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Rossi Interview Transcript Excerpts Published

Oct 112012
 
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Andrea Rossi. Image courtesy Mats Lewan

Oct. 11, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

In 2011, Andrea Rossi, a convicted criminal with a string of failed energy ventures in his past, sought media attention and credibility for a device he said could produce extraordinary levels of low-energy nuclear reaction-based excess heat. To a certain degree, his device appeared to copy the work of Francesco Piantelli. Piantelli is a retired professor of physics from the University of Sienna in Italy and has a long history of credible, published LENR research.

On June 14 and 15, 2011, I was in Bologna, Italy, interviewing Rossi and filming his Energy Catalyzer device. I also interviewed his colleague, Sergio Focardi, professor emeritus at the University of Bologna Physics Department, whom Rossi had befriended. I also interviewed Giuseppe Levi, a professor of physics at the University of Bologna.

I have just published transcript excerpts from my video interviews of Rossi, Focardi and Levi. We produced these transcripts many months ago with the help of several New Energy Times readers, but I had forgotten to publish them until now. Continue reading »

National Ignition Facility Fails to Ignite

Oct 082012
 

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Oct. 8, 2012 – Article by New York Times, Photos by Steven B. Krivit –

The world’s most energetic laser has failed to meet its latest deadline for achieving ignition, the New York Times reports.

Source: New York Times

After spending more than $5 billion to build and operate a giant laser installation the size of a football stadium, the Energy Department has not achieved its goal of igniting a fusion reaction that could produce energy to generate power or simulate what happens in a nuclear weapon.

The latest deadline for achieving ignition was last Sunday, Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2012, but it passed amid mounting concerns that the technical challenges were too great to be mastered on a tight time schedule.

Congress will need to look hard at whether the project should be continued, or scrapped or slowed to help reduce federal spending.

Story Continues Here

Here are some photos I shot of NIF during a tour last year. Click each one to see larger versions. Continue reading »

Discover Magazine Finds Widom-Larsen LENR Theory

Oct 052012
 

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Oct. 6, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

The latest issue of Discover magazine includes a two-page article by Mark Anderson that features the Widom-Larsen ultra-low-momentum neutron-catalyzed theory of low-energy nuclear reactions.

The title is “Bring Back the Cold Fusion Dream,” and the subtitle is “A new theory may explain the notorious cold fusion experiment from two decades ago, reigniting hopes of a clean-energy breakthrough.”

No other LENR theory is mentioned in the Discover article, although there are plenty. However, as Anderson wrote, none of the other theories has as much going for it as does the Widom-Larsen theory. Even Ephraim Fischbach, a Purdue University physicist, favored the Widom-Larsen theory over his Purdue colleague Yeong Kim’s “cold fusion” theory, according to Anderson.

“The Widom-Larsen theory is the best-formulated explanation of what’s going on,” Fischbach said. Continue reading »

EPRI-Ahern Report: LENR Is 45 Times More Energetic Than Diesel

Sep 272012
 

Sept. 27, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

[This is the fourth of a four-part series. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.]

This article reports on low-energy nuclear reaction research performed by Brian Ahern, an independent researcher from Boxborough, Mass. Ahern has been researching LENRs for the past four years. He has worked on the nanomaterial and hydrogen-isotope-gas-absorption LENR method. His LENR research was partially sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute, an independent research company that provides technology, policy and economic analyses to the companies that produce 90 percent of the electricity generated and delivered in the United States.

Ahern’s intention was to replicate the nanomaterial and hydrogen-isotope-gas-absorption experiment developed by professors Yoshiaki Arata and Yue-Chang Zhang at Osaka University beginning in 2005. (See New Energy Times story here.)

Since then, other groups, mostly in Japan, attempted replications of the Arata/Zhang work. These included a Technova-sponsored group at Kobe University, as well as a group at the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan. (See the second and third articles in this four-part series.)

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Toyota’s and Kobe University’s Progress in LENR

Sep 262012
 

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Sept. 26, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –

[This is the third of a four-part series. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.]

This article continues the story of the development of low-energy nuclear reaction nanomaterial research in Japan. After researchers at Kobe University reported their work on the nanomaterial and hydrogen-isotope-gas absorption method of LENRs in 2009, researchers at the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories attempted a replication within a year.

Researchers from Toyota first reported low-energy nuclear reaction research in 2007. In July that year, Tatsumi Hioki, N. Takahashi and Motohiro Tomoyoshi reported that they had attempted to replicate the deuterium gas permeation method developed by Yasuhiro Iwamura at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. In 2010, the Toyota team first reported its attempts to replicate Arata/Zhang’s work at Osaka. Continue reading »

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