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Defkalion CEO: Entering the Toronto Stock Exchange This Year August 8, 2013 By admin Many thanks to an ECW reader who forwarded me a link to an article in the Greek magazine Tovima. The article is behind a paywall, so I am not able to post much of it here, (and it was written in Greek, so Google Translate has to be taken into consideration) but there are a few interesting points that I will pick out. The title of the article is “The return of Defkalion” and the journalist who wrote the article, Kafantaris Tasos, visited DGT’s CEO Alex...

NIWeek 2013 features Dennis Cravens experiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year’s National Instruments weeklong event NIWeek 2013 begins today and runs Monday, August 5 through Thursday, August 8 in Austin, Texas, U.S. Dennis Cravens, a long-time researcher who pioneered laser-induced reactions and has worked on energy cells as diverse as James Patterson‘s Patterson Power Cell, will be conducting a live demonstration experiment from booth #922 under the name Neo-Coulombic. From the NIWeek 2013 Program [.pdf]: Neo-Coulombic is a small private research group specializing in “long shot” technology involving methods of thermal energy generation using hydrogen and metals. physicsandbeyond.com Cravens described his device...

Link to slides only: http://iccf18.research.missouri.edu/files/day3/Distributed_Power_Source.pdf

Defkalion LENR / "Cold Fusion" demonstration at ICCF-18 The last 2 days Defkalion held public demonstrations of their gen 5 LENR reactors (which they prefer to call HENI (Heat Energy from Nuclei Interactions)). It will be remembered that Defkalion had a commercial agreement at one time with Rossi and his e-cat, but in August 2011 the relationship broke up. Defkalion continued on with work and have created a similar, though slightly different, reactor. Recall, what separates Rossi and Defkalion from the rest of the experimenters at this time (except perhaps George Miley who, I think, is working rather quietly with...

Sun streamed Monday through the glass walls of the University of Missouri's Bond Life Sciences Center, illuminating academic posters on the third floor as added light was shed on a science that was kicked back into the dark two decades ago because it was not understood. The science deals with low-energy nuclear reactions, previously referred to as cold fusion, and the Bond Life Sciences Center is playing host this week to the 18th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Fusion.

ICCF-18 Day 2: Strong Claims and Rebuttals [Traductor] The second day of ICCF-18 was a full one, beginning at 7:45AM and ending at 7PM. Eli and I filmed all the lectures, and spoke with some researchers one-on-one. It will take a while to get video out; there’s lots of permissions to be granted, and after filming for 13 hours, editing is not the first thing on our minds! But we got some pictures and audio for you dear reader. Keynote speeches by David Kidwell and James Truchard started the day. DSC_2172David Kidwell spoke on Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Research at...

COLUMBIA — From Sunday through Friday, MU will host the 18th International Conference on Cold Fusion. The conference will bring together scientists studying the potential for new forms of energy production.

Energy Update: Speculation on the Cold Fusion Front July 16, 2013 lenrosen434 C omments What is cold fusion as we understand it today? The answer is: “nobody really knows.” It is certainly not nuclear fusion as we understand it because the transmutation of elements as described by those who purport to have developed cold fusion reactors defies the laws of physics. Once the quest of medieval alchemists, transmutation of the elements sought a way to convert dross metals like lead and turn them into gold. Well it didn’t work then and it doesn’t work today, that is, unless you compress...

Synopsis of recent Finnish patent application THERMAL-ENERGY PRODUCING SYSTEM AND METHOD Patent to be issued to Etiam Oy. Inventor: Pekka Soininen The invention proposes to produce thermal energy in a reaction chamber from “nanoscale particle accelerators” and a nano-powder catalyst material used for promoting the formation and storage of condensed Rydberg matter. The particle accelerators are composed of a metal material (usually powdered Ni) capable of conducting electricity, absorbing hydrogen atoms in the interstitial spaces in the metal lattice forming a metal hydride, and a dielectric material (electric field creator usually in powdered form) capable of being polarized. The nanoparticles...

Professor Bo Höistad Answers Critics July 8, 2013 Following the negative critique given to the Levi HotCat paper, the Italian magazine, IB Times, conducted an interview with Bo Höistad, one of the seven members of the test team and signatory to the paper. This is an appropriate choice because Ericsson and Pomp are Nuclear physicists at Uppsala. As a peer at the same establishment, Höistad is understandably miffed at the criticism and takes a pot-shot at them in return for their unprofessional attack. I have some sympathy for this. While they made some valid points it was obvious that their...

NAVY LENR Patent Granted – Transmutes Radioactive Waste This U.S. Navy patent transmutes radioactive elements into less harmful elements through a benign “cold fusion” low energy nuclear reaction process. The patent was granted April 16, 2013 for a device and method that shortens the half-life of radioactive materials by increasing their rate of emissions. In light of the unfolding radioactive disasters at Fukushima and at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation facility, this Navy LENR technology and its’ applied engineering research, should be fast tracked and brought into the disaster field for further development. Environmental remediation of these nuclear catastrophes should be...

by Charles Stewart, Jr. | Stewart is a retired electronics engineer with a specialty in inertial guidance. He lives in Radford. Thursday, June 27, 2013 Negative words comprise a large percentage of the adjectives used in The Roanoke Times articles re: energy: expensive, depleting, exhausting, polluting, filthy, radioactive, etc. These negative words apply to petroleum, natural gas, coal, uranium, thorium (yep — thorium, too). How about a few positive words: cheap, endless, non-polluting, world-altering, safe, local (as in your basement or a closet). These words apply to LENR (low-energy nuclear reaction). It’s coming. Soon, though soon is really squishy but...

Abstract-Third Party Report An experimental investigation of possible anomalous heat production in a special type of reactor tube named E-Cat HT is carried out. The reactor tube is charged with a small amount of hydrogen loaded nickel powder plus some additives. The reaction is primarily initiated by heat from resistor coils inside the reactor tube. Measurement of the produced heat was performed with high-resolution thermal imaging cameras, recording data every second from the hot reactor tube. The measurements of electrical power input were performed with a large bandwidth three-phase power analyzer. Data were collected in two experimental runs lasting 96...

Washington Post cites Cold Fusion Now in LENR win [Translate] Weeks ago, the Washington Post asked readers What energy sources offer the most promise for the U.S.? LENR won. Today the journal noted that win, with author Neil Irwin citing the strong community support: After four weeks of the first Wonkblog CrowdSourced, there is a consensus! Asked to explain what you view as the most promising energy source for America’s economic and environmental future, you favored one answer, heavily, above the others: Low energy nuclear reactions, or cold fusion. Nine of the top ten vote-getters favored this answer. (Perhaps with...

Swedish District Heat Is A Perfect Fit For Cold Fusion [Translate] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original article on Atom-Ecology here. Cold fusion is a technology that has arrived in practical form, and that practical form is simple district heat. Chilly Stockholm Uses District Heating ItÂ’s strange that so many people think of energy only as electricity to power devices or petrol to fuel a vehicle. Anything short of those most convenient energy sources is treated as if itÂ’s all but useless, certainly not interesting. This attitude reveals a common human failing that equates manly power with all forms of power. If you canÂ’t...

Sergio Focardi Dies June 22, 2013 The following was posted on Andrea Rossi’s blog today. Please respect the memory and feelings of his family and friends. From all I have seen, he was a thoughtful, intelligent man who worked hard in the hope of bettering us all. Andrea Rossi June 22nd, 2013 at 2:46 AM SERGIO FOCARDI, PROF. EMERITUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, IS DEAD . I RECEIVED THE NEW FROM ITALY TODAY AT 3 A.M., USA EASTERN TIME, FEW MINUTES AGO. We all have lost one of the greatest scientists in the field of the LENR. For me...

. LENR Aircraft gets NASA research grant -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...

Hydrobetatron.org Launches — Open Source LENR Project June 18, 2013 By admin I received the following press release today from Ugo Abundo and Luciano Saporito regarding the launch of a new web site for open source LENR project. Ugo Abundo was the driving force behind the Pirelli High School (Rome, Italy) Athanor cold fusion device, and this work seems to have grown into this Hydrobetatron project. The following is Google translated (with some editing) from the original Italian. Online now is the website: hydrobetatron.org Open Source Energy Project Hydrobetatron.org is a website created by the will of Hugh Abundo and...

Not much news is coming out of the world of cold fusion besides the announcement that Hydro Fusion would like to have a utility test Andrea Rossi’s ecat low energy nuclear reaction or (LENR) device in Sweden. Rossi’s publication of limited ecat test results has spurred a lot of controversy and reaction but what are his various competitors up to? Assembly of a new LENR device the Mizuno Cell at the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project I looked around the web and found that Brillouin, Defkalion, and Nichenergy haven’t made any new announcements lately. None of these companies seem to have...

European Parliament – Brussels, 3 June 2013 The scope of the workshop was to make the European community aware of the "state-of-the-art" of the studies on the Fleischmann-Pons Effect (FPE) phenomenon. This effect is the appearance of excess energy when a Pd cathode is electrolyzed in heavy water. Energy densities measured during FPE are orders of magnitude larger than the maximum energy associated to any known chemical process. NetworkingThis effect was first discovered in 1989 by two electrochemists Prof. Martin Fleischmann and Dr. Stanley Pons, by loading palladium with deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen). This excess energy is not associated...