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Nov 112011
 

Good dialogue with New Energy Times reader Bruce Burman today:

Burman: Great blog these days with the E-Cat stuff.  You know, if you were not pointing out this reality, the entire LENR field would look like kooky fringe pseudoscience when this is done playing out.

Krivit: Thank you Bruce.

Burman: Because you are closer to the ground floor on this stuff, what is your opinion as to the likelihood of a true LENR power device coming online over the next 15 years?

SK: That is the most common question I get and the hardest to answer. I can only guess: A small low-power device: High likelihood.

BB: Is there enough real research being done to get us there?

SK: As far as I know, and at the moment, the field does not have the forward motion it needs. So right now, no.

BB: Do the brightest minds believe it to be possible?

SK: This is the very good news. Yes, without a doubt. Strong support exists both experimentally and theoretically. Particularly with people outside the field who are not cold fusion believers, they see the possibility of weak interactions/neutron-capture LENR processes. I’m not a [paid promoter] for WLT, but I think they are light years ahead of anybody else. I have spoken with people who have taken the time and who have the capacity to understand it, and WLT seems to be a game changer.

Either Larsen needs to get going and make it happen, or somebody else has to figure out what Larsen has figured out, or improve on Larsen’s understanding, and then make it happen.

[Added, 18:00h]

BB: My big concern is we’re going to turn our planet into an other Venus with the trajectory we are on, everyone wants the perfect energy source (cheap, clean, plentiful) or nothing is going to change.

I guess I am trying to figure the odds of a game changer. Thanks for the info on Larsen I will brush up on it this weekend.

SK:
– Modern civilization is built on the assumption and expectation of a perpetual supply of cheap fossil fuel energy.
-Availability of cheap fossil fuel energy is on a gradual downward trajectory.
– Modern civilization’s consumption of energy is on a gradual upward trajectory.
– Solar doesn’t work at night and windmills doesn’t work when there is no wind.
– The idea that any large society will voluntarily and significantly reduce its energy consumption is a fantasy.
– Uranium-thorium breeder reactors can provide hundreds of years of low-waste power but we would have to build hundreds of them.
– We need no asteroid to hit the Earth to cause widespread devastation.
– Without a game-changer, we are on track for a disaster.
– There is no time for fantasies or fraud.

[Added, 20:36h]

SK: Larsen wrote one of the best overviews of LENR on Doug Natelson’s blog. Here is an excerpt:

“LENR-related phenomena have been episodically reported in mainstream scientific literature for over 100 years. In the past, most such discoveries were either written-off as experimental error or simply inexplicable anomalous phenomena — scientific curiosities with no sensible theoretical explanation. Unlike strong interaction fission and fusion, even substantial fluxes of LENRs in condensed matter do not typically produce large amounts of dangerous ‘hard’ photon or neutron radiation, or long-lived radioactive isotopes, so they could easily go unnoticed or sometimes even mimic prosaic chemical isotopic ‘fractionation’ processes — hidden in plain sight, as they say.

“All of this prior 100-year history is understandable because LENR triggering mechanisms in condensed matter systems are very subtle, depending on multistep, nanoscale, many-body, collective quantum phenomena that are very difficult to reliably replicate unless one has mastery of certain key elements of nanotechnology and plasmonics that are required to do so. Indeed, the requisite technical knowledge and related fabrication techniques in nanotech that are crucial to conducting truly productive interdisciplinary R&D programs in LENRs have only become available within the past several years — they simply didn’t exist 20 or even 10 years ago. Today, they finally do.”

Nov 102011
 

According to a slide presentation given by NASA engineer Michael A. Nelson, which New Energy Times obtained under a FOIA request, “Energy Catalyzer” inventor Andrea Rossi failed to conclusively show that his device produced excess heat from a nuclear energy source.

According to Nelson, a NASA engineer who investigates low-energy nuclear reactions and space applications, Rossi did not run his demonstration long enough to prove his extraordinary claim.

At the Sept. 22, 2011 LENR Workshop at NASA Glenn Research Center, Nelson explained that Rossi “would need to run [his experiment] for eight hours or more with a small E-Cat and much longer for an Ottoman [Fat-Cat] to rule out a chemical reaction.”

According to Nelson, it would take “three or more days for a small E-Cat, two or more weeks for an Ottoman [Fat-Cat] E-Cat and several months for a 1 MW plant.”

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Brian Ahern, a researcher with expertise in LENR, wrote to New Energy Times with a concise summary of the recent Oct. 28 Rossi demo:

“Rossi has been clever enough to change the trick on each successive demo. Using a secret customer is a great way to allow him to fulfill his promise to demo the 1 MW unit in October.  He  then evaded conducting the demo transparently by saying that the customer demanded the demo conditions. The “customer’ signed off when Rossi gave him the wink and he shut things down without any measurements by anyone except the shill.

“Occam’s Razor, on the other hand, says that 12 inconclusive demos in succession are not random. It is well planned and orchestrated. He has used the journalists like a team of puppets.”

Nov 102011
 

Fox News, MSNBC, Wired and other mainstream media outlets based their recent stories on “Energy Catalyzer” inventor Andrea Rossi on information they obtained from Sterling Allan.

Fox News called Allan the CEO of an “alternative energy news agency.”  Here is another example of the news reported by Allan:

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Nov 102011
 

“All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true in itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.”

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Title:      Mein Kampf
Author:     Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Translated into English by James Murphy (died 1946).
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Language:   English
Date first posted: September 2002
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Nov 102011
 

Sterling Allan, the “CEO” of a free energy Web site called Pure Energy Systems – which purports to be a news source – is seeking a business relationship with “Energy Catalyzer” promoter Andrea Rossi.

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Andrea Rossi and Sterling Allan

Fox News, MSNBC, Wired and other mainstream media outlets based their recent stories on Rossi on information they obtained from Allan.

Swedish-American Peter Svensson, a technology journalist with the Associated Press went to see the Rossi show but either he or his editors decided against writing a story on Rossi’s extraordinary device.

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Peter Svensson and Sterling Allan

The Rossi spectacle owes much of its success to the promotional journalism by Swedish technology journalist Mats Lewan of Ny Teknik.

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Sterling Allan and Mats Lewan

From Allan’s Web site: “I am seeking a business relationship with Andrea Rossi. My trip was sponsored by Farlie Paynter of Canada, as well as by Mike Spitzauer, CEO of Green Power Inc (GPI), the Waste-to-Diesel Fuel company in Pasco, Washington.”(Source image)

From Allan’s Web site: “If you are a qualified and serious customer, you can contact Leonardo Corporation (Rossi’s company), and reserve your spot in line for one of these plants. By being one of the first customers in the world to purchase a one megawatt E-Cat plant, you will be showing your savvy and refined business sense, which led you to purchase the most attractive energy production method on the planet.

“Your dedication to helping move human civilization forward, into a new scientific era. The introduction of the E-Cat technology will be a sign that humanity can engineer a solution to any problem we have. There is no longer anything that is impossible!” (Source image)

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