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| Feb, 2012 Update 02.09 |
Don't forget about H2: Hydrogen from H2O at high flow rates using Catalytic Carbon. Also check the date on this Popular Science story Fascinating idea: Interstellar Superhighway Boosts Light Speed Limit 'Green' solar cell is made from plants. Save your grass clippings! NASA Seeks Proposals for Green Propellant Technology Demonstrations |
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| Jan, 2012 |
Bill says, "HERE IS AN INTERESTING BLOG" Unlike many other locations, the blogger seems to be taking a very pragmatic approach. Worth reading... PlasmERG's Revolutionary Engine Getting Ready to Rumble from Pure Energy Systems Jan 29, 2012 A Reduced Energy Way To Distill Alcohol from New Energy and Fuel Aquatic power generator takes to the sea from Energy Daily ECAT NEWS Newsletter Issue 3 Received 01.27.2012 via email Better LENR News From Greece New Energy and Fuel-January 25, 2012 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”. Solar storm's effects to lash Earth through Wednesday (01.25.2012) Anyone notice a difference in the HF Radio Bands? Water as Fuel -- Stanley Meyer Recollections Andrew Michrowski pulls from his archives to retell his experience of working with the late Stanley Meyer, who allegedly ran a dune buggy on nothing but water, using an electrolysis process that somehow extracted energy from the environment. (for Pure Energy Systems News) New Energy and Fuel Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil Scalar Wave by Konstantin Meyl. Documentation for an Experimental-Kit to the transmission of electrical scalar waves. (fyi, not a sales pitch) A thread of info around Tesla's Radiant Energy concept has been getting some notice by some of our members. Some links contain experiments, some videos, and the last has some math to try:
Interview 01.14.2012 Andrea Rossi, the inventor of the E-Cat (cold fusion energy catalyzer), announced many breakthroughs in the development of his technology, answered a wide range of questions, and shared many details regarding the upcoming ten kilowatt heat unit for home use. This comment from pesn.com NASA's Method for a Clean Nuclear Energy For Your Power Operated Technology. From the Technology Gateway ( http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/) The Battery500 Project IBM researchers have successfully demonstrated the fundamental chemistry of the charge-and-recharge process for lithium-air batteries A novel way to concentrate sun’s heat at large scale, is efficient enough to compete with more conventional forms of power. This is an alternative to concentrators. (MITnews 12.2.2011) Graphene shows unusual thermoelectric response to light Finding could lead to new photodetectors or energy-harvesting devices. (MITnews 10.7.2011) Carbon emissions 'will defer Ice Age' By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, (BBC News 01.09.2012) Who Killed The Electric Car? So Far, It Looks Like The Consumer (Gas2.0rg 01.08.2012) Power from CO2 and Fly AshBy eliminating CO2 emissions, producing fuel, and reclaiming valuable metals from fly ash and flue emissions, MP BioMass offers technological solutions for coal power plants and other CO2 emitters to not only keep them from being shut down but increasing their profit margin. (PureEnergySystems 01.11.2012) Etalim Inc. is a Canadian high technology company dedicated to developing clean and efficient approaches to global electricity generation. Some have said, "Etalim’s Novel Engine Could Bust Open MicroCHP, Small Biogas and Solar Thermal Power Markets". Here are four links to their yet to be released heat to electricity generator: www.etalim.com theenergycollective.com www.ecofriend.com www.youtube.com A "different" Stirling engine? Shake, rattle and … power up? A new energy harvesting device converts low-frequency vibrations into electricity. The device, the size of a U.S. quarter. (From MITnews) Trying to catch up on some of the LENR type info which has been sent in. Read at your own risk. earthbagbuilding.wordpress.com This is from a "green" site www.sumobrain.com Here's Dr. Brian Ahern (MIT graduate) nano-particle LENR patent application. Ahern claims to understand the underlying LENR phenomena and has filed a patent titled Amplification of Energetic Reactions. api.viglink.com Dr. George Miley's Powerpoint presentation reviewing ezxperimental proof of transmutation and sugggesting ways to make a LENR Battery (based on the Patterson Cell concepts) www.apteryxoz.com An experimenter that is actually trying to build an ecat newenergytimes.com Here's a link to explanations for Widom- Larsen www.ias.ac.in This appears to be a clarification of the previously mentioned Widom- Larsen theory | ||
| Dec, 2011 |
European Patent Office Rejects Rossi Patent. Here is the response from the EPO: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/docs/20110429PiantelliChallengesToRossiPatent.pdf It appears that, in order to preserve his trade secrets, Rossi elected to omit details that would allow someone trained in the art to replicate his design. Without these specific details, such as the specifics of the catalyst(s), exact temperatures(s) and Pressure(s) as well as the details associated with pulsation, the EPO considers the patent to be either to vague, or anticipated by earlier patents by Piantelli, Focardi et al. Energy Resources Westinghouse nuclear reactor gets go-ahead The Year in Energy ©2011 "Technology Review" Published by MIT Sony's bio battery turns waste paper into electricity from: BBC Mobile "NEWS Technology" Steam Turbines.pdf from Scientific Americal April 1969 From Papp to PlasmERG - The Convoluted History of the Noble Gas Engine PlasmERG Progressing Towards Noble Gas Engine Production PlasmERG is a company whose mission is to make OUR "PLANET SAVING" NEW Plasmic Transition Process(tm) technology available to manufacturers, in Production, out into the world and in use, as quickly as possible. Slides From Sept. 22 NASA LENR Innovation Forum Workshop Zawodny Slides Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Reactions Is there better way to do nuclear power? Nelson Slides Overview of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) as Implemented by Andrea Rossi and Francesca Piantelli Bushnell Slides NASA and LENR Dennis M. Bushnell Chief Scientist NASA Langley Research Center A Week of E-Cat News Flurry (11/28/2011) It's amazing how much E-Cat cold fusion news is accumulated in just one week, with no less than twelve news sites dedicated to covering it, thus creating these 31+ stories, including news on customers, products, competitor progress, pending scientific validations, and history. Full Disclosure: PES Network has a business relationship with Andrea Rossi. By Sterling D. Allan with Hank Mills of Pure Energy Systems News |
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| Nov, 2011 |
Defkalion's Press Release of 11/30/2011 And the 21 page Tech Spec for the Hyperion Cold Fusion Thermal Unit. I found page 21 of interest as it states Defkalion's intent to further investigate the physics behind their "product". Test of the One Megawatt E-Cat
Alternative LED Lighting Combats Energy Crisis Defkalion Green Technologies posted a PRESS RELEASE about their HYPERION Cold Fusion (Ni - H) unit on Nov. 14th. They then further clarified what the pictures show in their press release on their forum discussion page. Here are some more info on the ECat:
World of low level nuclear chemistry. As always, Tech Talk does NOT endorse any book or product. This link is presented as reading material for those interested in technical topics. RepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects NIST Physicists Chip Away at Mystery of Antimatter Imbalance [A] website [which] has been designed to provide an overview of these area broken down into four basic parts. You may want to click on the page title sometime.
http://www.buildecat.com/ "This website has a very simple goal. To help people create a working LENR device." quote from the site. Here's anaother way to turn heat into Electricity http://machinedesign.com/article/a-sound-way-to-turn-heat-into-electricity-0712 After November's Tech Talk discussion, the following links to the Patterson Power Cell have been added as they may be similar to the E-Cat technology. CETI (Clean Energy Technologies, Inc.) Plus a Report on Testing the Patterson Cell technology by Dr. Dennis Cravens 3/27/1995 The e-Cat and the Patterson Power Cell, CETI was never able to mass-produce Mr. Patterson’s beads. Three November Links link the technology (Stremmenos), experiment (Mills) and economic (Considine) elements of the E-Cat Rossi's E-Cat Victory on Cold Fusion's Emergence Day -- E-Day By Hank Mills of Pure Energy Systems News. A detailed Qualitative Approach to the Cold Fusion Nuclear Reactions of H/Ni By prof. Christos Stremmenos. Planning for Abundance by Toby Considine. So what if things did change? What if distribution and electricity were not the be-all of commercial and domestic energy? |
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| Oct, 2011 |
Journal of Nuclear Physics Nuclear experiments blog with Archives back to Feb 2010. Could be some fun reading if you find your favorite topic Test of the One Megawatt E-Cat Link is to the Pure Energy Systems News update page which promises hourly updates Thanks Bill for the note on the Raspberry Pi - An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte! A couple of Magnetic Motors from the Zero Fossil Fuel web site. The Muller Motor project, and the Vortex Field Permanent Magnet Motor concept. AmericanAntigravity.com A site which seems to have links to several different topics you may find interesting. News: Real-Time Updates on the October 6, 2011 E-Cat Test This in from member Voo "Anyhow... Have you guys discussed how the solar system has entered an "energy field" that supposedly will cause earthquakes? Ref: "A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the Solar System" NATURE | Vol 462 | 24/31 December 2009 Arctic Sea Ice Continues Decline, Hits Second-Lowest Level The 2011 Cold Fusion/Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Part 1 and — Part 2 |
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| Sept, 2011 |
Apparently, researchers have measured Neutrinos traveling at faster than light speed Can the warp drive be far behind? The Post-Quantum Activist A blog that discusses Randell Mills' unified theory in the context of physics current events. Here's a link to the latest (?) Rossi device that is (sort of) self-sustaining. AND some info on the 1 MW plant. The Challenge Is On: Robot Prize Competition Registration Opens potential $1.5 million prize NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) NASA's Wise Raises Doubt About Asteroid Family Believed Responsible for Dinosaur Extinction NASA Lightning Chat: And You Thought NASCAR Was Fast... More About Lightning NASA Space Laser to Make Radio Obsolete Rockets 2 Racecars NASA info NASA Spacecraft Observes New Characteristics Of Solar Flares Observes New Characteristics Of Solar Flares |
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| Aug, 2011 |
Green gasoline: Researchers have discovered how to make gasoline from sawdust and other plant materials An interesting web site with some How I did it links to some tech topics including: Single and Polyphase Motor Generator, Boundary Layer Turbine (Tesla Turbine), and lots of pictures of a Solar Powered Fluid Mechanics Lab, and CNC Machine project An old favorite, Tesla Turbines. Check the link to The Phoenix Turbine Builders Club whose purpose is to be "a FREE resource, open to anyone who wants to build & experiment with the online Tesla turbine projects." This You Tube video is in Spanish, but you don't need to speak a word in order to be flabbergasted. Things just "ain't" supposed to work this way! Here's what appears to be the first copycat to Rossi's E-Cat. The company is "Nichenergy" No website yet but here's a This You Tube video translation of a report about them This one is fascinating. It is a low power device that -- supposedly -- pulls energy from the environment. Here is a link to an interview from this weekend. One thing caught my eye. Supposedly a device was shorted out for quite a while. Then it was connected to a low power device and it powered up. Sounds like the mysterious ELECTRET to me. Does anyone have any first hand experience with electrets? Response-01 , Response-02 , Response-03 Research update: New way to store sun’s heat Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun. How constant are "constants"? Variations of radioactive decay related to solar influence was a topic included in one of the Science Channel's Through-the-Wormhole episodes this month. For the original paper by Jenkins and Fischbach CLICK here. A news article from the Discovery.com also discusses this subject: IS THE SUN EMITTING A MYSTERY PARTICLE? |
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| July, 2011 |
Some interesting pieces of the puzzle include a report that the highest *safe* temperature obtained in a reactor is 414 degrees C. THAT is obviously well above the point where both ORC (Organic Rankin Cycle) as well as "regular" steam engines/turbines etc. could work. Another "snippet" is that the Nickel particles are not nano-sized, but something larger. Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) Not sure if this qualifies as a LOW ENERGY Nuclear Reaction, but an interesting alternative to multi-billion dollar fusion research that just barely seems to do anything. A CBS 60 Minutes report on "More than Junk Science" which is on LENR (cold Fusion) Apparently, cavitations in high speed propellers can cause chemical and possibly LENR Low Energy Nuclear Reactions leading to emission of light! They seem to be using a similar process as that of Rossi, but with a different means for stimulating the reaction. NASA'S Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed On Gas NASA Plans Air Pollution Flights Over Maryland On July 1 Key Ingredient: Change in Material Boosts Prospects of Ultrafast Single-photon Detector We are powering the world with water! THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW! Tech Beat - June 21, 2011 Compact High-Temperature Superconducting Cable Wins "R&D 100" Award NASA, NSF Collaborate to Develop Advanced Robotics NASA Will Host 150 People For Tweetup At Launch Of Jupiter-Bound Mission President Obama Launches Advanced Manufacturing Partnership |
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| June, 2011 | Cold Fusion #1 Claims NASA Chief Yet another approach to high speed itty bitty memory... |
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| May, 2011 | Video of static electricity caused explosion investigated by CSB Safety Board. Shown at May gathering. |
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| April, 2011 | Internal Combustion 3X as efficient as a piston engine? Ref1 from youtube, Ref2 from Pure Energy Systems Wiki. Check out Tech Floating to the Top ACS reports American Chemical Society reports that an electrical wand can suppress or put out fires. A real ray gun? This is apparently NOT an April Fool since the date is late March. |
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| Mar, 2011 |
CLASSICAL QUANTUM MECHANICS by Randell L. Mills, BlackLight Power, Inc
Those of us that have been following the Black Light Power/Mills interpretation of EM have been frustrated by the opacity of the GUTCP (Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics) treatise that explains everything about everything... IF you can figure it out! This earlier work is only 7% in length or the GUTCP so maybe it will be a little easier to get through. From "laputan.blogspot.com" An Interview with Carver Mead who in his book Collective Electrodynamics wrote: “It is my firm belief that the last seven decades of the twentieth century will be characterized in history as the dark ages of theoretical physics.” Other references from "The American Spectator" which was the original source of the Mead Interview include: Einstein's Revolution, and Counterrevolution and Can We Do Without Relativity? both by Tom Bethell. By DAVID POGUE As digital technology takes over, we're losing the sounds of analog technologies. And sometimes that's a real loss. |
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| Feb, 2011 |
A Utube presentation of the MEMRISTOR HP Labs Outlines Breakthroughs in Memristor Chip Research An eWeek.com newsletter on this new fundamental component. Here are a few links courtesy of Kirk McDonald: (Forwarded to Tech Talk) Go to http://sing.stanford.edu/singpubs.html 2 papers on this theme appeared at MOBICOM10 The first, http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/sing-10-00.pdf gives an overview of their technique, here called "antenna cancellation". Their talk may be the most accessible report: http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/mobicom10-duplex-slides.pdf The second paper is http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/mobicom10-kappa.pdf which is more about "information theory" rather than RF practice. A PowerPoint version of the 2nd paper is at http://sing.stanford.edu/talks/mobicom10-kappa-slides.pdf Rather technical. A different solution is explored in the talk http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/icnp10-gts-slides.pdf and the paper http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/icnp10-gts.pdf From PC PRO (PCPro.CO.UK): Posting referenced by slashdot.org From innovations-report.com: Stanford researchers develop wireless technology for faster, more efficient communication networks From EurekAlert! Wireless communication is a one-way street. Over. Cathodixx - Superconductivity at Room Temperature. A quote from this site about the author's book The Physics Delusion: a shift in the understanding of the universe was first accepted and understood by those who were not bound by the shackles of "accepted dogma" We are not "selling" the books listed here, but check out some of the forum discussion groups about "alternate truths" |
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| Jan, 2011 | A new energy source from nuclear fusion by Focardi & Rossi MARCH 22, 2010 Report on heat production during preliminary tests on the Rossi “Ni-H” reactor. by: Dr. Giuseppe Levi. More info (mostly in English) with pictures of Focardi and Rossi experiment. Levi and Bianchini Reports Local .pdf of Jan 24th report Experimental evaluation, for radiation protection purpose, of photon and neutron radiation field during the public presentation of the prototype called "Energy Amplifier. by: Dott. Bianchini David - Physics Department - University of Bologna Cold Fusion LIVES AGAIN! Some of this site and videos are in English, some not Two Italian scientists, Focardi and Rossi announced at a press conference on Jan 15 that they had demonstrated a viable over unity device that they "think" is operating via cold fusion. Excess energy in the amount of 8:1 or more is being achieved. Here is a link to the test In English The Bloom Box is (apparently) a solid fuel-cell alternative to "on the grid" living. It is a 100KW stand alone device capable of powering a residential neighborhood or a small office building. Who needs Duke Power! Photon Theories of the Universe "Here, we explore the alternative, Field Theory." |
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| Dec, 2010 | (8.14Meg file) It turns out that the initial anomalous results of Mills have been around a while. An earlier company, Thermacore did an investigation in 1994 based on Mills' concept. This was (partly) funded by Wright Patterson AFB. A phase 2 report is apparently still classified. Patent application is for the generation of electricity from plasma. Although this does not seem to be the method emplyed in the mysterious CIHT, it is interesting to note that the wording on the last page section [0246] Mills comments sound like the description of the cost and advantages of the CIHT. More info from one of the Tech Talk members: Here is one (apparently) operational thermal-to-electric converter link to AMTEC Now take a look at one (apparently?) insider's "take" on how hydrino power might work in an AMTEC environment. Non math and appears Non bias report on Dr. Mills Hydrino Theory from Space.com First 3 links are to the .pdf documents on the blacklight.com site: CfA Link Latest Rowan Paper(2010): Earlier Rowan Paper(2009): Next 3 links are to the same documents, but to a copy on this local site: CfA Link Latest Rowan Paper(2010): Earlier Rowan Paper(2009): |
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| Nov, 2010 | LATE BREAKING NEWS!! BlackLight Power, Inc. Announces Production of Electricity from a New Form of Hydrogen Independent studies validate breakthrough non-polluting energy source based on hydrino theory Questions for Dec. 2, 2010 discussion: 1. Is CO2 a Greenhouse Gas? 2. If it isn't, then what explains the recent increase in temperature (that is now declining!)Science Notes mar 17, 2003 Cold Facts on Global Warming Easterbrook: RESEARCH Global climate change, global warming/cooling Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States David Archibald International Conference on Climate Change March, 2008 Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'Greatest Scam in History |
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