Posted on 02/10/2014 12:10:47 PM PST by Kevmo
Disruptive Energy Generation
London - With ever-declining reliability in supply and escalating electricity costs, more Ontario manufacturers are moving south. Remaining employers are hesitant to expand or to hire. At the same time the government talks about reducing the number of regional distribution utilities in a desperate attempt to obtain economies of scale needed to attract investment for upgrading legacy infrastructure. Old nuclear and coal plants require expensive retro fits, and transmission lines need to be expanded. Meanwhile solar installations by major industries and big-box retailers cut into the traditional captive customer base. Such then are some of the background economic metrics as the specter of LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactors) suddenly replacing both fossil-fueled plants and nuclear ones appear. And, the new distributed technology ultimately makes redundant an extensive national and international electrical grid.
Many readers will say, “What the hell is LENR?” Basically it is a form of energy where hydrogen interacts with nickel to create excess heat. LENR is not radioactive and there are no waste products. Low Energy Nuclear Reactors were perfected over the last couple of years by Italian and by American experimenters. As soon as the portable units reached the manufacturing stage, a couple of aggressive Asian countries granted patents while the US Patent Office played domestic politics by declaring “Cold Fusion had no utility.” It is also likely the US government wanted to ensure that research protect research grants continued to support hot fusion. A South Korean company promptly secured rights to produce and market the Brillouin LENR boiler, and a Chinese firm did much the same with Rossi’s E-Cat. China will now move quickly with these cheap and clean units to fix its air pollution problem, and allow its energy intensive industries to become even more competitive in world markets.
So until another company, perhaps Defkalion (Can) or BackLight Power (US) get Canadian and/or US patents, North American countries have no alternative but to import a game-changing technology. If Canada does not get a US green light on critical pipeline proposals, it might consider an end-run by immediately granting Canadian LENR patents to all comers. Such action is inevitable anyway, so we might as well do it now. This fixes our unemployment problem. That however, is unlikely to happen because some of our ostrich-like policy makers have their heads stuck in the tar sands. In fine tuning Ontario’s Long Term Energy Plan, the Minister in charge seemed to sense that just over the horizon was a cool solution to the energy mix quandary, and so he opted not to entrench nuclear in the plan. Surprisingly, he had the courage to quench coal-fired plants and to defer refurbishing of aged nuclear ones. Our astute visionary might have made funds available to universities for research and innovation on the means to replace dirty coal and dangerous nuclear
Submitted by Jim Sweeney, London, Ont.
The Cyclone Engine is another scam.
I’m a fan of lftr thorium reactors. I think they’re the one’s most likely to take the cost of energy 1/4-1/10 current levels. That said:
the forbes article links to the DOE document
https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/FileContent.aspx?FileID=1c56ac4a-0acd-43ee-a2ec-ab80b33f4146
you can see the reference to low energy at
figure 3 page 7
Figure 3. A matrix providing representative examples of energy conversions within or between the six energy categories. Technical subcategories for submission are derived from these energy conversions (see Table 1).
3.6
chemonuclear reactors, low-energy nuclear reactions, nuclear fuel chemistry
” but if someone has laid down 20 million”
No one has. It was a rumor started by Kevmo based on a blog by some dude that calls himself Jennifer.
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It does not look like a rumor. Rather it comes via a press release that was reposted.
There are several reports among energy journals about the transaction. Here’s one in oilprice.com.
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Industrial-Heat-Acquires-E-Cat-Technology-Opening-Commercial-LENR-Frontier.html
Industrial Heat Acquires E-Cat Technology, Opening Commercial LENR Frontier
A major development in the story of LENR (low energy nuclear reactions, aka ‘cold fusion’) broke on Friday afternoon from Raleigh, North Carolina, with start-up Industrial Heat, LLC’s announcement via a press release that the company had acquired the rights to Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat technology.
Here is the link to the press release.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/industrial-heat-has-acquired-andrea-rossis-e-cat-technology-241853361.html
Wonder Warthog posted about an MIT LENR session. I did a brief google search and came up with a Kevmo post last week that linked to the article which looks legit. Several freepers have taken courses with the profs cited.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2985920/posts
The ground may be shifting on this story.
NO MONEY is mentioned. PERIOD.
“The ground may be shifting on this story.”
Yes. Every year, delivery is NEXT year ....
“you can see the reference to low energy at”
Yes. You can submit your LENR proposal. Doesn’t mean you will get any money.
“Wonder Warthog “
Wonder Warthog is a regular on one of the LENR websites. He is here spamming for them.
Thanks for showing that is is merely one of the sub-categories for which a proposal may be submitted and that there is no money allocated by DOE for research.
” So the establishment brass who would choose to stay on top of things would continue to fund SPAWAR until there is some kind of showdown. “
SPAWAR ceased funding LENR years ago.
“They saw Rossi’s demo, verified it with their own independent expert, and then reached for their checkbooks to the tune of $20M. “
A few days ago it was 11 million. Now it is 20 million. And NO source for the claim!
“Mitchell Schwartz demonstrated his “Nanor” generator. It ran for the entire period of the course (course participants directly took data from the calorimetry and did their own calculations of excess heat), for another two months in Hagelstein’s office, and then a far longer time back at Schwartz’s lab.”
The dear Mr. Schwartz says he does not expect the technology to be accepted during his lifetime! What am I missing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVoxxcEWkAo
” but if someone has laid down 20 million”
No one has. It was a rumor started by Kevmo based on a blog by some dude that calls himself Jennifer.
***What a bunch of horse manure. It was a Press Release from the investors.
Unfortunately, ARPA-E isn’t really interested in LENR.
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I have asked you repeatedly to stop posting to me, seagull.
Please stop posting such stupidity, and stop posting anything to me. Read the freepin’ article and you’ll see where the $11M and the $20M both come from. But... we all know you have reading comprehension problems so this looks like it will be a permanent problem for you.
” Read the freepin’ article and you’ll see where the $11M and the $20M both come from. “
Who is Sweeney, the author?
I am a pest for posting that the lead authority on LENR does not expect to see acceptance of his technology during his lifetime?
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