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.
We know fusion exists in nature and in experiments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson
Open experiments proving it.
We do not have that for cold fusion.
>>>”Are you saying it does not exist?”
I’m saying there is no credible evidence that it exists. My position remains: it’s a scam or doing its best to look like a scam.”
Okay, you’ve backtracked from your ignorant statement that stars are an example of CHF.
Now it seems like you want to put forth the Farnsworth Fusor as an example of CHF. Great. To use your own words, What is it powering? Why don’t we have a hundred thousand Fusors powering everything in California? Because it takes in more power than it puts out.
Perhaps you want to introduce some other example of CHF? You want to shoot down 14,720 LENR replications in your effort to say “ no credible evidence that it exists”???
No, stars ARE examples of nuclear fusion. And they are very hot.
If you’re going to deny this science, then I think we’re never going to come to anything approaching common ground or sense.
thanks for your replies.
| it’s a scam |
Of course they are examples of fusion. They are examples of UNCONTROLLED fusion. So your point only reinforces how ignorant your approach is.
Where is it in an open reputable lab, university, or production facility?
MIT, SPAWAR, Toyota, Mitsubishi, etc. Unless those guys aren’t reputable enough for you.
More:
National Instruments, who reviewed 150 peer reviewed replications; Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize Theoretical physics, Cambridge Julian Schwinger, Nobel Prize Physics, Berkeley, Purdue, deceased Dennis Bushnell, NASA chief scientist, Langley Research Center, LRC Dr. Joseph Zawodny, NASA senior research scientist Langley Research Center Dr. Michael A Nelson, NASA LENR Space Applications Lead David Wells, NASA LRC, Aeronautical engineer Gustave C. Fralick, Arthur J. Decker, and James W. Blue, NASA Lewis Research George Miley, University of Illinois, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering Dr. Mike McKubre, SRI (Stanford Research Institute), Director Energy Research Center, University of Missouri Dr. Francis Tanzella, SRI, PhD chemistry, senior electrochemist Dr. Brian Ahern , Ames National Laboratory Prof. Peter Hagelstein, Electrical Engineering, MIT Dr. James Truchard, National Instruments founder, President and CEO Edmund Storms, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Mace, Los Alamos National Laboratory John Bockrus, electrochemist Texas A&M University Dr. Francesco Piantelli, University of Siena, Considered the father of modern LENR, filed original patents in 1995 for Ni/H based LENR Dr. Sergio Focardi, emeritus professor University of Bologna Dr. Giuseppe Levi , University of Bologna Dr. David Bianchini, University of Bologna Dr. Christos Stremmenos, University of Bologna, Dept of. Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, retired Francesco Celani, National Institute of Nuclear Physics (Italy’s equivalent of Los Alamos) Dr. Frank Gordon, US Navy’s Space and Naval warfare systems (SPAWAR), retired Eugene Mallove, Professor of science MIT, deceased Dr. Mastromatteo, STMicroelectronics
I gave one example of controlled fusion. I said it exists in nature and in laboratory experiments.
There is no credible evidence that this is the case for cold fusion.
Beautiful
I’ve seen your use of SRI. If the others on your list are of the same calibre..
Why not throw MIT and SPAWAR and Mitusbishi and a Nobel Prize winning physicist under the bus?
You tried to defend solar activity as an example of CHF and you were properly called on such ignorant musings.
You deride the nobel cold fusioneers for not powering up stuff for you to see, but you do not deride your own example of the Farnsworth Fusor. Why is that? Because you’re a skeptopath.
You claim “There is no credible evidence that this is the case for cold fusion” and in your zest to do so, throw dozens of reputable organizations under the bus as well as 14000 replications, some of which were by the best electrochemists in the world.
You’re still batting a thousand, Hogwash Dupe. Thanks for bumping the thread T4BTT.
Best of luck with that one. The control comes from the gravity of the star being a zillion times more massive than the earth, and the resultant heat can only be collected and used profitably when you're 93 million miles away from the reaction. No, you won't be having one of those powering your car for the foreseeable future, now matter how many hundreds of $billions might get pissed down that fraudulent rathole. Now THERE's a scam you should be loudly decrying. But you won't.
If you seagulls are interested in setting up LENR threads that will filter out insults, I’m all ears.
We could do it this way:
The first side to throw an insulting remark donates $25 to FR. A personal insult is $50. And the insulter has to post to the mod to have the post removed with the new post, sans insult, added to the thread.
Who should decide such a contest?
Someone both sides trust. Like, Salvation, or Alamo-Girl, or Betty Boop or maybe even Laz, or Windflier, or.... Honorable Freepers without viewpoint discrimination.
“Where is your concern for the CHF scam “
Rossi says that dollars spent on CHF are well spent. If you can’t believe Rossi who are you to believe?
“Why not throw MIT and SPAWAR and Mitusbishi and a Nobel Prize winning physicist under the bus?”
MIT is doing NO research on LENR.
SPARWAR is doing NO research on LENR.
“If you seagulls are interested in setting up LENR threads that will filter out insults, I’m all ears.
We could do it this way:
The first side to throw an insulting remark donates $25 to FR. A personal insult is $50. “
Nothing like putting an insult into an offer of peace. You owe $25.
Sure there is. Read the book from Kevmo's post #2 on this thread. Beaudette has examined the evidence for (and against) the claims, and provides more than sufficient references to experiments AND REPLICATIONS to satisfy any honest scientist or engineer.
“Read the book from Kevmo’s post #2 on this thread. “
I read page 1. It says that even though no one knows what is happening and it is not reproducible no big deal.
Not until we agree, seagull. We would obviously have to set up a new thread for such a purpose, or is that just a little bit too difficult for you to understand?
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