Friday, March 15, 2013

GUEST EDITORIAL: AXIL ABOUT HOW LENR WILL PREVAIL




Now is the right time for LENR to emerge as a cutting edge nano-technology application that can be supported by an upcoming robust research and development nano-toolset.

Unfortunately, cold fusion has arrived decades too early when science and its practitioners were not ready or disposed to either explain or understand such a complex nano-process.

LENR has to dig itself out of a deep hole of public ridicule that this early discovery, ill-timed over-hyping, and underperformance as caused.

Furthermore, there is another unfortunate situation that also should be mentioned which has greatly retarded any progress in LENR research and its acceptance by the general public.

This inopportune happenstance is the ill-fated sense of competitive threat that LENR poses for the people who make their living from R&D and production of nuclear energy as well as the people who work to research the standard model of particle physics.

Their ultraconservative approach to their work lends them to apply to LENR the same sclerotic principles that block any progress in their own technology.

When the general public looks for an opinion from the nuclear or plasma physics community to help them formulate their judgment on the feasibility and the promise of LENR, this myopic public resource is ill-informed way beyond their expertise level to do so.


What LENR has lacked since it first emerged onto the scene in 1989 is the precise control required to make it understandable, reproducible, testable, reliable, powerful, and useful.

The emerging   first generation of LENR pioneering applications have revealed that fabrication and control of nickel nano-structures are basic to these rudimentary reactor systems to advance onto the threshold of industrial process heat applications.

LENR is recently proven to be more rightly a nano-technology rather than a nuclear one.

There has been an accelerating development of allied nano-technologies that can be applied to move LENR into the mainstream of robust industrial application.

Among these latest developments is the mastery of optical meta-surfaces that comprise a class of optical Meta-materials with a reduced dimensionality that is exhibiting exceptional abilities for controlling the flow and manipulation of heat and electrons at the nano-level. These new capabilities achieve the anomalously large photonic density of quantum mechanical states that underlie the industrial LENR process.

Illustrative of this point, I have just run across an article that explains some of the new nano-technologies that can be applied to advance process in LENR.

This article explains how optical nanophotonic circuits might harness clouds of electrons called "surface plasmons" to manipulate and control the routing of heat and light in devices far too tiny for conventional lasers.

Such a planar photonics technology is expected to facilitate new physics and enhanced functionality for devices that are distinctly different from those observed in their three-dimensional Meta Material counterparts.

As a result, this technology will enable new applications in imaging, sensing, data storage, quantum information processing, and solar energy harvesting and energy LENR production/harvesting.

New optical technologies using "meta-surfaces" capable of the ultra-efficient control of electromagnetic radiation at the sub-wavelength levels are nearing commercialization, with potential applications including advanced solar cells, thermo-electric generation, quantum computers, telecommunications, sensors and microscopes.

The recent progress in optical meta-surfaces can address the major issues hampering the full-scale development of Meta-Material technology, a technology that is central to the advancement of LENR to the next level. This capability includes cost-effective fabrication, and facilitation of challenging system integration issues.

The studies of new, low-loss, tunable plasmonic materials—such as transparent conducting oxides, nano-fibers, and inter-metallics—that can be used as building blocks for meta-surfaces will complement the exploration of smart designs and advanced energy and charge collection and switching capabilities.

This progress in meta-surface design and realization will lead to novel functionalities and improved performance and may result in the development of new types of ultrathin meta-surface LENR designs with unparalleled nano-properties and efficiencies.

These new designs would also be compatible with planar, low-cost manufacturing. In turn, these advances will lead to ultrathin devices over a wide range of sizes and capacities with unprecedented functionalities.

The next generation of LENR devices will extract energy from the depths of the atom and directly convert it into electricity at high efficiency without the encumbrance and constraints of thermodynamics needed when producing power from steam.

More like a battery then a reactor, the size of a LENR power module will be scalable over a wide range to power devices as small as cellphones and tablets to building toward very large reactors that can power apartment blocks and sports stadiums.

The future of LENR is ever brightening as the new nano-technologies burst onto the scene.  All that is required to make this future possible is a rethinking of the old timeworn attitudes, prejudices and misapplications that have plagued LENR from the day of its birth.

7 comments:

  1. The Author of this editorial has no credentials and has expounded nothing of serious interest.

    Robert Bragdon, PhD.

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    1. @Robert

      We suppose that you have some serious ideas on LENR,
      please tell us. Do you think that LENR are not nuclear reactions but thermodinamic anomalies (Maxwell Daemons) acting at nanoscale ? Are you (telepathically) saying that we cannot apply statistic (thermodinamic) to systems with countable number of objects (nanostructures) ? Do you think that strong non linearity at nanoscale (with the help of impulses) may be the silver key for understanding both catalysis and "LENR" ? Thanks for answering !

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    2. The same can be said for your comment.

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    3. Discovery
      It’s of great use to wonder
      Why our minds wander
      In awe of it all

      Being forever true
      Seeking the new

      We are just now discovering
      That which has always been

      Impatiently awaiting us
      Craving our keen attention
      Hoping for deeper understanding

      Awesome is
      The wonder of discovery

      And the power
      Of awe

      gbgoble2009


      Cold Fusion/LENR IS


      Cold Fusion/ LENR is…

      Like an ocean wave that is peaceful and powerful!

      Never suffer fools who try to disrupt Its’ path…
      Unaffected by any such things as that

      It will roll on and on and on…

      Effortlessly and endlessly

      Frothy and foaming

      And bubbling…

      Silent energy

      In Its’

      Wake

      Cold fusion now

      LENR

      Is


      gbgoble2012

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    4. Robert Bragdon, PhD.>"The Author of this editorial has no credentials ..."

      So what? Anyone may read the article and has its own opinion; why should I care about what you perceive as credentials? I may judge on my own and have no need for "credentials". I've read so many BS from people with credentials. In fact, your comment is exactly the kind of insight which offers no value whatever, just trolling... Why you care to make the such comment? It illustrates well your "credentials"...

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    5. you would agree with Nassim Nicholas Taleb...

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  2. Thank you Dr. Robert Bragdon for your comment.

    Even a negative comment is far better than indifference.

    From your comment I assume you are not interested in Nanoplasmonics as causation in LENR.

    To my best knowledge, no one with a professional education in Nanoplasmonics has drawn an association between this arcane field of study in nanotechnology and LENR.

    Yes, I do not make my living in this amazing field.

    What is your theory of LENR based on? Or do you even have a theory? Or do you think LENR is even valid?

    Where do you stand?

    I would like to purify my ideas in the fires of your detailed critique.

    Let us enter into a debate on this subject and see where the expertise lies.


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