Posts by Robert Ellefson

Nature article on Google-funded cold fusion research. They did not find excess heat, but recommend further research. Both Pd-D and Ni-H systems were tested. They also found discrepancies between x-ray diffraction and impedance methods of loading measurements.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1256-6

Nature article on Google-funded cold fusion research. They did not find excess heat, but recommend further research. Both Pd-D and Ni-H systems were tested. They also found discrepancies between x-ray diffraction and impedance methods of loading measurements.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1256-6

Discussion here Google LENR investment

Quote from seven_of_twenty

...I am not sure what Earth Tech criteria are for testing but they seem to be the most open minded group of all. I'd say too open minded except that the testing results I've seen from them thus far all seemed reasonable. If they got positive results with woowoo crap like ESP, precognition and telekinesis, I'd want to rethink my comments. Puthoff has been known to be gullible-- read that: Uri Geller.

You will find Russel Targ's recently-released documentary ("Third Eye Spies") to be quite interesting, I expect. They obtained CIA clearance to release previously-classified material and interviews with key CIA personnel who managed the research they were doing with SRI and the CIA in the 70's and 80's. The capabilities of remote viewing first explored by their research evolved into routine operational assets for various US government agencies, and may still be in use presently. Puthof, Geller and various luminaries such as Brian Josephson all make notable appearances. I highly recommend watching this film.

That is an excellent and very informative summation of this important work, can.

Thanks for taking the time to write that up!

Quote from can

Does this not work?

https://www.lenr-forum.com/account-management/

As a matter of fact, it does work! Derpy me, it's been a long time since I'd last checked - Thanks, can!

I would like to change my userid to my real name, but the last time I checked this was not possible, and instead I would need a whole new account.

Is there a way for an admin to permit account name changes, or is creating a new account still the only way?

-Bob Ellefson, aka bobeson

Quote from Max Nozin

Alan Smith was the presentation recorded?

I did record the audio, which I will make available soon at ColdFusionNow.org. Unfortunately the room acoustics were not good, and the resulting audio capture is of marginal quality, but you might find it useful anyhow. I am traveling again right now, but once I'm home next week I'll begin processing the raw audio and then get it to Ruby for publication.

Quote from Shane D.

What one thing impressed you the most?

My previous reply about Wallace's metallurgy presentation having the most-impressive designation needs to be revised. The morning after I wrote that, at the closing session on Tuesday morning, a wonderful presentation was given by Emmanuele Marano about a literature review he has been conducting in order to characterize and compare reported excess heat experiments.

In addition to quantification and categorization of the reported experimental evidence, he also characterized and ranked the status of the venues in which the reports were published, from top-tier peer-reviewed journals to conference proceedings, etc. Then he made multiple innovative and useful interpretive charts of these ranked events, providing a valuable overview of progress in the field. I am very much looking forward to the final publication of this project, and expect it will become a notably useful guide for anybody who is interested in understanding LENR.

There was a presentation by a brilliant materials scientist, John Wallace, which described the dynamic processes of void creation and destruction in metal lattices. This could help illuminate a number of aspects of cold fusion processes, such as the 'breathing' non-equilibrium conditions that are strongly linked to excess heat onset by researchers such as McKubre.

There will not be any video available, as nobody recorded any, but I captured the audio at least. Ruby will be publishing it again at ColdFusionNow.org, sometime in the next few weeks.

Living large in Oasi di Greccio, Italy. We just finished a splendid four-hour banquet meal together, in fact, to celebrate the last evening of the 13th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen-Loaded Metals.

Edit: This post got moved out of the original context, which was a response to a query about what Alan was doing at a monastery. Now it sounds like a strange boast, but whatev. I've been making this mistake of assuming context continuity in my online postings since before the web was born. It serves me right, for not quoting the message to which I'm responding. Someday I'll learn.

I am typing this on my phone at the airport, so it will be brief.

I think the Holmlid replications by Olafsson and Zeiner-Gundersen are much more significant than is being openly acknowledged. Note that Zeiner-Gundersen has formed a company to develop this technology into commercial deployment using direct conversion of the charged particle flux into electricity. I think they have a good chance of success.

Forsley and Mosier-Boss with GEC also seem to be on a serious path to commercial deployment, and they have the deep technical skills and connections needed to succeed. I am a bit biased about their technology because of the neutron activation and fission products problems, but for the right application, I think it will work.

Given the high caliber of these serious contenders, I find it baffling that so many people here are so inclined to bicker about that two-bit crook still. The field is moving on, despite the assertions of the willfully ignorant amongst us.

I think it will be good, but he is holding his cards very close to his chest. He said that his sponsor wants the results to be very thorough, so they are following up on a bunch of aspects that complete the investigation. I was told by other attendees that they are planning to submit the results to a major mainstream journal, which would be great.

I asked Rob Duncan when we would be hearing the Texas Tech results, and it sounds like a few more months. Certainly not this week, unfortunately.

The knots were added to create thermal anisotropy. The temperature gradients apparently result in greater excess heat.

The announcement was made verbally at the banquet.

It was announced last night that IH will not be hosting the upcoming ICCF after all. It seems the burden of fighting with that despicable crook has taken the wind out of their sails for now.

The conference is still expected to be in the US, host is yet to be announced.

I would gladly trade the mountains of data for a nugget of information.

Signal-to-noise ratio is a concept that seems elusive in this setup.

This all sounds exactly like an episode taken out of Rossi's playbook.

Alan, unless you are using some kind of temporal-expansion probes, it looks like your switching frequency is actually 724 Hz, not 724 kHz.

In terms of B-field induction effects, the edge rate is what really matters, not the switching frequency.