Pentagon's DIA Issues Qualified Support of LENR

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kurt9
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I've been following LENR since around '93 or so and have seen many false starts. The most significant one being the Patterson cell in spring of '96. I am so jaded by LENR that I guess I will not believe it iis real until I can buy a LENR space heater at the local Home Depot.

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kurt9 wrote:I've been following LENR since around '93 or so and have seen many false starts. The most significant one being the Patterson cell in spring of '96. I am so jaded by LENR that I guess I will not believe it iis real until I can buy a LENR space heater at the local Home Depot.
I find Dr. Bussard's interpretation (via Tom Ligon) to be compelling.
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Re: Pentagon's DIA Issues Qualified Support of LENR

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It's curious that they completely ignore the Widom and Larsen research, which attributes LENR effects to the weak, not the strong, nuclear force:

http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/WL/ ... tml#papers

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Pons and Fleishman were supposed to be partnering with another researcher who was much more low-key, and thought the phenomenon was something which had been know to nuclear physics for a while, and totally predictable from known physics. The basic notion was the nuclear reaction was between deuterium (or hydrogen, for that matter) and the nuclei of the metal electrodes. It was not DD fusion at all. If this is correct, all the experiments trying to prove DD fusion were a total waste of time.


Dr. Bussard concluded platinum and palladium were the wrong choices due to cost, and the same thing could be done with nickel. My understanding is the reaction has been seen with nickel electrodes.
Hey, nickel. That sounds familiar...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bl ... f&oq=&aqi=

I certainly like this explanation better than the hydrino nonsense.

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