Posted on 08/05/2013 4:56:17 PM PDT by Kevmo
NIWeek 2013 features Dennis Cravens experiment
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This year’s National Instruments weeklong event NIWeek 2013 begins today and runs Monday, August 5 through Thursday, August 8 in Austin, Texas, U.S.
Dennis Cravens, a long-time researcher who pioneered laser-induced reactions and has worked on energy cells as diverse as James Patterson‘s Patterson Power Cell, will be conducting a live demonstration experiment from booth #922 under the name Neo-Coulombic.
From the NIWeek 2013 Program [.pdf]:
Neo-Coulombic is a small private research group specializing in “long shot” technology involving methods of thermal energy generation using hydrogen and metals. physicsandbeyond.com
Cravens described his device to E-catworld.com as:
… the simplest demo I could come up with at NIWeek. It is not intended to prove anything , just to something to make “Joe Six pack” take notice and give him something to about. There will be no input, no flows to measure, no HV to scramble the instruments, no calculations to explain . . . just one brass sphere warmer than the other, and the bath temperature.
I know full well I will get a lot of people that will want added bells and whistles but I hope the target audience (the average engineer type walking by with their family) can understand the system within in 30 seconds at the booth. One sphere is hotter than the other so it must have a power source of some kind inside- what is it? Come back on Thursday and see inside.
It is just two brass spheres in a constant temperature bath (80C Lab Armor aluminum bead bath). One is a sample and one is the control. The sample just stays warmer than the control (for the full 5 days of the expo). Temperatures will be monitored and displayed via a Lab View interface (after all, this is NI) during the expo.
I hope to cut open the sample on the last day to show there are no hidden items.
The theme for the 2013 summit is “Deploying the smart grid—effective deployment techniques for smart grid embedded control and monitoring systems.” and focuses on conventional alternative energies, a switch from last year’s strong focus on breakthrough energy.
NIWeek 2012 put LENR front and center, with opening remarks by National Instruments President and CEO James Truchard indicating his strong interest and support of the topic. Robert Duncan, Vice-Provost for Research at University of Missouri and organizer of the recently held 18th International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF-18) also spoke at the event and Francesco Celani, of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) performed a live demonstration of his cell. Defkalion Green Technologies, developers of the Hyperion reactor, gave a presentation, as did Akito Takahashi, of Technova, Inc. Numerous new energy researchers attended, and a panel discussion brought many to the stage for an open debate on the future of LENR.
Dennis Cravens is the sole representative from the new energy community scheduled to appear this year, but that doesn’t mean NI support has waned.
Truchard recently gave the Keynote Address at ICCF-18, currently supports a number of new energy projects to varying degrees, with NI software, equipment, and more.
hey! this sounds great! two balls in a liquid bath! for a week!
This should answer EVERYTHING!!!!!
Because hooking it up and letting the world run power from an e-Cat it would be so STUPID~!
(And who needs the $BILLIONS of dollars it would make him, anyway...)
Didn’t read the article, I see. From the article: I know full well I will get a lot of people that will want added bells and whistles but I hope the target audience (the average engineer type walking by with their family) can understand the system within in 30 seconds at the booth...
Also, this article isn’t about e-Cats. It’s amazing how often the heavy breathing LENR-critical crowd bring Rossi into it. All Rossi, All the time. NOT.
this is the type of experiment ONLY the engineers will understand
a family walking by will see two balls in a bath for a week and wonder:
“Geez-...couldn’t they find something more interesting to show us? like paint drying?”
-NOT-
“I can’t wait to cut it open and see inside”
Remember the audience! NIWeek attendees ARE hard-core engineers (and similar sorts). No "families walking by" here.
“Geez-...couldn’t they find something more interesting to show us? like paint drying?”
***This conference is about National Instruments. The experiment shows how NI’s platform is being used in LENR. You’re right, you hit the nail on the head in terms of it being boring. But that doesn’t mean the science is bad.
Like Ed Storms says, most cold fusion experiments are like watching paint dry:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-
I’m reminded of a set of product verification runs at a former employer, wherein a voltage reference chip was being analyzed. The engineer did a study of the rate of change of grass growing vs. rate of change of the voltage reference chip: It was 60,000 times more boring to observe the voltage reference chip than it was to watch grass grow. Did that mean the engineering was wrong? NO.
If someone were to criticize the experiment saying that the science/engineering behind it was questionable just because the experiment was boring, they would be rightfully laughed out of the lab.
Observation from experience......the more reliable the mechanism/device, the more boring the validation test(s). Boring is GOOD!
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