Mar

22

A New Route to IEC Fusion Proposed

March 22, 2012 | 2 Comments

Nuclear fusion might be achieved in a preheated cylindrical container immersed in strong magnetic fields.  A series of computer simulations performed at Sandia National Laboratories show the release of output energy that was, remarkably, many times greater than the energy fed into the simulation. Sandia researcher Steve Slutz, lead author of the paper published at [...]

Mar

12

Trouble for Andrea Rossi and His E-Cat

March 12, 2012 | 13 Comments

Andrea Rossi, the inventor and organizer of the E-Cat LENR or cold Fusion thermal energy production device has a new problem.  It looks like another tempest of vague grounds. Steven Krivit, the sometimes to some folks notorious writer of heavily biased opinion on cold fusion and once in a while other energy fields broke out [...]

Mar

7

Bussard’s EMC2 Fusion Contracts Extended

March 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment

News is out there is a contract extensions and modification for EMC2 Fusion, the theory and work of Robert Bussard, that is working to develop Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion.  The news was first seen at Talk Polywell and quickly picked up by Brian Wang at NextBigFuture. The latest news is an ongoing research project [...]

Mar

1

Defkalion’s Independent Testing Underway

March 1, 2012 | 9 Comments

Ny Teknik’s Mats Lewan has interviewed Alexandros Xanthoulis a representative of the investors supporting Defkalion about the firm’s shall we say, Ni+H=E, LENR or Cold Fusion technology independent testing protocol. On the Defkalion website the report has it said, “Tests with the presence of high level (Greek) government officials have been concluded. Opinions and results [...]

Feb

16

Exotic Plasma Physics Discovery That May Apply to Fusion

February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

Paul Bellan, professor of applied physics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and graduate student Auna Moser have discovered a surprising phenomenon about basic plasma behavior. Plasma is a gas so hot that atoms are stripped of their electrons.  The plasma jets act like electrical wires [...]

Feb

10

Cold Fusion aka LENR to be Reviewed at CERN

February 10, 2012 | 8 Comments

Francesco Celani and Yogendra Srivastava will be leading a kind of informal meeting called a colloquium at Europe’s fundamental physics facility, CERN.  The topic, “Overview of Theoretical and Experimental Progress in Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)” will be discussed March 22, 2012 in the CERN Council Chamber.  Of note is the event will be viewable [...]

Feb

9

Now a Little Controversy Involving Cold Fusion

February 9, 2012 | 8 Comments

It’s enough to make one smile with the silliness of the thing.  As noted here last week Electrical Engineering Prof. Peter Hagelstein at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) taught an Independent Activities Period course titled “Cold Fusion 101: Introduction to Excess Power in Fleischmann-Pons Experiments”. Dr. Mitchell Swartz, of JET Energy and Prof. Hagelstein [...]

Jan

25

Better LENR News From Greece

January 25, 2012 | 10 Comments

The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the permitting of third party evaluations of their product named “Hyperion”.  PDGT had for a time an opportunity to learn what Rossi has accomplished and since is proposing [...]

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