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Discussed here Not in the Sun — on the Ground: About nuclear fusion at low energies in nature. - Russian - LENR Forum (lenr-forum.com)  Jean-Paul Biberian: An international conference on biological transmutations (South Korea) - News - LENR Forum (lenr-forum.com)

How to find the report for January 22, 22 by Martin Teigmer from Dresden University of Technology

Martin Tajmar - this is his correct name

Not strictly LENR News, but an update on the copyright laws for scientific publications.

The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which ruled that the site is responsible for scholarly papers infringing copyright that were uploaded to its website.

In 2017, publishing giant Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) – both members of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing – sued ResearchGate alleging copyright infringement in 50 research papers uploaded to the site.

‘We welcome the court’s decision confirming that it is illegal for ResearchGate to make content available on its site without permission from publishers, which it does for its own commercial gain,’ James Milne, chair of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing and president of ACS Publications, said in a statement.

ResearchGate, which is based in Germany and has over 20 million users, declined to comment. In a statement released on 2 February, however, the firm said they had already removed the 50 papers in question and their associated material years ago.

For years, ResearchGate has insisted that publishers send takedown notices for content on its site that infringe copyright. In September 2021, for instance, the site removed around 200,000 files from its site following complaints from Elsevier and the ACS.

Milne, however, wrote in his statement that sending takedown notices is ‘highly disruptive’ to the research community. He added in an email to Chemistry World: ‘ResearchGate is required to change its behaviour and the structure of its site to comply with the verdict and to reduce the risk of being held liable for illicitly hosted content.’

More recently the site has adopted a content blocking system following changes in German and EU copyright law. ‘These measures are available to any publisher who wishes to take advantage of them, and Elsevier and ACS are already using them,’ ResearchGate wrote in its statement.

The court, however, dismissed the damages claimed by Elsevier and the ACS as the publishers weren’t definitely able to prove the acquisition of licensing rights from all co-authors of the manuscripts in question.

In its statement, ResearchGate said it was remarkable that the court dismissed the damage claims based on the publishers’ standard copyright licensing agreements. ‘This ruling has potentially far-reaching implications for the plaintiffs’ ability to assert their copyright ownership in the future,’ its statement reads.

‘What we see is that the publishers are grappling with the popularity of these scholarly communications networks,’ says Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, an information scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

A second lawsuit by Elsevier and the ACS against ResearchGate in the US is still ongoing.

Meanwhile other publishers are taking a different tack with ResearchGate, with Springer Nature and Wiley-Blackwell reaching syndication agreements to facilitate the upload of their content on the site

Look now, they have known all along that LENR is real :

MIT Technology Review: From the archives: How we covered fusion power

May/June 1994

"From “Warming Up to Cold Fusion”: The cold fusion effect is one of the most intriguing scientific puzzles of this century. Its practicality is still open to question, but practical worth does not always follow immediately upon discovery. Superconductivity was first observed in 1911 and languished for most of this century; today we have magnetic resonance imaging systems. Einstein predicted the basic principle of a laser before 1920; decades later, we have supermarket checkout scanners and fiber-optic communications.

The comparison is not exact. The theory of lasers was well accepted for decades before anyone figured out how to build one. It is up to scientists to perform the experiments that will transform cold fusion from laboratory phenomenon into something of lasting value."

From the archives: How we covered fusion power

A trio of cover stories through the decades traces our on-again, off-again affair with fusion power.

www.technologyreview.com

Fulvio,Roger,and Elizabeth.

Urangara | Accelerating the worlds transition to LENR(Low Energy Nuclear Reactions)

IEEE Spectrum announces new discoveries in "Lattice Confined Fusion": https://spectrum.ieee.org/lattice-confinement-fusion

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NASA’s Lattice Confined Fusion (LCF)

NASA confirms neutron emission from Pd-D co deposition experiments, bringing LENR closer to mainstream acceptance.


Excellent news to all our members and readers!

In a paper published January 19th, 2021 on the electronic version of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Authored by a team of NASA researchers belonging to the "Lattice Confinement Fusion" project (seated at Glenn Space Research Center), is shown that an experiment, designed specifically to disambiguate the detection of neutron…

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Aug 18th 2020

JCFC (Jaoan Cold Fusion Conference 22) - March 5th.

• April 19 - 21 2022: 4th Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk

CSER will host a major international conference as part of our biennial Cambridge Conferences on Catastrophic Risk. This will showcase the outcomes of our Science of Global Risk research programme and consider the themes future risks, and how we can study them; real catastrophes, and what we can learn from them; and global solutions, and how we can implement them. On-line participation in this hybrid conference will be open to all and details about how to sign up will be circulated shortly.

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KOWALSKI--Ludwik, age 89, of Fort Lee, NJ, professor emeritus Montclair State University, died October 20, 2021. Born in Poland, raised in the USSR, repatriated in 1946, he earned a graduate degree (Radium Institute, Warsaw) and a doctorate in physics (Sorbonne). He was research associate in Chemistry Department (Columbia University) and in 1969 began a 35-year career as teacher and researcher at Montclair State. After retiring he authored two books about communism, one autobiographical, based on his own diaries. Originals are archived at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Ruth Linda, daughter Elaine Vereen (Markeen), grandchildren Emily Schatzberg and Gabriel Vereen.

Above from the NY Times.

Ludwig and I corresponded now and then- a cold fusion researcher and a real old-school gentleman.

Comments here Ludwik Kowalski Death - Announcements - LENR Forum (lenr-forum.com)

ARPA-E on Twitter

“Up to $10 million available in SEED funding - Apply by April 5! SEED provides additional support to small businesses working on energy technology that has…

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Discussed here ARPA-E LENR Workshop Oct 21-22 2021 - Page 9 - Players - LENR Forum (lenr-forum.com)

Quote from orsova

https://mobile.twitter.com/ARPAE/status/1498347021291462659

The full anouncement can be read here:

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/press-releases/us-department-energy-announces-10-million-small-businesses-working

And the link for enquiring further can be reached here.

https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/Default.aspx

Thanks to Orsova for bringing this up to our attention. It seems it could be interpreted as being useful for a LENR company.

New independent book on Cold Fusion by Author David Moon:

While browsing for any new paper or article I found this interesting new book that takes "cold fusion" as a given and explores its implications. Of course not "mainstream" nor coming from a recognized authority, but interesting ideas, nevertheless.

David Moon

Book Summary

Paleontologists and geologists are interested in the ages of fossils, rocks, and minerals, from which they deduce the ages of geologic strata in the Geologic Column. Scientists make use of radioactive dating methods, such as the radioactive decays of carbon 14, uranium 238, and thorium 232 in fossils and minerals. Accurate age determinations depend on knowing the rate of the radioactive emissions and the relative amounts of initial and product elements in the decay series. However, if an interfering nuclear change took place earlier, the perceived age of the earth deposit would have to be wrong.

In 1989, the discovery of cold fusion-the fusion of hydrogen to make helium and energy inside metal electrodes at room temperature-was announced by Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah. Soon after, cold fusion research also revealed that nuclear transmutations, forming many new elements, occur liberally. Even purposely-added radioactive uranium and thorium in cold fusion-type cells resulted in transmutations, and the disappearance of up to 95 percent of the radioactivity in hours or minutes. In addition, special water pumps, invented in America and Europe, were discovered to generate "excess heat"; and possible nuclear effects by intensely agitating water and creating "cavitation bubbles".

In Carbon Dating, Cold Fusion, and a Curve Ball, the author postulates interfering nuclear (element) changes occurring in the Earth, and proposes that extensive element transmutations occurred from intense hydrodynamics during the Flood of Noah (Genesis 6-8). If so, it is conceivable much alteration of radioactive elements took place, rendering unreliable the radioactive dating results in most analyses done today. A relatively simple test of this theory is outlined. The test would use a piece of bismuth metal, a tank of water, and a boat's outboard motor.

The book is written for the non-scientist, but those trained in the physical sciences or engineering are invited to examine the new hypothesis of Earth's element transmutations and the consequential alteration of dating earth material by radioactive elements.

New Paper:

PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND ATOMIC NUCLEUS
2022. V. 53, no. 1. C. 110–144
THE PHENOMENON OF ARTIFICIAL
RADIOACTIVITY IN METAL
CATHODES UNDER GLOW DISCHARGE CONDITIONS
S. F. Timashev, I. B. Savvatimova, S. S. Poteshin,
N. I. Kargin, A. A. Sysoev, S. M. Ryndya *
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow

Original in Russian can be found here:

https://www1.jinr.ru/publish/Pepan/v-53-1/05_Timashev.pdf

English Abstract:

It is shown that artificial radioactivity can be initiated under the conditions of a glow discharge plasma. When analyzing the isotopic and elemental composition in the near-surface region of Pd and Ni cathodes, before and after 40-hour treatment under D- and H-containing plasma, respectively, changes in isotopic ratios were recorded for impurity Pt and Pb in Pd cathode and Fe, Cu and Zn in the Ni cathode.
A significant reduction of these impurity elements in the cathodes and the formation of isotopes W in Pd with impurity isotopes of Pt were found. Possible nuclear processes responsible for the established artificial radioactivity are considered.

Cold Fusion - in Italian.

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New independent book on Cold Fusion by Author David Moon:

While browsing for any new paper or article I found this interesting new book that takes "cold fusion" as a given and explores its implications. Of course not "mainstream" nor coming from a recognized authority, but interesting ideas, nevertheless.

http://davidmoonpublishing.com/

Book Summary

Paleontologists and geologists are interested in the ages of fossils, rocks, and minerals, from which they deduce the ages of geologic strata in the Geologic Column. Scientists make use of radioactive dating methods, such as the radioactive decays of carbon 14, uranium 238, and thorium 232 in fossils and minerals. Accurate age determinations depend on knowing the rate of the radioactive emissions and the relative amounts of initial and product elements in the decay series. However, if an interfering nuclear change took place earlier, the perceived age of the earth deposit would have to be wrong.

In 1989, the discovery of cold fusion-the fusion of hydrogen to make helium and energy inside metal electrodes at room temperature-was announced by Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah. Soon after, cold fusion research also revealed that nuclear transmutations, forming many new elements, occur liberally. Even purposely-added radioactive uranium and thorium in cold fusion-type cells resulted in transmutations, and the disappearance of up to 95 percent of the radioactivity in hours or minutes. In addition, special water pumps, invented in America and Europe, were discovered to generate "excess heat"; and possible nuclear effects by intensely agitating water and creating "cavitation bubbles".

In Carbon Dating, Cold Fusion, and a Curve Ball, the author postulates interfering nuclear (element) changes occurring in the Earth, and proposes that extensive element transmutations occurred from intense hydrodynamics during the Flood of Noah (Genesis 6-8). If so, it is conceivable much alteration of radioactive elements took place, rendering unreliable the radioactive dating results in most analyses done today. A relatively simple test of this theory is outlined. The test would use a piece of bismuth metal, a tank of water, and a boat's outboard motor.

The book is written for the non-scientist, but those trained in the physical sciences or engineering are invited to examine the new hypothesis of Earth's element transmutations and the consequential alteration of dating earth material by radioactive elements.

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How can I find this book in Russian, can you help me. Are there globular concretions or not (Curve Ball).

It took almost two years but this article from Leif Holmlid was finally published

Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion - Energy, Sustainability and Society

Background Large-scale fusion reactors using hydrogen isotopes as fuel are under development at several places in the world. These types of fusion reactors use…

energsustainsoc.biomedcentral.com

I followed since it was a preprint, and it underwent the process twice before getting accepted.

Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion

Abstract

Background

Large-scale fusion reactors using hydrogen isotopes as fuel are under development at several places in the world. These types of fusion reactors use tritium as fuel for the T + D reaction. However, tritium is not a sustainable fuel, since it likely will require fission reactors for its production, and since it is a dangerous material due to its radioactivity with main risks of release to the environment during tritium production, transport and refuelling operations. Thus, widespread use of fusion relying on tritium fuel should be avoided. At least two better methods for producing the nuclear energy needed in the world indeed already exist, using deuterium or ordinary hydrogen as fuel, and more methods need to be developed. It should be noted that the first experiments with sustained laser-driven fusion above break-even using deuterium as fuel were published already in 2015. Similar results for T + D fusion do not exist even after 60 years of development, which gives no confidence in this approach.

article is open access, as all Holmlid’s articles.

Thanks to jean-paul biberian 2 new companies claiming fusion reactors have come to my attention.

They are possibly/probably hot fusion outfits - but study may reveal more. Kyotofusioneering seems fairly substantial - 35 staff in Japan and 5 in the UK in Madenhead- also home to UK fusion reserachers.

国際協力銀行/三菱ＵＦＪ銀行との協調により、グループ全体で総額1億円の協調融資契約を締結しました。 | NEWS | KYOTOFUSIONEERING

英国でのさらなるプレゼンス拡大に向けた金融支援を獲得

kyotofusioneering.com

The company below is based in the USA.

Jean-Paul asked "Does any one know what is happening at Avalanche?"

https://www.avalanche.energy

Well, do you?