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.
Low energy nuclear reactions have been confirmed and are continuing to be studied thoroughly at the Stanford Research Institute. Their creds are a bit high than yours.
“His LENR “investment” thread got pulled a few days ago because his potty mouth got out of control, but I’d say 99% of his nonsense is still on FR. Usually he links to his profanities, so his threads don’t get pulled.”
Must have happened after I left it!
“Low energy nuclear reactions have been confirmed and are continuing to be studied thoroughly at the Stanford Research Institute. Their creds are a bit high than yours.”
I went to the SRI site and searched. NO RESEARCH listed!!!!!!!
Just some old papers by some dude McKubre talking about research at other places.
Confirmed by whom?
SRI:
Another attempt at independent replication, headed by Robert Huggins at Stanford University, which also reported early success with a light water control, became the only scientific support for cold fusion in the 26 April US Congress hearings. But when he finally presented his results he reported an excess heat of only one degree celsius, a result that could be explained by chemical differences between heavy and light water in the presence of lithium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#CITEREFTaubes1993
I'm saying that using stars, the sun, and nukular weapons as examples of Controlled Hot Fusion is incredibly ignorant. We've spent hundreds of $billions, where's my CHF car?
the vague: “There is an unknown physical event
There is nothing vague about it. The leaders in determining Measurement Error have determined there is NO measurement error: The PFAHE is a true anomaly. Are you saying it does not exist?
I have seen the article and it says 14,720 replications. I just don't have the article any more. Moonboy, on the other hand, has been arguing from silence over this article for more than 2 years. The argument from silence is a classic critical thinking fallacy. He's used dozens of other classic fallacies as well.
I’m so glad you at least stopped posting to me, as asked.
It doesn’t matter if someone has a blog when they report simple news. Only in your bizarro world is it the case that blogs cannot report news.
Kevmo posts: “The leaders in determining Measurement Error have determined there is NO measurement error”
Having been in nuclear testing for decades, I can say positively that there is ALWAYS measurement error.
Kevmo posts: “It doesn’t matter if someone has a blog when they report simple news.”
Jennifer also posts unsubstantiated rumors which Kevmo reposts as fact.
Kevmo posts: “I have seen the article and it says 14,720 replications. I just don’t have the article any more.”
Google search finds no such article.
Okay, so then to be more accurate, they’re saying explicitly that the huge anomalous heating deltas cannot be accounted for by measurement error.
Kevmo posts a list of pulled threads. Seems like they all got pulled due to Kevmo’s insults.
| you guys. |
Thanks for posting the link where you talk about how it is your posts that got the threads pulled.
It was you guys who got these threads pulled.
Methinks the ladies of skeptopathism hath protest too much.
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