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: > R1>2.1 Material investigations: > The Contractor shall investigate properties of electromagnetic materials > (EM) in support of the R4>LENR > (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) project.<R4 Modeling shall be performed > using government owned COTS > EM modeling packages R4>to 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 > > ___________________________ > > 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 > > ______________________ > > 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]. >
