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First the disclaimers: While I do work for NASA, I do not speak for them. They employ me for my professional capabilities and on occasion my professional opinion. Nothing I say should ever be construed as anything other than my personal opinion. As a NASA employee I am allowed and often times encouraged to say what I think. This and the exceptional people I get to work with every day are what make NASA great and a great place to work.
There have been many attempts to twist the release of this video into NASA’s support for LENR or as proof that Rossi’s e-cat really works. Many extraordinary claims have been made in 2010. In my scientific opinion, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I find a distinct absence of the latter. So let me be very clear here. While I personally find sufficient demonstration that LENR effects warrant further investigation, I remain skeptical. Furthermore, I am unaware of any clear and convincing demonstrations of any viable commercial device producing useful amounts of net energy.
There has been a lot of work done in the past 20+ years. When considered in aggregate I believe excess power has been demonstrated. I did not say, reliable, useful, commercially viable, or controllable. If any of those other terms were applicable I would have used them instead. If anything, it is the lack of a single clear demonstration of reliable, useful, and controllable production of excess power that has held LENR research back
By 2009 BLP had raised about $60 million in venture capital,[7][8] and claims to have seven commercial agreements to license BLP energy technology for the production of thermal or electric power to utilities and private corporations.[11] By 2011 no known power generation has occurred. Mills envisions that CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) cell stacks can provide power for long-range electric vehicles, a claim described as "scientific nonsense—there is no state of hydrogen lower than the ground state" by Wolfgang Ketterle.[7][8]
Originally posted by boncho
If anyone does do it, they can collect a million bucks.
Of course they have to prove it first.
On July 14, 2011, Rossi asked staff members at NASA Marshall to test and evaluate his device. Marshall staff accepted Rossi's offer. The two parties began negotiating details of the test protocol. NASA asked for a test that avoided phase change of water into steam because steam would introduce unnecessary confusion to the test. A few days later, Rossi withdrew his offer.
There has been a lot of work done in the past 20+ years. When considered in aggregate I believe excess power has been demonstrated. I did not say, reliable, useful, commercially viable, or controllable.
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
reply to post by boncho
Why do I always find you posting on these threads and trying to dismiss this technology as a bogus scam when all the evidence is clearly adding up to suggest the exact opposite. From the blog you quoted:
There has been a lot of work done in the past 20+ years. When considered in aggregate I believe excess power has been demonstrated. I did not say, reliable, useful, commercially viable, or controllable.
Oh, so this technology is "out of control", therefore it is not "useful" and should be ignored?
edit: NASA has applied for a patent on the triggering mechanism for the Rossi and Defkalion LENR nickel and hydrogen reactors.
Seems like NASA is taking this much more seriously than you are.edit on 6-3-2012 by ChaoticOrder because: (no reason given)
I did not say, reliable, useful, commercially viable, or controllable
Originally posted by Fromabove
There is no such thing as "free energy" or getting something more for less. Does anyone understand the laws of thermodynamics these days ? It takes work to produce energy and energy is lost from the work so that you always have to do more work to increase the energy output.
Originally posted by boncho
Originally posted by Fromabove
There is no such thing as "free energy" or getting something more for less. Does anyone understand the laws of thermodynamics these days ? It takes work to produce energy and energy is lost from the work so that you always have to do more work to increase the energy output.
Because LENR is a nuclear reaction, theoretically you are not getting something for free. Just as a nuclear power plant doesn't get anything for free.
I hardly know anything about the origins of this technology, but I do know you are very quick to dismiss it based on half-assed claims that it's a scam.
The kind of nuclear reaction where you put in less energy than you need to overcome the potential barrier in the nucleus. In other words the kind where you get something for free.
Originally posted by Moduli
Originally posted by boncho
Originally posted by Fromabove
There is no such thing as "free energy" or getting something more for less. Does anyone understand the laws of thermodynamics these days ? It takes work to produce energy and energy is lost from the work so that you always have to do more work to increase the energy output.
Because LENR is a nuclear reaction, theoretically you are not getting something for free. Just as a nuclear power plant doesn't get anything for free.
The kind of nuclear reaction where you put in less energy than you need to overcome the potential barrier in the nucleus. In other words the kind where you get something for free.
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
Your logic is flawed. I can use a tiny flame to light a fire which outputs an enormous amount of power. They seem to be using a small amount of energy to trigger nuclear reactions which output a large amount of energy compared to what they put in. Normal nuclear reactions do the same thing, but they are much more dangerous. Clump enough uranium 235 together until you reach a critical mass and you'll get a nuclear explosion.edit on 6-3-2012 by ChaoticOrder because: (no reason given)
It doesn't matter who originally started making those claims, most of them are still half-assed attempts to discredit this technology by attacking the credibility of people developing it. I don't like Rossi because obviously he cares more about money than creating a better and cleaner world, but that doesn't mean the technology is not real.
Originally posted by boncho
Which half assed claims exactly? I was one of the first ones to make them.
The "LE" means "low energy", it is describing a low energy nuclear reaction rather than the typical high energy nuclear reactions that need to be carefully sustained via the use of control rods and the such. I think you are misinterpreting the meaning of "cold" in cold fusion to meet your own idea of what it is. They do indeed supply an initial input of energy to induce the reaction, did you even watch the NASA video?
The "LE" in "LENR" / the "cold" in "cold fusion" is the claim that a self-sustaining reaction is obtained without ever supplying this initial energy.
This other form of nuclear power releases energy by adding neutrons. Eventually they gain a sufficient number of neutrons that they spontaneously decay into something of the same mass but a different element.