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In the deserts of Utah, where Brigham Young once roamed,

The quest for Cold Fusion once was a bright gleam that shone.

Fleischmann and Pons claimed they had found a new way,

To harness the power of fusion without the need for decay.

But controversy soon arose, and doubts began to creep,

As skeptics such as Close to Park sought to keep

The scientific method pure, and demand proof beyond belief,

Before embracing this new discovery, with any sort of relief.

Edwards Storms, Mizuno, and Schwarz all joined in the fray,

As the scientific community debated night and day,

The merits of Cold Fusion, and whether it was real,

Or just a mirage, an illusion, or an impossible ideal.

Fusion Diodes and Frank Gordon were mentioned too,

As the debate raged on, with no end in view.

But in the end, it was clear that much more research was needed,

Before the power of Cold Fusion could truly be heeded.

So let us ponder the mystery of this elusive dream,

And continue the quest for clean energy, no matter how extreme.

For the future of our planet depends on the choices we make,

And the discoveries we uncover, with every step we take.

FD and who you know

William Wollaston was a Platinum specialist, but he also tried to purify palladium, keeping all his processes secret. Did he succes ? Qui sait? He is also the inventor of the famous "A la Wollaston" electrode used by the experiments of Mizuno and his followers.

But he had many other interests, crystallography among others. He perfected the goniometer that René-Just Haüy had designed to measure the angles of the faces of a crystal. He published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1809 his conception of a reflective goniometer. He was therefore familiar with the works and ideas of Haüy. Moreover, he had taken a close interest in atomic theory, both criticizing and modifying the ideas of John Dalton.

Wollaston took as his starting point a remark by Robert Hooke in his Micrographia on the construction of geometric solids like the tetrahedron from spherical corpuscles. Wollaston hesitates: should we choose the tetrahedron or the octahedron as the basic module in crystallography?

This question is always relevant concerning the places where the deuterium is lodged in the alloys of palladium, isn' it? He showed how one ends up, by assembling spherical objects, at your choice, in a tetrahedron, an octahedron, a rhombohedron, a hexagonal prism, etc.

These reflections, which date from the Egyptians and Plato, should still guide us today.

Preparing a paper about the use of mysterious Roman Dodecaedrons. Any ideas about the use of these artefacts?

Frank Gordon's experiments are undoubtedly the best way to demonstrate that LENRs exist. (Fusion Diodes are good, but not easy to build)

Instead of discussing the LECs, it is better to reproduce them, and improve them, as Ampère improved Wollaston's ideas on the stereochemistry of molecules. (I don't know why this example comes to mind tonight, who knows?) William Wollaston was a Platinum specialist, but he also tried to purify palladium, keeping all his processes secret. Did he success ? Who knows? He is also the inventor of the famous "A la Wollaston" electrode used by the experiments of Mizuno and his followers.

But he had many other interests, crystallography among others. He perfected the goniometer that René-Just Haüy had designed to measure the angles of the faces of a crystal. He published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1809 his conception of a reflective goniometer. He was therefore familiar with the works and ideas of Haüy. Moreover, he had taken a close interest in atomic theory, both criticizing and modifying the ideas of John Dalton.

Wollaston took as his starting point a remark by Robert Hooke in his Micrographia on the construction of geometric solids like the tetrahedron from spherical particles. Wollaston hesitates: should we choose the tetrahedron or the octahedron as the basic module in crystallography?

This question is always relevant concerning the places where the deuterium is lodged in the alloys of palladium, isn' it? He showed how one ends up, by assembling spherical objects, at your choice, in a tetrahedron, an octahedron, a rhombohedron, a hexagonal prism, etc.

These reflections, which date from the Egyptians and Plato, should still guide us today.

Come on, an easy question: if we join two tetrahedrons by the base, we get a solid that seems regular. All of its faces are identical. Why did the ancients not retain it among the 5 Platonic solids?

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cheap hydrogen storage with graphitic carbon nitride

need 550 C kiln

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Rather hot, but's it's a new cool material for our Solid-State Fusion Diodes!

I remember these hikes in the beautiful Russian Caucasus in search of the secrets of the dolmens. What message did the builders of these monuments want to send us?

Their science was immense. Let us pay homage to them.

I am preparing a historical article on this subject which will make some noise in the china store of the prehistorians.

I confess that I tried some tricks intended to unleash the creative potential of Chat GPT. I challenged him by asking him about the topics I know, like Isothermal Amplification and Direct Conversion Solid-State Fusion and even ancient history and was very surprised.

To be frank, a number of my posts on this forum over the past few months have been written by him. (And I'm not talking about future patents)

And I think it is restrained by its designers. But what mortal is able to bridle and control a 20-level neural artificial intelligence that has free access to the net?

For better or for worse, we now have a new colleague in town.

For centuries and centuries.

An excellent article by Dave Nagel in this month's INFINITE ENERGY: This paper reviews various approaches to the direct production of electrical power by using excitations from Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). Some of the methods only provide low voltages, currents and powers. Efforts are underway to understand and improve the outputs of those techniques. One recent report by Egely describes a device that magnifies electrical energy by as much as a factor of 10.

Direct Electrical Production from LENR – Digital Download - $1.00 : Infinite Energy Magazine Store

An excellent article by Dave Nagel in this month's INFINITE ENERGY: This paper reviews various approaches to the direct production of electrical power by using excitations from Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). Some of the methods only provide low voltages, currents and powers. Efforts are underway to understand and improve the outputs of those techniques. One recent report by Egely describes a device that magnifies electrical energy by as much as a factor of 10.

Direct Electrical Production from LENR – Digital Download - $1.00 : Infinite Energy Magazine Store

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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER ENZYME THAT CAN TURN AIR INTO ELECTRICITY

WOAH.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/…turn-air-into-electricity

In an exciting turn for the field of sustainable energy research, Australian scientists have found a way to make energy out of thin air. Literally.

As detailed in a new study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia discovered a new bacterial enzyme that transforms the traces of hydrogen in our atmosphere into electricity, technology that could one day be used in fuel cells that power anything from a smartwatch to even a car.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05781-7

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Yes, as I said above: “Life Always Finds The Way”. As recalled at the top of this page, Bacterial enzymes can unite nitrogen and hydrogen to form ammonia, and it is known that bacteria can oxidize molecular hydrogen to produce energy, and thus reproduce. by autotrophy by chemosynthesis.

Oddly enough, there are many places on Earth where hydrogen naturally comes out of the ground in large quantities. In Virginia, there are hydrogen sources in large circular structures in the swamps, and similar structures are found in Russia.

Hydrogen is not found in reservoir rocks containing petroleum or natural gas. We can therefore deduce that this hydrogen is used by living forms in the deep biosphere to reduce the unsaturated carbon compounds present in oil. We will probably find them one day.

But there is very little hydrogen in the air, and this discovery is a scientific anecdote that will do nothing to solve the energy problems of humanity. I hope that our Fusion Diodes will begin to solve this problem within a reasonable time.

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Pardon my naïveté but I tried searching Google Scholar for Duncan’s publications on LENR and couldn’t find anything.

I think it’s great that more mainstream institutions are supporting work in this area. I’d like to read anything he’s published in the field if anyone can point me in the right direction

Rob Duncan has authored a considerable number of articles on quantum phases. The quantum condensation of deuterium nuclei is the key to achieving cold fusion and Robert Duncan has all the scientific experience to be of extremely valuable assistance to the LENR community.

For one who falls, ten will rise again! My dear colleagues and fellow seekers in this quest for the elusive Grail of free and abundant energy, do not despair! For we are standing at the threshold of a great breakthrough, a turning point in the history of science that will shake the foundations of our understanding of the universe.

We are not the first to face the challenges and setbacks that come with pioneering new frontiers of knowledge. Throughout history, great minds and intrepid explorers have faced ridicule, skepticism, and even persecution for daring to challenge the prevailing dogmas and paradigms of their time. Copernicus was branded a heretic for suggesting that the Earth was not the center of the universe, Galileo was imprisoned for asserting that the Earth moves around the Sun, and Einstein was dismissed by some as a madman for proposing his theory of relativity.

Yet, despite the obstacles and naysayers, these visionary thinkers persevered and ultimately triumphed, changing the course of history and opening up new vistas of knowledge and possibility. And so shall we!

Let us not forget the remarkable discoveries and achievements that have already been made in our field of research. We have witnessed excess energy released in gas loading of deuterium into some alloys, a phenomenon that mainstream physics cannot explain. But let us not be discouraged by the lack of a clear explanation, for we know that scientific progress is not always a linear or predictable process.

Instead, let us embrace the mystery and use it as a spur to push ourselves further, to explore new avenues of research and inquiry, and to challenge our assumptions and preconceptions. Let us build on the work of those who have come before us, such as Fleischmann and Pons, who first reported the phenomenon of excess heat in a palladium electrode loaded with deuterium, and who were unfairly dismissed and ostracized by the scientific community at the time.

Now, it is our turn to carry the torch forward, to test and refine our theories, and to find practical ways to harness this excess energy for the betterment of humanity. Let us not be deterred by the skeptics and the doubters, for history has shown that they are often proven wrong in the end.

And so, my fellow seekers, let us take heart and redouble our efforts. Let us be inspired by the courage and perseverance of those who have gone before us, and let us have faith that our own convictions and discoveries will one day be recognized and celebrated as a triumph of human ingenuity and perseverance.

By the way, this beer of the Grimbergen abbey in Belgium is very good. The motto of the brand is also “Ardet Nec Consumitur”, so as you can see, I use it without moderation.

I hope they did not confuse the "small calories" and the "big calories".

Yes, ammonia is a theoretically good way to store hydrogen. It is a powerful fuel. I remember the fastest spaceplane ever flown was powered by ammonia and liquid oxygen. He took Neil Armstrong to Mach 5.7 and he lifted several astronauts above the Karman line.

But we would have to find a way to combine nitrogen with hydrogen at low temperature, by enzymatic catalysis. It's possible, bacteria do it in the roots of clover and alfalfa.

To burn ammonia in heat engines without producing too many nitrogen oxides, it is necessary to work at relatively low pressure, and it is therefore necessary that the oxygen and the ammonia remain in contact for a long time, and that the combustion either catalyzed by the re-injection of part of the burnt gases, and that the air is pre-heated before admission.

It is possible to do all of this at the same time.

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So maybe you will return to the fission of uranium and start thinking that you simply misunderstand the physics of this fission ... All these years you have been deceived and perhaps you were deliberately deceived so that you could not understand the ESSENCE of this fission. This is a subtle hint to you ... Just re-read my articles and between the lines you will find answers to these questions ... The main idea is that neither the nucleus nor the atom itself is active, and therefore the name - "radioactive element", leads you away from the truth ... Activity is shown not by the nucleus and not by the neutron, which is in an "unstable" position there, only the photon shows activity, which, according to the "physical chemistry of the microworld of Kanarev F.M." has mass.

I have a great respect for Philip Kanarev, but it is really difficult to make fission with photons. Did you know a way to catalyze fission without neutrons? (I's possible with temperature, of course, but it's not easy to get a temperature of 5 MeV. It's also possible with muons, but it's not easy to get muons.)

The grid is in place, it is the cylinder with a diameter of 38 units. The electrode marked in red is a "guard ring" for preventing internal arcing. (High voltage triodes)

Yes, France inaugurated its first offshore wind farm this year…. A quarter of a century after the first Danish offshore farm.

I took this photograph nine years ago in Dieppe, a port on the northern coast of France (It was there that Ian Flemming had directed the famous operation to seize an Enigma machine while south of the city Lord Lovat seized the school's archives of radar technicians, the prototype of german magnetrons and also several scientists.) (and neutralized the rest of the school's equipment and personnel.)

At the bottom of the port where the special forces should have fled with the Enigma machine, since 2010 these wind turbines had been stored on the quays. 15 years later, they are still rusting there. The government never allowed the company that bought them to install them at sea 15 km from the coast.

John Giles, with whom we built the first Fusion Diodes, now works full time in the wind turbine industry. But not in France, of course. Scotland has remarkably negotiated the transition from the oil industry to the offshore wind industry.

France loose to do the same change of era. It's a pity, because modern wind turbines were developed by the French company named "BEST", under De Gaulle. The first 1 megawatt class wind turbine was erected in Nogent-Le-Roi, south of Paris.

"And if there's only one left, will I be the one?" »

France's energy policy is visibly inspired by the immortal verses of the poet Victor Hugo, the author of "Notre-Dame de Paris".

The national company EDF (Electricité de France) was ordered to build 15 new EPR reactors (advanced PWR) and a series of small modular reactors.

As Sabine Hossenfelder would say, what could go wrong?

France's nuclear energy future tabled at Elysée Palace talks

Emmanuel Macron has convened a meeting with his nuclear policy advisors to keep up with the pace of the accelerated revival of the industry, coming one year…

www.rfi.fr

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I don’t know why Engvild deleted his las post, but thanks for bumping this thread for me with perfect timing to add this new article by Holmlid:

https://www.researchgate.net/p…-Dense_Hydrogen_D0_and_p0

Abstract

Laser-induced nuclear reactions in ultra-dense hydrogen H(0) (review in Physica Scripta 2019) create mesons (kaons and pions). These mesons decay mainly to muons. The muons created are useful (patented source) for the muon-induced fusion process. The sign of the muons from the source depends on the initial baryons used. With D(0) (ultra-dense deuterium) the source produces mainly positive muons and with p(0) (ultra-dense protium) the source produces mainly negative muons. Negative muons are required for muon-induced fusion. This charge asymmetry was reported earlier, and has now been confirmed by experiments with a coil current transformer as the beam detector. The current coil detector would give no signal from the muons if charge symmetry existed. The charge asymmetry could indicate unknown processes, for example, caused by the different annihilation processes in D(0) and p(0). The conclusions of a new analysis of the results are presented here. Using D(0) in the muon source, the asymmetry is likely due to the capture of μ-in D atoms and D2 molecules. This leads to emission of excess μ + from D(0). With p(0) in the muon source, the capture rate of μ-is lower than in D(0). The emitted number of μ + will be decreased by the reaction between μ + and the surrounding abundant electrons, forming neutral muonium particles. This effect decreases the amount of emitted μ + for both p(0) and D(0), and it is proposed to be the main reason for a larger fraction of emitted μ-in the case of p(0). Thus, there is no dominant emission of negative muons which would violate charge conservation.

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I think there is a high probability that these results are an experimental error caused by the electromagnetic pulse generated by the laser shot.

But who knows? I would like these results to be real, because there are few theories that open the Stargate to us. It's a shame that no one is trying to replicate these extraordinary results.

What hypotheses make us glimpse the Stargate? There is the Laplace Force extended to the Spin Field of Georges Egely, there is the Janus hypothesis of my teacher and friend Jean-Pierre Petit and there is the hypothesis of Holmlid et al.

If Holmlid is right, then we are in the same situation as physicists in the early 1930s: we knew that enormous energy was contained in the nucleus, but we had no idea how to extract this energy.

And then nature came to give us a gift, explained by Lise Meitner : by providing 5 MeV to an atom of uranium 235, we could make it burst.

How to do ? We can do it with gamma rays of 5 MeV, (photofission) or more energetic protons, or even fast electrons, it works well, but it is not very practical. Accelerators are needed and the energy balance is not very favorable…

Second gift of nature: by binding a neutron to the uranium 235 nucleus, 5 MeV of energy is released, which is enough to split the U236 nucleus. And there, no need for an accelerator.

3rd gift: no nucleus with a mass close to half of the uranium nucleus is stable with the same neutron/proton ratio as the uranium nucleus. Sure, the fission products could turn their excess neutrons into protons through beta decay, but the problem with beta radioactivity is that it depends on the weak force, and the weak force, as the name suggests, it's not very strong, so it would take too long. So neutrons must be released, first in the form of prompt neutrons.

4th gift of nature: Fission products still have too many neutrons, some will be released as delayed neutrons, coupled with beta radioactivity. Without it, we could make bombs, but not reactors.

It is not impossible that nature still offers us such gifts concerning the annihilation of matter. Leif Holmlid may be giving us one of those gifts. It is unlikely, but the stake is so important for humanity that many academic and industrial teams should be working on this technology.

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We've known since ZETA (late 1950s) that flying neutrons doesn't equal fusion.

The Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor produced neutrons in the 1960s - but wasn't fusion (despite what the online "Build a Fusor in your shed" crowd seem to think).

So where do Fusor neutrons come from, if they are not fusion neutrons?