Their (AAA) device is immense and expensive, worse than common day fission nuclear plants. IMHO it would suffer the same financial issues associated with the nuclear power plants here and elsewhere. The world needs small, cheap, non-centralized power supplies.
Moritz did not support this concept while in DOE and probably won’t change his mind. That’s what that is. I suspect he is dreading the looming E-Cat trial by jury and/or settlement out of court, which may not be secret. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 7:46 AM To: Vortex List<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: [Vo]:AAA Fission/Fusion There are jokes that never cease about hot fusion being only 20 years away... not worth repeating except to say, sooner or later there could be no joke left if we simply rename the process ... and we may have passed a 20 year marker anyway. Let's relabel it as neutron-free-fission to distance it from the boondoggles of fusion. Did you know that former U.S. Energy Secretary and Physicist, Dr Ernest Moniz joined the Board of Directors of Privately funded Tri Alpha Energy recently? Few outside of California took notice... unless they have google alerts. This could be a big deal, but not LENR. Even without neutrons, the technology is as far from LENR as from a Tokamak. But Moniz brings instant credibility, not that they needed it. The company is somewhat secretive, even with a web site, yet the few visitors allowed are genuinely impressed, and the company has raised a ton of money. Recent reports (off-the-record of course) of the final breakthrough leading to a commercial order in fewer than 20 years are ... shall we say... a bit glowing. https://trialphaenergy.com/news/<http://www.trialphaenergy.com/> As any reader of vortex would know - the history of the tri-alpha boron reaction: 11B(p,α)αα which is essentially boron fission instead of fusion... is almost as old as nuclear physics itself. The reaction was studied by Lord Rutherford 75 years ago. Then he used proton energies of 200 keV, and a crude accelerator -- whereas resonance is much higher 675 keV. So close but so far away.
