Games and activities helps preschoolers with their physical development and early learning. Here we mention some best preschool activities every preschooler should try. To get more information about preschool, visit: www.nicholasmontessorischool.com
Risk management is an increasingly important
business driver and stakeholders have become
much more concerned about risk. Risk may be a
driver of strategic decisions, it may be a cause of
uncertainty in the organisation or it may simply be
embedded in the activities of the organisation. An
enterprise-wide approach to risk management
enables an organisation to consider the potential
impact of all types of risks on all processes,
activities, stakeholders, products and services.
Implementing a comprehensive approach will
result in an organisation benefiting from what is
often referred to as the ‘upside of risk’.
Electron capture in a fully ionized plasma - Sept 17 2014Lewis Larsen
Masterful riposte by Widom-Larsen theory coauthors (Widom & Srivastava) and Swain invalidates erroneous criticisms of Maiani et al. (2014) and reaffirms the correctness of our original 2006 EPJC estimates for many-body collective electroweak neutron production rates
Lattice Energy LLC - IBM and JCESR Tap the Brakes on Lithium-air Battery Rese...Lewis Larsen
May 2014: in a somewhat surprising development, it became apparent that IBM and JCESR both tapped the brakes on further development of Lithium-air batteries; perhaps it's not near-universally regarded as a panacea anymore? For these two players, the decision may have been fortunate: Lattice thinks that the risk of thermal runaway fires triggered by LENRs --- albeit rare in any case --- might be even higher with Lithium-air batteries compared to the likely frequency in Li-ion.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRS p-Holes Crustal Nucleosynthesis Seismicity and Dee...Lewis Larsen
Freund p-holes provide a new electronic mechanism for transferring and dissipating energy in Earth’s upper crust besides known mechano-acoustic seismic P- and S-wave processes - this is a paradigm shift in geophysical thinking. p-holes can power electric bacteria and LENR neutron-catalyzed nucleosynthesis (transmutation of elements) in Earth’s crust; these create measurable products at low rates over geological time – a paradigm shift in geochemistry. There is published experimental evidence that supports these conjectures and further suggests that p-holes and LENRs facilitate earthquakes and other seismic processes. Geophysical processes on Earth may be modulated by neutrino fluxes coming from the Sun via e + p neutrino interactions; explains otherwise inexplicable Russian data.
Lattice Energy LLC - Connecting the Unconnected and Empowering the Powerless ...Lewis Larsen
LENRs: connecting the unconnected and empowering the powerless --- delivering rural electrification and the Internet revolution to more than 1.4 billion energy-poor people scattered around the world.
Lattice Energy LLC - Surprising Similarities between LENR Active Sites and En...Lewis Larsen
Herein we discuss surprising similarities between the operation of micron-scale active sites in condensed matter low energy neutron reactions (LENRs) and those of biological enzyme proteins. It turns-out that radiation-free LENR electroweak nuclear catalysis and enzymatic chemical catalysis are not as distant from each other as one might naively assume.
As we have explained in our many publications, LENRs are star-like, neutron-induced nuclear transmutations that produce heavier stable elements from neutron captures on lighter ones while releasing abundant quantities of clean heat during the process.
Unlike stars, fusion, and fission reactors, LENRs do not emit any deadly MeV-energy neutron and gamma radiation. They occur in microscopic domains in laboratory devices, at very low rates in some industrial processes such as pyrolysis, as well as naturally in lightning and other places elsewhere on Earth. They are quietly happening all around us but went unrecognized by legions of scientists for over 100 years because easy-to-detect hard radiation emission signatures are absent.
Importantly, LENRs can be triggered under mild macroscopic conditions; e.g. at as little as room temperature and atmospheric pressure. This enzyme-like feat is possible with electroweak catalysis which creates ultralow-energy neutrons directly from electrons and protons (hydrogen) via many-body collective quantum effects in an electroweak reaction: e + p --> n + νe.
Fried et al.’s recent stunning experimental results (“Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase”, Science 346 pp. 1510 - 1514, Dec. 19, 2014) revealed that a structurally and compositionally complex Carbon-based isomerase enzyme protein employs a combination of very high local electric fields and quantum entanglement of particles in active sites to achieve enormous increases in chemical reaction rates. Much simpler, abiotic LENR many-body active sites comprising Q-M entangled protons and electrons achieve even more enormous catalytic increases in rates of neutron-producing electroweak reactions using exactly the same effects. A key difference between them is field-strength: the enzyme uses electric fields averaging ~1.4 x 1010 V/m; LENRs use nonequilibrium pulses > 2.5 x 1011 V/m.
It has become apparent that deep technical knowledge about details of LENR electroweak catalysis can provide valuable insights into the operation of both enzymatic and abiotic chemical catalysis. There is an opportunity to use new types of conceptual insights to help greatly increase performance and reduce costs for a broad range of important industrial catalysts.
Lattice Energy LLC- New Russian Experiments Further Confirm Widom-Larsen Theo...Lewis Larsen
In series of different experiments with laser irradiation (sometimes combined with electrolysis) of hydride-forming metallic targets immersed in D2O, Barmina et al. claim to have observed both production and so-called “accelerated decay” of Tritium. If correct, their claimed detection of significant amounts of radioactive Tritium production is an extremely interesting experimental result because over the past 24 years, out of the hundreds of thousands of LENR experiments conducted, literally only a handful have ever claimed to observe Tritium as a measurable nuclear product. In separate very recent publications (2012, 2013), Barmina et al. claim to have developed a theory which can explain all their experimental data; their theoretical approach includes ‘new nuclear physics’ and exotic concepts such as a so-called “in-shake-up” nuclear state that enables production of new bound di-/tri-neutron particles.
Presuming that their experimental data are shown to have been correctly measured and results are successfully repeated by other independent researchers, their reported data provides further confirmation of Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs in a type of laser-based LENR experimental system pioneered by Letts & Cravens (USA) ca. 2002 – 2003.
During the past decade or so, there have also been increasing numbers of experimental reports published in various peer-reviewed journals in which authors claimed to have observed changes in intrinsic nuclear decay rate constants of certain isotopes/elements.
Importantly, there is probably a subset of such anomalous reported data in which experimentalists were blithely unaware of any possibility that LENR transmutations could be occurring inside their experimental systems. In such cases, the measured parameter(s) indicating a given nuclear decay rate, say intensities of a series of gamma emission lines, changes because the isotope(s) producing the gammas being measured has/have simply captured W-L ULM neutrons and been transmuted to other different --- perhaps even stable --- isotope(s); ergo, measured isotopes’ intrinsic nuclear decay rate constants did not really change during such types of experiments. Thus, the long-mysterious “Reifenschweiler effect” could in reality be just conversion of Tritium into neutrons that are captured by, among other things, substrate atoms..
Lattice Energy LLC- History-Macroeconomics-LENRs-and Real Price of Gold-July ...Lewis Larsen
Examine recent events and large price movements in world gold market, especially concerning likely nadir in the DJIA/Gold ratio; review long term trends in real DJIA and S&P 500 indices.
Fischer’s multi-decadal “Great Wave” socioeconomic concept will be explained and applied to gold and stock market scenarios; likely to be operating in ~85-year Fischer “period of equilibrium” that began in 1980 and could extend to 2065; low rates of inflation and interest on debt instruments; very high rates of breakthrough technological change and productization.
If commercialized (which is likely, since several major Japanese manufacturing companies are now actively involved in R&D, writing journal papers, and publicly reporting experimental results), LENR transmutation technology could potentially be used to produce gold and platinum from lower-cost metals like tungsten; already achieved in laboratory, but scale-up and production cost parameters are still open questions. If successfully commercialized for stationary and battery-like portable power generation applications (which is also likely), LENRs could ultimately have an impact on helping to significantly reduce the real price of energy over time.
As we have shown elsewhere, LENRS are synergistic with oil and coal, not really competitive. Aromatic fractions can probably be extracted from both and then converted into ‘green’ LENR fuels. By using LENRs to transmute carbon rather than combusting carbon atoms with oxygen, 5 million x more thermal energy will be released from the same mass of fuel without emitting any gaseous CO2 into the biosphere. Such a development, if realized, would have an enormous dampening effect on future inflation rates, since the cost of energy is buried within the prices of nearly all goods and services.
Rates of population growth are dropping all over the world, especially in China and India; this is a negative factor for gold demand; strong damper on any nascent inflationary pressures.
Conclusion: the real price of gold is very likely to substantially under-perform the real price appreciation in equities markets during most of the next 5 - 15 years and perhaps even longer.
Lattice Energy LLC- Forbes-Hannah Elliott Interviews Tesla Spokesman-No Answe...Lewis Larsen
Key takeaways:
Prior to 9:00 AM on Thursday, October 3, 2013 Lattice stated the following in a “Key take-aways” section on Slide #2 in a 23-slide PowerPoint referenced on slide #7 herein; quoting,
“While Tesla’s theory of the incident is plausible, it is inconsistent with statements made by the highway patrol officer --- trained to be keenly observant --- who first investigated the accident scene and found no evidence whatsoever of any claimed ‘metallic debris’ … Unless conclusive physical evidence is revealed that proves otherwise, Lattice believes it is more likely that the fire was caused by a spontaneous heat-event inside the battery.”
Later in the morning, staff writer Hannah Elliott of Forbes interviewed Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean, Tesla’s Director of Global Communications and published the resulting news story at 1:00 PM EST; excerpts of key passages from her article are provided in next three slides.
So far, Tesla’s official answers to Elliott’s very reasonable questions about key factual details involving this notable battery-related incident are neither timely nor adequate.
Consequently, the onus is still on Tesla to: (1) conclusively prove the existence of a “large metal object” that was lying on the road surface; (2) provide a detailed physical description of that particular object, presuming it exists and can be found; and (3) provide a detailed explanation as to how physical damage sustained from the vehicle impacting that specifically identified object could plausibly trigger the ensuing battery thermal runaway.
If Tesla is unable to answer these crucial questions, Lattice’s conclusion still stands: it is more likely that the runaway was caused by a spontaneous heat-event inside the battery.
Games and activities helps preschoolers with their physical development and early learning. Here we mention some best preschool activities every preschooler should try. To get more information about preschool, visit: www.nicholasmontessorischool.com
Risk management is an increasingly important
business driver and stakeholders have become
much more concerned about risk. Risk may be a
driver of strategic decisions, it may be a cause of
uncertainty in the organisation or it may simply be
embedded in the activities of the organisation. An
enterprise-wide approach to risk management
enables an organisation to consider the potential
impact of all types of risks on all processes,
activities, stakeholders, products and services.
Implementing a comprehensive approach will
result in an organisation benefiting from what is
often referred to as the ‘upside of risk’.
Electron capture in a fully ionized plasma - Sept 17 2014Lewis Larsen
Masterful riposte by Widom-Larsen theory coauthors (Widom & Srivastava) and Swain invalidates erroneous criticisms of Maiani et al. (2014) and reaffirms the correctness of our original 2006 EPJC estimates for many-body collective electroweak neutron production rates
Lattice Energy LLC - IBM and JCESR Tap the Brakes on Lithium-air Battery Rese...Lewis Larsen
May 2014: in a somewhat surprising development, it became apparent that IBM and JCESR both tapped the brakes on further development of Lithium-air batteries; perhaps it's not near-universally regarded as a panacea anymore? For these two players, the decision may have been fortunate: Lattice thinks that the risk of thermal runaway fires triggered by LENRs --- albeit rare in any case --- might be even higher with Lithium-air batteries compared to the likely frequency in Li-ion.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRS p-Holes Crustal Nucleosynthesis Seismicity and Dee...Lewis Larsen
Freund p-holes provide a new electronic mechanism for transferring and dissipating energy in Earth’s upper crust besides known mechano-acoustic seismic P- and S-wave processes - this is a paradigm shift in geophysical thinking. p-holes can power electric bacteria and LENR neutron-catalyzed nucleosynthesis (transmutation of elements) in Earth’s crust; these create measurable products at low rates over geological time – a paradigm shift in geochemistry. There is published experimental evidence that supports these conjectures and further suggests that p-holes and LENRs facilitate earthquakes and other seismic processes. Geophysical processes on Earth may be modulated by neutrino fluxes coming from the Sun via e + p neutrino interactions; explains otherwise inexplicable Russian data.
Lattice Energy LLC - Connecting the Unconnected and Empowering the Powerless ...Lewis Larsen
LENRs: connecting the unconnected and empowering the powerless --- delivering rural electrification and the Internet revolution to more than 1.4 billion energy-poor people scattered around the world.
Lattice Energy LLC - Surprising Similarities between LENR Active Sites and En...Lewis Larsen
Herein we discuss surprising similarities between the operation of micron-scale active sites in condensed matter low energy neutron reactions (LENRs) and those of biological enzyme proteins. It turns-out that radiation-free LENR electroweak nuclear catalysis and enzymatic chemical catalysis are not as distant from each other as one might naively assume.
As we have explained in our many publications, LENRs are star-like, neutron-induced nuclear transmutations that produce heavier stable elements from neutron captures on lighter ones while releasing abundant quantities of clean heat during the process.
Unlike stars, fusion, and fission reactors, LENRs do not emit any deadly MeV-energy neutron and gamma radiation. They occur in microscopic domains in laboratory devices, at very low rates in some industrial processes such as pyrolysis, as well as naturally in lightning and other places elsewhere on Earth. They are quietly happening all around us but went unrecognized by legions of scientists for over 100 years because easy-to-detect hard radiation emission signatures are absent.
Importantly, LENRs can be triggered under mild macroscopic conditions; e.g. at as little as room temperature and atmospheric pressure. This enzyme-like feat is possible with electroweak catalysis which creates ultralow-energy neutrons directly from electrons and protons (hydrogen) via many-body collective quantum effects in an electroweak reaction: e + p --> n + νe.
Fried et al.’s recent stunning experimental results (“Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase”, Science 346 pp. 1510 - 1514, Dec. 19, 2014) revealed that a structurally and compositionally complex Carbon-based isomerase enzyme protein employs a combination of very high local electric fields and quantum entanglement of particles in active sites to achieve enormous increases in chemical reaction rates. Much simpler, abiotic LENR many-body active sites comprising Q-M entangled protons and electrons achieve even more enormous catalytic increases in rates of neutron-producing electroweak reactions using exactly the same effects. A key difference between them is field-strength: the enzyme uses electric fields averaging ~1.4 x 1010 V/m; LENRs use nonequilibrium pulses > 2.5 x 1011 V/m.
It has become apparent that deep technical knowledge about details of LENR electroweak catalysis can provide valuable insights into the operation of both enzymatic and abiotic chemical catalysis. There is an opportunity to use new types of conceptual insights to help greatly increase performance and reduce costs for a broad range of important industrial catalysts.
Lattice Energy LLC- New Russian Experiments Further Confirm Widom-Larsen Theo...Lewis Larsen
In series of different experiments with laser irradiation (sometimes combined with electrolysis) of hydride-forming metallic targets immersed in D2O, Barmina et al. claim to have observed both production and so-called “accelerated decay” of Tritium. If correct, their claimed detection of significant amounts of radioactive Tritium production is an extremely interesting experimental result because over the past 24 years, out of the hundreds of thousands of LENR experiments conducted, literally only a handful have ever claimed to observe Tritium as a measurable nuclear product. In separate very recent publications (2012, 2013), Barmina et al. claim to have developed a theory which can explain all their experimental data; their theoretical approach includes ‘new nuclear physics’ and exotic concepts such as a so-called “in-shake-up” nuclear state that enables production of new bound di-/tri-neutron particles.
Presuming that their experimental data are shown to have been correctly measured and results are successfully repeated by other independent researchers, their reported data provides further confirmation of Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs in a type of laser-based LENR experimental system pioneered by Letts & Cravens (USA) ca. 2002 – 2003.
During the past decade or so, there have also been increasing numbers of experimental reports published in various peer-reviewed journals in which authors claimed to have observed changes in intrinsic nuclear decay rate constants of certain isotopes/elements.
Importantly, there is probably a subset of such anomalous reported data in which experimentalists were blithely unaware of any possibility that LENR transmutations could be occurring inside their experimental systems. In such cases, the measured parameter(s) indicating a given nuclear decay rate, say intensities of a series of gamma emission lines, changes because the isotope(s) producing the gammas being measured has/have simply captured W-L ULM neutrons and been transmuted to other different --- perhaps even stable --- isotope(s); ergo, measured isotopes’ intrinsic nuclear decay rate constants did not really change during such types of experiments. Thus, the long-mysterious “Reifenschweiler effect” could in reality be just conversion of Tritium into neutrons that are captured by, among other things, substrate atoms..
Lattice Energy LLC- History-Macroeconomics-LENRs-and Real Price of Gold-July ...Lewis Larsen
Examine recent events and large price movements in world gold market, especially concerning likely nadir in the DJIA/Gold ratio; review long term trends in real DJIA and S&P 500 indices.
Fischer’s multi-decadal “Great Wave” socioeconomic concept will be explained and applied to gold and stock market scenarios; likely to be operating in ~85-year Fischer “period of equilibrium” that began in 1980 and could extend to 2065; low rates of inflation and interest on debt instruments; very high rates of breakthrough technological change and productization.
If commercialized (which is likely, since several major Japanese manufacturing companies are now actively involved in R&D, writing journal papers, and publicly reporting experimental results), LENR transmutation technology could potentially be used to produce gold and platinum from lower-cost metals like tungsten; already achieved in laboratory, but scale-up and production cost parameters are still open questions. If successfully commercialized for stationary and battery-like portable power generation applications (which is also likely), LENRs could ultimately have an impact on helping to significantly reduce the real price of energy over time.
As we have shown elsewhere, LENRS are synergistic with oil and coal, not really competitive. Aromatic fractions can probably be extracted from both and then converted into ‘green’ LENR fuels. By using LENRs to transmute carbon rather than combusting carbon atoms with oxygen, 5 million x more thermal energy will be released from the same mass of fuel without emitting any gaseous CO2 into the biosphere. Such a development, if realized, would have an enormous dampening effect on future inflation rates, since the cost of energy is buried within the prices of nearly all goods and services.
Rates of population growth are dropping all over the world, especially in China and India; this is a negative factor for gold demand; strong damper on any nascent inflationary pressures.
Conclusion: the real price of gold is very likely to substantially under-perform the real price appreciation in equities markets during most of the next 5 - 15 years and perhaps even longer.
Lattice Energy LLC- Forbes-Hannah Elliott Interviews Tesla Spokesman-No Answe...Lewis Larsen
Key takeaways:
Prior to 9:00 AM on Thursday, October 3, 2013 Lattice stated the following in a “Key take-aways” section on Slide #2 in a 23-slide PowerPoint referenced on slide #7 herein; quoting,
“While Tesla’s theory of the incident is plausible, it is inconsistent with statements made by the highway patrol officer --- trained to be keenly observant --- who first investigated the accident scene and found no evidence whatsoever of any claimed ‘metallic debris’ … Unless conclusive physical evidence is revealed that proves otherwise, Lattice believes it is more likely that the fire was caused by a spontaneous heat-event inside the battery.”
Later in the morning, staff writer Hannah Elliott of Forbes interviewed Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean, Tesla’s Director of Global Communications and published the resulting news story at 1:00 PM EST; excerpts of key passages from her article are provided in next three slides.
So far, Tesla’s official answers to Elliott’s very reasonable questions about key factual details involving this notable battery-related incident are neither timely nor adequate.
Consequently, the onus is still on Tesla to: (1) conclusively prove the existence of a “large metal object” that was lying on the road surface; (2) provide a detailed physical description of that particular object, presuming it exists and can be found; and (3) provide a detailed explanation as to how physical damage sustained from the vehicle impacting that specifically identified object could plausibly trigger the ensuing battery thermal runaway.
If Tesla is unable to answer these crucial questions, Lattice’s conclusion still stands: it is more likely that the runaway was caused by a spontaneous heat-event inside the battery.
Lattice Energy LLC-Minuscule Cumulative Investment in LENRs vs Nuclear Weapon...Lewis Larsen
Factoid: Fareed Zakaria, CNN – journalist and host of GPS show that aired on August 11, 2013, he stated that, “Between 1945 and the 1990s, we produced more than 70,000 total warheads and spent at least $8 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons development.”
Key take-aways from this presentation: perhaps more major corporations/governments should increase R&D spending on LENRs:
- R&D investments by governments and corporations have disproportionately favored nuclear fission and fusion technologies, especially weapons-related work, for 71 years
- Virtually everyone agrees that development of lower-risk, ecologically ‘clean’, low cost sources of energy is crucial to future world economic growth and overall quality of life, especially for people now living in rural areas without any electricity
- Over the past 63 years, enormous financial investments have been made in D-T fusion technology, yet today there are still no operating commercial power plants
- During last 24 years, tens of billions of dollars, euros, rubles, yuan, yen, and rupees were spent on fusion R&D; by contrast, less than ~US$200 million has gone into LENRs during that time; vast majority of that money came from the private sector
- Maybe it’s time for both corporations and governments to start making greater parallel R&D investments in LENRs in addition to fusion and fission technologies
- By pursuing multiple synergistic paths toward the same common goal we could, collectively all “hedge our bets” on the development of new, non-polluting, inexpensive energy sources that can ultimately supplant fossil fuels
Lattice Energy LLC- LENRs vs Nuclear Fission and Natural Gas for Power Genera...Lewis Larsen
• LENRs are a ‘green’, extremely energy-dense technology; strongly complements lower-density renewable sources such as wind and solar power
• Enable revolutionary portable nuclear power sources
• Are surprisingly synergistic with and useful to the oil and coal industries over the immediate future
• Could potentially enable cost-effective small-scale distributed generation worldwide; enhance stability of existing grids and help bring electricity to 1.6 billion people now living in rural areas without any power
• Number of large Japanese companies now involved in LENR R&D --- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota Central Research, and Toyota Motors, among others --- somebody, somewhere will eventually succeed
• Conclusions: if commercialized, LENRs could be an extremely disruptive technology and affect many markets; grid-level LENR-based power plants could potentially be ~ 54 - 74% less costly vs. natural gas; possibility of retrofitting fossil plants with LENRs
"The Stone Age came to an end,
but not for a lack of stones,
and the oil age will end,
but not for a lack of oil.”
H.E. Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (2000)
Former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs and the Future of Energy - Nov 27 2013Lewis Larsen
The Future of Energy --- Low Energy Neutron Reactions or LENRs:
- Represent a new type of paradigm-shifting nuclear technology.
- Differ greatly from present-day fission and fusion power generation technologies; LENRs are potentially much safer from environmental and biosafety perspectives.
- Embody a truly ‘green’ type of nuclear process: neither deadly hard neutron or gamma radiation emissions nor any measurable production of dangerous, long-lived radioactive wastes.
- Phenomena were hidden in plain sight for 100 years because hard radiation signatures and radioactive wastes are absent from LENR processes. With the benefit of today’s knowledge, examination of a large body of available published, peer-reviewed experimental literature shows that reliable reports of LENR effects, e.g. transmutation, date all the way back to the early 1900s.
- Lack of hard radiation emissions and long-lived radioactive wastes obviates need for shielding and containment subsystems; eliminates enormous amounts of weight and could reduce costs dramatically.
- Phenomena resisted understanding until Widom-Larsen theory integrated all the necessary conceptual pieces together into one coherent whole; W-L successfully explains all of the relevant experimental data.
- LENR device physics are now sufficiently well-understood to begin the commercialization process. Better understanding of the relevant physics creates major opportunities to develop safe, battery-like portable LENR power sources. Much larger LENR-based systems utilizing dusty plasma embodiments could also potentially be developed and scaled-up output-wise to reach many megawatts akin to today’s grid-connected central station power plants.
- Large manufacturing companies in Japan now have ongoing LENR R&D programs; list of players presently includes Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota Central Research, and Toyota Motor Company, among others.
Lattice Energy LLC- Electronic Cigarette Explodes- Burns Child Sitting in Car...Lewis Larsen
Battery field-failures occur in electronic cigarettes; reported frequency of such events per year roughly agrees with what a large Japanese company’s Lithium-based battery data would predict.
Seeing increasing numbers of statistically rare but serious incidents occurring with electronic cigarettes in which their Lithium-based batteries have had thermal runaways and even violent explosions; some have caused significant human injuries.
Incidents occurred inside buildings and in motor vehicles.
An unknown percentage of such events may have been caused by low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) that are potent triggers for catastrophic types of battery failures.
If you doubt either the frequency or seriousness of such incidents, then query Google using the search terms e-cigarette fire explosion and see many different stories.
Anyone who smokes e-cigarettes should treat them with the proper caution and great care accorded to any type of device that stores a great deal of chemical energy in a small compact package, such as M-80 mega-firecrackers.
Many catastrophic e-cigarette failure incidents are associated with charging of their Lithium-based batteries; battery charging process is very similar to many LENR experiments using electrolytic cells.
Lastly, significant safety risks associated with e-cigarette devices are not well-understood or widely appreciated by majority of customers and device manufacturers.
Lattice Energy LLC-Game changing LENRs - What are they and amazing things the...Lewis Larsen
Lacking production of deadly radiation or hazardous long-lived radioactive wastes, LENR power systems would not require any expensive and massive shielding, containment, or waste clean-up. Coupled with intrinsic multiway scalability, these unique attributes could enable development of highly competitive commercial products with outputs ranging from milliwatts to megawatts suitable for portable, stationary, vehicular, and aerospace power markets. End-user price per BTU or kWh for LENR-based power systems could be substantially lower than prices for competing batteries or fuel cells, combustion, and present fission and fusion technologies.
Lattice Energy LLC-On Oct 1 Tesla Model S Caught Fire on Highway-Has Companys...Lewis Larsen
Key takeaways:
In July 2010, Lattice began to issue public warnings about thermal runaway risks with large, scaled-up Lithium-based battery packs; on Slide #54 in an August 6, 2013 Lattice presentation subtitled “A Fool’s Paradise” we questioned whether Tesla’s engineering had solved problematic runaway issues, or whether they had just been lucky - so far.
October 1, 2013 fire incident (really a form of battery runaway) with Tesla Model S that occurred near Seattle, WA suggests that they had merely been lucky to date --- battery thermal runaway issues have not yet been truly solved by Tesla Motors or anyone else.
As seen in the progression of news stories quoted from herein, Tesla began the news cycle by trying to assert that the battery pack had nothing to do with the hot fire that consumed the front end of a $70,000 car. By Wednesday evening they finally admitted that the battery was in fact the culprit, but that the incident had been triggered by the vehicle’s impact with “metal debris” that had been lying on the road surface and that consequent mechanical damage to battery cells triggered the thermal runaway fire event; they are emphatically asserting that the battery did not catch fire spontaneously.
While Tesla’s theory of the incident is plausible, it is inconsistent with statements made by the highway patrol officer --- trained to be keenly observant --- who first investigated the accident scene and found no evidence whatsoever of any claimed “metallic debris.”
Unless conclusive physical evidence is revealed that proves otherwise, Lattice believes it is more likely that the fire was caused by a spontaneous heat-event inside the battery.
Lattice Energy LLC - Mystery of Nagaokas 1920s Gold Experiments - Why Did Wor...Lewis Larsen
In a recorded interview with fellow physicist Prof. John Wheeler in 1962, Nobel prize-winning Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa said that his colleague Hantaro Nagaoka in the 1930s was (quoting directly), “…“I think Professor Nagaoka was all powerful then among scientists … he had some very deep insight, although he did not work himself [at that point in his career] … Nagaoka was [the] President of Osaka University when I moved from Kyoto to Osaka. But he was at the same time President of the Academy; he was the greatest boss among all the scientists in Japan.”
Between September 1924 and June 1925, Nagaoka and his co-workers at RIKEN in Japan conducted some 200 experiments with high-current electric arc discharges between Tungsten electrodes immersed in liquid hydrocarbon transformer oil in which they detected successful transmutation of Tungsten into macroscopic, visible flecks of Gold and Platinum. In June 1925, Nagaoka went a world tour in which he spoke to scientific and lay audiences about their transmutation experiments in Japan and handed-out samples comprising small pieces of porcelain reactor vessels with tiny bits of adhering Gold that had been created therein. In July 1925, “Nature” published his Letter to the Editors in which he reported on their results and encouraged other scientists to try to repeat their provocative experiments.
Amazingly, as far as we can tell no one ever tried to repeat Nagaoka et al.’s landmark experiments. Even more incredibly, the entire area of inquiry involving electric discharge-triggered transmutations of elements essentially died-out worldwide by 1930 (Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932 and transmutation via neutron-capture was first elucidated by Taylor in 1935). In this document, we explore some of the possible underlying reasons that may have caused this totally unexpected historical twist.
In 2004, Cirillo & Iorio (Italy) transmuted Tungsten into Rhenium, Osmium, and Gold in a modern, roughly equivalent version of Nagaoka’s electric arc discharge experiments. In 2012 at an American Nuclear Society meeting, using a very different type of gaseous D2 thin-film permeation experimental method it had pioneered in back 2002, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries reported transmutation of implanted Tungsten targets into Osmium and Platinum.
Widom & Larsen theory of neutron-catalyzed low energy nuclear reactions (as published in the “European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields” - 2006 and in “Pramana – Journal of Physics” – 2010) both predicts and explains all of this earlier experimental transmutation data with Tungsten targets.
If a modern repetition of Nagaoka et al.’s 1920s experiments produced encouraging results, commercial transmutation of Gold might not be very far in the future. That said, as in many cases--- time will tell --- and as they say in Russia, “We shall live and we shall see.”
Which handles huge strains (>50%) and is easy to control to handle real loads. Lighter than conventional aircraft actuator systems. Provides less drag & less cost for actuation & certifiable under FAR 23/25, 27,29.
This book teaches the creation of the entire Aerospace Industry and its evolution. Lets people understand the economic important (value added) it is to an entire Country & society vs. those who service and wouldn't have a job or place without the industry; such as: like teachers, firemen, police, home building, churches, lawyers, etc. It goes into the future explains the means to energy independence and future flight vehicles into space tourism.
A futuristic health beverage dispenser which allows real time polling/voting & financial depository site for higher education, health care, retirement, payoff debt.
Fashionista Chic Couture Maze & Coloring Adventures is a coloring and activity book filled with many maze games and coloring activities designed to delight and engage young fashion enthusiasts. Each page offers a unique blend of fashion-themed mazes and stylish illustrations to color, inspiring creativity and problem-solving skills in children.
Brushstrokes of Inspiration: Four Major Influences in Victor Gilbert’s Artist...KendraJohnson54
Throughout his career, Victor Gilbert was influenced heavily by various factors, the most notable being his upbringing and the artistic movements of his time. A rich tapestry of inspirations appears in Gilbert’s work, ranging from their own experiences to the art movements of that period.
Boudoir photography, a genre that captures intimate and sensual images of individuals, has experienced significant transformation over the years, particularly in New York City (NYC). Known for its diversity and vibrant arts scene, NYC has been a hub for the evolution of various art forms, including boudoir photography. This article delves into the historical background, cultural significance, technological advancements, and the contemporary landscape of boudoir photography in NYC.
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