Press Release: SRI Successfully Replicated Brillouin’s LENR Technology

Preliminary report :

http://brillouinenergy.com/wp-…01/SRI_ProgressReport.pdf

My first preliminary review of the report had both "thumbs up" and a few "?????" .

SRI is a respected organization. They add a lot of credibility. The report does appear to be from SRI. Not just someone who works there.
Unlike the Lugano test, where there was no organizational backing, this does seem to have it.

From the preliminary report, it appears most of the testing was done at Brillouin's facility with Brillioun's employee's involved. Not ideal.
However, at least one reactor has been tested physically at SRI and apparently without Brillouin's involvement. This is good!

The report states that the reaction is repeatable and controllable. Thumbs up! However, the higher COP tests were not as robust. Bummer!

The power is low, but that is not necessarily bad. It makes accurate testing somewhat easier. (Much more so that mega watts!) However,
can it be scaled up?

Not much was given on the calorimetric setup, but I would hope it was well designed.

Over all a positive report. I am curious to see the official, in-depth report.

If this reaction is as repeatable as stated, even at low power, I would think it a major break through. Gasoline engines started out with fractional
horse power and it did not take long to have v8's! If the reaction can be studied at will, I would think the underlying reaction will soon be understood
and high power not far off.

Keeping my fingers crossed!

Here are my observations after reading their paper.

- The total output and COP are very poor. I get the impression they are making a mountain over a mole hill. If I were them, I would have continued testing until I could have reliably produced a higher COP, a higher total output, and a higher power density. To be blunt, this setup is too large and bulky for a few single digit watts of excess heat to be impressive.

- The fact they stop producing excess heat above 600C due to what they feel is the Pd releasing stored hydrogen tells me that very few nickel-hydrogen reactions are probably occurring. In these tests, I expect that this is predominantly a Pd system with the nickel doing almost nothing. I could be wrong, and in other tests with only nickel films they may have produced excess heat.

- I expect their choice of spray on nickel has ensured that hydrogen absorption and the creation of internal high pressure "bubbles" (clusters of exotic hydrogen species) is minimal. If these clusters did exist and were producing LENR, the excess heat would have likely continued to climb above 600C. I doubt they were able to perform any processes on the nickel powder before placing it into the reactor. Actually, we don't know much about the structure of the nickel and palladium films.

- They are using fast square wave rise times. Probably, these impulses (very fast square waves produce exotic effects in many different systems) stimulate the hydrogen clusters in the palladium. The problem might be that hydrogen diffuses far, far more quickly in palladium than nickel. So they might be accelerating it's exit out of the reactor at higher temperatures. Although nickel is far more challenging to hydrogenate, the lower hydrogen permeability would mean the trapped, embedded, or absorbed hydrogen might not migrate out as quickly.

My advice to them would be to forget the palladium and focus on how to maximize the hydrogenation of nickel POWDER of a decent particle size that can resist sintering. This could take some time and effort, but the result would be potentially be a hundred times or more the output.

Barty,

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We should not forget: This report is based on a lab test of a replication made by SRI(!!), with laboratory conditions etc.

They may have control issues which BEC already solved.

Maybe the small COP is related to that.

Just the fact that it is replicated by such a credible institution (SRI) and works reliable is a very very good news in these dark LENR days. Just read the highlighted words.

This is what we all were looking and hoping for since the beginning.

Rossi should hurry up now, if he has anything.

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He does indeed have something. And, importantly, it is magnitudes more powerful than this SRI experiment that produced a few single digit watts. The issue is that he's smart in a lot of ways and very intuitive, but he also senses perceived threats extremely easily. If he feels his technology could be threatened by espionage, an overall bad contract, unwelcome visitors, or a competitor he jumps into action regardless of the consequences. The problem is that while in many cases rightly defending himself and his technology, he does some less than honest and perhaps even downright sneaky things.

As I've said before, I think the Rossi Effect is fundamentally simple once you understand the potentially significant extents you must go to prepare your nickel to absorb hydrogen and create the bubbles/clusters/species of hydrogen we all discuss on this board. Me356 realized the simplicity and power of the technology and went underground -- in fear of the consequences of opening Pandora's Box. But that's exactly what I'm hoping will happen and soon. But I want more. I want the instructions to make the box written down, video taped, and spread across the internet. When thousands of people start replicating and posting videos -- or even before then -- it will create an uproar. Literally, the high powered Rossi Effect is indeed like a "new" form of fire. What SRI replicated is like sitting in the woods spinning a stick into a board and bragging, "It's getting warm! Do you see how that little spot is turning brown. Any time now I'll get it started." This is happening while across the campsite Andrea Rossi is enjoying his roaring fire and roasting a hot dog.