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I caught this proposal by Dr. Dimiter Alexandrov

http://canadiancor.com/proposa…pment-of-an-lenr-reactor/

to "The Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR)"

IT proposes the developement of a LENR reactor, based on Dr Alexandrov's research.

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Proposed LENR reactor

The design of the LENR reactor will be based on the apparatus (set up) used to date to obtain the results reported above. In particular:

1. The reactor will be designed base on the experimental scheme (apparatus) already used for this research;
2. The operational procedures of the reactor will be based on those developed to date.

The LENR reactor will be made of several units connected in a way to provide constant output power. Each LENR unit contains an anode and a cathode, in the chamber. The cathode can be made by either metals or metal alloys as indicated previously, or by other solids satisfying the requirements for effective LENR.

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https://e-catworld.com/2019/03…p-of-cold-fusion-reactor/

JedRothwell

2019 LANR/CF Colloquium at MIT - [Update March 13]

March 23-24, 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA

http://world.std.com/~mica/2019colloq.html     http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html

From JET Energy, Mitsubishi, Nanortech, Brillouin, + more

From America, Poland, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Japan, Canada, and more

Tentative Speakers/Topics:

Mitchell Swartz - Welcome, Brief Introduction

Yasuhiro Iwamura - Recent Advances in Heat Generation Experiments using Nano-sized Metal Composite and Hydrogen Gas

Francesco Celani - Advanced version of the "Capuchin knot" geometry

Florian Meltzer - Update on MIT phonon-nuclear coupling experiments

Mitchell Swartz - Two States Characterize and Control Active CF/LANR Systems

Brian Ahern - Anharmonic Motion and Magnetic in LANR

Anthony Zuppero - Applications of the model to experimental data

Dimiter Alexandrov - Cold Fusion Synthesis of Helium Isotopes in Interaction of Deuterium and of Hydrogen Nuclei with Metals

Mel Miles - Production of Helium in Cold Fusion Experiments [NAWCWD, China Lake, California]

Francis Tanzella - Update from Brillouin Energy

Konrad Czerski - Crystal Lattice Defects and Threshold Resonance of the Deuteron-Deuteron Fusion Reactions at Room Temperature

Gennadiy Tarassenko - Cold Fusion on the Basis of the Model of the Planet Earth

Mitchell Swartz - D-Line Emission from Acive CF/LANR Systems

Vladimir Plekhanov - Experimental study of the strong nuclear interaction via re-normalization

Peter Hagelstein - Phonon-nuclear coupling, excitation transfer, and applications

Thomas Dolan - Heavy electron catalysis model.

John Wallace - Baryon Charge Density

T.W. Ciarlariello - The Earliest muon catalyzed fusion

Hideki Yoshino, Tadahiko Mizuno - Clean Planet Updates

Thomas Grimshaw - LENR Research Documentation Initiative

Robert Smith, Jr. - Impacts on the Rate of Knowledge in LANR

Carl Page - Athropocene Institute, Clean Energy and Cold Fusion

David Nagel, Steven Katinsky - Status of the LENRIA Experiment and Analysis Program (LEAP)

Ruby Carat - Update from Cold Fusion Now!

Patent/IP Updates - Mitchell Swartz, Richard Chan

2019 LANR/CF Colloquium at MIT

March 23-24, 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA

http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html

Interesting site of Urutskoev.

Under "LENR" tab the only 1922 article http://www.urleon.ru/files/lenr_1.pdf on Tungsten decomposition with electrical discharge.

Then recent paper in Russian claims they confirmed 1922 results http://www.urleon.ru/files/article_65.pdf

We assumed it was kirkshanahan plugging his own blog. But maybe not. Otherwise, sceptics are welcome here if polite and not trolling, polite trolls however do pose a problem now and then. As that is a link to an external article I see no problem with it, it cites all the usual arguments and overlooks all the usual objections. Same meat, same gravy.

seen on ECW open thread, an interesting China's (English) article nor far from Iwamura, in less evolved (maybe an artifact anyway).

http://www.jmcchina.org/html/2019/1/20190101.htm

The Detection of K-Ca Transmutation in the Mixture of K and Hydride Chemicals
LU Gong-xuan , ZHANG Xu-qiang , ZHEN Wen-long
Abstract: Here, we report the transmutation of K-Ca under the negative hydrogen condition (NaBH₄, LiBH₄ and NH₃BH₃) at room temperature. In all reaction systems, the amount of K⁺ and Ca²⁺ concentrations were monitored by inductive coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and inductive coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) techniques. The ICP-OES test results showed that K⁺ concentration was gradually decreasing, while the Ca²⁺ concentration was gradually increasing. In addition, by comparing the K and Ca concentrations and their isotopes from the ICP-MS results, we found the increase of ⁴⁰Ca concentration accompanied by the increasing concentration of ⁴¹K in the presence of hydride under our "reaction" conditions, which implying ⁴⁰Ca formation correlated to ⁴¹K.

https://coldfusionnow.org/cfnpodcast/

Good free ranging interview about LENR with Stephen Bannister, Economist at the Univ of Utah. Nice job Ruby.

Methematician and Blogger David H. Bailey takes a critical but not unkind look at LENR,

http://mathscholar.org/2019/03…science-or-pseudoscience/

Sample Quote below.

A selection of LENR literature

In an attempt to cast some light on this paradox, the present author has collected a set of 39 recent representative published papers in the field — see the Appendix at the end of this article. These papers: (a) have appeared in some credible, peer-reviewed source within the past five years (except [Levi2014]); (b) present or summarize experimental results, as opposed to purely theoretical studies; and (c) are available online in PDF form. Each entry includes a citation, a PDF link and a brief synopsis. Here are some overall observations:

• Almost every paper mentions “excess heat” — measured output heat energy exceeding the total energy input. In most cases the excess energy is a few watts, but [Mizuno2017], for instance, reports 1 KWatt and [Parkhomov2016] reports 40 KWatt.
• Other recorded effects include neutrons, energized particle tracks, ultraviolet emanations and nuclear transmutations, which are characteristics of nuclear rather than chemical processes — see [Mills2018], [Rajeev2017], [Roussetski2017], [Violante2016], [Valay2016], [Mills2015], [Levi2014] and others.
• Some papers mention specific techniques, such as stimulation by lasers of a certain frequency, that enhance the measured effects — see [Letts2015] for instance.
• Most experiments use relatively sophisticated equipment, such as mass-flow calorimetry, CR-39 energetic particle detectors and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometers — see [Mosier-Boss2017], [Roussetski2017], [Kitamura2015], [Swartz2015b], [Aizawa2014], [Rajeev2017] and others.
• Reproducibility appears to be significantly improved compared to earlier years. For example, [Letts2015] reports excess power in 161 of 170 experimental runs.
• Most of these researchers appear to be well-qualified. For instance, the SRI International team, led by Francis Tanzella (see [Tanzella2018], [Mosier-Boss2015], [Godes2014], [McKubre2014]) claims 75 person-years of experience in calorimetry experimentation of the type required for these experiments — they are literally the world’s experts.
• Most papers have multiple authors. [Celani2018] and [Kitamura2017b] each have 15 authors; [Kitamura2018], [Iwamura2017b] and [Kitamura2017a] each have 17.
• The collection features 119 distinct authors, representing seven different nations (USA, Japan, Italy, Sweden, China, Russia and Ukraine) and 39 different institutions, ranging from universities such as MIT and Kobe University to NASA, the U.S. Navy, China’s Institute of Atomic Energy, Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, as well as several private entities such as SRI International, Nissan Motors, Brillouin Energy and JET Energy.

From a first look at these papers there does not appear to be any easy way to dismiss them. For the most part, these experiments are meticulously documented and performed with up-to-date equipment; results are carefully recorded and analyzed; and proper attention is paid to reproducibility, all as far as the present author can determine, although he does not pretend to be an expert in this particular discipline.

On the downside, whereas most of the publications and conference proceedings listed below are peer-reviewed, articles in top-tier journals (e.g., the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Physical Review journals) are conspicuously missing. Many of these LENR publications are in the Journal of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, a publication that was formed and is edited by persons in the LENR field. Researchers in the field acknowledge that their work remains stuck in what Cambridge philosopher Huw Price calls a reputation trap, because of its association with the “cold fusion” fiasco. As LENR researcher Michael KcKubre explains [McKubre2016],

Did the team of researchers rediscovered ether/aether/charge field after more than a century since it was abandoned?

https://scitechdaily.com/new-f…king-dark-matter-mystery/

https://www.bloomberg.com/grap…ear-waste-storage-france/

Are these guys the usual suspects in transmutation research?