For a little context/background, I copied David's post here.
Brillouin Energy Corporation (BEC) updates.
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I wish someone could help these guys out with increasing their COP.
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Background gossip suggests they have achieved much higher COPs than those published. under claim and over deliver perhaps?
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I hope so, and more than performance I hope they have understood the metallurgy requirements.
If they have understood the metallurgy, theory will came quickly...
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Brillouin Energy Awarded Patent For Its Potentially World Changing Fusion Reactor
Hydrogen Hot Tube Boiler System (Photo: Business Wire)
January 31, 2019 08:15 AM Eastern Standard Time
BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brillouin Energy Corp., a leading company in the Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) field, announced that it has obtained a significant Patent associated with its design for a potentially world-changing “Hydrogen Hot Tube”, or “HHT™” reactor system from the European Union Patent Office. The Patent, which has been issued for a crucial component of the HHT reactor system, the “Controlled Electron Capture Reaction” (CECR) for “Energy Generation Apparatus and Method”, is dated September 26, 2018.
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So this day actually changed the LENR scene!
Not like many of us expected, but yeah!
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Ruby tells that Brillouin is member of GAIN network
https://gain.inl.gov/SiteAsset…on_1%2031%2019.pdf#page=3
https://gain.inl.gov/SitePages/What%20is%20GAIN.aspx
QuoteThe mission of the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) is to advance nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the nation's energy, environmental and national security needs by resolving technical, cost, safety, proliferation resistance, and security barriers through research, development and demonstration ﴾RD&D﴿.
Accomplishing this mission will realize the enormous potential of nuclear energy and maintain the United States' historic leadership in the field. While many innovative ideas exist, the research, development and demonstration ﴾RD&D﴿ needed to bring these concepts to a commercial readiness level is traditionally lengthy and expensive.
Therefore, DOE-NE has established the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) to provide the nuclear community with access to the technical, regulatory, and financial support necessary to move innovative nuclear energy technologies toward commercialization while ensuring the continued safe, reliable, and economic operation of the existing nuclear fleet....
GAIN provides the nuclear energy industry with access to the technical, regulatory, and financial support necessary to move new or advanced nuclear reactor technologies toward commercialization, as well as ensuring the continued safe, reliable, and economic operation of the existing nuclear reactor fleet. GAIN offers a single point of access to the broad range of capabilities across DOE's national laboratory complex. DOE has invested billions of dollars to build and maintain expertise and infrastructure within the national laboratory system. This vast capability should be leveraged effectively to support commercialization of new advanced nuclear reactor designs.
Focused research opportunities and dedicated industry engagement are important components of GAIN to ensure that DOE-sponsored activities support technology companies that are working to realize the full potential of nuclear energy.
Assistance for reactor technology developers in navigating through the regulatory process is another highly important element of GAIN. In collaboration with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), DOE will work through GAIN with prospective applicants for advanced nuclear technologies to understand and navigate the regulatory process for licensing advanced technology.
GAIN integrates and facilitates efforts by private industry, universities and government research institutions to test, develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear technologies to accelerate the licensing and commercialization of these systems.
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What is the patent number of the granted patent?
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I can not find a patent of Brillouin which is dated September 26, 2018...
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I can not find a patent of Brillouin which is dated September 26, 2018...
It's probably the grant date, not the date of filing
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More specifically it looks like it's EP1971985B1
https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP06851215
https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1971985B1
https://worldwide.espacenet.co…ate=20180926&DB=&locale=#
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From the patent
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[0023] The resulting low-energy neutron has a high cross section of reaction with other H, D, or T nuclei. The formation of a deuteron from protium releases ∼2.24MeV, the transition of D to T releases ∼6.26Mev and the transition to 4H with
the subsequent β- decay releases ∼22.36MeV. Due to the wave nature of phonons and the associated density function driving the electron capture the overall momentum of the resulting 4H is low enough that β- is the decay function."
I was wondering if Brilllouin was yoctospeed quick enough to detect 4H in their experiments
from Wikipedia
" with a half-life of about 139 ± 10 yoctoseconds, or (1.39 ± 0.10 × 10−22 seconds).[
In the 1955 satirical novel The Mouse That Roared, the name quadium was given to the hydrogen-4 isotopethat powered the Q-bomb that the Duchy of Grand Fenwick captured from the United States. "
Two new words for me today -quadium and yocto
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Published April 29, 2012 | By jennifer
Achieving successful cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction is no longer a scientific challenge. Instead as Robert Godes of Brillouin has noted it is basically an engineering problem.
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Creating a low energy nuclear reaction in a laboratory environment is the easy part even high school students can do it.
The rest of the article was excuses. And nothing seems to have changed since then. So how's that engineering problem going? Note the other companies mentioned in the article.
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So what? Working at the cutting edge of technology means things go at their own pace. Who can predict what issues might arise that set them back?
Just be grateful they aren't unadventurous types, satisfied to only work on basic tasks, where the answer is obvious and can be easily discovered by simple folk.
...Like calculating the thermal resistance of a diving suit, for instance. Or arriving at the momentous realisation that breathing in gunsmoke isn't the best thing for one's health...
Horses for courses, and all that.
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The rest of the article was excuses. And nothing seems to have changed since then. So how's that engineering problem going? Note the other companies mentioned in the article.
It read reserved and reasonable to me. If I were Godes, or George and read that now (6 years later), I would be happy with what I said back then. Considering their small budget, novelty of the science, their unique approach, they are making solid, steady progress...or at least that is what their latest results show. Remarkable if those numbers hold up, and I cannot see why not. No telling how much further along they would be now, with an unlimited budget, and larger engineering staff.
I never understood though, why they did not team up with a deep pocket, energy based company to more quickly bring it too commercial viability? That is what I would do, but then I am not in Godes shoes. He claims he could be making much more money doing something else, and this is a labor of love. Must be, because it is not easy doing R/D while constantly having to scrounge up money to make payroll. -
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I never understood though, why they did not team up with a deep pocket, energy based company to more quickly bring it too commercial viability?
Take a stab at it.
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I never understood though, why they did not team up with a deep pocket, energy based company to more quickly bring it too commercial viability?
With a COP of 1.5 or so at best the energy based company's were not interested.
Maybe if Godes gets it up to 2.4 ish in the next few months they may be.
Its not just an engineering problem..probably Godes knew that
Its understanding of the basic process.. and knowing what to change to get the COP up.
Now where are those gamma and nuclear isomer measurements??
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