Benefits of Electric Power Generation by LENR

Published April 7, 2012 | By jennifer

Low energy nuclear reaction devices like the ecat and Brillouin’s boiler could revolutionize the electric power industry in a way some people are not seeing. They could bring sources of electricity right to the places where they are needed.

Coal fired power plant in Glen Lyn, Virginia, LENR plants wouldn't need the smokestacks.

Cold fusion devices produce no air pollution and present no radiation hazard so they can be located almost anywhere. This means that there would be no giant concrete containment vessels or massive smokestacks so the plants would not require that much space. That means an LENR power plant for Manhattan could be buried right underneath the city’s streets or placed in the basement of one of the skyscrapers.

Another savings is that no massive railroad or pipeline infrastructure would be needed to deliver coal, oil or natural gas to the plant. That means plants could be built in a lot places where it’s not economical to build them today. In many cities you might not have to build new structures for LENR steam plants they could be put into existing buildings such as old warehouses or empty factories.

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US Company could begin Licensing LENR Boiler Technology within a Year

Published March 31, 2012 | By jennifer

Brillouin Energy Corporation, a US company, could start licensing its low energy nuclear reaction boiler technology to manufacturers within one year. That was one of several revelations Brillouin’s “dynamic duo” of Robert Godes and Robert George made on James Martinez’s Cash Flow Radio show on March 27.

From what Godes and George told Martinez they have or almost have a marketable cold fusion boiler technology. Brillouin’s president and chief technology officer Robert Godes is an electrical engineer has been working on LENR for about twenty years.

Martinez said he has been aware of Brillouin’s work for some time but was asked to keep it under wraps by George and his partners. Godes and George are now ready to go public because the LENR technology is almost ready for commercialization. From what they said to Martinez they appear to be seeking investors. George said he didn’t want to make any revelations to the public until the company had a working boiler. He and Godes are apparently confident that they have a working boiler.

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Rossi threatens Puppeteers with Law Suit Celani’s CERN LENR Presentation Available

Published March 27, 2012 | By jennifer

 

Andrea Rossi and Steven Krivit of New Energy Times, Krivit is presumably one of the puppets

Andrea Rossi is now threatening to sue the puppeteers the shadowy group he blames for smearing his reputation and his ecat in the press and online. Rossi did not identify the “puppeteers” or their “puppets” although New Energy Times and the New Energy Institute would presumably be among them. Dick Smith could be another target.

Rossi made the threat in a post on his online forum on March 27, 2012. He did state that he would not file the suit until after ecat is in production. Rossi also didn’t say where he would file the suit. If he filed in the USA it would probably be thrown out of court because he is a public figure. American law generally allows the press and others to say almost whatever they want about public figures.

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Dick Smith and his Million Dollar LENR Challenge

Published March 24, 2012 | By jennifer

Australian millionaire Dick Smith is apparently still offering $1 million US (630,080 pound sterling in Britain or 753,920 Euros at current exchange rates) to anybody who can demonstrate cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction. The self proclaimed skeptic’s challenge is still up even though both Andrea Rossi and Defkalion rejected it.

Smith has posted this statement on his blog:

“I am offering US$1 Million to any person or organization that can come up with a practical device that has an output of at least one kilowatt of useful energy through LENRs (low energy nuclear reactions)”

Dick Smith

He states that he will accept a statement from a “world authority in science” verifying the claim (note he doesn’t state what a world authority in science is) as proof he would accept. So in other words there are no scientific parameters for the “scientific test.” The organization could accept the reward or Smith will donate it to the Salvation Army in Australia or a similar organization on their behalf. He also states that he will publish a list of organizations that will accept for testing but so far he hasn’t published the list. This offer will remain in effect until January 2013.

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More Statements from Rossi

Published March 21, 2012 | By jennifer

Rossi talking to the Press in October

Andrea Rossi has admitted that Siemens is a merely a supplier to him. This would seem to contradict stories that he and Siemens engineers were working on a turbine powered by his ecat low energy nuclear reaction technology. One strong possibility is that Rossi is buying a Siemens turbine to use in the 45 megawatt ecat unit he is developing.

In a post on his blog Rossi admitted that Siemens was only a supplier. Even though he had early stated he had met with Siemens engineers and involved them in a test of the ecat. Rossi also noted that he is working with Siemens in a number of areas including materials for the ecat. Siemens owns tens of thousands of patents so there is a strong possibility that it has a lot of technology that Rossi could utilize.

The relationship with Siemens would seem to indicate that Rossi has found another source of funding. This probably comes from the mysterious investors whom he has apparently transferred ownership in his Leonardo Corp too.

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Cold Fusion and Universities: the time has come !

Published March 15, 2012 | By jennifer

Despite a number of exciting developments in the field, including Italian inventor Andrea Rossi’s announcement of his E-cat LENR device last year, most universities have totally ignored cold fusion.

Professor Brian Josephson, Nobel Prize winning and professors of physics at Cambridge University,  is one of the few people in Universities who had the courage to speak loudly about cold fusion and LENR.

In this video published in July 2011, Brian Josephson, interviewed by Judith Driscoll (professor of materials science at Trinity College), tried to capture the world scientists and media’s attention by analyzing the E-cat device and all the details of this invention.

But “Scientists and the media are looking away,” Josephson said of E-Cat. When asked about this, he blamed the history of cold fusion. He noted that when Pons and Fleischmann announced their device in 1989 their reactions could not be duplicated by some scientists and this empowered the skeptics , allowing them to dominate the discussion. “The skeptics got in first,” Josephson said. “The skepticism bandwagon rolled. It became a well established fact that cold fusion was a delusion.”

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Rossi Investigated over Radiation Concerns Rossi’s US Office Location Revealed

Published March 10, 2012 | By jennifer

Officials from the state of Florida  investigated Andrea Rossi’s facility in Miami after receiving a complaint that he was manufacturing nuclear reactors there. Documents related to this incident also revealed the possible location of Rossi’s Miami facility. The complaints and emails related to it have been posted online at the Eacateu website. Under Florida’s Sunshine law these reports have to be made public.

Andrea Rossi and the 1 MW e-cat unit in Bologna in October courtesy EV World

According to the documents somebody named Gary Wright sent a concerned citizen report to the Bureau of Radiation Control at Florida’s State Health Department. Wright had first contacted a federal agency called the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which referred him to the State Health Department.  Wright alleged that the ecat low energy nuclear reactor generated 511 keV of gamma radiation (he didn’t say where got this information). Wright asked the bureau if there were any laws that governed the activities of the Leonardo Corporation and if Rossi’s activities are safe and legal.

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Rossi Working with Largest Electronics Company in Europe on Steam Technology

Published February 29, 2012 | By jennifer

Engineers from Europe’s largest electronics and electronic company Siemens AG are helping Andrea Rossi in his efforts to develop a steam engine powered by his ecat cold fusion device.

Siemens engineers reportedly visited Rossi’s facility in Bologna and demonstrated a  turbine that can generate power from steam at temperatures as low as 231 Celsius (484 Fahrenheit). That could make it possible to generate steam with the ecat and use it to produce electricity or to power ships, trains or industrial equipment. Rossi made this revelation to American blogger and writer Frank Acland of ecat world.com.

Rossi did not whether he has any sort of deal with Siemens or if he had any plans to buy the steam turbine technology. Nor did he say if Siemens has purchased an ecat or if the giant German company is an investor in his Leonardo Corp.

Siemens-Steam-Turbine-SST-4

Rossi did tell Acland that he thinks this is a significant development in attempts to employ LENR devices to generate electricity. Presently all Rossi’s ecat unit can do is heat water and generate small amounts of steam.

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LENR Poses a Challenge and a Problem for Big Science

Published February 26, 2012 | By jennifer

Low Energy Nuclear Reaction or cold fusion poses a huge problem for what we might call Big Science. Big Science is large-scale institutionalized research funded by governments and carried out through large institutions such as universities. Big Science consumes vast amounts of money yet in recent decades it seems to have produced nothing but  rationale for more taxpayer funding.

The problem with Big Science is that it is controlled by a small cadre of researchers and academics. These people are not the most brilliant or capable individuals instead they are usually the best at academic and institutional politics. They are those who know how to work the system to get what they want rather than researchers or thinkers. Their skills include knowing how to lose at golf to the university president and how to kiss up to whatever politician is in office this week.

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What LENR Heat Could Mean to the Average Family

Published February 23, 2012 | By jennifer

Too often promoters of new technologies like low energy nuclear reaction fail to consider what these might mean for the average family. The potential benefits of this technology to average families that have to worry about things like heating bills are lost in all the arrogant talk of transforming civilization or flying to the stars.

 

Andrea Rossi with prototype ecat heater

Yet LENR could have a huge impact on the lives of average American, Canadian, European or Russian families. The average American family that has to heat the average home for several months of the year will spend around $1,842 if they use the most common heating fuel: natural gas. A family that uses the next most common fuel propane would spend around $3,409 a year to heat their home.

Comparison of cost of heating methods in New England

 

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