Norwegian articles...

This is not in Swedish, but maybe some people can interpret the language of their neighours

I found articles around LENR/E-cat in that norwegian technology magazine.
maybe someone can explain how serious is that magazine?

Here is an article on recent Parkhomov experiments
http://www.tek.no/artikler/fre…naermere-et-faktum/167297
it thanks an open design.

one older on Lugano test
http://www.tek.no/artikler/det…tidens-energikilde/164328
another more general raise the question of oil getting worthless
http://www.tek.no/artikler/ny-…je-nesten-verdilos/164346

another article in Norwegian

http://www.tu.no/industri/2015…-sant-blir-oljen-verdilos

It seems they base their belief in the assumption that collective effects don't exist.
another logic is that they conclude that something don't exist if they simply cannot find an explanation, even if nothing forbid it in their theory...

I don't understand, beside some psychology theories like groupthink and Kuhn epistemology, how can educated people aware of the history of physics can support that way of mind?

I agree that a kid of 5 cannot be more intelligent than that, but a teenager of 15 who loves science and have read science history and who follow vulgarization litterature, have the intellectual tools to understand that fallacy. It cannot be ignorance nor stupidity. what is it?

an interview on Energy where LENr is taken seriously
http://www.tu.no/kraft/2015/03…jort-varmekraft-ulonnsomt

Quote from translated by google

Energy Technologist: - New technology has made thermal power unprofitable
Although we got steam free.
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- I have followed through on what is referred to as LENR, or cold fusion . I think that there is something in this, although we can not explain it yet. Yet this is not the wonderful news we've been waiting for. This is about securing a new form of cheap energy which we can convert into electricity in a thermal power plant, as we do with coal, oil and nuclear power. My point is that no such power plants are profitable anymore when we look at all the options, even though we got steam free, says Lovins.

Regardless base for thermal power he believes the oil industry has seen its best days.

Oil becomes unprofitable even if the price is very low.

LENR: - If this is true, the oil becomes worthless

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Quote from translated by google

COLD FUSION- If this is true, the oil becomes worthless
Physicists supports cold fusion theory - but could not explain it.

Tests show that about one gram of nickel powder with little lithium powder and surrounded by hydrogen gas can produce a net 1.5 MWh during one month. Thus 1500 kWh.

Had it been a chemical reaction, it had all been over with a flicker and without much energy yield. Several Swedish and Italian researchers have examined what can only be described as cold fusion or LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction), without anyone really understand what is happening.

Not again
Interest in cold fusion was enormous in 1989 when Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that they had designed an experiment that exhaust much more energy than could be explained by chemistry. The only natural explanation was that this was about nuclear physics, namely fusion at low temperature.

World energy companies trembled in his pants, but since no one could repeat the experiments, it went mostly forgotten.

Now it's documented that this works. In 2011 announced the Italian Andrea Rossi that his E-Cat (Energy catalyze) gave a violent energy yield. But Rossi kept their cards close to the chest and would not show off too much.

Some did look a bit, but it was not enough for the research community. All current theory indicates that fusion requires extreme energy to start.

Incredible

The Swedish nuclear physicist Bo Høistad at Uppsala University has been involved in the experiments and are amazed. Both that Rossi has let them run E-Cat process in a dedicated laboratory in spite of that he works with patenting, but even more of the results.

- We observe that process approximately one gram of metal powder and hydrogen provides a large energy surplus over 32 days. That alone is hard to explain other than that there is a nuclear reaction. It is also emphasized that we can observe an isotopic change. Nickel has 58 particles in the core ends with 62 particles. We see similar in lithium. It happens thus a nuclear reaction. But we can not explain how, says Høistad to TU.

Høistad do not think there is anything wrong with the current theory in nuclear physics. It says that to create a nuclear fusion have the strong force to be overcome. For many decades it has been tried to make a reactor to create the enormous temperatures to get light nuclei to fuse together in a controlled manner.

- Now is the time to expand the theory so that it also can explain the effect we observe, says Høistad.

Changes everything

Former director of FFI and engineer in technical physics from NTH, Niels Holm, is interested in LENR long. Last fall, he led the program for a seminar organized by NTVA and Tekna about this.

- If this is true, the oil worthless, he said.

Holme notes that this LENR is easily scalable form of power that can be utilized in small or large plants. It can get large, both positive and negative consequences. Access at very cheap non polluting power could alter the balance between nations

- It is time that physicists stop ridiculing LENR. Now we have two experiments that are supervised by respected, unbiased physicists. One of those who participated in the experiment in Italy, senior lecturer in theoretical physics at KTH Hanno Essén, has even led the Swedish skeptic Association. He is not easy to convince with something that can not be explained, but he accepts it as can be observed. There is little doubt that this works, Holme says.

He believes physicists now must work to develop the theory behind.

- It is not the first time we have a new theory because of physical observations. Einstein used observations to determine that Newton's theories had expanded when he established the theory of relativity. Some electro chemists believe there is resonance oscillations in the crystal structure which may explain why this works, Holme says.

He points out that Rossi is not alone in working with this. American developers seem to have better control of the process, but they are probably behind Rossi in energy yield.

- In the same manner as Rossi adds the heat through electrical resistance, and they regulate the process an RF signal. There are a lot of secrets out and go here, especially how they modulate the RF signal, and here it may look as if the Americans lies ahead.

Major consequences
In the experiment which is run and supervised by the Swedish and Italian researchers achieved a COP - Coefficient of performance between 3.2 and 3.6. That is, the relationship between energy and their energy into. Researchers in the field think this may let themselves improve to around 10 during some years.

- It is naturally very large backload against such a development. Both oil and windmills will be postponed, but it is inconceivable that this will halt. LENR is potentially devastating to our economy, and we should rather see how Norway can secure a place in this development. This may come quicker than it takes to plan and develop new oil fields, said Holm.

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