ICCF-24 updates and other Anthropocene/ARPA-E news

  • Thank you Alan, I will pray for you that everything would be fine!!!

    Нефть - это кровь планеты, надо сделать модель планеты и мы получим генератор Тарасенко, эта энергия покорит вселенную! :lenr:

  • Tips for those who might want to present a poster at ICCF-24.


    Poster poser

    How do you make your posters? Academics on Twitter got into a lather last week over a tweet from design researcher Carl DiSalvo who was aghast to learn that people use PowerPoint to design posters.

    As many of those who came to PowerPoint’s defence pointed out, it might not be what the software was made for, but it does the job. It’s a choice borne of necessity and convenience: the software is ubiquitous (bundled as standard for many organisations’ IT provision so it’s effectively free for lots of students and researchers) and it’s fairly user-friendly. And by the time you reach the stage where you need to make a poster, you’re already very familiar with it – for better or worse. There are more capable tools you could use, but if you’ve never used them they will take time to learn and the finished product won’t necessarily be any better. And, above all, the goal of a poster is to communicate with others – nobody (well, almost nobody) cares how you made it.

    We’re hardwired for efficiency (or laziness, if you prefer) so we tend to rely on approaches that are proven and familiar. I happen to know that the editor of a certain chemistry news magazine used actual, physical scissors, photocopiers and glue to prepare their undergraduate presentations rather than Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, CTrl+V (and that was only 20-odd years ago). Those were quite literally the tools that were to hand. Even now, I daresay some of the ways I use spreadsheets would make an accountant blush.

    Humans, and perhaps scientists in particular, are experts at finding unintended uses for things. If, for argument’s sake, an almighty-God-creator-of-the-universe were watching what chemists get up to with atoms and electrons and molecules, I expect they’d be horrified. I can only imagine what sort of all-caps avalanche would appear in the supreme deity’s Twitter feed; if we haven’t breached the terms of our licence at the very least, I’d be amazed.

    So don’t feel slide-shamed for your poster production choices – hold your head high and read photochemist Sven Askes’ excellent thread on how to make the best use of PowerPoint for posters. And if you plan to join in with next year’s RSC Twitter poster conference, here are some tips for making posters that will look good in a tweet.

    Philip Robinson, Editor


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  • I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A 15% OFF PROMO CODE FOR MEMBERS - SADLY AFTER I BOOKED MY TICKET. ;( IF YOU WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS PLEASE EMAIL ME VIA THE FORUM> CLICK ON MY PROFILE TO DO THAT. CODE VALID TILL MAY 5th, BUT EARLY BUT EXPIRES MIDNIGHT TOMORROW

  • Alan Smith WOW

    This is huge!

    @Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann

    BIG BIG THANKS

    Cold Fusion aka Low Energy Nuclear Reactions aka Solid State Fusion is now mainstream, being endorsed by the Communications Consultant at Tokamak Energy.


    This news might elevate the terrible Cold Fusion Wikipedia site.

    As seen here, the Team Google and Nature collaboration has hurt our image at Wiki and elsewhere.

    Wiki quote Cold Fusion

    Quote

    Nevertheless, some interest in cold fusion has continued through the decades—for example, a Google-funded

    failed replication attempt

    was published in a

    2019 issue of

    Nature.[12][13]


    Melanie Windridge holding her book.

    Melanie Windridge with her book, Aurora, photographed before speaking at the Institute of Physics in London, UK, on 2 March 2016.


    gbgoblenote

    Of course my mind wonders how long Dr. Windridge has believed in cold fusion and what led to her turning point or deepening interest?


    Career

    Presently a spokesperson for the 24rh International Conference on Cold Fusion

    Wiki Edit perhaps?

    Dr. Melanie Windridge

    Career page at Wikipedia

    https en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Windridge


    Dr. Melanie Windridge graduated from Bristol University with an MSc in Physics in 2002. She spent her undergraduate third year in France at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Grenoble. In 2009 she was awarded a PhD in Plasma Physics (specialising in fusion energy) from Imperial College London.


    Her thesis discussed the vertical stability of rings of plasma in spherical tokamaks and investigated one of the consequences of the ring becoming unstable – halo currents. This research was undertaken on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. Melanie showed that MAST plasmas may be more unstable to vertical disruptions than other tokamaks due to a combination of the magnetic field structure and the lack of a close-fitting wall.[12]


    Following her PhD, Windridge was chosen as the Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges Lecturer for 2010, which launched her science communication career.[13][14] While travelling the country speaking to schools about fusion energy she wrote a collection of blogs on the subject, which were later published as an introductory book on fusion, Star Chambers: the Race for Fusion Power.


    She subsequently worked with a Swiss start-up, Iprova, making inventions for high-profile clients, with whom she has various patents.[15] She is currently named as an inventor on 8 patents for Philips spanning lighting, healthcare and medical devices.


    Windridge is an academic visitor in the Plasma Physics group of Imperial College London.


    She is an Educational Consultant for the Ogden Trust , a founder advocate and ambassador of the Your Life campaign and a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP) Stimulating Physics Network Advisory Group.


    She is also a member of the IOP Science Communicators group and Women in Physics group.


    She won the STEM Ambassador Award 2015 from Science Oxford for her outreach work with schools.[16]


    Her interests include nuclear fusion, the aurora and exploration and she is a regular speaker on these subjects.[17][18]


    In 2013 she embarked on a series of trips to the Arctic investigating the history, the science and the landscapes of the northern lights.


    Windridge climbed Mount Everest in Spring 2018, reaching the summit on 21 May.[19]


    She is currently the Communications Consultant at Tokamak Energy.

  • Thanks Greg. I sometimes get too busy to dig into everything posted here. In this case even what Alan posts, so I missed the significance. The LF staff has been trying to explain how important this ICCF is, being at the center of the tech and investor world, but this one very smart lady making a video in support of the ICCF just helps us in so many ways!

  • Melanie the Mountain Climber.


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  • Alan Smith

    Changed the title of the thread from “ICCF-24 EARLY-BIRD Discount Ends Today + Promo” to “ICCF-24 EARLY-BIRD price ended, but members Promo available”.

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