ICCF21 Thread

Quote from Shane D.

Duncan's rumored, and somewhat speculative "sponsor" is Bill Gates, to the tune of $6 million

I think this is more or less 'confirmed' ...

https://thenewfire.files.wordp…tion_bill_gates_texas.jpg

I've seen a slide from Michael McKubre about what should be done on LENR (and which says we are far).

What I would like for people I exchange with is a diverse collection of "experimental plan" dedicated to industry and academic labs of various kind.

When you met a small company in hightech, a local academic lab in a dynamic zone, working in domain like nanotech, accumulators, engines, nuclear science, renewable, I would like to send them a handful of proposal papers saying that

"according to this old LENR experimenter" a good research plan could be "analyse this and that paper" then "try to reproduce this and that experiment" "then when it works experiment this and that new idea" to gather data and why not go to "the explanation".

Personally I'm attracted by Ed Storms approach, thus to PdD wet cells then dry gas permeation once it works, using modern instruments like used in accumulator research and nanotech, but i'm not competent enough to gather the reference papers, guess which kind of corporate lab would be best, guess the costs and requirements.

I know Storms approach is not well received by most, but when I real all critics on all theory, the conclusion is that there is no theory, no hope, no future. I suspect, from experimental results, this position is a bit exaggerated.

Ruby is making a report about Monday

http://coldfusionnow.org/iccf-21-day-1-on-heat-and-theory/

There is a paragraph about Tom Darden, talking of groupthink, that Jean-Paul did not cover

Quote from Ruby carat

David J. Nagel introduced keynote speaker Tom Darden at the 21st International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. He spoke about “group-think” and urged scientists to keep open minds and reject conformity thinking, going through examples of “cultural group-think” in American society, and referenced the last US election. He wants to see the mainstream open up to scientific papers and he is seeking to engage the whole of science in this important field. “Humanity needs for us to succeed,” he ended.

One quote that suprise me from Mike McKubre :

Quote from Mike McKubre

“At the same time, cold fusion is reproduced somewhere on the planet every day. Verification has already happened. But self-censorship is a problem in the CMNS field. Are we guarding our secrets for fear that someone else might take credit? Yes.”

Interesting evocation of confirmed results in PdD/LiOD

Mizuno results were presented by Jed Rothwell "He reported 20-40 Watts from a glow discharge set-up which uses air-flow calorimetry as other calorimetries interfered with the experiment. ".

Miley have presented his results with nanoparticles (PdZrO2) over 6 month...

Robert Duncan was there, and introduce Akito Takahashi presented work on some poweder (Pd Ni ZrO2)...

Th result was reproduced at Tohoku (good!).

Tastsumi Hioki observed nanoperticle work better with Ni than Pd.

There was a theory session with Peter Hagelstein, Vladimir Vysotskii, Anthony Zuppero/Thomas Dolan, Norman Cook.

Personally I wonder wether the Zuppero theory may be a missing link for Storms theory. "Taking two particles, each has a potential. At some point when they are a particular distance, they begin to couple, and an “big” electron is ejected out of the system leaving the reactant in a low-energy state. "... maybe .

Imagine if Billy visited ICCF. Media coverage would be huge.

Jean Paul Biberian have made a new report of Day 1, like Ruby did :

Here is the google translation

https://translate.google.com/t…-journee-iccf21-fort.html

Monday, June 4: 1st day ICCF21 Fort Collins Colorado

This first day began with an introduction by David Nagel, who put this conference back in relation to the previous 20 conferences. ICCF21 is in the middle of previous conferences with 173 participants.

Tom Darden : Creator of Industrial Heat recalled that he had come three years ago to the Padua conference. He explained that he was doing what he was doing, that is, supporting the Cold Fusion because of the consequences of the LENRs which should in particular not create pollution. For 6 years they have been helping laboratories to achieve a reproducible experience by traditional laboratories.

Michael McKubre , retired from SRI did a "Technical Perspective". He recalled that he had worked three years with Martin Fleischmann in Southampton after his thesis. It was because he knew him that from the beginning he started cold fusion, especially since he was already working on deuterium in palladium. He made a reminder of what he knew:

• Deuterium loading by measuring the resistance of the electrode,
• The measurement of tritium and helium-3
• The measurement of helium-4

He explained that he can not measure everything at the same time during an experiment, so choices must be made. He explained that there were 5 actions: Verification - Correlation - Replication - Demonstration - Use. For him, since 1992 the proof of the reality of the cold fusion had been made in particular by Mel Miles who had shown the correlation between heat and helium production.

Dennis Letts and Dennis Cravens , "Building and testing at high temperature Seebeck calorimeter". They showed the details of their air-cooled Seebeck calorimeter in which they discharge with 500 volts and 200mA under a pressure of 10 Torr deuterium. They regularly obtained heat excesses of 5 watts. In their experiment, they use an anode of molybdenum and as cathode a deposit of 7um of palladium on the inside of the tube. The time constant of the calorimeter is 2h 30.

Mizuno ,: "Glow discharge experiments". The presentation was made by Jed Rothwell because Mizuno did not come. In his experience, he made plasma discharges to deposit nickel and palladium. It measures the heat produced with cooling with a flow of air. He has placed in his calorimeter two identical reactors, one of which is blank. In the first experiments, he obtained a COP of 2. With a new method, he has only 10 to 30 Watts of excess heat.

George Miley : "Progress in Cluste Enabled LENR". His work is financially supported by Industrial Heat. He continued on the track he had opened by doing multi-layer Ni-Pd. He thinks that defects are created because of the stress between two materials. For this he worked with a Pd-ZrO2 system manufactured by "arc melting" and then reduced to powder by "ball milling". All experiments with Pd-ZrO2 produced heat excesses. They experimented at room temperature loading and unloading deuterium into the powder. There is more heat charging than unloading. They also added inside the CR39 cell to detect the production of neutrons, and indeed they were observed. In the future, they will work at higher temperatures.

Takahashi : "Research Status of Nano-Metal Hydrogen Energy" This presentation is the first of three presentations that are the results of a collaboration between Nissan, Technova and four universities under the NEDO. The experiments were made with Pd-Ni-ZrO2 and Ni-Cu-ZrO2 alloys. He recalled his theory that supposes that 4 deuterium merge simultaneously in a tetrahedral structure. In a calorimeter operating with an oil cooling. They introduce hydrogen or deuterium at a pressure of 1 to 10 atmospheres. The experiments range from ambient to 500 ° C.The excess heat observed is of the order of 5 Watts with 100g of powder. Differential Calorimetry measurements show that there is an optimum around 400 ° C. They also noticed that the excess heat increases after a re-oxidation of the powder made by melt spinning and followed by a first oxidation.

Iwamura : "Anomalous Heat Effects Induced by Metal Nanocomposites and Hydrogen Gas". This project is part of the NEDO from October 2015 to October 2017. The best results are 8 Watts. They noticed that the system only works with alloys. The Pd-ZrO2 system does not work.One way of understanding is to think that for there to be excess heat, there must be gaps in the metal. This happens when there is an interface that produces stress and therefore gaps. With palladium alone, there are no constraints, so heat to at least 800 ° C to create these gaps. They also observed heat burst correlated with pressure increase.

Hioki ; "XRD and XAFS Analysis for Metal Nanocomposites Used in Anomalous Heat Effect Experiments". 16 collaborative experiments were performed with the same materials as those described by the other two authors. He then spoke of mesoporous zeolite type materials in which palladium nano grains are introduced. They obtained an excess of 10 Watts for 45 days.

Peter Hagelstein : "Phonon Mediated Excitation Transfer Nuclear Involving Excitation". He picked up on what he said the day before by showing that collimated X-rays can be produced.

Vladimir Vysotskii : "Using the Method of Coherent Correlated States for Realization of Nuclear Interaction of Slow Particles with Crystals and Molecules". He showed that LENR-type reactions occur through an effect of correlated states that lower the Coulomb barrier.

Zuppero and Dolan : "Electron Quasiparticle Catalysis of Nuclear Reactions". They showed that in some chemical reactions an electron is emitted with the energy of the reaction. This idea was developed for LENR type reactions. According to them, they manage to explain all the observations.

Norman Cook : "The Renaissance in Nuclear PhysicsLENR and Transmutations". He developed the problem of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that does not apply in the kernel. He criticized the Copenhagen school for interpreting this principle of uncertainty.