Posts by Thor

Cool!

Well done Bob.

Shane, your points are well taken. Bold of Google to do anything in the field! Perhaps exposing all those bright young minds to LENR will bear fruit in the long run after all. If I sound critical it is because disappointment might have been avoided if the team had been peppered with a few of the reliable old guard of LENR. That being said, my apologies are in order. The research was real, even if it was not as successful as hoped. I had good reason to expect something wonderful.

The Google team...sure...I am not impressed. In what world do you assemble a research team to pioneer in a difficult subject by ensuring everyone has absolutely no experience whatsoever in the field? So, if you want to build a steam locomotive first you have to reinvent the wheel? Who could have known such a research team would produce underwhelming results? We could have done real research with the money they spent.

Unfortunately multiple levitation videos made by John Hutchison were faked. While there is some legitimate minor vibratory levitation of sorts that requires no special explanation, in more spectacular levitation demonstrations strings can be observed moving the levitating objects. This trickery goes back nine years or longer. There is no excuse for this.

After politely requesting admission and offering to present, I was denied access to ARPA-E. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

My guess is the documents withheld are equally underwhelming. It is not that they have something to hide but they have practically nothing and want to hide that.

Move along, there is nothing to see here.

No worries mates, the lawyers will make everything right.

Let's not forget that Einstein, as a patent clerk, was unqualified.

Unfortunately there is so much pseudoscience to wade through now it slows down real progress.

Nice building. Cool lasers. Best of luck to them.

That was then, this is now. If you examine Peter Hagelstein's more recent works you will be better informed about the progress of MIT research in the field. There is a YouTube video by Hagelstein that discusses at length early efforts to replicate Fleischmann-Pons. Cold Fusion - Real, But Is It Ready? - Prof. Peter Hagelstein. We are way past that now.

The point of the poker analogy is that inventors are often inexperienced in the type of financial dealings the venture capitalists deal with every day.

Quoted from Navid "In short, founders in the new energy space are irrational if they are afraid of venture capital, and we must beat their hard headedness with basic financial models."

Really? Founders are indeed rational and fear not venture capital but only the venture capitalists. It feels a bit like an inexperienced player joining a poker game against card sharks. This distracts the founders attention from invention. Hard-headedness comes from single-mindedness of purpose and is required for invention. Karl Marx had a basic financial model...that has not worked out too well. In fairness Marxism may not be as foolish as modern monetary policy. You can print money while fighting inflation by raising taxes!

Looks like a Farnsworth variety fusor to me too, there must be a new twist. These young guys are always coming up with something new, perhaps taking Langmuir to a new level?

Please! Scientific accuracy and precision is important. The statement "To achieve fusion, hydrogen must be converted into plasma" might apply to the Avalanche Energy design but is certainly not a universal constraint. Fusion can occur without hydrogen. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be "Our fusor uses a hydrogen plasma.". Or perhaps it uses a hydrogen-deuterium plasma.

The issue I had reading this book was with so much notable text my highlighter ran out and I had to buy another to finish.