I always considered my job, as bridging.

Between science, clients, technicians, managers.

Connecting people, connecting machines, connecting ideas, connecting needs, connecting capacities.

Reusing, sharing, bringing, taking...

Invent less, share more.

Great considerations here... Teamwork is the rule.

ants standing on the shoulders of...

ants

Just found the full quote of Yan Cheng Fung

Yuan-Cheng ("Bert") Fung Quotes - 1 Science Quotes - Dictionary of Science Quotations and Scientist Quotes

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Almost all engineers working on new designs find that they do not have all the needed information. Most often, they are limited by insufficient scientific knowledge. Thus they study...

In a way I suspect most jobs end that way, when you try to do them well...

Maybe is it just a difference in image...

Scientists have to learn every hour, but their limits are less visible than the one of an engineer...

As expected, as feared

COVID-19 may have killed nearly 3 million in India, far more than official counts show

New analysis bolsters idea that country’s seemingly low death rate was misleading

AAAS

AAAS

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India’s national COVID death totals remain undetermined. Using an independent nationally representative survey of 0.14 million (M) adults, we compared COVID mortality during the 2020 and 2021 viral waves to expected all-cause mortality. COVID constituted 29% (95%CI 28-31%) of deaths from June 2020-July 2021, corresponding to 3.2M (3.1-3.4) deaths, of which 2.7M (2.6-2.9) occurred in April-July 2021 (when COVID doubled all-cause mortality). A sub-survey of 57,000 adults showed similar temporal increases in mortality with COVID and non-COVID deaths peaking similarly. Two government data sources found that, when compared to pre-pandemic periods, all-cause mortality was 27% (23-32%) higher in 0.2M health facilities and 26% (21-31%) higher in civil registration deaths in ten states; both increases occurred mostly in 2021. The analyses find that India’s cumulative COVID deaths by September 2021 were 6-7 times higher than reported officially.

Another Followup of Zhang Hang

瑗垮畨绉嬬劧璇曢獙瀹ゅ紶鑸

quite detailed

Quote from Zhang Hang

Professor Takahashi of Japan released the "experiment of excess heat of copper nickel zirconium alloy in hydrogen" at the 23rd International condensed matter nuclear science conference. 200 watts of excess heat can be generated per kilogram of alloy. Akiran laboratory copied the experiment and observed the maximum excess heat of 24 watts per kilogram of alloy.


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4. Conclusion
4.1 excess heat can be observed in hydrogen after multiple oxidation of copper nickel zirconium alloy.
4.2 the hydrogen charging test after each oxidation lasts for several days, excluding the chemical energy of synthetic water.
4.3 the experimental phenomenon of Professor Takahashi's team in Japan can be reproduced in Qiuran laboratory
4.4 the excess heat power measured is more than 5 times higher than the measurement error, which can be used as scientific evidence.
4,5 the total excess heat measured in the experiment is 1.7MJ

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Someone rational would consider how LENR could strategically be more important as an economic booster, than as a weapon.

And also how vain it would be to hide it... not event sure a patent can protect a company work enough...

Not everybody is so rational, however (French experience).

Peter was so nice and willing to help, and make ir happen.

Too Sad.

My Condolences to his familly.

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That is a good analogy. Maybe not the way you meant it. There were many different approaches to building airplanes circa 1900, such as A. G. Bell, and Maxim and Lilienthal. Those were smart people. Their ideas deserved respect, although the efforts did not make much progress. However, in 1906 the Wright patent was issued. All successful airplanes after that have been based on their discovery, which was 3-axis control. Also, all of them have wings with chambers similar to this, and similar length to width ratios. These are very different from Lilienthal and other early attempts. The Wrights were superb engineers and they had rigorous proof these were the best chambers and ratios, at the low speed their airplane was designed for.

For those interested in Wright this video with interview of the founder of Roots of Progress

The Roots of Progress

A new philosophy of progress for the 21st century

rootsofprogress.org

The causes of their success is analyzed in detail.

self funding, giving time and freedom from politics, aggressive iterative research, allowed by safer failure...

Doing their own research to start from solid foundation.

Massively underpromissing and overdelivering.

other articles

Newspaper at that

The Wright Aeroplane and its Fabled Performance

and this one comparing Cold Fusion and Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers and Cold Fusion

by JedRothwell

CC Alan Smith Feel free all moderators to rephrase, move, and enrich

Experiment finds evidence for a long-sought particle comprising four neutrons

While all atomic nuclei except hydrogen are composed of protons and neutrons, physicists have been searching for a particle consisting of two, three or four…

phys.org

Experiment finds evidence for a long-sought particle comprising four neutrons

by Technical University Munich Dr. Roman Gernhäuser at the target chamber. The tetra-neutron particles were created in the center of this chamber. The reaction was detected using an extremely sensitive magnetic spectrograph. Credit: Uli Benz / Tum

While all atomic nuclei except hydrogen are composed of protons and neutrons, physicists have been searching for a particle consisting of two, three or four neutrons for over half a century. Experiments by a team of physicists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) at the accelerator laboratory on the Garching research campus now indicate that a particle comprising four bound neutrons may well exist.

While nuclear physicists agree that there are no systems in the universe made of only protons, they have been searching for particles comprising two, three or four neutrons for more than 50 years.

Should such a particle exist, parts of the theory of the strong interaction would need to be rethought. In addition, studying these particles in more detail could help us better understand the properties of neutron stars.

By the way, I've surveyed the slides of this workshop.

Very interesting, especially about methodology, instruments, burden of evidences...

About Google it was painful but fair to read the competent failure of Google replications. It is challenging, and should make us more modest...

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021LENR_workshop_Fork.pdf

About methodology, the problem of ambiguity explains well the difficulty to convince with LENR results https://arpa-e.energy.gov/site…LENR_workshop_Metzler.pdf

Many elements to help someone design a good research program.

I imagine the teams fo Hermes and CleanHME have re-read it many times.

Bitter taste for me... Much to do.

Quote from JedRothwell

I am not surprised. Which critics? Can you provide a link?

I will tell the people at ARPA their strategy failed.

It looked so irrelevant I did not relay/bookmark

Re-reading it seems not serious site...

ARPA to Hold Low Energy Nuclear Workshop

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Workshop October 21-22, 2021 The objective of this workshop is to explore…

climatecrocks.com

not so massive if only on BS site...

earlier, I've noticed Nasawatch worried by NASA efforts.. more serious menace

Quote from JedRothwell

The skeptics will see this conference was about cold fusion.

I've noticed some critics, they have seen it.

About talents, I've read article about hardcore innovators from startup hired in companies. Quickly, they behave normally.

Environment, drives the expression of talents. What I feel from the evolution of times, is that before the 80s, since the Greeks, many young had desperate freedom, having to carve their life against the older who were protected but prisoners of social roles.

In current time, the older have the freedom of retirement, the freedom of leisure research, while the young people have to fight to enter the research world, please their academic peers, file grant applications, find an employer.

This is why strangely many corporate researchers are more free than academics, because you don't have to please the academic community, the politicians fearful of media opinions, but only your own crazy boss.

This is why smaller companies, having small boards, less council of good research validation, can innovate better despite much less money... this is why some country, where there is respect for the installed staff, can innovate better than place where displeasing the board of truth mean you are fired...

Of course, I exaggerate, it is more complex, but this is one factor that changed...

Craziness and mental-diversity is an asset, like biodiversity is.

Seems new article, and claims are more concrete than the press release

「核融合・熱」によるボイラーが実用化へ、金属積層チップで熱を取り出す

原子核変換に伴う熱を利用する加熱装置の製品化が間近に迫ってきた。9月28日、新エネルギー関連のベンチャー企業、クリーンプラネット（東京都千代田区）とボイラー設備大手の三浦工業が「量子水素エネルギーを利用した産業用ボイラーの共同開発契約を締結した」と発表した。

「核融合・熱」によるボイラーが実用化へ、金属積層チップで熱を取り出す

原子核変換に伴う熱を利用する加熱装置の製品化が間近に迫ってきた。9月28日、新エネルギー関連のベンチャー企業、クリーンプラネット（東京都千代田区）とボイラー設備大手の三浦工業が「量子水素エネルギーを利用した産業用ボイラーの共同開発契約を締結した」と発表した。

xtech.nikkei.com

「核融合・熱」によるボイラーが実用化へ、金属積層チップで熱を取り出す

原子核変換に伴う熱を利用する加熱装置の製品化が間近に迫ってきた。9月28日、新エネルギー関連のベンチャー企業、クリーンプラネット（東京都千代田区）とボイラー設備大手の三浦工業が「量子水素エネルギーを利用した産業用ボイラーの共同開発契約を締結した」と発表した。

xtech-nikkei-com.translate.goog

Boiler by "nuclear fusion / heat" is put into practical use, heat is taken out by metal laminated chip

The commercialization of a heating device that uses heat from transmutation is imminent. On September 28, new energy-related venture company Clean Planet (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) and Miura Co., Ltd., a major boiler equipment company, announced that they have signed a joint development contract for an industrial boiler that uses quantum hydrogen energy.

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According to the equipment in the laboratory in Kawasaki City, once hydrogen is filled in the chip and heated, it will continue to generate heat that exceeds the input energy for about 120 days. At that time, the COP (coefficient of performance: indicates how many times the heat energy input / consumed energy can be obtained) exceeds 12. Since the COP of a general heat pump water heater is around 3, it is expected to be able to generate an order of magnitude of heat ( Fig. 3 ).

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「核融合・熱」によるボイラーが実用化へ、金属積層チップで熱を取り出す

原子核変換に伴う熱を利用する加熱装置の製品化が間近に迫ってきた。9月28日、新エネルギー関連のベンチャー企業、クリーンプラネット（東京都千代田区）とボイラー設備大手の三浦工業が「量子水素エネルギーを利用した産業用ボイラーの共同開発契約を締結した」と発表した。

「核融合・熱」によるボイラーが実用化へ、金属積層チップで熱を取り出す

原子核変換に伴う熱を利用する加熱装置の製品化が間近に迫ってきた。9月28日、新エネルギー関連のベンチャー企業、クリーンプラネット（東京都千代田区）とボイラー設備大手の三浦工業が「量子水素エネルギーを利用した産業用ボイラーの共同開発契約を締結した」と発表した。

xtech.nikkei.com

「核融合・熱」によるボイラーが実用化へ、金属積層チップで熱を取り出す

原子核変換に伴う熱を利用する加熱装置の製品化が間近に迫ってきた。9月28日、新エネルギー関連のベンチャー企業、クリーンプラネット（東京都千代田区）とボイラー設備大手の三浦工業が「量子水素エネルギーを利用した産業用ボイラーの共同開発契約を締結した」と発表した。

xtech-nikkei-com.translate.goog

Boiler by "nuclear fusion / heat" is put into practical use, heat is taken out by metal laminated chip

The commercialization of a heating device that uses heat from transmutation is imminent. On September 28, new energy-related venture company Clean Planet (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) and Miura Co., Ltd., a major boiler equipment company, announced that they have signed a joint development contract for an industrial boiler that uses quantum hydrogen energy.

It seems blocked in France too.

There are solutions...

In Chinese

绗

第23届国际冷聚变会议学术笔记 - 张武寿

第二十三届国际凝聚态核科学会议（即国际冷聚变会议）已于2021年6月9 -11日顺利召开。因疫情的持续影响，ICCF-23办成了线上会议，这也是历届ICCF的第一次，主会场在厦门大学。第二十四届国际冷聚变会议ICCF24将于2022年在美国硅谷召开。
ICCF-23网络会议学术笔记

本文简化版发表于《分子催化》2021年35卷4期390页

张武寿 于2021年6月21日

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Google translation

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Academic Notes of the 23rd International Conference on Cold Fusion - Zhang Wushou

The 23rd International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (the International Conference on Cold Fusion) was successfully held on June 9-11, 2021. Due to the continuing impact of the epidemic, ICCF-23 has become an online conference. This is the first time ever for ICCF. The main venue is Xiamen University. The 24th International Cold Fusion Conference ICCF24 will be held in Silicon Valley, USA in 2022.

Academic Notes of ICCF-23 Network Conference

This simplified version was published in "Molecular Catalysis" 2021, Volume 35, Issue 4, page 390

Zhang Wushou on June 21, 2021

Estimates of pandemic excess mortality in India based on civil registration data

Preprint

central estimate: 3.8M
optimistic estimate: 2.8M
pessimistic estimate: 5.2M

The estimates, extrapolated from data from 12 states, put India's pandemic mortality at between 7 and 13 times the official death toll. They align broadly with estimates from several other groups, e.g.:

Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic

India lacks an authoritative estimate of the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. We report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from…

www.cgdev.org

The excess deaths are clearly pandemic deaths, rising and falling with the different waves of COVID-19. The numbers are broadly in the range expected from COVID-19 fatality rates and the level of spread of disease in India.

Since some peope stille believe in HCQ, ther was a thread about that, in-vitro testing ...

after considering promising results, it appears that Pr Raoult team was aware it could not work...

Why ? because the way how HCQ works if modifying pH inside endosome, which only works with Cathepsine L (CTSL) that it prevents to activate (clivage? cutting?) the virus after fisrt phase with ACE2.

Sadly there is another pathway, not through CTSL but through TMPRSS2

The known problem is that it is working on monkey cells, who express mostly CTSL... It is why first test were promising.

Humans express more TMPRSS2, making HCQ useless on human, not even working on human cells.

The worst is that Corie Reverbell of Raoult Team explained in technical terms that she was fully aware of this problems

It's in French, sorry

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Thread by @Locuste_: 🐞 THREAD 🐞 Vous reprendrez bien un peu d'hydroxychloroquine ? Mais cette fois-ci, nous allons aborder la question de ses effets in vitro.…

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The google stranslate

Thread by @Locuste_ on Thread Reader App

Thread by @Locuste_: 🐞 THREAD 🐞 Vous reprendrez bien un peu d'hydroxychloroquine ? Mais cette fois-ci, nous allons aborder la question de ses effets in vitro.…

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We have been F*d...

The CV of Raoult was so promising that I followed his nice talk at the beginning...

I have been F*d. On can stop being F*d, just by deciding.

This guy have no more value than Gary Taubes.

Don't give money to big pharma and Pfizemectin, take your shot.

You will save few thousand dollars of medicine, and if unlucky, a hundred of thousand dollar of ICU, plus a good chance to pay for a brand new coffin.

Seriously, bigpharma does not make much money with vaccines (something like 8% margin, and pfizer reinvested in cancer therapy)...

they prefer fake medecine like Boiron's business, or chronic medicines for cardiovascular disease, or wellness supplements...

If you are afraid of crooks, I have a long list, but not where people are looking today.

Franckly, the conspiracy fan are not wize, like on LENR they don't know where are the crooks...

„Only puny secrets need protection. Big secrets are protected by public incredulity.“

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1…otection-big-secrets-are/

I've waited for serious results for a third of the time Jed waited, and I'm already very cautious...

Too many times... but who knows. It will happen like The Big One... Sure it will happen, and each day make it more probable, but nobody knows when.

On the paper it looks greatly promising. I've seen that many times.