What is the current state of LENR?

  • The experiments of Lipinski brothers thus clearly demonstrate, that cold fusion depends on collinear arrangement of surface atoms, because this arrangement is the only phase which appears within temperature range observed.

    In CF magnetic flux must align to be able to join a new orbit = bond. So you need a strong ordering force either by using a strong magnet, a directed electric flux (Lipinski) or a surface catalyst. Not much else left...

  • The magnet link to cold fusion I discuss elsewhere in connection with thin heterostructures. Arrangement of Lipinski fusion is very simplistic and clean: nothing but protons and molten lithium in vacuum, no other secondary metals, ad hoced structures etc.. The protons are supposed to impact perpendicularly to surface of lithium along the lines of surface atoms, and Lipinsky already reports fusion yield ~ 60%, so I don't see the way, how magnetic field could substantially improve this already excellent yield.


    The thing is, Lipinski fusion requires 5000 Volts, but it runs smoothly and reproducibly, can be started and shut down immediately without any risk of runaway and it consumes 60% of material input. One can eliminate remaining 5.000 Volts by some intriguing solid state system relying on lattice Mossbaer effects and similar esoteric phenomena - but why exactly, when we can improve energy yield by only less than 0.1% and material yield would be much worse? Not to say, that this arrangement generates electricity directly: large portion of energy comes in form of accelerated alpha particles.

  • The experiments of Lipinski brothers thus clearly demonstrate, that cold fusion depends on collinear arrangement of surface atoms, because this arrangement is the only phase which appears within temperature range observed. And it's absolutely dominant condition, because once this ordered structure disappears, then the cold fusion doesn't run even in much higher energies and voltage gradients.


    Which plays well with both observations both with many other theories of cold fusion, which for example require spiral dislocations within nickel whiskers (Piantelli) or palladium nanocracks (Ed Storms), i.e special mechanical treatment (Ennea lab). Once palladium quenches itself, then its dislocations heal itself and it never passes through spontaneous cold fusion again (Fleischman & Pons). This is because metal atoms within dislocations are constrained with mechanical stress and they get arranged more orderly there than atoms within bulk crystal, where they wiggle more freely. It also explains why fusion at cold temperatures in palladium runs better than at room temperatures (Storms), because the atoms wiggle less there.

    My opinion (as related mathematically to theory in my prior post) is that the dislocations are required to form waveguides to collect specific energies of light required to form UDH clusters.


    A waveguide is not required to form UDH. UDH can form without a material matrix. The light combines with the electrons and hydrogen anions in a multibody interaction. That interaction repeatedly combines several low energy exchange photons into one higher energy exchange photon. The Mev energy is preferable transferred to both the target and projectile via weak isospin. The exchange of energy within the target via weak isospin causes an energy based rather than mass based form of gravity, fusion follows. LENR can produce elements previously thought to be produced only in supernova because the gravity is that intense. An electric arc in a hydrogen containing liquid or gas can form UDH clusters.


    There are many reports of this kind of transmutation of elements: see MFMP or sonication/cavitation studies of water. Thin film electrolysis produces new elements above and below that of metal coating. Typical yields produce elements in mass bands A = 22-23, 50-80, 103-120 and 200-210. Mass bands occur in an order fashion based on a magic number sequence identified by Hora. Little high-energy radiation is produced but lower energy (around 20 keV) X-ray and/or beta emission is present. See ICCF-7.

  • The experiments of Lipinski brothers thus clearly demonstrate, that cold fusion depends on collinear arrangement of surface atoms, because this arrangement is the only phase which appears within temperature range observed. And it's absolutely dominant condition, because once this ordered structure disappears, then the cold fusion doesn't run even in much higher energies and voltage gradients.


    Which plays well with both observations both with many other theories of cold fusion, which for example require spiral dislocations within nickel whiskers (Piantelli) or palladium nanocracks (Ed Storms), i.e special mechanical treatment (Ennea lab). Once palladium quenches itself, then its dislocations heal itself and it never passes through spontaneous cold fusion again (Fleischman & Pons). This is because metal atoms within dislocations are constrained with mechanical stress and they get arranged more orderly there than atoms within bulk crystal, where they wiggle more freely. It also explains why fusion at cold temperatures in palladium runs better than at room temperatures (Storms), because the atoms wiggle less there.

    It's time to recall the Coulomb barrier in the approximation of three nuclei, which is several orders of magnitude smaller than the Coulomb barrier of paired collisions of nuclei.

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    My opinion (as related mathematically to theory in my prior post) is that the dislocations are required to form waveguides to collect specific energies of light required to form UDH clusters.

    Coulomb barrier for fusion is 8 MeV. Lipinsky fusion runs with 5 keV within molten lithium, it means linear arrangement of atoms itself is capable to cut 99,9% of Coulomb barrier with no dislocations. In addition it runs with 60% efficiency, which means it runs proton by proton, without any intermediate dense hydrogen phase. Maybe these effects are capable to cut the remaining 5 keV of Coulomb barrier, so that cold fusion can occasionally run at comfortable room temperatures - but apparently this isn't the main contributory effect here.


    Other than that, I'm aware of Widom-Larsen theory and dense neutron/heavy electron mechanism, and these effects are all relevant to Lipinski fusion, but there isn't too much space for some dense hydrogen phase.

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    It's time to recall the Coulomb barrier in the approximation of three nuclei, which is several orders of magnitude smaller than the Coulomb barrier of paired collisions of nuclei.

    Yep - now it's time to ask, what makes linear arrangement of atoms so spectacular in overcoming of Coulomb barrier? This simple arrangement leads to plethora of derived anomalous effects, many of which weren't considered for cold fusion at all. Astroblaster, i.e. 1D lattice Mossbauer effect is just one of them.


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  • 100 ev is very difficult to get down to in 'similar' experiments'

    Schenkel et al 2019 working for Google got down to 2000 Ev

    yielding unexpected enhancement

    however LENR is thought not produce neutrons

    but certainly something unexpected is going on...

    Thomas Schenkel expressed interest in going further down. than 2KeV

    . but the Berkeley Lab instruments cost a bit to run,,, technicians etc

    and there is the standard SM MeV,,,GeV work to do

    "

    Berlinguette et al. [36] reported failure in some

    experiment’s replication but the same team (funded by Google)

    found that neutron yields in deuterated Palladium for ions with

    less than 2 keV are two orders of magnitude larger than current

    models predict :

    note the purple emphasis to assist reading 2=2,k=1000, 2k =2000 :)

    Preliminary survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory
    Since 1989 the announcement of “cold fusion” by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann, “cold fusion” field has been surrounded by controversy. After thre…
    www.sciencedirect.com


  • Solid State Energy Summit

    Anthropocene are still big supporters and proponents of LENR of course, and make many mention of it in the newsletter,

    In the newsletter:

    The Anthropocene team

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    The field of Solid State Energy (aka Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) or cold fusion)

    Also

    ...we are the host and organizer of the ICCF24 conference, which is co-located with the Solid State Energy Summit. - end quotes


    SOLID STATE ENERGY SUMMIT


    Never heard of it so I looked.


    Seems to be the first summit.


    No results found for "solid state energy summit" in quotes.
    Results for solid state energy summit (without quotes)


    gbgoblenote- all the rest are battery technology conferences.


    My hunch this new 'Solid State Energy Summit' will bring us exciting developments and announcements...


    The name is evocative of ??????


    Note

    Solid State has a long history in this art of science and describes lattice, thin film and other contemporary 'solid' CMNS energy tech systems.


    1989 Chubb

    Distributed bosonic states and condensed-matter fusion. Final report, April-September 1989

    Distributed bosonic states and condensed-matter fusion. Final report, April-September 1989 (Technical Report) | OSTI.GOV

    Introduction

    This paper discusses a concept of solid state fusion based on the formation of a D3 boson Bloch condensate (BBC) within a palladium deuteride host lattice. Evidence for such solid state fusion has been presented by Fleischmann and Pons, who have described episodic generation of anomalous heat in Pd cathodes following extended overvoltage electrolysis of Li OD solutions. Other evidence for solid state nuclear interactions in Pd DJ

    includes the observations of surface hydrogen isotopic anomalies in Pd cathodes subsequent to such electrolysis" and the possible observation of a small number of 20+ Mev energy release events in a Si charged-particle detector adjacent to a Pd electrode charged with D+ ions by ion implantation.


    1990


    https://www.technology.matthey.com › ...

    “Solid-State Fusion” Effects - Johnson Matthey Technology ...

    The “Solid-State Fusion” or “Cold Fusion” phenomenon, including excess heat generation and the production of nuclear particles...

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    The highest Q factor is seen with 100eV. Q factor = energy in/out!

    This has nothing to do with magnetic field and spin of course - but simply with fact, that lower energy input always brings higher yield.


    Anyway, the intriguing question is, why the output energy should change, when we change the input energy? The energy of nuclear reaction should be independent on energy which triggers it. I guess, it would have something to do with unidimensional mechanism - again. If we strike line of billiard balls stronger, then more balls will collide along single line and they will create environment, which would allow release of fusion alpha particles with higher speed..


    At any case, there is no apparent saturation of this effect for 100 eV energy and the particle count looks pretty uniform all across whole voltage range.

  • BTW If Lipinski fusion runs at 100 eV, then it's already cold fusion. At low proton energies resulting alpha particles get absorbed absorbed with lithium more and less electricity will be generated into account of heat. Wyttenbach's data show, how reproducible this experiment actually is. It demonstration cold fusion experiment for textbooks so to say.

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