http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/…al-radiation-for-win.html

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Gravitational radiation for the win + communicating science

As expected, LIGO was recognized by the Nobel Prize in physics this year. The LIGO experiment is an enormous undertaking that combines elegant, simple theoretical ideas; incredible engineering and experimental capabilities; and technically virtuosic numerical theoretical calculations and data analysis techniques. It's truly a triumph.

I did think it was interesting when Natalie Wolchover, one of the top science writers out there today, tweeted: Thrilled they won, thrilled not to spend this morning speed-reading about some bizarre condensed matter phenomenon.

This sentiment was seconded by Peter Woit, who said he thought she spoke for all science journalists.

Friendly kidding aside, I do want to help. Somehow it's viewed as comparatively easy and simple to write about this, or this, or this, but condensed matter is considered "bizarre".

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LENR is an uphill climb with its high level of complexity making things worse.

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$20Bn -...no, way more than that!

I say the problem is...

CF is based on using numerous wildly differing and mostly unproven theoretical models to
describe events that are reported to occur in very disparate media and environments
AT +1500C, AT -260C. IN VACUUM, HIGH PRESSURE, IN SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, GASES,PLASMAS,
IN LIVING SYSTEMS AND DEEP IN THE EARTH’S CORE. IN THE SUN’S PHOTOSPHERE, IN
JUPITERS ‘ELECTRIC ZONES’
CF is shorthand for yes here lie significant effects not explainable by conventional physics.
Thus it is UNCONVENTIONAL PHYSICS. Many accepted things about nuclear mechanisms
don’t fit CF observations. Some deep electron energy level fits many much better. But as an
explanation that has issues too.

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Thanks for the post. I had counted 6 different LENR reaction types but I forgot to include living systems. I will increase that number to seven. This life based system type uses quantum mechanical based mechanisms like those involved with photosynthesis which converts light to chemical energy. The LENR reaction outputs cannot be too injurious to the life process. But the production of sub atomic particles is not precluded in that some species of microbial life can live in extremely radioactive environments, in fact in nuclear waste and even inside the hot zone of nuclear reactors. These species can exist on the energy produced by this radioactive environment.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2…ts-harmful-radiation.html

Black Fungus Found in Chernobyl Eats Harmful Radiation

http://newatlas.com/hybrid-energy-photosynthesis/32295/

This article shows how polaritons work in biological system to transfer and transform light energy in photosynthesis.

This video will give an idea of how bacteria can be engineered to transmute waste into feedstock elements and compounds for other processes by using LENR.