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Cold fusion 2: Japan wins with systematic method Meanwhile there's sensational news from Google By JONATHAN TENNENBAUM NOVEMBER 16, 2019 Print Prof. Yasuhiro Iwamura, head of the Condensed Matter Nuclear Research Center at Tohoku University and one of Japan’s leading cold fusion scientists. Photo: courtesy Yasuhiro Iwamura This is the second of a three-part series. Click here to read part one, which relates how early experimentation in cold fusion was largely abandoned due to disappointing results when researchers attempted to replicate findings – but the second wave of research is now showing promising results. In my view Japan – without...

Cold fusion: A potential energy gamechanger Think it's a failure, a joke? Think again. Big investors are positioning themselves, Japan & US in the lead By JONATHAN TENNENBAUM NOVEMBER 14, 2019 'Triple tracks' claimed as evidence for neutron emission from palladium deuteride. Photo: US Government, public domain This is the first of three installments. A desktop-sized nuclear reactor that generates energy without radioactivity – it sounds too good to be true. Indeed, the discovery of a novel form of nuclear energy called “cold fusion,” proclaimed in 1989 by the chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, has long been dismissed by...

February 16, 2021 • 103 Comments Update From Aureon Energy Thanks to Gerard McEk for posting the following update from Aureon Ltd. At the moment I am not sure what the source is for this text. It looks like it could be a communication to current and/or potential investors. In our latest experiments, we found transmutation occurring not only on the anode but all through the sample. Furthermore, the manganese that is being made in the atmosphere has been discovered to be depositing onto the cathode! Keep in mind, there is no manganese in SAFIRE. This shows the predictions by...

THE PATENTS FROM SAFIRE, as of 1-Jan-2020. Patent Title Country Filing Date Status as of Jan. 1, 2020 Document ION GENERATOR APPARATUS United States 08/20/2018 Granted US10398015B2 (1) - 4834-0442-4630 1.pdf ION GENERATOR APPARATUS Canada 08/202018 Pending CA3014940 - 4824-9858-6550 1.pdf ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR PLASMA GENERATION United States 08/20/2018 Pending US20190059149A1 - 4818-9309-8934 1.pdf ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR PLASMA GENERATION Canada 08/20/2018 Pending CA3014970 - 4844-4520-2358 1.pdf PLASMA HEATING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD United States 02/23/2018 Pending US 15904261 - 4818-2946-3990 1.pdf ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY FOR PLASMA GENERATION United States 08/18/2017 Pending ION GENERATOR APPARATUS United States 08/18/2017 Pending MANIPULATOR FOR MOVEMENT...

Google is spending $10M/year on this program. They have assembled a group of experts on electrochemistry and calorimetry. They have published an article on this project in the prestigious peer reviewed magazine, Nature. The 2 patents http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20190043624.PGNR.&OS=dn/20190043624&RS=DN/20190043624%EF%BB%BF http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20190045617.PGNR.&OS=dn/20190045617&RS=DN/20190045617%EF%BB%BF =========================================== Google, University of Maryland File Patent based on ‘High Density Electron Clouds’ Thanks to Max Nozin for referencing a new patent application (published February 7th, 2019) filed by Google Inc. and the University of Maryland, College Park on Aug 3, 2017. The title is “Enhanced Electron Screening Through Plasmon Oscillations”. Here is the abstract: Enhanced Coulomb repulsion screening around light element...

Elsevier Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Volume 882, 1 February 2021, 115024 Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Electrolytic co-deposition neutron production measured by bubble detectors Author Phillip J.Smith , Bruce M.Steinetz https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115024 Highlights • Bubble detector neutron dosimeters measured electrochemical cell neutron activity • Case control: PdCl2/LiCl/D20 cells were compared with CuCl2/LiCl/D20 control cells • Experimental cells exhibited neutron activity greater than controls: 99% confidence • Highest neutron-generating experimental cells produced dendritic cathode deposits • Neutron activity cannot be explained by chemical reactions, only nuclear processes Abstract Co-deposition electrochemical cells are a simple means to examine novel nuclear reactions. In this study,...

NASA Funds Study of Lattice Confinement Fusion Posted on October 1, 2020 NASA returns to LENR as a fuel of the future or as they call it “lattice confinement” referring to the lattice structure formed by the atoms making up a piece of solid metal. The NASA group used samples of erbium and titanium for their experiments. Under high pressure, a sample was “loaded” with deuterium gas, an isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron. The metal confines the deuterium nuclei, called deuterons, and excess energy is released via a fusion process. More can be read here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fusiontokamak-not-included...

Russian scientists have published a concept for a new kind of nuclear reactor. It’s a hybrid reactor, meaning it includes both fusion and fission, and it runs almost exclusively on thorium instead of more volatile uranium. In computer simulations, the research team found its novel design of an “energy-generating blanket” could still produce high power with a relatively small footprint and not much radioactive waste. There’s a lot to like about this design, including how it offers interesting middle-ground solutions in terms of fuel, reactor configuration, and safety. Thorium is one of the most abundant elements of its kind—more abundant...

…[A] team of scientists working with a Harvard graduate student is for the first time applying deep learning — a powerful new version of the machine learning form of AI — to forecast sudden disruptions that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks that house the reactions. Unlike traditional software, which carries out prescribed instructions, deep learning learns from its mistakes. Accomplishing this seeming magic are neural networks, layers of interconnected nodes — mathematical algorithms — that are “parameterized,” or weighted by the program to shape the desired output. For any given input the nodes seek to produce...

...he has invented a magnetic generator, a flywheel system that extracts usable energy from the interplay of exotic magnets—also known as a free-energy device, a cousin to the fabled perpetual-motion machine... He will have also achieved something that has eluded great minds from Leonardo da Vinci to electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla. How is that even possible? “Tesla didn’t have rare-earth magnets and digital machine control,”... If there’s more energy out than in, we throw away the textbooks and send [Mr. Danzik] half a dozen Nobel Prizes, because one isn’t enough.... , the R32 Earth Engine, hucks two 900-kilogram flywheels at...

Sound has negative mass, and all around you it's drifting up, up and away — albeit very slowly. That's the conclusion of a paper submitted on July 23 to the preprint journal arXiv, and it shatters the conventional understanding that researchers have long had of sound waves: as massless ripples that zip through matter, giving molecules a shove but ultimately balancing any forward or upward motion with an equal and opposite downward motion. That's a straightforward model that will explain the behavior of sound in most circumstances, but it's not quite true, the new paper argues. A phonon — a...

Thanks to Joseph J for posting about a report that has been published by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) titled “Investigation of Nano-Nuclear Reactions in Condensed Matter”. The report is written by Pamela Mosier-Boss of SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, Lawrence Forsely of JWK International and Patrick K. McDaniel of the University of New Mexico. According to Wikipedia the DTRA “is an agency within the United States Department of Defense and is the official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives). DTRA’s main functions are threat reduction, threat control, combat...

Thanks to Adrian Ashfield for sharing this information with me who tells me this information comes from the research notes of Louis F. DeChiaro, Ph.D, a physicist with the US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Dahlgren Warfare Center. I am told this text has been cleared for public dissemination. As for duplicating the Pons and Fleischmann results, we now have a much better understanding of the phenomenon, and the list of prerequisite conditions is rather lengthy. Failure to meet even one of those conditions results in zero excess energy output. The data suggest that there may be more than one...

A prominent North Carolina investor is backing a new kind of fusion that operates at much lower temperatures than thought possible, which would make it easier to commercialize. So far the early results show promise. Tom Darden, the founder and CEO of the $2.2 billion private equity fund Cherokee Investment Partners, made his mark by acquiring and cleaning up hundreds of environmentally contaminated sites. Today he is also an early stage investor in clean technology, having put his own money into dozens of companies in areas ranging from smart grid to renewable energy, and prefab green buildings. More recently he’s...

An interesting presentation has been uploaded on the LENR-Forum which was given by Louis F. DeChiaro, Ph.D, a physicist with the US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Dahlgren Warefare Center. The presentation was given at a IEEE Meeting on “LENR Phenomena and Potential Applications” held on Sept. 23 2015 at Teradyne in North Reading, Massachusetts. For people who have been following LENR closely over the past few years, there will not be too much new information in the slideshow. It is mostly a review of what has been happening in the field from the time of Fleischmann and Pons up...

Today Andrea Rossi was granted a patent on his LENR based heating device the E-Cat. I have not yet had time to study the patent further, but I just wanted to make it available here on the blog as soon as possible. Note that LENR is not mentioned explicitly, but also note that the contents of the fuel mix are specified — lithium and lithium aluminium hydride as fuel and “a group 10 element, such as nickel in powdered form” as the catalyst. This is important since fuel and catalyst specifications have been lacking from earlier patent applications by Rossi...

Mats Lewan has posted on his Impossible Invention blog that Andrea Rossi has been granted a US Patent The patent was granted today, August 25 2015.

his is an interesting comment written by Jean-Francois Geneste, Vice-President Chief Scientist of Airbus Group Innovations on his LinkedIn page yesterday. 13. Aug. 2015 I made a major theoretical breakthrough in the field of “energy creation”. This will be presented at the 11th workshop on anomalies in hydrogen loaded metals which will be held next October in Airbus, Toulouse. http://www.iscmns.org/work11/. What it basically consists in is a global theorization of energy creation which includes all known means up today, that they be chemical, nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. Against all expectations, it is proved that there is potential room for...

What an honor it is to be here today to address those of you who have done so much to change the way we address our energy needs and our environmental needs, to change science. I’m the founder of Cherokee, and I’ve been asked to tell you we are the body that created Industrial Heat as a funding source for LENR inventors. Unike many of you, I’m not a scientist, I’m an entrepreneur. We share the common bond of innovation . . . Entrepreneurship sees the major task in society as doing something different, rather than doing something better than...

The following joint press release has been issued today in Japan by Clean Planet, Inc. and Tohoku University. Link: http://cleanplanet.co.jp/news/en/15.03.30%20Clean%20Planet%20-%20Press%20release.pdf Clean Planet Inc. and Tohoku University to launch “Clean Energy Research Lab” to develop a clean, safe and abundant form of energy for our global community. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TOKYO – March 30, 2015 Clean Planet Inc. and The Research Center for Electron Photon Science of Tohoku University agreed to establish the collaborative research division – Condensed Matter Nuclear Reaction Division at Tohoku University. In this division, fundamental research on condensed matter nuclear reaction, R&D on energy generation and nuclear...