Having retired from 37 years in the portable electronics world, I hate these scenarios where LENR are suggested for application to cellphones. They all suffer from the same problem as the fuel cell powered cellphone - waste heat. When a Li battery discharges in powering a phone it produces very little heat because the stored chemical to electrical conversion efficiency is very high. In a fuel cell, the theoretical conversion efficiency is about 50% which means that you will have 50% waste heat. Phones are limited in their design by their internally generated waste heat. In fact, charging rate is managed by the host processor, not on the basis of how fast the battery can charge or how much power the charger can supply, but by the heat being generated in the phone. No one is going to use a heat engine in the phone even at perfect Carnot efficiency for conversion due to inability of the phone to rid itself of the waste heat. People don't even like to talk too long today with the phone to their ear because the phone heats up during talking (in particular if you are in a fringe area where the phone is using max transmit power) - and this heat is not from the battery conversion to electricity, it is only the heat from the DC-modulated RF conversion.
There are also issues of battery failures causing dangerous fires and explosions even with the energy in today's Li battery. Nobody is going to want a phone that can fail with the energy of a stick of dynamite. This doesn't mean that there is no room for LENR in portable products. Sometimes heat is needed. I had this conversation with Mitchell Swartz at ICCF-18 regarding the Nanor. One of the problems that Li batteries have is that they don't have much capacity below 0C. This is because the electrolyte basically is beginning to freeze. You could use a LENR Nanor device as an efficient means to heat the battery in cold temperatures. Until LENR produces devices with >90% of their energy going straight to electricity (less than 10% waste heat), the application is not for powering portable electronics. Think elsewhere. On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a video which is pregnant with real world ideas about where to go > with the Holmlid technique and SPR (surface plasmon resonance). I think > the “future will be small” for dense hydrogen - in the sense of merging > with microlithography for high value products. > > *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9aUQSK_QE&html5=1* > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J9aUQSK_QE&html5=1> > > Since Holmlid has found that green laser light works to densify hydrogen > on a catalyst, we can assume that SPR for iron oxide is in resonance with > this light 532 nm. Sometimes 266 nm (UV) harmonics are seen from YAG > lasers – so the precise stimulant for making dense deuterium could be in > this range and supplied by a semiconductor diode. If the dense material is > applied to a chip and diode array, and the shelf life is adequate, it > could be arguably possible to make a battery or heat source which will > last a very long time. Heck, one microgram of dense deuterium represents about > 30 kWhrs of thermal energy. If converted to electricity via TEG at low 10% > efficiency, that could power an iphone or laptop into the next decade J > > There is probably (hopefully) a safer but less efficient way to use dense > hydrogen than nucleon disintegration. >
