MIT IAP in january 2013 by hagelsteing and Swartz

[AlainCo]

Cold Fusion Now make an article of the second IAP course on Cold Fusion planned in MIT wall, by Hagelstein and Swartz.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Peter Hagelstein and Dr. Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy are offering an IAP short course Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments for a second consecutive year. The course runs from Tuesday, January 22 through Wednesday, January 30, 2013 from 11AM-1PM in Room 4-153 and 66-144 on the MIT campus.
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Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments with Professor Peter Hagelstein and Dr. Mitchell Swartz January 22-30, 2013 at MIT

Note that IAP course by definition, are made out of MIT responsibilities, yet in their wall.

on the MIT IAP site the course is described as such:

IAP 2013

Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments Peter Hagelstein, Mitchell Swartz

	Jan/22	Tue	11:00AM-01:00PM	4-153
	Jan/23	Wed	11:00AM-01:00PM	4-153
	Jan/24	Thu	11:00AM-01:00PM	4-153
	Jan/25	Fri	11:00AM-01:00PM	4-153
	Jan/28	Mon	11:00AM-01:00PM	4-153
	Jan/29	Tue	11:00AM-01:00PM	4-153
	Jan/30	Wed	11:00AM-01:00PM	66-144

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Excess power production in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment; lack of confirmation in early negative experiments; theoretical problems and Huizenga's three miracles; physical chemistry of PdD; electrochemistry of PdD; loading requirements on excess power production; the nuclear ash problem and He-4 observations; approaches to theory; screening in PdD; PdD as an energetic particle detector; constraints on the alpha energy from experiment; overview of theoretical approaches; coherent energy exchange between mismatched quantum systems; coherent x-rays in the Karabut experiment and interpretation; excess power in the NiH system; Piantelli experiment; prospects for a new small scale clean nuclear energy technology. Sponsor(s): Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Peter Hagelstein, plh@mit.edu

[AlainCo]

The course have starts.
Cold Fusion Time already make a paragraph on what is happening.

MIT IAP Course on Cold Fusion 1.01

Jan. 24, 2013 - On day 3, Prof. Peter Hagelstein went through the experimental proof that de novo He4 production is commensurate with excess energy (Miles, and Case, and SRI experiments), and its rate of production is commensurate with excess power (Gozzi). He discussed the role of cell temperature in positive feedback in the CF/LANR system (Fleischmann, and Cravens, and Storms, and Swartz); and then focused on the problem associated with helium occupancy at the critical sites of CF/LANR in active systems. Moving through Rutherford issues to the Hamiltonian, he also demonstrated the roles of deuteron flux as well as loading. Finally, using an analogy similar to Corkum's mechanism, he led the way towards the spin boson model of Cohen-Tannoudji, but demonstrated exactly where it was insufficient to explain CF/LANR in the absence of his discovery of the role of destructive interference and other loss and dephasing issues.

Jan. 23, 2013 - On day 2, Prof. Peter Hagelstein presented his original theory involving de novo helium formation in CF/LANR, specifically at vacancies surrounded by loaded octahedral sites, and made very clear -in that light- exactly why early attempts at reproduction of CF were so difficult to achieve. The roles of loading (Volmer, Tafel, and Heyrovsky reactions), chemical potential, sigma-bonded hydrogen, codeposition, embedded atom theories, vacancy diffusion and stabilization by loading, and the important differences between Pd and Ni were also made clear; as he tied these together based upon years of condensed matter data.

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Jan. 22, 2013 - On day 1, attendees intently focus on Prof. Peter Hagelstein's lecture on palladium hydrides and the role of the highly loaded lattice, beyond the miscibility gap, as required for achieving successful deuterium fusion in cold fusion (LANR) as initially (correctly) reported by Drs. Fleischmann and Pons in 1989.

[AlainCo]

Ruby carat published video of the courses on youtube

They are difficult to hear, better with earphones, but what a special treat to hear the soft-spoken Dr. Peter Hagelstein describe his research in MIT's IAP short course Cold Fusion 101. The slides alone show the line of thinking.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ColdFusi...ow=grid&view=0

Thanks to Jeremy Rys who is attending the course for sharing this video.

Apparently, some MIT students wandered in, too. Word's getting around ....

You can also find the video on the site LENR-Cold Fusion

[AlainCo]

new report by Cold Fusion Times, for Jan 25:

Jan. 25, 2013 -On day 4, Prof. Hagelstein began with evidence, based upon PdD and D2O as the detectors, that de novo Helium 4 must be "borne" with energies below 10 keV or less, and that the upper limit for neutron production must be less than 0.01 neutrons/joule. Then, having demonstrated that destructive interference in the spin boson model prevents its use in CF/LANR, he corrected that, and expanded the Hamiltonian to now include coupling parameters and examined the quantum exchange characteristics based upon coherence. Successful energy transfer was demonstrated to require interactions of all the atoms in the lattice. For further analysis, a donor-receptor system was then included. At that point, he showed how the Coulomb barrier need not be overcome, because by this method the factor is linear, rather than quadratic (needed for classical analysis of D+D interactions). Supporting this analysis is the Karabut data in glow discharge on Pd which yielded both diffuse emissions and collimated x-radiation. with beamlets of energy bandwidth which were consistent with the theory Prof. Hagelstein developed. Finally, he used the Foldy-Wouthuysen rotational operation, and demonstrated how this analysis is becoming assymptotic with what is being observed in CF/LANR, with the use of his corrected condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS) Hamiltonian. Finally, with the addition of nonlinear Rabi oscillations (which yields Dicke superradiance), his model was shown to also be near-complete and consistent with both the observed pulse emissions and the wide bandwidth.

[AlainCo]

Dr Bob is at the conference and make a reporting on his blog.

many facts presentend, and I noticed some very interesting:

• “The production of Helium4 is in quantitative agreement with the observed generated excess heat.” (Fusing Deuterium + Deuterium Gives Helium 4 + Excess heat and is in perfect correlation to E=mc2)
• Prof Hagelstein and Dr Schwartz gets 270% Excess Heat when using a “Phusor”.
  Since 2012 they are getting constant about COP 40 (4000%) when using nano materials. They can go all the way to 8000% Excess Heat but when they did that they melted their reactor.

probably more will follow...

[megamathieu]

a COP 40 reactor is a good news for many application.

[AlainCo]

sopme more report and video by Cold Fusion now , Ruby carat... with many videos.
somme funny/deep quote:

Hagelstein begins the first day of this year’s course with a warning: this field can be dangerous for your career.

Then why the new course?

“A lot of reasons, one reason is there are starting to become jobs in this area. There are a companies that are pursuing technology in this area.”

“I’ve been contacted a number of times and the question goes like this: Do you know anybody who is qualified to take a position to lead this particular effort and participate in the effort in the cold fusion business.”

“And the answer is ‘No, there’s no courses, there’s no training, there’s no way for anybody to get experience’.”

[barty]

Wow, a stable and replicateable COP of 40 is very good!
Rossi said they throttle down their reactors to a COP of 11, because this is more stable and safer the environment, because the neutron production.

[AlainCo]

COP is not so important according to many experts...
it is not structural to LENR.
COP>1 is important becaus eit mean "production"
afterward if yyou prodce heat, COP>>3 allow to use turbines&al to feed the reactor with electricity...
afterward you can make COP infinite like a powerplant...
a powerplany, or a barbecue don't have a huge COP at the heating element level... try to make a charcoal burn alone with a lighter and you will see the problem... same for a powerplant, when electricity is down.

however here it mean that hagelstein have found a very sensible trigger of LENR in his nanor...

my feeling is that above 10-20, it is useless for ground installations...

but for handheld device, like an iron, it might be nice to have few batteries and much heat.

[AlainCo]

new report on Cold Fusion times

Jan. 28, 2013 - On day 5, Dr. Mitchell Swartz continued with the substantial experimental proof for cold fusion (lattice assisted nuclear reactions). After discussion of the materials involved in the desired reactions, he surveyed the methods of calibration of heat producing reactions including the copious controls, time-integration, thermal waveform reconstruction, noise measurement and additional techniques, as well as those methods which are not accurate. Many examples of excess heat generated by CF/LANR systems were shown, using aqueous nickel and palladium systems. Then using the Navier Stokes equation, he developed the flow equations for both "conventional" cold fusion and codeposition. Optimal operating point operation was shown to have the ability to determine the products, and how the OOP manifolds demonstrate that CF is a reproducible phenomenon, applicable to science and engineering. He focused on the salient advantages of the LANR metamaterials with the PHUSOR®-type system being one example. Returning to the experimental results and engineering methods developed to control cold fusion, he surveyed "heat after death" and its control and useful application, and the use of CF/LANR systems to drive motors.


Jan. 29, 2013 - On day 6, Dr. Mitchell Swartz continued with the discussion of cold fusion (lattice assisted nuclear reactions) in aqueous systems, beginning with the near infra red emissions from active LANR devices, and the use of CF to generate electricity. Problems in the feedback loop were discussed. Then the focus was on the new dry, preloaded nanomaterial CF/LANR materials. After discussing their novel characteristics and electrical breakdown (avalanche) issues, and which electric drive regions actually generate excess energy, he presented the development of several types of the NANOR®-type CF electronic components. Using multiple ways of documenting the excess energy produced, he presented the results of the latest series of such devices, such as were shown at MIT over several months in the second series of open demonstrations of cold fusion by JET Energy, Inc . With energy gains from 14 and greater, these electronic components, in conjunction with advanced driving circuits, were shown to have excess energy documented by temperature rise, heat flow, and calorimetry; heralding their revolutionary potential to change the energy landscape in circuits, distributed electrical power systems, artificial internal organs, propulsion systems, space travel, and more.