I just go on Holmlid's Researchgate page from time to time to check if anything new has been posted. Last time I checked, the total publication count was 247 and today that was 249.
I follow Holmlid and some of his projects on RG, and that often means I get a notice every time he publishes or comments anything, but it seems RG Is being economic with The notifications.
Antiprotons from Ultradense Hydrogen?
"A method of producing nuclear energy from ordinary hydrogen through annihilation has been demonstrated, which is a factor of 100 more efficient than nuclear fusion: it converts around 46% of the hydrogen atom mass to recoverable energy, compared to 0.3% of the mass to energy for D + T fusion."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319921004080
Antiprotons from Ultradense Hydrogen?
In other publications the supposed process is expanded a bit more, for example here:
Antiprotons from Ultradense Hydrogen?
There is no need for anti protons to annihilate = "converts to photon energy" a proton.
The only problem with Holmlids method is the ultra high radiation level which makes it unfeasible for power production. More ideas are needed.
In the latest paper (among others) that I linked a few days ago, Holmlid argues that the neutral kaons produced by the annihilation reaction are very penetrating and do not normally interact with organic matter, partially justifying why the observed radiation levels are not as high as expected.
Holmlid argues that the neutral kaons produced by the annihilation reaction are very penetrating and do not normally interact with organic matter, partially justifying why the observed radiation levels are not as high as expected.
This is not good news!!! This only tells that the containment must start 6 meter after the production zone where the Kaon decays into the highly damaging Pions/Muons/electrons sometimes neutrons.
or not having any shielding at all (or very little shielding) and distributing the radiation over a large area, meters away from the reactor.
This is nonsense! Do you like to interact with muons 30 MeV electrons ??
would decay mostly far away from it.
Oh yes 6 meters is far...
It is worth noting that the several PhD students/postdocs around Holmlid seem all to have left the field. Some of them, such as Badiei, Patrik Andersson, and Frans Olofsson have been first authors on various aspects of superdense deuterium. If it might be possible to have simple deuterion fusion above break-even it would be extremely important in the present dire energy and climate change situation. Doon't they believe in the possibility any more?
It is worth noting that the several PhD students/postdocs around Holmlid seem all to have left the field. Some of them, such as Badiei, Patrik Andersson, and Frans Olofsson have been first authors on various aspects of superdense deuterium. If it might be possible to have simple deuterion fusion above break-even it would be extremely important in the present dire energy and climate change situation. Doon't they believe in the possibility any more?
This is an important aspect and we have wondered it also. At the moment we don’t have a precise answer but funding is probably one of the main issues, is it often the case that highly educated people has income expectatives that are hard to meet by engaging in research of controversial and not widely accepted topics.
PhD students in a hurry to get productive may not be patient enough to wait for that.
I think funding is a key factor, and Olofsson is able to continue because of this.
Another is that many of the observations rely on interpreting the results in a certain way and that's probably where disagreements may have arisen.
Again, we know from Olofsson interview with LENR-forum that he is not entirely sold on those interpretations and he is actively seeking further clarity on that aspect.
Note that (Sveinn) Ólafsson is not to be confused with (Frans) Olofson, who coauthored several papers with Holmlid before 2015.
I think funding is a key factor, and Olofsson is able to continue because of this. Again, we know from Olofsson interview with LENR-forum that he is not entirely sold on those interpretations and he is actively seeking further clarity on that aspect.
I think if the reaction could be scaled up or even just be as large as suggested in some of the recent papers (e.g. >8000 times more energy out than the laser energy into the chamber as suggested here), it would basically pay for itself.
As said: If you like the most dirty process invented ever...Then go on.
Cold fusion can be clean. Ultra hot particle fission never!
As said: If you like the most dirty process invented ever...Then go on.
Cold fusion can be clean. Ultra hot particle fission never!
cold fusion is clean because cold fusion do not create the excited state of 4He because small D2 has denser electron density between 2 d and denser electron shield the coulomb repulsive force between 2d. The heat cause stronger vibration of d-d to cause fusion by the shorter d-d distance.for this case no extra energy is needed and have a clean fusion no emission of neutron nor high energy gamma ray.
Laser fusion and Plasma fusion is a dirty because extra energy is needed to have fusion which create the excited state of 4He.
Thus cold fusion is by far better than these fusions to have extra energy to cause the excited state of 4He.
I very much think it's better to keep expectations down
Sveinn would probably agree with you. It is a great pity that Holmlid himself is for health reasons no longer able to continue his work
