European Commision Funding and Tenders Opportunities for Breacktrough Zero Emissions Energy production Includes LENR (sort of)

No cold fusion

If an application is made I don't see why we can't use 'low energy nuclear reactor' simply as the most accurate way of describing what would be intended. Here is a hypothetical outline (abstract);

This project involves the construction of low-energy nuclear reactors using Ni-Pd - hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) fusion systems. These are analogous to low energy light bulbs which replaced tungsten filament bulbs with respect to small domestic reactors using 300W electrical input and generating up to 10X power output ie 3kW heat. Recent research has demonstrated that nuclear fusion can be catalysed in H/D absorbed by Ni-Pd mesh within a pressurized stainless steel reactor vessel when stimulated by infra-red radiation. Other experimental evidence has shown that such fusion reactions are dependent on the synthesis of dense H/D clusters within or close to the surface of the Ni-Pd lattice, ultra dense (UD) forms of D or H synthesized by categories of hydrogenation or dehydrogenation catalysts eg Pt/Ir/Rh or KFeO2/ZrO2. Once synthesized UDH/D has been shown to spontaneously emit mesons, kaons which progressively decay via pions to muons which eventually decay to electrons, positrons and neutrinos/antineutrinos. Each stage of this reaction cascade is exothermic releasing the order of 100 MeV. Furthermore, high levels of negative muon densities have been measured from UDH in response to infra red laser stimulation. Such negatively charged muons have been known since the 1950's to catalyse fusion between H or D by forming muon-coupled molecules which undergo fusion due to tunneling of the Coulomb barrier caused by the 200X electron mass of the muon. Each muon is capable of catalysing the fusion of many H or D nuclei, releasing the order of several MeV at each stage of the fusion reactions. Inclusion of the appropriate UDH/D catalysts within the void of the stainless steel reactor in close apposition to the infra red source in the form of pellets is effective in prolonging excess 3 KW heat release over several weeks. Scaling up such reactors to MW power levels for generating electricity is also envisaged, higher output reactors driving steam turbines.

Don't you think LENR has gained a certain degree of credibility now considering Team Google's efforts etc? Better to face the controversy head on now rather than beat about the bush with 'anomalous heat effects' with which referees/experts advising the EU grant board are bound to smell a rat!

Quote from Alan Smith

Well, if you just want to make a point, mention it. If you want a grant, don't.

Surely they will figure out you are talking about cold fusion. Won't they? Do they want to fund it as long as it dares not speak its name?

Quote from JedRothwell

Do they want to fund it as long as it dares not speak its name?

Well you could also make the point explicit by underlying the fact that cold fusion

overcomes the Coulomb barrier

which contravenes the edicts of a generation of academic physicists

With applying for ANY grants there is a degree of politeness/politics/ savvy

that is beneficial

with free money we need to kowtow to sociological mores..

It looks like the deadline was in October and has now passed, is that correct?

Quote from Navid

It looks like the deadline was in October and has now passed, is that correct?

Where do you see this? I see the 13th of November?

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• Jul 26, 2019 12:56:49 PM

  Please note that the Director-General responsible for the call has delayed the deadline to 13 November 2019.

Most of the most famous European guys involved in Lenr field have "gathered" themselves to present a common project.

Unfortunately, their respective ego both respective ambitions make that the cake will be too small to nourish the greed of all this assembly.