https://www.technologyreview.c…ear-power-thats-bad-news/

China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.

Once nuclear’s strongest booster, China is growing wary about its cost and safety.

https://www.techexplorist.com/…ost-identical-gold/19740/

"A team of scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently turned cheap copper into a material that is almost identical to gold. The material is expected to reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories. Scientists developed this material by shooting a copper target with a jet of hot, electrically charged argon gas. The fast-moving ionized particles blasted copper atoms off the target. ...

this new material can’t be used to make fake gold. The reality- its density will remain the same as like as ordinary copper ...

This new method can inject a large amount of energy into copper atoms and made the electrons more dense and stable. Moreover, it can resist high temperatures, oxidization, and erosion.

The study is published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances on Saturday."

(making electrons more dense and stable ???)

Off-topic but interesting, maybe.

DIY Starlite (The 'lost' heat resistant material, as seen on Tomorrow's World)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqR4_UoBIzY

The Takahasi paper version (December) of his JCF19 presentation!

https://www.researchgate.net/p…_by_CNZ7_Sample_and_H-Gas

https://www.sciencealert.com/j…y-the-world-for-centuries

The recently discovered deposit is enough to "supply these metals on a semi-infinite basis to the world," the study's authors wrote in the paper.

There's enough yttrium to meet the global demand for 780 years, dysprosium for 730 years, europium for 620 years, and terbium for 420 years.

The cache lies off of Minamitori Island, about 1,150 miles (1,850 km) southeast of Tokyo. It's within Japan's exclusive economic zone, so the island nation has the sole rights to the resources there.

"This is a game changer for Japan," Jack Lifton, a founding principal of a market-research firm called Technology Metals Research, told The Wall Street Journal.

"The race to develop these resources is well underway."

ICCF Conference Page Reorganized

I put all of the ICCF Conference information on one page at LENR-CANR.org. The indexes are at the bottom of the page, so you can scroll through them, or jump to them from the links at the top of the page. See:

https://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=2130

This makes it easier to keep track of which volume of the JCMNS has an ICCF Proceedings in it. They are:

I left out ICCF-14. I have now added it. The direct link is:

https://lenr-canr.org/index/Pr…atter%20Nuclear%20Science

I don't think I have the ICCF-13 book. For some reason I do not have the ICCF-15 papers in my database. I just didn't bother to add them. I might do that sometime.

It was a lot of work to install these new indexes, but I had to do it anyway because they upgraded my ISP server and everything stopped working. Someday, an upgrade to the internet may wipe out all access to knowledge and end human civilization. Not only did my index system fail, WordPress upgraded to a new method of editing, the Gutenberg Experience, which automatically converted the pages as I wrote them, making it impossible for me to insert links to the indexes. (Hint: you have to use the <!-- wp:shortcode --> block type. If you know that means, you don't need help from me, and if you don't know, you can't do it.)

Hi Jed,

I have a copy of the ICCF-13 proceedings. It was Yuri's conference in Sochi ( jun25-jul1. 2007)

However the book is very heavy 1.6 kg and long 816 pages.

Our post office wants 36 GBP to get it to the US. ouch !

If you want to wait, I'll bring it with me to Bill's conference in September.

Happy New Year Pete.

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I don't know much about that demo. I started paying attention with the demos that Lewan promoted and "supervised" which IIRC started some weeks after that one You know, the ones where the dry steam was wet, the hose from the reactor went into a wall, and no blank run or calibration was performed, all the while two huge heaters, one around the ecat and the other occupying its center, were connected to the mains via a controller which Rossi was filmed tweaking during a run to make the water boil. Remember that video? Want to see it again?

To properly comment upon the Ecat affair, it's essential to know with precision which was the entire sequence of demo and tests performed during the first year of public activity. I post again the following jpeg, which shows all these tests:

As you can see, 11 tests are listed, all those for which some public information are available. For each of them, a small picture of the tested devices is accompanied by the the date (in red), the name of the main reporter (in green) and some notes (in black)

The 11 tests are subdivided in three rows, one for each Ecat model.

The first line refers to the first and most famous Ecat model, which had 4 external band resistors and one internal cartridge resistor for a total electric power of about 1500 W. The calorimetric performances of all these first 3 tests have been documented by Levi.

The first two tests, held on December 16, 2010 and January 14, 2011, are described as Test 1 and Test 2 respectively in the calorimetric report of UniBo (1&2a), which was published on internet as official document (1&2b). The January 14 demo is the most important and documented Ecat test, the one that let it be known in the world, thanks to the three videos which shows every phase of that event (2c1-2-3).

(1&2a) http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LeviGreportonhe.pdf   

(1&2b) http://22passi.blogspot.com/20…le-esperimento-della.html

(2c1) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0ysNSN9Ng

(2c2) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjdXpSUDRlw

(2c3) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSD-NP2Sogc

The third test, started on February 10, 2011, was an initiative of PD, whose aim was to demonstrate that the energy output was incompatible with any possible chemical source hidden somewhere in the Ecat components, as explained by Levi in a first interview to Lewan (3a). Its results were first anticipated by Rothwell on Vortex (3b), then Lewan published a second interview in which Levi reported the main outcomes of the test (3c). Other information are contained in an Rothwell's analysis posted by Josephson on PhysicsForum (3d) and that presumably he got directly from JR. The only 3 known pictures of this test were published on 22 passi (3e-3f) along with some very interesting details on the experimental data reported in some comments posted by Passerini, who was present during the night between the 10th and 11^th of February.

(3a) http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter…energi/article3083834.ece

(3b) http://www.mail-archive.com/vo…@eskimo.com/msg42873.html

(3c) http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter…energi/article3108242.ece

(3d) http://www.physicsforums.com/s…hp?p=3214604&postcount=41

(3e) http://22passi.blogspot.com/20…-ufficiale-delle-cat.html

(3f) http://22passi.blogspot.com/20…ficiale-delle-cat_23.html

The second row includes the four public tests which were performed with a smaller version of the previous model. Each one of the four small Ecats aligned on a board were equipped with 2 resistors, an inner cartridge and an external band, probably derived by the dismantled first model. for a total electric power of about 800 W.

The 4th test, the first with this model, was held on March 29, 2011, and was first documented by Essen and Kullander in a travel report published on NyTeknik (4a), which subsequently was published as a report signed by all the participants (4b). Some more information and photos about this test and, in general, about the reasons of the Swedish professors involvement in the Ecat affair are contained in the Kullander lecture held on November 2011 (4c).

(4a) http://newenergytimes.com/v2/s…Essen-Kullander3April.pdf

(4b) https://www.scribd.com/documen…lander-Essen-E-CAT-Report

(4c) http://newenergytimes.com/v2/s…11123KullanderLecture.pdf

The next two tests, the 5^th (April 19, 2011) and the 6^th (April 28, 2011), were documented by Mats Lewan (5a, 6a). His reports are quite good and reveal for the first time the maximum capacity of the yellow pump used in almost every test of 2011. The second test has been also filmed by Lewan. The video (6b) shows the hose which goes into a blue bucket, while the reactor was "stable, … stable".

(5a) http://newenergytimes.com/v2/s…/2011Lewan19AprilData.pdf

(6a) http://newenergytimes.com/v2/s…/2011Lewan28AprilData.pdf

(6b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8SeOteFPtM

The 7^th test, the last with the small Ecat, has been documented by Krivit in his videos shot on June 14, 2011. The first video (7a) includes the test and shows the hose going into the wall, from which, after being pulled out, escapes a weak steam flow barely visible on the background of the Levi t-shirt. The second video (7b) shows the calculation made by Rossi in the presence of Focardi which was confirming the results.

(7a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-8QdVwY98E

(7b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrTz5Bq6dsA

The third row is dedicated to the testing of a completely different Ecat model, a tank type model called also ottoman or Fat-cat. In this case the operating way is totally different and the trick is revealed by its weight, which allows to store a large quantity of heat in order to simulate a prolonged "heat after dead" operation. The main characteristics of this Fat-cat were already outlined by Rossi during a answer-question session hosted by NyTeknik on March 2011: https://www.nyteknik.se/energi…1308#conversion-122831618

The first documented test of this Ecat model, the 8^th of the sequence, was held on July 7, 2011, but was revealed 3 months later, on the eve of another test, by the blog 22passi, which published a report written by Stremmenos (8a).

(8a) http://22passi.blogspot.com/20…-e-cat-7-luglio-2011.html

The first Fat-cat to have been publicly shown had been that used in the 9^th test, held on September 7, 2011. This test was again documented by Lewan in a technical report (9a) and in a video (9b).

(9a) https://medier.talentum.com/me…t%20September%207%20(pdf)

(9b) https://www.nyteknik.se/energi…lf-sustained-mode-6419716

The last test of a single Ecat, the 10^th of the series, was a public demo held on October 6, 2011. It was the 4^th and last in 2011 nicely documented by Lewan with the usual technical report (10a) attached to an article published on NyTeknik (10b). There are many videos which shows this test: one shot by Lewan (10c), another published by ecatdotcom (10d). Other two videos are in Italian: one filmed by a RCDC, a local radio, with interviews to many protagonists (10e) and another published by Focus, an Italian main stream scientific journal, whose journalists were present at the event (10f).

(10a) https://medier.talentum.com/me…cat%20October%206%20(pdf)

(10b) https://www.nyteknik.se/energi…ces-proof-of-heat-6419717

(10c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCuLAZKvL4

(10d) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvD4KuAEmo

(10e) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5cFOsisAo

(10f) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8ifZZ_iVo

The last and 11^th test of the year was the famous 1 MW demo, performed on October 28, 2011, whose results are summarized in the acceptance report signed by Fioravanti, here transcribed by Rothwell on a mail to Vortex (11a). The video shot by Lewan is still available on YouTube (11b).

(11a) https://www.mail-archive.com/v…@eskimo.com/msg53889.html

(11b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOYlFyotXk

I hope that this resume will be useful to better identify the role and understand the responsibilities of all the many protagonists of this story.

Discussion of Celani wire process replication showing excess heat

Discussed here Where is the LENR goal line, and how best do we get there?

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I'm not believing their optimistic assessment based on past hot fusion history but they have big names and big money behind them