I hope Brillouin's demonstration will eliminate deniability.
Someone said the ICCF24 demonstration was cancelled. (Shane D. confirms the cancellation above.)
Brillouin Energy Corporation (BEC) updates.
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I posted some cancellation info in the 'live' thread.
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I posted some cancellation info in the 'live' thread.
Bad time, bad place for a fail. They have a good team, so I am sure they will overcome the setback, learn, and come back even better.
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I hate to sound like I am beating a dead horse, but COP as a single number doesn't mean much. How much is the absolute excess heat output? In the case of the HHT, electrical inputs are necessary so COP is relevant, but the singular focus on only COP and not the other relevant numbers for scaling the reaction output is a bit baffling to me.
My heart goes out to the BEC team, as I have been in a similar situation before. Let's not pass judgement on them from this single event. Obviously they have had enough convincing data to convince investors to put in significant amounts of capital. I mirror what Shane said that their team will recover and come back stronger.
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The control panel software is full-custom and looks great.
From the appearance of the 'controls' on the panel it looks like an NI LabVIEW application ... I have done similar applications. LabVIEW is an excellent choice for this sort of work. All manner of graphical images can be added to the application front panel, as is seen in those photos.
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There was an investor asklng in the Chat section where he could find the BEC live demo. Someone had to tell him it was canceled, but maybe if he contacted BEC they would schedule a private showing.
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I sympathize with the Brillouin people. It is difficult to move an experiment into a new building and make it work. In 1980s trade shows, many companies had difficulty setting up production models of computers and running almost-but-not-quite ready demonstrations. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
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From the appearance of the 'controls' on the panel it looks like an NI LabVIEW application
I asked their CEO, Robert George, what software they used, or if it was a full custom application, and he said it was custom. He might not be familiar with the distinction though, so a fully-customized LabView panel could be what he meant. I didn't see any distinguishing logos or whatnot, so I dunno. Based on looking at it, I would say it could be either one. I haven't worked directly with LabView in over a decade, and I'm not familiar with the fine details of their UI rendering.
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I asked their CEO, Robert George, what software they used, or if it was a full custom application, and he said it was custom. He might not be familiar with the distinction though, so a fully-customized LabView panel could be what he meant. I didn't see any distinguishing logos or whatnot, so I dunno. Based on looking at it, I would say it could be either one. I haven't worked directly with LabView in over a decade, and I'm not familiar with the fine details of their UI rendering.
It sure looks like LabView to me. I don't think that matters much though.
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Agree with that 👍
I sympathize with the Brillouin people. It is difficult to move an experiment into a new building and make it work. In 1980s trade shows, many companies had difficulty setting up production models of computers and running almost-but-not-quite ready demonstrations. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
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In the end it was functioning 'on and off'.
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In the end it was functioning 'on and off'.
Like software in 1978. As someone said back then: "We go out for pizza and beer to celebrate when the program finally compiles. Never mind whether it runs, or gets the right answer."
(Someone . . . might have been me?)
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and he said it was custom.
It's NI LabVIEW. ALL signs point to LabVIEW as seen on the pic posted earlier. There is _no_ better language, with its rich selection of 'tools', widgets and functions (lying unseen behind the scenes doing the work) than LabVIEW for doing this kind of work. He probably subcontracted that work out, and doesn't know what the developer used.
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Brillouin Energy Hydrogen Hot Tube (HHT) Technology Achieves Performance BreakthroughsBrillouin Energy Corp. announced performance breakthroughs for its first transportable HYDROGEN HOT TUBE™ (HHT™) Test Systemwww.einnews.com
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Wait - what? This was part of the above: "A short video of the demonstration can be seen here: Brillouin’s ICCF24 demonstration."
I thought they cancelled the demo at ICCF24?
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Wait - what? This was part of the above: "A short video of the demonstration can be seen here: Brillouin’s ICCF24 demonstration."
I thought they cancelled the demo at ICCF24?
Without a mea culpa the news release and demo will enter urban legend territory very soon.
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I thought they cancelled the demo at ICCF24?
The machine was working intermittently, I am sure Brillouin took advantage of that to demo it to quite a few people.
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Technically it seems very light.
french people who have been at ICCF , who have seen the demo in live, who have touched the famous rods said:
A kind of rods as SS steel or alumina as substrat what were covered by several layers of nickel then copper .
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Technically it seems very light.
french people who have been at ICCF , who have seen the demo in live, who have touched the famous rods said:
A kind of rods as SS steel or alumina as substrat what were covered by several layers of nickel then copper .
Not entirely unlike Iwamura et al.'s work then?
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then?
I think there is a lot more money to invest in the USA than elsewhere.
As this money implicitly has to be invested locally, it benefits to American companies, almost exclusively.
All this to say that with his gadget, Brouillin would NEVER have found money outside the United States.
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