Cold Fusion...I mean LENR!!

[Minor Axis]

For those of you who don't read Popular Science, the Nov 2012 issue included a very interesting story on Cold Fusion, the politically correct name now being called LENR, called Andrea Rossi's Black Box. The man Andrea Rossi comes across as a huckster, but it appears according to this article that other well regarded scientists, he and they might be on to something. If this is real, this is the kind of nuclear power we could really use...

He pointed to a narrow glass cylinder that resembled an oversize hypodermic needle resting on its side. It had been running for six weeks straight, Celani said. He called it his “special reactor.” Kneeling down for a closer look, I could feel the heat coming off it. It was difficult to fathom that nuclear reactions thousands of times more energetic than any known chemical reaction were occurring on the hair-thin wire coiled inside the gas-filled cylinder. Celani had been experimenting with constantan wire, a nickel-copper alloy, for almost a year. He kept detailed records of various preparations, which involved roughing up the wire’s smooth surface so that it had a spongelike quality that absorbed hydrogen atoms more efficiently. It took two days for hydrogen to “load” into the wire’s atomic lattice and begin producing excess heat. Around 5 to 10 watts, nothing like the numbers Rossi was getting, Celani said, but he could switch the cell on and off and get excess heat every time. Most important, Celani wasn’t working in secrecy. Any scientist could replicate his experiment, no belief required. He opened his logbook to show me a “very nice correlation” between a decrease in resistivity of the wire and an increase in heat production.

Opednews.com-It is Here, It is Real

Besides the above, NASA and other agencies of the U.S. government have expressed great interest in LENR. In late 2011, a presentation about it was given at a major NASA meeting, verifying it is a valid and highly important technology that will be pursued in the future. Dr. Dennis Bushnell, highly respected Chief Scientist at NASA Langley, has recently made several positive public statements about LENR and its validity. And back in 2008, the CBS "Sixty Minutes" TV show did a segment on it ("Cold Fusion is Hot Again"), where the amazing statement that the U.S. Naval Research Lab had positively verified significant excess energy production was first publicly made.

Other Articles:
*Cold Fusion Gets A Little More Real
*LENR Resources

 

[Jackass master]

This could be more promising as heat sources and has more potential than current solar systems do for electric generation.

 

[Kyle B]

I've been hearing that fracking is the answer to our energy problems.