A recent trend that is "gaining traction" in the LENR world is what can be called the pycno-IEC reactor. It is really more than a trend, and may soon be approaching 'paradigm shift.'
It will likely be the first commercial product to come out of the P&F effect, after a delay of over twenty years, yet it is not cold fusion, and is actually very close to what Farnsworth did in the sixties, with one major difference - and also to what BLP is now doing now - more than anything else. Arata/Zhang were the first group that I am aware of - to mention harvesting or collecting "pycnodeuterium" for use in hot or warm fusion, specifically IEC - that is: if Storms did not come first - but Miley and others are not far behind, if they did not come first: http://www.ias-spes.org/SPESIF2010/FORUM/Abstracts/Miley_LS2_abs.html Actually Miley has had this small IEC reactor out in commercial production, for some time, made in Germany if memory serves - but it is basically a glorified Farnsworth Fusor . not even close to breakeven when fueled with D2 gas. . but of course, it is/was NOT true LENR, no matter how he wants to characterize it .. since we are talking about a minimum of 20 kilovolts and more like 50 kV as the power supply . that may not change with the "new fuel'. (which will probably be made in an adjoining device). . yet, it seems like just recently, Miley et al. has added this new twist to it - instead of fueling an IEC with bland old deuterium gas - in the new version, one will first make and collect the "high density form of deuterium", which AFAIK is identical in every way to pycnodeuterium ! . which AFAIK is identical in every way to fractional, or below-ground-state deuterium !! Wow. What goes around, comes around . as they say. And guess what? This advance may be the one that pushes LENR over the top, in terms of commercialization. Yet, we will need a new name for it, since it combines elements of both 'cold' and 'warm' fusion an let's not forget Philo Farnsworth . BTW - Someone please set me straight on the historical dates, if I am wrong, since all of this is not clear in the literature that I have available (i.e. who did what, when). What is clearer is that getting BLP involved in the IP makes it a Patent Law Firm's dream case. The most important invention since the integrated circuit could be tied up in court for years, with or without the help of Big Oil (probably with). and Oh Yeah, about that new name? It will be impossible to credit Farnsworth, P&F, Mills, and the more recent groups (Storms Arata Miley) - all in the same name, no? . but Philo, Pons, and Pycno all have the 'p' so how about the "Phusor"? Oops, Mitchell S. coined that brilliant name some time ago (and maybe MS is onto "the trend" as well). OK. Many of us are now using f/H to mean "generic fractional hydrogen", since Mills has trademarked the 'Hydrino' name, and is now trying to enforce the (tm), but in any event RM did not get the theory precisely correct, so how about this - ta-da: The "f/Husor" ? . ok don't laugh, nobody's perfect . Jones
