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Believe it or not, the first cold fusion power plant is now available to pre-order. The E-Cat 1MW Plant, which comes in a standard shipping container, can produce one megawatt of thermal energy, using low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) — a process, often known as cold fusion, that fuses nickel and hydrogen into copper, producing energy 100,000 times more efficiently than combustion. It sounds like E-Cat is now taking orders for delivery in early 2014, priced fairly reasonably at $1.5 million. Has cold fusion — the answer to all our energy needs — finally made its way to market?

Interesting discussion over at Vortex-L --------------www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg88124.html-------------- Electron assisted neutron exchange in solid state Jones Beene Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:09:57 -0800 -----Original Message----- From: pagnu...@htdconnect.com Subject: Electron assisted neutron exchange in solid state Electron assisted neutron exchange process in solid state environment http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5498v1.pdf Excellent find, Lou. This Kalman neutron-exchange paper is most definitely of interest to LENR. It offers yet another hypothetical way to get nuclear energy out of hydrogen-loaded metals with no free neutrons (as with W-L)- and with few of the other indicia of hot reactions. This electron-assisted modality also seems to work well - even better -...

Method of controlling a chemically- induced nuclear reaction in metal nanoparticles Tadahiko Mizuno Hydrogen Engineering Application & Development Company Three System Building 6 floor, Kita-ku, North 12, West-4, 1-15, Sapporo 001-0012 Abstract A nuclear reaction can occur when metal nanoparticles are exposed to hydrogen isotopes in the gas phase. When hydrogen isotopes (light hydrogen and deuterium) enter the nanoparticles and are exposed to electron irradiation, the hydrogen reacts inside the lattice, producing energy. The reaction also produces neutrons, gamma rays and transmutations. Normally, electron irradiation does not produce anomalous heat or radiation. A reaction occurs when hydrogen acts as a...

Brillouin Energy and SRI advancing together Video: Robert Godes speaking at ICCF-18 in the Entrepreneurs session. Brillouin Energy Corporation and SRI International continue their association cooperatively on experiments towards a commercial quantum fusion energy generator. “We are solving engineering problems with the Hydrogen Hot Tube (HHT™) and expect to have a solid system by the end of 2014,” says President and Chief Technical Officer Robert Godes. “We also bounce ideas about the next-gen WET™ system. They [SRI] are great to work with.” A relationship with investment firm Sunrise Securities is ongoing, but Godes says, “I don’t see Brillouin Energy going...

LENR Cars CEO Responds to Investor Questions December 12, 2013 • 11 Comments A few weeks ago we covered the LENR Cars pitch to be selected as a finalist in the Future Energy contest from Ultra Light Startups. The application process involves the ability to respond to questions from potential investors, and LENR Cars CEO Nicolas Chauvin has provided some additional information about his company in responses posted here. When asked about whether LENR Cars has built a prototype LENR system, Chauvin responds: “Yes, We have built 3 prototypes of 2 different kinds: - 1 with an electrolytic process where...

Smoking Gun” of LENR: Fleischmann Project results duplicated in one Day, Celani cell verified as LENR device Published November 7, 2013 | By jennifer TheMartin Fleischmann Memorial Project may have discovered the “smoking gun” of low energy nuclear reaction (LENR). The project’s blog is claiming that French scientist Jean-Paul Biberian independently replicated and confirmed one of its low energy nuclear reactions with less than 24 hours of work. Two project researchers Mathieu Valat and Bob Greenyer were able to detect gamma pulses every time they filled a Celani Cell with deuterium and switched it on. Valat and Greenyer are so...

I would be interested in your thoughts about how well this works, and how difficult it is to use.

Science journal rejections suppress clean energy research JCMNSlogo The recently published Volume 12 December 2013 Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science has an article detailing censorship by science journals. “How the Flawed Journal Review Process Impedes Paradigm Shifting Discoveries” by P.A. Mosier-Boss, L.P. Forsley, and F.E. Gordon describes the experience of these researchers as they submitted papers describing their low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR )experiments to mainstream science journals. From the Abstract: The purpose of scientific journals is to review papers for scientific validity and to disseminate new theoretical and experimental results. This requires that the editors and reviewers be impartial....

For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated a complex quantum mechanical phenomenon known as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), using a luminescent polymer (plastic) similar to the materials in light emitting displays used in many of today's smartphones. Applications could include energy-efficient lasers and optical switches, critical components for future computer systems processing Big Data Quantum Phenomenon Could Mean Breakthrough for Exascale Systems This discovery has potential applications in developing novel optoelectronic devices including energy-efficient lasers and ultra-fast optical switches – critical components for powering future computer systems to process massive Big Data workloads. The use of a...

METHODS OF GENERATING NON-IONIZING RADIATION OR NON-IONIZING 4He USING GRAPHENE BASED MATERIALS US 20110255644 A1 Abstract There is disclosed a method of generating non-ionizing radiation, non-ionizing 4He atoms, or a combination of both, the method comprising: contacting graphene materials with a source of deuterium; and aging the graphene materials in the source of deuterium for a time sufficient to generate non-ionizing radiation, non-ionizing 4He atoms. In one embodiment, graphene materials may comprise carbon nanotubes, such as nitrogen doped single walled or multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Unlike an alpha particle, the non-ionizing 4He atoms generated by the disclosed method are a low...

MIT IAP Cold Fusion 101 to run again [Translate] The IAP course on cold fusion co-taught by Drs. Peter Hagelstein and Mitchell Swartz is scheduled to run again in 2014 for a third year in a row. Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments will be held on campus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) January 27-January 31 at 10:30AM-1:30PM in Room 4-145. The class is sponsored by the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department where Hagelstein is a faculty member. In 2012, the course was well-attended and featured a JET Energy, Inc demonstration of...

Dr. Yeong E. Kim to Consult Cyclone Power Technologies on LENR December 3, 2013 • Cyclone Power Technologies is a company that is developing the Cyclone Engine which it describes as “a Rankine Cycle heat regenerative external combustion engine, otherwise known as a “Schoell Cycle” engine. It creates mechanical energy by heating and cooling water in a closed-loop, piston-based engine system.” Dr. Kim is known in the LENR community as a collaborator with Defkalion Green Technologies, and has recently written a paper on the Defkalion theory along with DGT chief technology officer John Hadjichristos. Cyclone Power Technologies Adds Renowned Nuclear...

A Mass - Flow - Calorimetry System for Scaled - up Experiments on Anomalous Heat Evolution at Elevated Temperatures # A. Kitamura 1 , 2 , A. Takahashi 1, 3 , R. Seto 1 , Y. Fujita 1 , A. Taniike 2 and Y. Furuyama 2 1 Technova Inc. , Japan , kitamuraakira3@gmail.com 2 Kobe University, Japan, 3 Osaka University, Japan We have been studying phenomena of anomalous heat evolution from hydrogen - isotope - load ed nano - composite samples at elevated temperatures as well as at room temperature using a twin absorption system [1 , 2 ] ....

J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci. 12 (2013) 105–142 Research Article Phonon–nuclear Coupling for Anomalies in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Peter L. Hagelstein ∗ Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Irfan U. Chaudhary Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology. Lahore, Pakistan Abstract Excess heat in the Fleischmann–Pons experiment is thought to have a nuclear origin, yet there are no energetic particles observed in amounts commensurate with the energy produced. This in our view is the most fundamental issue in connection with theory. In earlier work we developed a mathematical model...

Title Shortened. Full Title: Improved understanding of self-sustained, sub-micrometric multi-composition surface Constantan wires interacting with H2 at high temperatures: experimental evidence of Anomalous Heat Effects Francesco Celani, E.F. Marano, A. Nuvoli, E. Purchi, M. Nakamura, S. Pella, B. Ortenzi, E. Righi, G. Trenta, S. Bartalucci, A. Ovidi, G.L. Zangari, F. Micciulla, S. Bellucci, G. Vassallo Abstract This article is an extension of what presented by our team at 17th International Conference on Cold Fusion, ICCF-17, in Daejon, Korea, in 2012 [1]. It documents the improvements on Constantan-related experiments, started in 2011, in order to study the feasibility of new Nickel...

Elforsk Takes Lead in Preparing for LENR November 26, 2013 • 24 Comments The extensive report just published about LENR by the Swedish energy research organization Elforsk raises an important question. Why should Elforsk, when there is still so much doubt and skepticism about LENR in the mainstream of academia and the media, spend so much time and effort chronicling the history and current developments in the LENR field? To my mind the answer seems to be that Elforsk must be at least reasonably convinced that there is something behind the LENR phenomenon to write a report like this. Certainly...

“Cold Nuclear Fusion” at RASA Edward Tsyganov of Cold Fusion Power Edward Tsyganov of Cold Fusion Power, International and OSNovation Systems, Inc. presents Cold Nuclear Fusion at RASA. Edward Tsyganov forwards a report Cold Nuclear Fusion on his research presented at the Russian-speaking Academic Science Association (RASA) meeting held 8-10 November 2013, Clearwater Beach, FL. RASA: Cold Nuclear Fusion presentation .pdf slides [5.5M] Currently, humanity has reached a stage of development at which the struggle for energy resources is particularly important, because all the known sources of energy in the near future will not be able to provide our needs....

LENR Cars By LENR Cars 53 votes Vote Provide one sentence describing your core technology. LENR Cars is developing two technologies to reduce carbon emission: - Waste heat recovery system producing electricity from heat based on Rankine microturbines - Condensed matter hydrogen fuel cell that can consume 4000 times less hydrogen than conventional fuel cells for the same electrical output power thanks to LENR process LENR Cars is currently focusing on the transportation market with high tech collaborations in motor racing. Rankine microturbines are expected to reduce the fuel consumption of vehicles (cars, trucks and boats) by 15% while being...

Excerpt. FACT 1 EVIDENCE: LENR IS A REAL ENERGY CREATING MECHANISM (?) Long and rapidly growing list of credible people and organizations worldwide affirming LENR is real, with strong affirmation recently from NASA, US Navy, US Department of Defense, National Instruments, European Directorate-General as well as leading scientists and professors at respected Universities worldwide. Some 1700 peer reviewed LENR articles & hundreds of reported replications of LENR worldwide since the discovery in 1989. Ongoing and recently completed LENR public demos at MIT, NIWeek (Austin, Tx), ICCF-17 (Korea) and multiple demos in Italy. Navigation Bar Menu Bar Slide5 GROWING LIST OF...

UPDATE #3 - Many scientists report Gammas relating to LENR Since our last major blogpost, we have been inundated with information and pointers with respect to our initial findings of Gammas. Very interestingly, we have been made aware of other researchers work where Gammas have been found and even correlated to excess heat. First, Peter Mobberley, an affable British scientist from Advanced Energy Technologies, UK, who we had the pleasure of meeting at both ICCF-17 and ICCF-18 reported that he had seen Gammas in his Ni-H experiments. This is the same Peter Mobberley who was due to present the latest...