Recipes for cold fusion

The Japanese have it all figured out:

January 2018 Nikkei article about cold fusion

"The cold fusion method announced by researchers in the United States about 30 years ago was to electrolyze heavy water with palladium electrodes. Although this method has been attempted extensively abroad, the research group such as Technova has concentrated on the method of permeating deuterium (or hydrogen) gas into the metal rather than the electrolysis method, because they consider it more promising.

Based on these experiments, the conditions under which an exothermic reaction occurs have been clarified. First of all, it is necessary to combine two kinds of metal such as palladium and nickel, rather than using a single type of metal. Moreover, when the ratio of palladium and copper was decreased to palladium 1: nickel 7 or copper 1: nickel 7, the generation of heat was enhanced.

"A specimen made at an appropriate ratio has a clearance structure smaller than a nanometer (one-billionth of a meter) on the surface, and hydrogen seems to enter into this space and a reaction occurs." Professor Emeritus of Osaka University explains Prof. Akito Takahashi, who is a senior adviser to the research group and Technova.

If the proportion of palladium or copper is high, these metals surround the specimen around the specimen tightly, and it is impossible to create "places" where hydrogen react with each other. "Heat is generated in experiments by electrolysis, probably because these nanostructures were made by accident on the metal electrode surface," said Prof. Takahashi. It is also clear that exothermic reaction occurs even when the species of hydrogen gas injected is not deuterium gas but normal hydrogen gas. Also, when injecting gas, when the temperature inside the device was raised to 200 to 400 degrees Celsius, it was found that the exothermic reaction did not stop within a short time, but rather continued for several weeks."

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I am not trying to say amateurs cannot accomplish anything, but if they come on line and make claims, they should follow legitimate protocol. The actions we have seen from ME356 and LION are quite puzzling. A group like MFMP who has no commercial agenda and these guys "stiff arm" them for lack of a better term!?! What gives. Very puzzling indeed. This conduct will not enhance their credibility any.

Bob,

I would add Suhas to that group. Maybe Rossi, although he took it much further by ripping IH off. Plus, he also has the early LENR history with Focardi, which still puzzles many of us, so I put him in his own special category. Parkomov...who knows?

As you say, amateurs can accomplish things, so they should not be discounted outright. Certainly though, what these 3 did...stiff arm, take us for a ride, yank our chain, or whatever, will make it all the more difficult for any other amateurs who venture forward with great claims, to attract serious attention.

Your post also reminded me of me356's interview last Sept. 2017. That was several months after the BG/Egely visit where the Aura did not work. His comments are funny in hindsight. It was like he took a page out of Rossi's playbook; if you get caught in a lie, tell a bigger lie!

https://e-catworld.com/2017/09…owards-commercialization/

What are you focusing on in your work with LENR these days?

I am trying to simplify manufacturing process in the way that the most work can be done by machining, at least semi-automatically. This will minimize possible deviations from required model to achieve same results across the units. Initially everything was done by hand, especially welding, where the most errors can be made.

What is the scale of your operations with LENR — how many people working with you on it?

If we count also workers in external companies it could reach at least one hundred people that are directly involved with the reactors.

Amateurs have greater challenges than professional, in a domain where everybody is challenged.

It is correct to say amateurs should read more what was written (like above papers), hear more , exploit better their network, collaborate more ?

My feeling is that for too long everybody was more or less preparing for the international cold fusion war, like we have seen on oil, on nuclear energy, on IT, Internet, biotech...

The problem is that the maturity of the domain is too early, and we are at the phase of basic international fully collaborative science.

As someone said to me, you are preparing to make a cake, buying floor, eggs, sugar, and the guys are battling to steal the ingredients before anything is even cooked.

Amateurs cannot afford that game... professional cannot, but it take more billions until they realize.

I've heard this is the way the Japanese company work when "attacking" a foreign market.

First they collaborate between Japanese companies, without any "moderation"... only when they landed on the market and are solidly installed, it is time for competition. (Normandy D-Day style).

I hear people explaining me how the geopolitic of Cold Fusion cause secrecy, when US DoD is suspected to hide result, when Russian nationalists, French state labs, Japanese corps are suspected to work discretely... Until the media ban is raised, it is stupid, and probably just paranoid fantasies.

Many thanks to the Japanese teams, because they are doing the job.

In few years, it may be time for the war, but by replicating XH between labs, between continents, they have done the job for the "informed circles". Press is not yet ready to accept they screwed up deeply, as usual, but in few years I hope they will just forget they screwed up (journalists never accept they screwed up, they deny, forget, or die).

Amateur have their place, but behavior should adapt to resources. work as bee-swarm, not as lonewolves.

Don't forget also that beside state an universities labs, foundations (SKINR), corporate labs, you have maybe more than you imagine, of medium companies labs, local technology valleys labs, with some motivated engineers reading here.

They have very cutting edge competences in their domain, whether it is nanotechnologies, accumulators, chemistry reactors, and cannot talk much, but they can read and evaluate who is serious here.

You are not alone...

Be serious. Bee-have like a swarm.

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Be serious. Bee-have like a swarm.

Um ein tadelloses Mitglied einer Schafherde sein zu können, muss man vor allem ein Schaf sein.

Albert Einstein, *1879 †1955

I see many problems among some scientists...

Difficulties to replicate, always trying to improve.

Putting theory before it works. Ignoring other's results if it disagree.

Start hiding when it seldom works.

Amateurs don't have the budget to afford losing time and money that way.

Anyway It seems collaboration develop...

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Anyway It seems collaboration develop...

One always looks for that, but it is often made difficult.

Quick note about LENR patents: In his CFN podcast David French on the Cold Fusion Now! podcast (#008) David French said the USPTO informed him 4 years ago that LENR patents will be approved, if the applicant can prove it works.

I agree; "prove it works", and what it means, is in the eye of the beholder. That was about the time the USPTO anti-LENR SAWS program was exposed, and ended, so they almost had to say something like that.

Interesting question as to what it would take to prove something LENR works? Surely excess heat, but what about "gammas", tritium, dead lab assistants? Maybe David French would have the answer to that.