called it off. It could mean that the cells didn’t work and this could be something honest out of BLP although I doubt it based on their past press releases.
6) Are Rossi’s new investors that pumped in over $10 million dollars going to publish anything??? Has anyone asked to be part of the free energy from the 1MW plant yet; where are they on that offer?
7) What happened to Defkalion?
If this is real and can be harnessed, it will be the equivalent of our generation’s heavier than air flight or atom bomb. At least we got to see the Internet born. I’m sure the EPA has already generated thousands of pages of regulations if someone comes out with a working plant. If it’s not real, then it can be our generation’s Keely motor company.
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