Re: [Vo]:Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:24:17 -0500: Hi, [snip] Don't you remember this item? Castleman and his team -- which includes *Samuel Peppernick*, a former Penn State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and *Dasitha Gunaratne*, a Penn State graduate student -- used a technique, called photoelectron imaging spectroscopy, to examine similarities between titanium monoxide and nickel, zirconium monoxide and palladium, and tungsten carbide and platinum. Photoelectron spectroscopy measures the energy it takes to remove electrons from various electronic states of atoms or molecules, while simultaneously capturing snapshots of these electron-detachment events with a digital camera, said Castleman. The method allows us to determine the binding energies of the electrons and also to observe directly the nature of the orbitals in which the electrons resided before they were detached. We found that the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a titanium-monoxide molecule is the same as the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a nickel atom. The same is true for the systems zirconium monoxide and palladium and tungsten carbide and platinum. The key is that all of the pairs are composed of isoelectronic species, which are atoms with the same electron configuration. Castleman noted that, in this case, the term isoelectronic refers to the number of electrons present in the outer shell of an atom or molecule. This means that titanium monoxide can replace nickel in LENR, zirconium monoxide and palladium etc. ...you are assuming that only the electron configuration is important. If the Ni takes part in a nuclear reaction, the electron configuration may not be the only important aspect. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion
Such is the nature of bets and speculative investing. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Axil Axil's message of Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:24:17 -0500: Hi, [snip] Don't you remember this item? Castleman and his team -- which includes *Samuel Peppernick*, a former Penn State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and *Dasitha Gunaratne*, a Penn State graduate student -- used a technique, called photoelectron imaging spectroscopy, to examine similarities between titanium monoxide and nickel, zirconium monoxide and palladium, and tungsten carbide and platinum. Photoelectron spectroscopy measures the energy it takes to remove electrons from various electronic states of atoms or molecules, while simultaneously capturing snapshots of these electron-detachment events with a digital camera, said Castleman. The method allows us to determine the binding energies of the electrons and also to observe directly the nature of the orbitals in which the electrons resided before they were detached. We found that the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a titanium-monoxide molecule is the same as the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a nickel atom. The same is true for the systems zirconium monoxide and palladium and tungsten carbide and platinum. The key is that all of the pairs are composed of isoelectronic species, which are atoms with the same electron configuration. Castleman noted that, in this case, the term isoelectronic refers to the number of electrons present in the outer shell of an atom or molecule. This means that titanium monoxide can replace nickel in LENR, zirconium monoxide and palladium etc. ...you are assuming that only the electron configuration is important. If the Ni takes part in a nuclear reaction, the electron configuration may not be the only important aspect. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion
In reply to Kevin O'Malley's message of Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:18:56 -0800: Hi, [snip] Nickel/Palladium Nickel and Palladium come to mind when thinking of long term cold fusion investments. Unfortunately, nickel is the most abundant material in the earths crust, a change in the demand of nickel would not affect the price drastically. This is completely wrong. Crustal elemental abundances are (according to the figures I have): Oxygen 466000 ppm Silicon 267700 ppm Aluminium84100 ppm Iron 70700 ppm Calcium 52900 ppm . . . Nickel 105 ppm I suspect that this article is confusing the planetary abundance with the crustal abundance. The former includes the Ni/Fe core of the planet, however this is not accessible. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion
Additionally I believe the main use of palladium is in the manufacturing of catalytic converters which would become obsolete in a LENR powered world. Not sure if the person writing this article took that into account prior to recommending investing in palladium or not. Regards, Joe mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Kevin O'Malley's message of Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:18:56 -0800: Hi, [snip] Nickel/Palladium Nickel and Palladium come to mind when thinking of long term cold fusion investments. Unfortunately, nickel is the most abundant material in the earths crust, a change in the demand of nickel would not affect the price drastically. This is completely wrong. Crustal elemental abundances are (according to the figures I have): Oxygen 466000 ppm Silicon267700 ppm Aluminium 84100 ppm Iron70700 ppm Calcium 52900 ppm . . . Nickel105 ppm I suspect that this article is confusing the planetary abundance with the crustal abundance. The former includes the Ni/Fe core of the planet, however this is not accessible. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
Re: [Vo]:Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion
Don't you remember this item? Castleman and his team -- which includes *Samuel Peppernick*, a former Penn State graduate student who now is a postdoctoral researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and *Dasitha Gunaratne*, a Penn State graduate student -- used a technique, called photoelectron imaging spectroscopy, to examine similarities between titanium monoxide and nickel, zirconium monoxide and palladium, and tungsten carbide and platinum. Photoelectron spectroscopy measures the energy it takes to remove electrons from various electronic states of atoms or molecules, while simultaneously capturing snapshots of these electron-detachment events with a digital camera, said Castleman. The method allows us to determine the binding energies of the electrons and also to observe directly the nature of the orbitals in which the electrons resided before they were detached. We found that the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a titanium-monoxide molecule is the same as the amount of energy required to remove electrons from a nickel atom. The same is true for the systems zirconium monoxide and palladium and tungsten carbide and platinum. The key is that all of the pairs are composed of isoelectronic species, which are atoms with the same electron configuration. Castleman noted that, in this case, the term isoelectronic refers to the number of electrons present in the outer shell of an atom or molecule. This means that titanium monoxide can replace nickel in LENR, zirconium monoxide and palladium etc. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Joe Hughes jhughe...@comcast.net wrote: Additionally I believe the main use of palladium is in the manufacturing of catalytic converters which would become obsolete in a LENR powered world. Not sure if the person writing this article took that into account prior to recommending investing in palladium or not. Regards, Joe mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Kevin O'Malley's message of Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:18:56 -0800: Hi, [snip] Nickel/Palladium Nickel and Palladium come to mind when thinking of long term cold fusion investments. Unfortunately, nickel is the most abundant material in the earths crust, a change in the demand of nickel would not affect the price drastically. This is completely wrong. Crustal elemental abundances are (according to the figures I have): Oxygen 466000 ppm Silicon267700 ppm Aluminium 84100 ppm Iron70700 ppm Calcium 52900 ppm . . . Nickel105 ppm I suspect that this article is confusing the planetary abundance with the crustal abundance. The former includes the Ni/Fe core of the planet, however this is not accessible. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
[Vo]:Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion
*Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3128874/posts *Cold Fusion Now.org ^ http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://coldfusionnow.org/investing-in-lenr-cold-fusion/ * | March 2, 2014 | Simon Templar http://coldfusionnow.org/investing-in-lenr-cold-fusion/ Posted on *Sun 02 Mar 2014 07:40:01 PM PST* by *Kevmo *http://www.freerepublic.com/%7Ekevmo/ Investing in LENR/Cold Fusion With the LENR/Cold Fusion field advancing every day smart money is watching carefully. There will be countless opportunities to benefit from this revolutionary technology. Here are a few ways to invest: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (TYO:7011) has been investigating LENR for a long time. Their recent presentation at ICCF-18 showed concept LENR system which would generate heat by transmutatating elements, including nuclear wastes and co-producing heat. Recently, they were granted an international patent for this work. MHI's involvement in the traditional nuclear industry and their involvement with industrial power equipment puts them in an excellent position to develop large scale reactors. Their investigation of exotic turbines and nuclear based technology could be easily applied to LENR. Even with their strategic position and intense LENR involvement they are a large company, the stock price may not be influenced in the short term, this would be a good long term investment. Toyota (NYSE:TM) has had its eye on LENR from day 1. Technova, a Toyota affiliated lab, actually hired Fleischmann and Pons and essentially gave them a new life in France away from the media circuis in the US. They were hired for a secret research program in LENR, continuing their work in private. While they may have not created a commercially relevant reactor system, they did spark the interest of Toyota, whos work in LENR continues to this day. Recently Toyota replicated a key experiment of Mitsubishi, showing the massive opportunities in LENR energy as well as LENR transmutation. Toyota is a huge company and would be best for a long term invesment. STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) is worth mentioning because they are a publically traded company interested in LENR. One of their scientists has been collaborating with Celani, attempting replications. They have a patent application for a LENR device, more specifically a control system for a LENR device. It does not seem likely that STM actually has any LENR devices other than a celanie replication. The patent seems to be very forward looking and specific and it is yet to be determined if it will hold any value if it is granted. STMicroelectronics is a huge company with a questionable foothold in LENR, this may be a stable long term investment. National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) has a serious interest in LENR from the highest levels. The president Dr. Truchard, gave the keynote speach at ICCF-18, voicing his support for the researchers in this field. NI has been known to sponsor LENR research groups by donating high dollar data aquistion systems and other equipment. It is rumored that NI has been collaborating with Andrea Rossi and has helped design the control and monitoring systems for the systems based on arrays of smaller units. NI week 2012 had a large LENR presence with very open endorsement of the technology, many LENR researchers and advocates were present. NI week 2013 was focused on smart grid technology and had less of a LENR presence, although Dennis Cravens provided a very intuitive public demonstration of LENR excess heat. Regardless, NI is a large company and initial media frenzy of LENR should not drive up the price excessivly. This is a very safe medium to long term investment. Cyclone Power Technologies (CYPW:OTC) is a small company which researches and produces engines operating from thermal energy. CYPW is a penny stock listed on OTC:Pink stock exchange, the wild west of the stock world. The stock price is currently at an all time low due to delays in the R+D process. Regardless, they are looking toward LENR technologies, even adding Dr. Kim from Purdue to their consulting board. Dr. Kim is heavily affiliated with Defkalion and even with his academic background he is very entrepreneurial, there is no doubt he will do all he can to combine dekflaion LENR technology and CYPW's engines. Due to the low volume and price, as well as the highly speculative nature of penny stocks, CYPW is expected to explode during widespread LENR media attention. This is an ideal short term investment. Nickel/Palladium Nickel and Palladium come to mind when thinking of long term cold fusion investments. Unfortunately, nickel is the most abundant material in the earths crust, a change in the demand of nickel would not affect the price drastically. Compared with Nickel, Palladium has a much higher hydrogen reactivity and much lower Debye temperature, allowing for palladium based LENR systems to be triggered at lower temperatures. Even if commercial LENR systems use Nickel/Hydrogen,
