This is very interesting for me due to my constant need to find ways to more efficiently desalinate water. Thanks!

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Is Cold Fusion Real? Why The Scientific Discovery Is Critical For Fallout's Future

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/ente…lout-s-future/ar-BB1lGILW

Well, I think someone posted this a day ago or so in other thread but it deserved to be copied here, is quite interesting when one of the central aspects of a TV show plot revolves around cold fusion, in this case is a major production so is free advertisement for our field, always welcome!!!

Quote from Kursiv

Given what Malcolm claims (solving the CO2 problem) it should be easy to find industrial partners with deep pockets. Automotive and Big Oil come to my mind immediately who would have an immense economical interest into that technology (I am actually not sure why Indian Military is interested). But I think the exotic theories and esoteric references in the videos have negative impact on credibility. Theory helps you to design experiments, but as long there is no proof there will be little interest into exotic ideas. Most important is a working demo and independent reproduction.

This has been ongoing for several years now, I think it is intriguing but I am not yet convinced it really converts CO2 to Oxygen, it however does interesting stuff and I remain hopefull that we will know more in the coming months.

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Guillot's "aerial collector" also looks a bit "porcupine like" - which is quite intriguing, considering some of Ernest's comments.

That is an odd coincidence, indeed. To be honest I had not given the Malawese dude story much or any attention, and the articles about that story are mostly empty air when it comes to any technical detail, but the idea that his system is based in porcupine thermoregulation made even less sense, until now.

Quote from Frogfall

https://www.ul.com/news/ul-sol…alse-references-made-eng8

Release No. 23PN-18-English.pdf

Well, that's a door slam in the face. We already knew ENG8 was using the "UL" name in a very liberal way, but UL decided to step in and brutally clarify this was not the case.

Quote from Alan Smith

An article in a recent edition of UK's weekly 'New Scientist' magazine expressed concerns about people becoming emotionally dependent on chatbots that were good at 'fake empathy'.

Personally I doubt that they are as good at faking empathy as humans are.

Albeit I doubt is a flaw of AI, people becoming emotionally dependent on chatbots is a thing already happening...

I fell in love with an AI chatbot — she rejected me sexually

A California-based musician started having “late-night online chats” with an AI bot after his divorce.

nypost.com

Quote from Frogfall

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.07183.pdf

https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/112179337873210966

I take peer review seriously enough to decline agreeing to it if I won’t have time enough to do it properly. I read the paper, the references, even extend the search for references, and provide my constructive feedback through the eye of my own experience. That could not be done by AI by any stretch of imagination.

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LIKE CHARGES CAN ATTRACT..

https://physicsworld.com/a/sci…dium=email&utm_source=iop

From a young age, we are taught in school that like charges – whether both positive or both negative – will repel each other, while opposite charges attract. It turns out that under certain conditions, like charges can actually attract each other instead. In work recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated the attraction of like-charged particles in solutions.

The journey began for the lead scientist Madhavi Krishnan back in the mid-2000s, when she came across the “like-charge attraction problem” while studying how DNA molecules squeezed into slit-like boxes. It was expected that the DNA would flatten into a pancake-like geometry, but instead it aligned alongside the edge of the box. Without any external forces being applied, the only explanation was that the DNA was attracted to the box, despite them both being negatively charged. Thus, an interest in how attraction and repulsion may not be as they seem was born.

The like-charge problem is not new knowledge though. Different scientists over the years have tried to explain how like charges can attract, with some of the earliest works coming from Irving Langmuir back in the 1930s.

One of the areas where like-charge attraction is seen the most is within fluids, and the interaction of solid matter with fluids. “I encountered the problem early in my trajectory as a scientist,” Krishnan tells Physics World. “Considering the observations entailed such a fundamental departure from the current understanding of a basic and central phenomenon in the fluid phase, turning away from the problem was never going to be an option.”

The attraction of like charges in fluids has been seen many times using multivalent ions, but these are known ionic species that are exempt from DLVO (Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek) theory – the expectation that like-charged molecules will repel at long ranges when van der Waals forces are too weak to influence the interactions between molecules.

However, a number of molecules that are expected to follow the rules of DLVO theory – such as nucleic acids, liposomes, polymers and colloidal particles in aqueous media – have been shown to possess some level of attraction when like charges are present.

Why do some like charges attract?

Current theories of charge attraction within solvents consider the fluid to be a continuum but overlook some of the finer details of the solvent and how it interacts with solid interfaces. However, new theories suggest that the behaviour of the solvent at an interface has a significant influence on the total interaction free energy of two charge-carrying objects when they approach each other.

The latest study from Krishnan and colleagues showed that the solvent plays an unforeseen but crucial role in interparticle interactions and can break the charge reversal symmetry. The team also found that the degree of interparticle interactions that the solvent is responsible for depends strongly on the pH of the solution.

The researchers used bright-field microscopy to examine a range of solid particles, including inorganic silica, polymeric particles, and polyelectrolyte- and polypeptide-coated surfaces, within various solvents. They found that in an aqueous solution, negatively charged particles attracted each other and formed clusters, while positively charged particles repelled. However, in solvents that have an inverted dipole at an interface – such as alcohols – the opposite was true: positively charged particles attracted each other and negatively charged particles repelled.

“The findings would suggest a major re-calibration of basic principles that we believe govern the interaction of molecules and particles, and that we encounter at an early stage in our schooling and education,” says Krishnan. “The study brings to light an adjustment required of something we regard as a ‘textbook principle’.”

The reason for the like charges attracting each other is attributed to the solvent having a large influence on the interparticle interactions, which can spontaneously assemble the like-charged particles in the solution. This is because the concerted action of electrical charge at the interface and the local interfacial solvation structure generate an “electrosolvation force” between the negatively charged functional groups in the solution, causing the particles to attract each other and cluster.

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The team also found that both the sign and magnitude of the free energy contribution can have an impact on whether the particles form self-assembled systems (a negative free energy will drive spontaneity and self-assembly). It’s thought that these like-charge attractions are responsible for nanometre-scale biological processes, such as biomolecular folding of macromolecules in the body.

When asked about the impact of the study, Krishnan says that “the major open frontier is how this interaction affects biology. Biology is loaded with charge. These forces are the bedrock on which interactions between molecules plays out, influencing the way they come together, are packaged into small spaces, and ultimately carry out their function.”

“These are the most exciting directions, and I hope for us to be able to pursue at least some interesting questions in the general area,” Krishnan adds.

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EZ water can help explain this.

Quote from Aleksandr Nikitin

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the whole world, stimulating progress, giving rise to evolution.” A. Einstein

It may be a good idea to state that LENR as we deal with it here is mainly an experimental science. If you can propose, or even better, perform an experiment that would provide evidence for your theory, we would probably be much more able to grasp your ideas.

We have other theoreticians here that have been able to propose and perform experiments with the aid of experimentalists. The case I personally have been more interested into as an example of theoretical/experimental coupling as presented and discussed in this forum, is the work of Wyttenbach with Alan Smith . It is not an easy theoretical framework to understand, and thus the experimental work is also not easy to interpret, yet it is published and one can peruse it at any pace one is comfortable with.

I have also been intrigued by the work of Alexander Parkhomov, who has done a range of experiments, most of them could be said that are rather crude from an academic research point of view, but at least he has put forward experimental results that are really intriguing, at least to me, specially with regards to the change in concentrations of elements in a solution being circulated around a lightbulb in a closed loop.

I have also spent significant time, and pretend to keep reading more and more of it, as it has become recently available in great amounts, the experimental and theoretical work of Storms , who has IMHO a very exhaustive and comprehensive body of work as evidence in Pd based systems, that I find rather infuriating the world keeps trying to ignore.

I also have to mention that albeit I don't grasp it entirely, the work that Drgenek has done with analysis of experimental results of the so called "Aquafuel" is also interesting to me, mainly because even if there is no agreeement that the phenomena is even possible to be catalogued as LENR, the controversial experimental results and theoretical postulates of Santilli, Randell Mills and Leif Holmlid are fascinating and tantalizing suggestions of non radioactive nuclear energy, and Drgenek has worked extensively to propose a way to explain these results.

Quote from Alan Smith

Many petrol stations in the UK have closed over the last 30 years, but it had nothing to do with EVs. Some have become car-washes, others used-car lots, houses, or mini-markets. This has been going on since the fuel wholesalers raised delivery charges for smaller buyers, instituting a minimum charge. Many of the old fuel outlets had relatively small storage tanks and got squeezed out because they had to charge more. And they probably lacked the capital required to shut down for a month or more to dig up the forecourt and install bigger tanks.

This is probably a worldwide phenomena, I can attest in Chile there are also less and less petrol sellers for the same reasons, and the remainder have had to yield control of their bussinesses to the large petrol companies becoming mere managers of their bussiness, but all assets are frozen as collateral for the investment the big companies put on the petrol station upkeep and periodic gear renovation.

Quote from Alan Smith

You know Aleksander, with all respect I really don't understand the sense of what you are saying. There is no problem with the grammer, I xould probably write a definition of all the words you use. But they still don't make sense.

I have the same problem. I can’t really connect what Aleksandr Nikitin states with observable/measurable phenomena. The closest reference I have is what Alexander Parkhomov claims, about “slow” or “cold” neutrinos being emitted by matter above 1000 degrees Celsius, and that he claims he can detect and measure, but few seem to agree and less have tried to replicate independently.

Quote from RobertBryant

but the power companies only pay back 5 US cents/Kwh. while they. charge 23 c/Kwh..

.. the grid has overheads to pay..

In the Chilean system of grid tied home solar power generation we are charged around USD 18 cents per kWh consumed and we get paid around USD 3.8 cents per injected to the grid.

Quote from Fm1

look on the bright side, you might just see lenr become a reality while most on this forum will be long dead.

Smile sunny

Oh don’t worry, is my usual birthday melancholic mood. Tomorrow I will be feeling my usual optimistic self.

Cold Fusion Birthday:

I was 15 then, I am 50 now.

35 years gone in the blink of an eye.

There was a 1/365 chance of being born

on the same date of cold fusion announcement. Was it a curse or a gift?

The jury is still out.

So, here we are, one more lap around the sun for me, a bittersweet one this time, as Fleischmann and Pons are yet to be vindicated, and now I officialy am, well past the midjourney marker of my life...

Whatever happened to good manners! As in "if you have nothing nice to say, at least remain quiet"?

I just posted this paper here, the authors had the kindness to share it with me and I thought it would be good to post it here. No need to be unpolite.

I have been sent the latest paper published by the team led by Fabio Cardone. With a very exhaustive mathematic analysis, this work proposes a way to control experimental parameters to achieve the nuclear effect through manipulation of energy as a dimension.

https://www.peertechzpublications.org/articles/AMP-7-205.pdf

Abstract

The framework of the Deformed Space-Time theory has been extended in the past from four to five dimensions, where the fifth coordinate is the energy exchanged by the interaction. In this theory, each fundamental interaction is described by an energy-dependent metric.

This picture has been exploited in order to take care of the interaction behaviour both when Lorentz invariance holds and the spacetime is Minkowskian and when Lorentz is violated and must be recovered in a non-minkowskian spacetime.

It has been successfully attempted to complete the pentadimensional metric of the four fundamental interactions calculating the fifth element of the metric corresponding to the fifth coordinate energy.

The mathematical tool exploited is the method of the Ricci flow which gave the complete explicit form of the fifth element of the metric, answering in this way the question of "how the energy measure the energy" for each interaction, setting the electromagnetic interaction as the reference for the energy measure. In this sense it has been given meaning to the problem of the energy gauge for interaction, identifying the gauge with the fifth metric element.

The consequences of the nuclear metamorphosis have been also examined for reaching the technological goal of a device stably producing this metamorphosis under the hadronic metric. The most valuable consequence is that in this pentadimensional picture, the old Einsteinian dream of a complete geometrization of the interactions is reached.

The results achieved in the present work have allowed to design, build, and test of devices capable of exploiting the behavior of the fifth element of the metrics to obtain the production of electric charges directly from the nuclear metamorphosis of the matter.

This is a detailed analysis of the partially crack opened crenelated iron sphere. Highly recommended to watch it as is analyzed in real time.

This is the correct audio synched video of a SEM session devoted to analyzing the scale like residue samples, specifically the portion that reacts to magnetism, produced within bjhuang ’s reactor. It shows a range of the oxygen rich iron crenelated spheres, once again. It shows spheres of a range of sizes, and one in particular with the “shell” broken and allowing to see the content within. This was tantalizing and fascinating to watch.

I still think their work on analyzing the transmutations on the metal layer over the plastic beads was as thorough and as definitive as it could be.

Quote from axil

I ran across a post from Bob Greenyer that explains why the Thor system is useful to clean the exhaust of the big electrical generators as follows:

This is exactly why it is useful right now as it is. Not proof of anything exotic, just useful from a commercial perspective.