Graphic: LENR beta-decay in the lattice.
LENR/LENT science is known as cold fusion in popular vernacular for many reasons. There is the well-remembered worldwide media flurry over the wondrous announcement by Pons and Fleishman in 1989; the decades long discourse exemplifying it as the fringe of fringe sciences; the repeated high-profile dirty-dealt blows to cold fusion science by established energy concerns aimed at debunking it once and for all. Even movies and sci-fi have helped put cold fusion in the public vernacular. Basically anything that is ‘less hot than the sun’ fusion, involving some sort of nuclear reaction, is cold fusion in the minds eye of the public. It’s a popular name with a nice ring to it, Cold Fusion, and it is about to become the most popular sweet source for energy.
Now the chief scientist at NASA – Langley has released a paper to help us better understand this art. It is densely written, each sentence packed with meaning. Even the title bears a closer look, REALISM and OUTLOOK.
In order to better understand the paper we can look at each part of every sentence and categorize it as the title suggests, under Realism or Outlook. It is best to list only those parts that qualify as definitive when kept in context; parts based on ‘maybe’ or ‘what if’ are not included.
Thanks are given to ‘we’ll stick to our guns’ Pons and Fleischman and to all the dedicated scientists who continued the research: now we have a fantastic science emerging as the ‘Solution to All Energetics’, through low-energy nuclear reactions.
LENR/LENT Science – popularly known as Cold Fusion.
READ NASA and VIEW THEIR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, the Realism and the Outlook (read)
by Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
REALISM
- hundreds of experiments worldwide indicating heat and transmutations with minimal radiation and low energy input
- evidence indicates something real is occurring
- with effects occurring from using diverse materials, methods of energy addition etc
- This is far from a “Narrow Band” set of physical phenomena
- several labs have blown up studying LENR and windows have melted, indicating when the conditions are “right” prodigious amounts of energy can be produced and released
- are in fact inventing (in real time) the requisite engineering, along with verifying the physics
OUTLOOK
- NASA Langley, the epiphany moment on LENR was the publication of the Widom-Larsen Weak Interaction LENR Theory
- theory indicates energy densities, some several million times chemical. The current experiments are in the 10’s to hundreds range
- still far from the theoretical limits of the weak interaction physics for LENR performance
- given the truly massive-to-mind boggling benefits – solutions to climate, energy and the limitations that restrict the NASA Mission areas, all of them. The key to space exploration is energetics. The key to supersonic transports and neighbor-friendly personal fly/drive air vehicles is energetics, as simplex examples of the potential implications of this area of research
- 1% of the nickel mined on the planet each year could produce the world’s energy requirements at the order of 25% the cost of coal
- it is worth far more resources than are currently being devoted to this research arena
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With NASA and many others we are able to quickly replace all major sources of energy with cold fusion. At a cost savings, both in implementation and future use, ad infinitum.
Every friend, neighbor, coworker, student, teacher, politician and activist, liberal and conservative, both young and old should become aware of this as soon as possible.
Then the harm caused from continued use of dirty crippling coal, asthma inducing oil, or birth defective radioactive nuclear becomes a matter of criminal negligence. Do all you can to both get the word out and enable this energy transition. It is the most important topic of our time.
Hopefully this can sober up the debate on LENR, or whatever one chooses to call it. The scientific record of this phenomenon goes back 100 years, the only thing missing is verification of theory, Wisdom-Larsen or other.
As for Rossi, he is an inventor, and does what inventors do, invent an manufacture a device exploiting LENR. Being an inventor myself, I se nothing out of the ordinary with his behaviour. Secrecy is a must, you dont publish anything important in the process, so the lack of independet testing is natural. As for the reality of the Ecat, and the other devices, we just have to wait, they will hit the market(or not), that will be the moment of truth for Rossi. Claiming him a fraud at this time is premature, if he does not deliver in this decade I may consider him an overoptimistic failure, As far as I know he has not swindled anybody out of their money yet on this project..
I just can’t forget that LENR didn’t take off the way it has now until Rossi came on the scene.
The primary obstical to switching from our current energy production technologies to LENR is psychological/sociological, not technical. Hopefully, once LENR has been successfully commercialize the flood gates will open on R&D funding and public awareness of this new clean very cheap and super abundant energy technology.
Frankly, NASA very likely won’t be a major factor in LENR. Instead, private enterprise appears to hold all the cards. Also (remember you heard it here first), the key to space exploration (i.e. thrust) is energetics, but more basically it is momentum, which we get from pushing out mass and getting the resulting equal and opposite reaction. In other words, without the mass to eject and push against, energetics gets you squat (unless there is a thrust technology I am not familiar with out there).
I think what Langley is counting on is the ability to have extreme velocity on the matter being used for thrust exhaust. If you can increase the velocity enough you can temper the amount of mass needed to a more manageable level. Fire ions out at a fraction of c and you need far less mass to move then current chemical means.
Correct Velocity (love it) of the shuttle was around 500 impulse seconds while existing plasma engines deliver 200,000 impulse seconds, four hundred times greater.
The links @ the bottom of “Cold Fusion – NASA – LENR Future” gives good rocketry.
gbg
Hey everyone,
There is a nice facebook site for NASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) http://www.facebook.com/NASAJPL
I posted the following as a prelude into qustions about mass, thrust, exit velocity, plasma drives, and energetics supplied by LENR. I hope some of you join in there with knowledgeable questions and that we get meaningful answers.
POSTED Wed. June 13th Gregory Byron Goble on JPL Facebook:
Exciting that this is the “solutions to climate, energy and the limitations that restrict the NASA Mission areas, all of them. The key to space exploration is energetics. The key to supersonic transports and neighbor-friendly personal fly/drive air vehicles is energetics, as simplex examples of the potential implications of this area of research.”
Plasma jet propulsion powered by LENR and LENR powerplants for space colonization. Asteroid mining and the terraforming of Mars become plausable with the energetics supplied by LENR,
LENR/LENT science is known as cold fusion in popular vernacular for many reasons. There is the well-remembered worldwide media flurry over the wondrous announcement by Pons and Fleishman in 1989; the decades long discourse exemplifying it as the fringe of fringe sciences; the repeated high-profile dirty-dealt blows to cold fusion science by established energy concerns aimed at debunking it once and for all. Even movies and sci-fi have helped put cold fusion in the public vernacular. Basically anything that is ‘less hot than the sun’ fusion, involving some sort of nuclear reaction, is cold fusion in the minds eye of the public. It’s a popular name with a nice ring to it, Cold Fusion, and it is about to become the most popular sweet source for energy.
Now the chief scientist at NASA – Langley has released a paper to help us better understand this art. It is densely written, each sentence packed with meaning. Even the title bears a closer look, REALISM and OUTLOOK. gbgoble coldfusionnow org “Real Popular Cold Fusion”
The term “cold fusion” is like a swear word that should not be published in mixed society. Any comparison to the type of reaction described originally under the “cold fusion” vernacular is not applicable to this new new research.
The new energy techniques decribed in this research has almost nothing to do with “cold fusion.” It is a harnessed chemical reaction that due to new technology, is pregnant with possibilities, and NOT just in the space program. The new technology must be given an opportunity to stand or fail on its own.
I propose that the words “cold fusion” should NEVER be published in any connection with LENR chemical reactive research or technology. it’s time to END this.
Michael M. Rosenblatt
Michael,
You have strong opinions about a specific branch of science that has a relevent history to specific terminology. Cold Fusion is in the popular vernacular referring to any type of nuclear reaction taking place in environments less hot than the sun. I quibble with semantics only when edible… otherwise I nod my head in agreement and seek understanding… thanks for your meaning. “Cold Fusion” like a good nickname; may be something we will all have to just live with. Oh well! So sad. Too bad. Or is it good to trifle such a minor matter? By any name… a rose is still a rose.