[Vo]:Brillouin Energy Corp demonstration at ICCF-24

QUOTE: Brillouin Energy Corp Demonstrates CleanTech Licensable Solid State Fusion Boiler System at the 24th Annual International Conference on Cold Fusion ( www.iccf24.org) July 25th – 28th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California Breakthrough boiler system uses hydrogen to pro

[Vo]:ICCF24 program revised

The program has been revised. It is gigantic! This is probably the biggest conference since ICCF3. https://www.iccf24.org/program

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > I take it that the photo is not the best so doesn't show everything; and > heat was so bad at one time that it spread a long way. > You mean the heat magically jumped 70 feet, and then spread past two bunkers which were not on fire. That is physically impossible. > Well

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > So, you are not sure and only "think" and could be wrong. > Well, pretty sure. I can always be wrong. (I suggest you practice saying that to yourself: 'I can always be wrong.') I would have thought the heat from the coalfire would have gone along the > hull and be even wa

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > It wasn't as massive a fire as you are trying to make out. > I have read about shipboard fires, shipwrecks, storms and other disasters. I have heard about such things directly from people who sailed on ships made before WWI. Any fire large enough to leave a 30' black strea

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > Jed:No one in his right mind would set to sea with a massive coal bunker > fire. > > > Exactly hence conspiracy > Nope. You are confused. There was no massive fire. If there had been, the whole ship would have been filled with smoke, as I said. Also carbon monoxide, whic

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: definition 2 > > to act in harmony toward a common end > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspire > > > --> nothing about a conspiracy has to be unlawful or illegal > > > -> not your definition > You misunderstand. Definition 2 only applies to inanimate objects

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: *Stigmergy* (/ˈstɪɡmərdʒi/ > *STIG-mər-jee* > ) is a > mechanism of indirect coordination > , through the environmen

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > Jed: There were many coal bunker fires in the ships of that era. They > never sank a ship as far as I know. > > > So, as far as you know. > > > As far as you know > Which is probably farther than you know. As I said, I happen to know about ships of that era, mainly from b

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ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > There are open conspiracies - > That is a contradiction of terms. The dictionary definition of "conspiracy" is: "a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful." Dictionary.com "1 · a secret agreement to do something harmful or unlawful ; 2 · the act of pl

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

Chris Zell wrote: > Many of these things are technically not conspiracies, just stigmergy. That is a great word! I have never heard it. You learn something new every day. Here is another definition: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Stigmergy Yes, the opposition to cold fusion was stigmergy. It

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > Titanic sounds to me a conspiracy fact - it left port with a fire in its > coal bunker that could not be put out - that sounds to me that didn't want > the Titanic to survive the journey. > There were many coal bunker fires in the ships of that era. They never sank a ship

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > This is getting too diverted. What you were saying sounded like a > conspiracy theory. > Perhaps it did sound like that, but it was not. Because -- 1. A conspiracy is organized and surreptitious. The opposition to cold fusion was unorganized and very much in the open. Opp

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > sounded like conspiracy theory. > What sounded like a conspiracy theory? What do you refer to? As I said, not everything that sounds like a conspiracy theory, is a conspiracy theory. Not everything that sounds implausible is false. The Titanic disaster was caused by a w

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > Please provide proof. > You don't need me to do that. There are many authoritative sources on line, at places like the FBI and the Senate Committee. If you don't believe them, you will not believe anything else that I provide. The difference between a conspiracy theory an

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > Some of the people who spread conspiracy theories are themselves corrupt. >> Some work for the Russian government. . . . > > > Is that a conspiracy theory? > Nope. It is a fact. Well documented. Proven to a fair-thee-well. If it were a conspiracy theory, there would be

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: conspiracy theories are about pattern recognition in human behaviour, and > there are conspiracy facts - > > e.g. > Tuskegee Experiment: The Infamous Syphilis Study > There are indeed, but they are few and far between. Just because some small number of conspiracy theories tu

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

I wrote: > Regarding fission reactor power density, I finally found this, by the way: > > https://aris.iaea.org/sites/core.html > > I think one of the column headings is incorrect. It says: > > Average core power density [kW/kgU] > > I think it should say: > > Average Core power density [kW/l] >

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

ROGER ANDERTON wrote: > I think a lot of things are going to disappear. > I doubt it. I think you are repeating groundless conspiracy theories. No one gives a damn about Beardon's theories or disputes about relativity. No one would bother to censor these things or make them disappear. It used to

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

Chris Zell wrote: > Google often does this in ignoring search terms, as happened to me > recently in looking for a chain saw part. Yes. I have a strange feeling Google has this problem more than it used to. I wonder if they need to tweak their algorithm? The other day I was looking for "fissio

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

The ISP, Worldnic.com, appears to be offline. It can't be reached. That could be the problem. Then again, net sleuths say that worldnic.com changed its name to netsol.com, and it may now be part of networksolutions.com, which is still active. https://www.networksolutions.com/ That is who hosts t

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

Whois says the Domain is still active. It is paid for through 2024. Probably, the ISP was not paid. As I said, the ISP will probably not delete the content from its servers for a while. If someone contacts them, they may help with reviving the site or transferring the data. Here is the Whois data:

Re: [Vo]:Reversing global warming and removing carbon from the atmosphere with cold fusion

Andrew Meulenberg wrote: > On the other hand, with uncontrolled population growth . . . > Population growth is not uncontrolled. On the contrary, it has largely stopped. What I mean is, the only age cohort that is growing is people in the Third World over age 40. Their numbers are increasing be

Re: [Vo]:OT: Journal of Universal Rejection

I like it!

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

Esa Ruoho wrote: Anyway I've mailed Anthony Craddock about cheniere + energyfromthevacuum. > Eagerly waiting for a response. > He should be the go-to-guy for paying for those domains. > It may be the domain has lapsed, or the ISP annual fee, or both. (In some cases, the ISP also maintains the do

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

I wrote: > The day the website bill comes due, payment will be refused and the ISP > told the card holder is deceased. Of course the site will be taken offline. > My credit card number once changed, and I forgot to update the ISP account. On the day the payment came due, it did not go through. T

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

Chris Zell wrote: I would say that the ‘thorium battery’ on the internet has been thoroughly > scrubbed and every link eliminated. A Google search for "thorium battery" (in quotes) turns up more than a thousand items. Without the quotes, more than a million. There is an organization devoted to

Re: [Vo]:Bearden dead and cheniere.org gone

Robin wrote: > >Not only that but seems like http://energyfromthevacuum.com is also > gone. I wonder whats up now. > > No one paying the bill any more? > If no one clicked on ads companies would stop paying for them. :) > I suppose he was paying for the website with his credit card, the way I p

[Vo]:Toward a LENR reference experiment

"Toward a LENR reference experiment" F. Metzler at the ARPA-E Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec9OnfWvOjs

Re: [Vo]:Reversing global warming and removing carbon from the atmosphere with cold fusion

elf; > but, it would be a major profit source. Had these ideas been implemented a > decade ago, we would now have relatively cheap transport to space and a > means of major shipping to and from space that would not blow a growing > hole in the ozone layer. > > Andrew > _ _ _ _ > > >

[Vo]:Reversing global warming and removing carbon from the atmosphere with cold fusion

I have discussed these topics here from time to time. I am preparing a talk on them. I propose to stop global warming using cold fusion in two steps: 1. Stop emitting carbon dioxide by using cold fusion energy. 2. Remove excess carbon from the atmosphere by growing billions of trees. When

Re: [Vo]:A step towards LENR commercialization ?

Robin wrote: > However, for > >large scale storage, hydrogen may have an edge. I wouldn't know about > that. > > I think it would, because the fuel/electrolysis cell itself is of fixed > size, and hence cost, whereas the cost of > hydrogen storage in a tank decreases per unit volume, with the si

Re: [Vo]:A step towards LENR commercialization ?

Jones Beene wrote: That is to say - if LENR is indeed real and robust - then it is very likely > that splitting water using catalysis, on a large scale will uncover the > extent of LENR utility as a base technology. > Why? What would be the point of splitting water if you have LENR? What would y

[Vo]:A revised version of my book in Chinese

Translated by people, not the Google computers. See: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJlengjubian.pdf Another of my papers translated: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJreviewofthb.pdf

Re: [Vo]:Night time 'solar'

Jones Beene wrote: > very low power density now - plenty of room for improvement > Can it be improved? The temperature difference is so low, I am surprised a thermoelectric gadget produces measurable current. In a third world rural setting, it might make more sense to burn firewood or kerosene

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

I should explain that in Atlanta, when they install a heat pump, they include a small, auxiliary, el-cheapo gas fired furnace along with it. It seldom turns on. I don't know about Florida and other warm places. In rural Japan where the walls are made of paper, they used to heat with kerosene stove

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: > When temperatures fall to 25 to 30 degrees, a heat pump loses its spot as >> the most efficient heating option for an Atlanta home. >> >> > Apparently heat pumps have improved a lot over the last decade. This > article says they now work well down to -10F or lower. > I looked at on

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: However, there has been a big push to instead choose more efficient heat > pumps. The Canadian Institute for Climate Choices report found that to > drive deeper emissions cuts, the switch to heat pumps "would play an > essential and growing role."" > As I said, I am surprised heat pu

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: Oil and gas furnaces are now being banned in new construction projects in > parts of Canada. > What are they installing instead? Surely heat pumps don't work in most of Canada. Are they putting in resistance heaters? Those are extremely efficient. I find it hard to believe they woul

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

I wrote: > It resembles airplane seats available between midnight and 8 a.m. They are > discounted because few people want to fly "red eye" at those hours . . . > Note that airlines have to fly some number of airplanes at night, to position them for service the next day. They cannot terminate al

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: Yes, it will. There is no market for electricity at night. >> > > There is no market currently, but if more and more electricity is being > demanded at night wouldn't that create a market? > Yes, as I said, if nighttime consumption increases, I expect they will tweak the rates to get

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Here is one of many examples of free nighttime electricity in Texas: https://comparepower.com/electricity-rates/texas/free-electricity/ There is a lot of competition in the Texas electric power market, so many companies offer this. As I said, this is a good business model, not a favor to the cus

[Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

CB Sites wrote: I will confirm what @Jed Rothwell is saying as an > EV owner. 90% of my travel is inner city 30miles or less all stop and > go. Just an overnight charge on a 110v plugin charger and good to go. > I've not seen a noticble change in my electric bill. It'

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Chris Zell wrote: As things now stand, automobile drivers are getting a free ride. That's not > fair. > > Toll roads/bridges? License/registration fees? Gasoline taxes? I don't know. We should see how they do it in London, England. I paid a bridge toll in New York state just by driving past

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Regarding hydrogen vehicles and safe fission reactors, over at LENR Forum I wrote: It may be possible to develop safe fission reactors. I cannot judge. Some experts say pebble bed reactors might be safe. However, we know for a fact that solar panels are safe, and they can produce electricity much

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: "Free rider." > > I think public transport should be free too. > but of course it won't really be free. The costs will be borne by the > taxpayer. > Public transport is a lot cheaper than roads, highways and the damage caused by automobiles. So it would be best to make public transpo

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

I wrote: > I don't see the point. Why spend four times more money than you need to? > Electric cars are far cheaper per mile. > It is actually 5.6 times more money per mile, because the power companies offer a huge discount for recharging overnight. In Atlanta, the power company estimates it cos

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

I wrote: > Nearly all new generating capacity is renewable, because that is almost > the cheapest. Aeroderivative natural gas is the cheapest at $1,294 base > overnight cost, but solar PV is $1,327. . . . > See also: Solar power will account for nearly half of new U.S. electric generating capac

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: > What on earth do you mean? >> >> > > A few examples: > --Volatile organic compounds > > https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/volatile-organic-compounds-impact-indoor-air-quality > > --Farming without disturbing soil could cut agriculture’s climate impact > by 30% > > https://

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Jürg Wyttenbach wrote: > Toyota has sold more than 50'000 Hydrogen fuel cell powered cars. > Where did you find that number? They have sold 9,978 in the U.S., which is more than I expected. https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/toyota-mirai-sales-figures-usa-canada-monthly-yearly/ I think there is no f

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

David L. Babcock wrote: Is anyone considering bottled hydrogen sold at gas stations? > I think that would cost a great deal of money. It takes a lot of gas to power an automobile. Think about how large the underground tanks of gasoline are in a regular gas station. In Japan they have tried a va

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: Everything we do involves gaseous exchanges with the atmosphere. > What?!? Solar and hydroelectricity do not. Wind power does, in a sense, but it does not measurably affect the wind (the movement of air heated by the sun). Fission definitely does not involve gaseous exchanges, unless

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

H LV wrote: > I don't mean to sound pedantic but the term "chemically fueled" could > apply to just about any vehicle except one powered by nuclear power. > I don't mean to sound pedantic, but all cars are nuclear powered. Fossil fuel cars are powered by the sun's fusion millions of years ago;

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Terry Blanton wrote: https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/how-temperature-affects-ev-range > A cold outdoor temperature has a drastic effect on a Prius or a purely electric car. But the air conditioner does not. With a Prius in winter, efficiency is very low until the engine warms up, after a

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Robin wrote: I have been wondering by how much does heating/aircon lower the range of > electric vehicles? Anyone have a rough idea? > Hardly any. Soon after the Prius was introduced, some engineers studied this when trying to achieve miles per gallon distance records. As I recall, in most cases

Re: [Vo]:This smells like an April 1 joke

Jones Beene wrote: > Prior to this there had been and remains a nascent movement around the > idea that hydrogen made from wind or solar was going to be our savior on > the energy front - despite the intractable poor economics involved in the > manufacture and storage. > The economics are poor.

[Vo]:Cavitation (sonofusion) reactor from B-J. Huang et al.

This discussion group began long ago with discussions of vortex-induced cavitation, also known as sonofusion. Examples include the work of Roger Stringham and the hydrodynamics gadget (https://www.hydrodynamics.com/). (Look up Stringham in the LENR-CANR.org index, https://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?p

Re: [Vo]:Highest efficiency water splitter

Robin wrote: I thought I just read in one of the papers recently posted on Vortex that > preparation of the surface involved oxidizing the metal. That would make sense if reacting it with Hydrogen resulted in > the creation of nascent water molecules that > then act as Hydrino catalysts. I bel

Re: [Vo]:Highest efficiency water splitter

A potential problem with this idea is that the hydrogen (or deuterium) has to be highly pure. When you split water, you usually end up with impurities and some oxygen mixed in with the hydrogen. You have to use high tech equipment to purify it. You probably would not want to put water into a cold f

Re: [Vo]:Highest efficiency water splitter

Robin wrote: > A gram of Hydrogen represents the explosive power of about 30 gm of TNT. > Several hundred grams of Hydrogen would equate > to about 9 kg of TNT. That's a little more than a pop under the hood. > Well, if it is a problem, I suppose they could use 20 g instead of 100. The point is

Re: [Vo]:Highest efficiency water splitter

Jones Beene wrote: > Most viable concepts for commercial vehicles which would utilize LENR need > to have efficient water-splitting as part of the package. Compressed > hydrogen gas as the alternative - that is probably a non-starter for safety > reasons, > Do you mean the hydrogen or deuterium

Re: [Vo]:Storms preprint

Robin wrote: > Just Google atomic or molecular self-assembly. > I don't see how this could apply to making a cathode. Perhaps you could explain in a little more detail?

Re: [Vo]:Storms preprint

Robin wrote: > I wonder if atomic/molecular self-assembly could be used to create uniform > structures of exactly the right size and > shape for the NAE? > What do you mean by "self-assembly"? What RNA and ribosomes do?

[Vo]:Storms preprint

Here is a preprint of an ICCF-23 paper: Storms, E. *The Nature of the D+D Fusion Reaction in Palladium and Nickel (preprint)*. in *ICCF-23*. 2021. Xiamen, China. https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEthenatureob.pdf

[Vo]:Hagelstein paper in JCMNS 35

Years ago, Peter Hagelstein wrote one of the best essays I know of about science and human nature: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinontheoryan.pdf He wrote another wide-ranging paper in JCMNS 35: "Theory and Experiments in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science" https://www.lenr-canr.org/a

Re: [Vo]:JCMNS 35 uploaded

I meant: JOURNAL OF CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE *Vol. 35* is uploaded. ttps://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedzh.pdf

[Vo]:JCMNS 35 uploaded

JOURNAL OF CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE Vol. 34 is uploaded. https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedzh.pdf

[Vo]:Charles Entenmann dies

I regret to announce that Charles Entenmann died on February 24, 2022. See: http://www.infinite-energy.com/resources/charles-entenmann.html https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/newsday/name/charles-entenmann-obituary?id=33396300

Re: [Vo]:OT: More evidence supports use of Ivermectin

Ivermectin improves the prognosis for patients infected with parasites. It does nothing to prevent or cure COVID. Double blind tests of ivermectin only show positive results in places where parasites are widespread, such as India. See: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-tha

Re: [Vo]:$2 million prize for simple/reproducible LENR experiment

I wrote: > I asked them if they plan to give out more than one prize. I will report > back if they respond. > They say they haven't decided yet. They have not decided the prize amount either, contrary to what Celani reported.

Re: [Vo]:$2 million prize for simple/reproducible LENR experiment

I wrote: > Maybe they plan to give more than one prize. It says $2 million or $3 > million. Maybe that means $2 million to one person and another $1 or $2 > million to another. > I asked them if they plan to give out more than one prize. I will report back if they respond.

Re: [Vo]:$2 million prize for simple/reproducible LENR experiment

Jones Beene wrote: Time's a wasting. This prize should be claimed by someone we know, no? > Maybe they plan to give more than one prize. It says $2 million or $3 million. Maybe that means $2 million to one person and another $1 or $2 million to another. >

Re: [Vo]:$2 million prize for simple/reproducible LENR experiment

Jürg Wyttenbach wrote: > Only a fool would sell the Gates/Page blood suckers a working LENR > reaction. > If they are giving a prize with no strings attached, why not show them the reaction? As long as they do not demand a share of the intellectual property, what harm can they do? > And of cour

[Vo]:$2 million prize for simple/reproducible LENR experiment

At the DARP workshop Francesco Celani said that the Anthropocene Institute is offering a $2 million prize for a "simple/reproducible LENR experiment." I do see anything about this at https://www.iccf24.org/ There is one slide about it here: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021LENR_w

[Vo]:ICCF24 website

The website for ICCF-24 has been updated to include the Call for Papers and other items. https://www.iccf24.org/

[Vo]:The Publications of Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters: Precursor to the Discovery of Cold Fusion

See: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/PanethFthepublica.pdf The Publications of Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters: Precursor to the Discovery of Cold Fusion Contents Introduction. Paneth, F. and K. Peters, On the transmutation of hydrogen into helium. Ber., 1926. 59: p. 2039 (translation). Paneth, F.

Re: [Vo]:Is bulk Pd cold fusion an H-D reaction?

CB Sites wrote: > I really like how the Chubb brothers worked on it from the solid state POV. > (It was uncle Talbot and his nephew Scott, both deceased.)

[Vo]:Is bulk Pd cold fusion an H-D reaction?

The other day Francesco Celani and his friend asked me if I know of any papers that discuss the role of H in the bulk Pd cold fusion. Can H enhance the reaction? Is there an H-D reaction? I said I don't recall any papers like that. It turns out they already found one, which I added to the library:

[Vo]:Book "Developments in Electrochemistry - Science Inspired by Martin Fleischmann"

I hesitate to mention this because it might be a copyright violation, but this book has been uploaded in Acrobat format: *Developments in Electrochemistry - Science Inspired by Martin Fleischmann*, ed. D. Pletcher, Z.Q. Tian, and D.E.G. Williams. 2014: Wiley. https://www.lenr-forum.com/attachment

[Vo]:A few signs of increased interest in the field

There have been a few signs of increased interest in the field by official agencies, especially defense agencies. I have uploaded some recent PowerPoint slides from ARPA-E LENR Workshop, and a document from the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt -- FFI). https

[Vo]:Mizuno's Pd Ni-mesh experiment verified again

Here is a report from lenr-forum: "There has been another successful replication [of the Pd Ni-mesh experiment] by a third party Japanese publicly traded company. They are working on the final report now, and when done it will be posted here on the forum. Not sure what reactor, but results were 64

[Vo]:Fleischmann obituary by D. Williams

Here is an obituary of Martin Fleischmann by D. Williams: https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/martin-fleischmann-1927-2012/5401.article Some of this is pleasing. It reminds me of what McKubre and others said about Martin. Unfortunately, the parts about cold fusion are nonsense. Either Williams

Re: [Vo]:Using the cold universe as a renewable and sustainable energy source

This is great stuff. This method was used to make ice in lowland India starting in the 16th century. Lowland India is hot!

Re: [Vo]:OT: Energy and taxation

H LV wrote: > Also buying miles would be a local transaction which would ensure the > funds go to the state in which the vehicle is mostly driven. > Rather similar to buying gasoline in Georgia or South Carolina as you drive north. A cell phone knows what State you are in. It adjusts the local

Re: [Vo]:OT: Energy and taxation

H LV wrote: No more unsafe than running out charge or gasoline in the "middle of > nowhere". > True. You could have multiple warnings as it approaches zero. > These days it is hard to end up in the middle of nowhere. > I manage to get there from time to time. But that brings up an interestin

Re: [Vo]:OT: Energy and taxation

H LV wrote: One could purchase miles for a special key which would let the user start > the vehicle. The key would be able to read the car's odometer and deduct > miles accordingly. > That sounds unsafe. If you ran out of miles, you might be stranded in the middle of nowhere, unable to start the

Re: [Vo]:OT: Energy and taxation

I think an annual tag fee based on miles driven would be the best solution. You would have to bring the car into a licensed mechanic who fills in an online form with the odometer reading. Monitoring distance driven every day or on roads as cars pass is too complicated and expensive. Reading an odom

Re: [Vo]:OT: steam locomotive

H LV wrote: We don't really know how steam engines would have evolved because they were > out-competed by diesel engines. > As I recall, the last attempts to compete with Diesel engines was with steam turbines. This source says the Union Pacific actually made two steam turbine locomotives, and t

Re: [Vo]:OT Michael Shellenberger opposes California's gas car phase out

I wrote: You might not think so, looking at the primary energy of gasoline. The > thing is, electric cars use 4 to 5 times less energy than gasoline cars. So > imagine using 80% less gasoline. Look at these primary energy sources to > get a feel for it. Converting to electric cars would eliminate

[Vo]:OT Michael Shellenberger opposes California's gas car phase out

MSF wrote: > I'm all for electric cars, except those aspects of them that are > controlled by entities other than the driver. > I believe you mean self-driving cars, or partially self-driving cars such as the Tesla. The self-driving feature has nothing to do with the car being electric. A Leaf

Re: [Vo]:OT Michael Shellenberger opposes California's gas car phase out

This guy makes some valid points, but there is a lot of misinformation and mistakes about history in what he says. Two points in particular: Electric cars will not be a burden on the power grid if most of them are charged overnight. They will cause the power grid to consume more natural gas, but o

Re: [Vo]:[OT]Omicron

Terry Blanton wrote: > The fact that it is more infectious may turn out to be a boon rather than >> a problem, as it would >> outpace all other strains, and "immunize" those who are unwilling to get >> the jab. >> It may also save governments around the world from having to spend >> billions on

[Vo]:Freire et al., Preliminary survey on cold fusion

Preliminary survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory. Discussion and copy of paper here: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/6714-brazil-joins-the-party-a-survey-of-the-lenr-field/

[Vo]:Fleischmann's law of disruption

At LENR-Forum, someone noted that many theories attempt to explain cold fusion. In my response, I cited something Martin Fleischmann said, which will be of general interest: This is a general rule of theoretical physics. Ask any 3 theorists a question and you get 5 different answers. That's the l

Re: [Vo]:JCMNS uploaded -- please test download

This paper was revised: Mosier-Boss, P.A. and L. Forsley, Interpreting CR-39 Detectors used in Pd/D Co-deposition: Nuclear Generated Tracks or Artifacts? J. Condensed Matter Nucl. Sci., 2021. 34: p. 32-57. The new version is here: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedzg.pdf#page

Re: [Vo]:JCMNS uploaded -- please test download

I wrote: > The internet and ISPs can be unreliable . . . I have had files that were > intact for years suddenly become corrupted. That must be an ISP server > problem. > Which means: You should ALWAYS keep a backup copy of any file you upload to the internet. Keep it on your own computer, and i

Re: [Vo]:JCMNS uploaded -- please test download

The new copy worked for the person who was having problems. The internet and ISPs can be unreliable . . . I have had files that were intact for years suddenly become corrupted. That must be an ISP server problem. My ISP is Jumpline.com, which is usually okay, but it has strange problems from time

[Vo]:JCMNS uploaded -- please test download

JOURNAL OF CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE Vol. 34 is uploaded. https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondensedzg.pdf Someone told me they had trouble downloading this file. They could not download or print. I replaced the file. Please download it and let me know if you have difficulty.

[Vo]:ARPA workshop site now includes many papers and slides

See: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/events/low-energy-nuclear-reactions-workshop Some depressing ones: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021LENR_workshop_Metzler.pdf http://coldfusioncommunity.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1_JCMNS-Vol20.pdf https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/file

[Vo]:Elsevier’s new report highlights Pathways to Net Zero

Here is the mainstream, conventional view of future energy. Nothing about cold fusion, obviously. But this has useful information. Report: How can research help the world hit net zero by 2050? Explore emerging trends and opportunities to maximize the impact of clean-energy research in "Pathways t

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