I'm attending an Australian Mars Society conference AMEC 2005 on Mars
rovers and exploration.
http://www.marssociety.org.au/
I'm going to mention LENR to those at the conference. There is still an
opening for papers so it may be semiformal presentation. Is there
anything I specifically should or should not say?
The main line I will take is that:
* Cold fusion work is not dead.
* Its nuclear reactions in a solid Hydride where quantum tunneling
and/or electron screening effects combine to reduce the charge
barrier of the nuclei to low enough levels to allow Deuteron/
Palladium and Deuteron/ Deuteron reactions. A few grams of fuel
would power a vehicle for a year or so.
* Reviewers are now acknowledging that it's a real effect, still not
fully reliable or understood, but some who were sceptical are now
less inclined to call it fraud or a mistake.
* The Second DOE report, December 2004, gave limited [ambiguus]
support for the data but argue that they still could not
understand it. A majority of the reviewers were much more
receptive and positive than the person that wrote the conclusion.
They did say more work should be done but recommended against
government funding.
* Doors are opening a little. Some of its opponents are slowly
coming around, conferences have been held at MIT, American
Physical Society, etc.
* We have up to 40 watts thermal per cc of palladium in some
configurations.
* We need people who can work on reducing the energy inputs to the
devices; computer controlled chemical and thermo-chemical systems.
* We need better heat flow control so we don’t allow the cell to
chill down below the starting temperature. It never was room
temperature fusion.
* We need people who can design and build efficient heat/steam
engines to convert the heat of the cells in to electricity.
* There are several dozen companies working on it worldwide.
* The technology could pop out of oblivion as a usable energy
technology at any time. It might be available to power Mars
operations.
* Any help would be appreciated.
Note the meeting I'll be attending is three weeks away and the dead line
for anything formal could change at any time. Quick comments would be
appreciated.
