Posts by Dr Richard

I think its because he only ever obtains a COP of up to 2 and doesn't want to admit this as a failure. You've studied plasmas, surely you agree that there is no way he could be generating the SK plasma with just a 380 W power supply? The 'hidden' high frequency stimulation not picked up by his old scope might be the answer generating a RF plasma - so when all's said and done the SK probably does what it should do, generates 100% excess heat - the problem is AR just can't resist fiddling the data when he just doesn't need to bother! Old habits die hard I guess.

-publishing your results might certainly support W's patent - has anyone tried engineering his nanowell idea where he proposes the rotatoral collapses could be occurring? Its the only recent patent that is conceivable.

Scribbling on boards and ham video presentations make it all look more 'authentic' - unwary investors are all too used to the polished scamster website presentations. Its a good tactic and cheap too. Why waste cash on this when you can put it into condo's and at the same time sound like Albert Einstein with laryngitis?

I'd buy one just to see what the true input voltage and current values were, whether this is a real engineered LENR device with a realistic COP of 2 -- which would be fine and consistent with all other LENR theory. I mean all that engineering, time money and energy to make what is effectively a hydrogen/argon discharge lamp to Wow his followers with-its not even up to the DIY fusor grade! Please can I have one, AR, you may have solved the world energy crisis with a COP of 2 but are unnecessarily screwing up the data to again unnecessarily make things look way better than they really are. A COP of 2 is all you need for now.

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There's nothing wrong with the power out calculations, but the power input measurements are BS (consistent with all his previous demos). The observed plasma would require AT LEAST 250 volts to generate (not 0.25 V) and in its low/negative resistance pre-arcing region could be only 78 ohm (maybe the only real figure AR is reporting!). So the current must have been in the 1-3 amps region, not 0.0032........his numbers are so obviously fiddled its ludicrous - 27kW power from a 0.0032 amp circuit?

If the power output is 27 kW then the power input to drive the plasma is probably half that (13.5 kW) assuming a realistic LENR COP of 2. Why does he have to ruin it all by making a ridiculous claim of a COP of 57? I bet a COP of about 2 is what an independent replication would show.

If you look at the final summary of all the latest ICCF-21 meeting the consensus COP maximum after all that hard work and effort worldwide was a factor of 2, and Brillouin Energy have boosted this recently to 2.2. So all AR needs to show/prove is that the SK can at least do this, nothing more, nothing less. That's the bottom line, so his customers get 20% and Leonardo make on the rest (80%) so isn't everybody happy? LENR becomes a proven commercial reality, a pity it can only produce a small amount of energy, but if that energy is produced cleanly and consistently over the whole planet - its a technology along with renewables that will potentially save the planet when all the fossil fuels run out. Mainstream physicists will have to accept this new tech works - its nothing spectacular but it 'does what it says on the tin'.......so why not give AR the benefit of the doubt - we all know about his chequered history - be more positive and look forward to the day his E-cat SK is independently verified/replicated. I mean with mass production what would be the price? In materials, maybe $50? Not bad for a cheap heater that kicks out twice what you input electrically so on the domestic level maybe Dyson could make it? The utility companies will not be interested though until all the cheap oil, coal and gas has run out

A very good assessment of the field - I suppose the other three light elements capable of fusion reactions Be, B and C could be thrown into the mix as well - C as diamond nanodust maybe after the LION data? And what about lasers if Holmlid's ideas prove correct?

The energy comes from a massive electrical arc discharge - like lightning (which is thought to release neutrons ie induce nuclear reactions - hence the confusion)

A 100W laser is not going to generate muons, that's the problem with this paper - be nice if it did, but all other studies show that much higher energies (eg in cosmic radiation) are required. As you say, wishful thinking.

The Hinckley Point reactor plan should be abandoned for other reasons apart from the ridiculous price and tax-payer rip off - that area is prone to sea surge flooding well documented over the last thousand years - we'll end up with another Fukushima!

Diversification into LENR might also increase his funding - its hard to predict. I'll try and piece together a proposal and see what happens. Worth a try?

R.Mills is probably a better bet to work with than Rossi if we can persuade him to work on LENR.

That's what I was suggesting by using sustainable dusty plasmas - they even call it a 'nuclear light bulb' all theoretical modelling so far

- and they're thinking of triggering fusion reactions with dusty plasmas too -

Fission‐Fusion Neutron Source
George Chapline1and Rodney Clarke2
1LLNL, 2Grassmere Dynamics, Huntsville, AL
We are currently pursuing a novel concept for producing intense pulses of neutrons
using the DT fusion reaction. In this new scheme the heating of the DT is accomplished
using fission fragments rather than ion beams as in conventional magnet fusion schemes or
lasers in ICF schemes. This has the great advantage that there is no need for any large
auxiliary power source. Our scheme does require large magnetic fields, but generating these
fields, e.g. with superconducting magnets, requires only a modest power source. As a source
of fission fragments we propose using a dusty reactor concept introduced some time ago by
one of us (RC) [1]. This reactor would operate as a thermal neutron reactor and use as fuel
micron sized pellets of UC.
Our scheme for using fission fragments to produce intense pulses of 14 MeV neutrons is
based on the fission fragment (FF) rocket idea [2,3]. In the FF rocket scheme it was
contemplated that the FFs produced in a low density reactor core would then be guided out
of the reactor by large magnetic fields. In our fission‐fusion neutron source the FFs exiting a
FF rocket would be used to heat DT gas confined in an adjacent magnetic trap (see Fig 1).
Fig. 1 Scheme for using fission fragments to produce fusion neutrons

Or maybe upgrade this recent fission fragment reactor research recently commissioned by NASA to run on hot/cold fusion recipes too? Very Interesting.

A Half-Gigawatt Space Power System using Dusty Plasma

Fission Fragment Reactor

Robert B. Sheldon1,2, Rodney L. Clark1

1Grassmere Dynamics, LLC, Gurley, AL 35748-8909 256-776-9471 rod.clark@grassmeredynamics.com

1,2RB Sheldon Consulting, Huntsville, AL 35803 256-6538592; [email protected]

Abstract. A dusty plasma nuclear fission fragment reactor employs a cloud of nanometer-sized dust of fissionable

material inside a magnetized moderator. The negatively charged dust, free electrons, and positively charged ions

form a 3-component “dusty plasma” that can be confined and manipulated as charged fluid. The nanometer dust has

such a large surface to volume ratio, that it is capable of remaining solid at 3000K while radiating 10-100 GW of

radiant power, as discussed in previous work. This ``nuclear light bulb” power source solves the intractable

problems of previous designs: confining charged dust rather than hot gas; eliminating the need for quartz windows;

and not requiring gas cooling. Unlike previous designs the radiation is in the near-infrared, so that conversion to

electricity is inefficient. While Brayton-cycle power converters are often advertised as a space power solution, they

require additional radiators and additional mass. Several recent technologies, however, can convert NIR into electric

power at improved efficiency and with no moving parts. We model the conversion efficiency of a space system

consisting of radiators, moderator, direct fission-fragment converter, and IR converter panels as a viable solution to

the growing need for MW space power system

"BlackLight Power (BLP), founded 17 years ago as HydroCatalysis, announced last week that the company had successfully tested a prototype power system that would generate 50 KW of thermal power. BLP anticipates delivery of the new power system in 12 to 18 months. The BLP process, discovered by Randy Mills, is said to coax hydrogen atoms into a "state below the ground state", called the "hydrino." There is no independent scientific confirmation of the hydrino, and BLP has a patent problem. So they have nothing to sell but bull shit. The company is therefore dependent on investors with deep pockets and shallow brains."

Oh well, has anything changed? Could we persuade Randy to work on LENR since his other projects don't seem to be going anywhere fast? His spherical Suncell reactor could easily be adapted into a PULVA1 complex plasma reactor or a SAFIRE/ST40 hybrid - he's the man with the lab and the cash if he can be persuaded. But I'm probably barking up the wrong tree - those with the cash and resources are all too stuck in their own vested interest ruts.

Obviously. Our basic understanding of nuclear physics is just totally inadequate to enable controlled release of energy from fusion reactions at the present time. Very frustrating situation because most of us perceive how close we are to actually achieving it - my criticism is directed at the perpetual patenting of ideas for their potential commercial exploitation rather than spending the time and money on practical, innovative experimentation which is probably the only way we will invent efficient fusion reactors by the end of this century. I just made a simple suggestion to experimentally combine hot and cold fusion technologies - a SAFIRE/ST40 hybrid - maybe throw in some fissile material too if we need more neutrons - ie remove the scientific bias that has inevitably arisen for the different schools of thought. Still no price cut in second-hand tokamaks yet though, so only small-scale experiments are possible (like pressure-cooker dimensions?).

The UK is facing a huge energy crisis with the planned new fission reactors apart from Hinckley being cancelled (probably because all our politicians have turned into decerebrate Brexit morons and couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.) So there's a big opportunity for fusion reactors if we can knock something together with LENR quickly - let's see if AR will be willing to donate a few shipping containers full of SK's and plonk them down on the sites planned for reactors (which are half-finished) in Cumbria. Would the UK government be a suitable customer for AR? We could always front it through EDF. Alternatively, could Brillouin Energy supply enough hot tubes to keep our lights on? Time to stop pissing about and USE this tech for f''''s sake!

That's it, vacuum polarization of electron positron pairs by Hawking (or Unruh) radiation releases sufficient energy to induce fusion reactions.

I wasn't suggesting any stigma - but hey I just thought of a new board game based on the periodic table - how many different ways we can fuse elements to make Pt or Au? The possibilities are endless if we allow fission of heavier elements as well!!