I am a little bit surprised to see such comments...
The technologygateway is not intended for scientists or for details on
science which is going on at NASA. It is for showing the / a broader
public what NASA is doing. It's a kind of advertisement place for NASA
to a broader public! This is, why there are no details in the video (for
this, see also the quote of Zawodny at the end of Krivits recent article
http://blog.newenergytimes.com/2012/01/13/lenr-gold-rush-begins-at-nasa/).
And this is also why there are subtitles: Deaf people really have
problems in understanding what is being said in the video.
The reason, why this is a breakthrough, is not because of technical
details or new inventions, but because NASA is so sure of LENR that they
are willing to publicly stand behind LENR and defend it (and I don't
mean public in the sense of "let some scientists and the community know
this might be real" but "let average Joe know this is real!")! There is
no other organization of this "weight" and with this reputation which is
doing that at the moment! (and there aren't many organizations in the
world with this reputation at all, perhaps MIT / Stanford and some
others, although wasn't it MIT which discredited the FPE back in 89?).
Wolf
You can reach the video from here:
http://technologygateway.nasa.gov/ and it's headlined like this
"Feature Stories: NASA's Method for a Clean Nuclear Energy For Your
Power Operated Technology"
This is, well... sort of weird. I wonder if anyone in NASA's PR
department or higher management has seen it. First of all, the
production values are lousy. It looks as if it was shot with a cheap
web cam. It features Zawodny who is mostly out of focus during his
strange, hesitant talk which is hard enough to understand, it's
subtitled! They talk about an un-named fuel of some sort which is
unchanged in mass by the reaction which is basically unexplained.
They don't say where the excess heat is from. They keep referring to
this fuel as "it". And they only say somehow carbon, nickel and
hydrogen are involved. The rest is the usual obvious and irrelevant
comments about how inexpensive thermal energy can be used. Everybody
already knows that.
As "Angus" wrote on the Moletrap forum: "Oh goodie. Another "we're
looking at it, and if we can get it to work it could heat your house
and do other wonderful things" video. There's nothing new about the
idea of using surface plasmons to bung neutrons into atomic nuclei.
NASA has been "looking at it" since 2005
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006cmns...12..156C>. So far nobody's
house is getting heated." I might add nobody has made a cup of tea
with it either.
Craig Brown, still, amazingly enough, a Steorn believer, is promoting
this clip as a breakthrough. It's nothing of the kind. There is no
real theory presented, there is no experiment, and there are no
results. I am disappointed that NASA would air such a contentless
clip. I have no idea what they're thinking.
