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  • Generator Tarasenko based on the model of the planet Earth

    Quote from Paradigmnoia

    Actually, I live a port which is fairly old. Old enough that I was told by an old man that his grandfather and dad had both collected the rock specimens for junior school project from the bay, in their youth. The bay has a fantastic variety of rocks from all over the world, especially heavy ones, because the sail ships had dumped their ballasts there in order to load even more goods.

    Just as you point out, Human activity can create deposits of stuff that much later puzzle the people unaware of the facts. Terra Preta deposits on the Amazonian Basin are such a puzzling remnant of a forgotten past.

  • LENR vs Solar/Wind, and emerging Green Technologies.

    Quote from Lenora

    Hope the members of this LENR Forum agree that certain Nuclear Fission reactor designs are green, clean, and must be deployed prolifically to solve global Energy Impoverishment that is oppressing the lower 3 billion in abject poverty and causing over 40 million to die each year.

    Furthermore, if the climate truly is warming, solving energy impoverishment ASAP will accelerate progress to solving climate via developing countries obtaining health and wealth.

    Finally, the so-called "nuclear waste" of SNF/HLW/Pu is actually valuable fuel and one special FC-MSR(e) design can theoretically TRANSMUTE long-lived high-level radiation persistence to low-level ~ 100 years decay!
    (compared to other designs reaching ~ 300 years at best)

    Hello, you will find that we are probably split in that respect, I think you can take a look at this thread:


    Thread
    Conventional Nuclear (AKA Nuclear Fission) a thread for discussion of the pros / cons.
    […]

    That is regarding this article:

    Britain could build seven nuclear power stations - minister (msn.com)

    It says they could build 7 nukes by 2050. That may be true, but Putin will be long gone by that time. He will die of old age, or be deposed. He is reportedly sick with cancer so he may not live much longer:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/…tion-cancer-b2049297.html

    Anyway, perhaps they could build 7 nukes, but I think it would be a lot cheaper and safer to build an equivalent generating capacity…
    JedRothwell


    I personally think of LFTRs as the nuclear technology we should already have.


    There’s also a proposal for hybrid Fission / Cold Fusion reactor proposed by a Brazilian team.


    We agree that the nuclear waste is a potential source of energy and transmutation for resources, and Cold Fusion can make it much more attractive, already the company Aureon Energy has this at the core of their business model to market their SAFIRE reactor, a technology for which there’s a general agreement it belongs to the LENR category.

  • The Playground

    I shared this report in the telegram chat group, it is a fascinating read about an puzzling Iron chunk with bizarre characteristics left forgotten in a former Jesuit Monastery Foundry in Chile since they were banned by the King during Spanish colonial times. I have suspected this has some LENR ties for some years. Perhaps some of you will find also tantalizing as I do.

  • Cavitation (sonofusion) reactor from B-J. Huang et al.

    Quote from Drgenek

    Bob Greenyer has commented on Sundaresananomalousr.pdf (lenr-canr.org). What is odd about the Sundaresan report is that no iron is formed if oxygen is exclude from the water by displacement with nitrogen. To repeat, no oxygen solubilized tin the water results in no iron production. If applicable to BJ Huang, then one would expect no neon if there was no soluble oxygen.


    Bob proposes that the first product of transmutation in Sundaresan reaction is oxygen-17. This is same as in the latest BJ Huang presentation. He further proposed the second step would produce carbon-12 and iron-56 (as compared to carbon-12 and neon-22 per BJ Huang).


    Bob proposes the catalyst for fusion is magneto toroidal structure. He proposes this catalyst consumes relic neutrinos to form. Further, he claims the structure has magnetic, or electrical or gravimetry properties that allow fusion.

    This is what Bob presented at the ICCF-25, which he expanded on (almost 4 hours) past sunday (I have skimmed through it, not seen it entirely). The Sundaresan and Bockris paper from 1994 uses about the same broad kind of experimental setup that produces the "magnegas" from water and carbon rods, but Sundaresan and Bockris focused on the rods themselves, completely overlooking the produced gas. Santilli also has seen transmutation on the rods, he did not focus on it much, but has seen it and published some about it. I recall some characteristic silicon spherules that looked the same than those that Slobodan Stankovic observed in his carbon rods exposed to HHO gas flame.


    The Sonofusion also creates charge separation, probably not as in high volume as the electric arc, but is also intense and repeated in multiple instances for each cavitation collapse event during the whole process. Bob thinks the presence of Hydrogen is key to the formation of the structure that causes the reaction (be it EVO, Magnetoroelectric moment, Monopole...) and Oxygen is key for the ocurrence of the transmutation in a particular way.


    He also delved into the possible positive effects for health of these estructures, it is as always a very entertaining presentation, but requires a lot of time and focus to follow it properly, and probably being acquainted with previous ones, as some stuff can only be properly appreciated if one has been following him for a while.

  • Cavitation (sonofusion) reactor from B-J. Huang et al.

    Quote from Wyttenbach

    This looks not like a serious source amu means atomic mass unit and says nothing about physical density. All gases occupy more or less the same volume. Mass increase for hydrogen is impossible...

    What Santilli has stated and proven experimentally is that in the same volume and at the samem pressure, the Hydrogen separated from Magnegas, dubbed Magnehydrogen, weights a multiple of the same volume of Hydrogen at the same pressure. He says this is because the molecules are attracted to each other by magnetism, after being subject to an intense electromagnetic field as the one that is created by a DC Arc of several kW.


    It is common knowlegde of Chemistry that 1 a.m.u. means 1 gram per mol, and moles of gases occupy always the same volume at the same pressure, if one gas has 7x more a.m.u. than other, at the same pressure , it weights 7 times more.The why is not for me to decide, I am just relaying what Santilli found in his experiments.

  • Cavitation (sonofusion) reactor from B-J. Huang et al.

    Quote from Drgenek

    The data I cited was in the analysis in my patent application and is based on AquaFuel not Santilli.


    Article by Santilli on AquaFuel states the torque/energy produced by AquaFuel in an engine test was 90% of that obtained with gasoline. That would be 40.087 kj per gm. One skilled in chemical engineering can calculate the expected kj/gm of AquaFuel based on the chemical composition as provided by NASA. That would be 13.2375 kj/gm. Hence by division one obtains 3.028 times more energy/torque than explained by chemical composition.

    Yes I know Drgenek , I was more than anything addressing the concern of this not being “properly published”. The Aquafuel results obtained by Bill Richardson are with water, the ones reported by Santilli are with waste anti freeze coolant.


    Anyway I don’t know if you are aware that Bill Richardson was associated with Santilli who was CSO of Richardson’s company and the Aquafuel reports were produced under Santilli’s guidance. Richardson claims he was cheated off of his IP by the company’s lawyer in favor of Santilli. Sad story. Anyway Richardson also reports an anomalous energy balance of his Aquafuel process that has a COP above 3 at least, considering all the energy inputs required (even for gas compression).

  • Cavitation (sonofusion) reactor from B-J. Huang et al.

    Quote from Wyttenbach

    I never read this figure from Santilli and nobody did write a paper with this claim, Classically magnefuel did compress gasoline by about 10% what resulted in 10% more energy/volume but not relative to mass.

    I can’t check it right now, but if I recall correctly, one paper published by Santilli in the IJHE states that the weight per cubic feet, at the same pressure, of one mole of Magnehydrogen vs normal hydrogen in one paper is 4x. This is way more than 10%.

  • Ultra-dense hydrogen and Rydberg matter—a more informal general discussion thread

    Quote from gio06

    Is Holmlid 0.023 angstrom D-D separation a signature of a triple D Efimov state enabling Deuterium fusion?


    "Badiei, Holmlid and associates have postulated the existence of metastable "ultradense deuterium" because they have observed 315 eV deuterium after laser pulse induced coulomb explosions, indicating a separation between two deuterium atoms of 0.023 angstrom. Instead of "ultradense deuterium", the 315 eV deuterium signal might be the signature of a triple deuterium Efimov state induced by the laser pulse. In the triple D state the average D separation would be 0.023 angstrom; the energy might be around 120 eV. Sometimes, the 3 D's would fuse to alpha + D, rarely to T + 3 He. This would explain the amounts 4 He >> T >> neutrons observed often in LENR electrolysis, glow discharge, laser pulse, and deuteron beam experiments. The Efimov state might relax to a lower Efimov state with an average D separation of 0.52 angstrom, giving a solid kick to the surrounding nuclei, creating heat. A deuterium glow discharge lamp with a zirconium deuteride cathode on the wall might demonstrate the existence of "Efimov fusion". Ultradense Deuterium? Badiei, Holmlid and their associates [1-13] induced coulomb explosions in D2 adsorbed to potassium promoted iron oxide dehydrogenation catalyst by laser pulses. By time-of-flight measurements they observed many particles at 315 eV [1-4]. They deduced a separation between two deuterons of 0.023 angstrom. Accelerations of deuterons from other naked nuclei of the catalyst would not explain the 315 eV signal [1]. They therefore postulated the existence of metastable ultradense deuterium, where D's are separated by 0.023 angstrom."

    Engvild is a member here also, gio06 .

  • Frank Gordon / Harper Whitehouse - the LEC -collected papers

    Quote from Alan Smith

    These are some of the entry requirements for the IEEE. My answers in Bold.

    • How sustainable is the product or service you have in mind?
    • Yes- All components are 100% recyclable or re-usable in refurbished systems. Nothing wears out or becomes contaminated in use.
    • Are you minimizing the use of materials in your manufacturing process?
    • Yes - Everything in the LEC has a function, usually more than one. There is no waste.
    • Are you minimizing transportation distances for source materials or the finished product?
    • Yes. 90% of a LEC's could be manufactured close to end users - and possibly using local scrap materials as a major component source.
    • Can the product be manufactured locally, reducing further transport as much as possible?
    • Yes- see above
    • Can your light source be locally repaired?
    • The LEC can be built and repaired locally, only the inexpensive LED chips need to be imported in a finished state.
    • Can the manufacturing process and facility be easily replicated elsewhere?
    • Yes- built almost anywhere with easily trained labour.
    • Is your solution energy efficient?
    • The LEC is very efficient - it is possible that 1Mol of hydrogen gas could power a small 3rd or 4th generation LEC for a century.**
    • Can the light source materials be recycled, leading to a circular economy?
    • Yes - LEC components themselves will create a circular economy, because they are durable and reusable for decades..
    • Does the business model you are proposing support product sustainability or a sustainable market?
    • Yes- a unique level of sustainability is the central platform for this technology
    • Are you sufficiently describing your end-user payment processes?
    • We foresee training the people who currently live by selling kerosene and candles to make and/or sell LECs, ensuring co-operation and support.


    **1Mol of H2 is 22.4 litres at STP. That would refill a lot of LECs- even bigger ones.

    All of these 100% achievable, it’s really interesting, are you already filling the application form? How exciting!

  • Frank Gordon / Harper Whitehouse - the LEC -collected papers

    Ok Alan Smith , thanks for that clarification, I am aware that for more power from a single LEC bigger surface is the solution, but I was thinking, in the sense of considering each LEC plate as a battery, that the stacking could be in series if more voltage was needed and in parallell if more amperage was required, in order to achieve the VxI combination required to power the LED.