Posts by Michel Vandenberghe

Hi Erik,

Erik : Why is that not a surprise?
Michel : If I was a strategist and If I had to choose an initial country in Europe to get some control on the development of this industry in Europe, I would choose Nordics and more precisely Sweden.

Erik : Can I pick your brain on this?
Michel : Sweden has the perfect profile: Innovative, open, no dependencies to oil for Energy (But Nuclear...), large installed base for district heating, mainstream scientists in the loop, Member of EU, social, .... LENR-Cities is based on Switzerland which has also a good profile, but not for a US driven game.

Erik : How do you view the evolution of the LENR field from here?
Michel : As I'm working since 2 years about what will happen after a market proof (Manufacturing a product is a market proof...) I've some scenario in mind. I know that there are several teams in Europe able to design reactors. What they are doing today is limited by the resources they have and not by what they can do… and I have no doubt that industrialists and startups in Europe will develop technologies. Then, I’m not worried; Europe will play its role. I think the real issue is about the pace for the transition for all sectors. Faster this transition will be done, more will be reduced the cost of its side effects, including risks....more the development of the technology and its applications will be fast thanks to more investments. That requires an innovative industrial strategy not the kind of approach [lexicon]IH[/lexicon]/Leonardo seems to have... This is our focus : A cooperative ecosystem for the teams willing to develop LENR technologies. This is a huge game and to compete all players in Europe must cooperate.... a full "decentralized cooperative organisation" over Europe with business for each player... but that means all startups in Europe should consider to join...

Erik : Do you know anything about investment possibilites in LENR?
Michel : We are looking for funding for 4 LENR projects. Now...

Congrats Sam

Not a surprise...

Hello, my 2 cents opinion I think what is the most important is not the technological proof but the market proof. What would unleash investment will be the proof that there are effective manufacturing agreements with China, US and some others. If there is manufacturing agreement there's working product. What is important is the core technology, not the product. Core technology cannot be protected and msut not be protected. I bet that the LENR law will soon such as "effective power density will double every 6 months" Thus will decrease size, weight, raw materials costs, enable wider integration and so on... The only way for any company with a as usual business model is to be in a position to propose a return on investment short enough to get customers to invest in the product. Do not forget how much value this technology will destroy at first...Best,Michel.

The debate is not about an endless discussion about what a debate is but about the behavior of people participating in this debate.I know this is your thread - you've created this thread - and you are on the endless debate about what a discussion should be or not to be. You mean that to dislike what you write is censorship?

For your information. There're reactions but not public... I

Re-read my post. Thank you.

I'm curious. If you think that a rule of this forum introduces some restriction about sharing contrary facts, please explain. As you wrote, the owners of this forum have nothing to prove and I guess they would make any appropriate change if required. Let me share my opinion. Without trolls, scientists and others people would publish more information. Trolls are the illness of forums. A lot of valuable information is not or never published on forums. This why Animators have to work so hard to find these information. Finding some consensus on information is what makes (temporary) facts on a forum. Why people use a forum? What is not a fact has to be proven: it is a fact. But this fact is not a proof. Whatever the topic is, the troll has something to say, to say "it is not a fact". This is good metric to detect them even it is not enough. The troll is not only a troll but can also contribute on some topics, even be a true expert. But experts do not know what other people do not know. If a forum is to share information and to help people to know... a complex topic....:-)

Hello Denis, nice to discover your group. Michel.

The "La Tribune" paper (still in French) is at the Russian official LENR website too: http://lenr.seplm.ru/novosti/statya-v-lya-tribyun-o-khyas
Source : Peter GLuck.

@H-G

I think the journalist has done a great job. It is not so easy to tell what is this and what is the status ? This forum is itself a proof about that. There's obviously some interpretation and misinterpretation but this is not the key point. An open mind approch is the most important beacause one needs first to have people asking questions.

About 'reactor'. In January last year we organized an event with scientists working on different topics but all related to LENR. LENR is transmutation, catalyst, energy, superconductivity and more.
It seems that LENR is about getting some quantic effect at higher scale of organization of the Matter. it is why we have chosen the term "Nanoscale" to make the brigde.

Hello David. my intent was to say that the explanation in some way is making the fact and vice versa It is not a matter of contreversy but may be why there's contreversy

I think that the problem is not to stop LENR but that must be a concern...

Hello David, Where is the 'Steve Jobs'CEO in the french industry. May be Niel. I have been said he had some interest about LENR.

It requires tons of mathematics and physics to prove things work but they work without them (tons of ...) but one needs them to be proven (it is not an affirmation but what people expect).

To prove what? That they work? Or that to think that we know how? LENR is not a scientific problem. It is about the way to solve a scientific problem. As usual, most managers ask for a proof. They should think what will happen when the proof will be there. They will only know that they do not know but it will be too late.. in the meantime, other will have built the way to kick their ass. It is as usual...

Remind that LENR is about a way to produce neutrons (see Allan Widom work for instance and more recentely the work of the swedish team ). Remind what Fermi said if we were able to 'play' with neutrons. .

Since the very early stage, we have worked on the development of a european project. No LENRG team yet in France, but done in the UK, Italy and Switzerland, a potential partner in Germany and more. We need now several millions funding to grow up...

Hello David, welcome to join as you know we would like to co-build an umbrella for all LENR activities in order to get at the end all of them to use the best path to succeed and support a viral development of the technology and market...

Regarding LENR-Cities, it was a bit early to disclose information about our NUKEY project in the UK. We are developing a research project in the field of Nuclear Waste Remediation working with Chester / Thornton Science Park in the UK (Science park working on Energy) with some work to be done by two other well-known universities. Our ambition is to co-develop with partners a technology platform for Nuclear waste remediation solutions.

Developing a startup business which includes scientific research projects in the field of Energy requires an innovative business model and we are struggling to get funding to support our whole effort about research, fundng platform for disruptive technologies and education.

We have another project ready about energy production but we are lacking some funding for now. Wake up investors ...

Great ! Poeple from LENR-Cars, LENR-invest and LENR-Cities have been interviewed. Let's see what is going to be published.

Mahadeva Srinivasan is working on the national LENR R&D program in India; I got several talks with him during ICCF19.

I met Paul at Toulouse during the airbus event. He is a smart person ...

after one sentence about F&P and Bla bla....replication... Interesting to read essentiel things to know in two sentences:
"However, after more than 25 years of experimentation, several research groups have built up evidence that real nuclear reactions lay behind the pair’s results."
" The problem according to Professor Huw Price, a philosopher of science at Cambridge university, is that cold fusion became a “reputation trap” which most researchers avoid because they know the scientific world will not take their work seriously."