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  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    I Imagine each 'schools' each other in different ways... the slang phase, I schooled 'ya, comes to mind.

    I'll spare/spar the etymology lesson which is inferred in this sentence.


    On another note... As an amateur scientific research investigative journalist, I am interested in all things relevant to (what is popularly known as 'cold fusion') LENR science. As such, I am fascinated by some of the controversies surrounding the sun. Thanks for your thoughts.


    By the way,,, "love" as in: To wish one wellbeing. To hope their heart's dreams, hopes and desires are not thwarted. May at least a few come true... with due respect.

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Quote from THHuxleynew

    PS - since GB's argument leads to an absurd conclusion (that Rossi has cracked cold fusion) you don't actually need the facts to deduce that it is wrong. But, it is always good to ignore such reverse argument and work it out from first principles.

    "Lends credence" is not a conclusion... I'm concluding this.


    Can you lend further credence to your comment? I am not sure whether or not I agree with you.

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Quote from H-G Branzell

    Surprise ...

    Another excuse... I'm blond. It's nice having a reason others can understand. How about you @H-G Branzell what's your reasoning? Anything to add to this? Some deep and profound thoughts about this work perhaps? Go ahead... take another shot at it. Surprise me. Or is that all you've got? That would be... there's not another 'surprise' from you for me.

    A sad state of affairs. Or not?

    Surprise! I love you!

    Don't strain. (except in the nuclear reactive environment of LENR research)

    Don't be shy.


    Shyster


    Shyster is a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law, sometimes also politics or business.


    The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "of obscure origin", possibly deriving from a historical sense of "shy" meaning disreputable, whereas the Merriam-Webster Dictionary deemed it probably based on the German Scheisser [Scheißer] literally "defecator". Various false etymologies have suggested an anti-Semitic origin, possibly associated with the character of Shylock from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, but there is no clear evidence for this. One source asserts that the term originated in Philadelphia in 1843 from a disreputable attorney named "Schuster." A book published in 2013 traces the first use back to 1843, when scammers in New York City would exploit prisoners by pretending to be lawyers. These scammers were disparagingly referred to as "shisers", meaning "worthless people" in British slang, which in turn was originally derived from the German "Scheißer" (literally: shitter).


    Strain


    Science and technology

    • Strain (biology), variants of plants, viruses or bacteria; or an inbred animal used for experimental purposes
    • Strain (chemistry), a chemical stress of a molecule
    • Strain (injury), an injury to a muscle (tear in tendon) in which the muscle fibers tear as a result of over-stretching
    • Strain (mechanics), a geometrical measure of deformation representing the relative displacement between particles in a material body
    • Filtration, separating solids from fluids (liquids or gases) by interposing a medium through which only the fluid can pass
    • Percolation, the movement and filtering of fluids (or gases) through porous materials
    • Psychological stress

    Arts and media

    • Strain (manga), a 1996 manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura, and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami
    • Strain (music), a series of musical phrases that create a distinct melody of a piece
    • Strain (album), a 2004 album by Flesh Field
    • Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry, a 2006 anime

    Places

    • Strain, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Richland Township of the Southern United States
    • Strain, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, USA

    Other uses

    • Strain (surname)
    • Strain (bridge), the indication of either the trump suit or notrump in a bid made in the game of contract bridge; also called a denomination

    See also... Overwork

    • Strain theory (disambiguation)
    • Strainer, a type of sieve used to separate solids from liquids, e.g. in cooking
    • The Strain
    • Stressor

    Surprise

    • Surprise (emotion), a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event

    Science and mathematics

    • Surprise (apple), a pink-fleshed apple

    Places

    • Surprise, Arizona
    • Surprise, Indiana
    • Surprise, Nebraska
    • Surprise, New York
    • Surprise Station, California or Surprise, California
    • Surprise Valley

    Entertainment

    • "Surprise" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), episode 13 of season 2 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    • Surprise (1991 film), a 1991 short by Pixar
    • Surprise (2015 film), a 2015 Chinese film
    • Surprise! (film), a 1995 short by Veit Helmer
    • ¡Sorpresa!, a TV network whose name means "Surprise!" in Spanish

    Music

    • 5urprise, a South Korean band
    • Surprise Records, a record label
    • Surprise Symphony, nickname of Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)

    Albums

    • Surprise (Better Than Ezra album), 1990 by Better Than Ezra
    • Surprise (Crystal Waters album), 1991 by Crystal Waters
    • Surprise (Lynsey De Paul album), 1973 by Lynsey De Paul
    • Surprise (Paul Simon album), 2006 by Paul Simon, released
    • Surprise (S.E.S. album), 2001 by S.E.S.
    • Surprise (Sylvia album), by country music singer Sylvia
    • Surprises (Herbie Mann album), 1976 featuring Cissy Houston
    • Surprise!, by Fifteen

    Songs

    • "Surprise!" (Bonnie Pink song), 1996 by Bonnie Pink
    • "Surprises", by Billy Joel from the album Nylon Curtain, 1982
    • "Surprise", by James from the album Millionaires, 1999
    • "Surprise", by Jolin Tsai from the album Lucky Number, 2001
    • "Surprise", by Sugababes from the album Change, 2007

    People

    • Surprise Moriri (born 1980), a South African footballer

    Ships

    • HMS Surprise, the name of several British Royal Navy ships; also,
    • HMS Surprise (replica ship), a modern tall ship, built at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • HMS Surprise (novel), a 1973 historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian
    • USS Surprise, the name of several United States Navy ships
    • Surprise (1777 ship), the first American naval ship of the name
    • Surprize, a British East India Company merchant ship
    • Surprise, a privateer schooner launched in 1813 in the U.S. that captured more than 30 British vessels before wrecking in 1815
    • Surprise (clipper), an 1850 clipper ship in the San Francisco and tea trades
    • Surprise (paddle steamer), the first paddle steamer, and the first steam powered vessel, built and run in Australia
    • Surprise (schooner), built in 1917-18 and still providing daily cruises for tourists on Penobscot Bay
    • Royal Escape (1660 ship), the ex-collier Surprise.

    See also

    • Surprise factor, a storytelling technique
    • Self-information, a concept in information theory
    • Shock

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Alan Smith

    You are most welcome. If any of this GRC/PineScie/Venture/JWK/SPAWAR LENR group is relevant to Rossi, in my opinion, it lends credence that the 'cold fusion' puzzle has indeed been cracked and fine tuned. Has Rossi cracked it? I think so. Also credence to the thought that fusion does occur in the lattice, though it may be in nano locations where temps are as hot as the sun (sort-of-as in cavitation); which would mean this could hardly be 'cold' fusion. Pardon me I'm a lay-person.


    I'm surprised where this skill set query led to... applied engineering. Though it could be argued that each person's skills were only turned to perfecting a functioning, reliable, adequate and applicable LENR energy reactor. I would consider the argument frivolous, as it would be a frivolous and wasteful utilization if one limited the use of this large skill set to such a small endeavor.


    Will we see LENR flight before we see a home/consumer certified E-Cat (LENR device)?


    These folks' skills (and resources) cause me to believe so. I rank the possibility into three categories. We will have LENR spaceflight first. We will see military flight second (we may have it before we see it). We will have commercial LENR aircraft soon afterwards. Concurrent with all of this we will see both industrial and power plant use of LENR energy. Finally we will see LENR powered consumer products and a home certified E-Cat unit.


    This may all end up taking place in a surprisingly short time frame.


    I appreciate editing suggestions, advice and relevant leads. (415) 548-3735


    I've decided to fold this skill set information into:

    'United States Government LENR Energy 2018'

    https://gbgoble.kinja.com/unit…18-a-review-of-1822335542

    Reviewing twenty five years of U.S. funded ‘cold fusion’ projects including patents, contracts, publications and public/private sector partnership efforts towards LENR energy applied engineering and LENR energy commercialization.


    Of course, it may take a bit of time to do so. :/

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Michael Becks, Vantage Partners LLC, is an engineer who specializes in mechanical system test and analysis. His experience gives the GRC/PineScie/VantagePartners LENR research team intimate access to the world's largest space environment simulation chamber.


    Michael Becks

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-becks-7b762378

    Mansfield, Ohio Area - ‎Mechanical Engineer - ‎Vantage Partners LLC

    "While lead engineer on the Cryoshroud Refurbishment Project for the Space Power Facility at NASA Plum Brook Station, my responsibilities included analysis of the Cryofloor Transfer Cart to ensure it was capable of supporting the Orion MPCV. I was also responsible for analyzing the Cryowall Panel Support Structure to ..."


    NASA AeroSpace Frontiers, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2014

    https://www.nasa.gov/sites/def…/files/AFJune_2014(2).pdf

    Orion's First Test Flight (page 2)

    Orion Program Commendation Awards

    Mike Becks - Cyroschroud Refurbishment Team


    NASA Michael Becks

    https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160010440

    NASA Associate Administrators Awards 2014

    ERA Project and ITD Teams, ARC, AFRC, GRC & LaRC Winners - Michael Becks

    https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office…ards-2015-era-winners.htm


    The Cyroshroud at the Plum Brook Space Power Facility (SPF) test chamber.

    https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/facilities/spf/

    Cryoshroud

    • Variable geometry
    • Can be configured inside the test chamber
    • Cryoshroud is 12.80 m wide by 24.38 m long (42 by 80 ft) with a 6.71-m (22-ft) height
    • Alternate configuration—12.19-m- (40-ft)-diameter cylinder by 12.19 m (40 ft) tall
    • Ten individual zones with separate temperature control
    • Temperatures from ambient to –156.67°C (–250°F)
    • Temperature transition of 0.56°C (1°F) per min

    Space Power Facility

    The Space Power Facility (SPF) houses the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities. The Space Simulation Vacuum Chamber is the world’s largest, measuring 30.5 m (100 ft) in diameter by 37.2 m (122 ft) high. The Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility (RATF) is the world’s most powerful spacecraft acoustic test chamber, and the Mechanical Vibration Facility (MVF) is the world’s highest capacity and most powerful spacecraft shaker system. The SPF is located at the NASA’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. This website provides information on the capabilities of this facility and the supporting infrastructure. The facility is available on a full-cost reimbursable basis to government, universities and the private sector.




    On a side note, Vantage Partners participates in NEAT at NASA Plum Brook Station.

    Perhaps useful for the NASA SUGAR - LENR Phase lll program or the NASA/PineScie end goal.


    'X-57 Maxwell [SCEPTOR] Project'

    https://www.energytech.org/wp-…nfiguration-23Oct2017.pdf

    Testing conducted October 2016

    NASA, Glenn Research Center

    Plum Brook Station, Ohio

    NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) Facility


    Traction Bus Wire, EMI/EMC, Test Report Summary

    Traction Bus Conductor Evaluation Test Team Members


    Support Resource:


    Ying C Cha (GRC/LED0) [Vantage Partners, LLC]

    NASA Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) Facility, Test Lead Electrical Engineer


    H Olar (GRC/LSS0) [Vantage Partner, LLC]

    NEAT Software Engineer


    Michael D Herlacher (GRC/LED0) [Vantage Partner, LLC]
    Electrical Engineer IV, EMI Engineering


    NASA Electric Aircraft Test Bed (NEAT) Development Plan - Design, Fabrication, Installation 2016 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20160010440


    As large airline companies compete to reduce emissions, fuel, noise, and maintenance costs, it is expected that more of their aircraft systems will shift from using turbofan propulsion, pneumatic bleed power, and hydraulic actuation, to instead using electrical motor propulsion, generator power, and electrical actuation. This requires new flight-weight and flight-efficient powertrain components, fault tolerant power management, and electromagnetic interference mitigation technologies. Moreover, initial studies indicate some combination of ambient and cryogenic thermal management and relatively high bus voltages when compared to state of practice will be required to achieve a net system benefit. Developing all these powertrain technologies within a realistic aircraft architectural geometry and under realistic operational conditions requires a unique electric aircraft testbed. This report will summarize existing testbed capabilities located in the U.S. and details the development of a unique complementary testbed that industry and government can utilize to further mature electric aircraft technologies.


    PDF https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/….nasa.gov/20160010440.pdf

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Thanking a friend for pointing me to this lead, the skills of Annette M. Marsolais, Vantage Partners LLC. She is an engineer who specializes in microstructural and compositional characterization of materials as well as surface and near-surface chemical analysis. She worked at the Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials as an instructor and demonstrator. http://engineering.case.edu/conference/asaw/instructors_and_demonstrators

    As a fully trained user she is permitted independent access to the lab which has this equipment.


    Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

    - FEI Quanta 3D Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope with Focused Ion Beam and XEDS

    - FEI Nova Nanolab 200 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with Focused Ion Beam, XEDS and EBSD

    - FEI Helios 650 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with Focused Ion Beam with XEDS

    Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

    - FEI Tecnai F30 300kV Transmission Electron Microscope

    X-Ray Diffraction

    - Bruker Discover D8 with VANTEC-500 solid state detector (2D)

    - Bruker Discover D8 (1D)

    Surface Analysis

    - PHI 680 Scanning Auger Microprobe

    - PHI Versaprobe 5000 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy/ESCA

    - PHI TRIFT V nanoTOF Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (TOF-SIMS)

    Atomic Force and Scanning Probe Microscopy/Nanoindentation

    - Agilent G200 Nanoindenter

    - Veeco Dimension 3100 Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

    Optical Microscopy

    - Olympus FV1000 Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope

    - Keyence Olympus VHX 5000

    Specimen Preparation

    - Gatan Ilion+ Ion Polisher

    - Gatan PIPS

    - Fischione Nanomill


    SCSAM

    http://engineering.case.edu/centers/scsam/


    Quote:


    The Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials is one of Case Western Reserve University’s largest core facilities, providing a variety of instrumentation for the microstructural and compositional characterization of materials as well as surface and near-surface chemical analysis. The Center’s equipment is complemented by a staff of professionals who are available to assist and train academic, research, and commercial users.


    Fully trained users are permitted independent access to the lab, while users with particularly difficult samples or those who are unsure how to obtain the best possible data can utilize the services of a staff expert. Some of the routine services offered include guidance with sample preparation, technical assistance to obtain data, and data analysis. Each year more than 250 individual researchers from the academic, non-profit, and commercial sectors utilize the Center. From providing access to equipment that would otherwise not be available to startup companies to training industrial users how to efficiently extract useful information, the Center for Surface Analysis of Materials supports regional economic growth. - end quotes

    © 2018 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, 216.368.2000

    Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials

    10900 Euclid Ave ( White Building 418), 216.368.3868


    Now I'd like to understand what skills Tracy Kamm brings to the table. She's also with Vantage Partners, so far all I find is this, (thanking) ...Tracy Kamm, and Dave Hervol for database and record support.

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Quote from Zeus46

    If you mix up photons with electrons :thumbdown:


    I know already... watch out the electron might just spit that photon back at you.


    Quote from Shane D.

    I for one, and probably Ahlfors...since he is the one to uncover this NASA/JWK/GEC/SPAWAR/Pines connection, just can not figure out how this Vladimir Pines, at his age, has become so important to the NASA program, such that they (NASA), evoke national security to "one bid" his contract again? So many questions, so few answers. Nice reporting, but obviously the NASA/LENR world is not going to give up it's deeper secrets willingly.


    Thanks extended to both Ahlfors and you for relevant leads.


    I look to scratching my head over this for quite some time... how does the study of moon dust further the field of LENR?

    I expect some of you physicists to see the connection and help me out here; I'll take a stab at it. Let me know what you think.

    Ahlfors  axil

    From 1990 through 2011 Vladimir Pines studied and modeled dendrites; primarily he studied and modeled solar plasma winds impacting the moon and their affect on lunar dust, as well as worked on the fundamentals of dusty plasma transport and control. In 2009 NASA bought these models from him... In order to mitigate moon dust? For dusty plasma transport and control? To understand charged dust behavior? To aid in modeling control/performance of LENR?


    Since 2011 or shortly thereafter NASA and PineScie realized these items could be applied to understand and model the nuclear reactive environment of LENR. Lawrence Forsely and others were brought in... followed by years of reactor design and patent writing.


    I cringe at the thought of this headline and the negative affect it would have on the field.


    STUDY OF MOONDUST AIDS LENR - No more kidding around


    (comment #13)

    NASA Solicitation: Scientific Analysis of Solar Wind Plasma Charged Dust on the Moon (From 2009)

    Quote

    NASA/GRC intends to purchase the items from PineSci Consulting and its principal Dr. Vladimir Pines. Dr. Pines has recently developed the first lunar specific aspects of solar wind plasma, as well as worked on the fundamentals of dusty plasma transport and control. Dr. Pines has published in the fields of statistical physics, phase transitions, and plasma physics. Two of his most recent and relevant studies were published in the Journal of Advances in Space Research for the past two years. The analysis required will enable NASA to understand charged dust behavior on the moon, a key issue identified by NASA as potential mission hazard.

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Study this NASA document and it seems that this LENR energy group, at NASA GRC, has been working on this long before December 2015.


    Also note "NASA Terms: Energy Sources, Alternatives, Nuclear, Spacecraft Power Supplies, Manned Mars Missions, Deep Space"; these are clues as to where this is going. -gbgoble2018


    Quote:

    This Revised Copy, numbered as NASA/TM—2015-218491/REV1, February 2017, supersedes the previous version, NASA/TM—2015-218491, December 2015, in its entirety. - end quote


    Investigation of Deuterium Loaded Materials Subject to X-Ray Exposure

    https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/….nasa.gov/20170002544.pdf


    Author and Affiliation:

    Benyo, Theresa L. (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH United States)

    Steinetz, Bruce M. (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH United States)

    Hendricks, Robert C. (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH United States)

    Martin, Richard E. (Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH, United States)

    Forsley, Lawrence P. (JWK International Co., Annandale, VA, United States)

    Daniels, Christopher C. (Akron Univ., Akron, OH, United States)

    Chait, Arnon (NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH United States)

    Pines, Vladimir (Pinesci Consulting, Avon Lake, OH, United States)

    Pines, Marianna (Pinesci Consulting, Avon Lake, OH, United States)

    Penney, Nicholas (Ohio Aerospace Inst., Brook Park, OH, United States)

    Kamm, Tracy R. (Vantage Partners, LLC, Cleveland, OH, United States)

    Becks, Michael D. (Vantage Partners, LLC, Cleveland, OH, United States)


    Abstract:

    Results are presented from an exploratory study involving x-ray irradiation of select deuterated materials. Titanium deuteride plus deuterated polyethylene, deuterated polyethylene alone, and for control, hydrogen-based polyethylene samples and nondeuterated titanium samples were exposed to x-ray irradiation. These samples were exposed to various energy levels from 65 to 280 kV with prescribed electron flux from 500 to 9000 µA impinging on a tungsten braking target, with total exposure times ranging from 55 to 280 min. Gamma activity was measured using a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector, and for all samples no gamma activity above background was detected. Alpha and beta activities were measured using a gas proportional counter, and for select samples beta activity was measured with a liquid scintillator spectrometer. The majority of the deuterated materials subjected to the microfocus x-ray irradiation exhibited postexposure beta activity above background and several showed short-lived alpha activity. The HPE and nondeuterated titanium control samples exposed to the x-ray irradiation showed no postexposure alpha or beta activities above background. Several of the samples (SL10A, SL16, SL17A) showed beta activity above background with a greater than 4s confidence level, months after exposure. Portions of SL10A, SL16, and SL17A samples were also scanned using a beta scintillator and found to have beta activity in the tritium energy band, continuing without noticeable decay for over 12 months. Beta scintillation investigation of as-received materials (before x-ray exposure) showed no beta activity in the tritium energy band, indicating the beta emitters were not in the starting materials.


    Publication Date: Feb 01, 2017

    Document ID: 20170002544 (Acquired Mar 27, 2017)

    Subject Category: NUCLEAR PHYSICS

    Report/Patent Number: NASA/TM-2015-218491/REV1, E-19039, GRC-E-DAA-TN31041

    Document Type: Technical Report

    Publication Information: (SEE 20160000346)

    Contract/Grant/Task Num: NNC13BA10B; WBS 161682.04.01.01.30

    Financial Sponsor: NASA Glenn Research Center; Cleveland, OH United States

    Organization Source: NASA Glenn Research Center; Cleveland, OH United States

    Description: 36p; In English

    Distribution Limits: Unclassified; Publicly available; Unlimited

    Rights: Copyright; Distribution as joint owner in the copyright

    See NASA Technical Reports Server at https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20170002544

    NASA Terms:

    DEUTERIUM

    EXPOSURE

    X RAYS

    ENERGY SOURCES

    NUCLEAR FUELS

    DEEP SPACE

    SPACECRAFT POWER SUPPLIES

    ALTERNATIVES

    NUCLEAR FISSION

    FISSILE FUELS

    MANNED MARS MISSIONS


    Other Descriptors:

    X-RAY IRRADIATION

    POLYETHYLENES

    DEUTERIDES

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    My intuition is that LENR will be represented... Who can attend or report whether or not this comes true?


    NASA Advisory Council Technology, Innovation and Engineering Committee Meeting




    Category:

    Date: Monday, March 26, 2018

    Location: , Greenbelt, MD US, 20771

    [Federal Register Volume 83, Number 43 (Monday, March 5, 2018)] [Notices] [Page 9339] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [http://www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2018-04428]


    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION


    [Notice (18-018)]


    NASA Advisory Council; Technology, Innovation and Engineering Committee; Meeting


    AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.


    ACTION: Notice of meeting.


    SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Technology, Innovation and Engineering Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This Committee reports to the NAC.


    DATES: Monday, March 26, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Eastern Time.


    ADDRESSES: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Building 34, Conference Room 120A, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771.


    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mike Green, Designated Federal Officer, Space Technology Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, (202) 358-4710, or [email protected].


    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting will be open to the public up to the seating capacity of the room. This meeting is also available telephonically and by WebEx. You must use a touch-tone phone to participate in this meeting. Any interested person may dial the toll free access number 1-844-467-6272, and then the numeric participant passcode 102421 followed by the # sign. The WebEx link is https://nasa.webex.com/, the meeting number is 998 825 779, and the password is Technology18* (case sensitive). Note: If dialing in, please ``mute'' your telephone. The agenda for the meeting includes the following topics:


    --Welcome to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    --NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate Update and FY 2019 President's Budget Proposal


    Attendees will be requested to sign a register and to comply with NASA security requirements. Visitors must show a valid state or federal issued picture ID, green card or passport before receiving an access badge to enter GSFC and must state that they are attending the NAC's Technology, Innovation and Engineering Committee meeting in Building 34. All U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents (green card holders) seeking to attend must provide their full name, company affiliation (if applicable) and citizenship to Ms. Anyah Dembling via email at [email protected] or by telephone at (202) 358-5195 no later than close of business on March 15, 2018. Foreign Nationals must provide the following information: Full name, gender, date/place of birth, citizenship, home address, visa information (number, type, expiration date), passport information (number, country of issue, expiration date), employer/affiliation information (name of institution, title/ position, address, country of employer, telephone, email address), and an electronically scanned or faxed copy of their passport and visa to Anyah Dembling via email at [email protected] or by fax at (202) 358-4078 no later than close of business on March 7, 2018. If the above information is not received by the noted dates, attendees should expect a minimum delay of two (2) hours. All visitors to this meeting will report to the GSFC Main Gate where they will be processed through security prior to entering GSFC. For security questions on the day of the meeting, please contact Shawn Watts at (301) 286-5282 or [email protected]. It is imperative that this meeting be held on this day to accommodate the scheduling priorities of the key participants.


    Patricia D. Rausch, Advisory Committee Management Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [FR Doc. 2018-04428 Filed 3-2-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7510-13-P

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    From SpaceRef

    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=33098

    NASA Solicitation: Scientific Analysis of Solar Wind Plasma Charged Dust on the Moon


    Status Report From: Glenn Research Center

    Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009

    Synopsis - Dec 18, 2009


    General Information


    Solicitation Number: NNC10321126Q

    Posted Date: Dec 18, 2009

    FedBizOpps Posted Date: Dec 18, 2009

    Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No

    Original Response Date: Jan 08, 2010

    Current Response Date: Jan 08, 2010

    Classification Code: A -- Research and Development

    NAICS Code: 541712 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)

    Set-Aside Code: Total Small Business


    Contracting Office Address


    NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135


    Description


    NASA/GRC has a requirement for a specialized scientific analysis related to the development of a theory including an estimation of certain properties of Solar Wind Plasma Charged Dust on the Moon. The length of the study is nine months.


    NASA/GRC intends to purchase the items from PineSci Consulting and its principal Dr. Vladimir Pines. Dr. Pines has recently developed the first lunar specific aspects of solar wind plasma, as well as worked on the fundamentals of dusty plasma transport and control. Dr. Pines has published in the fields of statistical physics, phase transitions, and plasma physics. Two of his most recent and relevant studies were published in the Journal of Advances in Space Research for the past two years. The analysis required will enable NASA to understand charged dust behavior on the moon, a key issue identified by NASA as potential mission hazard.


    Dr. Pines has also developed the first micro-macro description of the microphysics of cloud formation - a task uniquely suitable for the conduct of the present technical program of Lunar Dust Mitigation. Since Dr. Pines is the sole developer of the theory that underlies the techniques of statistical description of such micro-macro processes, he is the only suitable vendor to develop the required set of equations and models for this Lunar Dust Mitigation Project.


    The Government does not intend to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. See Note 26.


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  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Quote from Seiber Troutman

    The door is open and wedge,

    ... we get a better look inside.


    Mystery or Knot Science


    Mystery is a knot – Intertwining

    Science is an art – Unraveling


    Love is life – Learning

    Love is lattice – Vibration

    Love is source – Energizing

    Love is world – Operation


    Love is air - Breathe

    Love is energy - Live

    Love is water - Drink

    Love is earth - Rebirth


    Love Art of Science

    Right of Well Being

    Essence of Spirit

    Heart Matter


    The be all

    The end

    Love

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    Cold Fusion

    Quantum

    Energy

    Knot


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  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    I still have a few more PineScie participants to research... we'll see what comes up.

    I'd like to find out more about PineScie Consulting, their Glenn Research teams... also Paul Westmeyer.



    All in all... I believe this group has improved on the earlier works of the SPAWAR LENR group... also incorporating knowledge gained by other groups working on scaleability and control of working LENR reactors. I'm sure the Glenn/PineScie team has one already.


    Now they are improving the reactor and working to apply LENR energy to mechanical systems.

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Quote from H-G Branzell

    ...why is it that the people engaged in LENR research invariably lack deeper knowledge in the subjects that to me seem indispensable in order to conduct meaningful research in a branch that concerns nuclear reactions, specifically quantum mechanics and particle physics?

    Theresa Benyo, Vladimir Pines, Arnon Chait, and Paul Westmeyer are not lacking in the skills you mention... in fact a knowledge of quantum mechanics and particle physics may not be sufficient for success. Consider also that any knowledge or understanding that is needed is certainly available at Glenn Research Center or other DOD LENR labs. Certainly the folks at JWK or GEC (Lawrence Forsely et.al.) are experienced in quantum mechanics and particle physics. What could possibly be missing? Knowledge of nanophysics, dusty plasmas, and electro magnetic control... they got it all hands down.

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Vladimir Pines and Marianna Pines, PineSci Consulting, Avon Lake, Ohio 44012

    Vladimir Pines NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio


    Vladimir Pines specializes in plasmas, dusty plasmas, dendrites...


    Research (NASA) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir_Pines

    • Lofted charged dust distribution above the Moon surface (2011)
    • Kinetic theory of sheath formation in solar wind plasma
    • Charging of dust grains by anisotropic solar wind multi-component plasma
    • Interactions of solar wind plasma with dust grains: Effects of strong plasma anisotropy
    • Pressure-mediated effects on thermal dendrites
    • Stochastic diffusion interactions and coarsening in a system of droplets growing from a supersaturated gas mixture
      Phase transition dynamics of liquid phase precipitation from a supersaturated gas mixture
    • Postnucleation droplet growth in supersaturated gas with arbitrary vapor concentration
    • Data and Modeling of Dendrites Subject to A Step Change in Pressure (TDSE)
    • Dendritic crystal growth dynamics
    • The Transient Dendritic Solidification Experiment (TDS)
    • Observations of several characteristic transient times in pressure moderated thermal dendrites
    • The Transient Dendritic Growth Experiment - Pressure mediated dendritic growth
    • Equiaxed dendritic solidification in supercooled melts
    • Dynamic scaling in dendritic growth: Significance of the initial nucleus size
    • Anomaly in dendritic growth data - Effect of density change upon solidification
    • Nonlinear Dynamics and Nucleation Kinetics in Near-Critical Liquids
    • Dynamic scaling in dendritic growth
    • Thermal diffusion dominated dendritic growth - An analysis of the wall proximity effect
    • Solitary wave generation during solidification
    • Surface tension anisotropy and cell-like structure formation in free solidification
    • Time Dependent Aspects of SolidificationTime development of a perturbed-spherical nucleus in a pure supercooled liquid. I. Power-law growth of morphological instabilities
    • Time development of a perturbed-spherical nucleus in a pure supercooled liquid. II. Nonlinear development
    • TRANSIENT EFFECTS IN DENDRITIC SOLIDIFICATION (1990)

    Vladimir Pines's scientific contributions (2017) https://www.researchgate.net/s…2125545428_Vladimir_Pines


    Article: Experimental Observations of Nuclear Activity in Deuterated Materials Subjected to a Low-Energy Photon Beam


    Article: Investigation of Deuterium-Loaded Materials Subject to X-Ray Exposure

  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Michael D. Becks, Annette M. Marsolais and Tracy R. Kamm

    Of Vantage Partners, LLC - Brook Park, Ohio 44142


    It seems the folks at Vantage are mainly engineers...

    Applied engineering of new technologies is what they do.

    I'd like to find out more about these three individuals.

    Hall Effect Thruster (electric space drive) powered by nuclear dense LENR...

    Mars in 30 days.


    Quote: Vantage Partners, LLC (Vantage) under the sole leadership and management of Vantage Systems, Inc. (the managing and controlling joint venture member) continues an accomplished legacy of providing exceptional technical services to NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, OH. Vantage is the premier engineering and technical services provider at NASA GRC. We provide a wide array of multi-disciplinary engineering solutions for aeronautic and space vehicles as well as project management, scheduling, design and configuration management personnel. - end quotes http://www.vantage-partners.net/


    August 23, 2017

    Vantage Employees recognized by NASA Invention of the Year Awards

    Hall Effect Thruster (HET) Life Extension

    NASA Glenn Research Center’s Hall Effect Thruster (HET) Life Extension Invention received Honorable Mention for the NASA Invention of the Year. Invented by Vantage Partners (VPL) employee Dr. Peter Peterson and four of his colleagues, this technology greatly prolongs the operational lifetime of the HET space propulsion engine. The novel design uses magnetic shielding to prevent the ionized xenon plasma that propels the HET from damaging the walls of the ceramic discharge channel where the plasma is accelerated. With this innovation, NASA can take advantage of the energy savings that come from the HET’s solar electric propulsion system (which offers ten times the fuel efficiency of chemical systems) to undertake such ambitious missions as the Journey to Mars.

    Please refer to the following link for additional information on the HET Life Extension invention: https://technology.grc.nasa.gov/featurestory/ioy-2017




  • Skill Set of Some Scientists at the Nasa Glenn Research/PineScie LENR Alternative Energy Conversion Effort

    Please note this from a different NASA LENR energy applied engineering group:


    “MPD Augmentation of a Thermal Air Rocket Utilizing Low Energy Nuclear Reactions” by Roger Lepsch, NASA Langley Research Center; Matt Fischer, National Institute of Aerospace; Christopher Jones, National Institute of Aerospace; Alan Wilhite, National Institute of Aerospace. Presented at the 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, April 26, 2012 https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2012-1351