The Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology is a project of Leonardo®/ISAST, started by Piero Scaruffi in San Francisco. Events take place at a number of venues: the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA and a New York Studio and bring scientists together with artists to foster inspiration and innovation between disciplines.
The UCLA Art|Sci center has two great events for you tonight and we’re looking forward to seeing you at both of them!
UPDATE: Thursday’s release:
First, from 5-7pm in our Art|Sci gallery (CNSI 5419), we’ll be exhibiting and play testing our board game, Dog Nose Knows! The game Dog Nose Knows evolved from the 2011 conference “Made for Each Other? Dog and Human Co-Evolution” as a fun and simple way to introduce the concept of a dog’s sensory world to people. In creating a game about a dog’s sense of smell, we hope to evoke the player’s curiosity in the sensory world of a dog – and how this sensory world differs from a human’s. Come check out the game art, meet the game designer, Adeline Ducker, and play the game yourself!
Later in the evening, we will be hosting our second UCLA Leonardo Art Science Rendezvous (LASER): Games People Play, from 7-9pm in the CNSI 5th floor presentation space! You’ll get to hear from the following people and interact with other Angelenos working at the intersection of art and science:
Nina Eidsheim (musicologist, UCSD)
Ruby Carat (Cold Fusion Now)
Blanka Earhart (independent media artist and author)
Douglas Campbell (Founder, ProjectFresh)
Adeline Ducker (Dog Nose Knows board game design / graphics)
Alex Groff (independent game and web designer)
Alison Lipman (co-founder of SELVA International)
Mathias Dörfelt (graduate student, Design | Media Arts)
Zac Harlow (graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Watch Cold Fusion 101 Week 1 lectures with Professor Peter Hagelsteinhere.
This video features course co-teacher Dr. Mitchell Swartz speaking on the experimental research done by his company JET Energy as they develop the NANOR cell.
Demonstration of Excess Heat from a JET Energy NANOR at MIT [.pdf] is a report by the course co-teachers summarizing the NANOR’s excess heat results from last year.
From Cold Fusion Times: Jan. 28, 2013 – On day 5, Dr. Mitchell Swartz continued with the substantial experimental proof for cold fusion (lattice assisted nuclear reactions). After discussion of the materials involved in the desired reactions, he surveyed the methods of calibration of heat producing reactions including the copious controls, time-integration, thermal waveform reconstruction, noise measurement and additional techniques, as well as those methods which are not accurate.
Many examples of excess heat generated by CF/LANR systems were shown, using aqueous nickel and palladium systems. Then using the Navier Stokes equation, he developed the flow equations for both “conventional” cold fusion and codeposition. Optimal operating point operation was shown to have the ability to determine the products, and how the OOP manifolds demonstrate that CF is a reproducible phenomenon, applicable to science and engineering.
He focused on the salient advantages of the LANR metamaterials with the PHUSOR®-type system being one example. Returning to the experimental results and engineering methods developed to control cold fusion, he surveyed “heat after death” and its control and useful application, and the use of CF/LANR systems to drive motors.
DAY 5 Part 1
DAY 5 Part 2
DAY 5 Part 3
Jan. 29, 2013 – On day 6, Dr. Mitchell Swartz continued with the discussion of cold fusion (lattice assisted nuclear reactions) in aqueous systems, beginning with the near infra-red emissions from active LANR devices, and the use of CF to generate electricity. Problems in the feedback loop were discussed. Then the focus was on the new dry, preloaded nanomaterial CF/LANR materials.
After discussing their novel characteristics and electrical breakdown (avalanche) issues, and which electric drive regions actually generate excess energy, he presented the development of several types of the NANOR®-type CF electronic components. Using multiple ways of documenting the excess energy produced, he presented the results of the latest series of such devices, such as were shown at MIT over several months in the second series of open demonstrations of cold fusion by JET Energy, Inc.
With energy gains from 14 and greater, these electronic components, in conjunction with advanced driving circuits, were shown to have excess energy documented by temperature rise, heat flow, and calorimetry; heralding their revolutionary potential to change the energy landscape in circuits, distributed electrical power systems, artificial internal organs, propulsion systems, space travel, and more.
The course begins with the theoretical lectures by Dr. Peter Hagelstein, a principle investigator of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and leading theoretician in the field of condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS).
A second part now ongoing features an experimental component as Dr. Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy demonstrates his NANOR device.
Demonstration of Excess Heat from a JET Energy NANOR at MIT [.pdf] is a report by the course co-teachers summarizing the NANOR’s excess heat results from last year.
Hagelstein begins the first day of this year’s course with a warning: this field can be dangerous for your career.
Then why the new course?
“A lot of reasons, one reason is there are starting to become jobs in this area. There are companies that are pursuing technology in this area.”
“I’ve been contacted a number of times and the question goes like this: ‘Do you know anybody who is qualified to take a position to lead this particular effort – and participate in the effort – in the cold fusion business?'”
“And the answer is ‘No, there’s no courses, there’s no training, there’s no way for anybody to get experience’.”
Here is the first part of the Cold Fusion 101 course lectures. We apologize about the poor audio. You may need an external amplifier to hear it. Please feel free to download and process audio for mp3 clean-up! (And send me a copy!)
Thank you to all who participated for allowing this video to broadcast.
From Cold Fusion Times:
Jan. 22, 2013 – On day 1, attendees intently focus on Prof. Peter Hagelstein’s lecture on palladium hydrides and the role of the highly loaded lattice, beyond the miscibility gap, as required for achieving successful deuterium fusion in cold fusion (LANR) as initially (correctly) reported by Drs. Fleischmann and Pons in 1989.
1 DAY 1 Part 1
2 DAY 1 Part 2
3 DAY 1 Part 3
Jan. 23, 2013 – On day 2, Prof. Peter Hagelstein presented his original theory involving de novo helium formation in CF/LANR, specifically at vacancies surrounded by loaded octahedral sites, and made very clear -in that light- exactly why early attempts at reproduction of CF were so difficult to achieve. The roles of loading (Volmer, Tafel, and Heyrovsky reactions), chemical potential, sigma-bonded hydrogen, codeposition, embedded atom theories, vacancy diffusion and stabilization by loading, and the important differences between Pd and Ni were also made clear; as he tied these together based upon years of condensed matter data.
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Start Summary of Day 1
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13:40 Loading vs current density
16:11 Take away message Electro-chSummary
16:50 Does the migration of H or D into the metal off the surface affect these relationships?
17:50 What’s the best way to measure loading, is it the resistance?
18:46 Excess Power vs Loading in Pd-D systems
19:22 Loading vs. Power data correlation from SRI
20:00 Threshold holding value around 0.85 D/Pd or less
21:19 Revisit the electro-chemical model and Green-Britz.
22:50 Akita et al data re-produce loading
23:30 What about effect of current on loading with respect to time?
24:25 Loading ratio D/Pd =0.93 at SRI
26:09 Loading and resistance with Superwaves. Woah.
27:19 How can the loading be so high? Why, with the “moving” Volmer-Tafel model?
29:30 It’s not Volmer, it’s Tafel.
30:06 I have lots of fractures and voids and fissures increasing the surface area, allowing the D to leak out, and that will increase the Tafel.
30:50 “internal surfaces” meaning cracks where D leaks out
30:55 estimating that effect
5 DAY 2 Part 2
6 DAY 2 Part 3
Jan. 24, 2013 – On day 3, Prof. Peter Hagelstein went through the experimental proof that de novo He4 production is commensurate with excess energy (Miles, and Case, and SRI experiments), and its rate of production is commensurate with excess power (Gozzi). He discussed the role of cell temperature in positive feedback in the CF/LANR system (Fleischmann, and Cravens, and Storms, and Swartz); and then focused on the problem associated with helium occupancy at the critical sites of CF/LANR in active systems. Moving through Rutherford issues to the Hamiltonian, he also demonstrated the roles of deuteron flux as well as loading. Finally, using an analogy similar to Corkum’s mechanism, he led the way towards the spin boson model of Cohen-Tannoudji, but demonstrated exactly where it was insufficient to explain CF/LANR in the absence of his discovery of the role of destructive interference and other loss and dephasing issues.
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8 DAY 3 Part 2
9 DAY 3 Part 3
Jan. 25, 2013 -On day 4, Prof. Hagelstein began with evidence, based upon PdD and D2O as the detectors, that de novo Helium 4 must be “borne” with energies below 10 keV or less, and that the upper limit for neutron production must be less than 0.01 neutrons/joule. Then, having demonstrated that destructive interference in the spin boson model prevents its use in CF/LANR, he corrected that, and expanded the Hamiltonian to now include coupling parameters and examined the quantum exchange characteristics based upon coherence.
Successful energy transfer was demonstrated to require interactions of all the atoms in the lattice. For further analysis, a donor-receptor system was then included. At that point, he showed how the Coulomb barrier need not be overcome, because by this method the factor is linear, rather than quadratic (needed for classical analysis of D+D interactions). Supporting this analysis is the Karabut data in glow discharge on Pd which yielded both diffuse emissions and collimated x-radiation. with beamlets of energy over a wide bandwidth, which were consistent with the theory Prof. Hagelstein developed.
Finally, he used the Foldy-Wouthuysen rotational operation, and demonstrated how this analysis is becoming asymptotic with what is being observed in CF/LANR, with the use of his corrected condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS) Hamiltonian. Finally, with the addition of nonlinear Rabi oscillations (which yields Dicke superradiance), his model was shown to also be near-complete and consistent with both the observed pulse emissions and the wide bandwidth.
While there are an increasing number of professors engaged in cold fusion research at schools and colleges, not all departments and schools officially support that activity.
In some cases, research is fully-endorsed and funded, such as at University of Missouri and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
At other schools, faculty is forced to conduct research without official funding. This is the case at one of the premier scientific research institutions in the U.S., the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In all cases, funding is small, and because of the hostile environment, many of the professors who would love to teach you about cold fusion, low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), lattice-assisted nuclear reactions (LANR), quantum fusion, and the Anomalous Heat Effect (AHE), will tell you that the job prospects for research in the field are nil. They may even try to talk you out of pursuing the study of our future energy source.
It is shameful that those who would share their two-decades of experience in cold fusion research cannot take students in good conscience because they cannot guarantee any job opportunities upon graduation.
But we know that will not always be the case.
The increasing interest in cold fusion science and technology parallels the decline in availability of cheap fossil fuels, and the lack of viable solutions from the conventionally-minded scientists who’ve been successful at lobbying for funding without delivering the goods.
Each of the professors listed below will give you an education that draws on their own experience in cold fusion research, ranging from experimentalists, theorists, and policy-making, with LENR as a centerpiece.
Globally, there is friendly faculty on every continent and an inventory of the educational opportunities in cold fusion worldwide is forthcoming in part II. What follows is a partial list of schools in the U.S. with cold fusion-friendly faculty, alphabetical by school.
More schools will be added to make a full directory of places you can go to learn about creating energy solutions from the truly bold and courageous scientists of our time.
David Nagel teaches and conducts workshops on LENR.George Washington University
Washington, D.C. USA
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Research Professor David J. Nagel
Dr. Nagel’s interests span multi-disciplinary technologies including the development and applications of micro- and nano-technologies, including micro-fluidics and wireless sensor networks, and condensed matter nuclear science, and particularly LENR.
He established NUCAT Energy, Inc to hold workshops for academia, agencies, and industry on LENR and reports regularly on the field for Infinite Energy magazine.
Professor Nagel has been interviewed by Cold Fusion Radio several times. Excerpts from the most recent audio interview are here in “LENR global impact will be historic“. In the interview “A Reasoned Approach to Funding“, he described his plan for a federal effort to bring this science to a usable technology.
George Miley and his students spoke to rocket scientists about LENR.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Nuclear and Electrical Engineering Department Professor Emeritus Dr. George H. Miley
Dr. Miley researches unique cold fusion cells using thin-films and nano-particles. He has presented a LENR-based General Purpose Heat Source for spacecraft power needs and established the company LENUCO to commercially-develop some of their nano-technology discoveries producing transmutation elements.
Cold Fusion Now highlighted his work in the interview “Let’s Find Out What’s There” conducted at the Nuclear and Emerging Technology for Space (NETS) conference.
His students get the opportunity for hand-on experience in the lab constructing and testing LENR cells in the Fusion Studies Lab and in particular, at the LENRs Lab.
Iraj Parchamazad creates anomalous heat with crystal zeolites.University of LaVerne
LaVerne, California, USA
Chemistry Department Chairman of Chemistry Professor Dr. Iraj Parchamazad
Dr. Parchamazad investigates deuterium gas-loaded nano-palladium in zeolites. He is now collaborating with Dr. Melvin Miles, a former professor at the college and long-time Navy researcher with expertise in electrolytic co-deposition techniques.
Enrolled chemistry students have the opportunity for direct experience in conducting laboratory research using a full-spectrum of diagnostic equipment.
Peter Hagelstein co-teaches Cold Fusion 101.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Electrical Engineering Lab Professor Dr. Peter Hagelstein
Professor Hagelstein engages in theoretical work on cold fusion and collaborates with Dr. Mitchel Swartz of JET Energy, builder of the NANOR cell.
Together, they team-teach the MIT IAP short course Cold Fusion 101 held in the end of January. Enrollment in the course is open and includes demonstrations of a live NANOR cell.
Robert Duncan organized Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance to study LENR.University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Institute for Nuclear Renaissance Vice Chancellor of Research Dr. Robert Duncan
Dr. Duncan has spearheaded the research into the Anomalous Heat Effect (AHE) at University of Missouri by bringing Energetics Technologies to the University business park and helping to create the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance.
He has marshaled many departments in the research effort, and there are multiple opportunities for a student of cold fusion to learn.
Dr. Duncan and University of Missouri will be hosting ICCF-18 in July 2013, along with Purdue University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
John Dash guided high school students in successful cold fusion experiments.Portland State University Portland
Portland, Oregon, USA
Physics Department Professor Emeritus Dr. John Dash
Professor Dash has been training students in the art of electrochemical cells since the mid 1990s in from the Portland, Oregon area.
He has conducted summer workshops for high-school students and they have held public demonstration of cold fusion cells and presented lab results at conferences and colloquia.
Yeong Kim is a cold fusion theorist.Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Physics Department Professor Dr. Yeong E. Kim
Dr. Kim is a nuclear physicist and Director of the Center for Sensing Science and Technology at Purdue University, where the detection of radioactive and hazardous materials are developed as a technology.
He is also a theorist in condensed matter nuclear science and has modeled the reaction using Bose-Einstein Condensates. He has presented at many conferences, including NETS 2011 attended by Cold Fusion Now and summarized in Session 462 Advanced Concepts.
Thomas Grimshaw shapes energy policy with LENR.University of Texas Austin
Austin, Texas, USA
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy and the Energy Institute Professor Dr. Thomas Grimshaw
This school researches and prepares policy reports for government officials and legislators and Dr. Grimshaw always includes LENR in their energy surveys.
The course runs from Tuesday, January 22 through Wednesday, January 30, 2013 from 11AM-1PM in Room 4-153 and 66-144 on the MIT campus.
Cold Fusion 101 Lectures courtesy Jeremy Rys
Peter Hagelstein Cold Fusion 101 in 2012Participants in the course will learn about cold fusion from a top theorist in the field, as well as one of the industry’s leading technologists.
The cold fusion energy cell built by Dr. Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy produced excess heat continuously for months on the MIT campus. Described as a zirconium-oxide nanostructured quantum electronic device, the phenomenon was observed by both students and the condensed matter nuclear science (CMNS) community as well as members of the general public.
From “Demonstration of Excess Power from the JET Energy NANOR at MIT” by M.Swartz and P HagelsteinMitchell Swartz and Peter Hagelstein released Demonstration of Excess Heat from a JET Energy NANOR at MIT[.pdf], a report summarizing their excess heat results from the cell.
Cold Fusion Times released links to this year’s Cold Fusion 101 course content which included:
IAP 2012 Cold Fusion 101 course collageExcess power production in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment; lack of confirmation in early negative experiments; theoretical problems and Huizenga’s three miracles; physical chemistry of PdD; electrochemistry of PdD; loading requirements on excess power production; the nuclear ash problem and He-4 observations; approaches to theory; screening in PdD; PdD as an energetic particle detector; constraints on the alpha energy from experiment; overview of theoretical approaches; coherent energy exchange between mismatched quantum systems; coherent x-rays in the Karabut experiment and interpretation; excess power in the NiH system; Piantelli experiment;observed excess power in PdD and in NiH LANR systems; techniques of calibration; problems with flow calorimetry and other detection systems; importance of verification by calorimetry, heat flow, noise measurement, and thermal waveform reconstruction; Q-1-D model of loading, optimal operating manifold lessons; high impedance, codeposition, and PHUSOR aqueous LANR systems; introduction to LANR emissions, pathway control, and coupling to the electrical and propulsion systems; overview of nanomaterial and NANOR LANR systems; Prospects for a new small scale clean nuclear energy technology.
At Cold Fusion Now, we believe that new energy information is best distributed far and wide. Our readership, and the readership of all cold fusion LENR information media, is growing worldwide. More and more people are learning of this important technology. We hope when it goes mainstream… many will already be aware.
To continue our tradition of actively spreading the news, this letter with links was sent as a message to the facebook sights of the following universities over the Veterans Day Weekend. The list is of universities whose facebook page allows a message to be sent to the administrator. No posting was made directly to the wall, we invite them to do so.
Hi,
Here are a couple of links to a technology that is advancing from the cutting edge research phase to the research and engineering phase.
Study the present day state of the art of this science and you may find yourself wanting to create a post for your readers to follow.
Due to the importance of energy to the U.S. Armed Forces and the worldwide struggle for energy supply and it’s effect on “Energizing the Warfighter” (see DoD) (which measures the cost of oil not in dollars but cost in blood of our military); more effort was expended on this outreach during the Veterans Day Weekend. Please read the article “Economics of Cold Fusion LENR Power Department of Defense” (link)
One of these three letters was sent to each of the following News Agencies and Activist Organizations:
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Hi,
Please include low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology as part of your political discourse on energy.
If you are not up on the science of cold fusion LENR – Low Energy Nuclear Reaction; I’m hoping you enjoy studying this. Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist of NASA Langley, states this is the solution to global warming.
The NASA series has a link to his paper. This should be part of any discourse on clean air, energy, and environment.
“Global Warming Climate Change and Cold Fusion LENR Power”
“Even though we do not know the specific cost of the LENR itself, we assumed a cost of jet fuel at $4/gallon and weight based aircraft cost. We were able to calculate cost per mile for the LENR equipped aircraft compared to a conventional aircraft (Figure 3.2). Looking at the plots, one could select a point where the projected cost per mile is 33% less than a conventionally powered aircraft.”
3.0 LENR Requirements Analysis …pg 24 Figure 3.1 – Potential Heat Engines for LENR Systems ..pg 25 Figure 3.2 – Parametric LENR and Heat Engine Performance Parameters ……………….pg 25 6.2.3 Low Energy Nuclear Reactor Technologies ……pg 82 Table 6.3 – LENR Technologies Success Criteria …….pg 86 Also pgs 15, 18, 19, 20, and 21.
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Maybe you could interview a few of these guys… see what they have to say about the emerging LENR technology (popularly known as cold fusion). “Real Popular Cold Fusion” https://coldfusionnow.org/real-popular-cold-fusion/
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The pain over our continuing struggle for energy… I feel it. The destruction from our present process… utilization… and use of energy… will be ending soon.
Helping to usher it in, the tradition continues of sending new energy information to groups of concerned citizens.
The following message was sent to site administrators of the following facebook groups. No posting was made to the wall.
We invite them to do so.
Hi,
Here are a couple of links to a technology that is advancing from the cutting edge research phase to the research and engineering phase.
Study the present day state of the art of this science and you may find yourself wanting to create a post for your readers to follow.
The Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology is a project of Leonardo®/ISAST, started by Piero Scaruffi in San Francisco. Events take place at a number of venues: the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA and a New York Studio and bring scientists together with artists to foster inspiration and innovation between disciplines.
