“Even by the most conservative assumptions …, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources.”

http://ecat.com/files/Indication-of-anomalous-heat-energy-production-in-a-reactor-device.pdf

or

Cornell University Library

The reporters include names familiar to us: Guiseppe Levi of Bologna University, and Hanno Essén of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden.  Some might see these names as a negative.  I believe, however, that it shows that these reputable scientists have chosen to be engaged in this process for a long time.  They have already had feedback from critics eighteen different ways.  As such, they were in a very good place to cover all reasonable critique.

The biggest question remains, how much difference will this report really make?  The true difference would be:  LENR is no longer “pathological science”, research funding pours into LENR research and development and long-term energy planning factors in the pending LENR phenomenon.

The natural corollary: can we, by putting this information in the right hands, help make the difference?

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The date/time is scheduled to be May 7, 4:30 pm Eastern time.   For details check out: http://pesn.com/2013/05/03/9602306_Live_Andrea-Rossi_Interview_May7/

An interview can obviously only do so much.  A release of third party tests would be much more exciting.  However, you take what you can get.

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Jim Polsner wrote:

http://www.quantumheat.org/index.php/en/
open testing showing excess heat using Celeni’s process. Follow the history of the protocol and I think you’ll find a rigorous testing followed by positive results that will become the basis for unequivical and reproducible results.

Will this be the fissure that breaks open Pandora’s box of LENR, or will it just be one of the faults along the way?

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My hope is that ‘believers’ following cold fusion LENR science prepare for the role that promoting this clean cheap energy will play; in order to accelerate the end of carbon and uranium energy use.

The recent anti-fracking rally, last summer, in Washington was the largest crowd gathered there in the history of U.S. political demonstrations. People from all walks… creeds… States… ages… and backgrounds. Dozens of organizations joined together forming a coalition of earth loving activists opposing tar sands, fracking, pipelines, peak oil tactics, offshore wells, Alaskan extraction, uranium energy, dirty coal, mountaintop removal, strip mining, etc…. The largest political meeting in the history of our democratic nation, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people.

Each missing a powerful key to the success they all seek… an energy replacement that will put an end to the destruction… the disease… both the death… and the dead zones created by the fossil fuel and uranium energy industries. The powerful key is a really cheap, clean, abundant, and easy to use energy source. An energy source that has a clear economic imperative (cheap cheap cheap)… with environmental side benefits. Finally an alternative energy source that is easy to sell, both ‘scalable’ and one that delivers ‘on demand energy’, and an energy source that requires no energy storage or transmission systems. Another side benefit (which is not to be underestimated) is that it is a nuclear dense energy (lightweight)… A totally clean atomic energy… Cold Fusion – LENR Energy engineering

What should every ‘BELIEVER’ do the moment applied LENR engineering hits the market? This will be the E-Cat with its’ published third-party engineering report (in the next month). Followed by happy customers ordering more. (The first customers most likely have orders in for more units.)

What are each of us prepared to do when validation happens?

Say “I told you so” to ‘disbelievers’ at MIT, or at the DoE, etc?

Heck No!

What we are prepared to do is to present this key to every group and to every individual who went to Washington to end carbon and uranium energy use, and to every person who wished to, yet could not attend. Believers are prepared to teach each of these folks the wonders of applied cold fusion LENR energy.

The next time…In six months or so… When these anti-carbon and uranium energy folks return to Washington. Their numbers will swell exponentially, and each of them will have this key, which we, the believers, will give them… Cold Fusion Now! LENR Applied Engineering!

Soon we will become an ocean of cold fusion activists.
Informed by cold fusion advocates.

Demanding a turning of the key, LENR energy!

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1140 Homer St. in Vancouver is an older building in a well established area of the city. Defkalion is on the second floor. The hallway is dark, but when you enter the Defkalion suite it is bright and pleasant. I was greeted by the receptionist with the classic “you need an appointment” type greeting. I introduced myself as an out of town author of Nickelpower, and as a software engineer with resume in hand. At that point Mr. Symeon Tsalikoglou greeted me, overriding the protectiveness of the receptionist.

Symeon (I’d call him Mr. Tsalikoglou except my English-bound language skills finds it difficult to deal with.) sat with me, wanted to learn where I was coming from, and only then got serious about sharing Defkalion as he knows it.

Symeon is the head of business development for the company. He has been with Defkalion since its very early days. That said, I asked him for a brief history of Defkalion’s early days. He said:

Mr. Andrea Rossi was seeking financing and a marketing channel for his technology. With a Greek friend of his, Professor Stremmenos, they travelled to Greece and met with the Greek Prime Minister for official support. The result of that meeting was an unofficial introduction to Mr. Alexandros Xanthoulis who decided to look more closely into what Mr. Rossi had to offer. Following a number of meetings in Bologna, Mr. Xanthoulis decided to sign a contract with Mr. Rossi. Defkalion was created to commercialize the black box technology Rossi claimed he had on a global scale, excluding the United States of America and all military applications. Defkalion worked on engineering designs and business development as early as 2010. The relationship between the two sides broke down in August 2011 because of a lack of common understanding on contractual obligations. CEO, Alexandros Xanthoulis, gathered his team at that point and asked for a show of hands on what should happen to the company now that there was no more Rossi, hence no more technology, hence nothing to move forward with. Symeon, who was present during that meeting, told me that everyone cast their vote on imminent closure since we had nothing except John Hadjichristos, the CTO of Defkalion and chief scientist behind today’s accomplishments. Hadjichristos asked for six months support and claimed confidence above 90%. By November of 2011, well before the six months were over, Hadjichristos had visible signs of an LENR reaction.

At that point Defkalion assembled a team of scientists and asked them to figure out LENR. They responded by studying everything that had been published on the topic, which actually is quite a lot as anyone who has looked into lenr-canr.org will attest to. This study allowed Defkalion to understand what not to do since everything to date has failed. over time, Defkalion has come to announce and show that they are actually able to tame the LENR beast for themselves. The growth and development of Defkalion was thus able to take off and leave Mr. Rossi to do follow his own work. At this point, Symeon would say that Mr. Rossi is respected but has nothing to do with Defkalion. He informs me that the company’s position is that they wish Mr. Rossi, and all other scientists in the field, success.

The next thing that I learned (I don’t know how this slipped past me and it won’t surprise me if posters point out that I wrote about it) was that Forbes magazine published an excellent article on Defkalion. The Forbes Document primarily reports on the findings of Dr. Nelson. As Mark Gibbs published in Forbes: “Michael A. Nelson, [is] a NASA employee of some thirty years standing. I contacted Mr. Nelson and found out that he was not attending the test as a representative of NASA but rather on behalf of the New Energy Foundation.”

Mr. Gibbs’ bottom line is that a real scientist has had excellent and extensive access to Defkalion’s technology, and he finds it compelling! (Note that Eng. Rossi has allowed real scientists to look at his technology, but their level of access has been far too limited and controlled to become compelling.)

Now, there also was discussion about a certain report in a Greek newspaper. This report has caused Defkalion some amount of grief, especially the statement, “For every dollar you spend as a company in Canada, the provincial government of British Columbia will put other three.” (Google translation). To help people understand what has been said here, British Columbia (BC) is a province within Canada. The best analogy is that it is like a state with the United States. It has its own budget, and its own taxation. The BC government doesn’t seem to be pleased that they are reported as spending R&D money that they did not spend. (Especially, of course, when mainstream scientists are pronouncing without examination that LENR is hooey.)

I was not able to confirm any source of government support. However, the Canadian government has a very impressive program called the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program (SR&ED, referred to as “shred”). This program is impressive, I have used it myself. Its focus is very narrow to research and experimental development. (By experimental, the government means that it is something that has not been done before, and that might end up not working.) This program is great in that it is not micromanaged by the government. Their view is that if risk is being taken, and if the people doing the work are qualified, then they are prepared to participate in the risk. IE, it’s a great match for Defkalion.

A few notes:

• · Only the R&D portion of expenditures can be applied to the SR&ED program. It doesn’t cover the light bill, the secretaries, the business department etc.
• · The funding formula is complex, the 3 to 1 is the maximum theoretical amount. However the return is not nearly as lucrative in most R&D situations.
• · It is a tax credit, not a grant.

I learned that there is another R&D pursuit that Defkalion is taking on. They are building a real-time mass spectrometer. It is their expectation that this device will be able to analyze the isotope mix within the reactor core in real time. This should provide incite into exactly what is going on in the LENR reaction.

Vancouver does offer Defkalion a lot of advantages, one of which is the SR&ED program. Further, the Canadian government has recognized that the LENR reaction is not a classic nuclear reaction, so it does not need to comply with the safety regulations developed for classic nuclear reactions. CSA (The Canadian Standards Association) is just down the street, and has rights to certify safety even for the US market. And, of course, Canada’s economy is not at the epicenter of all of the trouble.

Speaking to the head of business development, I surely learned about Defkalion’s business strategy. We all seem to know that Defkalion is selling the exclusive right to manufacture and market the Hyperion reactor (their intended 5 – 45kW reactor) to a region (country or group of countries.)

However, they are placing emphasis on a second marketing strategy, a strategy that I find more interesting. They are developing technical/business relationships with existing companies to develop custom LENR devices for the company’s needs. These relationships involve a relationship between the company’s technologists and Defkalion’s technologists. Symeon refers to this as a “common R&D project”.

Consider a company wants to produce an LENR car, for instance (just hopin’), their engineers would work with Defkalion’s engineers to create the ideal LENR device for that application. The company that is making the car would then set up manufacture of the LENR device. Other technologies that Symeon mentioned include ship propulsion and agriculture.

The other corporate relationship would be one who needs a custom LENR solution for an in-house problem. If a company, for instance, has many buildings which all need heat, they may work with Defkalion to engineer the ideal LENR engine. The company needing the LENR device would then arrange for its manufacture.

In closing, there clearly is an actively staffed Defkalion office at 1140 Homer St. (I was able to confirm at least 4 employees at that location.) Symeon is willing to sit down with the likes of me, and share about the company. I saw no evidence that R&D is happening at that location. My time with Defkalion was educational.

Symeon told me that some time in the near future they will be putting on demonstrations and testing opportunities for select corporations, governments, etc. At some point they will be inviting the press. He has promised me that when they begin to invite the general press, I will be invited to attend as well. I do want to be the first on my block to lay eyes on a working LENR device.

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THE TESTS OF THE THIRD INDIPENDENT PARTY HAVE BEEN COMPLETED YESTERDAY.

Read it for yoursef: http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=791&cpage=3#comment-663403

A few snippets:

I DID NOT ATTEND, THEREFORE I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY THE RESULTS, THAT WILL SURELY BE PUBLISHED BY THE EXAMINATORS, PROBABLY AROUND THE HALF OF APRIL.

ONE OF THEM TOLD ME ” WE GOT EVIDENCE THAT THE ‘ EFFECT’ IS REAL BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT”.

NOW WE PASS TO THE INDUSTRIAL ENGAGEMENTS: WE HAVE TO DELIVER OUR PLANTS BY THE END OF APRIL.

Alas the critics are still safe, its just Rossi’s word.

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(photo credit wikipedia)

Forbes magazine has published an article saying that Lewis Larsen of Widom-Larsen Theory fame believes that CFLs produce LENR reactions.  His claim is based upon an unexpected mix of mercury isotopes in the spent bulbs.   (As is so often the case, thanks to e-catworld.com for the heads up.)

This is interesting!  The last time a common device was accused of LENR reactions it was lithium-ion batteries.  There has also been evidence that chickens produce needed calcium for their eggs via a cold-fusion type reaction.

My bet is that we’ll find that LENR is all around us.  However, we can’t see it if we don’t know to look.

(Don’t believe everything you think.)

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I am on vacation, so can’t write a more elegant post about it.  Needless to say, this may bring a commercial grade LENR device into the public eye.

If he gets the most votes, he’ll be displaying his reactor at this year’s ARPA-E Summit in Washington, D.C. on February 25.

Currently his reactor is registering 117 votes, and the front-runner has 140 votes.

Thanks to e-catworld.com for the info.

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Or not.

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