Duhh. Gigantic DUHHH factor. Yuge.
Posted on 07/11/2021 12:16:27 AM PDT by Kevmo
Abnormal absorption of hydrogen in nickel at ambient temperature with associated emission of neutrons # Ubaldo Mastromatteo 1
1 A.R.G.A.L. Via S. Stefano, 27/B – 20008 Bareggio (MI), Italy, E-mail: ubaldo.mastromatteo@libero.it
While it is known that nickel at a temperature of a few hundred degrees if in hydrogen can slowly absorb a certain amount of this gas [1], there is no evidence that this can occur at room temperature and at pressures below 1 bar. On the contrary, by conducting studies and experiments on LENR anomalies in the ARGAL laboratory in Bareggio, Italy, it has been experimentally verified several times that nickel in the form of wire, thin ribbon, foam, if properly covered with a thin layer of palladium, can absorb hydrogen in considerable quantities even at room temperature.
Example of results on thin nickel sheet (cut from a ribbon) with 200 nm of Palladium deposited on its surface. (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1- graph in which the black line indicates the drop in pressure from 315 mbar to 147 in about 2 hours and 30 minutes. The red line shows the behavior of a Palladium resistor as thin film Hydrogen sensor.
The material weighing approximately 0.6 grams, inserted inside a steel chamber connected to a vacuum system and a hydrogen generator for the introduction of the gas, after a few minutes from the introduction of hydrogen at a pressure of 315 mbar, began to absorb the gas and the pressure as seen in figure 1 rapidly dropped to 160 mbar.
The reactor chamber volume is 290 cc and so the amount of the hydrogen absorbed can be easily calculated, and also the / ratio.
Simultaneously the neutron monitoring began to show a significant rise in the background as can be seen in Figure 2 which shows two distinct peaks in the distribution of n / h neutrons per hour. The background distribution is the dotted line histogram.
Fig. 2 – neutron per hour monitoring histogram with data relating to many hours in which the reactor was under vacuum and for a similar number of hours after the absorption of hydrogen following the introduction of the gas at a pressure of 315 mbar
References [1] S. Focardi, V. Gabbani, V. Montalbano, F. Piantelli, S, Veronesi, “On the Ni-H System”, SIF Conference Proceedings, Vol. 64, pp. 35-47, 1997
I’ll check out the comments section a little later, I’m sure it’ll be priceless. I have zero respect for a field that has shown zero progress in the last 30 years and is run a lot like the “science” behind global-warming/climate-change.
The "hot fusioneers" have been at it a LOT longer, spent probably 1000X as much money, and produced less. LENR has had to try to "do science" on a pittance, and with the active opposition of the "hot fusioneers" and their allies not because their science is bad (if you think otherwise, you are simply ignorant of the science), but because LENR threatens their whole moneybags house of cards.
I’ll believe in LENR when I see it power so much as a desk lamp. The way to shut me up is to show me some damn results already.
Hot fusion has done as little and cost hugely more. Do you "believe" in that?? Your response is totally typical anti-LENR fake skepticism.
Me, I believe in high quality science, which, thus far, has generated sufficient data to indicate that "something" that current physics theory does not explain is happening. And that "something" is nuclear in nature.
Cold Fusion has 25 orders of magnitude more bang for the buck than hot fusion.
Review of The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion by L. J. Reinders
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Springer, May 21, 2021, 650 pages
ISBN-13: 978-3030643430
By Steven B. Krivit
July 11, 2021
A good non-fiction book is informative. A great non-fiction book also takes readers on a journey. When I got to the end of this book, I did indeed feel that this author had taken me on an amazing journey.
The Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion, by L. J. Reinders, stands alone. No book about nuclear fusion research approaches the objective and sober examination that Reinders provides. His research, foundation, and synthesis make this book an exemplary historical resource.
Before I go any further, I must disclose that I am not without bias; I am one of the sources cited in this book. Reinders cites my investigation of the required input power for the only three experimental fusion reactors in history to use real fusion fuel. I have a second disclosure: I did not pay close attention to some parts of the book. I will explain more about that in a moment.
A person need not read more than the title of this book to understand its key message. But Reinders did not approach the topic with an agenda to support his resultant thesis. In fact, the opposite is true.
Reinders, now retired, had a career in high-energy physics and worked at various research centers in Europe and Japan. When he began writing the book, as he explained, his intention was to urge more public support for fusion research. It seemed to him a promising endeavor that had a high probability of great social value. To his surprise and dismay, it became apparent to him that “nuclear fusion was a fantasy pursued by single-minded individuals that were apparently unable to see reason and the fundamental failings of their efforts.”
Despite his revelation, he continued and completed a book that not only serves well to separate facts from falsehoods but also succeeds in two other areas. First, despite his emergent despair about fusion, Reinders has created an encyclopedic tool that chronicles the historical development of the nuclear research field. Second, despite the fact that the window of practical fusion energy is as far away as it has always been, Reinders performs several “what-if” examinations to consider best-case scenarios. Rather than take the easy path of pot-shots or cynicism to provide the foundation for his thesis, he pursued various scenarios to thoughtfully consider the possible outcome of practical fusion energy.
The technical density of this book likely will make it a challenge for most lay readers. On the other hand, Reinders does have a forthcoming book that is intended for a lay audience. The book is called Sun in a Bottle?… Pie in the Sky! The Wishful Thinking of Nuclear Fusion Energy. The technical level in Fairy Tale provides the defense Reinders might need if he is critically attacked from people invested, either monetarily or by career choice, in the fusion establishment.
In a few places in the book, Reinders expresses his anger at the nonsense, dishonesty, and self-delusion that this book reveals. For readers who are new to the fusion illusion, Reinders’ emotive writing may be distracting, but it does not invalidate the facts he brings to light. For readers who have seen behind the illusory fusion curtain, his opinions will be a welcome reminder of the reality illuminated within the book. For example, he provides the statement from the prestigious International Atomic Energy Agency that “fusion is, today, one of the most promising of all alternative energy sources.” With not one practical Watt of power produced by fusion in 70 years, readers will begin to see the discrepancies between fusion reality and fusion fantasy.
I did not read thoroughly two areas of the book. The first area is the early section of the book, in which Reinders goes into great depth about the history of various fusion devices and approaches. In another area, Reinders goes into detail about the mechanics of various experimental devices. These are excellent topics to include in the book and will be useful for some readers. For me, as someone who holds no hope for controlled thermonuclear fusion as an energy source, these sections of the book were not sufficiently interesting.
I have one problem with the book. The fusion community regularly uses a form of doublespeak with key phrases such as “fusion power” and “scientific feasibility.” Reinders did not seem to recognize the double meanings and how they contributed to the gap in understanding between fusion scientists and fusion fans. As a result, Reinders inadvertently uses some of the fusion lingo and perpetuates some of the confusion.
There are two paragraphs in his book that I found infinitely illuminating:
In view of the almost insurmountable challenges remaining ahead on the way to a fusion-powered future and the almost total lack of scientific and technological progress achieved through erratic high-level global partnership as well as the decreased publicly funded research and development, which has now attracted the vultures of venture capital, it is unwarranted and incomprehensible that there is still trust in fusion as a promising option to provide a sustainable, worldwide supply of energy for centuries to come.
There is no other endeavor or project undertaken by mankind on which energy and money have been spent for close to a hundred years without any tangible results, only a dim prospect of success in another fifty years or so. The reason must be that there is a lot at stake, or perceived to be.
From my own interactions with key players and leaders in the fusion field, I believe that it is not money that is primarily at stake. Nor is it scientific achievement. From my perspective, what is at stake for the fusion players — scientists, educators, students, and international organizations — is relevance.
Nuclear fission research and its associated field of nuclear engineering became relevant within a few years of the successful operation of the first fission reactor. The horizon for the relevance of nuclear fusion, on the other hand, continues to recede every decade. This book shows why.
Bashing on hot-fusion doesn’t make your point, at all.
Not "bashing"...just even-handed examination of the real data.
Well then
... we can all see that 25 orders of magnitude difference is meaningless to you.
I look at this the same way I look at the atomic bomb. Show me the 22 KT kaboom, I don’t care about your supposed breakthrough in neutron production or neato hydrogen absorption rate. What a garbage post from a single page of a technical paper, no wonder it only got 20-something looks. 30 years of work and nothing useful, you’d be ashamed of that if you had any integrity.
Nothing Useful as the Bar. What a crock. There has been nothing useful from the Controlled Hot Fusion boys, either, despite the hundreds of $Billions of tax dollars spent. CHF is a lie. It's a scam to the tune of hundreds of $billions. CHF corner-turn has been 50 years, and that has been 60 years ongoing; LENR corner-turn has been about 5 years for the last 3-4 years. CHF cost hundreds of $billions in TAX dollars, while LENR has cost something in the tens of $Millions, and it has been almost all private money. CHF IP is worthless; LENR IP sold for $20M a few weeks ago. CHF con artists publish breathless articles about something that took place over 1 billionth of a second; LENR demonstrations have lasted days, weeks, and even months.
Yup. If LENR scientists wanted to learn how to scam, they would take lessons from CHF frauds.
Like I said, bashing hot-fusion doesn’t help make your point. It’s like getting busted for bank robbery and complaining about Bernie Madoff.
You’re bashing cold fusion so apply the concept to yourself, hypocrite.
And in the meantime, learn what 25 orders of magnitude looks like. It’s like saying a flea can knock the earth out of its orbit.
The pros and cons of hot-fusion have nothing to do with the viability of cold-fusion. Therefore, talking about it is EXTRANEOUS CRAP. I actually believe everything you say about it but it’s worthless to the argument, it’s a side-conversation that adds nothing.
I’m actually willing to read any technical paper on the subject. A single page yanked out of the middle of one? Not so much. As it stands it’s a garbage post. This is what people have come up with after 30 years?
Duhh. Gigantic DUHHH factor. Yuge.
It seems obvious that you don’t know what an order of magnitude is, let alone 25 of them.
25 orders of magnitude more bang for the buck isn’t 25X better — it is 1millionX1millionX1millionX1millionX10 better. But you wouldn’t know that.
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