He was a Mensch.

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maybe I won't repeat the uranium LENR expts by Dash

I have been told (everyone talks to me - my Ma said I should have been a policeman or a priest - that Dash got the inspiration for that from a chat with Edward Teller.

Francesco always prefers readings on RG - he gets more reads that way. If here, it doesn't register.

Daniel_G

"Pardon my naïveté but I tried searching Google Scholar for Duncan’s publications on LENR and couldn’t find anything."

Some more here...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Duncan-25

mjtrac I'm not aware that O day is a major topic here, or indeed 'all over the forum'. I also doubt that US/EU science policy is influenced by posters on ECW. Bob Greenyer is pursuing his own ideas in a public space, and should not be censored if those ideas are of interest to some and not disrespectful of others,

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If they have something real of the magnitude they claim: then they cannot keep the lid on this and it will be come clear pretty quickly.

That is their plan. Talk less produce more.

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In addition, the argument that their incentive is to announce in order to attract funding, in this circumstance, doesn't obtain, given that they have ample funding already from both Mitsubishi and Miura.

And as much money from other black-budget sources as they want. You could not get a piece of rice paper between Mitsubishi and the government. When it comes to funding anyway, despite my previous comment about ministerial interference.

Britain has endured a decade of early deaths. Why?

The mystery of 250,000 dead Britons

Mar 9th 2023
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In recent years Britain has been hit by one health crisis after another. First came the covid-19 pandemic—then backlogs in health and social care that the coronavirus exacerbated, and a long winter of strikes and overwhelmed emergency departments. But in the background, long before the pandemic hit, an even more disturbing story has been unfolding. Britain has endured a grim decade during which perhaps a quarter of a million people died younger than expected. Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.

By our calculations, that is the number of extra deaths Britain has suffered, compared with similar countries such as France and Denmark. The reason is that, in the early 2010s, life expectancy stalled in Britain compared with long-run trends and other countries. This slowdown in life expectancy struck all age groups, not just the elderly. And it disproportionately affected the poor. If you travel just 10km (six miles) from the poshest part of Kensington in London to New Cross Gate, life expectancy for men falls by a staggering 18 years, from 92 to 74. The burden these deaths place on the living is not just weighed in grief. When more people are dying and life expectancy is stagnating, a greater number of people are also living in ill health.

Life expectancy in Britain, as in almost all other rich countries, had been rising for nearly two centuries. But something went wrong in the early 2010s. Life expectancy at birth today, at 81, is just eight weeks longer than it was in 2011. In a best-case scenario, in which the pace of improvement between 1980 and 2011 had been sustained, life expectancy today would have been over 83. By The Economist’s calculations, that is no minor difference: it implies that between 2012 and 2022 approximately 700,000 Britons died sooner than they might have.

Two features make this figure even more worrying. Death comes mostly when people are old. But the slowdown in life expectancy has occurred across all age groups. Mortality rates have stalled for infants, and risen among young adults and the middle-aged. Death rates for 30- to 49-year-olds have steadily increased in Britain since around 2012, in sharp contrast with neighbouring countries.

Although the deaths have been spread across generations, they have not been spread across the income spectrum. Life expectancy has fallen among the poorest in society but risen for the richest. A poor English girl could on average expect to live 6.8 years less than a rich girl in 2011, but 7.7 less in 2017. For boys, the gap increased from 9.1 to 9.5 years over the same period.

The combined effect of the pandemic and global demographic trends can explain only some of Britain’s missing multitude. Though other rich countries have also experienced slowdowns, Britain has done the worst out of a cohort of its European peers. After stripping out the effects attributable to covid and the broad European slowdown from the toll of 700,000, you are still left with those 250,000 unexplained deaths.

Working out what has gone wrong is not easy. In America, where life expectancy has fallen even more sharply in recent years, “deaths of despair” from drugs, alcohol and suicide have done the most harm. The same is true for Scotland, where drug deaths have more than doubled in a decade; Dundee is now the drug-death capital of Europe. Yet although a similar problem may be brewing in England and Wales, the rate of drug deaths is nearly four times higher in Scotland.

The recent struggles of the National Health Service (nhs) have played their part. Hospital waits of record lengths and a crisis in primary care jeopardise timely treatment. But delays in medical care cannot explain all the extra deaths, especially before the pandemic. Besides, the greatest improvements in life expectancy come not from treatment but from better diagnosis and prevention, and wider prosperity. This is where Britain appears to have fallen short. It could do much better in all three.

First, diagnosis. Poorer Britons are 20% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at a later stage, when the disease is more complex and expensive to treat. Having more nhs diagnostic centres would help, as well as cutting the pandemic-related backlog. Prescribing more statins for those at risk of heart attack or stroke would be good, too. Both treatments are cheap and cost-effective, and are recommended. But with around one in 11 nhs posts vacant, it will be tricky to find enough radiologists and general practitioners to make a difference.

Next, prevention. Individuals bear responsibility for their own decisions but public-health interventions, from vaccines to anti-smoking and weight-loss programmes, can improve things. They also provide good value for money. One study found that it cost nearly four times as much to gain an extra year of good health via clinical interventions than through public-health programmes. Yet funding for the public-health grant, which is allocated to local authorities by central government and amounts to a mere 2% of the nhs budget, has been cut in real terms in recent years.

Ultimately the greatest improvements will come from raising the living standards of the poor. Their lower life expectancy has many causes, from less money to spend on home insulation or nutritious food, to the stress of financial insecurity. One useful long-term thing the government can do is help improve the country’s dreadful record on productivity by liberalising planning and devolving fiscal powers to local authorities.

Life after life

The government should also recognise the role that deprivation plays in health. Reweighting funding formulas to benefit general practitioners in the poorest areas would be a good idea. They care for 10% more patients than practices in the richest areas, but receive 7% less cash. And as Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor of the exchequer, prepares his budget for March 15th, he should recognise how spending cuts show up in other areas. The data show that life expectancy was worst affected in the places with the largest relative declines in housing services and adult social-care spending between 2009 and 2019.

In its covid response, Britain went to extraordinary lengths to prevent its citizens from suffering an early death. The pandemic may be over, but that job is nowhere near complete.

Neutrinos probe the proton’s structure in surprising measurement

Neutrinos probe the proton’s structure in surprising measurement – Physics World

Experiment could complement electron scattering

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Following a bold suggestion from a postdoc researcher, an international team has discovered a robust technique for probing the internal structure of the proton by using neutrino scattering. Teijin Cai at the University of Rochester and colleagues working on Fermilab’s MINERvA experiment have showed how information about the proton can be extracted from neutrinos that have been scattered by the detector’s plastic target.

As early as the 1950s, physicists were using high-energy electron beams to determine the size of the proton. By measuring how these electrons scatter from targets, researchers have since managed to probe the interior structure of the proton and measure the charge distributions of their constituent quarks in detail.

In principle, similar measurements should also be possible using a beam of neutrinos, such as the beam generated at Fermilab. Despite being chargeless and almost massless, a tiny fraction of neutrinos in a beam will interact with protons, and scatter at characteristic angles. If this scattering can be measured, it would not only complement electron scattering experiments in probing proton structures; it may also provide important new insights into how neutrinos and protons interact.

This is a little off topic, but I found it amusing - and related to self-driving cars (and probably electric ones at that).

In 2022 Ford Motor Company filed a patent that provided for completely autonomous vehicles to drive themselves back to a dealership if the user had fallen behind on loan repayments.

The patent also made provision to use 'remote access' to make the car less comfortable to use leading up to auto-repossession - for example, progressively disabling add-ons like the heater, radio, and satnave.

In the event the car's computerised service history (or lack thereof) and age, general condition, or a developing fault makes return to a dealer un-economic the patent makes provision for the car to drive itself to a scrappage/recycling center.

Dear Alan, Ruby

it was held recently (17-19 February) a new multidisciplinary Workshop, series ANV (Assisi Nel Vento), in Terni (a large n

During this seminar we presented the latest results, mainly devoted to reconfirm our previous data about the "reliability" of our measuring procedures (i.e. simple thermometry) and, overall, to further detail the specific effect of NEGATIVE unipolar pulsing (even at just 50 Hz), to increase the values of AHE.

*Document was uploaded, as usual, on ResearchGate, as following:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369088399_An_update_on_the_electric_pulses_as_an_approach_to_induce_LENR-AHE_in_Hydrogen-loaded_materials

• DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12948.17284

* We consider such document quite important because aimed to demonstrate the realty of AHE effects using SIMPLE procedures.

* I will be very happy If you will upload the document/link on LENR Forum

My best,

Francesco Celani

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I did not mean to include MIT. I do not know what they are up to.

I believe it is Florian Metzler and Peter Hagelstein. I have seen this mentioned elsewhere, not independently or directly confirmed yet.

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"trucked-in deliveries of hydrogen made from fossil fuels

You could add 'In Australia ' to that.

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Report: Japan's "hydrogen society" policy "has clearly been a complete failure"

I'm not surprised. The science has been subject to political guidance (by which I mean pressure) to the point where science, logic and the environment is being ignored. I have an acquaintance working it Mitsubishi (Energy division) who tells me he has stopped attending meetings with government ministers, since they are a total waste of time.

Looks like Upsalla University Library has a copy/ I will enquire.

Not to mention ozone...

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Is this what we are seeing in the 2022 "AirCell" photo? A central glowing ("active") low-pressure core of an air vortex?

I think so. I am also pleased that my guess (from the plasma colour) that the gas in the cell was mostly N2 was correct. I wonder how much NOx it makes btw?

This is being tested in the Materials Research department of a top UK University, A little insider gossip suggests that they simply blow air into the cell as a vortex and get hot air out. As simple as that. So a combination perhaps of a plasma system and a vortex tube.

Dear all,

Here are newer information on our latest reports at JCF23 Meeting, March 4-5 2023, Tokyo.

Please enjoy.

(PDF) Rising Characteristics of MHE Power with CNZ Material (researchgate.net)

(PDF) Rising Characteristics of MHE Power with CNZ Material Outline： 1)Analysis of correlation between H/Ni loading ratio and thermal power generation patterns in the rise-up phase 2)Discussion for improving heat output performance Introduction Aim of MHE Project and status at previous reports (researchgate.net)

Akito

This new video from the Electric Universe guys is not altogether unconnected...