The Design of Low Energy Nuclear Battery

@Curbina,

I would like to know how they were built to extract energy. Those will be good hints to go forward!

@Frogfall,

A few days ago, I just bought a domain name “LENB.org” for the open-source site.

@Alan Smith,

Thank you for providing valuable information. I am very impressed by how quickly I can move forward with my project here. I will carefully read through the information provided and will contact them if we are able to create batteries.

With this increased level of confidence, I am now optimistic that we can successfully develop batteries using LENR technology.

Thank you again!

@Curbina,

Thank you, I came across this thread. It is a fascinating discussion! This patent is quite close to what I had in mind.

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https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2012088472A1/en

I was delighted to discover a patent provided by @Curbina that claims "methods for generating non-ionizing radiation or non-ionizing He-4 by contacting a graphene material with a source of deuterium." After carefully studying the patent, I was surprised by the significant differences between it and my own ideas. While there are some similarities in our approaches, the patent describes a distinct process that leads to the production of different products: electricity through negative beta decay, or non-ionizing radiation and helium.

Unlike the patent, my method for generating negative beta decay uses H-2, which is not useful in the patent. Non-ionizing radiation is intended to function as a heating device to stimulate the P-P chain. Helium is viewed as a byproduct. Conversely, both methods involve the use of graphenes (contacting graphenes with hydrogen isotopes) and the generation of LENR (defined as "local nuclear fusion" in the patent), although our desired reactions differ.

The patent did not provide evidence for the generation of electricity, but it does suggest that graphene can facilitate fusion at lower energy levels. This information might be valuable for future experiments. Furthermore, the patent's experimental procedures using graphene may also be beneficial for further research.

In conclusion, I appreciate the opportunity to learn from this patent and look forward to applying these insights in my own work or someone else's.

@Diadon Acs, @Wyttenbach,

Over twenty years ago, I considered the possibility of using carbon nanotubes to control the motion of hydrogen atoms, leading to hot fusion effectively. At that time, I was not familiar with the term 'graphene'. After learning about graphene later on, I recognized that stacking multiple layers of graphene could serve as a simpler and more affordable means to achieve our goal, even though its 2D structure differs from the 1D structure of CNTs.

Last autumn, I began considering what structure would be best for producing carbon-based structures using our knowledge of THz plasmons. Actually my initial idea was to use fullerenes in MHD. I thought that protons could enter the fullerene and fuse, or that moving the plasma ball made from fullerenes might create a straight line of negative charge due to its motion at high temperatures. However, in the end, I concluded that graphene layers are the best option

I believe that the plasmonic field patterns can be changed by either the number of layers or the THz frequency. However, calculating these patterns may still be challenging. As such, it may be more practical to begin by studying the behavior of a single layer by varying temperature and gas pressure. If you are planning to use Canon's THz source, which has a peak at approximately 0.45 THz, you could consider tilting the graphene sheet so that the longer wavelength fits within the graphene cells. Monitoring the electrical output would be a useful way to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach without THz monitor.

When you achieve 100% repeatability in generating electricity through fusion, you will be asked to use the real laboratory by the government . For safety reasons, it's best to start with lower parameters to establish a lower energy field. Moreover, I believe that there exists an energy gap between PP-chain and CNO cycles. If you can find this gap at least on a single layer, you may develop the first stable LENR battery

@Wyttenbach,

When we observe CNTs have collapsed after undergoing cold fusion, I believe it does not necessarily indicate that released neutrons have struck them, but rather that their structure has been compromised due to transmutation. This viewpoint is not yet widely accepted, but cold fusion involves weak interactions, in my opinion.

@Wyttenbach, @Cydonia

Honestly, I have been working on my thesis about cold fusion for two months now and I am still hesitant to disclose my intuitive ideas easily.

Although my ideas may seem unconventional to the experts here, I believe that the CNO cycle could also be *mostly* involved in cold fusion. Specifically, I propose that the process of proton capture occurs indirectly through the absorption of one electron by the proton, which then undergoes fusion with the target nuclei (12-C, 13-C, 14-N and 15-N) without releasing neutrons. And there is no chance to be 14-C.

Please allow me to explain my imagination about the behavior of non-ionized hydrogens on a plasmonic surface.

I believe that the protons share potential energy with the surrounding free electrons, resulting in a state similar to that of an alpha particle affected by stopping power. In simpler terms, the protons transfer their kinetic energy to the free electrons, causing them to be emitted as Auger-like electrons. If the protons remain within the plasmons, they will eventually lose all their kinetic energy and only retain potential energy. However, if some protons become stuck on the plasmonic surface, they may capture more electrons with greater probability, leading to the formation of neutrons.

This state is a balance between ionized and non-ionized, which can occur at lower energies on the plasmonic surface. Neutrons in this context are relatively calm, similar to the predictions of the W-L theory.

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at maximum can only reach 15Ev...

According to Wikipedia, plasmons can transmit information up to a frequency of 100 THz. Does this suggest that protons on their surface may be subject to greater dynamic effects?

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What for you looks like proton capture is in reality proton spallation as e.g. the addition of 16MeV (H*-H*) is not possible to lower Z nuclei!

In my previous posts, there may have been a term that could have been interpreted in a way that wasn't intended. I apologize for using the incorrect term "proton capture."

To clarify, I would like to use simpler language to define LENR and provide an explanation of the CN cycle in LENR, which bypasses some process taken place in CNO cycle of hot fusion.

In LENR, it is actually neutron capture that occurs. To define LENR, we can say that it involves two simultaneous reactions following electron capture. An important new aspect of this process is the occurrence of a weak interaction during neutron capture, which results in the release of energy from the mass deficit through the emission of electrons and antineutrinos (e&a). This is an extension of the neutron-neutron fusion process described in my paper.

To illustrate the LENR process, let me draw a revised CN cycle. Instead of the normal pathway involving CNO cycle, LENR takes place through the following sequence:

12-C + n -> 13-C

13-C + n -> 14-N + e&a

14-N + n -> 15-N

15-N + n -> 12-C + 4-He + e&a