Report to the Norwegian-Norwegian-Norwegian-Norwegian-Norwegian Defence Research Laboratory for research, written by an electro-chemist. Useful round-up of current research and researchers at the end..
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Alan Smith
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"multitudes of physicists" are not doing LENR..
Agreed. A count-up based on the public domain literature suggests less than 100 currently experimenting 'full-time; and another 200 or so retired or peripheral commentators/theorists
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Why would Bill Gates be discrete[sic] about LENR? He's hardly discreet about his other philanthropic grants to improve sources of energy. Squiggle:
Robert V Duncan at TTU: 5Mn$ for hydride research in "Seashore research LLC"
Because he never told Melinda.
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His every post just exhausts me.
It is worth noting that reading them is much cheaper than employing a personal trainer.
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I'm far from sure they have run it long enough to require fresh hydrogen input. The latest start-up video showed quite a lot of PVC taped cable-joins and plastic conduit close to the suncell - that would not last for more than a few seconds without melting at their claimed full output.
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Interestingly, in another thread Wyttenbach pointed out that he sees the spectral emission line of silver in the Rossi SK. Silver seems to be a key material, there has been some discussion elsewhere in the improved performance possibilities of Pd-Ag alloys in 'classical' deuterium experiments.
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I don't follow Mills' experimental work closely, but didn't he mention recently about using gallium? Perhaps in conjunction with silver or on its own. This makes sense from an engineering point of view, since pumping molten silver presents many technical problems no matter how sophisticated your systems are. Gallium has a melting point below 40C, as against the (from memory) 700C or so you need to make silver flow.
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Greccio.
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Dewey was there.
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X-Ray film hates the heat.
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what does lithium corrode in a hydrogen gas-fuel mixture?
This USN China Lake report tells you everything you need to know (and more) about molten lithium.
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When it comes to the Atom Ecology approach, I'm fascinated that it seems so relatively easy to slop together a large number of different elements, hydrogenate them in deuterium, put them into a reactor, and produce excess heat.
So easy Russ has only been working on it for 30 years.
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Actually a lot of information about Atom-Ecology is already in the public domain. Here's the latest update, there is actually a lot of information in there- it's just harder to understand than most cookery books.
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But would your complaints be justifiable? Should house-builders and farmers give away the product of their labour, skill and knowledge for free? After all, food and shelter are more important than cheaper heat and light?
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People who have worked with Fran Tanzella at SRI have described him to me as somebody possessed of amazing technical skills, capable of 'jump starting' and fixing systems in need of repair and to be especially good at operating complex test and measurement equipment, I suspect he could probably manage soldering underwater if required. let alone check for the problems THH mentions.
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Really neat stuff can be done relatively cheaply - especially if you have one or more volunteers who are obsessive compulsive about a project.
Believe me, it's hard to find the right people even if you pay them. The combination of skills required is a pretty rare mix in my experience.
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Agreed. When you run an outfit like ITER, it costs you $50 every time somebody uses the coffee machine,
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What really saddens me is that for someone with a lab and who already has the equipment, the cost of building systems such as these and doing the experiments would be somewhat minimal
The costs of running a laboratory are eye-watering, I should know. If you put 4 people 'skilled in the art' to work on this project for a short time- say 10 weeks, this is a rough estimate of what it might cost. The wages alone including pension contribution, and.healthcare of (say 2 senior and 2 junior) staff is $100k over that period or more. Then add the general overhead of a modest size lab (rent, taxes, utiiities, admin, repairs) and you are looking at another $30k, and if they spend $70k on dedicated equipment (since you almost never have the equipment you need or it may need to be built especially) to build the kit do the tests then you are looking at a total cost of $200k. Which assumes they had no other work to do btw so doesn't include 'lost opportunity cost' ..... You can't call that minimial.
