ARPA-E looking for "Teaming Partners" UPDATE

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Teaming Partners (energy.gov)

The "Team Partners" list has some new entrants, with a total now of 39. Interesting in that 3 of them are Chinese groups. We are not suited to discuss the geopolitical implications of science funding and partnerships, so I will not go there. I do see also that, along with Alan S., we have another LF Staffer throwing his hat in the ring:

Universidad de Tarapacá - Departamento de Química

Camilo Urbina

Academic

Other Energy Technologies

Small research team with skills and capabilities for Chemical analysis in aqueous solutions. As a Team partner for the LENR FOA, our Research is focused in potentially Ultrasound LENRs induced, applied to treatment of aqueous solutions for environmental impact reduction of natura or anthropogenic contamination.

Thanks, I sent the request and had not checked, good to know that got listed there now.

Shane D.

Moderator Listen, my last name isn't there or what....

No- your name isn't there. Did you apply? It normally takes a few days to be added to the list if they approve your membership.

What about ITER in Europe?

under the "Broader Approach"

Open Call for Fusion Technology Transfer Demonstrator Proposals – F4E Technology Transfer Marketplace

BROADER APPROACH

perhaps 35000 will match the salaries of the Evaluation Panel?

"

1.Information about the Call
A proposal for a Technology Transfer Demonstrator project (Demonstrator Proposal)
shall present a workplan showing how the candidate intends to tackle the challenges
of further using a technology, know-how, or skill developed within the fusion field under
F4E activities to non-fusion applications, where there is a strong commercial or societal
benefit and there is a clear technical risk that can be eliminated.

The Demonstrator Proposal may refer to the development and testing of new hardware, manufacturing
processes, software, technical solutions related to an F4E project (the ITER project
and the Broader Approach project) and with the objective of being effectively used
outside the fusion field.

Priority is given to projects where there is a clear non-fusion commercial application
with a customer group with defined needs, and for whom the demonstrator may be
used to gain commercial traction. The amount of funding available for the technology
transfer demonstrator project means that it must be efficiently managed with a clear
definition of the technical risk to be tackled. NOTE: “Technology transfer”
encompasses the further use of a fusion technology (know-how, manufacturing
processes, methodologies, software, systems, etc.) for which a non-fusion application
is proposed.
The application period runs between 5th of October 2022 and 17th of February 2023.

The Evaluation Panel of the call for proposals will select one project

to be funded with 35.000 EURO

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The Evaluation Panel of the call for proposals will select one project

to be funded with 35.000 EURO

A reward for one of their associates? I suspect (because I am suspicious) they already know the winner.

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I am suspicious)

Me too... It might be not worth the trouble to even apply..

"They have also told me about illegally modified contracts (job description, grade etc),

https://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/iter/MC/Claessens-Report-EN-20220322.pdf

A 35Ke project, what is this joke ?

For that money and with those goals, we could teach people how to use the powerful electromagnets of a Tokamak reactor to bend steel bars in funny ways to make souvenirs for people to raise awareness of “how important Fusion Research is”.

If they start joking, they enable us to follow joking.

I suspect that the prize winning commercial roll-out of ITER could be 'how to raise Billions by using misleading PR.'

Why the DOE is Funding “Cold Fusion”

Why the DOE is Funding “Cold Fusion”

An exploration into exploratory physics is reported

medium.com

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It’s worth pointing out that there is little evidence indicating anyone in the LENR community is looking into using magnetic fields to enhance their Helium products. If Williams’ theory is correct they should, especially if using lattice confinement approaches, be able to put a regular commercial magnet next to the material and see an increase in helium fusion products."

Oh yes they did, well I did manage to persuade Russ to try it and it worked.-

Spin alignment even works for classic nuclear reactions.

This enhances the reaction rate, it exists many papers in this way.

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Oh yes they did, well I did manage to persuade Russ to try it and it worked.-

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Oh yes they did, well I did manage to persuade Russ to try it and it worked.-

Yes they did it.

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Oh yes they did, well I did manage to persuade Russ to try it and it worked.-

How do you know it worked?

Dutch Cooperation?

The visit of the Dutch nuclear physicist, Prof. C. J.

Bakker, to Argentina last year was mistakenly attributed

to a desire to have him observe the Richter achievements.

Although he visited the Heumul laboratories, he has never

publicly commented on them.

The principal reason for Bakker’s visit, however, and

one never made public, was that Holland was planning

to sell nuclear equipment to Argentina. This plan may

still go through, and it will more than likely be for the

reputable Buenos Aires laboratories and not for the

Richter establishment in Heumul.

Richter’s project, in which he claimed to have developed

a thermonuclear reaction, is practically entirely discounted

by recognized Argentine physicists. They say that, if

anything, he is using the Cockcroft process, first described

in 1932, which uses protons on lithium targets, with the

lithium converted into helium plus energy. Richter has

said he is using an Argentine material, and Argentina is a

producer of lithium.

Quote from Ahlfors

Dutch Cooperation?

The visit of the Dutch nuclear physicist, Prof. C. J.

Bakker, to Argentina last year was mistakenly attributed

to a desire to have him observe the Richter achievements.

Although he visited the Heumul laboratories, he has never

publicly commented on them.

The principal reason for Bakker’s visit, however, and

one never made public, was that Holland was planning

to sell nuclear equipment to Argentina. This plan may

still go through, and it will more than likely be for the

reputable Buenos Aires laboratories and not for the

Richter establishment in Heumul.

Richter’s project, in which he claimed to have developed

a thermonuclear reaction, is practically entirely discounted

by recognized Argentine physicists. They say that, if

anything, he is using the Cockcroft process, first described

in 1932, which uses protons on lithium targets, with the

lithium converted into helium plus energy. Richter has

said he is using an Argentine material, and Argentina is a

producer of lithium.

[... and web link https://www.cia.gov/readingroo…dp83-00415r009900030011-7 is wrong]

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That entire episode is shrowded in intrigue and deceit. Richter was hired by Peron at the behest of a German advisor who was an aeronautic engineer and involved in the development of the German jet fighter (and later in the first Argentinian Jet), that knew Richter since they worked together for the Fuhrer. Richter was a very paranoic man and never really let anyone else know what he was doing exactly. The huge expense of the project and the heavy water plant he asked and Peron paid for, along with his impossible to work with personality, ultimately made him fall from grace with Peron and he was "let go", and later Peron himself fell from grace with the Argentinians because they stopped believing his vision of Argentina as a developped and technological power. Richter died in the late 1980s and was considered a crazy reclusive person by most people that met him on those final years.

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