Brillouin Energy Corporation (BEC) updates.

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Only if you have not applied for a patent. If you have applied for a patent, assuming this is a real discovery and it is a valid application, you will be widely replicated after the application is made public. That happens before the patent is granted (if ever). So you might as well help people replicate now. There are benefits to having people replicate. They confirm your claims. There is a problem, too. They may start intensive research and find ways to improve the device before you do. But you will not lose the original intellectual property.

Sure but it does not always work that way, and most of the time, if it is possible, you go for a combination of patent and trade secret. You have a patent with the bare minimum in it, and you keep the rest under wrap as a trade secret. This is exactly what Brillouin is doing, as they have obtained patents in all major jurisdictions outside of the US but the content of those patents is not sufficient to allow replication.

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FTR: BEC's Hydrogen Hot Tube (HHT) has been replicated at least twice by SRI. Also, in 2015 Micheal Halem (CEO of LENRInvest) "devised tests" for BEC/SRI to run, and they verified the original results.

Problem: Tanzella et. al. are "usual suspects" rather than truly independent verification. I am not familiar with Halem but if he is the CEO of an LENR investment company, I suspect he is usual suspects as well. Want respect: get verification done by a major testing lab or large university department with the appropriately qualified researchers, not those who normally involve themselves in LENR.

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Here's an easy little job for you if you would like to help. Find one that fulfills your criteria (above) prepared to state in writing they will test a cold fusion device.

Whether they can find someone or not depends on how persuasive and well laid out their calorimetry data are. And it's not up to me to find someone but as a first go-around, I'd suggest they talk to Earth Tech unless the company has materially changed in the last few years. While a positive result from Earth tech might not be determinative for the target audience of investors they seek, it might be useful to "ladder" up to a better known and more prestigious group.

Pretty damn funny that Yugo is always rambling on about The Usual Suspects, then claims there’s no such thing as the Reputation Trap.

What a plonker.

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Here's an easy little job for you if you would like to help. Find one that fulfills your criteria (above) prepared to state in writing they will test a cold fusion device.

For no money. That's the rub.

Years ago, I heard of a couple of universities that said they would consider establishing a cold fusion research project if someone came up with several million bucks. Academic scientists are strongly opposed to cold fusion and they say it is pathological science and researchers are all criminals and lunatics . . . Until the moment you wave money in their faces. As Stan Szpak said, scientists believe whatever you pay them to believe.

In 1990 some of the world's leading scientists railed against cold fusion and did all they could to stop it, while secretly applying to EPRI for grants to study it. The project director at EPRI told me that.

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Earth Tech do not fulfil your criteria. Hal and co have dabbled in cold fusion since the beginning.

Yes but I am not aware that they ever confirmed or claimed they had achieved it. If I am wrong, they are not the right people.

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Years ago, I heard of a couple of universities that said they would consider establishing a cold fusion research project

I believe Dr. George Miley mentors some students at UI/UC and they do research on cold fusion. I don't know the funding sources or how official it is.

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Hi Michele,

Here is the info I share with people about Brillouin Energy and their Low Energy Nuclear Reaction breakthrough a few months ago:

I am the former head of the corporate venture fund at American Electric Power and therefore I have a pretty good eye for energy deals and their investment potential - I can easily say that this is the best one I have ever seen, in any category. A few months ago, this company had a breakthrough that eliminates the need for most fossil fuels. Let that sink in. This solves the carbon problem, climate change, and enables economic growth in underdeveloped nations. Energy costs can be reduced by 65 percent or more.

I have become acquainted with Carl Page, the older brother of Google founder Larry Page. You would really like Carl – he is an amazing guy. Carl’s favorite project is this company because they have cracked the code on how to harness a reaction that generates an abundance of excess heat, but produces nothing toxic or radioactive. As I dug deeper into this, it became easy to see how this technology will disrupt most of the world’s $7 trillion energy industry, and easily create the world’s largest company, assuming it is properly managed. I believe this will be the greatest investment event of the century.

This tech generates energy with virtually no fuel cost. It uses a patented process to pulse a metallic lattice with electricity, and this creates a “low energy nuclear reaction” that generates far more heat than is required to start the process – this is called “excess heat”. Again, the reaction from this produces no radiation or anything toxic, just a small amount of inert helium. The excess heat from this can then be used to produce electricity, heat buildings, and eventually even power transportation.

Everyone agrees that if this technology works – that if you can put in 100 watts of power, and get out 400, 600, or 1000 watts of energy – that it will change the world. This could eliminate two-thirds of fossil fuel use in the next decade. So the only question that remains is this: Does it really work? Yes it does and here is how it is verified:

Recognizing that I am not a scientist, and that whenever there is a new technology like this, there will be lots of technical questions, and everyone will begin from a position of doubting, so I have dug deeply and relied heavily on others to give me comfort in the claims of this technology. Fortunately, the team has been completely forthcoming about the technology, and since I have signed their NDA, they opened everything to me. I also met the scientist from SRI International and quizzed him in depth; he has validated the technology and their findings, and his endorsement is very impressive. Perhaps most comforting to me is that Carl Page has also verified this with his own scientists, and therefore continues to aggressively support the company. It doesn’t get any better than that, so these guys really do have proven technology that passes due diligence.

This technology has been under development for more than 30 years in at least 11 different countries under the term “Low Energy Nuclear Reactions” or “LENR”. But until now, nobody has been able to control the nuclear reaction. In an unclassified report from 2009, the Defense Intelligence Agency stated as follows:

“If nuclear reactions in LENR experiments are real and controllable, DIA assesses that whoever produces the first commercialized LENR power source could revolutionize energy production and storage for the future. The potential applications of this phenomenon, if commercialized, are unlimited.”

The most exciting news is that Brillouin has proven that it is "real and controllable". They have cracked the code with their patented electric pulse or “Q-Pulse” technology, which enables them to turn it on, dial it up, dial it down, and turn it off. This is the breakthrough that has been needed.

Now the company is raising a $15 million round for the final 18-24 months of development to get them to commercialization, and we are evaluating investor candidates to lead and follow in this round.

I have more information I can send – just let me know what you would like to see first. I can easily arrange for a call with the senior team at the company and a visit to their lab for an in-person demo of the technology in Berkeley, California. I will follow up with you in a few days to see if there is a time when we can have a quick chat.

Best regards,

Warren Walborn

(231) 638-3800

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Link: https://michelekearneynuclearw…and-their-low-energy.html

This link was tweeted by Godes, so I assume it's not wildly different to his thinking.

I assume that Walborn is involved with Brillouin. Here's his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenwalborn/

'18 to 24 months'?

'[...] their Low Energy Nuclear Reaction breakthrough a few months ago'?

What to make of these statements?

Lattice Dilation of Plasma Sprayed Nickel Film Quantified by High Resolution Terahertz Imaging

Featuring BEC

https://crimsonpublishers.com/nrs/pdf/NRS.000545.pdf

Tanzella - Page - Godes: Is Neutrino the key?

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Tanzella - Page - Godes: Is Neutrino the key?

The key to what?

Are we talking about these neutrinos?

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Neutrinos' low mass and neutral charge mean they interact exceedingly weakly with other particles and fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

A particle that interacts so little, it was initially required to go 3km underground to an environment sufficiently quiet to detect it in a giant device?

Reminds me of Steorn claiming that Orbo ran on "dark energy" and Rossi saying that the ecat runs on... whatever his current absurd theory is.

I believe Martineau's theory of photodynamics helps explain the neutrino interactions, if developed further.

https://www.researchgate.net/p…4301_Photodynamics_JPM_OA

Trouble is how do you generate any excess energy

without Lenr? This is a complete turn around for BEC

And I think poorly thought out....such lattice expansion would give only a negligible heat output and only for a very short time, nothing like what they claim. Mentioning Parkhomov neutrino theory is completely irrelevant too. The mind boggles.