Online Just to say there is an article on that work in NextBigFuture, which synthetise also past articles.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/…mercial-fusion-power.html
also on NyTeknik
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter…nkraft/article3933699.ece
and on Gothenbug University in English
http://www.gu.se/english/about…-energy-source.cid1323710
EDIT: Next big future refers to a patent now:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/…nuclear-fusion-using.html
I got some more answers on their current work in progress
Quote from David Daggett
It is a NiH system. Presently, our focus is on testing for repeatability of the positive results that we’ve seen. Before making anything public, we want to make very sure of our test results and so are in discussions with respected neutral 3rd parties to have at least one of them validate the results.
Rossi would say F9. 
I've recently reconnected with @David.Daggett of Phonon Energy.
He made a presentation at the SAE AeroTech 2015 Congress & Exhibition
Here are : SAE_LENR.pdf
Phonon Energy has developed a LENR technology of their own, with promising results. You can see the test rig in the last slide in the presentation.
Because SAE AeroTech is aviation focused, the presentation is oriented towards an aerospace application. However, Phonon Energy is working to improve their LENR technology that can be used to satisfy practically any heat need.
In the context of Mutual Assured Delusion, that I call the consensus by terror there is a well known quote
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/alan_bullock_quote_cda5
Quote from Allan Bullock
"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."
This helps to explain how the jokes, insults, despite the frauds and lack of arguments, the opposing data, the violation of ethics and rules, are so efficients to maintain a pathological consensus.
Note that there is such subject that now, I don't even correct my daughter of 5 when she repeat the propaganda, by fear to cause her problems. I have heard retire professor saying they refused to propose studies to young students by fear to cause them trouble. That is when consensus is enforced by terror. Biberian explained how CEA flee of the domain despite good results by feed of "unnobelizability" of the lab. Miles despite his good work, as McKubre has to flee, and Bockris even filed a complain for harassment after 3 negative inquiries.
From Franck Ackland asking Mitchel Swartz
“They discussed background, history, problems with the technologies, role of D and He4, and development of CF/LANR worldwide. About 70 people there, very attentive, knowledgeable and interested. Peter and Lou did a great effort and service to this community.”
:hi: But note that the same day there was a LENR presentation at SAE International.
I'll say more soon. :ninja:
I corrected the link which was bad (space in it)
For the context, Wikipedia provide good entry information on groupthink ,and especially the criteria :
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Type I: Overestimations of the group — its power and morality
* Illusions of invulnerability creating excessive optimism and encouraging risk taking.
* Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causing members to ignore the consequences of their actions.
Type II: Closed-mindedness
* Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group's assumptions.
* Stereotyping those who are opposed to the group as weak, evil, biased, spiteful, impotent, or stupid.
Type III: Pressures toward uniformity
* Self-censorship of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus.
* Illusions of unanimity among group members, silence is viewed as agreement.
* Direct pressure to conform placed on any member who questions the group, couched in terms of "disloyalty"
* Mindguards— self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting information.
The article is also there
http://www.gu.se/omuniversitet…ny-energikalla.cid1323710
The one cited here was first at http://branschkanalen.se/smask…n-kan-bli-ny-energikalla/
No idea about the importance of both sources... are they recognized news sources?
Roland Bénabou publish a new paper on his site.
I often refer to him about groupthink theory, as he propose a model of Mutual Assured Delusion.
His new paper is "The Economics of Motivated Beliefs"
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/REP_4_BW_nolinks_corrected 1.pdf
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I present key ideas and results from recent work incorporating “motivated” belief distortions into Economics, both at the individual level (overconfidence, wishful thinking, willful blindness) and at the social one (groupthink, team morale, market exuberance and crises). To do so I develop a flexible model that unifies much of this line of research, then relate its main assumptions and testable predictions to the relevant experimental and observational evidence.
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The model presented below will incorporate both motives for departures from objective cognition: affective (feeling better) and instrumental (performing better). Depending on the context and tasks at hand, either one may be most relevant, and certain beliefs can also serve both functions. An important example of the latter is religion, which (to some) simultaneously provides self-discipline and reassurance, or consolation. Turning now to the supply side, how are desired beliefs achieved and maintained, sometimes against strong evidence? The paths to self-deception are countless, but three main categories can be distinguished: willful blindness, reality denial, and self-signaling.
The first one consists in avoiding information sources that may hold bad news. For Huntington’s disease or HIV, for instance, this means not getting the test even though it is cheap or free, accurate, and can be done anonymously. Critical decisions need to be made, yet the person’s words and deeds reveal a negative ex-ante value for information. In the second scenario the news are already accumulating, though not yet completely final: symptoms are worsening, the objective probability of disease is rising to 70%, 80%, etc., yet the patient finds ways of not internalizing the data, rationalizing it away and convincing himself that his risk is still only (say) 15%, and behaving accordingly in most respects.
The third strategy is one where it is the agent himself who manufactures “diagnostic” signals of the desired type, which he then interprets as impartial (Quattrone and Tversky 1984, Bodner and Prelec 2003, Bénabou and Tirole 2004, 2011). Keeping with the health example, this correspond to a person who “pushes” himself to overcome their symptoms, carrying out difficult or even dangerous activities not only for their own sake but also as “proof” that things are fine.
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Motives vs. heuristics.
It is worth pointing out three fundamental differences between such motivated beliefs or cognitive tendencies and the more purely mechanical mistakes in inference associated to the “heuristics and biases” view (e.g., Tversky and Kahneman (1974)) and typically found in most models of bounded-rationality:
- The latter types of “errors” are automatic and undirected (an “intuitive” System I is often invoked), the former valenced (pleasant or aversive) and goal-oriented, though in general not consciously so. A clear example of the difference is that of confirmation bias versus selfenhancement, for someone who is already not very confident in their skill, attractiveness, health or other key characteristic. In the first case the person tends to interpret any ambiguous signals received as confirming and hardening their negative self-view. In the second they see the same evidence positively, as showing that things are actually pretty good, or not so bad. In practice, the great majority of people show the latter type of response, and only depressive ones the former.
- A second major difference is that people who are more analytically sophisticated, educated or numerate can actually be more prone to making distorted inferences –rationalizing away evidence and compartmentalizing knowledge to protect valued beliefs – than those with lower cognitive abilities. Moreover, such reversals of the standard bounded-rationality logic occur only when the issue at hand is value-laden (e.g., gun control, climate change; see Kahan 2013 and Kahan et al. 2014), and not when it is neutral.
- Unlike computational and statistical mistakes, motivated cognition is emotionally charged. This feature is revealed almost instantly by a “fighting response” (agitation, anger, outrage, hostility) whenever a cherished belief pertaining to a person’s identity, morality, religion, politics, etc., is directly challenged by evidence. This view of belief formation is also consistent with the renewal of interest in emotions and their influence on decision-making currently under way in psychology and neuroscience (e.g. Sharot et al. (2012)).
CONCLUSION: BAD INCENTIVES OR / AND BAD BELIEFS?
In firms and organizations, the standard moral-hazard explanation for misbehavior is also often insufficient. A large literature in organizational psychology emphasizes the key roles of moral self-deception and overoptimistic hubris in many cases of corporate misconduct and financial fraud. 28 Most individuals engaging in dishonest behavior find ways to convince themselves that they are not doing anything wrong, are still good persons. Transgressions most often start small and even unplanned, then gradually escalate through a series of selfserving rationalizations increasingly at odds with objective judgment and reality. Group dynamics, both of the “common fate” type analyzed in the groupthink model and linked to social norms (judging oneself relative to peers, excluding dissenters) also powerfully amplify these tendencies.
The above distinction is important and deserves more attention than it has so far received. In practice, of course, my take is that most cases involve bad incentives and bad beliefs, acting together as complements. This is still a topic for ongoing and future work –a coming together of agency theory and behavioral economics which, I like to think, Jean-Jacques Laffont would have looked upon favorably
It seems to be linked to Leif Holmid claims of muons emissions.
Not Hot Fusion ! :lenr:
QuoteIn a collaboration between researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland, a new type of nuclear fusion process is studied. It gives almost no neutrons but instead fast heavy electrons (muons) because it is based on nuclear reactions in the ultra-dense heavy hydrogen (deuterium).
- This is a big advantage compared to other fusion processes that are under development at other research facilities, as the neutrons from such processes can produce dangerous radiation damage, says Leif Holmlid, professor emeritus at the University of Gothenburg.
Jed Rothwell have noticed that american book
https://books.google.fr/books?id=nLfJKVK9uJsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity
by Robert U. Ayres,Benjamin Warr
A second post of David French on that patent, mostly analyse the secondary claims.
http://coldfusionnow.org/analy…13-issued-25aug15-part-2/
many hint seems to be in those claims...
http://fullcircle.eu/events/mats-lewan/
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Si j'interprète correctement votre déclaration vous pensez à des modèles dérivés, alors je suis en désaccord. J'ai une dalle de graphite pyrolytique qui lévite au dessus d'un aimant puissant et prévoyait un moyen de propulsion à haute vitesse. Cela a été empêchée de se développer. Il y a une censure qui contrôle ce que les modèles sont autorisés à se développer. Je ne suis d'accord qui est vous êtes un membre de la cognoscente alors votre déclaration est exacte.
You are right that there is a problem today to develop science with no, or not "theoretical" enough theory. This is an age of dogmatism.
Vous avez raison qu'il y a aujourd'hui un problème pour dévelope des sciences sans théorie, ou avec une théorie "pas assez théorique". Nous sommes à un age de dogmatisme.
Sur les écologistes je suis partagé, car on y trouve autant de gens dynamiques et inventifs, que des rétrogrades technophobes.
La vision que l'on est est biaisée par les média catastrophiste et les besoins de financement des associations sur fond de vente de peurs.
La pensée même des gens inventifs est biaisée par ce fait, et je vois des cyclistes bricoleurs aller vers le rétrograde plutot que le progrès, alors que le tempérament bricoleur va naturellement vers l'innovation.
Si la fin du monde est retardé "sine die" a cause de la fusion froide LENR, je soupçonne que beaucoup d'écologistes déprimés et passéistes vont frémir de technophilie comme un fan de Star Trek.
Sur la théorie, depuis les années 50 nous avons pris la mauvaise habitue d'avoir des theories "up-front" plutot que phénoménologique.
Si la théorie de la fusion froide se fait attendre comme celle de la supracconductivité froide (BCS) puis chaude, cela n'empêchera pas de développer des modèles phénoménologiques valables dans des domaines restreints mais utiles.
Avec de l'argent, on obtiendra ces modèles d'ingénieurs, pratiques mais pas très esthétiques.
I just found that Nationa Instrument course on PID Control
http://www.ni.com/academic/eng…engineering/controls/pid/
http://www.ni.com/academic/eng…engineering/controls/pid/[/url]]
Teaching PID Control
Proportional integral derivative (PID) is a common algorithm used in control system design and taught in most controls courses. Using PID control requires a deep understanding of mathematical theory as well as experience designing and creating PID control systems. Learn how students can begin bridging the connection from theory to practice through experiential learning so that they can use PID control in their own control system designs.
may be useful for beginners, and even maybe for knowledgeable implementors.
Enseignement du Contrôle PID
L'algorithme Proportionnelle Intégrale Dérivée (PID) est l'un des plus couramment utilisés pour la conception de systèmes de contrôle et est enseigné dans la plupart des cours sur le contrôle/commande. L'utilisation du contrôle PID nécessite une compréhension approfondie de la théorie mathématique, ainsi que de l'expérience en conception et création de systèmes de contrôle PID. Découvrez comment les étudiants peuvent commencer à établir un lien entre la théorie et la pratique par le biais de l'apprentissage expérientiel, ce qui leur permet d'incorporer le contrôle PID à leurs propres conceptions de systèmes de contrôle.
http://www.ni.com/academic/eng…gineering/controls/pid/f/
la version anglaise
http://www.ni.com/academic/eng…engineering/controls/pid/
http://www.campdenfb.com/artic…s-are-investing-cleantech
Display MoreSewage gas to bioplastics, hybrid drive to thermal waste – the definition of CleanTech is ever-evolving and it is a lot more than your standard solar panel or wind turbine.
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Why do families like investing in CleanTech? At what stage do they get involved?
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Are there certain areas families prefer?
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How much are families typically investing and what’s the typical ROI?
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Ones to watch
LENR cars
LENR Cars, founded in Switzerland in 2012 and based next to the EPFL Science Park in Lausanne, is developing patent-pending fuel cell generators based on low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology to power electric vehicles without CO2 emissions or waste.
These generators can produce heat and electricity, on demand, at a much lower cost than fossil fuel (under $0.01 / kWh). One gram of fuel – a mix of nickel and hydride powders, which stores hydrogen – is enough to produce 2.0 MWh of heat. LENR technology is based on electron capture and neutron capture reactions – non-conventional nuclear reactions that do not produce radioactive waste or dangerous radiations. The reaction produces 10,000 times more energy than a conventional fuel cell from the same amount of hydrogen. LENR Cars are currently developing small-scale systems, with a focus on hybrid electric vehicles since the Swiss company patented the use of this technology for transportation applications. A hybrid car based on its technology is expected to have a range of 150,000 km with zero emissions, and use less than $100 of fuel. It is about to start a collaboration with Nissan to develop such a vehicle together.
Over the years, LENR technology could become a game changer in the entire field of energy. It has the potential to address many problems like affordable water desalination, decentralised energy production, reduction of carbon emissions, and nuclear waste treatment. LENR Cars is sharing its technology with larger corporations in exchange for licenses on their own technologies, in order to accelerate its development while managing costs.
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http://russkievesti.ru/novosti…rashheniya-elementov.html
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Запретные превращения элементов
В науке есть свои запретные темы, свои табу. Сегодня мало кто из ученых осмелится заниматься исследованием биополей, сверхмалых доз, структуры воды… Области сложные, мутные, трудно поддающиеся. Здесь легко потерять репутацию, прослыв лжеученым, а уж о получении гранта говорить не приходится. В науке нельзя и опасно выходить за рамки общепринятых представлений, покушаться на догмы. Но именно усилия смельчаков, готовых быть не такими, как все, порой прокладывают новые дороги в познании.
H bomb is not LENR but hot fusion, triggered by an ultrafast detonator, a fission bomb.
The LENR explosions observed does not look like the extreme chain reaction of fission bomb, even if there is huge energy produced. the rate seems like intense chemical reaction, and only the quantity of energy compared to the fuel seems abnormal.
Anyway, we don't have a theory and maybe someone can trigger the reaction perfectly synchronous on a huge mass of reactant and catalyst (NiH or other).
It will be huge bomb, in small volume, but not a radioactive one.
The size may be a blackswan (very small), but the need of synchronous control will normally ask for very high technology, thus states.
Maybe I'm too optimistic, but it should not be worse than a super TNT... anyway if a super TNT can erase a city that is a problem.
Noàte that an army of drone can dump 10tons bombs the same way USA B52 did on Le Havre or Dresden, or put it on fire like Kobe.
from a strategic point of view, the ability to kill the president, the HQ, the spiritual leader, of the opponents is more important than erasing a city. Drone can change the face of the warfare.
imagine Terminator-like drones, not humanoid but as stubborn and patients as Terminator...
There will be good reason for leaders to be "polite" with their enemies.
This was done by nuclear bomb, but drone can be more chirurgical in their deterrence.
The only positive flawless calorimetry I've heard recently was Edmund Storms (as usual).
Formerly there is Ferarra.
All other that make me happy, let some questions open anyway.
Hope, not confidence.
I expect some good experimenter will tighten the bolts on his experiment, or will help others replicators.
This takes time.
