Thanks, Robert
And, here is some forgotten LENR evidence from 1951 --
Lattice Energy LLC-LENRs ca 1950s-Sternglass Expts-Einstein Bethe-Nov 25
2011
http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llclenrs-ca-1950ssternglass-exptseinstein-bethenov-25-2011
Maybe established theory has always trumped empirical results?
Interesting NASA materials (I've posted a couple of these before):
Contract Statement of Work for LENR Support:
R12.1 Material investigations:
The Contractor shall investigate properties of electromagnetic materials
(EM) in support of the R4LENR
(Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) project.R4 Modeling shall be performed
using government owned COTS
EM modeling packages R4to investigate resonant behavior of periodic
structures at THz frequencies.R4
http://foia.larc.nasa.gov/CONTRACTS/NNL07AA00B/orders.pdf
Advanced-to-Revolutionary Technology Options for Humans-Mars
Other alternative high thrust in-space propulsion approaches include the
afore-mentioned positrons, which, unlike anti-protons, are relatively
inexpensive to manufacture, and produce only low energy gamma radiation
which is easier to shield than neutrons. The major issue with positrons is
long term storage, which is currently under active research by the USAF.
There are also several even more exotic energetic possibilities including
isomers, LENRs [ low energy nuclear reactions] and even ZPE [zero point
energy]. Isomers are potentially the order of 5 orders of magnitude
greater
than chemical in terms of energy density but viable triggering methods are
not yet available. The LENR situation is in a major state of flux with
recent
apparently successful theoretical efforts and indications of much higher
yields. There are currently several interesting approaches extant and
under
study to harvest ZPE [reference 4]. Success in such endeavors would
literally change everything regarding power and energy in-the-large. Then
there are tethers and the aneutronic fusion approaches, especially p-B11
and
D-He3 Fusion, which again would have far lower shielding weights than
fission nuclear or conventional D-T Fusion systems. The concept of
utilizing anti-protons as ICF [inertial confined fusion] triggers/igniters
is
also interesting. There are NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts studies of
harvesting anti-protons from the magnetic fields around the Earth where
they are captured from the solar wind.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20080008384_2008004081.pdf
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Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence has risen in the last decade to be a source of interest
to those outside of the ultrasonic community in an effort to either
understand the effect or to utilize some of its more interesting
properties. The phenomena is defined as being the generation of light
energy from sound waves, first discovered in the 1930s as a by-product of
early work on sonar. Originally thought to be a form of static
electricity, this glow recently was found to be generated in extremely
short duration flashes of much less than a billionth of a second by
collapsing microscopic bubbles of air. The temperature generated in the
collapsing bubbles is at least four times that of the surface of the sun.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/sensors/PhySen/docs/AIAA5596_JPC07.pdf
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LENR
Tests conducted at NASA Glenn Research Center in 1989 and elsewhere
consistently showed evidence of anomalous heat during gaseous loading and
unloading deuterium into bulk palladium. At one time called cold fusion,
now called low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), such effects are now
published in peer-reviewed journals and are gaining attention and
mainstream respectability. The instrumentation expertise of NASA GRC is
applied to improve the diagnostics for investigating the anomalous heat in
LENR.
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/sensors/PhySen/research.htm
Still awaiting an upload of the presentation given at a LENR Workshop at
NASA GRC in 2011 [available soon].
