- Low Energy Nuclear Reaction could help Prevent Food and Water Shortages
- Slideshow Reveals Defkalion’s LENR Testing and Construction
- Cold Fusion is not necessarily a Threat to Oil
- Major US Senate Candidate has Cold Fusion Experience ties to Sidney Kimmel
- Successful Cold Fusion/LENR is an Engineering Problem
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Low Energy Nuclear Reaction could help Prevent Food and Water Shortages
Food has always been one of humanity’s biggest concerns and some very knowledgeable individuals including billionaire and investment icon Jim Rogers have predicted a global food shortage. Other experts have predicted a looming global water shortage that could make many cities uninhabitable. Well there are two ways that low energy nuclear reaction devices such as the ecat could help alleviate that food shortage and prevent water shortages.
The first which has already been mentioned by Robert Godes of Brillouin and Alexandros Xanthoulis of Defkalion is desalination. Desalination is the removal of salt from seawater and it is a process that could end the world’s water problems. Desalinated water could be used to greatly increase the amount of cropland in production, to alleviate water shortages and to end the need to divert supplies of irrigation water to big cities like Los Angeles.
Slideshow Reveals Defkalion’s LENR Testing and Construction
Defkalion's Facility in Xanthi Greece
Defkalion Green Technologies has released a slide show of pictures of laboratory and construction work at its facility in Xanthi in Northern Greece. The pictures released include several of its Hyperion Low Energy Nuclear Reaction device, shots of the screens of computers monitoring LENR tests and some images of new laboratories under construction.
There are also some shots of empty lots that the company claims it will as sites for its factories. There are also a few images of Defkalion’s offices and the entrance to its building. There’s even a shot of the company’s break room.
Defkalion Test Results
Some of the pictures show computers displaying data that Defkalion claims comes from third party testing of its LENR devices. It should be noted that there is no way to verify these claims. In the past Defkalion has said it will let third party organizations test Hyperion. Unfortunately none of the third party testers are identified and none of their data is posted at the Defkalion website. Nor has the company put up streaming video of the tests as it had promised in the past.
Cold Fusion is not necessarily a Threat to Oil
Even though it is highly probable that cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction will take over as our civilization’s primary power source at some point, it is doubtful that LENR will drive the oil industry out of business anytime soon. Oil is simply too useful a raw material and too potent a power source to go away in the foreseeable future.
Now oil would obviously lose the power source competition to cold fusion because as the US Defense Intelligence Agency has pointed out nuclear fusion releases 10 million times as much power as liquid fuels such as gasoline. Yet it would stay around for two reasons people forget.
First it is going to take several years at the earliest to develop a successful LENR device. It would probably take several more years of engineering and other work in order to adapt it for other uses. My guess is that it would take a minimum of ten years to develop an LENR powered-car and probably 15 to 20 years to develop an LENR airplane.
Major US Senate Candidate has Cold Fusion Experience ties to Sidney Kimmel
Bob Kerrey courtesy AP
An important US Senate Candidate in Nebraska has worked with a cold fusion research company in the past. The Washington Examiner website reported that Bob Kerrey the Democratic candidate for an open Senate Seat in Nebraska received $800,000 for consulting work he did on behalf of Energetics Technologies an Israeli-US company doing cold fusion research.
The money was paid by the Stanley Kimmel Revocable Trust set up by textile billionaire Stanley Kimmel who is also financing low energy nuclear reaction research at the University of Missouri. Kimmel financed Energetics work, LENR enthusiasts might remember Energetics as the company featured in a 2009 story on Cold Fusion on the CBS TV networks’ popular 60 Minutes newsmagazine. Kerrey also served on the board of Kimmel’s company the Jones Group.
Unlike Randy Hekman who is seeking a Republican US Senate nomination in Michigan Bob Kerrey is a major political player. He served as Governor of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987 and served as a US Senator from Nebraska before from 1989-2001. Kerrey also made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for President in 1992 in which he lost to Bill Clinton.
Successful Cold Fusion/LENR is an Engineering Problem
Achieving successful cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction is no longer a scientific challenge. Instead as Robert Godes of Brillouin has noted it is basically an engineering problem.
LENR is an engineering problem
Despite the denials from some in the scientific establishment successful cold fusion reactions have been achieved hundreds perhaps thousands of times by dozens of different people since Pons and Fleischman. Creating a low energy nuclear reaction in a laboratory environment is the easy part even high school students can do it.
The problem is turning this event into a sustained reaction that can be harnessed as a successful power source. That’s the hard part and it is going to take a lot of engineering and a lot of hard work. As I see it there are three basic challenges to transforming LENR from an interesting science experiment into a practical power source. They are:
Italian High School Students Build Cold Fusion Device
Cold fusion or LENR devices are apparently much easier to build than some people assume. An Italian high school science teacher and his students have reportedly built, tested and patented a device similar to that used by Pons and Fleischman to start the low energy nuclear reaction movement back in 1989.
Athanor workshop at Pirelli High School in Rome
The teacher an engineer named Ugo Abundo had students in a science class at Leopoldo Pirelli High School in Rome build what he calls an Athanor LENR reactor. The device is supposed to be an electrolytic cell that produces a coefficient of power or cop of 400%. That means it put out 4x times the energy that goes into it.
Pirelli High’s website gives a slightly different version of events. It states that a group of students took part in a sun lab overseen by four teachers. They apparently built and tested five LENR reactors one of which has been patented and will be tested by the scientific community.
Electricity Shortages could threaten Supplies of Natural Resources LENR could Solve Them
Chilean Copper Mine
The use of low energy nuclear reaction to generate electricity could help prevent shortages of natural resources in the future. Recent news reports indicate that electricity shortages in some parts of the world could threaten our supplies of natural resources. This could lead to higher prices for many items. It could also hobble industry and threaten economic development. Long term it could greatly increase poverty and human misery.
The nation of Chile which produces most of the world’s copper is now facing a serious shortage of electricity. Chile will need to increase its electric generation capacity by 47% or 8,000 megawatts in order to meet the needs of its people and all the new copper mines planned there.
Demonstrations against power plant development in Chile
Yet political opposition there could halt the construction of planned coal and hydroelectric power plants. Without those plants Chile would have to stop expanding its copper production which is vital to the nation’s future. Joaquin Villarino a lobbyist for the nation’s copper industry told the American magazine Bloomberg Business Week that most of the new investment in the nation’s copper mines could halt without electricity.
More Information about Brillouin LENR Technology Available
Brillouin Energy Corporation is making a lot more information about its low energy nuclear reaction technology available to the media. In a lengthy interview with Pure Energy Systems News’ Sterling D. Allen Robert Godez Brillouin’s chief technology officer and inventor of a process he calls Controlled Electron Capture Reactions or CECR made some very interesting revelations. Brillouin’s CEO Robert W. George II was also on hand for the interview.
The most important of these are:
- Brillouin’s process has been independently tested and confirmed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Dr. Michael McKubre SRI or the Stanford Research Institute. Note neither George, Godez or Allen has been able to provide confirmation of these claims which have been floating around for months.
Miley Trying to Commercialize his Cold Fusion Process
George H. Miley is planning to organize a company to commercialize his low energy nuclear reaction process. Miley a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and an expert in plasma physics is trying to developing an LENR device that would replace plutonium powered nuclear reactors in NASA’s space probes.
Miley told Ruby Carat of the Cold Fusion Now blog that he will organize a company to commercialize his process. The small company called LENUCO will be based at the University of Illinois’s research park. This would presumably be at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in Southern Illinois where Miley used to teach. It will try to develop commercial applications of Miley’s cold fusion process that will go far beyond powering spacecraft.
“There’s so many different applications,” Miley told Carat. “We can put them in homes, we can put them into space, you can do all sorts of things, it’s quite revolutionary.”
Record Temperatures Provide Evidence of Global Warming and Demonstrate Need for LENR Research
Home destroyed by wildfire in Manorville New York on Long Island this week courtesy AP.
Rising temperatures provide evidence that global warming is real and has begun. The increasing temperatures also provide a compelling reason to start major investments into Low Energy Nuclear Reaction or cold fusion research.
Last month was the warmest March on record in the mainland United States. The average temperature in the country was 51.1 degrees Fahrenheit which is 8.6 degrees warmer than the historic average. January to March 2012 was the warmest first quarter of the year on record. April 2011-March 2012 was the warmest 12 months on record according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. MSNBC reports that 15,292 high temperatures were broken in the US alone in March 2012 that figured included 7,775 daytime highs in cities across the country.