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Please tell me the schedule. I want to know the abstract submission deadline, hotel reservation deadline, payment deadline, etc.

Mizuno-san. The hotel reservation is included in the conference cost. The hotel in Assisi is also a conference centre so everything is in one location - food, drinks, presentations and comfortable rooms with private bathrooms. Also in a very beautiful and historic city with many tourist attractions.

Here are the payment and accommodation details taken from the website.. See the website here for payment by paypal :- http://www.iscmns.org/work15/

You can also pay by bank transfer: Account "ISCMNS". BIC "TRWIBEB1XXX". IBAN "BE23 9670 3594 1391"

How Much to Pay?.... this has still not been updated so I assume early bird discounts are still available.

The early registration workshop fee is EUR 550 per single resident participant and EUR 250 for the second person sharing a room or a non-resident participant. The inclusive fee covers lunch and dinner and coffee breaks shown in the outline program, accommodation. Breakfast is included for hotel residents. Requests will be considered for financial assistance. Accommodation at the conference site may be available outside the designated nights at additional cost (pro rata).

You can stay extra nights with full board such as 23rd September. Please advise separately and pay EUR 130 above.

Deadline for Abstracts in 'DOCX' format is 30th June

Thank you Gennadiy. That's a little clearer. Cydonia - I prefer vinegar with salad, mayo with frites. -

Heinrich Hertz, Maker of Effects - Book PDF

Toward the end of December 1887 an ambitious young German physicist

named Heinrich Hertz decided that he had fabricated a new phenomenon in a

Karlsruhe lecture hall. Soon physicists throughout Europe built devices based

on Hertz's description that, most agreed, produced this new effect. Within a

decade and a half greatly mutated descendants of Hertz's original device,

known as the dipole oscillator and the resonator, had become technological

artifacts of little interest to most research physicists. These events might be

said to constitute the first artificial production and exploitation of electromagnetic radiation. They might also be said to constitute the creation of a technical

archetype, of a device that was modeled and remodeled in novel environments.

These two statements are not equivalent to one another. Neither are they

mutually exclusive. According to the first there always was something in the

world-electromagnetic radiation-that required only an appropriate device

to manifest its presence. According to the second an instrument was created

that behaved in certain ways. This instrument was then used as a model to

produce further devices for entirely novel ends. Realists will prefer the first

statement; agnostics will prefer the second. Historians have different tastes in

such matters, but they must at least act as professional agnostics because one

of their tasks is to uncover piecemeal how the fabricator of a fresh device

produced it without relying unduly on statements about what must, or must

not, have been going on.

Heinrich Hertz's apparatus was more widely copied and argued about in a

shorter period of time than most laboratory gadgets before it. Precisely because

of this speedy dissemination and mutation, Hertz's device has in retrospect

been divorced from what it was taken to have produced, electromagnetic radiation. It is time to put the machine back into the effect, not least because Hertz's

device never did become entirely unproblematic, even in research laboratories.

On the contrary, it was troubled by difficult pathologies that frustrated its acquisition of the kind of status that, for example, low-frequency induction coils

had long ago acquired. In fact, Hertz's device never became a research instrument at all. Devices that were intended to be instances of it were produced,

and they did fabricate effects that appeared to be similar to (but that were far

from identical with) the ones that Hertz produced. But the devices were always

2 CHAPTER ONE

worried, and scarcely ever in similar ways. Like most novel objects in experimental science Hertz's device had to be crafted and used in certain ways to

produce the sought-after effects.

https://nvhrbiblio.nl/biblio/boek/Buchwald%20-%20The%20creation%20of%20scientific%20effects.pdf

As for the CO2 co-product here it is getting to be more valuable.

"The price of carbon dioxide is set to increase five-fold as the UK government pays out millions to restart production.

Environment secretary George Eustice, discussing the deal struck with US fertiliser firm CF industries, warned the price of CO2 will rise from around £200 per tonne to £1,000.

He told BBC Radio 4: "We need the market to adjust, the food industry knows there's going to be a sharp rise in the cost of carbon dioxide, probably going from something like £200 a tonne eventually up to closer to £1,000 a tonne, so a big, sharp rise."

He warned these price increases would be passed onto the industry.

Eustice insisted increased costs for CO2 would not have a "significant impact" on food prices, but admitted food prices were increasing "due to global commodity prices, oil prices and also other factors such as labour shortages”.

CF Industries halted fertiliser production, from which CO2 is a by-product, after soaring natural gas prices meant it was no longer profitable."

gerold.s

These are called 'Ragone Diagrams' (don't know why at the moment, There is one on page 26 of the paper written about the Rossi Lugano demo. Say what you like about the demo, the plot is good.

http://www.sifferkoll.se/sifferkoll/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LuganoReportSubmit.pdf

Gennady. You post a lot of pictures and videos, but I am never quite clear on the purpose of your high voltage experiments. Could you please give a brief explanation (or a long one if you can) of the purpose of your work? For example:-

1. What is inside the reactor?

2. How is the high voltage delivered to the reactor -anode and cathode structures etc?

3. What is the desired outcome of your experiments- making oil, making more electricity, making heat etc?

If you can do this we can have a proper scientific discussion about your work, rather then just seeing your very interesting expedition photography.

Time this thread came back to the top. The September Assisi meeting is a much more relaxed gathering than ICCF, in general a smaller and more conversational gathering. As Cydonia said:-

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This friendly place has become over the years, a real institution

And so it has -as well as being a bargain in terms of cost. I will be there (under my own steam) and in a small way have become a sponsor.

The great resignation has hit academia

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Nature | 13 min read

Researchers have uncovered a methane-hydrogen compound containing more than 50% hydrogen, a finding that could help scientists better understand the interior dynamics of planets, including Earth.

In the outer Solar System, methane- and hydrogen-based compounds are the most common small molecules aside from water, so their interaction in extreme conditions is interesting to scientists. Signatures of methane-hydrogen compounds have appeared in geoscience and materials science studies. But, despite the ubiquity of these substances, they have been experimentally ignored for decades. Now, Ross Howie from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his colleagues have explored the properties of a variety of methane-hydrogen molecules, finding previously unobserved hydrogen-rich forms of these compounds [1]. The discovery could help in better understanding the evolution and interior dynamics of Neptune, Uranus, Earth, and other planets where methane-hydrogen compounds are found.

To form their methane-hydrogen compounds, Howie and colleagues used a diamond anvil cell—a device that compresses materials to extreme pressures. Trapping about a nanoliter of methane-hydrogen gas between two diamond tips, the team squeezed it down until it formed a solid compound with a diameter of roughly that of a human hair. In x-ray diffraction and optical spectroscopy experiments, the team determined the structure of the resulting high-pressure compounds.

Above pressures of 5 GPa, the team observed the formation of methane-hydrogen compounds rich in hydrogen. One of those compounds, (CH4)3(H2)25, which is made up of 3 methane molecules and 25 hydrogen molecules, contained 51% hydrogen by weight, the most hydrogen of any known substance.

Hydrogen Heavyweight Found for Methane-Hydrogen Compounds

Researchers have uncovered a methane-hydrogen compound containing more than 50% hydrogen, a finding that could help scientists better understand the interior…

physics.aps.org

Also worth pointing out that the Abo-Shaeer paper shows an effect a very low temperature and at the micron scale, whereas Safire creates visible phenomena not only very hot but 1000x larger. Also, I am not aware also of any work demonstrating the presence of Rydberg matter at high temperatures, but if anyone does I would like to see it.

Seatrout

To rotate a unipolar rotating magnetic field you need more than just a rotating magnet, because the emitted fields do not rotate. Imagine your magnetic pole N/s (whatever but just one of them) is like a camera lens - you can rotate the lens as you do when focusing an old style SLR, but the image doesn't turn with it. In this case the magnet is the lens and the magnetic field is the light that makes the image.

This little YT video explains what happens to charged particles like electrons in a magnetic field - but note, an EVO may not obey these rules - since it has already broken most of them - also, best of luck with obtaining a UNIFORM magnetic field. That is a hard trick in most circumstances.

https://www.google.com/search?q=behaviour+of+electrons+in+a+magnetic+field&oq=behaviour+of+electrons+in+a+magnetic+field&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l3j0i390l3.9951j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_U6GUYpH-GsSU8gLmhqSoAQ14

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Ammonia oxidizes into nitrogen during electrolysis.

More hydrogen then. But that was why I changed my first thought to Lithium Hydroxide - much simpler.

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PS - I cannot find these claims of "massive spike in uterine shedding" anywhere properly written up so they can be considered.

No womb in your heart for this idea?

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The problem of this method is that oxygen convert ethanol to carbon dioxide, which must be absorbed with caustic electrolyte. This method of hydrogen production thus consumes alkali hydroxides, which are generally produced also with electrolysis

I would be tempted to try this with an ammonia based electrolyte. Solid Ammonium Carbonates decompose very readily (at around 60C back into ammonia and CO2. The differential solubility of these gases in water offers some potential to separate them. Since CO2 is in short supply its currently high price might make this feasible as a commercial co-product, with the NH3 being recycled back to the start of the process, But this is just a first thought.

ETA- the price of sodium carbonate is almost high enough to make NaOH a possibility- but using more expensive Lithium Hydroxide might work, the advantage being that lithium carbonate is almost insoluble so would precipitate from the solution. That avoids a lot of the need for an evaporative drying cycle - which is another energy hog.

The price of LiOH is around $75/Kg, and the price of Li2CO3 is $60/Kg. However, since the carbonate is heavier than the hydroxide ( half a carbon and 1-1/2 oxygen atoms per Li atom as against one oxygen and one hydrogen per Li) the weight gain will cancel this extra out. You could sell the carbonate for as much as the hydroxide costs you. If you square this circle by brewing your own ethanol from grain or potatoes you could probably sell the whole shebang as green hydrogen and green lithium.

axil - welcome back!

Lettre N°32
Invitation à une réunion virtuelle le 24 juin 2022 et préparation
du colloque Réactions Nucléaires à Basse Énergie 2022 de la
SFSNMC
Jacques Ruer
28/05/2022
Cette année est riche en événements internationaux dans notre domaine. Tout autour de la
planète des auteurs sont d’ores et déjà en train de préparer des présentations. Y compris en
France. Notre président d’honneur Jean-Paul Bibérian nous fait la gentillesse de nous
présenter en avant-première les sujets sur lesquels il aura à communiquer cet été (ICCF24)
lors d’une réunion virtuelle prévue le :
Vendredi 24 juin de 19h à 20h
Cette réunion sera également l’opportunité d’échanger sur les questions qui vous tiennent à
cœur, ainsi que de discuter de l’organisation du prochain RNBE2022.
Pour rappel notre colloque RNBE 2022 se tiendra à Paris :
- Samedi 19 novembre 2022 après-midi et
- Dimanche 20 novembre 2022 matin
Nous avons déjà reçu des propositions pour des présentations et nous remercions vivement les
auteurs qui ont eu la gentillesse de répondre rapidement.
De même certains membres se sont déjà inscrits à la réunion et nous les remercions
également.
Toutefois le nombre de réponses reçues ne nous permet pas encore d’estimer quel sera le
nombre de personnes présentes.
Bien sûr, novembre est encore loin et il est probablement trop tôt pour beaucoup d’entre vous
pour savoir si vous serez disponibles à ces dates. Il nous serait malgré tout utile de pouvoir
effectuer une estimation approximative du nombre de personnes à accueillir car nous devons
préciser la taille de la salle de réunion.
Par conséquent, et sans que cela corresponde à un engagement de votre part, nous
souhaiterions obtenir vos réponses aux 3 questions suivantes :
1. Envisagez-vous de participer à cette réunion à Paris ?
2. Envisagez-vous de faire une présentation ?
3. Avez-vous des remarques ou des désirs particuliers ?
Les personnes qui désirent participer à la réunion virtuelle du 24 juin doivent nous contacter
par email en répondant à ces 3 questions. Quelles que soient leurs réponses elles recevront
peu de temps avant le 24 juin le lien internet pour la connexion à la réunion. Même si vous ne
pouvez pas ou ne souhaitez pas vous connecter le 24 juin vos réponses nous serons très utiles.
Les personnes ayant déjà fait connaître leurs intentions n’ont pas besoin de recommencer et
recevrons automatiquement l’invitation internet.
Pour répondre à ces questions et laisser vos commentaires vous pouvez dès maintenant
répondre par email à l’adresse [email protected]
Nous comptons sur vous.
Bien à vous,
Jacques Ruer
Président SFSNMC
[email protected]

Letter No. 32

Invitation to a virtual meeting on June 24, 2022 and preparation

of the Low Energy Nuclear Reactions 2022 symposium of the

SFSNMC

Jacques Ruer

05/28/2022

This year is rich in international events in our field. All around the

planet of authors are already preparing presentations. Including in

France. Our honorary president Jean-Paul Bibérian is kind to us

present in preview the subjects on which it will have to communicate this summer (ICCF24)

during a virtual meeting scheduled for:

Friday, June 24 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

This meeting will also be an opportunity to discuss issues that are important to you.

heart, as well as to discuss the organization of the next RNBE2022.

As a reminder, our RNBE 2022 conference will be held in Paris:

- Saturday 19 November 2022 afternoon and

- Sunday 20 November 2022 morning

We have already received proposals for presentations and we sincerely thank the

authors who were kind enough to respond quickly.

Similarly, some members have already registered for the meeting and we thank them.

also.

However, the number of responses received does not yet allow us to estimate what the

number of people present.

Of course, November is still a long way off and it's probably too early for many of you.

to find out if you will be available on those dates. Nevertheless, it would be useful for us to be able

make a rough estimate of the number of people to accommodate because we have to

specify the size of the meeting room.

Consequently, and without this corresponding to a commitment on your part, we

would like your answers to the following 3 questions:

1. Do you plan to participate in this meeting in Paris?

2. Are you planning to give a presentation?

3. Do you have any particular comments or wishes?

People who wish to participate in the virtual meeting of June 24 should contact us

by email by answering these 3 questions. Whatever their answers they will receive

shortly before June 24 the internet link to connect to the meeting. Even if you don't

can't or don't want to connect on June 24 your answers will be very helpful.

People who have already made their intentions known do not need to start over and

automatically receive the internet invitation.

To answer these questions and leave your comments you can now

respond by email to [email protected]

We are counting on you.

Good for you,

Jacques Ruer

President SFSNMC

[email protected]

Moderator.

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As one may conclude by working form the the Quantum Fusion Hypothesis, adding some D2 does increase the the COP. Adding more the COP starts to go down.

This is a very interesting observation. Mizuno, the Clean Planet group and Takahashi and co at Tohaku/Sendai are AFAIK all working with low-pressure systems (way below 1 bar) . Also- looking back I think that Focardi's solid Ni/H work was performed a less than atmospheric pressure. When one considers the claimed very high interstitial pressures in the lattice - where the action happens - it would make you think that external pressures in the reactor were pretty much irrelevant.

From a purely philosophical point of view it might be imagined that the deuterium pressures in an electrolytic system are also low - in terms not of total system pressure but of the partial pressure of free deuterium gas. This had never occurred to me before.

Have you also found it to be the case that low pressure is a key requirement?

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So how do you know Aureon is looking for cash still, Alan Smith?

As an Aureon first-round investor, I didn't find too many strings attached. I certainly hope the SAFIRE team is "playing chess while others play checkers" with respect to its apparent foray into remediation. The energy stuff may come later. Or they may have no idea how to harness it. Or produce it reliably. Or, or, or...

The key is more frequent updates. Keep us in the loop. Let us know *something* is happening.

You wouldn't expect me to reveal my sources would you? As for the strings - they have 2 ends, I have found that in general the conditions are set by the money guys, not the researchers. And of course, if I come across something that can and should be shared I will do that.