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Tue Nov 10, 2015, 09:48 AM Nov 2015

Information session on LENR Energy Technology hosted at U.S. Capitol

BRILLOUIN ENERGY CORP. HOSTS INFORMATION SESSION ON LENR THERMAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AT U.S. CAPITOL

NOVEMBER 9, 2015 - By RUBY CARAT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brillouin Energy Corp. presented its groundbreaking thermal energy technology on Capitol Hill last week. Attendees included Members of Congress, congressional aides, federal government officials, industry representatives, and citizens’ groups concerned with the federal government’s progress on developing clean energy solutions.

“It was great to see that much interest in DC for a true safe green nuclear power technology,” commented Brillouin’s President and Chief Technology Officer, Robert Godes.

Attendees were able to learn about Brillouin’s prototype LENR reactors and hear from a number of speakers, including Dr. Michael McKubre of Stanford Research International (SRI). Brillouin and SRI have entered into a technology research agreement under which SRI is engaged in calibration testing and independent analysis of the Brillouin technology.

As Dr. McKubre noted in a report distributed at the event, “it is very clear that something on the order of four times (4x) and potentially more gain in power (and therefore ultimately energy) was achieved at an impressive and industrially significant operating temperature of around 640°C. To my knowledge this had not been achieved before in the LENR field. The fact that the Q pulse input is capable of triggering the excess power on and off is also highly significant.”


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Information session on LENR Energy Technology hosted at U.S. Capitol (Original Post) think Nov 2015 OP
This has always been interesting to keep an eye on (Cold Fusion type reactions). mackdaddy Nov 2015 #1

mackdaddy

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1. This has always been interesting to keep an eye on (Cold Fusion type reactions).
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 03:35 PM
Nov 2015

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It looks like some groups are actually getting reproducible and maybe even commercial applications of "Low energy nuclear reactions" (LENR).

There have been many groups working in this area since Ponds and Fleishman did their highly publicized flame-out in 1989 when their results were not regularly reproducible. My take was that they were not faking their excess heat claims, but that the conditions required to make this reaction happen were not well understood and too precarious to reliably reproduce. I once had a lawn mower that was so hard to start, that I would have easily believed that the power generating working internal combustion engine was a hoax.

These anomalous results do need to be studied. Sometimes they turnout to be important, but sometimes not. Back in the 50's scientist working on early solid state transistors would see occasional small flashes of light when looking at the transistors through microscopes. Originally they thought they were seeing things not there, but they investigated the anomaly, and the long term result was the development of the light emitting diode (LED).

I think that this LENR is getting to the point where it looks maybe ready for a prime time. It will either make it or it will not. I hope this can work. The largest users of power in homes is heating water, and air in the winter.

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