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Brillouin Energy has entered into its first international licensing agreement covering three nations. The firm is involved in on-going negotiations for other potential international partners. This makes the second Cold Fusion or Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reaction (LANR) and Brillouin’s Controlled Electron Capture Reaction (CECR) idea to attract commercial interest. .... Brillouin’s CECR starts by introducing hydrogen into a suitable piece of nickel (or other metal with the correct internal geometry). A proprietary electronic pulse generator then creates stress points in the metal where the applied energy is focused into very small spaces. This concentrated energy...

Cold Fusion Energy: What to Expect and How Close We Are by Dr. Stoyan Sarg October 30, 2013 What are the expected major advantages of the new energy of cold fusion? One, obtaining cheaper and small nuclear energy reactors; and, two, avoiding the hazardous radioactive waste. Achieving the first one without solving the second will be a problem. Presently, management of the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is quite expensive, but it is part of the maintenance and the problem is considered solved. At least, it appears to be solved because the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe is a result of...

Title length was too long, here's the title at the header of the article: What is referred to as Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) or loosely termed Cold Fusion has been focused on thermal events. The idea is to heat a device up and harvest more heat out than input. The of the issues with this for electricity production is losses of at least 60% to convert heat into electricity. To date many researchers can clearly demonstrate an anomalous event, but no one has been able to engineer it into a practical application. LENR ElectricThis is where the research from...

Piantelli forms Protium Srl. to Sell Shares to the Public November 1, 2013 • 41 Comments 22Passi.blogspot.com is reporting the formation of Protium Srl, by Francesco Piantelli and his associates. The following is excerpted from a Google translation of the article on Daniele Passerini’s site. The “front” of LENR research headed by Professor Francesco Piantelli has returned to give news of him after several months of silence. He did it two days ago, a mailing list of known energeticambiente forum to which they had entered anyone interested in receiving news sull’azionariato linked to LERN Piantelli reactors. Two days ago the...

In Oct. 2013, Toyota published a paper in the peer-reviewed Japanese Journal of Applied Physics which confirmed important experimental results that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had first published in 2002. MHI had claimed transmutation of Cesium into Praseodymium via the forced diffusion of Deuterium gas through a thin-film heterostructure containing elemental Palladium using a permeation method pioneered by Mitsubishi; it is capable of triggering nuclear reactions in condensed matter systems under modest temperatures and pressures. Importantly, all of this experimental data is predicted and fully explained by the peer-reviewed Widom-Larsen theory of low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs). While the Mitsubishi permeation...

Efforts to explain low-energy nuclear reactions Edmund Storms Received: 8 August 2013 /Revised: 9 September 2013 /Accepted: 16 September 2013 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 The phenomenon called “ cold fusion ” or “ low-energy nuclear reaction ” (Storms 2007 ) has now reached a stage when expla- nations are attracting attention. The major experimental work was summarized by Storms in 2010 (Storms 2010 ). Now, Krivit has cited “ errors ” in this review which he believes might guide an explanation in the wrong direction. He notes that heat, detected using light hydrogen and when transmuta- tion occurred, was...

Journal Publishes Toyota¡¯s Independent Replication of Mitsubishi LENR Transmutation http://news.newenergytimes.net/2013/10/22/journal-publishes-toyotas-independent-replication-of-mitsubishi-lenr-transmutation/ Japanese Journal of Applied Physics http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/52/107301/ "Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Study on the Increase in the Amount of Pr Atoms for Cs-Ion-Implanted Pd/CaO Multilayer Complex with Deuterium Permeation" ABSTRACT To investigate the nuclear transmutation of Cs into Pr reported in this journal by Iwamura and coworkers, we have measured the amount of Pr atoms in the range as low as ¡­1¡¿1010 cm^-2 using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for Cs-ion-implanted Pd/CaO multilayer complexes before and after deuterium permeation. The amount of Pr was initially at most 2.0¡¿1011 cm^-2 and...

MFMP Hypothesis: Celani Wire Splits Hydrogen October 15, 2013 • 31 Comments There’s an interesting document published on the Martin Fleischman Memorial Project’s quantumheat.org site in which they propose experimental analysis the Celani wire which is made of a nickel-copper alloy called constantan. They say that some observers of their work are proposing that the excess heat they are measuring in their experiments is caused by the ‘Langmuir effect’ — a phenomenon discovered by Irving Langmuir in the 1920s where a tungsten filament at high temperatures causes hydrogen to split from a molecular state to a ‘monatomic‘ state, and then...

Michael McKubre: A Comprehensive Dialogue on LENR Interview with an LENR pioneer who likely needs little introduction: Dr. Michael McKubre. Dr. McKubre is an accomplished electrochemist who has been working in the field of Cold Fusion for over 20 years. He joined Stanford Research Institute in the late 1970s and has served as their Director of Energy Research up till the present day. He has made countless contributions to the field, including important replications in the mid 1990s that demonstrated an important correlation between excess heat and helium production in a variety of experimental setups. He was one of the...

In a press release the team led by Ugo Abundo today launched a new website. To be advertised is Hydrobetatron, the cold fusion reactor open source project created by Athanor . The project is presented with these words: hydrobetatron.org is a website created by the will of Hugh Abundo and Luciano Saporito, just as support for this project, the willingness to work within the new Science LENR, commonly known as (although misuse) of "fusion cold ", with the Open Source philosophy. Therefore you can follow step by step all the work of development of the "hydrobetatron," which will be held...

Sunday, September 29, 2013 DEFKALION’S HENI ARCHITECT HAS VISITED ME . Defkalion is actually much greater and is far more advanced than both CF hater and CF lover skeptics think. And it has made more very hard R&D work than most of you imagine. Companies and selected individuals have seen their labs and their Hyperion generators working. At its turn, Defkalion also has visited universities, institutes, and companies in many parts of the world... However I am a very privileged individual because I had the honor and pleasure to be visited by Defkalion’s research leader Yiannis Hadjichristos who has generously...

STMicroelectronics LENR Patent September 23, 2013 Developments in the CF arena may be slow but there are occasional surprises dotted on the way. One such is the revelation of a Patent application by STMicroelectronics. There is no doubt that this is LENR. It is in the title. The application is very specific and unlike AR’s patent apps, is extremely professional. I have only skimmed it to be sure it is worth discussion. It certainly is. Filed in February this year and with a priority date of Feb 2012, it is evident that some quarter of STM (Italian?) has a keen...

Second Cold Fusion Goes Commercial – Big Money Standing By September 17, 2013 | 2 Comments Brillouin Energy has entered into its first international licensing agreement covering three nations. The firm is involved in on-going negotiations for other potential international partners. This makes the second Cold Fusion or Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reaction (LANR) and Brillouin’s Controlled Electron Capture Reaction (CECR) idea to attract commercial interest. The other being the Rossi led effort. For a first person view of the news pull the YouTube up to 30 minutes and listen to the Robert Godes and Robert...

We haven’t heard much at all from Brillouin for a quite a while, and now they have decided to come out of hiding and do an interview on Gary Hendershot’s Smart Scarecrow Show. They have mentioned on their web site that they have entered into a licensing agreement for their LENR technology covering three countries, and so it could be interesting to find out how the company has been doing. UPDATE: The video of the interview is below — it starts at around the 30:00 minute mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXAg_424_2o

Polarisation of Fusion Diodes: From Excess Energy to Energy Fabrice David and John Giles Deuo Dynamics Moss Side House, East Blairdaff, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5LT. (UK) http://www.deuodynamics.com Abstract Conventionally, the cold fusion reaction produces heat. (1),(2) The authors have sought a different approach, wherein the device has no input energy, relying on the energy produced by cold fusion in the device. The device consists of diodes fabricated as powder, with a large surface junction made up of a semiconductor in contact with palladium charged with deuterium. The apparent fusion reactions take place in the junction between the semiconductor and the Palladium...

Cold Fusion and Skeptopathy skeptopathy Web definitions Pathological skepticism; an irrational belief that a phenomenon must be false merely because it is unusual. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skeptopathy There is no better example of skeptopathy doing great harm to humanity than the history of cold fusion. Everyone is probably familiar with Fleischmann and Pons’ claim that they had discovered a nuclear reaction that occurs at (or near) room temperature, compared with temperatures in the millions of degrees that is required for hot fusion. Furthermore, I bet everyone is also under the impression that their claim had been discredited – wrong! Pons and Fleischmann never...

Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter Eric Walker Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:49:47 -0700 I'm including a brief synthesis of some of the thoughts that have been discussed on this list concerning a possibly novel interaction between gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter. This synthesis elaborates on a thought experiment that at this time lacks the rigor of something that would be turned into in a paper. My hope is that it can nonetheless be further refined as one step towards a more rigorous presentation, should that come about at some point. Although the discussion below focuses on...

Full title: Tests find Rossi's E-Cat has an energy density at least 10 times higher than any conventional energy source (Phys.org) —In the ongoing saga of Andrea Rossi's energy catalyzer (E-Cat) that promises clean, cheap power for the world, the latest events continue to bring as many questions as answers. Several scientists have performed supposedly independent tests of two E-Cat prototypes under controlled conditions and using high-precision instrumentation. In a paper posted at arXiv.org, the researchers write that, even by the most conservative of measurements, the E-Cat produces excess heat with a resulting energy density that is at least 1...

Dr. Edmund Storms: Cold Fusion, Nuclear Active Environments, and New Energy August 21, 2013 Interview with Edmund Storms: a Nuclear Scientist with over two decades of experimental research in Cold Fusion. He is retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is the founder of Kiva Labs. He is the author of The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, a comprehensive survey of the field published in 2007. He has also developed the theory of the Nuclear Active Environment as an explanatory mechanism for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions. More Information on Dr. Storms and LENR can be found at http://coldfusionnow.org/ 1m-8m:...

MFMP launches new charity for expansion of Live Open Science The development of a usable cold fusion technology from its decades-old confinement at the fringes of mainstream science is being facilitated by a growing number of young people entering the field. This was readily apparent at the recent ICCF-18 meeting with the presence of the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project (MFMP), an informal group of international citizens engaged in cooperative, open-source science. Members of the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project at ICCF-18. Members of the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project at ICCF-18. Self-organized and partially crowd-funded, this Live Open Science (LOS) project began...