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For those with a business bent, Pitchbook publishes a clean tech report.
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Just a note that several of the videos are not available at the ICCF25 Vimeo website, but are, oddly enough, available at the SSF Youtube channel.
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I agree the long term effects are straight forward to predict, but how the short to mid term transition will happen is the big mistery.
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden AgesTechnological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ageswww.amazon.com.auhttps://carlotaperez.org/wp-content/downloads/books/btr-en/PEREZ_TRFC_Intro.pdf
http://technologygovernance.eu/files/main/2009070708552121.pdf
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Interesting paper on Pd/D electrolysis using a higher voltage/current regime than has been typical. The effect of voltage/current changes is certainly important, but it would be wrong to think that more is always better, as it was shown to be in this case. I have performed experiments using fairly dilute electrolytes with the particular aim of running at higher voltage, only to be dissapointed with the results. But that was with Ni/H using potassium carbonate electrolyte. Better results were more easily obtained using stronger electrolytes and lower voltage. But it occurs to me that the high voltage/current method used results on the cell running hot. And I know from experience and a few references to this in the literatirre that cell temperature is generally a positive factor -basically the higher the better.
Intro...
Li–Pd–Rh-D2O electrochemistry experiments at elevated voltage
Carl Gotzmer; Louis F. DeChiaro Kenneth Conley Marc Litz Marshall Millett; Jesse Ewing; Lawrence P. Forsley Karen J. Long William A. Wichart, Pamela A. Mosier-Boss John Sullivan Efrem Perry, Jr; Oliver M. Barham
APL Energy 1, 036107 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153487In 2013, the U.S. Navy disclosed an electrochemistry procedure intended to produce MeV-energy nuclear particles, based on eV-energy electrical inputs, which may be indicative of a new scientific phenomenon. This work is based on the 2013 disclosure and shows initial evidence validating the prior claims of nuclear particle generation. Additionally, several variations on the 2013 electrochemical recipe are made in order to find a highly repeatable recipe for future replications by other teams. The experiments described here produced dense collections of tracks in solid-state nuclear track detectors, radio frequency (RF) emissions, and anomalous heat flux, which are indicative of potential nuclear, or unusual chemical, reactions. Experimental results include tracks in solid-state nuclear track detectors similar in size to tracks produced by 4.7 MeV alpha particles on identical detectors exposed to radioactive Th-230; RF pulses up to 6 dB above the noise floor, which indicate that these signals were likely not background noise and not caused by known chemical reactions; and heat flux of 10 s of kJ, measured to 6σ significance, over and above input electrical energy, indicative of unknown exothermic reactions. Six out of six nuclear track detectors, utilized in experiments and interrogated for tracks post-experiment, produced positive results that our team attributes to thousands of individual particle impacts in dense clusters, likely with energies between 0.1 and 20 MeV. Similar nuclear particle, thermal, and RF results have separately appeared in prior reports, but in this work, all three categories of anomalous behavior are reported. Results indicate that the 2013 procedure may be a useful guide toward a set of highly repeatable reference experiments, showing initial but not overwhelming evidence of a new scientific phenomenon. Repeatable recipes are shared so that other groups may replicate and extend the present work....continues.
The first publication from HIVER?
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021LENR_workshop_Barham.pdf
Whether Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen CaseSpurred on by continued anomalous nuclear results, multiple labs now working to get to bottom of storyspectrum.ieee.org -
Ed thinks the Ti D2 gas loading experiments produce neutrons from fractofusion. That is a form of plasma fusion. It has nothing to do with cold fusion.
If he is right then you might say these papers are unrelated to cold fusion. I would say they are related because they show that some plasma fusion effects such as neutron production can occur at room temperature, or close to it. They are prosaic. So, the neutrons in conventional electrochemical cold fusion might also be prosaic. They might also be from fractofusion, because cathodes are stressed. The reaction might be a combination of cold fusion and plasma fusion. That complicates things. If it is true we need to sort out which effects are caused by which reaction. That is why we should study this, and why it contributes to understanding cold fusion.
Would fractofusion obtain in codeposition experiments?
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One of my best friends is a translator and lexicographer specialising in poetry written in things like ancient Persian. He told me he sheds a few tears sometimes when thinking about all the undergrads he has taught having to abandon the profession to robots. He's glad he stuck mostly with poetry, where sometimes the content is so riddled with cultural references that an AI would also need to be a cultural anthropologist.
It’s remarkable how malleable poetry is in the hands of a translator. The differing translations of something like Archaic Torso of Apollo really do rise or fall on the skill of the translator.
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Also interesting to note that the Amphionic project seems to be explicitly influenced by Storms’ theory of the NAE.
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Still working through these, but interesting to note that the PI on the MIT project is Yet-Ming Chiang.
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You simply should ignore idiots that have no clue of physics/chemistry.
There’s no need to be so aggressively indecorous. All it does is reflect poorly on you.
You can’t expect somebody to engage with you in good faith whilst failing to treat them with basic respect.
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Same here. I read Taleb's book when it was first published - and thought it was badly written, repetitive, and missed some of the real issues as to why people are surprised when the world doesn't fit their own particular mental models.
Maybe it was just because, as a child, I fed black swans in the local park
The concept certainly precedes Taleb - and I still don't think he actually understood it.
But the phrase has entered the public psyche. George Miley even wrote a book subtitled "A technologist’s search for a Black Swan".
Believe it or not, his other books are even worse. Antifragile is unreadable.
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Just listened to the second episode. Again, well put together.
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I got this ppt from a VC who asked me about it and he said it was already public.
Do you know if they’d done any diligence on the team?
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100mm GBP is certainly ambitious.
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Just listened to the first episode and so far so good. A bit melodramatic at moments but well researched and put together.
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Here’s a link for Apple podcast users:
And another for more sources:
Crime Waves — QCODEqcodemedia.comA little trepidatious to start listening. It sounds like it’s playing for melodrama.
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Some of us, here, have already done a bit of digging. The Companies House website can be a treasure trove.
As far as I can see, their modus operandi might be to find people already working on some technology, offer them them a bit of "development money", and then claim the technology is theirs.
But at the same time they start making unsupportable claims, which are almost guaranteed to destroy any prospect of progress - by triggering exposés. I don't know if that is just stupidity, or some kind of deliberate ploy.
Although I am reminded of Hanlon's Razor.
In a way, it doesn’t make much sense.
The classical way would be to raise money from credulous investors, and then live high on the hog by funneling funds out of the business via inflated and/or non-legitimate expenses or dodgy capex (eg. Buy a property for x and then sell it to the business for 1.5x.)
The great advantage of doing this in what is essentially the deep tech venture capital space is that when it finally comes off the rails, you can just throw your hands in the air and say ‘we always said it was high risk and uncertain’ and the inherent complexity of the technology makes it hard to assert, let alone prove, malicious intent. Failure was an act of god.
This goes on in Australia in the listed biotech space. A company has a compound, raises money from investors, progresses the compound, burns through the cash, and then rinses and repeats. When it all goes south, they can simply say that it was a pre revenue company with a single product and the product didn’t, in the end, prove efficacious. It happens all the time for completely normal and above board reasons, and so it’s harder to assert fraud.
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Some strong accusations in this. Most interesting to me is the work histories of some involved.
Eng8 is bogusSD imagining the creation of the first EnegiCell. And only five fingers! The interwebs were all alight with yet another claim of fusion in a bottle, after a UK…matter2energy.wordpress.com -
The New Landscape in Art and Science
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Re: the Krivit archive, are you familiar with the archive.org CLI tool?
I wasn’t until recently, but it makes many tasks, like bulk downloading, much easier.
Command-Line Interface — Internet Archive Developer Portal
Quick start with the ia command line tool — Internet Archive Developer Portal
It’s also available via some package managers, though I don’t recall which I used off the top of my head.
There’s also this:
GitHub - MiniGlome/Archive.org-Downloader: Python3 script to download archive.org books in PDF formatPython3 script to download archive.org books in PDF format - GitHub - MiniGlome/Archive.org-Downloader: Python3 script to download archive.org books in PDF…github.comWhich can scrape and assemble books that are available to borrow, but aren’t available for download.
