LENR

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BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) today announced a major breakthrough in clean energy technology, which experts agree holds tremendous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. The announcement comes on the heels of BlackLight's recent completion of a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of its new process for producing affordable, reliable energy from water vapor.

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Now in 2012, Dr. Mills says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10 Watt (W) scale. A 100 W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013. (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a US home.)

In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from academia and industry with PhDs from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell. The Process is fueled by water vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is any source of water. The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs.

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* W. Henry Weinberg, who was a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology for eighteen years, a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science at University of California, Santa Barbara for six years, and co-founder and CTO of Symyx Technologies for 13 years. "It would be irrational not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical. However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype," said Dr. Weinberg. "To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history."

* Dr. Terry Copeland, former manager of product development for several electrochemical and energy companies including DuPont Company and Duracell. "BLP has successfully fabricated and tested CIHT cells capable of producing net electrical output up to 50 times that input to maintain the process," said Dr. Copeland. "Some cells have produced steady power for over one month. The power generation is consistent with Dr. Mills' theory of energy release resulting from Hydrino formation. No other source of energy could be identified. The CIHT cell will use cheap, abundant, nontoxic, commodity chemicals, with no apparent long-term supply issues that might preclude commercial, high volume manufacturing. The capital cost of the CIHT cell based on optimization of the cell dimensions is estimated to be under $100/kW compared to at least ten times that for fuel cells that further require a source of hydrogen or hydrogen gas and a fuel infrastructure."

* Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER Corporation. "Representatives from the ENSER Corporation witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days," said Dr. Pugh. "There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment. By carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume could generate 3.3 kW. This is greater than that necessary for motive as well as stationary electrical power applications."

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They claim it will provide power at 0.1 cents per kwh (natural gas 6-8 cents; nuclear 8-9 cents; coal 9-10 cents; ).
 
IF True, the world would change

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The average cost for US wind power producers is 8.6 cents per kilowatt hour

For new US nuclear power (about 4 new nuclear plants are being built) it is 10.8 cents per kilowatt hour (the older nuclear is a lot cheaper since most of the cost for nuclear is the cost of making and financing the plant)

For new coal plants it is 10.0 cents per kilowatt hour (older coal and natural gas are a little bit cheaper but most of their cost is the current price of the coal or natural gas)

For new natural gas plants it is 6.7 cents per kilowatt hour

http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/01/us-wind-power-subsidies-are-paused-but.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29

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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/15/cold-fusion-moves-into-mainstream :
"Cold fusion continues to progress stealthily into the mainstream", by David Hambling

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На вопрос посетителя форума http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=838&cpage=1#comment-900642, верит ли Андреа Росси в гидрино, ответ был такой:
Andrea Rossi
January 15th, 2014 at 5:06 PM
Luca:
 Never found evidence of it. Obviously your question should be modified as follows, to be professionally correct: " Did you ever found evidence of hydrinos?"
 I believe in God, not in theories. Theories must be validated by experimental evidence. As far as I know, no evidence has been born for hydrinos, so far. About the future, I do not have a cristal ball.
 Warm Regards,
 A.R.
 
Что касается испытаний E/Hot Cat третьей стороной, ответы Андреа Росси на вопросы об их результатах содержали обязательную ремарку, что они могут быть как положительными, так и отрицательными, что несколько обескураживало. Вчера изобретатель высказался определенно (выделено мной, satviewer):
Andrea Rossi
January 15th, 2014 at 5:37 PM
Lilyover:
 F.: the Enterprise, in which I have the honour to work in collaboration with a wonderful Team, will continue to work to make our technology as useful as possible, and this evolution will have an exponential development after the end of the R&D validation in course, whose results will be published on a peer reviewed magazine. I hope the results will be positive, but my duty as a scientist is to say that until the work is not finished, the possibility of negative results must be considered not impossible.
 Warm Regards,
 A.R.
 
Отвечая на вопрос по поводу интервью Michael McKubre (SRI Internationale) для Stirling Allen, Андреа Росси высказался об обобществлении IP (для всеобщего блага), о коммунизме, марксизме, Ленине, и о чайках:
Andrea Rossi
January 15th, 2014 at 5:23 PM
Martin:
 It easy to share something that is worth nothing. It is impossible to share IP which has substantial worth with competitors. The rest is just hypocrisy disguised by fake humanitarism, aiming to get IP ( Intellectual Property) without making all the work, fatigue and investments made by others. Medicine would have made no progress at all should not the Intellectual Property of the medicines be granted to the industries that paid all the necessary R&D and validation for the drugs they invented. In the energy field the situation is the same, as well as in all the important fields of R&D. In the recent history we had a paradigmatic evidence of what I said: the communism; along the communist phylosophy ( the so called Marxism) everything had to be put in common and everybody had to produce sharing his capacities and skills with all the others, while the results of the global work had to be shared between all the men along their necessities: everybody had to work along his skills, everybody had to consume along his necessities...we all have seen what this phylosophy has produced after Lenin has given substance to it. Let's not make confusion between humanitarism and greed. Last Sunday I was walking along the shore of Miami Beach and I observed an interesting scene: a gull was continuing to fly low on the surface of the sea, looking for food, while other gulls were seat on the beach looking at him; after a while he grasped a fish with his beak, but immediately all the other gulls got flying around him, attacking him to steal the fish, and, after a while, they succeeded, leaving him without the prey he had worked for.
 Warm Regards,
 A.R.

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В мае 2013, после публикации доклада третьей стороны об испытаниях HotCat, прошло незамеченным сообщение А. Росси о разработках micro cats:


Gerard
May 20th, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Caro Andrea,
Heartfelt congratulations on the publication of the Third Party report.
 The myriad of potential applications of your amazing technology has boggled my mind! What if a device needs much less voltage – Are you yet developing a Micro-cat?
Best regards,
 Gerard
 
Andrea Rossi
May 20th, 2013 at 1:29 PM
Dear Gerard:
We are designing micro cats, yes, and some micro models are working, but I foresee for them the same difficulties of certification we got for the domestic units.
 The tech is possible, though.
 Warm Regards,
 A.R.
 

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ronatu пишет:
They claim it will provide power at 0.1 cents per kwh (natural gas 6-8 cents; nuclear 8-9 cents; coal 9-10 cents; ).
 
 IF True, the world would change

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ronatu пишет:

ronatu пишет:
 IF True, the world would change

Угу, угу, угу...

[Антикосмит]

Может быть не совсем в тему, но, в виду того, что Росси плавает в объяснениях эффекта, который, якобы, у него там наблюдается, будет небезынтересно.


МЕТАЛЛ ВЗРЫВАЕТСЯ!            
  
Доктор технических наук М. Марахтанов , профессор МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана и А. Марахтанов, аспирант Калифорнийского университета, г. Беркли (США)
                                 
  В 1988 году журнал опубликовал статью доктора технических наук, академика Российской академии ракетно-артиллерийских наук В. В. Яворского "Энергия "из ниоткуда" (см. "Наука и жизнь" №C10). В ней сообщалось, что при работе над средствами поражения брони было обнаружено крайне любопытное явление. При внедрении в стальную плиту бронебойного снаряда из твердого металла массой 4 килограмма, не снаряженного взрывчатым веществом, вокруг пробоины возникала зона цветов побежалости, свидетельствующая о сильном нагреве. Оценка показала, что количество выделившегося тепла было в несколько раз больше кинетической энергии снаряда. Кпд процесса превышал 400%! Исследования на моделях - легких ударниках и прямые измерения количества выделившегося тепла в калориметре подтвердили наличие странного явления. Превышение тепловой энергии над кинетической для модели массой 61,5 грамма составило 20%, массой 88,5 грамма - 48%: явно прослеживалась роль масштабного фактора. Сотрудники ФИАН им. П. Н. Лебедева, к которым обратились за консультацией, объяснить происходящее не смогли, но указали, что обнаруженный дисбаланс энергий говорит о большой сложности протекающих при ударе процессов. Объяснить физическую суть явления и обнаружить новое, неизвестное ранее свойство металла сумели авторы настоящей статьи.

http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/4072/

P.S. Правда меня объяснение не очень впечатлило, но сам эффект довольно интересен.

[gerasim]

Похожий эффект был экспериментально обнаружен в  1974 году в Минске Сергеем Ушеренко. 
Его сущность заключается в сверхглубоком проникании тонкодисперсных твердых микрочастиц  фракции  1- 200 мкм в твердые металлические преграды (мишени).  Длина нитевидного канала в стальной преграде достигала до 200 мм и даже более.  Классические же модели  показывали, что кинетической энергии частицы достаточно всего для проникания в мишень на глубину не более 6-10 диаметров самой частицы. В момент удара частицы о преграду  имеет место аномальное выделение энергии.

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Ответ А. Росси на вопрос о сроках процесса R&D, о термоэлектричестве, и его респект России:
 Giuliano Bettini 
 January 17th, 2014 at 8:16 AM Dear Andrea Rossi:
 I do not remember, maybe you have already posted about it:
 when the R&D plan should end?
 Is there a timetable?
 Thanks
 Giuliano Bettini.
 
Andrea Rossi 
 January 17th, 2014 at 8:47 AM Giuliano Bettini:
 That will not depend on me, I suppose ( and underline "suppose") end of March or something around it for end of tests; as for the publication of the report, it will depend on the time of the peer reviewing, which I don't think will take too long, due to the importance of the results, either positive or negative as they might be, and the number, the level and the internationality of the Authors, who come from 3 Continents.
 Warm Regards,
 A.R.
 
Bernie Koppenhofer 
 January 17th, 2014 at 11:21 AM Dr Rossi: Heat to electricity: I know you have researched this technology in the past, has anything
 changed to make it more conceivable for use with the E-Cat? Thanks.
 
Andrea Rossi 
 January 17th, 2014 at 11:58 AM Bernie Koppenhofer:
 Interesting question. As far as I know no devices appeared in the horizon that could make thermoelectric generation in an economically viable way, but I am alert on the issue. If something will arrive in this field I think will be from Russia: there are the best brains working on this matter.
 Warm Regards,
 A.R.
 
В.И. Петрик?
 
 
 
 

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Антикосмит пишет:
Может быть не совсем в тему, но, в виду того, что Росси плавает в объяснениях эффекта, который, якобы, у него там наблюдается, будет небезынтересно.

 
МЕТАЛЛ ВЗРЫВАЕТСЯ!          
  
Доктор технических наук М. Марахтанов , профессор МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана и А. Марахтанов, аспирант Калифорнийского университета, г. Беркли (США)
.....
 http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/4072/

 P.S. Правда меня объяснение не очень впечатлило, но сам эффект довольно интересен.

Эффект весьма интересен, хотя, как видно, источник избыточной энергии здесь не ядерный.
 Статья Марахтановых подверглась (огульной) критике со стороны д.ф.м.-н. В. Тельнова 
 http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/14353/;
 см. также реплику на статью В. Тельнова:
 http://www.nkj.ru/forum/forum7/topic10697/messages/messages/

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gerasim пишет:

Похожий эффект был экспериментально обнаружен в  1974 году в Минске Сергеем Ушеренко. 
Его сущность заключается в сверхглубоком проникании тонкодисперсных твердых микрочастиц  фракции  1- 200 мкм в твердые металлические преграды (мишени).  Длина нитевидного канала в стальной преграде достигала до 200 мм и даже более.  Классические же модели  показывали, что кинетической энергии частицы достаточно всего для проникания в мишень на глубину не более 6-10 диаметров самой частицы. В момент удара частицы о преграду  имеет место аномальное выделение энергии.

Сверхглубокое проникновение частиц не обязательно связано с неявной энергией. Скорее всего, проявляются эффекты, связанные с изменением сопротивления проникновению. Аналогично и в случае со снарядом - общее сопротивление падает, возникает что-то типа волнового сопротивления по краям, и края металла перегреваются.

[Kilcman]

После BlackLighPower появляются следующие новые игроки на горизонте событий     

http://www.thunder-fusion.com/

А в НАСА 25 февраля будет доклад об абстрактном LENR самолете...

[Клон Антипода]

Kilcman пишет:
После BlackLighPower появляются следующие новые игроки на горизонте событий

 http://www.thunder-fusion.com/

Ой! А я уже где-то видел точно такой же контейнер... Только он, кажысь, синий был...

[gerasim]

И вот в этом мусорном контейнере оно и происходит: D-2 + C-12 --> N-14 + Energy (http://www.benthamscience.com/open/topcj/articles/V005/17TOPCJ.pdf) Вот куда потом столько азота девать?

[Александр Ч.]

gerasim пишет:
Вот куда потом столько азота девать?

В шины закачивать

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Официально объявлено, что технологию Андреа Росси приобрела компания Industrial Heat LLC, филиал компании Cherokee Investment Partners in Raleigh:
 
(http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2014/01/24/сonfirmed-raleighs-cherokee-buys-into.html?page=all) 
 Jan 24, 2014, 5:38pm EST 
 Confirmed: Raleigh's Cherokee buys into controversial nuclear tech device
 
Amanda Jones Hoyle
 Staff Writer- Triangle Business Journal
 
It's called the Energy Catalyzer, or E-Cat, and is described as a low energy nuclear reaction technology that was developed by Italian scientist Andrea Rossi. The E-Cat is designed to use catalysts to produce large amounts of thermal heat using hydrogen gas and powdered nickel metal.
 
Industrial Heat LLC partner JT Vaughn, who is also a senior analyst at Cherokee, confirmed through a press release (linked here) that IH has acquired the rights to Rossi's LENR device after a committee of independent European scientists concluded after multiple days of testing at Rossi's facilities that the device worked.