robert bryant - dead link for me.
Alan Smith
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I am pretty sure Anthropocene have been trying to garner interest CP is certainly mailing people about it. How about 'Cold Fusion Shows Royal Flush To Hot Stuff ? (the top hand in poker btw)
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I think the problem -as seen by Anthropocene Institute is that the glamour in large amounts that they so generously provided at ICCF-24 vanished like smoke when the conference closed. Despite the rappers, and the brilliant TV Chef stage show, the presentation of the hefty Toyoda gold medal to Ed Storms and more the MSM pretty much ignored it all, even though there were a fair few journalists present (I met a few) . Perhaps their editors declined to publish, who knows?
LENR can offer little in comparison to hot fusion by way of spectacle, people do like to look at pictures of glamorous equipment. How does this, for example....
In the glamour stakes not at all.
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The UK used to buy a lot of Hemlock - I think from Canada - for Joinery work, internal partioning and so on. It was servicable stuff if a bit soft. But at some time in the 70's it vanished from the softwood market here, replaced by redwood pine (pinus rosa) from the Gulf of Bothnia ports in Sweden ,and also Russian pine which was also good timber, but often plagues by 'blue stain' which was discoloration caused by fungus attack after felling. But the UK still imports Douglas Fir, Tulipwood and Western Red Cedar. - presumably from the US and Canada.
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A recent email from Ed Storms caught my eye, it was part of a group discussion about the need for LENR to attract more attention, and thus more cash. How might this be achieved, and would it be useful to try? Ed would be interested on our ideas (as would Anthropocene I think)
Ed Asked
How would you propose to make LENR more glamorous? This is already one of the most important modern discoveries showing an amazing relationship between chemistry and nuclear physics. It's the only source of energy on which the survival of modern civilisation can rely. It's the only source of energy that could make every county independent of the oil-gas cartel. The potential glamour is already huge. Something besides glamour seems to be missing.
Actually, the self-interest by the political structure to make this energy available is lacking. The academics have no self-interest to admit they have been wrong about how a chemical structure can interact with the nucleus. The people involved in the huge hot fusion program and all the users of gas and oil do not want the competition. The people in the field itself are not interested in working together to solve the mystery.
So, where is this glamour to come from? Who is willing to carry the torch? Who is willing to step forward and say publicly without ambiguity that LENR is real and important? Are you? If so, I suggest a letter be sent to the editor of the NY Times signed by well-known industrialists and scientists stating that LENR is real, is important, and needs government support before it's too late. You might mention this situation is much like the need to make an atom bomb before Germany mastered the skill. After all, if another country mastered LENR, giving them the ability to make all the energy they needed without cost or limit, how would that affect the economy of the USA?
We are no longer in a game between the ignorant skeptics and a few dreamers. The stakes are huge. We need to take charge of making LENR understood and accepted by the general public. This can only be done through the media while using bold statements. What do you think of this idea?
Ed.
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At that point of contact with the Teflon is when distruction of the metal occurred.
Well, the other problem with Teflon is that thermal decomposition creates HF acid, particularly in the presence of water vapour. And Hydroflouric Acid is rather like the fictional acid portrayed in the 'Alien' movies, it chews through anything, including flesh. Surgical excision of affected parts is sometimes required.
It could also eat coinage though this is a more complex area since it is dependent on temperature and exact alloy mix.
Occupational Hydrofluoric Acid Injury from Car and Truck Washing--Washington State, 2001-2013
Carolyn K Reeb-Whitaker, Carly M Eckert, Naomi J Anderson, David K Bonauto
PMID: 26292206 PMCID: PMC5779585 DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6432a4
Free PMC article
Abstract
Exposure to hydrofluoric acid (HF) causes corrosive chemical burns and potentially fatal systemic toxicity. Car and truck wash cleaning products, rust removers, and aluminum brighteners often contain HF because it is efficient in breaking down roadway matter. The death of a truck wash worker from ingestion of an HF-based wash product and 48 occupational HF burn cases associated with car and truck washing in Washington State during 2001-2013 are summarized in this report. Among seven hospitalized workers, two required surgery, and all but one worker returned to the job. Among 48 injured workers, job titles were primarily auto detailer, car wash worker, truck wash worker, and truck driver. Because HF exposure can result in potentially severe health outcomes, efforts to identify less hazardous alternatives to HF-based industrial wash products are warranted.
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The price of Insulin is a classic example of drug companies profiteering in collusion with the regulatory authorities. For example, it's almost $100 in the USA, can be $80 in Switzerland, and is $8 iin the UK.
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He not only finds that he cannot make a significant cut into the teflon but the titanium actually develops a hole on the heated edge which touched it. Bob thinks that this reaction was due to the introduction of carbon from the teflon to the titanium after exposure to Ohmasa gas.
That's interesting. But you have to be aware that depending in the position of the flame ignition cone wrt the surface of the metal it will oxidise to powder very fast. That's why welding Al and Ti is done under an inert gas blanket, to keep the oxygen in the air away.
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Thanks to Carl Page for spotting this:- he said 'I like the prospect of using this instrument on LENR Solid State Fusion materials! '
Interesting EngineeringInteresting Engineering is a cutting edge, leading community designed for all lovers of engineering, technology and science.interestingengineering.comA potential solar cell material is discovered using a new type of microscopeWe may now be closer to replacing silicon in solar cells.
Visualization of the microscope tip exposing material to terahertz light. A new characterization technique created by a team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory gave them a rare window into a potential replacement material for solar cells. Ames Lab's senior scientist Jigang Wang and his team created a microscope that uses terahertz waves to gather information on material samples. Using their microscope, the team then identified methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) perovskite, as a substance that could eventually replace silicon in solar cells.
The power of terahertz.
A scientist from Ames Lab, Richard Kim, described the two characteristics that set the new scanning probe microscope apart. The microscope first gathers information on materials using electromagnetic frequencies in the terahertz region. This frequency range, which is between infrared and microwave frequencies, is significantly below the visible light spectrum. Second, a pointed metallic tip that receives the terahertz light boosts the microscope's abilities to observe objects at nanoscale length scales.“Normally, if you have a light wave, you cannot see things smaller than the wavelength of the light you're using. And for this terahertz light, the wavelength is about a millimeter, so it’s quite large,” explained Kim.“But here we used this sharp metallic tip with an apex that is sharpened to a 20-nanometer radius curvature, and this acts as our antenna to see things smaller than the wavelength that we were using.”
A potential solar cell material is discovered using a new type of microscopeTerahertz waves lie at the far end of the infrared band, just before the start of the microwave band.Wikipedia
Perovskites are a unique class of semiconductors that, when exposed to visible light, carries an electric charge. The biggest difficulty with employing MAPbI3 in solar cells is how quickly it deteriorates when exposed to heat and moisture.The team used their microscope to study MAPbI3, which has lately caught the attention of researchers as a potential replacement for silicon in solar cells.A powerful microscopy tool for highly efficient perovskite-based photovoltaic devicesWang and Kim claim that the scientists anticipated MAPbI3 to act as an insulator when it was subjected to terahertz light. They anticipated a consistently low level of light scattering across the material because the data obtained from a sample is a reading of how the light scatters when the material is exposed to terahertz vibrations.But what they discovered was that there was a great deal of diversity in the light scattering along the grain boundaries.“We believe that the present study demonstrates a powerful microscopy tool to visualize, understand and potentially mitigate grain boundary degradation, defect traps, and materials degradation,” said Wang.“Better understanding of these issues may enable developing highly efficient perovskite-based photovoltaic devices for many years to come.
Abstract:
Direct visualization and quantitative evaluation of charge filling in grain boundary (GB) traps of hybrid metal halide perovskites require dynamic conductivity imaging simultaneously at the terahertz (THz) frequency and nanometer (nm) spatial scales not accessible by conventional transport and imaging methods used thus far. Here, we apply a THz near-field nanoconductivity mapping to the archetypal metal halide perovskite photovoltaic films and demonstrate that it is a powerful tool to reveal distinct dielectric heterogeneity due to charge trapping and degradation at the single GB level.Our approach visualizes the filled defect ion traps by local THz charge conductivity and allows for extracting a quantitative profile of trapping density in the vicinity of GBs with sub-20 nm resolution. Furthermore, imaging material degradation by tracking local nanodefect distributions overtime identifies a distinct degradation pathway that starts from the GBs and propagates inside the grains over time. The single GB, nano-THz conductivity imaging demonstrated here can be extended to benchmark various perovskite materials and devices for their global photoenergy conversion performance and local charge transfer proprieties of absorbers and interfaces.
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I really appreciate your posting so much research in this topic, but do you think you could (at least) re-format them to take up less space? People often read the forum on a mobile these days, and they are wearing their fingers out scrolling!
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New paper by Francesco CELANI
Electromagnetic Excitation of Coaxially-Coiled Constantan Wires by High-Power, High-Voltage, Microsecond Pulses
Abstract.
This paper is mostly based on our presentation given at the 23rd International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ICCF23) held at Xiamen University (XMU)-PRC on June 9-11, 2021, but largely enriched to satisfy the requests of the referees. Upon the suggestion of the Conference Organizers, we added a detailed explanation of our procedures; moreover, we included the latest results and data from our recently published papers. In the framework of LENR-AHE (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction-Anomalous Heat Effects) studies, since 2021, we have been focused on innovative, low-cost materials instead of the usual, precious metal palladium. We found that the Cu-Ni alloy, known as Constantan (also used for J-type thermocouple construction), has the peculiarity of being able to easily dissociate H2 (or D2) from molecular to an atomic state. While the catalytic feature appears at a rather low temperature (150 °C), Constantan is also able to store atomic hydrogen within its lattice and/or at surfaces, up to temperature of 700-800 °C, and in a wide range of pressures. Thanks to our long experience (since 1994) with wires, we designed various experiments that take advantage of such specific shapes, namely in terms of electromigration of absorbed and adsorbed H, under a suitable longitudinal electric field ....
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I would love to see research on UDH by someone other than Leif Holmlid
You should do a little digging yourself. It's amazing what the internet knows.
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You might find this 1957 paper from Winston Bostik Ex Manhattan Project physicist interesting. He was basically the first to write about plasmoids and research them.
https://zero.sci-hub.se/3274/286c479c3ac44d1f37202cbcf54ca411/bostick1957.pdf
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Go here- there are a half-dozen papers by Leif Holmlid.
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If anybody feels able to conduct some fairly simple water calorimetry on an Egely device please contact me via forum email.
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Isn't there any way to get invitations or apply for a lecture or as a speaker on those various conferences related to these topics?
Well, in general you need to keep paying to attend and submitting abstracts. A slow and patient business and it is not easy if you are not from a company or a university. For theoreticians they like a university.
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The use of live blood analysis is still widespread in France, where there are many independent labs who provide a service at a low and subsidised price. It works two ways, Your doctor can refer you there for tests, or for a slightly higher fee you can walk in and ask for your blood to be tested and the results passed to your doctor. I guess this is the legacy of Bechamp and Bernard's pioneering work. The forensic pathology/bacteriology lab I started my working career in (Laboratory of Pathology and Public Health) was also a continual user of the techniques. But that was 60 years ago.
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Is there any article about UDH/UDD?
Try this.
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If you give a bully a permission structure they begin to test limits, they go a little farther each time until their behavior becomes full-blown. An example is Trump, people thought he was funny and a clown, but after years of increasing toleration, he has gleaned more criminal indictments pending that most hardened criminals. Firm lines must be set and no amusement should be taken from bullying
I will take your advice on that.
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The hexagon antigravity field they emit could possibly be used to extract the cork.
I think you are extracting something, but I'm not sure it's a cork.