Sunday, October 30, 2011
Most Important news of the century?
Among a healthy (even acrid) dose of skepticism, Engineers Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi just completed a customer test of a 1MW LENR (low energy nuclear reactor)..... The test is being billed as successful, which marks it as either the most important development in technology since the semiconductor, or an extremely elaborate fraud.
It is worth noting that other, independent engineering firms (BlackLight Power) and scientists (most recently US Naval research Laboratories) have reported success (excess energy or possible fusion byproducts) within the last few years, long after the disgrace of "Cold Fusion" researches Fleishmann and Pons, who were (perhaps prematurely) discredited when other scientists were unable to replicate their work.
Over ten years later, the US NRL (which continues work on LENR to this day, still based on the Pons-Fleishmann style electrolytic cell) reported that anomalies in the electrode composition appeared to be responsible for the duplicatability problems, although aside from reporting neutrons, they have been largely silent on calorimetry.....
It is worth noting that the main movers in LENR are engineering firms, not scientists in the academic sense of the word. Theory and publication are not primary goals here - actual energy production, regardless of whether we know exactly how it works, is the goal. (how many years did we use fire, before we knew about oxygen?)
If Rossi's (and BlackLight Power's) claims turn out to be true, it will be a stunning indictment of our scientific institutions, and the general paranoia of academia, a bold illustration of failure through fear.
Time will tell, but things are getting interesting in this disruptive infant field.
http://tommytoy.typepad.com/tommy-toy-pbt-consultin/2011/02/two-new-revolutionary-technologies-are-being-developed-that-could-change-our-planet-are-they-related-to-each-other-fundament.html
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/29/rossi-success
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/30/believing-in-cold-fusion-and-the-e-cat/
http://www.american-reporter.com/
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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/06/e-cat-cold-fusion
http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3303682.ece
http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/10/what-did-the-e-cat-test-achieve/
http://ecatnews.com/
http://energycatalyzer3.com/
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Hi it's Abe.
ReplyDeleteSomebody from the bogonflux team really ought to become a secret investigator for this stuff (e-cat, Blacklight, etc). By far the easiest thing to believe is that it's all BS - with nobody who's not involved knowing anything. Won't the technologies get scrunched under these conditions? Myself, all I can offer is more scepticism: I didn't read, "We set up a perimeter to insure that no electrical energy was being beamed into the device from a remote location."
I would be with you 100%, If it weren't for a couple of nagging things, like DARPA's ongoing interest in LERN tech, as well as the published neutron results from the US Naval Research Laboratory....one should not be seeing neutrons, even slowish, harder to detect ones, coming from an electrolytic cell, if we have the physics as down pat as we think we do.
ReplyDeleteHey we (collective we) understand fire now, and we still get burned, a lot. And we 'understand' the chemistry of explosives, and they are misused plenty. Like you said, we can use without understanding it completely, the precedent is set. We (collective we) will misuse it and get burned,
ReplyDeleteI for one would rather be on the productive side than on the misuse side any day.