LENR-to-Market Weekly -- April 26, 2012 - Open Manufacturing

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http://pesn.com/2012/04/26/9602081_LENR-to-Market_Weekly_April27/
"Highlights this week include: A replication of LENR at Pirelli 
technical high school in Rome patented and offered for open source 
development; Defkalion posts job openings for nearly 20 positions; 
coverage of our Brillouin interview last week; Hagelstein demos to Mass. 
State Senator Tarr; Edmund Storms: A Student's Guide to Cold Fusion; two 
pending conferences. ... Italian high school teacher and engineer Ugo 
Abundo has released detailed plans thru the Italian blog 22Passi on how 
to build an LENR reactor like the one designed, built, tested and 
patented by himself and a group of professors students at the Leopoldo 
Pirelli High School in Rome. (E-CatSite; April 25, 2012) ..."

Another link on the Italian high schoolers who claim to have 
demonstrated LENR (previously called "cold fusion") and open sourced it:
http://e-catsite.com/2012/04/25/athanor-open-source-lenr-steps-forward/
"Italian high school teacher and engineer Ugo Abundo has released 
detailed plans thru the Italian blog 22Passi on how to build an LENR 
reactor like the one designed, built, tested and patented by himself and 
a group of professors and students at the Leopoldo Pirelli High School 
in Rome.  The reactor is an electrolytic cell much in the tradition of 
the one first built by Dr. Martin Fleishmann and Dr. Stanley Pons at the 
University of Utah in 1989.  However, modifications have been made and 
the current device most closely resembles a Ohmori-Mizuno cell, an early 
test cell built by 2  Japanese researchers with those respective 
surnames. The cell has been further modified by Eng. Abundo and his 
group to include a proprietary cathode that serves as the ï¿½heartï¿½ of the 
unit.  This cathode has been patented.  However, accordingly to Eng. 
Abundo, the purpose of this patent is not to protect intellectual 
property rights per se, but more to ensure that no one else patents this 
device and subsequently attempts to prevent others from replicating it. 
In fact, it is the goal of Eng. Abundo to see this cell widely 
replicated, thus aiding in confirming the results of his group in 
particular and LENR in general. Three Italian universities have 
reportedly already stepped forward and volunteered to confirm the 
results of the Leopoldo Pirelli High School group but the names of these 
institutions and the time table of their involvement is not clear.
   Reportedly the Athanor cell produces energy at a coefficient of 
performance (COP) of 4, or 400% over the input energy.  By comparison, 
Andrea Rossiï¿½s e-Cat reportedly has a COP of 6 and the device of rival 
Defkalion, the Hyperion, has a COP of 20. But, rest assured, the goal of 
the Pirelli HS Group is not to compete with Rossi or Defkalion, but to 
widely disseminate this technology in hopes of definitively providing 
proof of principal to a skeptical world."

So, there are now multiple open source efforts on LENR, and it is 
(allegedly) been demonstrated by high school students. There is a 
picture on that page of a high school student holding a reaction 
chamber. However, it is still possible they have made some sort of error 
in their calculations, like heat coming from the oxidation of metal, so 
it still needs further replication and analysis.

Another effort previously mentioned:
http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/12/on-the-hunt-for-the-catalyst-open-catalyst-crowd-project-forms-to-advance-cold-fusion/

Plus there are calls to Rossi to open source the eCat:
http://www.e-catworld.com/2011/11/open-source-the-e-cat/

Mitsubishi and Toyota have apparently announced related replications of 
LENR work, too.
http://ecatnews.com/?p=2179
"A number of eCatNews posters have questioned the lack of attention 
given to the Mitsubishi-Toyota results cited in Celaniï¿½s recent CERN 
presentation. Given the date on the linked pdf (2002) and the pedigree 
of the organisations involved, it is curious that such (apparently) 
strong evidence of low energy nuclear transmutation (from Cs to Pr) has 
not given LENR-denouncers pause for thought. I place the link here to 
focus attention in the hope that our resident experts might help us 
understand why the evidence for LENR ( including these transmutation 
results and more) does not spark a change in attitude. Given such a 
change and considering where LENR could lead us as a species, surely it 
is criminally stupid not to give the field some real attention and 
public backing?"

Still, it remains possible LENR (cold fusion) is all a confusion or a 
scam, especially until I see LENR devices in Home Depot to replace hot 
water heaters -- and even then, they might still be a scam, considering 
how many Home Depot products don't work exactly as hoped for. :-) For 
example, I just bought a LED light at Home Depot (at about 50% more than 
the online cost, it turns out). I'm hoping it really works as promised 
for 22.8 years. I'm not so much concerned about the energy efficiency of 
it, with electric heat, but the fixture I want to put it in is hard to 
access and requires getting on a ladder. Given how disappointed I've 
been with compact florescent bulbs, watching one burn out in months 
after making a buzzing noise from the start, plus knowing CF bulbs are a 
toxic waste hazard to clean up if they break due to mercury, I'm waiting 
to see what the "gotchas" are for the LED lights. No doubt LENR devices, 
if they work, will suffer the same kind of issues (low level 
radioactivity, occasional meltdowns, the discovery of new forms of 
radiation toxic to house plants, etc.).

I liked the points "Kim" makes here in a comment on artificial scarcity 
(I reformatted the text a bit): :-)
http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/04/english-translation-of-build-instructions-for-pirelli-athanor-cell/
"Our society is run by concept ï¿½artificial scarcityï¿½. If it scarce then 
it has ï¿½valueï¿½. Men known as bankers, gather scarcity. gold energy 
diamonds ectï¿½ If there is not enough than it has more control value. 
What a crockï¿½ Its the grand illusion perpetuated from Birth. There is 
plenty of every thing ad nauseum. Its the lynch pin to control. i.e. 
ï¿½Slavesï¿½. Energy is free. Why do you think that they suppress it in your 
face. The last thing they want is for the people know that every thing 
is free and abundant.
Respect
Kim"

By the way, on diamonds, from 1982, just to show how long this kind of 
"artificial scarcity" thing can go on (even ignoring "industrial 
diamonds" produces synthetically):
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/4575/
"The diamond inventionï¿½the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare 
and valuable, and are essential signs of esteemï¿½is a relatively recent 
development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late 
nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India 
and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem 
diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond 
mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where 
diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton. Suddenly, the market 
was deluged with diamonds. The British financiers who had organized the 
South African mines quickly realized that their investment was 
endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic valueï¿½and their price depended 
almost entirely on their scarcity. The financiers feared that when new 
mines were developed in South Africa, diamonds would become at best only 
semiprecious gems. The major investors in the diamond mines realized 
that they had no alternative but to merge their interests into a single 
entity that would be powerful enough to control production and 
perpetuate the illusion of scarcity of diamonds. ..."

In a way, given the potential for solar energy, wind, and thorium power 
even before LENR, is that not essentially similar to what we have seen 
with global energy supplies? I'm not saying solar energy, wind, and 
thorium power do not have serious technical hurdles for widespread 
adoption, same as for hot and cold fusion. It is just that a trillion 
dollars directed into any of those fields in the 1980s would have solved 
any energy shortages and given us abundant clean energy. Jimmy Carter 
tried to start that process, to his credit, like with solar panels on 
the White House, even if he made mistakes. But instead our society 
(especially in the USA) put the money into armaments and subsidizing 
fossil fuel systems (including by ignoring the health and environmental 
costs plus giving "depletion" tax preferences) and at the same time 
essentially vilified and ridiculed those who worked on alternative 
energy (and in the case of cold fusion, effectively censored any 
discussion in the mainstream physics community).
http://www.disciplined-minds.com/
http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue24/tenyears.html

Thankfully, through DIY and small scale local efforts, including most 
recently by a few inquisitive Italian high school students and their 
courageous teacher, our society has continued to make progress on 
alternative decentralized energy. I can hope that our society 
socioeconomically can shift smoothly into the abundant future these make 
possible, and the comment by "Kim" quoted above gives me some hope in 
that direction.

Like Bucky Fuller said:
http://www.betterworld.net/quotes/option-quotes.htm
"Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable 
to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed 
everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We 
know now what we could never have known before -- that we now have the 
option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this 
lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go 
relay race right up to the final moment."

The Open Source / Open Manufacturing movement is an increasingly 
important part of that relay race.

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
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The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies 
of abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.
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