Cold Fusion Has a Good Week

February 2, 2012 - "Last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Electrical Engineering Prof. Peter Hagelstein taught an Independent Activities Period course titled “Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments.”  For many, the news that an MIT professor holding a cold fusion class at MIT is astonishing because decades ago former MIT people went to extreme lengths to discredit cold fusion and denigrate the careers of interested researchers. Times have changed.  ....  The news reported is Dr. Swartz and Prof. Hagelstein demonstrated cold fusion openly for the attending scientists and engineers. .... This week also has Defkalion back in the news.  The firm has a short video on YouTube of some testing taking place on one of their “bare” reactors.  This comes soon after the firm offered qualified testing opportunities to worthy scientists and industrial concerns."

February 2 - "The NANOR used in the open MIT Demonstration is a ZrO2-PdD Cold Fusion/LANR solid state quantum electronic device – now ongoing for five days straight!"

"... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and proved impracticable." -
          [New York Times, January 16, 1880]

 "Professor Goddard ... does not know the relation of action to reaction ... he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools"
          [New York Times, January 13, 1920]

COLD FUSION TIMES - INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS

JET ENERGY Successfully Scores its SECOND COLD FUSION/LANR  OPEN DEMONSTRATION AT MIT During the First IAP Short Course on Cold Fusion

January 30-31, 2012 - Cambridge, MA. - As part of the IAP Course on COLD FUSION at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Mitchell Swartz, JET Energy, and Prof. Peter Hagelstein demonstrated cold fusion openly for scientists and engineers.   The demonstration was a two day part of the detailed, yet overview, seven day course run by Prof. Hagelstein and Dr. Swartz, and followed the first open demonstrations of cold fusion at MIT in 2003.  This JET Energy NANOR(TM) demonstrated a significant energy gain greater than 10, much larger than the previous open demonstration.  This exhibition is also remarkable because it confirmed the role of the nanoengineered lattice in enabling the CF/LANR activity.  It followed Prof. Hagelstein sharing his breakthrough explanatory theory of cold fusion during the first 5 days.  The NANOR technology of JET Energy may have already begun to shatter a few preconceived notions of skeptics and cold fusioneers.

"Fifty years from now, when you look back at your life, don't you want to say you had the guts to study cold fusion?

"Radio has no future."
 Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897. 

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." 
Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London. 

COLD FUSION TIMES - INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS

MIT IAP Short Course on Cold Fusion (Day 3) - 

Cambridge, MA - The IAP Short Course (7 days) on Cold Fusion and Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions has meticulously developed the salient point that skeptics of cold fusion were wrong, and that scientific theories do exist for understanding the difficult to achieve reactions.  Here, on day 3, Prof. Hagelstein demonstrates experimental results proving the role of deuteron flux in PdD hydrides resulting in excess heat accompanied by commensurate de novo helium-4 production, and a visiting engineer from Canada makes a contributory point.

        Christy L. Frazier

"Beginning on January 23, 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Electrical Engineering Prof. Peter Hagelstein will teach an Independent Activities Period (IAP) course titled “Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments.”  While Hagelstein expects attendance in the course to be small (based on the historical lack of interest in cold fusion at MIT), he plans to pack a lot of information into the available 10.5 hours. 

Some of the lecture material includes: observation of excess power in Fleischmann and Pons’ early experiments; claim of energy production without chemical or nuclear products; important negative experiments from 1989; theoretical difficulties; Huizenga’s “three miracles” (lack of strong neutron emissions and gamma rays or X-rays, Coulomb barrier penetration); hydrogen/deuterium evolution reactions and electrochemical models; excess power as a function of loading; vacancies and codeposition; the nuclear ash problem; correlation of He-4 with excess power in Fleischmann-Pons experiments; overview of theoretical approaches; ideas for coherent energy exchange between mismatched quantum systems; excess power in the NiH system; the Piantelli experiment; prospects for a new, small-scale, clean nuclear energy technology. 

On January 30-31, Dr. Mitchell Swartz, of JET Energy, will present experimental results showing excess power in PdD and NiH systems, with a particular focus on experiments he has conducted."

Proceedings of 14th and 15th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-14 and ICCF-15) (pdf files)

(The uncensored (*) proceedings below. Those at the LENR-CANR site are censored re:several LENR/LANR/CMNS authors; so support the CMNS Site !!!

January 25, 2012 - (Unencumbered by accuracy) New Energy Times is reporting today that the research partnership with between the University of Bologna and Andrea Rossi had been terminated. 

UPDATE: The following statement from Rossi was forwarded to me by PESN: “DEAR HANK: PLEASE PUBLISH EVERYWHERE YOU CAN: THE STATEMENT OF KRIVIT IS TOTALLY FALSE!!!”

January 25, 2012 - "The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the permitting of third party evaluations of their product named “Hyperion”.  ....The press release offers extensive details on the conditions PDGT hopes to hold through negotiations with test offers. ... This stage is a very impressive boost for both PDGT and the LENR community."

The Widom-Larsen theory is a recent unattributed knockoff based upon others' theories in COLD FUSION before it, combined with a flawed foundation based upon uncorrected data from Prof. George Miley's COLD FUSION data. And so, is it not hypocritical to plagiarize and then attempt to hide it by renaming the entire field of COLD FUSION.

   Steven Krivit - "Even as early as 1990[3], Hagelstein was seriously considering weak-interaction processes that would create (virtual) neutrons.... If Widom and Larsen end up being correct, Hagelstein, as well as Tadahiko Mizuno, Yasuhiro Iwamura and Mitchell Swartz, can take credit for the good instincts that led them to consider weak interactions and neutrons key to LENR."

January 17, 2012  "...Mr. Rossi has sent prototypes to the Underwriters Laboratories (UL). ....  For manufacturers the UL also extends more than just final product tests, they work with manufacturers at the design stage to assure that a final product will in fact achieve an UL label.  It’s a highly likely prospect that the design stage is where the UL and Mr. Rossi have started the process.  ... The UL involvement follows news that National Instruments (NI) is working with Mr. Rossi in designing new control systems for the one-megawatt and home size 10 kilowatt (kw) E-Cat.  In the conversation Mr. Rossi offered that now great progress is being made and on his blog he’s indicated that they have been able to achieve stable steam production of 400ºC. This will be important later for the efficient production of electricity."

Momentous Breakthroughs Announced During Anniversary E-Cat Interview

"Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat (cold fusion energy catalyzer), announced many breakthroughs in the development of his technology... This is the first exotic free energy technology that we know of that has been submitted for UL certification, a major milestone prior to deployment to the market.

REACTOR CORE -- The reactor core of the home E-Cat unit is about the size of a cigarette box, and is capable of producing ten kilowatts of power. 

SIMPLE REFUELING -- It was revealed home E-Cat units would be capable of being re-fueled by individuals, and not by technicians. He claimed it would be like changing the ink in a pen....If the entire world converted all their power producing systems to run off nickel, only 1% of the annual production would be consumed.

NO HYDROGEN CANISTER -- Unlike previous E-Cat systems which required the use of a hydrogen canister, the new home E-Cat utilizes a material inside of the reactor core which can release and absorb hydrogen. ...The removal of the hydrogen canister will make the certification process simpler

UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES -- Rossi said that they have sent prototypes to UL, and they are working with them to get the home unit certified for "UL approval". 

CATALYSTS -- In regards to a question about the importance of the catalysts, Rossi stated that the system will not work without them. 

RADIO FREQUENCY GENERATORS -- He claims that the radio frequency generator allows the forces that would normally prevent the fusion process from taking place (Coulomb forces) to work for you, and not against you. 

GAMMA RADIATION  -- The signature of the gamma radiation that has been detected is said to be 511 keV at 180 degrees."

"The Michigan US Senate race includes over half-a-dozen Republicans vying for Democrat incumbent Debbie Stabenow’s long-held seat, but only one has LENR on their platform."

"America’s economic growth is strongly related to our access to low-cost energy sources. .... Called at the time “cold fusion,” this announcement caused a great stir among scientists worldwide. While some research facilities were able to replicate the “cold fusion” findings, most facilities could not. But, ultimately, the scientific community was nearly unanimous in saying that known principles of physics would not allow fusion to occur at room temperatures on a tabletop.     Despite this scientific consensus,  a sizable group of researchers from around the globe continued their experiments and kept documenting anomalous results that were consistent with a nuclear process occurring." 

ISSUE 100, November/December 2011 - • Celebrating 100 Issues  - • Gene Mallove's Legacy
• NUCAT Energy LENR Course - • Surveys of Cold Fusion & New Energy

PALLADIUM SYSTEMS -  Input electrical power and observed output heat power (and energies) as a function of time for the Phusor system and the electrical control

        The figure above shows the input and  output power (and energy) of a JET Energy, Inc. Nickel Phusor.   ...The graph results the power and energy of two JET Energy Technology generators, compared with three ohmic (Joule, or thermal) control pulses. The two solid lower lines are energy curves (input and output). They should be read off the right y-axis
Swartz. M., "Consistency of the Biphasic Nature of Excess Enthalpy in Solid State Anomalous Phenomena with the Quasi-1-Dimensional Model of Isotope Loading into a Material", Fusion Technology, 31, 63-74 (1997) 
 

MU research chief wants 'cold fusion' puzzle solved

Dec. 3, 2011 - "Rather than squabbling over the merits of studying cold fusion or jumping to the conclusion that excess heat produced at room temperature is a nuclear reaction, the scientific community needs to back up — all the way to the top of the scientific method.  That’s the opinion of Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri. He is in the early stages of pitching a plan to establish a national research program that would help scientists study tabletop energy.  ....  Duncan is proposing the federal government offer a competitive grant that would let university researchers more thoroughly study excess heat phenomena. MU likely would vie for such funding, but there are professors at several major research universities interested in the field."

"Scientists have linked two diamonds in a mysterious process called entanglement that is normally only seen on the quantum scale. ...  To do so, the researchers set up an apparatus to send a laser pulse at both diamonds simultaneously. Sometimes, the laser light changed color, to a lower frequency, after hitting the diamonds. That told the scientists it had lost a bit of energy. ... Then, the researchers sent a second pulse of laser light through the now-vibrating system. This time, if the light emerged with a color of higher frequency, it meant it had gained the energy back by absorbing it from the diamond, stopping its vibration.  The scientists had set up two separate detectors to measure the laser light — one for each diamond. ... Instead, because the two diamonds were linked, they found that one detector measured the change every time, and the other detector never fired."

NASA’s Dennis Bushnell: CF/LANR/LENR Solves Global Climate and Energy

Dec. 2, 2011 - "Over 2 decades with over 100 experiments worldwide indicate LENR is real, much greater than Chemical, Transmutations, Minimal radiation
        Superb light weight power/ energy sources for space probes/ instruments and hoppers/ rovers, far less expensive than solar and better than radiologics for beyond Mars where solar does not “work”
        Reduced LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and in space propulsion weights/ costs
        Solves EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing) for large payloads to Mars via ingestion, heating and retro injection of atmospheric CO2
        Potentially obviates order of 80% of the 1000 metric ton LEO (Low Earth Orbit) up-mass for Humans Mars which is in-space fuel, Propulsive mass from far outer region atmosphere or regolith
        Source for energy beaming, energy to terraform Mars, Enables Active Space Radiation Protection
        Overall, enables what we have never had – “Energy Rich” design space[s]
        Fuel fraction becomes negligible, huge impacts upon vehicle gross weights, especially for SST’s which are some 55% fuel fraction
        BTW LENR [ also] solves Global Climate and Energy"

  "... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and proved impracticable." 
          [New York Times, January 16, 1880]

2nd (Rossi-type) Commercial Cold Fusion Generator - 2012 release

"A second commercial product based on cold fusion technology is planned for release next year. Yesterday Praxen-Defkalion Green Technologies released a Technical Specifications Sheet detailing elements of the Hyperion thermal energy generator that creates heat using a nickel-hydrogen exothermic reaction Ni-H, the same technology that the Energy Catalyzer E-Cat generates. ... The smaller model is a 5-11 kiloWatt output of steam power and requires an input of at most 200 W input of electrical power, giving an energy return ranging from 25-32 times the energy input. The 5 kW unit has a reactor of dimensions 12 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm (12 cm = 4.7 in)."

Defkalion Announces 5kW Hyperion

"The Hyperion is described as a 5 kilowatt, heat-producing, chemically-assisted, low-energy nuclear reactor. They say that up to nine of these modules can be combined to form a 45 kW unit, and that these units are expected to be available for purchase in 2012, and that license agreements are being considered....The 21-page Specs Sheet gives minute details about the Hyperion reactor, including
 ...    Gamma radiation specs: < 0.18 µSV/h ...  Recharge of H and Ni every 6 months ...     Recycling: more than 98% (in weight) of Hyperion product is made from recyclable materials .... COP better than 1:25"

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Defkalion Site Down – Here Are The Hyperion Specs

   "Synthetic thermal oil – (alkyl aromatic) ...    Two main sizes: 5-11kW and 10-45kW
    Operating temp depends on system (four variants) 185, 285, 414 deg C
    Ext 55x45x42cm      19kg and 47kg     Max elec input <200w and <310W
    COP 1:25 min and 1:32 min"

Defkalion Green Technologies Issues Press Release, Technical Specification Data

US to restart Nucleaer reactors

Yomiuri Shimbun - "After 34 years, the United States is expected to resume construction of nuclear reactors by the end of the year, and Toshiba will export turbine equipment for the reactors to the U.S. early next month, it was learned Saturday. ...  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to shortly approve the construction and operation of the reactors, which have been designed by Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Toshiba. The decision to resume construction of reactors is expected to pave the way for Japan to export related equipment to the United States ... The reactors to be constructed are of the AP1000 type, an advanced 1,100-megawatt pressurized water reactor, and are targeted to go into operation in 2016 at the earliest."

Asahi Japan Watch -  Dec. 1, 2011 - "Most of the fuel rods that melted in the pressure vessel of the No. 1 reactor of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant dripped into the containment vessel and ate into it, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. ... Water levels have submerged the fuel rods at all three reactors, which is helping to cool them, the plant operator said. ... During the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, a core meltdown occurred but the pressure vessel was not breached. TEPCO now faces the challenge of developing new technologies to recover the melted fuel for when eventual decommissioning of the reactors gets under way. .... The melted fuel filled pits on the concrete floor of the containment vessel, eroding it to a depth of about 65 centimeters."

Hope, skepticism for cold fusion
 D.C. Denison

Nov. 28, 2011 - Boston Globe - "The Italian scientist who says he has developed the world’s first cold fusion reactor - a claim that has been hotly contested in scientific circles - visited the State House last week to explore the prospects for developing and manufacturing the device in Massachusetts. ....If the technology works, it could enable a new generation of power plants to provide safe, cheap, and virtually unlimited nuclear power, without fossil fuels or radiation concerns...  Andrea Rossi was invited to Massachusetts by the Senate’s minority leader, Bruce Tarr (left), a Republican from Gloucester.
‘‘If it works, I want this technology to be developed and manufactured in Massachusetts,’’ Tarr said of cold fusion. ... After the meeting, Rossi, who paid his own way to Massachusetts, was enthusiastic about a possible partnership with the state."

Has Defkalion's President Confirmed the Accusations of Rossi and Stremmenos?
    Hank Mills

"Earlier in this year, Defkalion was making big claims about their technology, and the progress they have made.  ....For their claims to be true, Defkalion would require one particular thing beyond anything else - working reactor cores that were capable of producing robust Ni-H cold fusion (LENR) nuclear reactions.
Stunningly, it now seems that when their bold statements were being made, they may not have legitimately held the proprietary and confidential information  ... According to Xanthoulis the information was gathered, "without him [Rossi] understanding what they did. ...."Let’s say I have the formula of Rossi, but I’m not saying it officially. My scientists found a way to make it.  ...."I know what he’s got in the reactor, I know everything. It was a spectroscopy  made by the university of Siena."  ... His statements seem to confirm those made by Rossi, that Leonardo Corporation had never given Defkalion any of the proprietary information needed to build working reactor cores."

“Let’s say I have the formula of Rossi, but I’m not saying it officially. My scientists found a way to make it. They need three months.” That is what Alexandros Xanthoulis, representative of Defkalion Green Technology’s owners, told Ny Teknik in a telephone conversation on August 5, 2011."

"Defkalion DGT has rather belatedly updated their site. Previously Andrea Rossi’s proud eCat licencee for Greece and The Balkans."

Nov. 27, 2011 - "If there is any way to solve the huge economic problems the world is facing today, breakthroughs in energy technology could play a major role, and at the moment E-Cat technology seems to offer the most promise.  Despite a chronically weak economic picture worldwide, energy prices are stuck at high levels and the prospect of them going higher seem likely as costs of discovery and extraction increase, and geopolitical uncertainties and fears persist. .... The energy catalyzer could be the most significant invention since the dawning of the industrial revolution" 

Dr. Mallove after achieving excess energy with a JET Energy, Inc. cold fusion high impedance Phusor(R)-type LANR experiment, and then successfully arranging to show the setup at the 10th International Conference on Cold Fusion in Cambridge, Mass, at the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003.

Reviewing DoD Interest in Cold Fusion

Nov. 25, 2011 - "The majority of cold fusion research has been done by self-funded independent scientists. Yet several federal entities and independent companies have found the results of experiments convincing enough to provide some small-scale funding to a select few labs.  Department of Defense agencies that have provided funding, confirmed results, or positively-reviewed cold fusion research include:

Naval Research Laboratory
Defense Threat Reduction Agency DTRA
Defense Intelligence Agency DIA
Defense Advanced Research Agency DARPA
Army Research Lab ARL

"This body of research has produced evidence that nuclear reactions may be occurring under conditions not previously believed possible. Recent results suggest these anomalous LENR phenomena can be triggered by various energetic stimuli (electric and magnetic fields, acoustic waves, infrared, lasers) and may have a variety of operational modes." - Defense Intelligence Agency

    “Low energy nuclear reactions are showing some remarkable progress with respect to energy (excess heat) production and transmuted element detection, but experiments remain only thinly reproducible. LENR also suffers from a basic lack of understanding of the governing physics.” - Defense Threat Reduction Agency Technology Review 2007 

While Department of Energy ignores the civilian applications of cold fusion, military and DoD interest in cold fusion is strong. The nature of cold fusion reactions do not lend themselves to weapons development the way fission and hot fusion did in the twentieth century, but the prospect of energy-dense power for heating, electricity and transportation makes cold fusion a valuable military asset ..... Military research gave the world the internet. Perhaps military research will help to furnish the next world-changing civilian technology, too."

1 Megawatt eCat Brochure

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Rossi: eCat 10,000 Target ‘Close’

Andrea Rossi Working with Domenico Fioravanti on Electrical Power from E-Cat

Nov. 25, 2011 - "Andrea Rossi has recently reported making a significant breakthrough in producing electricity from the E-Cat, something that had been a challenge for him for a long time. ....    “Actually, we have found a breakthrough with a primary fluid with wich the reactors remain stable when we make steam at 450 Celsius. We are working on it together with our Customer.”  ..The retired engineer Rossi mentions is Domenico Fioravanti, the consultant that was sent by Rossi’s military customer to test the first 1 MW plant in Bologna. "

Rossi's e-Cat Goes Commercial

EV World - "Andrea Rossi may have his doubters, detractors and skeptics, but the client for whom he demonstrated his 1MW e-Cat energy system apparently isn't one of them. Not only did the mysterious client take delivery of Rossi's first 1MW heat energy production system, but ordered a dozen more for use in cold, remote locations. That's an order worth $24 million..... As far as the client is concerned, he/she/they are satisfied that the technology works, producing low-grade steam via a heretofore little understood physical process often identified as 'cold fusion' that somehow generates anomalous amounts of heat by combining nickel powder, hydrogen gas and a proprietary catalytic material that when heated to a critical point, goes into a self-sustaining reaction that isn't chemical in nature.. .... In the Bologna demonstration, some 50 sub-units, each measuring 20 by 20 by 15 inches and containing three e-Cat chambers each the size of an orange, ran for more than 5 hours, generating the combined equivalent of 472kW of energy per hour as measured by the amount of 110-120C steam created.

Another Rossi Interview

Nov. 24, 2011 - EVWorld, the publication responsible for the well-known Bushnell interview, has conducted another, this time featuring Andrea Rossi. .... Rossi said that the reason for cutting back the power was because some gaskets were leaking, due to the high internal temperatures.   ....     He is working with NI to move away from the current manual control. Tentative deduction that NI is actively involved with design of instrumentation to gain better control and stability ....  Rapid evolution possible but he doesn’t see a big improvement in the core.  Need 500C steam for electrical. At 120C steam the inside temperature is too high .. not a very stable situation. ... He met with (Sen.) Tarr. Mass wants jobs and there are good technical workers available."

Proceedings of ICCF14 (Volume 1; pdf)    Proceedings of ICCF14 (Volume 2; pdf)
Part 2 - Review of the 2011 Cold Fusion/Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)
Part 1 - The 2011 Cold Fusion/Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)

Rig Zone - "Helium is likely to move from a derived product of natural gas production in the United States to a primary drilling target in the next five years.  .... Throughout the 20th Century, the Hugoton field was the source of most of the world's helium production. Hugoton gas contains concentrations of helium ranging from 0.3 percent to 1.9 percent and it represents about 75 percent of all domestic helium production," Bo Sears explained. ... For most of the 1900s, conventional gas treating operations captured helium as a byproduct. ...This helium byproduct was and is further refined and sold. .... The U.S. is not only the largest supplier of helium, but also the largest consumer. The U.S. consumes about 39 percent or 2.45 Bcf/yr of the worldwide helium demand, compared to Asia, which represents about 27 percent 1.65 Bcf/yr.... If the US ultimately becomes an importer of helium, I cannot even fathom what helium would cost. You certainly wouldn't see any more toy balloons at birthday parties. They would simply cost too much. Besides, helium is far more important for science, industry and academia."

      David J. French

Starting 2012 with Cold Fusion 101

Nov. 18, 2011 - "A new short course on cold fusion science and technology sponsored by the Engineering and Computer Science departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be held in January 2012 during institute’s Independent Activities Period. Designed for MIT students, Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments addresses the early history of cold fusion science beginning with the analysis of the original palladium-deuterium type systems that Drs. Fleischmann and Pons used in their research during the late 1980s.  Peter Hagelstein of MIT Electrical Engineering is leading the class with Mitchell Swartz of Jet Energy in a technical overview of theory and experimental electrochemistry and LANR R&D". 

Nov. 14, 2011 - "Brian Ahern received his PhD in material science from MIT, holds 26 patents and was a senior scientist for 17 years in research and development at USAF Rome Lab at Hanscom Air Force Base. Ahern was the U.S. Air Force’s expert on nano-materials. Ahern has discovered the LENR phenomenon is occurring on the nanoscale and involves a formerly misunderstood and rarely explored attribute of nano-magnetism.    ....  Flash Summit titled Attention America: Clean Tech will fix the Economy will be integrating Ahern’s research, as well as providing a platform for leaders and innovators of LENR to present their findings."

"Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 – New York Institute of Technology, Columbus Circle NYC
It’s clear our society is demanding resolution to the ever expanding and seemingly intractable issues.  Breaking it down to the most basic elements, it becomes increasingly clear the source of society’s challenges lie within the unsustainable energy situation. ...Citi5 will present the framework of an integrated solution to catalyze North American economic and energy independence in order to create a sustainable future."

Nov.22, 2011 - "An announcement is saying that cold fusion is actually a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) and includes the Rossi E-Cat and the Defkalion device.  Brian Wang, who has been in touch with a leading scientist Brian Ahern, has located the press release for the Flash Summit 2011 due up December 7, 2011 in New York City.....2012 is looking like a very interesting year, indeed."

Nov. 21, 2011  - "Dr. Michael McKubre, long-time researcher in cold fusion from the SRI lab in Menlo Park, California speaks on the subject entitled “What happened to cold fusion?” Dr. McKubre describes two main branches of the science, electro-chemical palladium-dueterium PD-D and nickel-hydrogen gas-loading Ni-H systems. “This amount of heat is 100 or 1000 times the sum of all possible chemical energies combined.”

"ECat.com has launched "in association with Andrea Rossi" as his licensee in Northern Europe. The once-official, Leonardo-ECat.com, will remain independent."

Independent E-Cat Replication Claimed
Nov.22, 2011 - "An independent E-Cat replication  has been claimed on Buildecats.com, a site dedicated to building open source LENR reactors. Chan reports ....  “I have reached self sustained fusion at 200 C for days."

Defkalion Announces Announcement

 PRESS RELEASE -  Athens, Nov. 14,  2011 - "Defkalion Green Technologies has maintained silence during our work this past year with various incidents requiring public statements. We announced that we would make our announcements when we have a close to final product.   The pictures below are from our labs and indicate our work in progress."

Citizen’s Petition for support of Cold Fusion Technology
 

Nov.13, 2011 - "This past few days Cold Fusion Now put together letters addressed to US Congressional Representatives on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce‘s Sub-committee on Energy and Power, as well as the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology’s Sub-committee on Energy and the Environment asking these very same questions.....Join us in asking Congress to do theirs.   Why doesn’t the DOE consider (CF/LANR/)LENR science and technology, and why isn’t the Patent Office prioritizing LENR patents?"

Nov. 13, 2011 - "Sven Kullander, professor of high energy physics at Uppsala University and chairman of Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences Energy Committee: 'Cold fusion has been developed recently in Bologna can be housed in an apparatus which is not much bigger than a coffee maker and generating energy only with a few teaspoons of nickel powder.' Kullander is one of the professors who has been involved in testing of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat technology, and has gone on record in favor of the validity of Rossi’s claims."

E-Cat Technology -  Leonardo Corporation

The new homepage of Andrea Rossi, and his patented cold fusion technology, the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) a revolutionary, game-changing technology ready to provide for tomorrow's energy needs.

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Bussard Fusion Update

November 11, 2011 - "Dr. Robert Bussard’s EMC2 Corp. with the U.S. Navy using recovery act funding working on inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) nuclear fusion based on the theory and prior work of Dr. Bussard has issued a very brief report.  The plan is to determine if the experimental plasma scaling agrees with the theoretical models.  ...The firm has burned $3,216,826 of an authorized $7,855,504 and has surpassed 50% completion of the work.   ...EMC2 is using the latest design, the WB-8, the next IEC or Polywell prototype in the series from Dr. Bussards’s initial device. ....
Now here is the bait – Under those conditions, the fusion power produced would scale with the seventh power of the radius, and the energy gain would scale with the fifth power..... However, there is some controversy about the viability of “p-11B” reactors. Bussard’s calculations indicate that the bremsstrahlung losses would be as little as one twelfth of the fusion power production."

New Energy and Fuel

With this in mind, therefore, I set about trying to wake up the government here in the UK to raising its sights beyond ‘the usual suspects’ – fossil, fission and farms – to look at more exotic forms of energy to overcome our current limitations whilst simultaneously improving the environment for all. Initially, I made enquiries to the Department of Energy and Climate Change via my local MP, to see if I could stimulate interest that way.  Unfortunately, I found what many have found: no real interest was shown beyond the “business as usual” agenda – even though this agenda really does threaten to ‘cost us the Earth’.  ... 

I therefore call upon all who have read this article who are UK citizens or who live in the UK to sign up to the ePetition today at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/21590
 - Gordon Docherty"

"Federal safety regulators said Friday that they are examining lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars after a Chevrolet Volt caught fire three weeks after it underwent a crash test. ...The large, high-voltage batteries used in electric vehicles can be more easily damaged in a crash than traditional car batteries, and create more potential to electrically shock occupants and rescuers."

Official National Instruments Response

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National Instruments to Make Instrumentation for E-Cats

November 11, 2011 - "PESWiki is reporting that Andrea Rossi’s Leonardo Corporation has signed an agreement with National Instruments of Austin, Texas for NI to provide all the instrumentation for the E-Cat plants that Leonardo Corp will be manufacturing. .... National Intstruments is a leading provider of advanced hardware and software that is used in industrial and scientific applications around the world, and should be able to provide Leonardo Corporation with instrumentation of much higher quality and far more advanced capabilities than Rossi has been using so far with the E-Cat devices he has built."

"Wired UK is reporting that Andrea Rossi has received orders for at least 13 one megawatt cold fusion power units. The units would generate 1MW of heat not electricity.... Wired is reporting that he will sell the units for $2 million US a piece."

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London. 
 

The Anti-Clean, Anti-Efficient Energy Production COVERUP of the USPTO and APS (HEAVYWATERGATE) CONTINUE

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APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY AT THE USPTO and the Board of Patent Appeals
(Documents removed, No accountability - wink, wink, ?quid pro quo)
(Documents again removed, No accountability - wink, wink, ?quid pro quo)

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November 2011 - The systematic coverup of cold fusion and attack on cold fusioneers (a.k.a. scientists and researchers)  is called: "HEAVYWATERGATE". It is characteristic behavior by some in the US Patent Office (and the allegedly overseering Board of Patent Appeals), by some in other US agencies.  Despite the US Constitution promising protection of Inventors who reveal their inventions, some in the USPTO are systematically obstructing the technology in the USA, while helping to transfer the technology revealed to the US Patent Office (on the promise of a patent) overseas.  The names of those obstructing will be released shortly -- and accountability may follow.

Instead of simply following normal process, there has been deliberate ignoring of the Evidence (and destruction of same) with no accountability to those responsible. Even as the corrupt USPTO Examiners and the **notified** judges of the US Board of Patent Appeals have declared that cold fusion (energy production) inventions have "no utility", Americans (and others worldwide) continue to suffer an energy crisis because of them. These corrupt, lying Examiners -- and their condoning overseerers-- continue to work for interests other than the United States of America as they encourage obstruction through false statements.  No utility of "clean, efficient, energy production"?

Why has the US Patent Office been obstructing Cold Fusion and other Clean, High Efficiency, Alternative Energy Production Patent Applications?

WHY IS THERE NO ONE IN THE US CONGRESS WHO CARES?
The US Congress (caring ONLY about itself) remains as oblivious about this as it is about much else OR directly on the take from competing interests in oil and hot fusion.  Either way, meanwhile the rest of the world moves ahead on cold fusion for clean, efficient energy in the future, and inventors slog on having wasted 23 years on a thoroughly corrupt process. Shame on the USPTO and the members of the US Congress who have done nothing even when fraud was shown to them indelibly, for their treason, perjury and abdication, respectively.

November 10, 2011 - "Cold Fusion Now sent letters to all the US Senators on the Energy Sub-Committee requesting hearings on the Department of Energy’s refusal to acknowledge LENR science as a part of its research funding AND the US Patent (and Trademark) Office’s lack of action on LENR technology. These folks here are the designated energy policy makers who need to be educated on the emerging technology that promises clean energy and a 21rst century economy."
[CFTimes:  Readers should help.  Bingaman in particular has ignored cold fusion and the USPTO coverup as has his Committee. These "Congressmen" have absolutely NO INTEREST in the American people; ONLY themselves.]

Chairman Jeff Bingaman NM TDD: (202) 224-1792
Tollfree (in NM): 1-800-443-8658

Chairman Maria Cantwell WA 202-224-3441

Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski AK Main: 202-224-6665

[Other numbers and members at the above URL] 

The loss of wildlife and marine species, a generation of young people with few opportunities, the elderly living on flyspecks in a world they don’t understand; in a vast universe of potential, is this the best humans can do?

Demand access to clean energy.

Demand jobs with integrity and purpose.

Demand the tools to empower your local community.

And make your demands clear to the people who serve at our pleasure.

We have the power; we have only to use it.

Congressional committee’s are next….http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Cold Fusion Now!
 

Bloomberg's EnergyNow program aired a segment ....about Andrea Rossi's recent test of the world's first one megawatt, E-Cat cold fusion plant. It seems that the mainstream media is starting to wake up to the reality of the Energy Catalyzer technology. ..... The mainstream media has been slow to take notice of the test and its extreme significance. However, an increasing trickle of mainstream media outlets have begun reporting about the event: Wired, Discovery, CBS News, Fox, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, MSNBC, LiveScience, Forbes, EE Times. "

  (AGI) Bologna - "Twenty-years since Martin Fleischman's and Stanley Pos' experiment, 2 Italian researchers go back to cold fusion. Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi hope to get safe and unlimited energy. In their machine "E-Cat", three hydrogen and nickel atoms produced ten times the energy uptaken, due to a still unexplained reaction. This occurred at low temperatures and with no radiation emission.
 

Cold fusion debate heats up after latest demo

November 4, 2011 - CBS - "The first successful cold fusion experiment was reported two decades ago, but the process has forever been met with heavy skepticism. It's a seemingly impossible process in which two types of atoms, typically a light element and a heavier metal, seem to fuse together, releasing pure heat that can be converted into electricity. The process is an attractive energy solution for two reasons: Unlike in nuclear fission, the reaction doesn't give off dangerous radiation. Unlike the fusion processes that take place in the sun, cold fusion doesn't require extremely high temperatures. But the experimentalists who have supposedly demonstrated cold fusion over the years have been unable to explain the underlying mechanism that drives the miraculous reaction they claim to observe, and so the scientific community has largely turned its back on this line of research. Most physicists — as well as the United States Department of Energy (DoE), academic journals, and the U.S. Patent Office — consider cold fusion machines to be hoaxes, because they [CFTimes: disingenuously] say physics rules out the possibility of room-temperature nuclear fusion."

Italian scientist has achieved 'cold fusion'

The Daily Mail Online -November 4, 2011 - Andrea Rossi says his new machine fuses nickel and hydrogen at room temperature creating almost unlimited energy ..... The United States Department of Energy the U.S. Patent Office say the process is impossible because physics rules out the possibility of room-temperature nuclear fusion. But Rossi's E-Cat machine can allegedly do it, and he says he proved it worked during tests at the University of Bologna last month .... Sterling Allan, CEO of the alternative energy news agency Pure Energy Systems, told FoxNews.com he attended Rossi’s demonstration and the E-Cat is self sustaining. 'What Rossi demonstrated was 470 kilowatts of continuous output in self-sustain mode -- meaning the output was enough to keep the thing running on its own,' he said."

Fox Fingers First eCat Buyer

November 3, 2011 - "Update: Sterling Allan from Peswiki denies Fox has quoted him accurately."
"High on the shortlist of guesses for the 1MW eCat customer, the military connection was strong. In an earlier post, we wondered about the Colonel prefix to Domenico Fioravanti’s name and Andrea Rossi’s assertion that the customer’s man for the test was a NATO engineer with thirty years experience. 
...   FoxNews.com spoke with a man at SPAWAR who identified himself as Swanson, and who said only that he was “not in a position to talk to the press.” ...  The Navy has long been interested in cold fusion research."

November 3, 2011 - "Fox News stirred up a a lot of dust and while we have to question their guess about the 1MW eCat customer having a US Naval connection, the identity of that customer is critical when trying to pin credibility or otherwise onto the sale."

"The first sale of a one megawatt E-Cat plant took place on October 28th, 2011, after a successful test of the system was performed by the customer. Andrea Rossi is now accepting additional orders for E-Cat plants from serious, qualified parties. These truly paradigm shifting plants can be configured to produce up to one megawatt of output each. They are composed of between 52 and 100 or more individual E-Cat "modules", that each have three small, internal cold fusion reactors. All of these modules fit inside a standard steel container (5m x 2.6m x 2.6m) that can be shipped anywhere in the world -- by land, sea, or air transport. Importantly, unlike conventional fission nuclear reactors, cold fusion E-Cats utilize no radioactive substances, emit no radiation into the environment, produce zero nuclear waste, and cannot "melt down." ... The price of one of the one megawatt plants is 2,000 USD per kilowatt installed. ..... Other benefits of an E-Cat plant technology include it's compact size or "energy density", it's ability to run in a quiet manner (50 decibels or less measured at five meters away), it's ability to continually produce a constant output despite weather conditions (unlike solar or wind power), and the modularity of the device -- if one of the many individual module failed for some reason, it could be quickly replaced with another."

   * Dr. Mitchell Swartz reported that electrodes had to be driven at a precise in the input electrical power phase space for efficient operation, and that by considering such, different samples could be evaluated with respect to each other.  This is optimal operating point of each system. Comprehending the "Optimal Operating Point"--the site at which the reaction is best perated--around which each device is designed and carefully constructed has been one major key to understanding and developing cold fusion.
      The failure to operate similar systems near the optimal operating point may account for some of the widespread difficulties in observing the desired reactions.
      Driving with electrical input power beyond the optimal operating point does not improve the production of the desired product or power gain,  but instead yields a less than desirable falloff of the production rate and power gain with increasing input power.

Cold Fusion's Emergence Day -- E-Day

The test of the one megawatt E-Cat plant was originally supposed to start earlier in the day than it did. The reason for this delay was that in an early morning test of the system the temperatures increased in a way that indicated instability in the system. ....Due to reducing the hydrogen pressure to ensure stability and control, each module produced far less output than it could have if the pressure had been higher. Instead of the planned 10 kilowatts of output per module, there was only around 4 kilowatts of output....Of course the simple fact is that the 479 kilowatts of constant output during self sustain mode (with no input power) is a huge amount of energy, in and of itself. A full megawatt of more would have been spectacular, but what was produced was a tremendous success! 

The name of the consultant who ran the test (making all the decisions about how it would be conducted) is Colonel Engineer Domenico Fioravanti. Rossi has stated he is, "an engineer of NATO ( a Colonel) who has 30 years of experience in thermopower plants and thermodynamical systems."  ...Rossi has stated in an email that, "THE CUSTOMER HAS BOUGHT THE E-CAT AS A MOBILE HEATER FOR REMOTE CAMPS." This seems to indicate to me that the organization may be related to the military. .... In this test, the consultant of the customer Colonel Engineer Domenico Fioravanti was certain that the steam being produced was very dry, and therefore the energy output calculations were accurate.... There is no doubt about it in my mind, this test was a big success. It was a success for a number of reasons including the facts that the customer's consultant was satisfied with the result, the sale was made, and it is obvious a huge quantity of excess energy was produced. ....What will be interesting is to see how long the mainstream media and mainstream scientific community will be able to ignore the growing number of satisfied customers."

November 1, 2011 - "A few months ago, Rossi responded to this suggestion in this way:
“As for the development of the technology: the maximum development can be reached with the maximum investments. Nobody could invest significantly in a technology without having exclusive rights on it. When a thing is own by everybody nobody gives value to it. The story of communism has teached this to us. We and our licensee will put all our force to develope this tech.”
And yesterday he echoed this sentiment when he responded to a similar idea expressed by a reader of the JONP saying, “Nobody would invest anything in a non proprietary technology.”..... Rossi’s argument is that exclusivity will be an incentive for licensees to invest heavily."

Italian Science Magazine Mulls 1MW eCat

"nextme, a popular Italian science mag: The E-Cat could soon become synonymous with energy revolution.... It seems that the experiment is successful, convincing the buyer, although there was a technical problem ..... how much energy was produced during the 5 hours of testing? 2.635 kWh for an average power of about 470 KWB. Not bad, but we need to go cautious. It would be really good news to know that there is a way to produce energy after oil."

nextme - "E-cat Future Energy"

Rossi eCat To Breed Across USA

What did the E-Cat Test Achieve?

October 29, 2011 - "The October 28th E-Cat test is over now.nnn The event was essentially a private test ... The testing done by the Customer’s agent, Domenico Fioravanti, was satisfactory enough for them to purchase the plant from Rossi, and take possession of it. This sale will provide Rossi with much-needed funds, and among other things allow him to contract a two-year research and development program with the University of Bologna, and begin negotiating with the University of Uppsala for a similar R&D program there.  .... Mats Lewan reported that “according to the customer’s controller, Domenico Fioravanti, the plant released 2,635 kWh during five and a half hours of self sustained mode, which is equivalent to an average power of 479 kilowatts.”

Half a megawatt E-cat in Bologna

[CFTimes: self-appointed niche blogger] Steven Krivit .... has now crossed a line to actually accusing Rossi of running an intentional scam. We don't buy it. ... Some of the evidence we have that the technology works as claims is simply irrefutable beyond measure. The recent test of the one megawatt plant showed operation in a self sustaining mode for five and a half hours. ....  Of course some skeptics will scream that the huge amount of output produced is only due to the "thermal inertia" of the system. According to this ridiculous theory, the input energy originally supplied to the system is stored in the materials that compose the reactor, and is then released when the input energy is cut off (when the system goes into self-sustain). This is an insane argument, because the materials used to build the modules have too low of a specific heat (or heat storing capacity) to store that much energy. Also, it ignores the fact that a system cannot simply choose to store energy for a period of time (while transferring no heat to the water being pumped through the system), and then start releasing the stored heat ONLY when the input power is cut off. 
The E-Cat technology is the real deal. .... Cold fusion is here, and it's called the E-Cat. 
.... one of Rossi's detractors has been pushing one particular theory for many years, the Widom Larsen theory. This theory tries to deny that a cold "fusion" process is taking place, by claiming that only beta decay is occurring....  ... the whole push -- especially by certain individuals who are critical of Rossi -- to support Widom Larsen theory is a ploy by the so called, "powers that be" to put a better "spin" on the reality of cold fusion. .... From their point of view, they would rather try to suppress and discredit a practical cold fusion technology like the E-Cat, and replace it with more primitive versions of the technology. By supporting those individuals who have produced results no where near what Rossi has, they can insure that the introduction of "not-fusion", will be slow, and controlled manner. Most importantly, the public will not be as likely to fully "wake up" about what *really* happened."

E-DAY

"Q & A just finished; reading of results; 470 kW maintained continuously during self-sustain; customer satisfied; sale made; more later"

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1 MW E-Cat Cold Fusion Device Test Successful
Sterling D. Allan - Pure Energy Systems News

"On October 28, 2011, Andrea Rossi demonstrated his 1 megawatt E-Cat system to his first customer, who had engineers/scientists on hand to test/validate its performance. Due to a glitch, it provided 470 kW of continuous power for 5.5 hours during the self-sustained mode..... There were some issues, so it couldn't be run at full power in self-looped mode, but what it did do was plenty impressive. .... It ran for 5.5 hours producing 470 kW, while in self-looped mode. That means no substantial external energy was required to make it run, because it kept itself running, even while producing an excess of nearly half a megawatt. .... There were 100 E-Cat modules, each with 3 reaction chambers in them, for a total of 300 reaction chambers. An additional 20 or so units had been installed on the top of the shipping container, compared to the earlier photos and videos we had seen. Steam was produced by the units and exited through the back in the bottom of the two pipes.....  I think the input was measuring 19 C, and the output was 109 C. Radiation measurements were taken by Dr. Bianchini David, from the University of Bologna. He said no extraneous radiation was detected at any time emanating from the reaction chambers, or from the piping, or from the water tanks, or in the vicinity of the apparatus. Apparently, gamma radiation is produced during the reaction, which is shielded by water, iron, lead, and a final coating on the apparatus. David said that he has not measured gamma radiation from the device, because he has not had access to the reaction chamber while it has been unshielded. None of the units were taken apart following this test, as was the one back on the October 6 test. I asked Rossi whether any radio frequencies were used in the test, and he said "no". I would estimate that there were about 12 people assisting with the test arrangement, including: 3-4 security guards, 1 caterer, 2 receptionists who checked to make sure everyone was invited and wore the required badges, 3-4 engineers helping take measurements, Foccardi was helping take guests 1-2 at a time back to see the unit."

"Half a megawatt thermal power in self sustained mode, for over five hours. That’s what Andrea Rossi obtained with his E-cat plant on Friday, according to his customer. ....According to the customer’s controller, Domenico Fioravanti, the plant released 2,635 kWh during five and a half hours of self sustained mode, which is equivalent to an average power of 479 kilowatts – just under half the promised power of one megawatt.  ... It remains unclear who the customer is. Rossi has only indicated that it belongs to a particular category of organizations. One possibility is that it’s a military organization given that the title of the controller Fioravanti in the report is “colonel”, however, scored out with a pen."

Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat Plant Tested By First Customer

October 28, 2011 at 10:37 AM
FIRST INFORMATION REGARDING THE 1 MW PLANT TEST: WE STARTED REGULARLY THE TEST THIS MORNING . EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL SO FAR. THE 1 MW E-CAT IS WORKING IN SELF SUSTAINING. TONIGHT I WILL PUBLISH THE NON SECRET REPORT THAT THE CUSTOMER WILL RELEASE. WARM REGARDS, I HAVE TO RETURN TO THE PLANT. SORRY, I CANNOT ANSWER TO THE MANY COMMENTS I AM RECEIVING. I WILL PUBLISH THEM PROBABLY I WILL NEVER FIND THE TIME TO ANSWER.
WARMEST REGARDS TO ALL, ANDREA ROSSI

 Dr. Eugene Mallove: "One important implication of cold fusion is that there are, at least, 300 gallons of gasoline equivalent in every gallon of ordinary water.  If you take the heavy hydrogen contained in one gallon of water, normal water that you drink, or get at the pond or the lake or the ocean, and fuse that heavy hydrogen into helium, which is what is happening in cold fusion. 
This gives you heat, and that amount of heat is the equivalent of 300 gallons of gasoline.  That means that in only one cubic kilometer of ocean, we have the energy equivalent of the entire known oil reserves on Earth.  And that means total energy independence from any localized supply of oil plus the environmental benefit of not producing CO2 and  other noxious pollutants.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

On the very morning of the E-CAT rollout, Forbes Magazine eagerly begins its baseless, unfounded, myopic,  typical uneducated impugning of cold fusion and LANR researchers and developers.

October 28, 2011 - "I’m going to go out on a limb here with a prediction.  The energy world will look exactly the same the day after October 28th, 2011, as it did yesterday.  Why?  On October 28th we’re expecting a public demonstration of a “revolutionary” new energy technology in Bologna, Italy. .... But here’s the deal.  There is no new physics in energy.  There could be, in theory, one day.  .... Energy underpins everything; our food, transport, buildings, manufacturing, services and information.  But it is the scale of what society requires that defies imagination.  A single Google-class data center consumes as much electrical power as 500 Tesla electric cars running flat out 24 by seven. There are thousands upon thousands of such data centers. And the world’s total liquid fuel appetite?  If the barrels produced were piled up, it would generate a stack that would be one mile high every three seconds. It is amazing that an infrastructure exists to find, extract and deliver such quantities – at any price."

CLEAN, EFFICIENT ENERGY 
PRODUCTION? 
'HEAVYWATERGATE'  MEANS IT IS 'NOT FOR YOU' in the USA!!

With Gasoline in the USA reapproaching $5+ per gallon, with radioactive contaminants from Fukushima, with energy being urgently needed, the Empire of the USPTO, the US Commerce Dept and the American Physical Society in the USA continue to coverup up their own fake data and false statements against cold fusion by continuing their disingenuous and obstructive efforts against COLD FUSION (clean, efficient energy production) and the researchers who investigate it.

"[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of."     - Erasmus Wilson (1878) Professor at Oxford University 

"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."     - Western Union internal memo, 1878

"Radio has no future."    - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897. 

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London. 

COLD FUSION TIMES - INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS

  "... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and proved impracticable." -   [New York Times, January 16, 1880]

ScienceNOW - October 23, 2011 - "The feeble force of light alone can flip a nanometer-sized mechanical switch one way or the other, a team of electrical engineers reports. ... Since 2005, physicists and engineers have been using light to set tiny structures vibrating and control their motion. Much of their effort has focused on using light to suck energy out of a vibrating beam or cantilever to try to achieve new states of motion that can be described only by quantum mechanics, extending the quantum realm to the movement of humanmade objects. ... Now, taking a different tack, Mahmood Bagheri, Hong Tang, and colleagues at Yale University have used laser light to pump energy into a tiny bridge of silicon, flipping it between two stable configurations—in effect, making a mechanical switch."

Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-14) (pdf files)

Proceedings of ICCF14 (Volume 1; pdf)

Proceedings of ICCF14 (Volume 2; pdf)

Cold Fusion Research Laboratory News - No. 76

1. Proc. JCF11 published
2. Three papers from CFRL are included in the Proc. JCF11

LESSON #2: PRODUCT OF COLD FUSION IN PALLADIUM IS HELIUM

    * Dr. Melvin Miles (China Lake, US Navy; issue #V1-2) and others have demonstrated that helium, used to fill ordinary lighter-than-air balloons, is one product generated by the cold fusion reactions, if adequate loading is achieved (issues #V2-1, 3-1, 4-1).
    * This de novo helium is of a total amount greater than the amount which could leak in from the ambient environment.
    * The helium is generated by, and linked to, the production of excess heat.
   * This generation of energy -- with a safe product for a change -- is therefore quite important.

"Long-time cold fusion researcher Dr. George Miley ... feels that the work of Mr. Patterson and Andrea Rossi have many similarities and has offered a theory that is felt to cover both."

INFINITE ENERGY • ISSUE 99

ISSUE 99, September/October 2011 - • Plans for ICCF17 Announced • Anomalous Metals in Electrified Vacuum - • CF/LANR Colloquium Part II

"Interest in the latest test of Andrea Rossi’s energy catalyzer has exceeded that in any previous test. The result has been discussed intensely internationally."

Oil Age Lasted a Century - Cold Fusion to Fuel Millenia

"The top few centimeters of our oceans contains enough hydrogen to generate clean power worldwide for tens of millions of years.  ... Because the energy density from fusion is a million times greater than the chemical burning of fossil fuels, cold fusion will be able to provide energy to build a new infrastructure, this time, one based on clean, peaceful energy with access by all the world.
"

Hello Cheap Energy, Hello Brave New World
Mark Gibbs

Inaccurately edited to support the 'Widom-Larsen' Theory by S.Krivit; e.g. Dr. Widom did not give a lecture at the DTRA meeting)

Oct. 1, 2011 - "On Dec. 12, 2006, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency held a meeting in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, to review several controversial areas of research. Low-energy nuclear reactions were among those topics.  ...from the report.

Advisory Board Findings and Recommendations for LENR: 

"There is good evidence of excess heat and transmutation."

Summary - Low-energy nuclear reactions are showing some remarkable progress with respect to energy (excess heat) production and transmuted element detection, but experiments remain only thinly reproducible. ...The polarizing history of LENR is a detriment to expanding research efforts, and it seems unlikely that deployable/useable devices could be expected within a five- to ten-year horizon."

Page 19 Summary of Prof David Nagel's presentation; 
Page 21 Summary of Dr. Mitchell Swartz's presentation; 
Page 22 Summary of Prof. Michael Melich's presentation;
Page 22 Summary of Mr. Lewis Larsen's presentation 

New Energy Times Page re: FOIA, Edits, Widom-Larsen, &DTRA Report

Mass Use of Cold Fusion in one year – or less.
 Ruby Carat

"Sterling Allan of Pure Energy Systems has ... seized upon one of the links in the article to The Singularity is Near, a website based upon the work of Ray Kurzweil and his book The Singularity is Near. ... here the data is fitted (using the wonderful free and open-source Geogebra) to three exponential curves and, in my opinion, gives visual-space credibility to the mass use of cold fusion in one year or less after it is commercially introduced."

Excess Heat and Particle Tracks from Deuterium-loaded Palladium

Robert V. Duncan, Ph.D., University of Missouri
Mr. Lawrence Forsley, President, JWK International Corporation
Pamela A. Mosier-Boss, Ph.D., Advanced Systems and Applied Sciences Division of SSC-Pacific
Frank E. Gordon, Ph.D., Head, Research and Applied Sciences Department, US Navy SSC-Pacific
Edmund K. Storms, Ph.D., KivaLabs, LLC, Santa Fe, NM and Greenwich, CT
Michael C.H. McKubre, Ph.D., Energy Research Center, SRI International
Peter L. Hagelstein, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yeong E. Kim, Ph.D., Purdue University
Mark Prelas, Ph.D., Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute, University of Missouri
David J. Nagel, Ph.D., The George Washington University
Peter H. Handel, Ph.D., University of Missouri – St. Louis

"Cold Fusion Energy, Inc has procured a booth at the World Green Energy Symposium to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA this upcoming Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday October 19, 20, and 21. ->Booth #5 on the floor of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. I... Representing the cold fusion field will be Peter Hagelstein, electrical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and cold fusion theorist. Joining him are Georgy Miley, a nuclear and electrical engineer from University of Illinois, and Xing Zhong Li, a fusion physicist from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and current President of the International Society of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science ISCMN. The Symposium agenda has Peter Hagelstein leading the discussion “Cold Fusion” on Day 2 Thursday October 20 at 3:30PM Eastern time."

ISSUE 99, September/October 2011 - • Plans for ICCF17 Announced  • Anomalous Metals in Electrified Vacuum - • CF/LANR Colloquium Part II

Oct 6 E-Cat Analysis

"Alan Fletcher has posted an interesting analysis of the Oct 6 test on the Vortex mailing list. ...The analysis was conducted by Bob Higgins of Motorola and sent to Mats Lewan (Ny Teknik), Alan and others at Vortex. ... I would agree with everyone else that there was much that could have been improved the experiment, but the real point now it to understand the data we have and determine what information that can be derived from it with confidence....It is clear from the data that the COP would have been much higher if the test had been run for a longer period."

Media Outlets Begin to Pay Attention to the E-Cat

Defkalion Answers Professor Stremmenos
"Dear Christo,  It was with profound regret that I read your public letter and personal attacks against Defkalion. I was even more surprised by the obvious contradiction with your status as Honorary Vice President and Head of our company’s R&D. In legal terms, this could be considered by ill-wishers as a breach of contract..... Since June you have unfortunately missed all of BoD meetings and R&D development breakthroughs. Although you and Rossi received, signed and approved our product designs for Version 3, we have made significant progress since then and are now in Version 7, which leads to a full working prototype ready for production. Your declaration that “we don’t have the technology” is in contradiction to your recent attempts to entice away our scientists which was not concluded successfully..... I sincerely hope that we shall press the start button together.Alexandros Xanthoulis".

Original Italian article in Focus.it
 

Q. Why limit the duration to three hours of self-sustaining? Why not push it to 30 or 300? 
A. A public test can not last 30 or 300 hours, as you have seen, we started at 9.30 and finished at midnight ... more than that it is impossible to hold an audience. Obviously, operating plants are working 24 hours on 24. 

A. Anyone who has seen the test is not biased and has studied the temperature curves in a self sustaining mode can not have reservations. Who would have prevented no matter what we did. Enough is enough with the tests, you go on the market and customers speak for us. 

Q. What is the radio frequency generator, never appeared before? What are your specifications? 
A. This information is confidential. There has always been, only that it was first built in the framework. ...
Q. He said that the ideal application of E-Cat is not the home but the mini-Central 1 MW who showed us, for which there is no operation in "self-reliance" and that would be administered by an expert: I counted 43 items in the container, which for 27 kW thermal damage kWt 1,161. Confirmation numbers? (Some say that there are 52 E-Cat, who 54, 57 more ...) 
A. confirm. On [October] 28 we will test in Bologna Central 1 MW in the presence of the "customer". You are also invited you to focus and Mats Lewan for NyTeknik"

    "Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) has asked for the help of the alternative energy community, in designing the case for his home heating product. "

"The overall result shows that there was a clear overall energy gain — 33.6 MJ in, and 101.3 MJ out. In addition to the overall energy in/energy out picture we have the remarkable fact of a three and a half hour time period in which water was constantly boiling — with the electrical input which had been used earlier in the test turned off."

Updates Part 2 – E-CAT Test Aftermath

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Updates on the OCT. 6 E-Cat Test

"On October 6th the E-Cat was tested in Bologna, and initial reports back were positive: The E-Cat ran in self sustain mode for over 3 hours."

from Andrea Rossi October 9th, 2011 at 2:26 AM
"... NOT ONLY I CONFIRM THAT I VERIFIED THAT THE WATER TEMPERATURE IN THE EXHAUST STREAM UNDER OPERATING CONDITIONS HAS BEEN MEASURED AND MATCHES THE READING SEEN ON THE TEST THERMOCOUPLES ... IN THE REPORT MADE BY NYTEKNIK THERE ARE THE PHOTOS OF THE CONNECTORS WHERE WE PUT THE THERMOCOUPLE ... I WANT TO ADD THAT, TO ANSWER TO THE FRAUDOLENT STATEMENTS MADE FROM THE SNAKES PAID BY THE USUAL WELL KNOWN TO DISCREDIT AND BLACKMAIL US (YES, I REPEAT: BLACKMAIL US):
1- THE CALCULATION OF ENERGY MADE BY THE SNAKES ARE EMBARASSINGLY WRONG, JUST ANALYZE THE RATIO BETWEEN THE ENERGY INPUT AND THE ENERGY OUTPUT IN THE PUBLISHED REPORTS. 

2- IT HAS BEEN FRAUDOLENTLY WRITTEN IN THE BLOGS OF THE SNAKES THAT THE DEVICE HAS BEEN NOT WEIGHTED: FALSE  .. THE SNAKES THINK THAT THEIR READERS ARE SO STUPID NOT TO BE ABLE TO READ THE REPORT, BUT, UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, IT IS NOT SO. I WANT TO UNDERLINE THAT NOT ONLY ALL HAS BEEN WEIGHTED, BUT ALSO THAT AT THE END OF THE TEST I HAVE DISASSEMBLED IN FRONT OF ALL THE ATTENDANTS ALL THE PIECES, AND TAKEN OFF THE INSUILATION TO MAKE WELL CLEAR THAT EVERY COMPONENT WAS CLEAN, THAT THERE WERE NOT BATTERIES, OR ANY KIND OF POTENTIAL ENERGY SUPPLY INSIDE THE E-CAT AND INSIDE ALL THE OTHER COMPONENTS; FOR THIS REASON WE HAD TO STOP THE E-CAT, (WE FINISHED AROUND MIDNIGHT) 
.... Warm Regards, A.R." 

Part 2 - Review of the 2011 Cold Fusion/Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium  at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (pdf)

"The 2011 Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions/Cold Fusion Colloquium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) was held on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12, 2011. The meeting focused on the science and technology of cold fusion (CF) and lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR). In 1989, the initial failures of cold fusion resulted from bad experiments, bad paradigm, materials issues, poor loadings and a poor appreciation of the requisite metallurgy and engineering. Today, those issues are resolved, and particle emission, excess energy, excess power gain and commensurate linked helium- 4 production with excess heat are undeniable, along with increasing power gains and total energies achieved since 1989. Together, these herald an important new, clean form of energy production, fusion assisted by highly loaded metal hydrides—cold fusion or LANR.
At this year’s CF/LANR Colloquium at MIT there were 23 presentations. LANR nanomaterials headlined the talks, only to be surpassed by patent issues, Rossi’s contribution and recent high technologic developments in LANR. Plenary lectures in LANR were delivered by Dr. Mitchell Swartz (JET Energy), Prof. Peter Hagelstein (MIT), Dr. Brian Ahern (Vibronics), Prof. Xing Zhong Li (Tsinghua University), Dr. Francis Tanzella (SRI International), Prof. George Miley (University of Illinois-UC) and Robert Smith (Oakton International Corporation). Another eight presentations were given, followed by group discussions of the Rossi matter, present LANR/CF business opportunities and the U.S. Patent Office quagmire. This year’s event proved successful, according to the 70+ attendees who gathered for the two-day conferencePart 1 (IE #98, 
http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/ pdfs/LANR2011Colloq.pdf) focused on the background of the colloquia and highlighted three plenary talks from Saturday’s session (two by Swartz and one by Hagelstein). In this second report, the remainder of the plenary talks and shorter presentations will be discussed. Saturday, June 11 Prof. Xing Zhong Li presented “A Clean Nuclear Energy Using Hydrogen and Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.” Conventional nuclear energy systems are accompanied by nuclear radiation, consisting of neutron and gamma radiation and potential nuclear contamination. " 
"Li has focused on pioneering work in LANR/CF over the past twenty years because it can transform hydrogen into nuclear energy and avoid potential nuclear contamination. Theoretically, he notes that both nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are heavily reliant upon nuclear resonance involving thermalized neutrons, precisely because the resonance enhances the cross-section of the nuclear reactions. Li has focused on six reactions (d+t, d+d, d+He3, t+T, t+He3 and p+D) used as examples of resonant tunneling through a thermalized proton model. He reasons that, indeed, the resonance of thermal protons might play a similar, key role in enhancing the cross-section of nuclear reactions in LANR/CF.
In his first lecture at the Colloquia at MIT, Dr. Francis Tanzella [with Dr. Michael McKubre] reported on their “Helium Progress and Energy Measurements from Exploding PdDx Wires at 77°K.”
Prof. George Miley presented “Next Generation Nuclear Battery Using D-Clusters in Nano-materials.” Nuclear batteries using radioisotope sources have a long history of development for special uses where ultra long life, maintenance free, low power batteries are needed, such as space travel. Miley is developing a radical new nuclear battery termed a low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) power cell based upon LANR/CF technology."
"In his second lecture on Saturday, Prof. Peter Hagelstein presented “Progress in Modeling Excess Heat in the Fleischmann-Pons Experiment.” He detailed his most recent results, garnered from his long term efforts, of modeling the nuclear-phonon-lattice energy and momentum transfer processes in cold fusion/LANR experiments. His approach derives from an examination of many different experimental results, such as the two-laser experiment of Letts and Cravens. His presentation, like his analysis, began by focusing on aspects of excess heat production in the basic Fleischmann-Pons experiment, with the goal of developing a consistent model for the observed excess heat without commensurate energetic particles."

"Following the recent Bologna E-Cat test, Andrea Rossi is looking ahead to furthering his development of the E-Cat. ... He stated:
“ IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE REPORT, YOU WILL SEE THAT THE SPOTS OF DRIVE WITH THE RESISTANCE HAVE A DURATION OF ABOUT 10 MINUTES, WHILE THE DURATION OF THE SELF SUSTAINING MODES IS PROGRESSIVELY LONGER, UNTIL IT ARRIVES TO BE UP TO HOURS. BESIDES, WE PRODUCED AT LEAST 4.3 kWh/h FOR ABOUT 6 HOURS AND CONSUMED AN AVERAGE OF 1.3 kWh/h FOR ABOUT 3 HOURS, SO THAT WE MADE IN TOTAL DURING THE TEST 25.8 kWh AND CONSUMED IN TOTAL DURING THE TEST 3.9 kWh. iN THE WORST POSSIBLE SCENARIO, WHICH MEANS NOT CONSIDERING THAT THE CONSUME IS MAINLY MADE DURING THE HEATING OF THE REACTOR DURING THE FIRST 2 HOURS, WE CAN CONSIDER THAT THE WORST POSSIBLE RATIO IS 25.8 : 3.9 AND THIS IS THE COP 6 WHICH WE ALWAYS SAID. OF COURSE, THE COP IS BETTER, BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, THE REACTOR, ONCE IN TEMPERATURE, NEEDS NOT TO BE HEATED AGAIN FROM ROOM TEMPERATURE TO OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURE.”

In addition to getting the 1 MW plant ready, Rossi is apparently struggling to come up with a satisfactory design for a small E-Cat."

"The test on Thursday was performed before a number of invited physicists and engineers from various countries – Italy, Sweden, USA and China – as well as journalists from a couple of Italian media outlets and Ny Teknik. ...The important new element in the test was that it was possible to bypass the controversial energy calculation, based on vaporization, by injecting the steam from the energy catalyzer into a heat exchanger, where a flow of water was heated. Although accuracy was moderate and the measurement set up could have been more advanced, results was clear, mainly because the E-cat ran for over three hours in self sustained mode..... As in previous tests, the start-up was effected by heating the E-cat with an electrical resistor at about 2.7 kilowatts, this time for about four hours, in order to achieve, according to Rossi, sufficient stability....  By a conservative estimate, Ny Teknik calculated power output during self sustaining operation at two to three kilowatts."

   "Rossi has been talking frequently over the last few months about how he would be launching his 1 MW plant at the premises of a major US partner ...In the NyTeknik article Rossi explained .. ““We had a preliminary agreement with a very important party in the U.S., but when we received the final draft, it included conditions that our lawyers said that we should not accept.” Because of this, shipment of the 1 MW plant was blocked, and so the unit remains in Italy.... Andrea Rossi has had plenty of problems and obstacles to deal with. He seems fixed on his goal to go ahead with the 1 MW plant launch this month in spite of the difficulties that crop up, and one can’t help but admire his dogged determination. It’s going to continue to be an interesting month."

    "Some interesting points from the news report: Professor Roland Petterson of Uppsala University states, ““I’m convinced that this works, but there is still room for more measurements.” 

"Today, the day of Rossi’s E-Cat testing at the University of Bologna, reminds me of an election day. There’s a lot of anticipation for the day, but while the evant is going on, you don’t hear much — you don’t get the full picture of what is going on until it is all over."

Daniele Passerini’s blog

Passerini’s Twitter account

October 6, 2011 - Translation: “…however,  I can confirm that [the module] is still in self-sustaining regime… since three hours ago…” "It is not very pretty on the inside. If you were thinking about hi-tech… no. To be honest, the open e-cat is almost disappointing. Is that really all to it? Yet, it seems to do its job well (make lots of heat): we have not been shown the mysterious component, though."

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The Day After the E-Cat Test : We Wait For Reports

First commercial cold fusion reactor tested in Bologna.

"Around the world, scientists active in cold fusion research, along with new-energy enthusiasts, waited for word from the invitation-only demonstration participants. ...While the bulk of the information and photos are scheduled for Friday release, 22Passi’s tweets describe an E-Cat running for about 4 hours in self-sustain mode, the condition where the E-Cat is not connected to any external source of power, and the reaction continues indefinitely. .... Some of the media in attendance included Radio24's Mauricio Melis, Irene Zreick and Raymond Zreick of Focus Magazine, and Radio Città del Capo who interviewed Greek scientist and former ambassador to Italy Christos Stremmenos also there to see the demonstration. Confindustria, an organization representing the manufacturing and service industries in Italy, and Enrico Billi was also reported in attendance. Italian scientists Sergio Focardi, Giuseppe Levi and Loris Ferrari from the University of Bologna, where the event was held, were also joined by other unnamed physicists invited by Professor Focardi.
Corporate media in the US have ignored developments in cold fusion and there appears to be no coverage on Mr. Rossi’s E-Cat technology at all."

WIRED: Cold fusion rears its head as 'E-Cat' research promises to change the world

   David Hambling

WIRED Magazine - October 6, 2011 - "Rossi, an Italian inventor, claims to have come up with the Holy Grail of power generation, an "Energy Catalyser" or E-Cat, which produces limitless energy. He has already carried out laboratory demonstrations in front of scientists and the Italian media, and in October he plans to unveil a one-megawatt power plant in the US. If it works, the E-Cat is the biggest thing since atomic power, bringing an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy. ....The E-Cat is the latest incarnation of cold fusion, an area long shunned by respectable scientists. In 1989, researchers Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann claimed to have produced a small amount of energy by nuclear fusion on a lab bench via electrolysis. ... Rossi's heavyweight supporters include 1973 physics Nobel prize winner Brian Josephson."

Real-Time Updates on the Oct. 6, 2011 E-Cat Test

Buona Fortuna, Andrea Rossi!

   "From time to time over the centuries inventions come on the scene which have fundamentally changed our world, profoundly affecting the way people live their lives. If we look back in time we can see landmark inventions whose imprints are everywhere to this day — for example, the printing press, the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, aircraft, the telephone, the radio, the television, the computer chip."

October 4, 2011 - "If the world consumes 89 million barrels of oil per day, how many ounces of nickel does that correspond to in E-Cat energy? ... The world consumes over 12 trillion grams of oil each day! Now, 517,000 grams oil = 1 gram nickel (E-Cat energy-wise)  ....   So the daily energy from 12 trillion grams of oil corresponds to the daily E-Cat energy from 23 million grams of nickel.  ...Therefore, replacing our current consumption of oil with E-Cat energy would consume an estimated 8.4 billion grams of nickel annually.  ... In other words, the current annual production of nickel is 155 times the amount of nickel we would use annually to replace oil at our current level of use.  ... The US has a unit of money called a nickel which is a 5 cent piece, or 1/20 of a dollar (since 1913 called a Federal Reserve Note). First introduced in 1866, the Shield nickel was a 5 gram coin of 75% copper and 25% nickel. Later, other designs for the nickel were introduced, including my favorite, the Buffalo nickel, minted from 1913 to 1938.....Since there are about 135 kilograms of oil in one barrel, we have discovered that, E-Cat energy-wise, one little 5-cent coin = ~5 barrels of oil."

JET has pioneered contributions in the development of the evolving landscape of cold fusion and its utilization, by developing a continuum electrophysics model which has led to the quasi-1-dimensional model of isotope loading of a metal, and then to codeposition, the optimal operating point, Phusor technology, control of "heat after death", among other directions.

Metamaterial Technology

PHOTOGRAPH OF PHUSOR CATHODE SHOWS ASYMMETRIC ELECTROLYSIS OF A DIFFERENT TYPE OF COLD FUSION SYSTEM 
(c) Dr. M. Swartz, JET Energy, Inc., Asymmetric Electrolysis (above)

Still No Coverage of E-Cat in Mainstream Media

   "It’s quite curious that while there are a number of people awaiting the upcoming E-Cat tests with great anticipation the vast majority of people in the world have not heard of an energy catalyzer or its inventor, Andrea Rossi..... Those who are following the story are reliant on a few less-than-prominent websites and blogs for information."

First Energy-Storage Membrane

9/30/2011 - "Rimac Automobil, named for its founder, Mate Rimac, unveiled the Concept_One at the International Auto Show in Frankfurt. Designed as a sleek sports car it is powered entirely by batteries, and can, the company says, hit 62 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds, and reach a limit of 190 mph. The batteries carry 92 kilowatt-hours, or enough to power an average American home for three days -- or drive the car 372 miles, enough to get from New York to Pittsburgh. (The Tesla Roadster, also a very impressive electric hotrod, hits 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, has a top speed of 125 mph and has a battery range of 245 miles.) The engines put out the equivalent of 1,088 horsepower, enough to beat some internal combustion models."

Directory:Andrea A. Rossi Cold Fusion Generator (E-Cat)

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Rossi,NASA,Krivit

"I almost completed a lengthy article analysing Steven Krivit’s latest post regarding NASA, Piantelli and Rossi. However, AR has just said in plain language what many suspected was the case all along. It is another ‘Rossi-Says’ but I would believe him on this issue before Krivit. That article is now in the bin and the floor is Rossi’s: Andrea Rossi September 29th, 2011 at 3:53 AM
"THE SNAKE HAS WRITTEN IN HIS BLOG THAT NASA MADE A NOT POSITIVE TEST WITH US. THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE. I AM BOUND FROM A CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT AND I CANNOT GIVE DETAILED INFORMATION, BUT I CAN SAY THAT: 1- WE ARE IN CONTACT WITH NASA, WHO WANTS TO TEST OUR ECATS TO TEST THE POSSIBILITY TO MAKE THEM USEFUL FOR THEIR PURPOSES
2- NASA’S DENNIS.M.BUSHNELL HAS SAID PUBILCLY THAT NASA WILL BUY AN E-CAT AS SOON AS IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO TEST IT
3- OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH NASA IS TOTALLY POSITIVE

Only $35 million was required for this facility, as it was generally focused on a Higgs search.

9/30/2011- "The artificial leaf — a silicon solar cell with different catalytic materials bonded onto its two sides — needs no external wires or control circuits to operate. .... The device, Nocera explains, is made entirely of earth-abundant, inexpensive materials — mostly silicon, cobalt and nickel — and works in ordinary water. Other attempts to produce devices that could use sunlight to split water have relied on corrosive solutions or on relatively rare and expensive materials such as platinum."

"AS THE old joke has it, fusion is the power of the future—and always will be.   ....At the moment, the main bet being placed by fusion enthusiasts is on ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a research machine that can hold 840 cubic metres of hot, gaseous fuel. It is being bolted together at a projected cost of €15 billion ($22 billion) in the south of France. 
...  Unfortunately, there is a fundamental snag. The shape of the reactor means that the magnetic field which does the squeezing (and thus also keeps the superhot plasma away from the walls) produces different forces in the inner and outer parts of the doughnut. That would result in a turbulent release of plasma if it were not counteracted by a second magnetic field created by an electric current induced in the plasma itself."

Particles found to break speed of light

"Sep 22, 2011 - An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe. Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers, told Reuters that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done."

Department of Energy policy continues to ignore revolutionary New Energy (Cold Fusion)

"Clean energy activist Keith Owens of Cold Fusion Energy, Inc. asked the Department of Energy what their “stand” on cold fusion was. The response was a clear statement of their policy: cold fusion does not merit any attention." 
[Ed. Members of the DOE are reportedly involved in private companies in the USA and elsewhere involving CF.  How special is  that?]

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The Medium is the Message

World Wide Lab

"(T)the process of creating a commercial technology from a new science has rarely been a straight line. Today, new-energy science and technology are developing in an environment never before seen on Earth, for the science of cold fusion was born in an electric environment of mass media and the technology of cold fusion is being developed in a planet-wide virtual reality.  .... The initial announcement of cold fusion by Drs. Fleischmann and Pons was done at a press conference where newspapers, radio, and TV were in attendance. A confluence of technologies, called the Android Meme in media ecology, consumed that moment. The professors’ image and diction were processed and edited for prime time using sound bites and headline tags. A second-generation copy of the event was instantly broadcast out across the electric landscape through the nervous systems of consumers everywhere. Many in the public believed science was performed methodically in the muted halls of academia, and printed in centrally distributed journals whose delegated authority served as the nexus for consensus, not sold like soap. Now, science was loose on the streets. Beamed from a basement lab to the 6 o’clock News, the pair could not have been prepared for the roughing-up they were to receive. ...      Marshall McLuhan was first to realize that the content of any new technology is always the previous technology, so we call our computer screens “a desktop” and digital scientific musings “journals”, even though the traditional scientific paradigm relying on the fixity of printed conclusions is no longer the dominant model of discourse on scientific topics."

AMERICAN DOE/USPTO/APS COVERUP CONTINUES

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DOE CONTINUES HEAVYWATERGATE

LESSON #1:  COLD FUSION IS IMPORTANT

 Dr. Eugene Mallove: "One important implication of cold fusion is that there are, at least, 300 gallons of gasoline equivalent in every gallon of ordinary water.  If you take the heavy hydrogen contained in one gallon of water, normal water that you drink, or get at the pond or the lake or the ocean, and fuse that heavy hydrogen into helium, which is what is happening in cold fusion. 
This gives you heat, and that amount of heat is the equivalent of 300 gallons of gasoline.  That means that in only one cubic kilometer of ocean, we have the energy equivalent of the entire known oil reserves on Earth.  And that means total energy independence from any localized supply of oil plus the environmental benefit of not producing CO2 and  other noxious pollutants.

  "Many people reading this may have come to the conclusion that LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) is a valid way of producing heat well over unity. Estimating that the Rossi E-Cat is burning nickel at 2000 kW per gram, a gram of nickel in an LENR exothermic reaction represents a potential 1.7 billion calories. That would mean that nickel is over ten thousand times as energy dense as oil or coal (but 100 times less energy dense as uranium 235). Nickel is about 3% of the mass of the Earth, much much more than all of oil, coal, natural gas, and hydrate combined."
 

eCat Testing in Uppsala

"Andrea Rossi tells us that he is organising a new test in Uppsala ...he writes about the stress of carrying the financial burden alone, citing Defkalion’s failure to live up to its contractual obligations."

Rossi: New E-Cat Test Upcoming in Uppsala, Sweden

The E-Cat Picture Clarifies
Frank Acland

 " The plant consists of 52 E-Cats, all connected, inside a steel shipping container. ...Lewan also has produced a video of the testing of one of the E-Cat units which after preliminary testing he found on preliminary calculations to produce  energy of between about 3.5 and 8 kilowatts.  Only 2.6 kW of electrical power was input into the E-Cat. Lewan reports that for 35 minutes the E-Cat continued to produce steam with the electrical input turned off."

"(W)hy it is that conventionally trained medical doctors are so reluctant to venture outside the limited thinking of conventional medicine. Why are they hesitant to adopt new ideas and new theoretical models for the underlying causes of human health or disease? .... One of the most obvious examples of this is the team of Fleischmann and Pons, who are, of course, the fathers of “cold fusion,” which is now better known as “low-energy nuclear reactions.”
Cold fusion is still laughed at by people in the mainstream who are too ignorant to realize that cold fusionexperiments are being replicated and conducted in laboratories all around the world this very minute.... A 30 percent success rate means it’s real.

....  Modern science seeks to protect its interests, not to reveal truth.  The suppression of cold fusion is just one example of how our modern the scientific community operates more like a group of high priests than seekers of genuine scientific understanding.....  Real scientific progress usually comes from determined, outcast scientific rebels who are viciously attacked by old guard defenders of the current scientific community. You might recognize a few of their names: Einstein, Semmelweis, Copernicus, Tesla, and more than a few others." 

Profiting from the coming Revolution through Patents

"Andrea Rossi’s patent application has been posted ...
USeCatPatentApplication (pdf)
 

Volume 5 of the JCMNS  is now online at :
JCMNS Volume 5 (2011) (4 Megabyte pdf file)

Special volume on LANR/CMNS/LENR/CF also includes the Proceedings of the March 2010, New Energy Technology Symposium held at the 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in San Francisco.

from The International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

Hot fusion skeptics (hot fusion physicists, mainly) and the USPTO have decided to continue to take down what is left of real cold fusion in the USA.   They continue to reattack the remnant cold fusion researchers. Some are simultaneously supporting the most nonsensical theories as they ignore and side-line real experimental cold fusion (LANR) work.  [Operation 'Blue Book', redux?].  There should have been accountability for the fraud used and the  persecution continued in the two decade long cold fusion coverup (Heavywatergate).

David French interview: “Unlikely a single company will control cold fusion.”

"I strongly recommend that people do really in-depth research before filing for a patent. ... A large number of people spend large amounts of money filing for patents only to find out that what they say they want to control, what they want to patent – it isn’t new, and the patent office is supposed to do their own searches and     in many cases, the examiner knows the field very well and will give you the bad news, sorry it isn’t new."
...   In other cases, patents have issued not necessarily for cold fusion itself, Windom and Larsen have gotten a patent on shielding against gamma rays. Well, that’s part of their theory of how cold fusion works. They got a patent on shielding against gamma rays. The examiner took them at their word that they were achieving a useful result.  ... Rossi has his hydrogen and nickel configuration, and his published patent application says that he has a secret catalyst that’s included, so we don’t know what that is, but I can’t evaluate whether his story and his patent application is valid.” 
...    And there’s 135 countries around the world. A person whose patenting is not going to patent everywhere. So there will be countries where they neglect to patent, and then they’ll be four or five, six people in Taiwan who’ll be building cold fusion heaters for cabins, and so the technology will available in free markets in other countries. It’s unlikely that a single company will control cold fusion around the world.”

" In January, Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi hold a press conference in which the E-Cat is demonstrated. Over time qualified, respected scientists such as Guiseppe Levi, Christos Stemmenos, Hanno Essen and Sven Kullander state that Rossi has discovered a new form of nuclear reaction. The mainstream media and scientific press pay almost no attention at all..... Rossi announces that he has met with people in the highest echelons within NASA, and that they will be working together in the future. NASA says nothing.  Rossi announces that his first E-Cat power plant will be launched at the premises of an unnamed American partner in the last week of October."

"Dear Mr. Rossi, with regard to my wish to buy a small (5kW) ecat device in 2012 and your promise to make this possible (page16), i would just like to renew the question if this can become true for me in Germany?
.... 8th, 2011   Dear Peter Grombach: I think that small E-Cats for People are nearest than expected. ow I am working to make them safe and cheap. The construction of the 1 MW plant has teached to us a lot of things, so the development of the pop ones is closer than expected. Important news could arrive soon. We are working. Warm Regards, A.R."

Dr. Nagel: "(W)hen you look at this field, the science is still wide-open, it is simply not understood what’s going on here. There are some people saying it’s entirely nuclear, some people saying it’s not at all nuclear, some people say it’s a mix of both. There are people saying it’s occurring on surfaces, people say it’s surfaces in bulk. I could go on, but the point is it’s wide-open science.
 When you go from science knowledge to technology and capability, there are things separate from Rossi that are emerging, I think of Mitch Swartz’ experiments from Jet Energy in Boston – you know he makes things move using energy from this. These technologies may or may not be important, and if they are, then they’re going to be developed. ...  The reality is, while there’s immensely more interest, it still hasn’t hit the major media, the New York Times, Time magazine....
   Now meanwhile...  there’s competition. ....   Piantelli started using the nickel-hydrogen gas-loading system in the early nineties, and he worked on it for a while. He was joined by Focardi.... Focardi of course is allied now with Rossi."

    "As the world wonders what to do about existing nuclear fission power plants which process radioactive fuels and produce dangerous radioactive waste, Andrea Rossi asserts that it would be possible to replace the current reactors with E-Cat reactors which he maintains use or produce no hazardous materials."
 

New Energy Hot or Cold? (Nuclear Energy Progress)

  1MW Tests To Last 2 Months

  Professor Focardi

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FedEx flies cold fusion device.

" ...this FedEx advertisement aired on the Golf Channel... I can see that mock-up unit in a public service piece for …Cold Fusion Now!"

September 1, 2011 " ...(W)e learn of a rumour about NASA testing Rossi’s eCat starting tomorrow..... Since Rossi recently offered us (rather out of the blue) the information that tests would last 2 months, I wonder if this fits with what we think we know so far. Testing September/October. Customer delivery (now fully ratified) end of October"

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Rumors That Rossi Will Soon Start Testing at NASA

   "Andrea Rossi continues to state that the launch of his 1 MW E-Cat plant is on track for the last week of October"

Cold Fusion Cross-Country Tour

"University of Utah Henry Eyring Chemistry Building
..I walked around the empty halls looking for an open door. I found a small office filled with students, and introduced myself. I told them I’m doing clean energy advocacy ...I asked if they knew that cold fusion was real, and one young man nodded his head. ... I said good-by and left, listening to their laughter as I walked down the hall... A little discouraged that this place of learning, this holy ground where Stanley Pons, Chairman of the Chemistry Department, and his partner Martin Fleischmann, one of the greatest electro-chemists that ever lived, made an immense discovery with huge ramifications for the whole of humanity’s future, was filled with such ignorance and negativity, I tried a different hallway.... The University of Utah has a beautiful library, with gorgeous art, a cafe, and an excellent rare book collection. I went up to the Special Collections and asked to see the archives on cold fusion. ...The newspaper articles, cut out by some unknown person, were yellowing and becoming brittle, but otherwise, it was easy to read the materials, loosely ordered by date..... The University had started the National Cold Fusion Institute, but it closed by 1991."

"Rossi has again addressed the issue of steam measurement ... "A report will be published regarding the test of our first industrial plant. Of course the instrumantation is fit for the purpose. The measure of the quality of the steam will be made by an “idiot proof system”, not because it is necessary ( what made in all our former tests was technically correct) but to avoid chatters from idiots.”

e-catworld

Rossi and Focardi Cold Fusion News

"The business enterprise, Defkalion Green Technologies will be preparing for opening up a factory in October which will generate 300,000 devices a year that’ll be available in the Greek and Baltic areas. .... The scientific and the non-scientific worlds alike are wildly guessing the internal operations and process of the e-cat reactor."

"On April 28, 2006 Lewis Larsen and Alan (also spelled Allan) Widom effectively filed a US patent application by making a Patent Cooperation Treaty filing entitled: “Apparatus and Method for Generation of Ultra Low Momentum Neutrons”.  Access to this application on the USPTO database can be obtained here. Actually, access to any US patent application can be obtained by starting at ... http://appft.uspto.gov/    ....  In an area where considerable doubt exists as to the consistent reproducibility of an effect, such as in the field of “cold fusion”, it’s not unreasonable for an examiner to ask for such evidence.  If appropriate evidence had been filed, and if the application otherwise passed the tests for patentability... then a patent would have issued."

"A 2009 Defense Analysis Report prepared by the US Defense Intelligence Agency detailed some of this work. Some of the highlights of Cold Fusion work going on around the world include:
• Several groups of scientists in Japan including researchers at the giant companies Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toyota are doing laboratory work on Cold Fusion.
• A team at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies or ENEA l
• Cold fusion research was also going on at another Italian company called STMicroelectronics and another organization called Pirelli Labs.
• The Indian government has reportedly restarted its cold fusion research program 
• Additional research is going on at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.
• The Russian Academy of Sciences in Tomsk and several teams of scientists in Russia 
• A scientist named Goryachev at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow 
• Cold fusion research is supposedly going on at 20 different institutions in China.
• Energetics in Omer, Israel
• A French Scientist named Jean-Paul Biberian 
• Scientists at the Technische Universität Berlin
• Francesco Piantelli a former associate of Focardi at the University of Bologna
• Dr. Dennis Bushnell Chief Scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia ....

"Professor Levi... took centre stage in journalist Steven Krivit’s most recent attack. ...It is clear that the interviewer set out to dig dirt. This was not a balanced Q&A designed to inform his readers. At one point, as I began to wonder if I was imagining it, Professor Levi jokes (but it was no joke at all) that he felt under trial. The whole thing smacked of a prosecutor trying to trick a hostile witness.  .... I have watched the bravest of men crumble in front of the lens. Levi did not do that, but it was obviously not his thing. .... I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard that Andrea Rossi will not allow independent scientists near his device. Here we have a Professor of physics who set out to protect his university allowed exactly that.  .... when it comes to matters of technical competence, I would trust the physicist Levi over Krivit anytime."

The Levi Inquisition
"After watching the first part in a 5 part documentary where New Energy Times journalist, Steven Krivit interviews Professor Guiseppe Levi of Bologna University in Italy. It is clear that Krivit, the interviewer set out to dig dirt. This was not a balanced interview at all. It’s no wonder that Levi felt like he was being interrogated as opposed to being interviewed by Krivit. At one point during the show, Professor Levi even jokes (but it was no joke at all) that he felt under trial."

"Krivit has released his long-threatened video interviews filmed during his visit to Bologna. ...Meanwhile Rossi answers a comment from Joe Shea.... 
Joe Shea - August 19th, 2011 at 2:34 AM "Having watched the 5-part interview of Giuseppe Levi with Steven Kirvit of New Energy Times, I am convinced that Kirvit is a fraud who is working for a competitor or a government to discredit Dr. Rossi’s work. I hope he does not succeed."

August 19th, 2011 at 4:28 AM "Dear Joe Shea: The snake arrived to the point to say to Levi” I have to write a bad story on Rossi, if you don’t help me I will make a bad story also about you”. The imbecile said this in presence of a witness, Levi opened against him a prosecution by his attorney, because in Italy what the snake made is a crime. Warm regards, A.R."

The Washington Times - "Just as Japan’s earthquake raises fears of catastrophe from a nuclear meltdown and Mideast turmoil jeopardizes the world’s supply of conventional energy, along comes word of a possible scientific breakthrough that holds out the hope of cheap, abundant power. Cold fusion - discredited and vilified in the past - is back in the news. 
... In January, two Italian scientists announced they had invented a reactor that fuses nickel and hydrogen nuclei at room temperature, producing copper and throwing off massive amounts of energy in the process. Sergio Focardi and Andrea Rossi demonstrated their tabletop device before a standing-room-only crowd in Bologna, purportedly using 400 watts of power to generate 12,400 watts with no hazardous waste. ,,, The Italians’ reported 31-fold increase in energy .... 

A nuclear physicist associated with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Giuseppe Levi, told reporters at the January demonstration that he was convinced the results were accurate. But peer-reviewed journals, exhibiting an abundance of caution, have so far refused to publish the findings."

22 August 2011 - "Researchers in the UK and Belgium have measured the work performed by a single manmade molecule. ..... The molecule is a rotaxane that comprises a molecular ring with a long axle running through it. The ring can move along the length of the axle, but it prefers to stay at one end where it can form several hydrogen bonds with the spindle. The rotaxane can exert a force of 30pN, which translates to mechanical work of about 6 kcal mol-1. Kinesin and myosin produce forces in the range 5 to 60pN."

The issue of Steam Quality greatly impacts the calculations on the actual excess energy.
... This article shows that NASA's analysis omits significant facts about the behaviour of steam. First, we review some basic facts about steam, particularly the concept of steam quality, and the use of a temperature-enthalpy diagram. We then consider the detailed behavior of boiling water in a "Kettle" boiler and a "Tube" boiler.  ... At a specific steam quality a "Dryout" occurs : there is no more fluid water in the output. Any remaining water will then be carried as droplets in the water vapour. This "Dryout Point" is estimated by the author to be between 75% dry and 80% dry. If the eCat is operating with a steam quality BELOW the dryout point then fluid water will eventually fill the chimney and flow out of the outlet hose. If the eCat has steam quality ABOVE the dryout point, then the chimney will empty, and there will be no fluid water in the outlet hose. The author believes that the experiments show that the chimney is NOT full of water, and that significant amounts of fluid water are NOT in the outlet stream. ... The MINIMUM steam quality is thus ABOVE the dryout point, which means that the steam quality is above 75% Dry, and the total power is over 4300 W, much larger than the electrical input of 770 W."
 

"JET has pioneered contributions in the development of the evolving landscape of cold fusion and its utilization, by developing a continuum electrophysics model which has led to the quasi-1-dimensional model of isotope loading of a metal, and then to codeposition, the optimal operating point, Phusor technology, control of "heat after death", among other directions."

"Piantelli was one of the earlier researchers who, in 1995, pioneered combining hydrogen with nickel to produce anomalous excess energy. The two published patent references identifying him as an inventor are as follows:
1) Title: ENERGY GENERATION AND GENERATOR BY MEANS OF ANHARMONIC STIMULATED FUSION filed initially 27.01.1994 in Italy (link here)
World applicant (except US): UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA, Italy

2) Title: METHOD FOR PRODUCING ENERGY AND APPARATUS THEREFOR, filed initially 24.11.2008 in Italy

World Applicants (except US): Silvia and Francesco PIANTELLI, Luigi BERGOMI, and Tiziano GHIDINI, all of Italy (link here) ... These applications started with an initial filing in each case in Italy. Within 12 months corresponding upgraded applications were filed within the PCT system. Both applications were published as of 18 months from their Italian filing dates. As of 30 months from the original filing date, it’s required to exit the PCT and make national entry filings in individual countries. Today some 130+ countries can be accessed in this manner. Once a patent application has been prepared (which can cost $5000-$25,000 plus) an application can be filed in the PCT for around $10,000. One benefit of a PCT application is that it will delay the deadline for making national filings until the 30th month from the earliest world filing date. ... The first of the above applications eventually did produce national filings in Canada, Czechoslovakia, the European Patent Office, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, Romania and Sweden. Patents were actually granted in New Zealand and by the European Patent Office but the corresponding application was refused in Czechoslovakia. In other countries the applications may have been granted, refused or may have been abandoned during their pendency. The disclosure in all of these filings was identical to the PCT published disclosure.

This list of countries is certainly different from what you would normally expect. Significantly absent is a filing in the United States. The Canadian filing was abandoned in 2003."

"The title of a patent application recently filed by the Piantelli group has been revealed on the Italian Patent and Trademark Office website: That is, “Method and Apparatus for Generating Energy through Nuclear Reactions of Hydrogen Adsorbed by Orbital Capture to a Metal Crystalline Nanostructure*”. .... it covers a different aspect of the Piantelli group’s work than the April patent. ....  The April patent will be published on October 27, 2012. The newer patent will be published on January 15, 2013. In most countries patent applications must be published 18 months after they are filed."

"In another blow to the so-called solar power industry, the Boston Herald also reports, “Evergreen Solar Inc., the Massachusetts clean-energy company that received millions in state subsidies from the Patrick administration for an ill-fated Bay State factory, has filed for bankruptcy, listing $485.6 million in debt.”

"This is likely a major factor in the so-called suppression of exotic claims. In the main, there is no conspiracy, just the slow evolution of ideas struggling for survival among a million others. It is also the reason that – should powerful players choose to do so – the top-heavy establishment can easily manipulate the group into believing what they want them to believe – particularly if the subject is already filed under junk.  .... Someday, when LENR takes its proper place, it is the very scientists being attacked who will take the subject and (together with its current heroes) shape it to the benefit of us all."

Technology Review - "Terrapower, a startup funded in part by Nathan Myhrvold and Bill Gates, is moving closer to building a new type of nuclear reactor called a traveling wave reactor that runs on an abundant form of uranium. .... In a traveling wave reactor, a small amount of uranium 235 is used to start up the reactor. The neutrons the reactor produces then convert the far more abundant uranium 238 into plutonium 239, a fissile material that can generate the heat needed for nuclear power. .....In the new design, the reactions all take place near the reactor's center instead of starting at one end and moving to the other."

WardsAuto.com - "A U.S. company says it is getting closer to putting prototype electric cars on the road that will be powered by the heavy-metal thorium.... Small blocks of thorium generate heat surges that are configured as a thorium-based laser, Stevens tells Ward’s. These create steam from water within mini-turbines, generating electricity to drive a car."

"A legal battle over patents on cold fusion technology could be developing in Italy. One patent for cold fusion technology has already been granted for Andrea Rossi’s energy catalyzer or e-cat device in May.
This blog reports that three more patents for a similar nickel-hydrogen Cold Fusion device have been filed by Francesco Piantelli. ....No patents for the device have been granted outside Italy. ... Guglielmo Marconi and Nikolai Tesla spent years in court fighting over who actually invented radio. The courts eventually sided with Tesla but he never got any money because the patents had run out."

"American billionaire, Jeff Bezos, the man behind Amazon.com has reportedly invested in a Canadian company that is trying to develop a cold fusion process that uses hydrogen and seawater. General Fusion based in Vancouver, British Columbia, reportedly raised $19.5 million in venture capital for the development of a cold fusion or Low Energy Nuclear Reaction process in May. .... General Fusion intends to create cold fusion by creating plasma out of deuterium and tritium, trapping it with a magnetic field and compressing it."
 
 

"E-cat inventor Andrea Rossi called off his agreement with Greek company Defkalion because Defkalion simply did not have enough money to deliver on its promises.... The company’s Xanthi, Greece, facility was supposed to be the site of Rossi’s first test of a one megawatt generator powered by an e-cat in October. Rossi has since announced that the test will be held at an unspecified location in the United States."

"Greek television Channel 6 is reporting that Andrea Rossi and Defkalion Green Technologies have patched things up, and Defkalion is proceeding with its plans to establish a power plant in Xanthi, Greece:....     Channel 6 contacted the the CEO of Defkalion, Mr Ksanthoulis, who makes it clear that Mr. Rossi has every right to cooperate with the US company since their agreement does not prohibit it."

"Defkalion Green Energy Inc. claims to have produced final products, but still will not answer two critical questions about the reactor cores at the heart of their systems. ....Defkalion Green Technologies Inc. has named their nickel-hydrogen cold fusion product line, "Hyperion." They claim it utilizes the same design of reactor core (or "kernel" as they call it) as Andrea Rossi's E-Cat "prototypes." The reactor or kernel of an E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) prototype is a metal tube, in which nickel powder, hydrogen gas, and one or more elements that serve as catalysts are placed."

"Intense pressure can force neutrons into cubes rather than spheres.... under intense pressure, neutrons can switch from a spherical symmetry to a cubic one. And when that happens, neutrons pack like cubes into crystals with a packing density that approaches 100%."

"No one is going to help us. 
We've got to do it ourselves.'

  Flight United 93' 

"Defkalion states that their Hyperion products are a highly engineered advancement of the initial lab version of Rossi's E-Cat concept, and that Rossi signed off on all their improvements, and that they are preparing to launch product as planned....Andrea Rossi's invention consists of a metal tube where the Ni-H reaction takes place in conjunction with the needed material for the successful reaction to take place.  Andrea Rossi has equipped his reactor lab prototype with a manually controlled hydrogen input valve and a manually controlled cooling system using water as a coolant and with basic electric and control electronics. Clearly, lab prototypes have minor demands for controls, automation and safety within the overall functionality of a final product..... All steps and tests of different Hyperion components on safety, security, electronics, and materials during our product development stages were communicated, signed and confirmed by Andrea Rossi. I

These differences of Hyperion products with e-cats are mainly, but are not limited to, the following:
    Materials used in thermal isolation of different subsystems
    The cooling system of the reactor
    The heating management system, based on on-line, controlled by Hyperion's PLCs, ultrasonic calorimeters/thermocouples and specially designed PLC-driven pumps
    The coolants in use
    The security systems of the products
    The tele-monitoring system of the products
    The handling of Hydrogen according to the highest anti-explosive EU specs"

3.1.5.1- "Electrochemically Induced Deuterium Fusion in Palladium The first-discovered form of solid-state fusion was that achieved by electrochemically splitting heavy water in order to cause the deuterium to absorb into pieces of palladium metal. When this experiment is conducted according to procedures that have resulted from the work of many researchers since 1989, it is reproducible.
The evidence that a nuclear process is occurring is that excess energy inthe form of heat (greater than what could be produced by any possible chemical reaction in the system) and helium 4 (He4) (in quantities exceeding any possible contamination) occur.

The primary nuclear reaction is: 
     1D2 + 1D2 = 2He4 + heat

3.2 Energy Conversion
"Some of the energy produced by any energy producing system will be in the form of heat. This section presents the results of current research into advanced methods of converting a higher fraction of heat to electric power than may be accomplished with current technology. The electric power may then be used in an aircraft P/P system to provide propulsion.
Additionally, a newly discovered method of transferring relatively large amounts of heat (without a temperature gradient) is described. This technology allows heat exchanger weights and volumes to be reduced and reliability to be significantly increased and is suitable for a very wide range of technical applications."

"Insomma, cari ingegneri, fisici e appassionati di scienza che seguite 22 passi d'amore: avete circa 200 pagine da leggere per tutto il restodell'estate e approfondire ben oltre! Fatelo iniziando a scaricare questi due libri (pdf):"

    Advanced Energetics for Aeronautical Applications (20 Mb) pdf

    Advanced Energetics for Aeronautical Applications; Volume II (2 Mb) pdf

"It was inevitable that Defkalion would not simply roll over and die given the work they have done over the last months and their early statements that they intended to forge ahead. If true, the controversy over contradicting statements had to be addressed. Sterling Allan, who has been running a series of articles focusing on that controversy has received a letter, apparently from Symeon Tsalikoglou of DGT, spelling out where they stand.
...Dfkalion Green Technologies has designed, built and tested the materials and components for the final Hyperion products that are based on the same kernels (reactors) as of Andrea Rossi’s e-cats. Their official testing, certification and approval by the Greek Authorities is still in progress...  …Defkalion Green Technologies maintains its strong support to Andrea Rossi."

"Defkalion Green Technologies responded, somewhat, to the split between themselves and Andrea Rossi. Actually they seemed to not respond at all to the split itself, but rather they set to distance, or differentiate themselves from Rossi (while still stating “strong support” towards him) by establishing that their own device is called the HYPERION, and this is actually the “final product”, whereas the E-CAT, was really a “lab prototype system”, even though as they state, the reactor is the same for both, and everything has been based on “standards, specifications and designs provided and approved by Andrea Rossi himself.” 

"Cold Fusion Now recently sent a second letter to the Department of Energy requesting remedy to the lack of funding for LENR research. 30 signatures in support of the letter. .... Twenty years later, with the world on fire, and a 100% reproducibility rate available for LENR, we can no longer ignore this solution to our energy problems.  Make postcards, get your friends to sign them, and send them to the Department of Energy. We need a miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue."

"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."     - Western Union internal memo, 1878

"Radio has no future."    - Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British mathematician and physicist, ca. 1897. 

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London.

OLD FUSION TIMES - INFORMATION FOR SKEPTICS

“…Rossi has not specified the required input energy. Therefore, the net power of his claim is unknown…”
The fact that it is unknown to us does not make it unknown. 
“…Last year, Rossi and Focardi claimed an energy gain of 213 times. This year, Rossi downgraded that to six…” This is disingenuous. Rossi has consistently said that higher gains are easily attained but that he deliberately under-powers the device to park it in a safe zone. The gain of six is a factor he promises as a performance minimum to customers.

"Gerald Celente of Trends Institute has put new energy as a top trend for 2011. He made the statement on Eric King’s King World News interview for Wednesday, December 29, 2010....Funding LENR research will start a whole new economic paradigm, employing skilled workers, developing a path for young scientists, and jumpstart a new manufacturing sector based on a new energy technology.

Niche Blogger’s third report: E-Cat not demonstrated to work as claimed
 

"Prof. Piantelli is working with the University of Siena on his Ni-H cell.  ...  Old cells have excess energy of about 2-3 times input     New ones plan an excess of about 200 times the energy input ... Some collaboration with a major U.S. institution including 3 days in the Siena lab ...  Confirms the presence of 6-7 Mev Protons ... The commercial company is formed by Piantelli investors – Nichenergy Ltd ....  In 2-4 months it will be possible for anyone to buy shares (still to be announced) to support the development of technology, have control over it (and then not make it disappear into thin air at the climax) and be able to take part in future revenues
   Technology is based on the preparation of nickel. Grain size and geometry and also the geometry of the deposition (a kind of multi-layer) are important"

" Piantelli has a theory that doesn’t require exotic reactions, but can be explained using known physics and mathematics. A semi-complete theory has been provided to the University of Siena and will be published shortly. The complete theory will probably be disclosed after the first commercial units have been sold. No Italian public institutions are involved in the current research, but a US government agency that has had the opportunity to review the research will probably validate and certify the reactor, as well as contribute to its development.Piantelli’s group is also in talks with several large industrial corporations to develop generators operating at certain power levels. The research is protected by three pending patents, the latest of which was filed last week."

(The uncensored (*) proceedings below. Those at the LENR-CANR site are censored re:several LENR/LANR/CMNS authors; so support the CMNS Site !!!

"With over 150 in attendance, they listened to the clear voice of Andrea Rossi via Skype. AR congratulated the conference – the first on the subject in Tuscany – and confirmed that the 1MW plant in Greece should be inaugurated in October, as scheduled. He answered a few questions about his collaboration with Focardi and how the E-Cat came about, and when he closed the connection a long applause broke from the audience.
A video with an exclusive interview to Focardi was then shown, followed by two live talks."

"Almost everyone in the alternative energy community is aware of Andrea Rossi's cold fusion based E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) technology. .. In recent days, even more news has emerged about this technology. It seems that as the launch of the technology approaches, the flow of information is accelerating. ... In most of the tests performed on the E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer), a constant input of energy has been utilized. The reason a constant input has been used up to this point, is due to the tendency of the output of the system to increase rapidly when in a self sustaining mode. If the output cannot be reduced, the system can go out of control.  Andrea Rossi has stated many times in the past a self sustaining system is dangerous, and there is a chance of explosions. He actually indicated that during stress testing of systems he has witnessed dozens of explosions. In one specific experiment Rossi has mentioned, an E-Cat was put into self sustain mode, but had to be turned off after the output exceeded the maximum safe level of 10 kilowatts (in the form of heat). However, now he claims that these problems are being resolved, and that the one megawatt reactor will operate in a self sustaining mode with no input power."

"A conference titled “Has cold fusion become a reality?” was held at 4:00 PM July 23 at Villa Borbone in Viareggio, Italy. The conference was hosted by Italian solar energy company Delta Energie. Among the participants were Andrea Rossi via Skype; his research partner, retired University of Bologna physicist Sergio Focardi, via a pre-recorded presentation; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare physicist and cold fusion researcher Francesco Celani; astrophysicist and futurologist Mario Menichella; renewable energy researcher and author Roy Virgilio; and author and blogger Daniele Passerini, who is also a long-time friend of University of Bologna physicist Giuseppe Levi. 
"Several other items of interest were brought up at the conference: Celani’s allegation that the public denigration of cold fusion research and the hiring of the best cold fusion researchers by US military and government labs likely stem from the same policy ....
"In his recent dust-up with physicist Julian Brown, Rossi said Brown had claimed that his competitor had a patent on the matter granted in 1995. Piantelli applied for a patent, “Energy Generation and Generator by Means of Anharmonic Stimulated Fusion”, in 1995, but the patent was never granted. However, whether the patent was granted or not, it could still be used as evidence for prior art in a claim against Rossi’s 2008 patent, which is probably the idea Brown was trying to convey to Rossi."
 

" Defkalion has had units (which they call Hyperions) in continuous operation for months. When their testing is finished, the results will be published.

   - Testing of Hyperion units by Greek government officials took place the first ten days of July. These tests were to determine the safety and performance of the units. The protocols used and the results of these tests should be published, "very soon."
    - Defkalion has tested self sustaining systems. In these systems, once the device is brought up to the proper temperature, the input is cut off and heat continues to be produced.
    - At this moment, the highest temperature of steam produced by a Hyperion is 414C. This is not because steam cannot be made hotter, but because higher temperatures can exceed the specifications of components.
    - They have never performed a test in which the output of a Hyperion was less than 19 times the input. Usually, it is in the range of 20 to 30 times the input.
    - Although a one megawatt unit will be demonstrated in October, their highest power device will produce 3.45 megawatts of thermal energy and fit inside a 20 foot container.
    - The lead shielding required to block gamma rays has been reduced to only 3 millimeters.
Rossi's Blog Comments

Andrea Rossi has continued to make many interesting comments on this blog,
- He is making "remarkable" progress on self sustaining E-Cats that do not require a constant input.
- The maximum safe output from an E-Cat with a reactor vessel only 50cc in volume is 10 kilowatts.
Although Andrea Rossi frequently states that he is not going to do any additional interviews until the one megawatt plant is opened in October, more interviews continue to appear on the internet. ... "The management team of both Defkalion and AmpEnergo will meet on the 14th July (2011) together with NASA for an important discussion regarding the research and business development around the E-Cat. After the initial meeting with NASA, Defkalion GT and Ampenergo will sit down and develop a joint program for the introduction of the E-Cat as a main energy source to the world."

Journal of Scientific Exploration Vol 23, No 4 - "Lattice assisted nuclear reactions (LANR) are real, and offer a clean, efficient potential new source of energy production. Two decades of LANR R&D have confirmed excess heat production, and other clearly nuclear phenomena, using electrolysis and other gas loading techniques. Requirements for success include incubation time, high loading of >90% PdDx, and other requisite conditions difficult to achieve. Several types of LANR now exist, as well as LANR metamaterials, and several types of triggering and control methods. In LANR, excess heat and helium-4 are the usual products, but charged particles, tritium, and the sequelae of neutrons can be sometimes detected. Excess power gains up to 200–400%+ have been reported. Given the prevalence of the fuel, and the incredible efficiency, LANR could be an important revolutionary technology."

"Gerald Celente of Trends Institute has put new energy as a top trend for 2011. He made the statement on Eric King’s King World News interview for Wednesday, December 29, 2010....Funding LENR research will start a whole new economic paradigm, employing skilled workers, developing a path for young scientists, and jumpstart a new manufacturing sector based on a new energy technology.

"President Kennedy Moon speech People in the mid-20th century saw government as “the formation from which new technologies would flow”, and generally trusted what their government said. If the push to appropriate taxpayer dollars in support of new technology was so apparent in the space program, the absence of sustained and coordinated federal involvement for a new, clean-energy technology is all too evident today. 

... The public and private collaborations that have generated and delivered energy for over a hundred years have done so at a high cost, environmentally, financially and socially. The patchwork scheme of multiple generations of technology that has provided power thus far, sputtering with age and neglect, is neither efficient or sustainable for our future..... 

We have a future with new-energy, or we will have no technological future at all. The inability of federal institutions to move quickly to develop LENR energy technology means private investment bears the burden. Though projects that posses technical risks are “unattractive to Wall Street”,[1] eventually, demand will insist upon it. But the Rossi Effect, the heightened interest of venture capital in LENR devices since the demonstration of the E-Cat earlier this year, is certain to grow and recent news of one private company’s plans to work with a national lab on reproducing their results as a pre-requisite to funding is a positive sign of cooperation between public and private enterprise."
 

    "At the first 2 weeks of August a core team of 12 scientists from the Xanthi area will start working, there will be a separate company lab (for R&D i presume) the building for this lab has been found. ..... Job applications are being accepted right now through the DGT web site, and when the company settles in the Xanthi area they will merge the 3 factories into one bigger one , the factory will occupy an area of 20.000 square meters.
The R&D department would be in a different location, 30 people will work there, at the factory the estimate that they’ll need 250-350 people.  The 1MW plant is nearly ready, but they will do many tests in order to make sure that everything works perfect. They will not build 3 factories as they previously said, there will be a big one with 3 separate units, also Xanthoulis said that they will outsource some components of the devices to other factories like the hyperion casing."

"An article in Ecatreport recently revealed that there was a meeting between representatives of NASA, Ampenergo and Defkalion GT on July 14th.    ...  The NASA scientists had already been exploring this technology thoroughly prior to the meeting. A previous article on this site reported that NASA’s Dennis Bushnell had been looking at nickel-hydrogen nuclear reaction research by Francesco Piantelli and Sergio Focardi, and that he was aware of Rossi’s work."

INFINITE ENERGY - "The internet has been a major source of information on the evolving story of the history-making possibilities of Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat. One viewer in southern England took a keen interest in watching newscast coverage of Defkalion’s June 23 press conference in Athens, surfing websites to read different analysis, reading newspaper stories, looking at the websites of Rossi’s representatives, Defkalion and Ampenergo, and watching a video specifically addressing questions about the Rossi technology that was created and posted by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Brian Josephson, professor emeritus at Cambridge University. That viewer was Prof. Martin Fleischmann, at his home in Tisbury, England."

"Expensive hot fusion research continues to this day with preparation for the unpractical, multi-billion dollar International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). .... However, development of hot fusion has been slow and progress has been minimal. .... Thankfully, cold fusion technology has emerged as economically viable, and is about to bring the need for "hot fusion" research to an end. .... Simply put, hot fusion (at least as envisioned by mainstream science) is a pipe dream. It is decades away from powering a single home, and the financial investment required to get to that stage will be enormous. ....The good news is that we do not need to wait decades for hot fusion research to usher in an energy utopia. ... Cold fusion is a technology that allows nuclear fusion reactions to take place at relatively low temperatures -- hundreds or thousands of degrees instead of millions of degrees. .... Cold fusion holds the capability of being a game changing energy source that makes all other conventional sources of energy obsolete."

"Like a lot of curious souls, Andrea Rossi was intrigued by the work of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann when they announced the discovery of "cold fusion," a controversial process that purported to show a low energy (temperature) nuclear reaction taking place in palladium when immersed in deuterium "heavy water".

"The advent of ultra-high power lasers allows laser power levels that are about 1000 times the power of all the power stations in the USA. This opens the way to new approaches for inertial confinement fusions (ICF) that in turn can drastically reduce the laser input energy needed to achieve practical ICF power. The specific approach discussed here involves inducing a fusion burn wave by laser-driven impact of a relatively large block of plasma on the outside of a solid density fusion target. This new method is specifically selected to enable the extremely attractive, but demanding, neutron-free proton–B-11 fusion that potentially can lead to the long sought goal of an ultra ‘‘clean’’ fusion power plant."

MIT spinout unveils powerful direct-diode laser

"TeraDiode, a spinout company from MIT and located nearby in Littleton, MA, has unveiled, a new powerful direct-diode laser capable of cutting all the way through steel up to half an inch thick at various speeds. The laser ... has "coupled 1000 watts into a 200 um, 0.18 NA fiber."

"While much vigorous discussion over the past week has focused on the plans of Defkalion Green Technologies S.A. to commercialize Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat technology, U.S.-based AmpEnergo Inc. quietly posted a new press release on their website on June 27. The press release is very brief and gives little new information, but it does clarify the geographical scope of AmpEnergo’s business activities: North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean."

July 1, 2011  Cambridge, Massachusetts - Twenty-two years ago on March 23, 1989, the science world was stunned when chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced they had produced deuterium nuclear fusion in a test tube that produced 4 megajoules of energy. ... Historically, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT - in Cambridge, Massachusetts, led the academic assault against cold fusion. So it is perhaps ironic justice that today in 2011 as cold fusion supporters are growing with reproducible demonstrations in Israel, Japan, Italy and the United States  .....

Peter Hagelstein, Ph.D., MIT: “Those who have persisted with cold fusion research have seen a lot of energy coming from experiments. ... We know that cold fusion is a real effect because many of us have been involved in experiments where we’ve seen it with our own eyes and instruments. Those who have persisted with cold fusion research have seen a lot of energy coming from experiments. So, those who have worked the longest and the hardest  on this problem will tell you from their own observations that the (cold fusion) effect is completely real and as such would provide the basis for an area of research."

"Città del Capo Radio Metropolitana, a Bolognese radio station, recently interviewed Professors Giuseppe Levi and Loris Ferrari of the University of Bologna on their research contract with Andrea Rossi.  ... The study will last for at least a year, and it will take at least another six months for the results to be published, so the earliest we can expect to see the final results of the study is the end of 2012. ..... The scope of the study will be to measure the energy efficiency and any emissions of radiation from the device Rossi provides....  Professor Levi, for his part, is already certain of the device’s repeatability."

"Brillouin Energy Corp In Berkeley California has another Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) method in the development and proving stage. The new method comes at fusion from a different path than the Rossi E-Cat.  The reports have the Brillouin at nearly 2 times the energy coming out from that going in.  .... Brillouin’s proprietary electronic pulse generator promotes proton-electron capture reactions."

Special volume on LANR/CMNS/LENR/CF also includes the Proceedings of the March 2010, New Energy Technology Symposium held at the 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in San Francisco.

from The International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

"To preserve intellectual property and trade secrets, Andrea Rossi is being forced to design a self destruct mechanism to be built into every E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer) used by the public. This could delay the public (non-industrial) launch of the technology. .... the critical patents covering the technology and the protections for the proprietary "catalysts" used have not yet been granted. This has pressured Andrea Rossi into deciding the technology cannot be launched for use by individuals for home use, until he has designed a self destruct mechanism to be built into every unit. The reason for including this self destruct mechanism is that if someone opened the reaction vessel of an E-Cat, they could obtain all the "secrets" in a short period of time. Without patent protection in the form of granted patents, this could give away key information to competitors, and potentially even invalidate patents that are still pending."

Energy Press - "The starting point of the matter is the revolutionary invention of fusion reactor Hydrogen and Nickel (cold fusion in a controlled environment), made by two Italian scientists from the University of Bologna, the Sergio Foccardi and Andrea Rossi, which was officially presented on January 14 in Italy. ...  the energy investment project of the Greek company Defkalion Green Technologies SA on the industrial application ..... a total budget of 300 to 400 million, includes three industrial units, which will settle in Thrace.. This will produce a massive reactor nickel - hydrogen, the second, based on the reactor will produce household units for heat energy capacity 10 - 30 KW and the third will produce large units 1 - 3 MW. Based on the timing of investors by the end of July we produced the first laboratory reactors, and since November there will be regular industrial production. In January the planned market introduction of small household units. Funding is completely private and comes from Greek Canadian funds through the Cyprus company will participate by 64%. The remaining 36% belongs to various Greek investors, none of which has not been up over 4%." 

Rossi Explains E-Cat Setup in New Video 

"On June 23 Defkalion Green Technologies S.A. updated their website, replacing their placeholder page with a new, more professionally-designed site. Two items of interest on the new website are a description of DGT’s product line and a brief explanation of the science behind the E-Cat."

"Dr. Brian Josephson, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity, has recently released a YouTube video of an interview of himself conducted by Judith Driscoll, Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge University. .... Josephson uses a number of simple analogies and illustrations to explain why he believes the E-Cat could work. One of his analogies addresses the lack of high-energy gamma rays produced by Rossi’s device—a serious objection from a nuclear physics perspective if the device does indeed work by the fusion of nickel and hydrogen... The imprimatur of a Nobel laureate in Physics may prove beneficial to Andrea Rossi, and to cold fusion research in general."

Sir: In regard to the letter of xxx xxxxxxx  (1 June), nuclear fusion already works: the way to make it work was demonstrated 15 years ago by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann but an inadequate, poorly analysed experiment by rival workers specialising in high-temperature fusion led to the scientific community concluding that "cold fusion" was a delusion, and to the suppression of such investigations. 
Research continued in some laboratories nevertheless, and on a recent visit to the US I visited one, witnessing an apparently well-designed experiment where the heat energy output was some 40 per cent in excess of the energy put into the system. Total energy excess amounted to 48 kilojoules per cubic centimetre of electrode, an amount significantly greater than can be accounted for by any of the non-fusion mechanisms suggested by the sceptics. It should be feasible, according to Dr Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy Technology, the scientist in charge of the experiment, to scale up this process to provide a source of energy on a large scale that does not generate greenhouse gases and is radiation free. In frustrating such a development, the scientists who denounced the original cold fusion research appear to have done mankind a grave disservice." 

Steven Krivit: - "Yesterday New Energy Times asked Department of Energy spokesman Jeff Sherwood about the Explorer Web page. “Secretary Chu did not speak at that conference, did not attend and was, in fact, out of the country at the time,” Sherwood said."

AFTERWORD:
As one of Krivit's own bloggers has noted:
"The article did not say what Krivit claimed."

 June 17th, 2011 
".... Our tests have been made with Professors of Physics working with the Universities of Bologna, Uppsala, Stockolm, with CERN, with INFN, and I think that only an imbecile can think that such Persons are not able to weight water in steam. ....   About the work that we will make with the University of Bologna and Uppsala, this will not be a public demo, but a work of Research and Development, made closed doors.   Warm Regards, A.R."

Four cats and seven people (3)
 
 

Friday, June 17, 2011
"At the request of Joseph Levi public this "open letter to Steven Krivit."
    "Dear Mr. Krivit,
    "I have Carefully read your preliminary report on your trip to Bologna. Your report Clearly Demonstrates That You have not understood anything of what you have and what we have seen you Explained....     1) The plots are well known You Were showing and can not be found in Any textbook of physical chemistry. They show measurements of the steam fraction in percentage VOLUME. ...  2) As I have told you many times, Dr. Galantini, the expert chemist That Was in charge, measurements performed in the percentage MASS.... Therefore, our analysis and our calculations are correct.. ... Given That You You Had omitted portions of information, insulted me (and my University) Trying to say that I'm not knowledgeable enough in my area, tried (just tried) to scare me and put me under psychological pressure in order to know Obtain to undisclosed date, I will not send you further information.   Regards,   Dr. G. Levi "

Andrea Rossi June 17th, 2011 at 4:54 AM
"AGAIN : WE MADE THE MEASUREMENT OF THE WATER IN WEIGHT !!!!!! AND WE EXPLAINED THIS TO KRIVIT VERY WELL!!!!! AND HE GOT CONFIRMATION OF THIS FROM AN INDIPENDENT PROFESSOR HE CONTACTED !!!!! NOBODY MAKES THIS KIND OF MEASUREMENT IN VOLUME, BECAUSE IT IS A NONSENSE !!!!!...  WE. PHYSICS PROFESSORS OF CERN, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA, UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA, UNIVARSITY OF STOCKOLM, WHO MADE THE TESTS!!!!!
{Redacted}."

"A new online petition from Quinton Crawford believes that “Cold Fusion atomic energy (non-radioactive) has been ignored and pushed aside in discussions/ presentations about alternative energy for too long.”
   “World leaders in nations/unions such as Japan, The United States of America, Russia, South Africa, The European Union, and so on have the ability and power to fully engage in the building mass energy production plants now. Solar, Wind, Wave, Geothermal, etc., are not the only alternative energy resources.”

"Brian Ahern is attempting replications of Rossi and Forcardi and he is getting 8 watts of continuous power output (for over four days of operation) from 10 grams of metal nanopowder. The good news is there is no radiation detectable above background levels . It is also worthy to note that there were no precious metals involved the alloy was Zr66%-Ni21%-Cu13%. The Zirconium becomes Zirconium dioxide when it is baked."

(carbon) Nanomaterial dust no worse than the rest
 

Richmond, Va. (June 8, 2011) – "The superatom contains magnetized magnesium atoms, an element traditionally considered as non-magnetic. ...the newly discovered cluster consisting of one iron and eight magnesium atoms acts like a tiny magnet that derives its magnetic strength from the iron and magnesium atoms. The combined unit matches the magnetic strength of a single iron atom while preferentially allowing electrons of specific spin orientation to be distributed throughout the cluster....The team found that when the cluster had eight magnesium atoms it acquired extra stability due to filled electronic shells that were far separated from the unfilled shells."

Professor Christos Stremmenos is the man who brought cold fusion to Greece, and worked with the Greek government to set up the factory that will manufacture the "Energy Catalyzer" reactors which Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi invented and tested, and which will produce a 1-megawatt power plant.

"There’s a very important fact regarding [nickel] powder. The last student who got his degree with me made a very interesting observation regarding nickel powder. Nickel powders alone do not absorb all that much hydrogen. If you put them there … in a cell, of course — we had a sophisticated calorimetry cell where we measured variations in temperature and in the quantity of heat produced in a very rigorous manner — we found that, at best, we could get one, two or three Watts, and so did Sergio Focardi. Focardi however — as a professor of Nuclear Physics — was also interested in studying nuclear parameters ... and structure modifications as well … in short, we were complementary to each other."

New 'semi-solid' battery could recharge EVs as fast as pumping gas

Dennis Bushnell is a Chief scientist at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. 
During the show, he addressed what he called "Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" as being the most interesting and promising alternative energy technology being developed. In fact, it was first on his list, ahead of salt water agriculture, cyanobacteria, energy conservation, geothermal power, nano-plastic solar panels, solar thermal concentrators, and high altitude wind power. 

Bushnell went on to say that LENR technology could potentially solve all of our energy and climate problems. He stated the technology could be used for any application, including to power rockets for space travel. It is quite refreshing to hear such positive statements, in support of cold fusion, from a mainstream, credible, and respected scientist! 

Despite his positive statements about LENR, he also made a few statements that indicate his lack of ability to admit that nuclear fusion at low temperatures could be a reality. He stated that all of the so called, "cold fusion" experiments performed over the last twenty years did not produce fusion reactions. ....  The main reasons I think many mainstream scientists like Bushnell and the "Widom Larsen" supporters want to abolish the term Cold Fusion, deny the obvious truth fusion is taking place, and claim only LENR neutron capture is taking place is as follows.

(Ed. It is also because of close ties to W-L, their lack of familiarity with the literature and with actual experimental results, and his and their  failure to cite prior art)
 

"Adam Crowl is a frequent Centauri Dreams contributor, but he’s also deep in the Project Icarus effort, serving as its module lead for fuel and fuel acquisition. And fuel is the heart of the problem."

Natural News "Initially met with skepticism due to claims that it works on cold fusion technology, the energy catalyzer has been validated producing 2.6 kilowatts from an input of 300 watts by Swedish technology magazine NyTeknik.  ... Inventors Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi announced the "E-CAT" in January claiming they had created a reactor that produces massive amounts of energy by fusing nickel and hydrogen nuclei at room temperature.
The latest tests on the energy catalyzer by NyTeknik took place in Bologna on April 19 and 28. The test, as with previous tests, aimed to measure the net energy that the device generates as accurately as possible. The results of the tests from both dates showed a developed net power of between 2.3 and 2.6 kilowatts with and input electric power of 300 watts. ..  Yet another endorsement of the device came this week as the inventors signed on with a partner firm, Ampenergo--a company formed in 2009 with connections to the U.S. Department of Energy..."

Townhall.com - "More and more dangerous effects of the proposed changes to U.S. patent law (S. 23, H.R. 1249) keep emerging, especially since the hearings failed to hear from any real inventors. The proposed bill is unconstitutional, an attack on our national security and an offense against the rule of law.  By awarding patents to the first to file an application with the bureaucracy instead of to the first to invent, the proposed bill will deprive inventors of their constitutional property right set forth in Article I, Section 8. of the Constitution. ....Defense technologies would be a prime target of this threat. The first-to-file provision of the Patent Act would become the most effective weapon in China's arsenal " 

Energy Digital - "For those of you who aren’t aware, there is a war going on in the energy world. Numerous inventors and researchers over the last century—from Nikola Tesla onward—have offered up groundbreaking ideas for cheap, abundant, clean energy devices, but are continually shut down by energy industry profiteers. Threats, disappearances and mysterious deaths are all a part of this conspiracy, and I have met inventors first hand who have been subjected to coercive tactics by both government and corporate entities to keep their mouths shut. ."

Andrea Rossi, the energy catalyzer inventor, has reached an agreement with a new company in the United States. The agreement builds on several years of contacts with people linked to the U.S. Department of Energy.  ... Under the agreement, a newly formed company, Ampenergo, will receive part of the royalties on all sales of licenses and products built on the energy catalyzer in the Americas.
The founders of Ampenergo are Karl Norwood, Richard Noceti, Robert Gentile and Craig Cassarino.Two of them also founded the consulting firm LTI – Leonardo Technologies Inc. – which for 10 years has been working on contracts amounting to several millions of dollars for the U.S. Defense and Energy departments, and with a recent contract with DOE amounting to 95 million dollars.Robert Gentile was also Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy at the Department of Energy during the early 1990’s."

  "(Rossi) says that the Universities of Bologna and Uppsala (Sweden) will have their own  E-Cats where they can conduct testing “in any way they want”."

"Mr. Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work."

"Physicists realized in the early decades of the 1800s that heat flowing in a circuit between two different conductors could generate an electric voltage. They also discovered the opposite effect -- electricity fed into such a device would heat one conductor and cool the other."

May 2, 2011 - "Ny Teknik recently participated in two new tests of the Italian ‘energy catalyzer’, providing more accurate measurements to reduce possible error sources. ... The new tests with the energy catalyzer, which seems to generate heat by an unknown nuclear reaction, took place in Bologna on 19 and 28 April, 2011.  ... The results of the two tests showed a developed net power of between 2.3 and 2.6 kilowatts – of the order of a large stove plate. Input electric power was in the order of 300 watts. ... The tests lasted for two and three hours respectively and the total net energy developed was calculated to be 5.6 and 6.9 kWh.  ... By calibrating the temperature-sensor probe in boiling water, we have as far as possible ensured that there is only vapor at the outlet of the energy catalyzer. The last point has been discussed intensively. To assess developed energy, it’s essential that all the water flowing into the energy catalyzer evaporates, given that the phase change – evaporating water into steam – requires much more energy than mere heating. ... We also controlled all other equipment and checked that there were no hidden connections from the floor or walls."

May 5, 2011 - A recently uploaded English version of an Italian TV program on Andrea Rossi and his “cold fusion” device.
 

"Remember the “cold fusion” fiasco of 1989? .... Two decades have been wasted virtually ignoring this game-changing discovery. Today’s environmental disasters, expensive energy and oil wars could possibly have been avoided.  You probably think that 4700 watts of clean, radiation-free power from a three cubic inch reactor sounds like yet another impossible hoax. But this was a third iteration demo, designed to satisfy skeptics of two previous demonstration at the prestigious University of Bologna. Attending the third demo were two Swedish scientists. One was chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society and the other was chairman of the Energy Committee of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science. They were both allowed to freely examine the entire setup except for the contents of the tiny, 50cc reactor chamber.""

97 E-Cats In Operation in 4 Countries

"Rossi is saying that at this moment there are 97 e-cats installed and working accross 4 different countries, with some already installed in the businesses of trusted individuals. The 4 countries are presumably USA (Rossi's Company Leonardo Corp), Italy, Greece and it's anyone's guess what the 4th one is. Andrea Rossi is the inventor of the e-cat (energy catalyzer).  A commercially viable cold fusion technology which is going into full production later this year.

Dow Jones Business News - "Few areas of science are more controversial than cold fusion .... In the 1980s, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann claimed to have demonstrated cold fusion .....Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi say that, when the atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen are fused in their reactor, the reaction produces copper and a large amount of energy. The reactor uses less than 1 gram of hydrogen and starts with about 1000 W of electricity, which is reduced to 400 W after a few minutes. ....  a power gain of 12400/400 = 31."

Cold Fusion Research Laboratory News

. Complexity, Earthquake, and Cold Fusion Phenomenon 
2. On the Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation

Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-14) (pdf files)

Batteries that Recharge in Seconds

"A skeptic who's own career is based around working with hot fusion has stepped out to rubbish the work of Andrea Rossi's team.  Peter Ekström is a senior lecturer in Nuclear Physics at the Faculty of Science, Lund University in Sweden. "

Kullander and Essen's report (pdf)

Rossi Cold Fusion Validated by Swedish Skeptic's Society (pdf)

"Gerald Celente of Trends Institute has put new energy as a top trend for 2011. He made the statement on Eric King’s King World News interview for Wednesday, December 29, 2010....Funding LENR research will start a whole new economic paradigm, employing skilled workers, developing a path for young scientists, and jumpstart a new manufacturing sector based on a new energy technology.

"We coldly go where no one has gone before"(TM)

"When Rossi was in Uppsala some weeks ago he brought with him two samples. One was the nickel powder as it looks like before it is placed in the black box and the second was a sample which reportedly had been used as fuel in the energy catalyst for two and a half months. Energy effect during this time was stated and the total amount of energy can be calculated. Researchers at Angstrom have examined what the spent fuel contained in addition to nickel and it was concluded that there was 10% copper and the isotope ratios of copper was about the same as in natural copper, 70/30.  ....  The fact that Nickel has 28 protons makes the nucleus extra stable and we have many nickel isotopes that are stable, they do not undergo radioactive decay. The stable nickel isotopes are Ni-58 (68.1%), Ni-60 (26.2%), Ni-61 (1.1%), Ni-62 (3.6%), Ni-64 (0.9%). In the trip report which is available on the “Ny Teknik” website, we read that in the sample that Rossi brought with him to Uppsala there are 10% copper by isotopic distribution 70/30. Copper has two stable isotopes, Cu-63 and Cu-65, and these two isotopes can be formed from nickel if the hydrogen nucleus, which has the mass unit 1, merged with the Ni-62 and Ni-64. If the original sample is natural nickel, then Ni-62 and Ni-64 together are 4.5% of the sample, and if all these nickel isotopes are converted to copper, you get only 4.5% copper and not 10% as measured. If all the Ni-62 and Ni-64 is converted to copper the isotope ratio would be 80/20 which is close to the natural ratio 70/30.....  Right now, my conclusion is that the isotope distribution measured and the fact that the sample had 10% copper indicate that it is contaminated with natural copper.  .....  What will be the final comment? The water that passed the heart of the facility has been heated so that the flow is evaporated to steam (Sven was allowed to check the steam) and there are currently no chemical processes that can explain this energy flow .... The nuclear reactions that in principle can explain the energy, but physically not possible cannot explain the amount of copper with the isotopic composition measured."\

Come promesso, ecco la versione inglese dell'intervista Focardi (qui il testo originale in italiano) a cura di Alberto, Vanesio e Alex; l'operazione (qui l'avvio) di trascrizione prima e traduzione dopo  è stata autorizzata da Radio Città del Capo, a cui vanno i ringraziamenti di noi tutti.

"The Humboldt Math Festival is a gathering for the local county’s math instructors from the earliest grades through Humboldt State University. Teachers set up tables and activities for the kids in the community and expose them to different kinds of math and science fun.  .. I had a number of conversations about LENR technologies with passersby, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. ... All in all, the day was full of communication on an issue that has no parallel in importance.""

  Below - Math- and Cold Fusion- Oriented children fashion heavy nuclei out of minimarshmallows while others read the writings of the late Dr. Scott Chubb in his paper on "Rossi". 

Dr. Scott Chubb:  Rossi 10 kW Reactor (pdf)

Andrea Rossi’s  Journal of Nuclear Physics website: “Today I am in the USA factory of Leonardo Corporation where I signed a contract of tremendous importance. As soon as I will be allowed to announce it, believe me, it will be extremely important”.

 "There is a consistent message coming from Rossi: there will be no commercialization or licensing of his technology until the first 1MW power plant is opened in Xanthi, Greece in October. The plant will power a factory operated by Defkalion Green Technologies, S.A., where energy catalyzers will be manufactured for the Greek and Balkan markets."

  "... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and proved impracticable." 
          [New York Times, January 16, 1880]

          "Professor Goddard ... does not know the relation of action to reaction ... he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools"
          [New York Times, January 13, 1920]

2010 COLLOQUIUM on LATTICE ASSISTED NUCLEAR REACTIONS (LANR/CF) at MIT (pdf file)

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"Gerald Celente, lauded prognosticator of Trends Research Institute, recently put new energy and cold fusion as #6 on his Top Trends for 2011 in the Trends Research Journal. .... An interview conducted by Chris Waltzek of Goldseek Radio has Mr. Celente mentioning the recent demonstration of Dr. Rossi’s Ecat boiler at the University of Bologna. He also mentions the trouble with getting patents with anything related to cold fusion."

Excellent, brief overview of the technology (Infinite Energy; March 17, 2011) 

Fukushima Dai-ichi status and potential outcomes

Dangers of nuclear fission plants exposed; stand in contrast to cold fusion.

Obama seeks safety review of US nuclear plants

Comparison of Pd/D co-deposition and DT neutron generated triple tracks observed in CR-39 detectors 
P. A. Mosier-Boss, J. Y. Dea, L. P.G. Forsley, M. S. Morey, J. R. Tinsley, J. P. Hurley and F. E. Gordon

nyteknik - Rossi: To produce Energy Catalyzers (E-Cat from now) for the households, it takes time for the necessary certifications. This is the reason why we are starting from industrial applications, or even centralized thermal energy distribution systems: in these applications the authorizations are less difficult, because the plants are operated by skilled professionals. ... As for the costs, we foresee 1 cent per kWh for the electric energy, 0,3 cents per thermal kWh, 2.000 Euro per kW of power. ....We are working 16 hours per day for the implementation. We also are waiting for the registration of the granted patent to release more information. 
Göran Ericsson: If no gammas are observed, what is the reason to believe nuclear reactions are involved?  Rossi: We observed gammas under the 300 keV range. We did not find, so far, the couples at 180 degrees at 511 keV.."

Please consider helping  today, before another day passes with the current energy problem, and the absolute lack of interest in actually solving the problem which Washington, DC, the federal government, and the USPTO have shown for two decades on this subject. 

Remind them all that the USPTO has refused Free of Information Act (FOIA) requests by falsely purporting that the "public has no interest". 

Do you have an interest? Remind them of the utility of ultraclean, highly efficient alternative energy.

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November 2010 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP) broke its signed Agreement to publish an LANR/CF/LENR book --
Then, after the book was written, assembled, prepared, formated, given an ISBN number, assigned a publishing date and more than $5000 taken by AIP (since returned but with the Agreement and AIP credibility shattered).

As of February 2011, AIP has continued their breach -- and also has just reportedly screwed a second organization, SPESIF 2011 for the same "crime" - studying, and daring to report on the physics and metallurgy of deuterided alloys with respect to their thermal and spectroscopic emissions.

"Only people who received a personal invitation were able to attend it. ... The experiment started at about 15:30 and ended at about 16:45..... The energy gain is a factor of 15-20"

dimensional Symmetry Catalysts for A-Z Gas Loading Fusion - Talbot Chubb

Comparison of Calorimetry: MIT and Fleischmann-Pons Systems - Melvin H. Miles , Peter Hagelstein

Can LENR Energy Gains Exceed 1000? - David J. Nagel

Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions From Nanostructured Metamaterials Electrically Driven at Their Optimal Operating Point - Mitchell R. Swartz

The Use of SSNTD's in the Pd-D Co-deposition Experiment - Francis Tanzella , Michael M.C.H. McKubre

LENR BEC Clusters on and below Wires through Cavitation and Related Techniques - Roger Stringham , Julie Stringham

Use of Helium Production to Screen Glow Discharges for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) - Thomas O. Passell

Conventional Physics can Explain Excess Heat in the Fleischmann-Pons Cold Fusion Effect - Scott Chubb

Electrochemical and Electron Probe Microanalysis Measurements on Nanostructured Palladium -  Jan Marwan , Vanessa Rackwitz

Extraordinarily-important-announcement
Breaking-news-is-efficient-cold-fusion-now-a-reality
10_kW_nickel_hydrogen_cold_fusion_demo_coming_January_15_in_Italy
Focardi-Rossi_10_kW_cold_fusion_prepping_for_market

CALGARY - "EIA analyst Joe Benneche ... noted the Northwest Territories pipeline lacks economies of scale and infrastructure already existing on the North Slope, making it more costly."

DOE giving $575 million in carbon capture grants
WASHINGTON -- "The Energy Department said Tuesday it was awarding $575 million for carbon capture research-and-development projects in 15 states.....All told, he said, the department has invested more than $4 billion in carbon storage and capture, matched by more than $7 billion in private investments." 

"(C)yanobacteria Cyanothece 51142 turns solar energy into hydrogen under aerobic conditions at rates several times higher than any other known photosynthetic microbe. Normally, microbes that produce hydrogen do so under anaerobic conditions. This is because the enzymes they use for hydrogen production, namely nitrogenase and/or hydrogenase, are inhibited by oxygen. By understanding the way Cyanothece 51142 grows and fixes nitrogen, the team learned that nitrogenase was involved in its metabolism, raising suspicions of its hydrogen producing potential under unusually aerobic conditions."

"Cold Fusion" on SyFy in 2011.  Director: Ivan Mitov
Cast: Adrian Paul, Sarah Brown, William Hope, Michelle Lee, Raicho Vasilev
"In 1979 a UFO is spotted over Ukrainian territory in the Soviet Union. ..  ....  the UFO is brought down by a mass of air to air missiles hitting it. The UFO is then taken to a top secret facility similar to the United States Area 51 ..... Now, over 30 Years later the Soviet Union is gone and the political machine that kept its secrets has changed."