Mark Leclair, and his company "Nanospire" long ago distanced themselves from LENR for, IMO, business reasons, but their story still intrigues me. Much more to he, and his partner Serge's story than this, if interested:

Mark LeClair -- Nanospire cavitation jet machining, transmutation, crystalline water (rexresearch.com)

World’s largest wind turbine blows past previous record generating astounding amount of power amid typhoon (yahoo.com)

While already in the record books for being the world’s largest, a wind turbine based off the coast of Fujian Province in China has achieved another incredible milestone.

Set on the Zhangpu Liuao Phase 2 offshore wind farm, the wind turbine’s rotor diameter is about 827 feet, while the turbine’s hub is 479 feet high, Electrek reported.

During Typhoon Haikui, the mammoth installation was able to generate 384.1 megawatt-hours of electricity in the span of a day, which would be enough to power around 170,000 homes, according to South China Morning Post.

While wind speeds of 53 miles per hour would usually see a wind turbine lock its blades to prevent the system from overloading, the

Goldwind’s GWH252-16MW turbine has an intelligent system that allows it to adjust its blades to account for the conditions, meaning there is no loss of power generation, as Electrek reported based on South China Morning Post’s assessment.

“We are closely monitoring critical components like the main control programme, pitch system and generators to gradually lift power restrictions while ensuring operational safety,” a spokesperson for Goldwind told the South China Morning Post, per The Independent.

At 7:20 BG reports Bendall had a successful test of his Thunderstorm Generator in India:

End of year surprise announcement (youtube.com)

Sabine gives her opinion on building nuclear power plants:

Is nuclear power really that slow and expensive as they say? - YouTube

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Interesting series of videos posted by the MFMP on a visit to bjhuang ’s laboratory. I am positively impressed by the scale of the operation. Of special interest to me is the claim that water coming out of the reactor is measurably different in density (up to 3%), I am really intrigued to know if analysis of the electric conductivity, pH and total dissolved solids has been performed, considering that the water that goes in the reactor is De Ionized.

BG has a new video out. At 8:20 he announces a paper he co-authored with Huang was peer reviewed, and will be published by the major journal Nature Scientific Report's. Congratulations go to MFMP, and BJ Huang.

End of year surprise announcement (youtube.com)

Saw the teaser about 1928. That reminded me of Fritz Paneth as in (Paneth and Peters), who originally reported the transformation of hydrogen into helium by nuclear catalysis when hydrogen was absorbed by finely divided palladium at room temperature. Checked and sure enough some Paneth papers are in there, but not LENR related. Like you said, there should be some nuggets to peruse when everything is available.

Good find. Thanks.

Looking forward to finding out what lies in store for us in the upcoming year. 2023 seemed a bit slow in comparison to the previous year, but only because it had to compete with the 2022 ICCF24 in Silicon Valley. That was a tough act to follow.

But 2023, IMO, will be remembered as the year of the start-up businesses looking to cash in on LENR. There was Biaco, ENG8, Windstream -now called SeeGen, in India, Malcolm Bendall's company "Land Logical Power" with it's Storm Generator. Question being, of course, are they legit? Hopefully 2024 will give us the answer. Did I miss anyone?

Of those companies which have been around a few years, and are certainly legit, Clean Planet has probably been most active on both the PR and science front during 2023. Safire has been a little quieter, but they reported on their steady progress with an eye on the wastewater remediation industry. Haven't heard much from BEC this year, which was a disappointment.

And then there is Randy Mills BrLP. I am assured they are still alive and kicking, and close to............. We shall see.

As to the science, 2023 will no doubt be remembered for the introduction of AI to LENR. It may be one of the most important developments since 1989. Jed Rothwell's LENR CANR extensive library now has it as a search option, and David Nagel is working with New York University to download 5,000 (almost complete I believe) LENR papers into a ChatGPT style format. Together, their efforts will accelerate research, and possibly help unravel the mystery of what makes this thing work.

Another promising development in 2023, has been the growth of LENR Forum. Thanks to your contribution and participation, we have become an important part of the community. This past year we fine-tuned our popular newsletter to where it is now sent to 2,500 members/month. Because of its success, we were able to start our new LENR Forum News website. Both would not have been possible without what we learned here on the forum though.

We had a well known gentleman tell us recently how nice the newsletter and NEWS website were, but that the forum is for "blah blah"...which he doesn't like That may be true, but without the information we gather here from you, there would be no newsletter and no news website. They are all linked, so please keep up the good work of combing the web and reporting here what you find, and what you know.

Let us hope that by this time next year we will have made it to the promised land.

I had missed this video, so thanks go to Jacque Reur for linking to it in his ISCMNS Christmas greetings. At ICCF25, David Nagel announced he, and Annase Bari (New York University) have launched the "AI Tools for Modern LENR Research" funded by Anthropocene. It's goals are to "mine the large existing literature for actionable insights", and "design, develop, and deploy modified and new AI tools to support and accelerate current and planned research".

Here is the new website https://lenrdashboard.com/

Not sure if it is fully operational yet, as Nagel keeps referring to it's capabilities as "will be able"...as in the future. He did say that there were over 4,000 papers (as of today it shows 4740) in the database, and that it will function like ChatGPT.

LENR-forum News December 2023 (mailchi.mp)

LENR Forum News December 2023 Your Source for Open Science and Emerging Energy Technology

The International Society of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science LEC-LIGHTS IN THE DARK Alan Smith, ISCMNS -- The current focus of research is to scale up the output from Lattice Energy Converters (LECs), first pioneered by Frank Gordon and Harper Whitehouse, with power enough to run Light Emitting Diodes, and in doing so, provide lighting to more than 900 million people without access to electricity who now use kerosene for illumination, an amount of kerosene equal to that used by US commercial aviation in 2005, a big risk to health. Success of this project would help develop a system that is low-cost, with a zero-carbon abundant fuel, producing no hazardous waste as well as the broad acceptance of LENR. The Challenge: A kerosene lantern provides approximately 150 lumens of light. Based on the literature, it takes approximately 1 watt of power for LEDs to produce between 100 to 200 lumens of light. Experimental results presented at ICCF 25 showed an LEC that was producing 3.0 x 10-5 watts of power per square centimeter of electrode surface area. Increasing the output power by 5 orders of magnitude would produce 3 watts of power. Opportunities to increase the output power include increasing the electrode size from 1 square centimeter to 1000 square cms, (1 square foot) to increase the output by 3 orders of magnitude. Also, improved, or more active, materials including nanoparticles electrodes and LEC cell designs that improve ion harvesting efficiency and optimize gas pressures and mixtures. In combination we believe that 5 or more orders of magnitude improvement can be achieved to meet the goal. The best way to show the world that LENR/SSF is real is to make a device that solves a problem. Providing lighting to 900 million people will accomplish that objective. CORRECTION to LENR-forum News November 2023 broken link to David J. Nagel's paper Direct Electrical Production from LENR. You can purchase a copy from Infinite Energy here. Join the ISCMNS and become part of a global group of motivated scientists, technologists, and others dedicated to researching and developing technologies that can ensure the future of our species on planet Earth. Members of the ISCMNS share and discuss important scientific ideas, research results, and practical know-how. The conferences, workshops, webinars and online hubs we help to organize bring researchers and industry leaders together to bring light and warmth to all without endangering the environment or wildlife. This is a journey and a conversation you should be part of, for the sake of tomorrow, and all the days after that. Apply for membership here. Join for free until January 2024. LENR-CANR.org Librarian Jed Rothwell has been uploading scans of historical documents as well as newspaper editorials and articles, from the days after the announcement of the cold fusion discovery. Physicists and science writers were challenged beyond their capability to explain experiments contradicting the 100-year-old nuclear theory. Find the newest uploads on the Recents page. November's downloads at lenr-canr.org are ticking up at 14,173 See the big picture data here. Search LENR research with the AI tool here. EVENTS The 2024 American Nuclear Society Annual Conference [website] will meet June 9-12, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada and feature a session on LENR in the Materials Science and Technology Division on the topic of “Sample Preparation and Examination of Materials for Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Experiments“. Details are available at the ANS Web site. For more, authors may contact organizer Steven B. Krivit, publisher of the LENR Reference Site and New Energy Times, at [email protected]. The Japanese CFresearch Society held their annual meeting Dec. 1-2. The program and abstracts were published here. APL Energy has published an article Li–Pd–Rh-D2O electrochemistry experiments at elevated voltage [.pdf] authored by a group of researchers including Carl Gotzmer, Louis F DeChiaro, Larry Forsley, Pamela Mosier-Boss and more. "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.....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." INFINITE ENERGY ISSUE #165 In the Lab with Dr. Edmund Storms Making Active Material Rob Christian visits Edmund Storms in the lab for a lesson. Watch on Youtube here. TECHNOLOGY A joint research paper between Tohoku University and Clean Planet has been published on the Physics and Mathematics preprint server. The paper Photon radiation calorimetry for anomalous heat generation in NiCu multilayer thin film during hydrogen gas deporptoion [visit] is a summary of a talk given by Emeritus Professor Jirohta Kasagi at the international conference ICCF25, and will be published in the Journal of Condensed Mtater Nuclear Science after further peer review. Watch Jirohta Kasagi's ICCF25 presentation on Youtube here. The Riviera Maritime reports on the European Tugowners Association (ETA) sustainability conference during the Europort exhibition featured two presentations on nuclear applications to marine vehicle power. Associazione Italiana Nucleare’s Claudia Gasparrini presented educational background and ENG8 investor and Alchemie chief executive Haslen Back spoke on how Low-energy nuclear reactors (LENRs) could be installed on large tugs and workboats to drive steam two-stroke engines and supply hydrogen fuel to dual-fuel engines or fuel cells. [read more] ORGANIZATIONS Anthropocene Institute hosted Charles Oppenheimer, the Founder of the Oppenheimer Project and Operating partner with 8090 Industries USA, at the Asia Pacific Nuclear Energy 2023 [program] who gave the keynote address titled Oppenheimer Values and how they can spark a Nuclear Energy Spring. APNE is the first nuclear energy summit focused on developing nuclear energy in the Asia Pacific region particularly the ASEAN countries that are currently looking at nuclear energy as a possible addition to their countries’ energy mixes considering growing energy demands. [read more] Anthropocene Institute President Carl Page spoke at the African Youth Nuclear Summit (AYNS) 2023 [visit] on the "the need to restore habitat, and bring down carbon in the atmosphere to safe levels: 280 parts per million (PPM)", citing their own research that shows how nuclear saves lives. [read more] AI President Page also spoke at the 10th Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) [program] joining panelists Scott Hsu, Takaya Taguchi, and Yutaka Kamada to discuss Nuclear Fusion Technology. See the presentation video with introduction by Sally Merrick Benson, Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and download presentation file here. Chief Scientist Frank Ling attended COP28 joining a panel of energy finance leaders to discuss Acclerating Climate Financing for Nuclear Innovation: ETFs, Portfolio Investment, Climate Bonds. [visit] COLD FUSION RESEARCH LABORATORY Hideo Kozima of the Cold Fusion Research Laboratory [visit] and author of The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon has released CFRL News No. 119. Included are two essays The Cold Fusion Phenomenon and the ARPA-E Project 2022 of DOE: A Facet of the Sociology of Modern Science published in the Proceedings of JCF 23, pp. 6 – 36 (2023) and A Comment of the paper by J.P.Biberian, L.Forsley, and P. Mosier-Boss, "Transmutation of Palladium Induced by Laser Irradiation" published in J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sc., 37 (2023) 9-22. Fresh interviews with researchers in the field of solid state fusion on what it takes to succeed in solving one of the biggest scientific questions of our time, and develop a zero-carbon solution to our energy needs. COMMUNITY Physicist Alan Widom, best known for his work with Lewis Larsen on the Widom-Larsen theory of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) has passed away. An obituary by Steven B. Krivit is here. András Kovács, Valery Zatelepin, and Dmitry Baranov have authored a theoretical work entitled The proton's and neutron's internal structures: Physics foundation and new measurements reveal the truth. Join the discussion here. COP28 has ended. World Wildlife Fund reports global wildlife populations down 69% in 2022. [Full .pdf here] What is your next move? CLASSIFIED ARPA-e contractor Exhlab is looking to hire spectroscopists and physicists. Find out more here.

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Not sure it is new, but I've seen this article on ENG8
https://www.rivieramm.com/news…elopments-presented-78485

LENR nuclear power developments presented

10 Nov 2023 by Martyn Wingrove

Future tugs and workboats could be powered by small modular reactors producing pressure pulses and hydrogen

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We looked at this before, but taking another look at the article reminded me to look up the other company besides ENG8, Italy based Ground Control Holding Partners - Ground Control Holding ,that presented at the recent European tugboat conference. They are teamed up with the private innovative center https://www.kilometrorosso.com/en/ . to develop the LENR based UM 3.0 Prometheus reactor according to the article. Not much more known about their tech without seeing the presentation.

As with ENG8, and Biaco, they came out of nowhere and only recently came to our attention. GCH does seem legit, as they work with other companies, and in this case have teamed up with the well respected Kilometro Rosso. If anything more pops up about them, I will open a dedicated thread about them.

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The paper

When you first posted that paper last month on another thread, you probably did not know but I copied it above on this thread and also on the NASA thread. I only do that if I consider it important. I think, as do you, this story deserves much more scrutiny than it has received from the community.

Thanks as always. No one is better at digging up stuff than you.

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We can find that the "engineers" claimed to be members of IEP are not members of IEP and all turns out to be a dilettante scam.

Are you joking, or serious? If serious, hopefully you have something to back up your accusation.

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I missed the part in the report where they measure air flow somehow

You are being evasive, but suppose you could control input/output, and also the "quantity of insufflate air" as IEP says (whatever that means), could they fool someone else other than you? If so, how?

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The easiest person to fool is oneself. The next easiest person to fool is a fool.

I guess the real answer is that if the chain of measurements is sufficient to cross check the important measurements, then it doesn’t matter if one is a fool or being fooled, the results should be foolproof.

But could you be fooled in this case, were you the IEP observer?

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Hi! Well I guess we have a "document" from IEP...
https://eng8.energy/uoc-final-raman-report-24-7-23-2

Though the upcoming UL version means more to me (US based)

Yes, we have a document. But, like you, we are still waiting for that "upcoming UL version"...as you say.

While we wait, the IEP's disclaimer states:

"The IEP’s personnel, that assisted and audited the in loco measurement process, treated all the EnergyCell system as a black box. We only did control the injected electric energy, the quantity of insufflate air and the outputted thermal energy. From that, using the relevant standard constants, we accessed the CoP values".

Question for our members, i.e. Paradigmnoia , is: can you rig a black box so that the observer can control the input/output, along with air flow, such that the observer is fooled?

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Outside of Alan Smith from whom I have received valuable feedback, the members here treat our interactions with character assignations as opposed to evidenced based counter arguments. I have assumed that this lack of standard scientific behavior is due to a lack of proper background in the sciences.

The peer review process is tough for a reason. It helps separate the wheat from the chaff, so that laypeople like me don't waste too many braincells trying to understand something we shouldn't bother with. Now, may the best man win. Good luck.

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So, no change?

It would be nice if they made it easy for us to know if there has been a change, instead of us having to dig for it. A simple "this is what we said last year, and this is what we improved on, or didn't" would suffice. That includes both their research, and PR departments.

MFMP has been a good example for others to follow on being totally open. But understandably, those based on a business model, have other factors to consider.

Nice interview clip between Diadon Acs under his Conscious Energies banner, and Bob Greenyer about the first observed effects of LENR. Only 5 minutes:

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Yeah - it is difficult to make out what they have actually done. The graph comes from this source, apparently:

https://mizunotech.com/assets/…earch-bangalore-india.pdf

Plagiarism is not good.

CER team leader Prahlada Ramaro said100 out of 500 tests were successful, so I don't think the 2 month timeline is realistic. Sounds a bit like CP to me, where the research and marketing departments are not on the same page.