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Freeper gets a fascinating contract listed on Intrade, bets that the experiment will be replicated, and cashes in. In 2008, Dr. Yoshiaki Arata performed a fascinating experiment with Deuterium Gas loaded onto a Palladium matrix, and without any input power, showed that there was some excess heat. Generating excess heat in cold fusion cell wasn't a new development -- scientists had been replicating the Pons-Fleischman effect for 2 decades. What was a new development was how easily replicable this particular experiment was. It seemed to me that this would be the easiest way to replicate anomalous heat production, removing the...

Plasma test in the MAST tokamak, a plasma fusion chamber. =================================================================================== A new way of classifying magnetized plasma has led to the discovery of 10 previously unknown topological phases of plasma. Learning more about these phases, and specifically the transitions between them, could help plasma physicists chase down the white whale of energy - plasma fusion. That's because the transitions between them support edge modes, or waves at the intersection of the plasma surfaces. These exotic excitations could broaden the potential practical uses for magnetized plasma. "These findings could lead to possible applications of these exotic excitations in space and...

Google is spending $10M/year on this program. They have assembled a group of experts on electrochemistry and calorimetry. They have published an article on this project in the prestigious peer reviewed magazine, Nature. The 2 patents http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20190043624.PGNR.&OS=dn/20190043624&RS=DN/20190043624%EF%BB%BF http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20190045617.PGNR.&OS=dn/20190045617&RS=DN/20190045617%EF%BB%BF =========================================== Google, University of Maryland File Patent based on ‘High Density Electron Clouds’ Thanks to Max Nozin for referencing a new patent application (published February 7th, 2019) filed by Google Inc. and the University of Maryland, College Park on Aug 3, 2017. The title is “Enhanced Electron Screening Through Plasmon Oscillations”. Here is the abstract: Enhanced Coulomb repulsion screening around light element...

Elsevier Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Volume 882, 1 February 2021, 115024 Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry Electrolytic co-deposition neutron production measured by bubble detectors Author Phillip J.Smith , Bruce M.Steinetz https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115024 Highlights • Bubble detector neutron dosimeters measured electrochemical cell neutron activity • Case control: PdCl2/LiCl/D20 cells were compared with CuCl2/LiCl/D20 control cells • Experimental cells exhibited neutron activity greater than controls: 99% confidence • Highest neutron-generating experimental cells produced dendritic cathode deposits • Neutron activity cannot be explained by chemical reactions, only nuclear processes Abstract Co-deposition electrochemical cells are a simple means to examine novel nuclear reactions. In this study,...

NASA Funds Study of Lattice Confinement Fusion Posted on October 1, 2020 NASA returns to LENR as a fuel of the future or as they call it “lattice confinement” referring to the lattice structure formed by the atoms making up a piece of solid metal. The NASA group used samples of erbium and titanium for their experiments. Under high pressure, a sample was “loaded” with deuterium gas, an isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron. The metal confines the deuterium nuclei, called deuterons, and excess energy is released via a fusion process. More can be read here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/nuclear-fusiontokamak-not-included...

23Dec/135 Evidence that LENR (aka cold fusion) is real [Updated-2013-12-30] If you read that article, it is probably because you are aware of recent announcements by commercial companies that cold fusion is ready for industrial use. This first part addresses the basic question, is whether cold Fusion, now named LENR, a validated scientific fact beyond any reasonable doubt, a probable phenomenon, very doubtful, or non-existent beyond any reasonable doubt.After reading that article you might be interesting in: The an executive summary on LENR. The book "Excess Heat" of "Charles Beaudette" (Buy it rather) is one of the best book...

Is the Cold Fusion Revolution Here? Published March 8, 2014 | There seems to be a lot happening in the world of cold fusion/low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) right now. So we can now rightly say that a cold fusion revolution could be beginning. Some of the most important developments include: Peter Hagelstein and Mitchell Swartz’s 2014 Cold Fusion Independent Activities Period (IAP) Course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January. Jerry Rys the Alien Scientist blogger attended the course and created a great video about it which does an excellent job of describing cold fusion what cold...

Transmutation Revolution? Mitsubishi Granted Patent for ‘Nuclide Transmutation’ Process Posted on March 4, 2014 by admin • 64 Comments Thanks to Cold Fusion Now and AlainCo at LENR Forum for picking up what seems to be a very important development — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been granted a patent by the European Patent Office for a “Nuclide transmutation device and nuclide transmutation method” which the introduction to the patent states could allow for the transforming of long-lived radioactive waste into short-lived radioactive nuclides or stable nuclides, and the transmutation of abundant elements into rare earth elements. The patent application was...

NASA LENR Aircraft Presentation Published [Updated: Rossi Comments and Hints] Posted on March 1, 2014 by admin • 30 Comments The NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI) held a ‘Seedling Seminar’ during the last week of February to consider ‘potentially revolutionary’ innovative ideas in aviation. One presentation was by Doug Wells, a systems analyst at the Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, and on February 25th he gave a presentation on ‘Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Aircraft’. The presentation was recorded and can now be viewed at this link: https://connect.arc.nasa.gov/p1zygzm2h3i/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal The presentation deals with what kinds of aircraft could be...

Carbon Nanotube Energy? New Patent Filed by Seldon Technologies Posted on February 28, 2014 by admin • 30 Comments Here’s something that just came to my attention, and I haven’t really had time to investigate it thoroughly, so I thought I’d put it up here for information and comment. It’s a patent filed by Seldon Technologies, a Vermont company which works mainly in the field of water purification, and use carbon nanotubes in their filtration systems to make a product they call Nanomesh. Seldon seems to be branching out in their research and development endeavors, however, and have filed a...

To the Reader When I tried to express my ideas to explain the mechanism of the so-called cold fusion, I encountered a problem in determining the audience for which it is intended and where it will be understood. Yes, of course, this audience is included in a community of all the nuclear physicists—theorists, experimenters, and engineers on our planet. It is somewhere around 200,000 people or more. We can call this community group A. To understand our subject, we also must have a knowledge of physics of elementary particles, the hierarchy of types of interactions (charges)—weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions,...

Born–Oppenheimer and Fixed-point Models for Second-order Phonon Exchange in a Metal Peter L. Hagelstein ∗ Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Irfan U. Chaudhary Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology. Lahore, Pakistan Abstract We have been interested in the development of a model for anomalies in condensed matter nuclear science, and over the past few years we have developed new models that describe coherent phonon exchange between a highly-excited vibrational mode and nuclei under conditions of fractionation. When we modeled collimated X-ray emission in the Karabut experiment, we found...

“Quasi-One-Dimensional Model of electrochemical loading of isotopic fuel into a metal” - Mitchell Swartz “Codeposition of Palladium and Deuterium“ - Mitchell Swartz Now for those of you who don’t know… Cold Fusion is based on the idea that if you load enough hydrogen or deuterium atoms inside a metal lattice, like Nickel or Palladium, they become so tightly packed close together, that they begin to fuse together. Two world renowned electrochemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann were the first to claim the discovery of excess heat effects in cold fusion. Some of their colleagues thought that since their discovery was...

Powder push Written by Robert Greenyer on 17 February 2014. We want everyone to know we are renewing our powder research effort and to get the ball rolling, we are pleased to announce the first new associate project member, Dr. Stoyan Sarg who has offered to share his insights with the MFMP. Stoyan has said that he believes that the MFMPs work at QuantumHeat.org and the process of Live Open Science we are pioneering is the best way to realise this technology for the people and that is why he is supporting us with his significant expertise. According to Dr....

Tunneling of slow quantum packets through the high Coulomb barrier A.V. Dodonov, V.V. Dodonov (Submitted on 16 Feb 2014) We study the tunneling of slow quantum packets through a high Coulomb barrier. We show that the transmission coefficient can be quite different from the standard expression obtained in the plane wave (WKB) approximation (and larger by many orders of magnitude), even if the momentum dispersion is much smaller than the mean value of the momentum. Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:1402.3837 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:1402.3837v1 [quant-ph] for this...

2014 MIT Cold Fusion IAP Feb 1, 2014 Last Week I attended and filmed the 2014 Cold Fusion IAP Lectures at MIT for ColdfusionNow.org. I have already posted Monday's Lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hyMIJLhfPI and am currently processing and editing the rest of the material which should be posted later this week (Keep checking back for links and updates) I am also putting together a video sumamry about these lectures which I will be posting on my AlienScientist YouTube Channel as well as ColdFusionNow.org. I will describe in very brief detail some of the things they went over. Stay tuned for my...

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...

Validation of the Observation of Soft X-ray Continuum Radiation from Low- Energy Pinch Discharges in the Presence of Molecular Hydrogen Alexander Bykanov, PhD Spectroscopy was performed at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, USA by CfA spectroscopists under contract to GEN3 Partners Abstract Spectra of low-energy high current pinch discharges in pure molecular hydrogen and helium were recorded in the EUV region at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA (CfA) in an attempt to reproduce experimental results published by BlackLight Power, Inc. showing continuum radiation only from hydrogen [1-2]. Alternative explanations to the claimed...

Answer to LA Times about John Huizenga, the physicist who helped discredit ‘cold fusion’ (LENR) Just today I fall on another article about the death of John Huizenga, the man who delayed the chance for Cold Fusion to make our world better of 10-20 years. John Huizenga dies at 92; physicist helped discredit 'cold fusion' John Huizenga worked on the Manhattan Project, helped discover two chemical elements and co-led inquiry into 'cold fusion,' the 'scientific fiasco of the century.' Thanks to LA Times to allow us to comment (it seems less and less allowed), but my dreamed answer was too...

Final Report of Cold Fusion 101 Class at MIT: The NANOR Emerges Posted on February 1, 2014 by admin • 43 Comments Many thanks to Barry Simon for submitting the following report about the 2014 Short Course 101 on Cold Fusion at MIT. In a word, Cold Fusion 101 at MIT was inspiring. The lectures started off with Peter Hagelstein discussing the early days of Pons and Fleischmann and why their first experiments were not successfully replicated. (Conspiracy theorists will be disappointed.) He also covered the most widely accepted CF theories, including his own, and went into a lot of...