I was pleased to see that Salt Lake City-based KSL TV news has covered the 25th anniversary of the Pons-Fleischmann announcement in its home town at the University of Utah with a news report that […]
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25th Anniversary Cold Fusion Conference at MIT
Here’s an announcement from Mitchell Swartz’s Cold Fusion Times web site of a conference to be held at MIT on March 21-23, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Pons-Fleischmann news conference where they introduced their cold fusion r…
Wired UK Covers E-Cat, Cold Fusion [Update: Forbes Profiles Testers]
David Hambling has written an article for Wired.co.uk titled “Cold Fusion gets red hot and aims for EU” in which he discusses the recent 3rd party E-Cat test and other developments in the LENR field. Hambling has written about Rossi and the…
LENR Gets Boost From National Instruments
National Instruments, a major U.S. company that produces tools for engineers and scientists, sponsored a demonstration of a nickel-hydrogen gas low-energy nuclear reaction reactor on Monday at its annual NI Week trade show at the Austin Convention Center in Texas. … Continue reading →
Jones Decries NASA’s Handling of Theory
Steven E. Jones, professor emeritus of physics at Brigham Young University, has written critically about NASA’s handling of the Widom-Larsen theory. On July 16, Jones criticized NASA’s recent LENR videos, which were published on a NASA Web site. He wrote … Continue reading →
Cold Fusion Symposium at Williamsburg LENRS-12 1-3 July, 2012
The following is a further posting in a series of articles by David French, a patent attorney with 35 years experience, which will review issues of interest touching on the field of Cold Fusion. This posting is about an event that occurred over the week of the Fourth of July celebrations. It is not an … Continue reading Cold Fusion Symposium at Williamsburg LENRS-12 1-3 July, 2012 →
Cold Fusion Is Back! – CERN Webinar on Cold Fusion, March 22, 2012
The following is a further posting in a series of articles by David French, a patent attorney with 35 years experience, which will review patents of interest touching on the field of Cold Fusion. March 23, 2012 –One would think that the above title should be a headline in the newspapers following a live webcast … Continue reading Cold Fusion Is Back! – CERN Webinar on Cold Fusion, March 22, 2012 →
eCat Chatters
As though orchestrated by Rossi himself, the volume of reasonable and unreasonable criticism of his claims has intensified recently. The measure of reason will differ from person to person and I try to steer a productive conversation by encouraging all views even when I disagree with them. It is somewhat ironic that AR denigrates the chatterers […]
Unicorns Versus Horses; Cold Fusion Versus LENR
In the last few years, despite the fact that, or perhaps because, my 2008 American Chemical Society presentation (slides, audio) is clear and explicit about the distinction between “cold fusion” and low-energy nuclear reactions, many “cold fusion” proponents have spent … Continue reading →
Slides From Sept. 22 NASA LENR Innovation Forum Workshop
On Sept. 22, NASA conducted a LENR Innovation Forum workshop at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Speakers included NASA scientists Joseph Zawodny, Gustave Fralick, Michael Nelson, Jim Dunn and Dennis Bushnell and retired University of Illinois professor George Miley. … Continue reading →
NASA Advances Evaluation of Piantelli’s LENR Research
Multiple sources have confirmed to New Energy Times that a team comprising NASA engineers and an investment group from the U.S. is expanding its interest in the low-energy nuclear reaction research of Italian biophysicist Francesco Piantelli. A meeting with the … Continue reading →
Krivit Drives Another Nail
Steven Krivit’s long-awaited report will soon be on your screen. There is little tension in its expectation as we can probably guess what he will have to say. With three dozen appendices, I expect it to include much detail – a technical mountain built from straw data. It cannot be dismissed at this point because […]
The Great eCat Media Conspiracy
A common refrain surrounding Andrea Rossi’s eCat is confusion about the absence of mainstream media. Some posit a cabal of oil barons pillow-talking their press friends to bury the subject where the sun don’t fuse. Others paint them as blind and stupid while certain pseudosceptics conclude that this is yet more proof that we are […]
Another Andrea Rossi Interview
EV World, the journal behind NASA’s Dennis Bushnell interview has followed up with a 30 minute talk with Andrea Rossi. These near-hand accounts are great, making the man behind the hype flesh and putting flesh on our understanding of the eCat and AR’s claims.
Some takeaways are as follows:
- Andrea Rossi was one of many who tried and failed to replicate the Pons & Fleischmann result in 1989
- Although unsuccessful, it sowed a seed in his mind
- He is happy with the term LENR
- Until 2007, he experimented around the subject as he ran other businesses
- Reaching a critical point, he needed to decide if it was worth the risk of concentrating full time – 16 hours a day
- He asked Prof Focardi to look at his ideas and tell him why it would not work
- Prof Focardi could not do so
- At this point (July 2007) he decided to try make a useful product
- Knowing that if it worked there would be radiation, he hired Prof Focardi as a safety measure
- Focardi did this and also helped him understand how to thermalize the operational radiation
- He built a 20KW device and installed it in his factory, heating it for around a year ( 5 months are cold and winter is v cold)
- The factory is now sold along with everything else to fund the energy catalyser project
- After recharging, ‘spent’ Ni is sold to dealers for normal use
- If all world’s energy was made with eCat, it would only consume some percentage point of current annual Ni production
- No foreseeable showstoppers
- Hopes for exponential development, liking that to the growth of the computer industry from a business tool in 1995 to the proliferation throughout the world where households began to buy them
- The cost of $1,000 to $2,000 per KW facility and $0.01 per KWH should help make this the game-changer Dennis Bushnell talked of
The mp3 file is here and the EV World article here.
Cold Fusion
As Andrea Rossi continues to deny ‘science’ the opportunity to verify his claims, it is instructive to study an example of that process as seen through the lens of a scientist. The following ‘article’ is brilliant, taking the form of a stepwise journey through the original Pons & Fleischmann announcement to its castigation as ‘bad […]