LENR

[AZRedhawk44]

LENR = Low Energy Nuclear Reaction

http://rossifocardifusion.com/rossi-e-cat-hts-3rd-party-test-report

Some of you physics oriented people, are you following this?

http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473

This test reactor saw 30% of its nickel become transmuted to copper, via proton addition to the nucleus (as well as generation of heat as a byproduct of the reaction).  Anyone familiar with masked protons or proton/electron pairs adhering to an existing nucleus?



Link to abstract of peer review:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913

[Brad Johnson]

The Cons...

1) Low Energy Nuclear Reaction is the new catchphrase they came with when "cold fusion" had run its course.

2) The "Journal of Nuclear Physics" is Rossi's own creation, believed by many to be his solution for having a place to publish his work after more traditional scientific journals told him to pound sand.

3) There is very little in the way of objective, disinterested third-party verification, mostly the result of Rossi's lockdown on the technology for, as he claims, "patent protections".

I see some interest among the mainstream scientific community, but liberally laced with skepticism pending the release of any results not directly generated by Rossi.  The science has some basis in mainstream physics, and that alone is driving much of the interest.  Time will tell, and Rossi would do well to allow independent verification of his results lest he be branded yet another cold fusion kook.

Brad

[AJ Dual]

Yep interesting but needs more third-party validation.

Although I still place a high probability that there's just undiscovered or unaccounted electro-chemical reactions providing the extra heat energy. The reactor might actually even be consuming itself chemically in some way they haven't thought of.

Although even that might prove commercially useful.

[CypherNinja]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VymhJCcNBBc

These guys are from a Navy lab. They've been working on it as a side project since Pons and Fleischmann.

Who the hell knows what that guy Rossi is up to, but the existence of LENR has been confirmed worldwide. Pons and Fleischmann have essentially been vindicated (using more carefully designed experimental apparatus ).

It's not called "cold fusion" because it's obviously not fusion, and was never really purported to be other than by the media. Also, nobody really has any idea how useful the process will be for energy generation (other than Rossi, apparently), but with greater understanding it may be useful for it's transmutation or generation of tritium. Or it may be doomed to "lab demo" limbo for eternity. At this point, all anyone really knows is that it definitely exists, but they're still trying to work exactly what the hell is happening and why.

Of course, this subject also attracts the crazies like flies.....