The upcoming ICCF 24 Congress will be exciting. We are going to talk about serious matters, and not about castles in the air. Solid patents, competent teams of engineers and scientists, it is truly the industrial era of LENR that is on its way.
A new epoch is opening up before us.
The Google Team is using an 'Optometrist' type Artificial Intelligence "scientist" to accelerate CMNS reactor development... likely since early on.
ACCELERATING THE DISCOVERY OF NEW MATERIALS
We are combining robotics and machine learning tools to build the world’s first automated materials synthesis platform. This artificially-intelligent materials scientist, “Ada”, will help us rapidly discover new materials to address important challenges in a variety of fields. Our primary focus is the development of advanced clean energy materials and technologies.
Meet ADA
Link http://www.projectada.ca/
Our Approach
CURTIS P. BERLINGUETTE
Bio
Curtis Berlinguette – Curtis P. Berlinguette Research Group
PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, STEWART BLUSSON QUANTUM MATTER INSTITUTE
CIFAR FELLOW
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY
Prof. Berlinguette is a CIFAR Director, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering and Principal Investigator at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Berlinguette completed his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at Texas A&M University and postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. He started his independent career in the Department of Chemistry and The Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy at the University of Calgary in 2006 before moving his program to the University of British Columbia in 2013. His expertise lies in accelerating the discovery and deployment of clean energy technologies, including CO2 utilization technologies and smart windows. His program also likes to work on high risk, high impact clean energy projects like cold fusion.
Prof. Berlinguette has been recognized with several awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. When Dr. Berlinguette is not on campus, you can likely find him cycling up or snowboarding down the local mountains.
Team Google CMNS energy tech at Berlinguette Research Group, British Columbia.
Self-driving Laboratory for Accelerated Discovery of Thin-film Materials
B. P. MACLEOD
F. G. L. PARLANE
C. P. BERLINGUETTE
SCIENCE ADVANCES
13 May 2020
Vol 6, Issue 20
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz8867
Abstract
Discovering and optimizing commercially viable materials for clean energy applications typically takes more than a decade. Self-driving laboratories that iteratively design, execute, and learn from materials science experiments in a fully autonomous loop present an opportunity to accelerate this research process. We report here a modular robotic platform driven by a model-based optimization algorithm capable of autonomously optimizing the optical and electronic properties of thin-film materials by modifying the film composition and processing conditions. We demonstrate the power of this platform by using it to maximize the hole mobility of organic hole transport materials commonly used in perovskite solar cells and consumer electronics. This demonstration highlights the possibilities of using autonomous laboratories to discover organic and inorganic materials relevant to materials sciences and clean energy technologies.
Fantasy that IT, IA, 2.0 field will solve will discover everything...
Display MoreTeam Google CMNS energy tech at Berlinguette Research Group, British Columbia.
Self-driving Laboratory for Accelerated Discovery of Thin-film Materials
B. P. MACLEOD
F. G. L. PARLANE
C. P. BERLINGUETTE
SCIENCE ADVANCES
13 May 2020
Vol 6, Issue 20
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz8867
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz8867
Abstract
Discovering and optimizing commercially viable materials for clean energy applications typically takes more than a decade. Self-driving laboratories that iteratively design, execute, and learn from materials science experiments in a fully autonomous loop present an opportunity to accelerate this research process. We report here a modular robotic platform driven by a model-based optimization algorithm capable of autonomously optimizing the optical and electronic properties of thin-film materials by modifying the film composition and processing conditions. We demonstrate the power of this platform by using it to maximize the hole mobility of organic hole transport materials commonly used in perovskite solar cells and consumer electronics. This demonstration highlights the possibilities of using autonomous laboratories to discover organic and inorganic materials relevant to materials sciences and clean energy technologies.
Cydonia Be assured Ada is a tool being used by researchers, not the other way around.
Whether or not it's fantasy or the virtual world of Google, in reality this is what tbe Google Inc. 'cold fusion' LENR Condensed Matter Nuclear Science team is doing with Ada.
This is what Google did with Optometrist and Tri Alpha Energy. 25July2017Nature
Achievement of Sustained Net Plasma Heating in a Fusion Experiment with the Optometrist Algorithm
Inventor(s)
Thomas Schenkel
Ross Koningstein
Peter Seidl
Arun Persaud
Qing Ji
David K. Fork
Matthew D. Trevithick
Curtis Berlinguette
Philip A. Schauer
Benjamin P. MacLeod
Biography of the lead inventor
Source UC Berkeley
Thomas Schenkel is a physicist and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he is the
Program Head for Fusion Science and Ion Beam Technology in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division.
Thomas received his PhD in physics from the Goethe University in Frankfurt. Following time as a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he joined Berkeley Lab in 2000.
His research interests include novel accelerator concepts, materials far from equilibrium, exploration of fusion processes, and spin qubit architectures.
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A study of his patent history lends insight.
"Source-to-accelerator quadrupole matching section for a compact linear accelerator"
Abstract
Recently, we presented a new approach for a compact radio-frequency (RF) accelerator structure and demonstrated the functionality of the individual components: acceleration units and focusing elements. In this paper, we combine these units to form a working accelerator structure: a matching section between the ion source extraction grids and the RF-acceleration unit and electrostatic focusing quadrupoles between successive acceleration units. The matching section consists of six electrostatic quadrupoles (ESQs) fabricated using 3D-printing techniques. The matching section enables us to capture more beam current and to match the beam envelope to conditions for stable transport in an acceleration lattice. We present data from an integrated accelerator consisting of the source, matching section, and an ESQ doublet sandwiched between two RF-acceleration units.
Long before Pons and Fleischman, a Navy researcher coined the term molecular cyclotron when researching biological transmutation of elements. The nuclear reactive environment of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, found in the Google patent, includes high energy physics on a nano scale; fission, fusion and other transmutation pathways. The GEC patent as well. Nano physics is new physics. Nano particle accelerator (cyclotron), nano confinement through mechanical and electromagnet effects of layers of lattice structures in thin films or semiconductor - like substrates. All this is food for thought. What would temperature as hot as the sun condensed to a spot as small as a hydrogen atom look like? Within a solid or between two OR MORE solid layers diffused with isotopes of hydrogen? Perhaps "hot and cold fusion" as surmised at NASA LCF.
Properly constructed and stimulated this environment unleashes nuclear dense energies... in ways unique to CMNS.
A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, hence the name Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. This is where nano particle accelerators have been developed by the lead inventor of the Google/DoE patent. Seems fitting, another, more advanced, cyclotron out of Berkeley almost a hundred years later. An interdisciplinary study, this work is coordinated out of an office in the Bechtel Engineering Center.
Perspective and relativity...
UC Berkeley
Bechtel Engineering Center
Built 1980. Named for Stephen D. Bechtel, who attended Berkeley before taking the reins of the Bechtel engineering empire. It houses the Kresge Engineering Library, Sibley Auditorium, and student and interdisciplinary studies offices.
A bit of relevant history for consideration.
An article by a Bechtel employee and an article by the leaders of the Google CMNS advanced energy conversion tech team.
A notable talk at ICCF5...
A Development Approach for Cold Fusion
by Bruce Klein ICCF5 paper # 613.
A Notable Talk at ICCF5... A Development Approach for Cold Fusion
Abstract:
A plan is presented for the investigation and development of the cold fusion effect, ultimately leading to implementation of commercial devices. The plan represents a methodical approach for identifying and addressing theoretical, scientific, engineering, and economic concerns. The plan is presented from the perspective of a large architect/engineering corporation which performs work in established energy industries and which is not currently involved in cold fusion. The plan consists of a number of phases designed to establish the corporation's level and method of involvement in the field. The phased plan provides a number of decision points; at each decision point a commitment to a higher level of funding is made on the basis of additional information which has been generated by the plan to that point. In this way, the corporation can control its financial outlay, yet funding is appropriate so that pursuit of the plan is not hampered.
12. Summary
The potential impact of cold fusion on a company currently involved in the energy industry is too great to ignore. If a phased approach is used, in which each phase represents an increment of financial and technical involvement, the company can minimize its financial exposure while still establishing a favorable competitive position. The benefits of such a plan are further enhanced if the company pursues this work in cooperation with others already involved in the field.
18Nov2014
"What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change - Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will?" By Ross Koningstein and David Fork https://spectrum.ieee.org/ener…to-reverse-climate-change
Quote
A disruptive fusion technology, for example, might skip the steam and produce high-energy charged particles that can be converted directly into electricity.
Also noteworthy
Fortunately, new discoveries are changing the way we think about physics, nanotechnology, and biology all the time. While humanity is currently on a trajectory to severe climate change, this disaster can be averted if researchers aim for goals that seem nearly impossible. - end quotes
If you can pay the big bucks, and are smart enough, your application stands out and you get accepted into the University of California, Berkeley
Great place. They are leaders in advanced 'cold fusion' research, working with top organizations like Google Inc. and the US Department of Energy. Together, they hold an advanced CMNS energy technology patent application.
Yet sadly, if a UC student finds these facts here at the Forum and then looks to see what more can be learned about this from the University of California, the old cold fusion outdated story/information posted below is all they will find.
I search there weekly, hoping to catch it when UC finally decides to bring the general student body up to date on the science of cold fusion at UC Berkeley. So far no good... terrible. If Berkeley is your alma mater asking for a donation let them know what you think should be done about this sad state.
For review... (good story, horribly outdated, not of a high caliber at all) and find whether it is misleading or not
The truth is...
There is plenty of high quality international collaborative cold fusion research at UC (a continuation of Pons and Fleischmann's work), with an extensive team having a broad range of expertise and skills.
Quote from UC by the Understanding Science Team
- Unfortunately, the benefits of collaboration were not enough to persuade Pons and Fleischmann to work with Jones' group. Pons and Fleischmann were convinced that Jones had used details gathered from their grant application to get his experiment running. They refused to collaborate — and in so doing, missed an opportunity to expand the expertise of their team. - end quotes
"Cold fusion: A Case Study for Scientific Behavior"
by the Understanding Science team
The Anthropocene Institute poses the question:
Ha Ha Ha! The JET laboratory in Oxford can now boil 20 Kettles with their shiny new Tokomak! Its all top secret so how does everybody know about it? They are obviously seeking further governmental funding even though they are light-years behind LENR! 
The Berlinguette foursome know nothing of LENR! Don't they look cute like a modern-day pop band! KONSTRUKTIVISTS rule OK?
he Berlinguette foursome know nothing of LENR!
That was 2019.. on the reputation-risky wild side ..
.now they are back in their mediocre chemistry comfort zone
with a palladium 'membrane' to deuterate organic molecules,
wimps!
As we expected with their massive resources Team Google are making rapid progress - but unfortunately for them there is masses of 'prior art' in the LENR field so I think it is too late for them to patent this.
Thanks. I had not seen this before. I did not know they nicknamed themselves "Team Cold Fusion". Interesting choice considering the field has tried so hard to rename it LENR, because of the stigma associated with CF.
they nicknamed themselves "Team Cold Fusion".
seems the CF boy band of 4 got cold feet after May 29, 2019.
LENR is a more durable term ...300C isn't very cold any way
