Brillouin Energy Corp. (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR)

[Meredith Poor + 883]

https://brillouinenergy.com/

Recent press releases indicate that this company is commercializing a hydrogen fusion Low Energy Nuclear Reactor. This is not DT (deuterium) based - the starting fuel is plain old hydrogen. Essentially, it produces 3 times as much heat energy as it receives as electrical input, for example 40 watts in and 120 watts out. They are building a factory to make these reactors, so they consider this to be beyond the R&D phase.

[turbguy + 1,401]

AHH!

Fleischmann and Pons.

Low temperature nuclear reactions.

Aka, "cold fusion (not)".

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/september/not-cold-fusion

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/its-not-cold-fusion-but-its-something/

Ever since I investigated luminescence emanating from cavitation experiments, I kinda suspected something was going on.  Particularly when ionizing radiation has been observed to occur in the tailraces of operating hydro turbines.

Keep in mind that such nuclear reactions occur all the time, such as radioactive decay.

This "stuff" is not well understood (yet).  Most particle physics deals with the interaction of two particles.  Multi-particle interactions are possible as well.

It would really be a game changer if it is true.

 

Edited March 11, 2023 by turbguy

[Meredith Poor + 883]

https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/Lattice-Confinement-Fusion-POC-with-PRC-links-July-17-Final-3.pdf

NASA Lattice Confinement Fusion

[turbguy + 1,401]

1 hour ago, Meredith Poor said:

https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/Lattice-Confinement-Fusion-POC-with-PRC-links-July-17-Final-3.pdf

NASA Lattice Confinement Fusion

That technique is gonna take a LOT of radiation shielding.

A gamma ray excitation source is nothing to fool around with.

[Meredith Poor + 883]

On 3/12/2023 at 1:03 AM, turbguy said:

That technique is gonna take a LOT of radiation shielding.

A gamma ray excitation source is nothing to fool around with.

Another thing to read up on.

Brillouin-Press-Release-EIN-Greg-Knight-and-Chester-Aldridge-Lead-Commercialization-2-13-23.pdf

[turbguy + 1,401]

9 hours ago, Meredith Poor said:

Another thing to read up on.

Brillouin-Press-Release-EIN-Greg-Knight-and-Chester-Aldridge-Lead-Commercialization-2-13-23.pdf 40.01 kB · 0 downloads

Just an announcement of heads involved in this scheme, repeating prior claims.

Keep in mind an electric heat pump puts out more heat than a resistance heater of the same power draw.  And, you can buy them today.

Even on cold environments, they give at least 2 watts of heat for every watt of electricity.

That said, somethings going on...

 

 

[Meredith Poor + 883]

11 hours ago, turbguy said:

That said, somethings going on...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319945408_Nickel-hydrogen_reactors_Heat_generation_isotopic_and_elemental_composition_of_fuel

This is what's going on. It's a bit of a read. The main point is that multiple parties have replicated the 'excess heat production'. A lot of this centers around an interaction between Nickel and Lithium Aluminum Hydride (LiAlH4).

Some of the stuff that I read in Wikipedia on Nickel suggests that Nickel and Hydrogen nuclei (protons) have a 'knife edge instability', such that the lattice matrix can be 'pushed over the edge' with the arrival of a gamma ray photon or some other similarly energetic event. At that point the hydrogen fuses with the nickel, which then triggers radioactive decay, leading to energy release.

[Meredith Poor + 883]

Anyone with multiple PhDs in particle physics might find these links interesting:

https://ecatthenewfire.com/

https://brilliantlightpower.com/

Anyone speculating in hydrocarbon marketplaces should be terrified.

[Rob Plant + 2,616]

41 minutes ago, Meredith Poor said:

Anyone with multiple PhDs in particle physics might find these links interesting:

https://ecatthenewfire.com/

https://brilliantlightpower.com/

Anyone speculating in hydrocarbon marketplaces should be terrified.

Or the E-cat could just be a decade old scam!!!

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/e-cat-skled-a-decade-old-cold-fusion-scam-still-being-mentioned-to-this-day/

I strongly suggest brilliantlightpower is also a scam.

[markslawson + 1,042]

On 3/11/2023 at 1:30 PM, Meredith Poor said:

https://brillouinenergy.com/

Recent press releases indicate that this company is commercializing a hydrogen fusion Low Energy Nuclear Reactor. This is not DT (deuterium) based - the starting fuel is plain old hydrogen. Essentially, it produces 3 times as much heat energy as it receives as electrical input, for example 40 watts in and 120 watts out. They are building a factory to make these reactors, so they consider this to be beyond the R&D phase.

 

On 3/11/2023 at 3:59 PM, turbguy said:

Fleischmann and Pons.

Low temperature nuclear reactions

 

8 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

Or the E-cat could just be a decade old scam!!!

See this note from a paper on the issue

Our three judges, all physicists, agreed with my opponents
that neither Brillouin nor Rossi had demonstrated evidence of LENR above 50% probability.
They were more open than some of my opponents to the suggestion that the field met the lower
bar, which recommended it for serious attention, given what was potentially at stake. 

The paper is not saying ignore it but that there is almost enough there to be worth further investigation as way out of the emission-energy problems. About all that can really be said.. wouldn't invest in it. Keep an eye on the company.