Shaping up to be a very special ICCF.
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The Salton Sea could produce the world's greenest lithium (cnbc.com)
About 40 miles north of the California-Mexico border lies the shrinking, landlocked lake known as the Salton Sea. Though the lake was once the epicenter of a thriving resort community, water contamination and decades of drought have contributed to a collapse of its once-vibrant ecosystem and given rise to ghost towns.
the California Energy Commission estimates that there’s enough lithium here to meet all of the United States’ projected future demand and 40% of the world’s demand. That’s big news for the booming electric-vehicle industry, as lithium is the common denominator across all types of EV batteries.
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Alan Smith WOW
This is huge!
@Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann
BIG BIG THANKS
Cold Fusion aka Low Energy Nuclear Reactions aka Solid State Fusion is now mainstream, being endorsed by the Communications Consultant at Tokamak Energy.
This news might elevate the terrible Cold Fusion Wikipedia site.
As seen here, the Team Google and Nature collaboration has hurt our image at Wiki and elsewhere.
Wiki quote Cold Fusion
Melanie Windridge with her book, Aurora, photographed before speaking at the Institute of Physics in London, UK, on 2 March 2016.gbgoblenote
Of course my mind wonders how long Dr. Windridge has believed in cold fusion and what led to her turning point or deepening interest?
Career
Presently a spokesperson for the 24rh International Conference on Cold Fusion
Wiki Edit perhaps?
Dr. Melanie Windridge
Career page at Wikipedia
https en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Windridge
Dr. Melanie Windridge graduated from Bristol University with an MSc in Physics in 2002. She spent her undergraduate third year in France at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Grenoble. In 2009 she was awarded a PhD in Plasma Physics (specialising in fusion energy) from Imperial College London.
Her thesis discussed the vertical stability of rings of plasma in spherical tokamaks and investigated one of the consequences of the ring becoming unstable – halo currents. This research was undertaken on the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. Melanie showed that MAST plasmas may be more unstable to vertical disruptions than other tokamaks due to a combination of the magnetic field structure and the lack of a close-fitting wall.[12]
Following her PhD, Windridge was chosen as the Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges Lecturer for 2010, which launched her science communication career.[13][14] While travelling the country speaking to schools about fusion energy she wrote a collection of blogs on the subject, which were later published as an introductory book on fusion, Star Chambers: the Race for Fusion Power.
She subsequently worked with a Swiss start-up, Iprova, making inventions for high-profile clients, with whom she has various patents.[15] She is currently named as an inventor on 8 patents for Philips spanning lighting, healthcare and medical devices.
Windridge is an academic visitor in the Plasma Physics group of Imperial College London.
She is an Educational Consultant for the Ogden Trust , a founder advocate and ambassador of the Your Life campaign and a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP) Stimulating Physics Network Advisory Group.
She is also a member of the IOP Science Communicators group and Women in Physics group.
She won the STEM Ambassador Award 2015 from Science Oxford for her outreach work with schools.[16]
Her interests include nuclear fusion, the aurora and exploration and she is a regular speaker on these subjects.[17][18]
In 2013 she embarked on a series of trips to the Arctic investigating the history, the science and the landscapes of the northern lights.
Windridge climbed Mount Everest in Spring 2018, reaching the summit on 21 May.[19]
She is currently the Communications Consultant at Tokamak Energy.
Thanks Greg. I sometimes get too busy to dig into everything posted here. In this case even what Alan posts, so I missed the significance. The LF staff has been trying to explain how important this ICCF is, being at the center of the tech and investor world, but this one very smart lady making a video in support of the ICCF just helps us in so many ways!
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You sure about that?
Well, the prices are what they are. I was wrong and never checked. Thanks for correcting me.
Still pretty steep for the lower end hotels, but certainly not in the price range I guessed. Nonetheless, all expenses will be accounted for. This is a working trip.
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Alan is going to the ICCF to work, and the fundraiser is for his expenses only. Everything else he is doing gratis.
The cost of travel has gone up tremendously, and the cheapest rooms in the Silicon Valley are 4-$500 night. Restaurant prices are outrageous, and in the US you have to add in a tip. Crazy. To cut costs many of the attendees are sharing a room...including Alan.
For all he will be doing, we are getting a bargain.
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Not sure what you are asking for Gennadiy?
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They are correlated much less closely with case counts, because the time between COVID infection and a heart problem can be much longer, instead of a potential allergen peak over 48 hours or so, we have virus invading the body for a prolonged period.
These time series correlations are sensitive to time shifts - they have (I believe) not done an autoregression analysis to see how a time shifted version of the COVID incidence would fit heart admissions. So the comparison between COVID risk and vaccination risk cannot be established - and in any case could not be established in general, since it scales with the COVID incidence rate over this period. Israel was vaccinating the entire population, but only some fraction of that actually caught COVID.From the study:
"An increase of over 25% was detected in both call types during January–May 2021, compared with the years 2019–2020"
If I read you right, you are saying that COVID induced heart attacks, and myocarditis (often confused with ACS according to the study) happen later after initial infection, than those caused by the vaccine, and the study did not take that into account?
But if so, I would say that the study used the pre-vaccine years 2019-2020 as a baseline to compare with the vaccine year 2021. Any such lag in onset of heart troubles would therefore have been accounted for.
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Using a unique dataset from Israel National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) from 2019 to 2021, the study aims to evaluate the association between the volume of cardiac arrest and acute coronary syndrome EMS calls in the 16–39-year-old population with potential factors including COVID-19 infection and vaccination rates. An increase of over 25% was detected in both call types during January–May 2021, compared with the years 2019–2020. Using Negative Binomial regression models, the weekly emergency call counts were significantly associated with the rates of 1st and 2nd vaccine doses administered to this age group but were not with COVID-19 infection rates. While not establishing causal relationships, the findings raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced undetected severe cardiovascular side-effects and underscore the already established causal relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, a frequent cause of unexpected cardiac arrest in young individuals.
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At the risk of inviting opprobrium; to play devil’s advocate for a moment:
There are plenty of people who’d argue that crypto isn’t the future of finance.
I think that it’s important to understand the context of the moment we’re in. Over 2020 and 2021, financial markets have been in a state of retail driven mania and this phenomena has worked its way inexorably through the crypto space.
It’s not hyperbole to say that we haven’t seen the kind of environment that we saw in 2020 and 2021 (and to a lesser extent this year) since the dot com bubble.
Part and parcel of an environment like that are grand pronouncements about nascent or speculative technologies. It happened in the 60s with the ‘tronics boom, it happened in the 90s with the internet, and it happened again more recently with venture capital, tech and crypto.
One could reasonably argue that Bitcoin hasn’t lived up to the hype, nor solved any real world problem, and after more than a decade is still a clunky and problematic payment mechanism. For anybody with a familiarity with how modern payment systems work, it’s always been clear that an immutable ledger was going to be DOA as a payment mechanism.
Proponents have pivoted away from ‘bitcoin as a payment mechanism’ or ‘bitcoin as a currency’ towards ‘bitcoin as a store of value’, but it hasn’t really proved itself out as one in any substantive way. It’s simply too volatile.
Moreover, DeFi has yet to have substantive real world utility. I saw somebody quip recently that DeFi has succeeded in reinventing all the worst excesses of gilded age stock markets (and by extension, thus proved the need for regulatory oversight and centralisation), and that’s absolutely true. The space is rife with hacking, theft, fraud, and manipulation. A recent interview on Bloomberg with Sam Bankman-Fried (1) is notable for its having said the quiet part out loud.
A cynic might suggest that while there might not be many useful tokens being created, there are plenty of Joseph Kennedy’s being minted in the dark corners of the crypto world.
To be blunt, there are many people who view an association with crypto as a mark of, at best, unseriousness or naivety, and at worst, malicious intent. An association with crypto could well be a net negative for the forum’s reputation, and a net negative for the teams who get involved.
Few serious investors would choose to invest through a tokenised form if other options were available. The traditional capital structure - of common stock, preferred stock, and debt - offers so much flexibility. For any investor worth their salt, deal structure will always be front of mind and crypto is limiting in this respect.
Perhaps it’s a controversial thing to say these days, but I don’t think there’s anything that crypto can do that traditional finance can’t do better. Why is crypto preferable to a scientist simply starting an LLC?
But again, to put it in blunt terms: ‘hypey, faddy, fraud ridden crypto’ + ‘dubious physics with no place to go’ is the way a lot of smart people would read this. You could run the risk of the former sealing the fate of the latter.
And what kind of investor base is a LENR company going to end up with if it pursues a path like this? The composition of the shareholder base is very important for early stage companies. Early stage companies need stable shareholder bases that are populated by professional investors who can offer advice, provide connections and introductions, mentor the company and make ongoing growth investments as milestones are met.
The regulatory landscape is also changing pretty quickly, and it’s not inconceivable that you end up with some kind of regulatory liability on your hands. Not to mention the angst that might accrue when the forum team underwrites a lemon that goes sour for forum members / retail investors. Such possibilities are not to be minimised.
Unsophisticated investors do monumentally imprudent things with their money, and I can assure you that you don’t want to be on the other end of the line when you find out that somebody put their life savings into Rossi Coin.
Indeed, I’d argue that LENR investments aren’t the type of investment that should be made available to a retail audience under any circumstances.
There also aren’t very many viable investment candidates in the LENR space. To my understanding, most of the money needed is for R&D, rather than development of commercial products. As uncomfortable as it is to say out loud, the ROI on R&D is not encouraging in this space, and the noble ambition to corral funding for a terminally underfunded scientific endeavour shouldn’t let us lose sight of the fact that the person on the other end of those transactions is risking their money and expects a return. Or said differently, needs one, if you’re going to sustainably fund the LENR space through a crypto conduit.
If one can’t credibly be offered then this isn’t really a space that retail money should be invited into. More harm than good could be done.
Perhaps another route would be to write a digestible, professionally formatted primer that renders the history and current status of the space legible to professional investors. A balanced scientific and historical overview with links to, and synopses of, the various credible teams currently approaching commercial viability. Such a document could address common questions, misunderstandings and controversies head on. This could then be used to begin an outreach program to venture capitalists, foundations, journalists, industrial concerns with clean energy vc arms etc.
I realise this is very off topic to the point of this thread, so please of course move this / delete it. I'll limit my comments to this post so as not to drag the thread any further off course.
(1) https://www.bloomberg.com/news…-left-matt-levine-stunned
Well said as always, and food for thought. The reason I put this out there is for feedback from members. Like I said, this is still in the conceptual phase, so no telling where it will go from here, or how it will end.
Personally, I do not understand crypto. Probably no one over the age of 40 does. But at this point, my philosophy is that if there are willing crypto investors, and willing researchers comfortable with its pros/cons, then LF being a conduit between the two sides may be an option.
And the new crop of LENR enthusiasts/researchers are generally younger, and their generation may be more accepting of this new way to finance. We shall see.
As this idea matures, we can dig more into it. Thanks.
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This is the new Danish study comparing the effectiveness against all-cause-death of the mRNA vaccines (Moderna/Pfizer), versus the adenovirus-vector (J&J/AZ):
And an article about the study; it's findings, what they may mean, and the weaknesses and strengths: Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine? ⋆ Brownstone Institute
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Not sure if this (or the original patent) was ever mentioned here:-
Nano-Engineered Materials for LENR
Looking around I see Gregory Byron Goble first stumbled upon this before the USPTO published it. Now it is official with your post as the application date is today (28 Apr 2022).
Klee Irwin has been talked about here on other threads about quantum gravity and such.... Quantum Gravity Research / Home of the emergence theory / Conference material by V Dubinko&al on LENR - Physics - LENR Forum (lenr-forum.com) but this patent is LENR related so good find.
I will try and find a better home for it.
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The Anthropocene Institute has been partnering with Lawrence Forsley, the deputy principal investigator for NASA’s lattice confinement fusion project, based at NASA Glenn Research Center.
Not sure what they mean by partnering, but interesting.
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Shortcut to Fusion: No more magnets, no more lasers? - Anthropocene Institute
The Anthropocene Institute has been partnering with Lawrence Forsley, the deputy principal investigator for NASA’s lattice confinement fusion project, based at NASA Glenn Research Center. He and other researchers’ work have now been highlighted in IEEE Spectrum, “NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power, Lattice confinement fusion eliminates massive magnets and powerful lasers.”
In the article, Larry and his coauthors Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, Theresa Benyo, and Bruce Steinetz explain how NASA has traditionally powered deep-space travel, including photovoltaic cells, fuel cells, and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Now NASA is turning its attention to lattice confinement fusion (LCF), a fusion in which hydrogen is bound in a metal lattice, encouraging positively charged nuclei to fuse. These researchers are not alone in their endeavors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with funding from Google Research, achieved favorable results with a similar electron-screened fusion setup.
The authors and other scientists and engineers at NASA Glenn Research Center are investigating whether this approach can provide enough power to operate robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for instance. The good news: LCF would eliminate the need for fissile materials such as enriched uranium. The process would also be less expensive, smaller, and safer than other ways of harnessing nuclear energy.Most promising: LCF could also find uses here on Earth as it matures. Imagine LCF powering small power plants for individual buildings, which would reduce fossil-fuel dependency and increase grid resiliency. These researchers are making significant strides in creating a new way of generating clean nuclear energy, both for space missions and for people on Earth.
Congratulations to Larry Forsley and others making breakthroughs on the LCF front. It’s time these new developments get the support they deserve. -
Shortcut to Fusion: No more magnets, no more lasers? - Anthropocene Institute
The Anthropocene Institute has been partnering with Lawrence Forsley, the deputy principal investigator for NASA’s lattice confinement fusion project, based at NASA Glenn Research Center. He and other researchers’ work have now been highlighted in IEEE Spectrum, “NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power, Lattice confinement fusion eliminates massive magnets and powerful lasers.”
In the article, Larry and his coauthors Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, Theresa Benyo, and Bruce Steinetz explain how NASA has traditionally powered deep-space travel, including photovoltaic cells, fuel cells, and radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs). Now NASA is turning its attention to lattice confinement fusion (LCF), a fusion in which hydrogen is bound in a metal lattice, encouraging positively charged nuclei to fuse. These researchers are not alone in their endeavors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with funding from Google Research, achieved favorable results with a similar electron-screened fusion setup.
The authors and other scientists and engineers at NASA Glenn Research Center are investigating whether this approach can provide enough power to operate robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for instance. The good news: LCF would eliminate the need for fissile materials such as enriched uranium. The process would also be less expensive, smaller, and safer than other ways of harnessing nuclear energy.Most promising: LCF could also find uses here on Earth as it matures. Imagine LCF powering small power plants for individual buildings, which would reduce fossil-fuel dependency and increase grid resiliency. These researchers are making significant strides in creating a new way of generating clean nuclear energy, both for space missions and for people on Earth.
Congratulations to Larry Forsley and others making breakthroughs on the LCF front. It’s time these new developments get the support they deserve. -
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Dear Shane D. why you expected this next ICCF should be so special ?
i can understand on US side especially in California it could exist more opportunities for business for investment.
However for that, according to myself maybe 2 or 3 teams/projects could be relevant no more ?
Weren't you trapped by this delirious optimism specific to the period before each ICCF ?
These always looking as a cake that swells well one or two months before, then quickly collapses once the event has passed ?
Or as you are geographically closer than me, you have information that I do not have ?
For one thing, it is a new venue or location. That is always good for attracting attention from people who have not been exposed to LENR. Then there is the fact that Silicon Valley is probably the innovation capital of the world. Plenty of smart people running around the area, and it will be hard for them not to be aware of the ICCF taking place near by. It may make them take a first, or second look at this "pseudoscience" that refuses to disappear.
It also has a high concentration of top notch universities, and government research labs. The valley is not a very large area, and anything happening involving new tech, money, are hard to miss. Then there is the potential to attract investment money, and there are few, if any places in the world with more available venture capital.
Speaking of money, another thing that has caught our intention is crypto, and the possibility of tapping into it to fund LENR. With LF being the middle-man, connecting those seeking funding with the experts in the crypto world. We already had a very nice presentation from such a person at our weekly staff meeting.
Along those lines, we are trying to get the okay to set up a poster (past the deadline) at the ICCF showing the natural synergies between the two worlds. Some think crypto is the future in finance, we think LENR is the future for energy, and we feel bringing the two together may be a marriage made in heaven. Still at the exploration stage though, so we shall see how things develop.
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New detailed physics study about wind farm dynamics and their potential once fully understood: Physics - The Answer is Blowing in the Turbine (aps.org)
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Most generous of you. Thank you.
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I plan on going as well, while I am somewhat new to this forum I will continue to study and prepare for this event .
We the LF staff, and others in the community consider this ICCF unique (special) for being hosted in Silicon Valley. As you know, Ruby and Alan will attend on our behalf. Ruby doing a documentary with another film maker.
While they will cover all aspects of the event, we encourage members and Guests who attend to give us a report.
Probably around early June we will dedicate a thread to the event.
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That might get you a bed in the downtown homeless shelter. Hopefully by June we can raise enough to put you up in a cheap hotel, with free coffee. You deserve no less!
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Like Alan said DNG, we all love you. You have been here in one form or another for 4 years I believe, so you will not be going anywhere. All I am trying to do is keep things focused, and enforce a standard that if you open a thread, it has to go somewhere. Hopefully with a LENR theme. Maybe I missed that this thread was about that (LENR), and if so my apologies.
