A small article in Slashdot, about NANOR at MIT (by Hagelstein)
http://beta.slashdot.org/submi…success-with-nanor-device
QuoteMIT Scientists Report Cold Fusion Success with "NANOR" Device
..."[A video] has been posted on Youtube by someone called ‘AlienScientist’ who attended (and filmed) the recent MIT Cold Fusion seminar and reports about what he has learned. He does a very nice job of summarizing the key points from the seminar, pointing out that Peter Hagelstein and Mitchell Swartz mention such things as how the cold fusion reactions can be enhanced by subjecting the cold fusion cell to an external magnetic heat and shining a laser on the cathodes. He also mentions that they say cracking in the metal and rapid gas loading can cause the deuterium to leak out, thus negatively affecting the amount of excess heat produced. The video also includes pointed criticism of the way the scientific community dealt with Pons and Fleischmann 25 years ago, and laments the lost opportunities that could have been realized if more care had been taken in trying to replicate the effect back then....
Two article about LENR, in Swedish
http://www.energinyheter.se/2014/02/kall-fusion-r-hett-mne
http://www.energinyheter.se/20…ll-fusion-r-hett-mne-lenr
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Cold fusion is hot topic
The controversial energy popularly usually called cold fusion would if it can be realized to provide humanity with an inexpensive, clean, safe and virtually inexhaustible source of energy. Unfortunately considered cold fusion by the vast majority scholars to be an impossibility, and despite a number of times advertised that energy produced using cold fusion, these experiments could not be verified. The old pipe dream, however, has recently attracted renewed attention, partly because of the commercialization of Italian Andrea Rossi's E-Cat invention.
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In recent years LENR research again started to gain more attention and Elforsk, the Swedish electricity industry joint research and development company, recently released a report on LENR. The report says Elforsk, whose task is to collect the electricity industry on issues that may be of strategic importance and have great impact on future energy systems, there are now dozens of companies claiming to be on track to commercialize products based on LENR technology.
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E-cat world just cite a site whiche organize a poling whether LENr reactor are possible...
http://www.debate.org/opinions…d-fusion-reactor-feasible
I guess you can give your opinion there 
This article about F&P anniversary of conference parrot the usual consensus
http://www.deseretnews.com/art…ught-fire-2-and-died.html
another is discussed on ECW
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=210&sid=29184874
There is an article on Fusion hot and cold on 21st Century tech:
Energy Update: The State or Lack Thereof of Fusion
QuoteMarch 28, 2014 – From an MIT conference held in the last week on cold fusion to the latest refusal to grant a U.S. patent for Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat, to a company developing what it calls dense plasma fusion, the future of cheap, clean, nuclear energy still appears to be a dream with no immediate breakthroughs.
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It talks of MIT conférence, the rejection of Rossi's patent and the delay of Hot fusion...
A moderately openminded negative vision... much above average 
An LENr survey article:
http://superlife.ning.com/prof…gh-is-quietly-powering-up
one of the few article that seems a little documented on the various actors in LENR, 60minutes, NASA, Brillouin,investors, spawar, MIT coloquium...
hope the author does not consider himself as an april fool
QuoteDisplay MoreShhh! New Energy Breakthrough Is Quietly Powering UpPosted
by Dick Samson
Within a few short years we could see an energy explosion that changes everything. It promises to come years to decades sooner than conventional (hot) nuclear fusion. And it could be a lot cheaper, more scalable, and more transformative.
(But keep it to yourself. Most media people are.)
The bottom line
Energy has always been the core driver of civilization, but most of today’s energy is dirty, expensive, and fraught with problems including climate change, threatening civilization itself. With the benign, abundant new energy, there’s an added return on investment, planetary survival, which is vital for any other bets to pay off.
LENR’s proponents argue that their new technology is the cheapest, fastest and surest way to have a chance to reverse the catastrophic potential of climate change. Certainly for us to survive and thrive, we need energy that’s safe, clean, and dirt-cheap. And we need it very, very soon. Astute futurists and those with means, great or small, could tip the balance.
As has been true throughout history, the near-term opportunity may be for those with the means and moxie to see what’s happening before the general public does, and act on it.
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The shift to decentralized, ever-cheaper watts and BTU’s (like the shift to dispersed, ever-cheaper bits) is a sub-trend of the highly-human megatrend that is now possible, the shift to an era of enhanced health, science, mind, economy, culture, and living.
More information and interaction opportunities are available at Highly-Human Focus.
About the Author
Richard Samson is director of the EraNova Institute and has served as a consultant to IBM, AT&T, and other large organizations. His work appears in the SuperLife social network; the Highly-Human Focus website (formerly Highly-Human Jobs); and The Futurist Magazine, published by the World Future Society. His books include The Mind Builder, Creative Analysis, The Language Ladder, and Mind Over Technology.
A positive coverage of LENR, seen as a Blackswan event:
Betting on Black Swans: The Potential Implications of New Energy Solutions for Climate Change and Biodiversity
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Betting on Black Swans: The Potential Implications of New Energy Solutions for Climate Change and Biodiversity
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Perhaps the most surprising Black Swans may come in the form of novel solutions that may be found in nuclear processes that have not yet been harnessed, which could result in an unexpected energy revolution.
As a student in 1984 at the University of Cape Town I studied physics under Prof Jan Rafelski (now at The University of Arizona). At the time one of his fields of research was the physics of table top Muon-catalyzed fusion (Rafelski and Jones, 1987). Since then I had a life-long interest in the possibility of clean fusion energy.
One of the most exciting recent developments in physics is in the field of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). At present it is not clear when LENR could replace fossil fuels. But if successful, LENR may result in the most disruptive energy revolution in history. It provides the potential for limitless, cheap, safe, distributed, clean energy that can be used on a small scale to provide energy for a single home or scaled up for industrial uses.
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Many citation of documents we all know. Homework is done, which is exceptional.
RAR Energia, Ltd. claims that it is building a gravity-powered engine in Gilman, Illinois. The engine is supposedly being constructed inside of a building shown in a photograph titled “25/11/2013 - Official picture No. 11” ( http://www.rarenergia.com.br ). Independent confirmation that a new building has been constructed in Gilman can be found in a satellite image available on the TerraServer website. The date of the image is “3/17/2014” and it has a resolution of “0.5m”. The geographic coordinates of the building are latitude N 40.76316 and longitude W 88.01233 ( http://www.terraserver.com/?tid=21&cx=414551&cy=4512934&proj=32616&mpp=0.75&pic=img&prov=dg&stac=17e5442c25ce9c8e0d1e853ba552fc95 ).
Earlier photographs of this location do not show the building so it appears that the building has been recently constructed. Now the question becomes, is there really a gravity-powered engine inside of the new building or is this just another free-energy hoax?
RAR Energia, Ltd. claims that it is building a gravity-powered engine in Gilman, Illinois. The engine is supposedly being constructed inside of a building shown in a photograph titled “25/11/2013 - Official picture No. 11” ( http://www.rarenergia.com.br ). Independent confirmation that a new building has been constructed in Gilman can be found in a satellite image available on the TerraServer website. The date of the image is “3/17/2014” and it has a resolution of “0.5m”. The geographic coordinates of the building are latitude N 40.76316 and longitude W 88.01233 ( http://www.terraserver.com/?tid=21&cx=414551&cy=4512934&proj=32616&mpp=0.75&pic=img&prov=dg&stac=17e5442c25ce9c8e0d1e853ba552fc95 ).
Earlier photographs of this location do not show the building so it appears that the building has been recently constructed. Now the question becomes, is there really a gravity-powered engine inside of the new building or is this just another free-energy hoax?
There is some issue.. Something is not mentioned in the report in correct manner..I hope truth will come in front in short duration..
Reportage from www.energinyheter.se
New support for nuclear reactions at low energy
Reportage
New tests by Italian inventor Andrea Rossi energy catalyst performed by Swedish researchers give more indications that it may involve nuclear reactions at low energy and Brillouin Energy Corporation has included in the meeting with Statoil.
Elforsk, the Swedish electricity industry joint research and development company, released at the end of 2013, a summary of current knowledge of nuclear reactions at low energy, or LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) that the phenomenon is also called, where, among other things, found that a dozen companies claiming to be the way to commercialize products based on the contested technology. They have since continued to follow LENR technology development.
Among other things, Elforsk cofinanced new measurements, which in addition to just as before measurements show an unexplained excess energy also shows isotopic changes.The results of the month-long series of measurements on a LENR reactor of the type E-Cat, which is a so-called energy catalyst, published in early October 2014 in a report written by researchers at Uppsala University, the Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Bologna. The report describes a heat development that the researchers can not be explained by chemical reactions. Instead, they argue that the distinct isotopic changes in the analyzed fuel indicate that the case of nuclear reactions at low temperatures. If true, we face a new way to extract nuclear energy, which is probably free from ionizing radiation and radioactive waste, which eventually could have great significance for the world's energy supply.
E-Cat
The central portion of the energy of catalyst examined consists of a narrow, two inches long tube, filled with approximately one gram of fuel as hydrogen charged nickel powder with certain additives. During the experiments the reactor was at a temperature of up to about 1400 degrees Celsius. The total net energy developed in the form of heat during the experiments was about 1500 kilowatt hours and energy developments were between three and four times that of the supplied electric energy. As energy development was significantly larger than can be accomplished by any known chemical reaction in such a small volume, and because the fuel isotopic composition changed significantly according to the researchers that suggest that nuclear reactions took place during the experiments.However, they are difficult to explain why no radioactivity was detected in this case.
- In the current situation we do not know if all this is too amazing to be true. The measurement results indicate that a new way to extract nuclear energy may have been discovered. A small group of Swedish researchers are deeply involved in trying to understand the underlying physics. Sweden thus has a unique chance to be involved in leading research and development in the LENR field, says Elforsks CEO Magnus Olofsson, who also points out that more knowledge is needed to understand and explain the phenomenon.
Brillouin
The US company Brillouin Energy Corporation, which is one of the players with plans for commercialization of LENR technology addressed in Elforsks original knowledge compilation, has also come out with new information.
Robert godes, the company's founder, says he has met with Finnish officials, including former development minister Pekka Haavisto, and representatives from the Norwegian Statoil to discuss his LENR reactor, based on what he calls a controlled electron capture reaction.
Godes also says that oil companies have seen signs of LENR activity in connection with its hydrogenation, which is a problem for them but a good sign for nuclear reactions at low energies.
I just saw a replication of the E-cat by a Russian scientist described at Cold Fusion Now. Here is the linkout:
http://coldfusionnow.org/russi…-energy-than-it-consumes/
Hopefully this can start a thread, as a newby I don't exactly see that path on my ancient laptop.
Longview here, with best wishes for all this Western New Year, and to all that may celebrate.
On closer examination I see it is truly a Hot Cat replication. This invites a thread, no?
Further, I should note that the originating source for the almost complete translation is E-cat World.
Again the linkout I found was:
http://coldfusionnow.org/russi…-energy-than-it-consumes/
this is discussed in the thread launched by Sergei
Repeat the test on the analog reactor A. Rossi in Russia Parhomov A.G.!
an important step...
Just saw this on E-Catworld
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015…ith-plaque-on-1-mw-plant/
Today I received the following message and image from Andrea Rossi:
“Dear Frank:
I send you the photo of the plate we applied to the 1 MW plant to day,: one year ago prof. Sven Kullander passed away. I would be glad if you publish it in your important blog.
Warmest Regards,
Andrea”
It would have been nice to see the plaque mounted in its place of honor on the plant itself, but I don’t think we’ll see a picture of the plant until the testing has been completed and IH and the customer are satisfied with the performance.
Anyway, if the plant is a success, Sven Kullander will have secured a place in E-Cat history with this plaque. His early support of Rossi and his technology (along with his colleague and compatriot Hanno Essen) was important in giving credibility to Andrea Rossi’s claims.
all the people who put their careers in the balance fr our future deserve to be recognized, by a plaque, a Nobel, or by a billion.
Will LENR plunge the world in a global recession?
“If oil drops below $30 a barrel (now it’s around $44), a global recession is inevitable”, according to a recent survey of investment professionals, performed by ConvergEx Group. More than half those surveyed represented buy-side firms such as asset managers and hedge funds, and about a quarter of them were from sell-side firms such as banks or broker dealers.
