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    Lettre N°29
    Pour 2022
    Jacques Ruer
    18/01/2022
    L’année 2022 est maintenant engagée. J’espère qu’il est encore temps de vous présenter mes
    meilleurs vœux. Je souhaite à toutes et à tous une excellente année, une bonne santé et
    beaucoup de succès dans tous vos projets.
    Le début d’année est aussi l’occasion de discuter des actions qui la marqueront dans notre
    domaine. On peut d’ores et déjà noter les événements suivants :
    - Conférence internationale ICCF24 du 25 au 28 juillet 2022
    La conférence se tiendra à Mountain View au Sud de San Francisco. Elle est organisée
    par Anthropocene Institute sous la présidence de Carl Page. Nous sommes au cœur de
    la Silicon Valley, non loin de grandes compagnies comme Google dont on connaît
    l’intérêt pour l’énergie LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions). On verra si cette
    proximité géographique aura une influence sur la conférence. Rappelons que Google
    Research a financé des recherches universitaires sur les LENR et publié des premiers
    travaux. Carl Page est un fervent défenseur des LENR car il voit dans celles-ci une
    nouvelle forme d’énergie dont le monde a tant besoin. Ces espoirs sont repris au
    niveau de l’Administration américaine (ARPA-E) qui a organisé une réunion sur le
    sujet en Octobre dernier et s’apprête à lancer une invitation pour la réalisation d’un
    démonstrateur. ICCF24 apportera peut-être une visibilité inédite pour notre science.
    Pour toute information, voir le site de la conférence : https://www.iccf24.org/
    - IWAHLM-15 - 25 au 29 Septembre 2022
    Ces réunions (International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals)
    sont organisées par la société ISCMNS (International Society for Condensed Matter
    Nuclear Science) à laquelle notre société SFSNMC est partenaire. La conférence se
    tiendra à Assisi en Italie dans le même hôtel que celui qui avait accueilli ICCF22 en
    2019 et IWAHLM-14 en août 2021. Les réunions en Italie représentent une bonne
    opportunité pour rencontrer nos confrères européens mais aussi d’ailleurs. Le site de la
    conférence est accessible. Vous y verrez le logo de notre société qui se félicite
    d’apporter son soutien :
    https://www.iscmns.org/work15/
    - RNBE 2022
    Nos colloques RNBE (réactions Nucléaires à Basse Énergie) se tiennent
    traditionnellement tous les 2 ans. Après RNBE 2020 il est donc temps de penser à un
    colloque RNBE 2022 cette année. Compte tenu du calendrier international il semble
    opportun d’organiser la réunion après les conférences mentionnées ci-dessus, donc cet
    automne. Disons en novembre 2022.
    Cette date tardive permettra de profiter des informations qui auront été collectées
    auparavant. On peut aussi espérer que d’ici-là la pandémie ne sera plus qu’un vilain
    souvenir.
    Compte tenu de cette pandémie RNBE 2020 s’était tenu en virtuel. L’inconvénient
    évident était l’absence de contacts directs entre les participants et le manque de
    convivialité. D’un autre côté le nombre des participants n’avait jamais été aussi élevé
    avec notamment des auditeurs allant du Canada à la Russie. Le coût de la participation
    était aussi réduit puisqu’il n’y avait pas d’hébergement ni de restauration à prévoir.
    Faible impact environnemental également puisque pas de voyages. Dans le monde
    post-moderne dans lequel nous vivons désormais une réunion organisée uniquement
    par la présence physique dans un lieu unique risque d’exclure pas mal de participants
    qui apprécient la facilité d’accès et les faibles coûts des réunions par internet. Un
    compromis tentant serait de réaliser un colloque mixte avec la réunion physique des
    personnes qui le souhaitent et un accès virtuel pour les autres. La taille de la salle de
    réunion à prévoir dépendrait du nombre de participants souhaitant être présents. Nous
    avons le temps d’y réfléchir d’ici novembre, mais vos avis sont d’ores et déjà les
    bienvenus. Si vous avez une préférence faites le savoir.
    Bien à vous,
    Jacques Ruer
    Président SFSNMC
    Email : [email protected]


    And in Egnlish.


    Letter No. 29

    For 2022

    Jacques Ruer

    01/18/2022

    The year 2022 is now underway. I hope there is still time to introduce you to my

    best wishes. I wish everyone a happy new year, good health and

    much success in all your projects.

    The beginning of the year is also an opportunity to discuss the actions that will mark it in our

    domain. We can already note the following events:

    - ICCF24 international conference from 25 to 28 July 2022

    The conference will be held in Mountain View south of San Francisco. It is organized

    by Anthropocene Institute under the chairmanship of Carl Page. We are at the heart of

    Silicon Valley, not far from big companies like Google, which we know

    interest in LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) energy. We will see if this

    geographical proximity will influence the conference. Remember that Google

    Research has funded academic research on LENRs and published early

    works. Carl Page is a fervent defender of the LENRs because he sees in them a

    new form of energy that the world so badly needs. These hopes are echoed in

    level of the American Administration (ARPA-E) which organized a meeting on the

    subject last October and is about to launch an invitation for the realization of a

    demonstrator. ICCF24 will perhaps bring unprecedented visibility for our science.

    For all information, see the conference website: https://www.iccf24.org/

    - IWAHLM-15 - September 25 to 29, 2022

    These meetings (International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals)

    are organized by ISCMNS (International Society for Condensed Matter

    Nuclear Science) to which our company SFSNMC is a partner. The conference

    will be held in Assisi, Italy in the same hotel that hosted ICCF22 in

    2019 and IWAHLM-14 in August 2021. The meetings in Italy represent a good

    opportunity to meet our European colleagues but also from elsewhere. The website of the

    conference is accessible. You will see our company logo there which welcomes

    to support:

    International Workshop on Anomalies

    - RNBE 2022

    Our RNBE (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) conferences are held

    traditionally every 2 years. After RNBE 2020, it is therefore time to think about a

    RNBE 2022 conference this year. Considering the international calendar it seems

    convenient to organize the meeting after the conferences mentioned above, therefore this

    fall. Let's say in November 2022.

    This late date will make it possible to take advantage of the information that will have been collected

    previously. We can also hope that by then the pandemic will be nothing more than a villain

    memory.

    Given this pandemic RNBE 2020 was held virtually. Disadvantage

    obvious was the lack of direct contact between the participants and the lack of

    friendliness. On the other hand, the number of participants had never been so high.

    including listeners from Canada to Russia. The cost of participation

    was also reduced since there was no accommodation or catering to be provided.

    Low environmental impact as well since no travel. In the world

    post-modern in which we now live an organized meeting only

    by physical presence in a single place risks excluding a lot of participants

    who appreciate the ease of access and low cost of internet meetings. One

    a tempting compromise would be to hold a mixed symposium with the physical meeting of

    people who want it and virtual access for others. The size of the room

    meeting to be scheduled would depend on the number of participants wishing to attend. We

    have time to think about it by November, but your opinions are already the

    welcome. If you have a preference let us know.

    Good for you,

    Jacques Ruer

    President SFSNMC

    Email: [email protected]

    This briefing also showed that the amount of output power can be increased by increasing deuterium diffusion rate into these voids and by increasing temperature of the reaction material with a built-in electric heater. Several scientists discussed positive experimental results using consolidated metal powder as cathode reaction material.

    Ed Storms is following a very similar route. ETA- it is described here in his June 2021 paper for ICCF-23.


    ICCF-23-final.pdf

    Having too many pet terminologies confuses the matter. Call it one thing then figure out what it is. Unless

    That would require something like a Pugwash conference. Also, some of the individuals who do not [post here and using this or that 'pet' name might consider is to be part of their IP<

    Not really a paper- but Parkhomov's presentation of his work with slides in English starts 9 minutes in...credit to Bob Greenyer (MFMP) for organising this.


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    Advanced Propulsion and Energy 2022
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    Advanced Propulsion and Energy 2022 ; January 18 through January 22, 2022 10:00 to ~5:00 Eastern Time


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    We need to take strong action now. The planet is on a rapid course to be less habitable for us and the current biome. We believe there are ideas, technologies and new science that can change the course. Our premise is that there are unexplored, undiscovered, and probably unexpected ways of generating forces and energy. This is based on the fact that there are many fundamental questions yet to be solved in physics, observational data we do not understand, and phenomena we observe and experience that we cannot explain. Given the right conditions, the concerted efforts of a few can change everything.


    We are completely virtual again this year. Perhaps in 2023 we can meet back in Boston and at MIT. We like to think of an environment like an old-fashioned salon where people come and go as they can, and the discussions are real and varied with freedom to speculate and be an explorer. Discussing disparate fields can bring about breakthroughs in understanding, and most importantly refine our questions. We wish to further the work by forming collaborations needed to answer these key questions.


    Tuesday 1/18/2022 Time for action, the power of coherence


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    Wednesday 1/19/2022 Fundamental nature of light


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    The Saturday session is a Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) Symposium, hosted by Professor Garret Moddel (UC Boulder) and Professor Dan Sheehan (UC San Diego). In conjunction with the SSE, papers based on all the talks given during the week will be considered for a special issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Scientific Exploration.

    This is his paper on exploding wires -


    Abstract: Experimental results of linear and curved conducting thin wires’ disintegration under high power but low energy electrical discharges are reported. Microscopic origin of the anomalous energy release is traced into the lattice interaction with the strong transient radiation field causing the appearance of a strong Stark effect out of the polarization of the metallic surface. The possible role of the wire curvature is also explored with the resonant transmission line numerical method for the Schrödinger equation.


    PapageorgiouRaptis-2016.pdf

    https://ghpower.com/.



    I have not heard of these guys before. Interestingly enough I suspect they are doing something I've tried in the lab and worked through all the modelling for before, which is the direct production of high-pressure hydrogen,steam and aluminium oxide, they are using (probably) sodium hydroxide as a promoter. In my case limited by my equipment to 6Bar and 130C, but the reaction is probably ok at higher pressures too. At over 95-98C the reaction changes to one which favours oxide over hydroxide.


    The big problem I found was that the oxide produced makes a very stubborn coating on the Al particles resulting in a dirty dark-grey by-product with relatively large particle sizes. The choice to overcome this problem is either to use very finely powdered metal with a shear-mixer or to incorporate some kind if grinding device into the reactor- for example running the reaction in a ball mill. Stirring alone won't work, and if they are looking at continuous production then the need to remove tramp oxygen from the feedstock before loading the reactor adds more complications. These are all 'merely engineering' problems, but they are expensive ones.


    The interesting thing - for me- about using this system is that to run a turbine (they show one in the schematic) you can use some or all of the hydrogen to superheat the steam produced by the reactor as a co-product. This makes the thermodynamics of the turbine part of the system more efficient, but for power generation it is unlikely to rise above 50% overall, or around 2MW/h of grid power per tonne Al consumed. This is assuming they want to retain some small part of the H2 to fill all those tanks and tankers in the picture. The only economic way to run this plant in Europe would be to save some hydrogen to burn for power generation purposes and sell energy to the grid when demand (and prices) are high or very high. They say nothing I could find about inputs and outputs, but I suspect they are thinking of the 100+ tonnes a week Al feedstock ballpark. Very ambitious, since they are 'pioneering all the way', they want to build a mountain, then see if it can be climbed.


    I notice they are very silent on their funding - the 'investors' link is not informative, I would price the plant shown in the $30-50M region


    ETA- this is an extract from my provisional patent for something very similar


    SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION


    The aim of the present invention is to create a hydrogen and steam co-generation plant utilizing both the chemical potential energy of the hydrogen obtained from the oxidation of aluminium or similar metal fuel in water in a pressurised reactor vessel or vessels plus the exothermy of the water splitting reaction to generate steam from water in the reactor in excess of the stoichiometric demands of the basic chemistry. Since the reaction also produces large volumes of hydrogen gas this also contributes to the process since it adds to the pressure inside the reactor and is released simultaneously with the steam. The potential energy of both steam and hydrogen may be transformed into mechanical work by releasing it from the pressure vessel to drive a turbine or other expansion engine while preserving the so far un-burnt hydrogen for further energy generation uses described elsewhere in this document.

    I'm sure energy suppliers in the SE of UK are concerned about our weather. The last 5 days have been cold, below freezing by dawn, with clear skies and sunshine all day but no wind at all- not a breat.. Solar is working very well for January, but with little storage it isn't producing anything until almost 9AM and output is back to zero by 4 pm at the latest. So no use at the peak times - so the grid is using a lot of very expensive fossil gas, and the domestic energy price cap means that the suppliers cannot always get from the consumers what it costs them to buy.

    https://d-nb.info/1068767162/34



    Nothing can be colder than absolute zero, as at zero Kelvin, the particles cease to move.
    This popular statement of thermodynamics is taught in high school and, in a classical
    picture, it is correct. In quantum mechanics, due to the zero point energy, the particles
    still show some motion even at absolute zero; the general statement that absolute zero is
    the coldest possible temperature, however, remains true. Yet, according to the definition
    of temperature, it is possible to create systems at negative absolute temperature. These
    are characterized by an inverted population distribution that is in thermal equilibrium and
    therefore stable. Due to the large occupation of high-energy states, however, a system at
    negative temperature is hotter than at any positive temperature; i.e. in thermal contact,
    heat would flow from the negative temperature to the positive temperature system.
    In everyday life, we do not encounter negative temperatures. Due to the exponentially
    increasing occupation distribution at negative temperatures, an upper bound on the energy of the particles is required to keep the distribution normalizable. In the case of free
    particles, however, kinetic energy with its parabolic dispersion is unbounded from above.
    Therefore free particles can never be at negative temperature. The key challenge to realize
    negative temperatures lies in the implementation of such an upper energy bound. Negative
    temperatures were realized experimentally for the first time in 1951 by E. M. Purcell and
    R. V. Pound [1]. In their experiment, Purcell and Pound created a population inversion
    of the two Zeeman states of the nuclear spins of 7Li in a homogeneous magnetic field.
    The inversion was in thermal equilibrium due to spin-spin relaxation processes and was
    found to be stable, limited only by the very slow spin-lattice relaxation. As the position
    of the nuclei was locked to the lattice sites in a crystal, kinetic energy of the ions was
    effectively excluded from the system. The resulting pure two-level system of the Zeeman
    states naturally provides an upper bound for the energy of the particles. The temperature that was realized in this experiment is therefore more precisely characterized by the
    term negative spin temperature