Quote from Shane D.

Did LU and Alexandrov ever receive EU funding for this work? Ahlfors posted a link back in Jan that showed them part of the project, but $0 funding. Just curious.

I don't think funding outside the EU is allowed since this is payed by EU taxpayers.

Zero funding was clear from the start (see bottom of the page link).

They probably perform this research with closed wallets to gain en provide knowledge. Could be a win-win therefore without any funding.

[EDIT] in addition it could be that they exchange services with the EU participants with no money involved.

Think of preparation of nanomaterials, provide dedicated measurement equipment and services.

Quote from teppo

LU researcher publishes experimental research on sustainable energy

Important to emphasize: Lakehead University contributes the the EU-funded CleanHME project.

Conclusions from the paper (released in December 2020):

Experimental evidences about low-energy nuclear fusion reactions in Pd nanowires and in Mo solid metal are provided in this article. The evidences consider release of both synthesized ⁴He and synthesized ³He in interaction of deuterium gas with the above materials. The provided evidence about release of helium gas in these interactions are two types—mass spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy data. In addition, heat release in Mo specimen is reported as outcome of low-energy nuclear fusion reaction. It is determined that the released amount of the synthesized ³He increases with increase of both the temperature of the specimen and the kinetic energy of the deuterium particles. No radiation in terms of both neutron emission and gamma ray emission was measured in the experiments.

Quote from barty

BTW: The mizunotech website now offers some small introduction videos:

https://mizunotech.com/

Seems like they are making solid progress

I would like to see some confirmation from Mizuno-san himself.

The claimed partner is Daniel Gruenberg, also active here at LF as Daniel_G .

His post, mainly at the Clean Planet update thread, claimed important updates and several legal claims earlier. I haven't seen any of such updates yet. The youtube video which today was posted says basically nothing without substantial confirmations.

Quote from can

Several months ago Russ George mentioned prof. Micheal Boudart in this regard, who had similar ideas. Scroll down to "Spillover Hydrogen – Ultra-Liquid Hydrogen" here: http://atom-ecology.russgeorge…s-and-where-to-find-them/

The company Catalytica Associates, Inc., Micheal Boudart founded, patented several processes for the production of urethanes. Looks like similar stuff that Shell developed as Shell S-105 catalyst. Something Holmlid used to produce UDD and UDH.

can

The video shown above shows mainly glow discharge rather than sparks, so indeed in such setup spark initiated cavitation is not likely.

The downwards directed 'sprites' show a peculiar effect. Seems that the big floating gas bubbles are formed in the sprites area below the tungsten tip. This could be recombined H atoms to H₂. The violet glow is clearly hydrogen plasma.

can

Inspired by another discussion thread I wonder whether cavitation voids caused by discharge through sparks play a role at plasma electrolysis. Such cavitation voids could cause a very high mechanical impact at the surface of electrodes, causing phonons that compress the metal lattice which contains absorbed hydrogen atoms. Did you ever consider this possible mechanism to be causing transmutations in plasma electrolysis?

Quote from Rob Woudenberg

Method and arrangement for heat recovery by means of cavitation and their combination with other excitation methods

It is probably the phonons within the Pt lattice that play a crucial role, compressing high density deuterium atoms together.

I wonder whether it would be more effective to mount the ultrasound actuator directly on the Pt electrode instead.

The advantage of doing so is that it is also much easier to tune the construction such that resonance occurs which causes less required input energy and higher compression force amplitudes.

The relevant patent application by Dieter Seeliger and Bernhard Krieg:

Method and arrangement for heat recovery by means of cavitation and their combination with other excitation methods

(this is the Google translation of the original patent application written in German language)

No mentioning of Helium and/or transmutations (probably on purpose).

Mind the list of non-patent citations (e.g. one of Holmlid !) and cited patent (applications).

Abstract:

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for heat generation by means of cavitation in aqueous media from exothermic, metal grid-supported, electromagnetic reactions of hydrogen as fuel. Furthermore, the invention relates to a suitable choice of material for the process, the advantageous combination of cavitation with electrolysis, gas discharge and catalytic recombination and the control and control of the processes. An arrangement shown in Figure 4 shows an example of the application of the method as a compact, portable small system. Ultrasound is generated in the piezoelectric generator 5, passed through the emitter 6 in the Kavitationsmedium 7 and triggers cavitation. Target 8, emitter 6 and cavitation medium 7 serve simultaneously as electrolysis cell in-situ to support the exothermic reactions. The end face of the target 8 forms with counter electrode 20, dielectric 19 and gas discharge space 18 a chamber in which the cathode gas 26 flows through a DBD discharge as a post-reaction. In the recombiner 17, the catalytic recombination of cathode gas 26 and anode gas 27 to water takes place.

Quote from Wyttenbach

A new German site doing sono fusion.

What site are you referring to?

The link included in your post links to ResearchGate.

can

The patent applications you referred to leads to it's assignee Ti Co., Ltd.

Ti Co., Ltd. holds quite a lot of patent applications that mostly relate to hydrogen production methods, but there is at least also one that relates to transmutations. Tadehiko Mizuno is one of the fellow inventors.

Quote from Alan Smith

I was told CP/Miura did a presentation at ARPA-E. Also the Iwamura was not happy about the claims made. That's all I know, might be a misunderstanding.

That's where marketing steps in.

Miura is a big commercial company and marketeers take over the publication part.

Same with many journalists. They mix in some sensation to get more attention to sell their stories.

This could be the start of the well known hype-cycle.

I am not surprised Iwamura is not happy with that.

None of Clean Planet, Brillouin or Matsumoto ever referred to Holmlid's publications.

Now live :

Lots of talk by Greenyer, mostly already discussed at LF.

Akiyo Takahashi does a great job in trying to tackle the theory of AHA they observe in their laboratories.

I am not a physicist so I can't judge how close he is with this theory.

What I miss in his papers is the effect of alkali metals in the AHA process might have (often the presence of CaO is mentioned).

But it seems to also work without CaO, just Ni and Cu layers though (in this case combined with hydrogen (H)).

Sad news.
Maybe LENR forum should consider a dedicated 'honer corner' for passed away people that contributed directly or indirectly to LENR.

This YouTube channel has a 3 part series on plasma double layers that is quite educating.

(Understanding Double Layers: Part 1-3)

Quote from bayak

A double layer is needed in order for the gas ions to form on an imaginary surface. In this case, it is easier for the nuclei to overcome the Coulomb barrier.

If that's the case, this imaginary surface would need to have an extreme high density wouldn't it?

Quote from can

The electric field strength (V/m) will be very high across the layers, which might be desirable for this reason (EDIT: you already added this in a later edit).

I wonder if they are thinking that p–p fusion is occurring there.

Sorry can, sometime I edit without notification when the posting is relative 'fresh'.
Regarding p-p fusion, I can't remember they ever mentioned monitoring Helium presence. Could be an option though.

New Aureon patent application. Granted 7 September 2021.

Plasma heating apparatus, system and method

Abstract

A plasma heating apparatus including a boiler vessel for holding water to be heated, a cathode housed in the vessel, the cathode defining a watertight cathode chamber isolated from the water in the vessel, and, an anode housed in the cathode chamber, the anode including an internal passage for receiving a gas from outside of the vessel when the passage is connected to a gas supply, and wherein the anode is connectable to a power source for receiving power for generating a plasma in the cathode chamber. In another aspect, the present disclosure relates to a heat or power generating system or plant including the plasma heating apparatus.

can

Quote from can

It's also likely to be sensitive to strong EMI, which will probably make it detect noise that could be misinterpreted as a real radiation signal.

According to Wiki : The signal parameters are practically independent of external magnetic fields, in contrast to vacuum PMTs

Thermal noise can be reduced by applying e.g. a peltier cooler according to the reference you provided. I am not sure this will be sufficient for reliably detecting specifically negative muons though.

Silicon photomultipliers can be part of LIDAR detectors which are e.g. targeted for autonome car driving. Even current iPhones have LIDAR sensors to improve photography performance. There is probably quite some R&D performed therefore to improve the performance of SiPMs.