Monday, April 25, 2016

LENR, Nuclear and Energy Disruption


While Saudia Arabia commits to sweeping economic reforms to reduce dependence on oil revenues, Canada talks up new pipelines to move expensively-extracted Alberta crude to distant US refineries and to Pacific ports for export to Asia.

With their 2020 Vision Plan, the Saudis vow to avoid unemployment by diversifying their economy through such actions as setting up a mega sovereign wealth fund, military production and mineral mining investments.

Germany is on course to eliminate nuclear by 2022, while resource-poor and earth-quake prone Japan teeters on reactivating shuttered nuclear reactors.

Governments of Australia, China, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, the Scandinavian nations and the US all pursue LENR research.

A recent Ministry of Defense report contained this paragraph:

"This MOD report selected five credible strategic shocks and the third one is about a new energy source, more efficient than anything available currently.“New Energy Source. A novel, efficient form of energy generation could be developed that rapidly lowers demand for hydrocarbons. For example, the development of commercially available cold fusion reactors could result in the rapid economic marginalisation of oil-rich states. This loss of status and income in undiversified economies could lead to state-failure and provide opportunities for extremist groups to rise in influence.”

Yet Canada, (developer of the CANDU reactor) appears content to monitor LENR R&D while it clings to oil, and extends operating approval of ageing nuclear reactors. The least that Canadian and British governments should do is support home-grown LENR research and engineering. On the international field, playing catch-up is a loser's game.
http://www.e-catworld.com/2016/04/26/uk-government-position-on-rossis-work-unverifiable/

PS
While the string of large nations engage in LENR R&D, Canada and the UK offer a string of excuses for sitting on the fence. Excuses won’t protect their high living standards as markets move from centralized nuclear and fossil-fueled power generation to nonradioactive and nonpolluting dispersed energy production.
But, not to worry! The sun will never rise on the world's largest commercial nuclear boondogel -Hinkley Point.

March 25, 2016
Nuclear & Fossils fizzle while Rossi & IH duel.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/has-us-nuclear-powers-death-spiral-begun

April 29, 2016
Belgian reaction to calls for closure of aged nuclear reactors is distribution of potassium iodide pills.
http://www.dw.com/en/belgium-says-its-nuclear-plants-are-safe-but-here-are-some-iodine-pills-just-in-case/a-19223966

May 2, 2016
ITER projects results by 2035. This could be its last gasp as some nations could cease contributions.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6286/636
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-iter-nuclear-fusion-project-faces-new-delay-cost-overrun-les-echos-2016-5



1 Comments:

At April 29, 2016, Blogger sjfertig said...

SOrry, I think this comment re: UK Gov't involvement, or lack thereof, appearing on the ecat blog is exactly right:

My preference for UK Gov is to push them to fund research based on what open science there is out there. Guys like Peter Hagelstein in particular have some credibility in this field, they should be the starting point.

We won't get any kind of official DECC recognition until there is a genuinely credible independently reviewed and totally publicly available verification. That is only right and to be expected. That's my biggest issue and source of doubt over Rossi, why wouldn't he just use SGS or someone? It would have cost $100k tops, they would have signed a confidentiality agreement, and (if it's real) he would have about 100x more credibility right now.

 

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