Here is the story of the MIT presentation of the
latest-and-greatest from Mizuno and the well-funded Clean Planet startup
company- with a link to the slide show.
http://www.e-catworld.com/2014/03/29/slideshow-of-mizuno-yoshino-presentatio
n-at-mit-conference-published/
A link to the Clean Planet web site is here:
http://cleanplanet.co.jp/index.php?lang=en
Over 100 megajoules in a month long run. Very impressive.
AFAIK there is no larger energy net gain using deuterium as
the active isotope, than this report – in the past 24 years of LENR – at
least not with reliable documentation.
OK – here is what this latest work means to me logically and in the big
picture of the LENR field, given Mizuno’s credibility, the high level of
funding, the high level of respect given to Yoshino, and the quality of the
experiment as evidenced in the slides and the thoroughness of data.
1) If deuterium were to fuse to helium in LENR providing the excess
heat, copious fusion reactions should be seen in this work, and witnessed by
an unequivocally large amount of helium. Helium was not seen.
2) Caveat: does fusion to helium absolutely require palladium? (nickel
was used instead in this experiment).
3) Since nickel-deuterium gives excess heat without fusion, and costs
approximately 1,200 time less than Pd – is there any reason to even argue
over the nonexistence of helium? Palladium is dead. Helium is dead. Forget
about it.
4) Most of the old tests in Pd-D were milliwatt and watt level anyway.
Helium contamination was likely. But really, it’s not worth arguing over.
5) Greater credibility should be given to this newer result than
earlier work, for many reasons including the much higher power level. Some
of that old work was done by Mizuno himself, who has learned from it, and he
seems to have no problem ditching palladium and ditching the idea that
deuterium fuses to helium.
In short, Mizuno’s new work could be extremely important to the future of
LENR, especially if Rossi falters. In neither case is helium relevant. In
neither case is palladium relevant.
There is little technical reason to look back at the history of Pd-D or cold
fusion, prior to 2013, other than nostalgia.
Over. Gone. Kaput. Let’s move on to either Rossi et al with Ni-H, or Mizuno
with Ni-D or Cravens with H/D… at least until something better comes along.
The mantra of progress in any developing field is and should be “What have
you done for me lately?”
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