Japan’s NEDO industry-academia-government R&D program’s recent experimental results technically validated potential for LENRs to become major future energy source.
Excess heat was produced in ~ 80% of project’s reported LENR experiments. Whenever excess heat was created, it is most often at Watt-levels or better at reactor operating temperatures of 200 - 300 degrees C. Duration of excess heat production ranged up to weeks, which is non-trivial. Such LENR device behavior represents excellent reproducibility for complex early-stage technology. With respect to reproducibility of device fabrication methods and heat production, these are best-ever experimental results reported to date in field of LENRs.
Watt-level excess heat was produced in Hydrogen (H)- and Deuterium (D)-loaded experimental systems. No deadly energetic (MeV-energy) gamma or neutron radiation was detected during heat production in any project experimental runs. Such observations are consistent with and predicted by the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs which posits production and capture of ultralow energy neutrons on ‘fuel’ atoms which drive hard-radiation-free nuclear transmutation reactions and decays that release nuclear binding energy in form of copious heat.
In Lattice’s opinion, NEDO project’s outstanding experimental results change LENRs’ Technology Readiness Level (TRL) from TRL-3 to TRL-4 (European Commission definitions). This is an important step in commercialization of LENRs for power generation applications.
Lattice Energy LLC - March 2 Technova seminar in Tokyo released more info re ...Lewis Larsen
The document discusses a Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)-sponsored project on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs). The project achieved watt-level excess heat production from nanocomposite LENR device materials in over 70% of experiments. This demonstrates the potential for LENRs to be a safe, low-radiation source of nuclear energy without the issues of radioactive waste generation associated with fission. Further development of nanotechnology approaches could enable greater control of LENR processes and scale-up to useful power levels.
Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO industry-academia-government project - nan...Lewis Larsen
Nanocomposite LENR devices in Japanese NEDO industry-academia-government R&D project produced enough cumulative excess heat to boil a cup of tea.
Since 1989, production of calorimetrically measured excess heat during vast majority of experiments with purpose-fabricated LENR devices was a hit-or-miss proposition. When excess heat produced, was typically < 1 Watt for periods ranging from few hours to several days. NEDO greatly improved device fabrication, reproducibility, longevity, and excess heat performance.
For years skeptics summarily dismissed LENRs as a potential new energy source because experiments were unable to produce enough excess heat to even “boil a cup of tea.” Thanks to results of NEDO project, not any more.
NEDO project has demonstrated that LENRs can produce non-trivial, Watt-level amounts of excess heat from nanocomposite multi-metal devices without emission of deadly fluxes of energetic neutron or gamma radiation --- it is safe, radiation-free nuclear technology.
Lattice Energy LLC - Russia announces nuclear fission-powered cruise missile ...Lewis Larsen
In globally televised speech on March 1, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia has successfully developed and tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unprecedented performance capabilities. If real (which appears likely), this advanced weapon system is probably powered by an unshielded Uranium fission reactor. Such a propulsion system would almost certainly produce large emissions of deadly energetic neutron/gamma radiation and release radioactive waste particulates into reactor exhaust plumes that would be rather dangerous to exposed people and the environment.
Radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) --- which involve neither fission nor fusion --- now under development by Lattice, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota, and Nissan are a truly safe, green nuclear technology. Importantly, LENRs can potentially be scaled-up and might someday be able to safely propel future missiles, manned aircraft/UAVs, manned submarines/UUVs, and everyday motor vehicles.
Lattice Energy LLC - Revolutionary LENRs for power generation - accelerating ...Lewis Larsen
Commercialization of radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) for power generation could potentially occur with surprising speed. In just 2.5 years, Japanese government NEDO-funded LENR device fabrication and testing project achieved TRL-4 (refuting the skeptics) and validated application of Widom-Larsen theory, materials science, and nanotech to help accelerate commercialization pathway from present developmental level of TRL-4 to future commercial LENR-based products at TRL-9.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs are revolutionary disruptive energy technology for...Lewis Larsen
Safe, radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) expand use of nuclear power & propulsion into huge range of land vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, and spacecraft. Scales downward from large fission reactors used in nuclear naval aircraft carriers and submarines. Enormous energy densities of LENR-based power & propulsion technology could confer decisive combat systems advantages on near-future battlefields.
Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO LENR project reported good progress in exc...Lewis Larsen
The document summarizes the progress of a Japanese government-funded R&D project on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) between October 2015 and October 2017. The project scientists reported improvements in reproducibly fabricating test devices that produce excess heat, with some devices cumulatively generating up to 85 megajoules of excess heat per mole of absorbed hydrogen or deuterium. This suggests LENRs could potentially serve as a new source of safe, low-radiation nuclear energy. Japan's NEDO has organized LENR R&D projects with industry and academia since 2015 to develop new energy technologies.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR experiment conducted by The Aerospace Corporation r...Lewis Larsen
LENR experiment conducted independently in 2017 by The Aerospace Corporation (non-profit company that operates a FFRDC) effectively repeated excess heat results reported by the Japanese government-funded NEDO LENR fabrication and testing project. Experimental data from this confirmatory experiment was reported by Dr. Edward Beiting, a physicist and Senior Scientist at The Aerospace Corporation, in a presentation that occurred on June 5, 2018 at the ICCF-21 conference held at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Lattice Energy LLC - Strategic importance of accelerating commercialization o...Lewis Larsen
Prospects for commercialization of LENRs have radically improved. New Lattice report “Strategic importance of accelerating commercialization of LENRs for green radiation-free nuclear power and propulsion” aims at a broad audience and outlines strategic case for greatly increasing R&D funding to accelerate development of ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) for CO2-free power generation. Recent Japanese government-funded NEDO project solved previously intractable problems with rational device design & fabrication, experimental repeatability, and erratic, limited thermal output that bedeviled researchers worldwide since 1989-90.
Given spectacular Japanese progress, it appears very likely that LENRs will be commercialized, probably sooner rather than later. Today, Japan is by far the experimental leader along that path; heavily involved companies include Mitsubishi Heavy industries, Toyota, and Nissan..
Lattice Energy LLC - March 2 Technova seminar in Tokyo released more info re ...Lewis Larsen
The document discusses a Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)-sponsored project on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs). The project achieved watt-level excess heat production from nanocomposite LENR device materials in over 70% of experiments. This demonstrates the potential for LENRs to be a safe, low-radiation source of nuclear energy without the issues of radioactive waste generation associated with fission. Further development of nanotechnology approaches could enable greater control of LENR processes and scale-up to useful power levels.
Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO industry-academia-government project - nan...Lewis Larsen
Nanocomposite LENR devices in Japanese NEDO industry-academia-government R&D project produced enough cumulative excess heat to boil a cup of tea.
Since 1989, production of calorimetrically measured excess heat during vast majority of experiments with purpose-fabricated LENR devices was a hit-or-miss proposition. When excess heat produced, was typically < 1 Watt for periods ranging from few hours to several days. NEDO greatly improved device fabrication, reproducibility, longevity, and excess heat performance.
For years skeptics summarily dismissed LENRs as a potential new energy source because experiments were unable to produce enough excess heat to even “boil a cup of tea.” Thanks to results of NEDO project, not any more.
NEDO project has demonstrated that LENRs can produce non-trivial, Watt-level amounts of excess heat from nanocomposite multi-metal devices without emission of deadly fluxes of energetic neutron or gamma radiation --- it is safe, radiation-free nuclear technology.
Lattice Energy LLC - Russia announces nuclear fission-powered cruise missile ...Lewis Larsen
In globally televised speech on March 1, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia has successfully developed and tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unprecedented performance capabilities. If real (which appears likely), this advanced weapon system is probably powered by an unshielded Uranium fission reactor. Such a propulsion system would almost certainly produce large emissions of deadly energetic neutron/gamma radiation and release radioactive waste particulates into reactor exhaust plumes that would be rather dangerous to exposed people and the environment.
Radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) --- which involve neither fission nor fusion --- now under development by Lattice, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota, and Nissan are a truly safe, green nuclear technology. Importantly, LENRs can potentially be scaled-up and might someday be able to safely propel future missiles, manned aircraft/UAVs, manned submarines/UUVs, and everyday motor vehicles.
Lattice Energy LLC - Revolutionary LENRs for power generation - accelerating ...Lewis Larsen
Commercialization of radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) for power generation could potentially occur with surprising speed. In just 2.5 years, Japanese government NEDO-funded LENR device fabrication and testing project achieved TRL-4 (refuting the skeptics) and validated application of Widom-Larsen theory, materials science, and nanotech to help accelerate commercialization pathway from present developmental level of TRL-4 to future commercial LENR-based products at TRL-9.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs are revolutionary disruptive energy technology for...Lewis Larsen
Safe, radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) expand use of nuclear power & propulsion into huge range of land vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, and spacecraft. Scales downward from large fission reactors used in nuclear naval aircraft carriers and submarines. Enormous energy densities of LENR-based power & propulsion technology could confer decisive combat systems advantages on near-future battlefields.
Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO LENR project reported good progress in exc...Lewis Larsen
The document summarizes the progress of a Japanese government-funded R&D project on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) between October 2015 and October 2017. The project scientists reported improvements in reproducibly fabricating test devices that produce excess heat, with some devices cumulatively generating up to 85 megajoules of excess heat per mole of absorbed hydrogen or deuterium. This suggests LENRs could potentially serve as a new source of safe, low-radiation nuclear energy. Japan's NEDO has organized LENR R&D projects with industry and academia since 2015 to develop new energy technologies.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR experiment conducted by The Aerospace Corporation r...Lewis Larsen
LENR experiment conducted independently in 2017 by The Aerospace Corporation (non-profit company that operates a FFRDC) effectively repeated excess heat results reported by the Japanese government-funded NEDO LENR fabrication and testing project. Experimental data from this confirmatory experiment was reported by Dr. Edward Beiting, a physicist and Senior Scientist at The Aerospace Corporation, in a presentation that occurred on June 5, 2018 at the ICCF-21 conference held at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Lattice Energy LLC - Strategic importance of accelerating commercialization o...Lewis Larsen
Prospects for commercialization of LENRs have radically improved. New Lattice report “Strategic importance of accelerating commercialization of LENRs for green radiation-free nuclear power and propulsion” aims at a broad audience and outlines strategic case for greatly increasing R&D funding to accelerate development of ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) for CO2-free power generation. Recent Japanese government-funded NEDO project solved previously intractable problems with rational device design & fabrication, experimental repeatability, and erratic, limited thermal output that bedeviled researchers worldwide since 1989-90.
Given spectacular Japanese progress, it appears very likely that LENRs will be commercialized, probably sooner rather than later. Today, Japan is by far the experimental leader along that path; heavily involved companies include Mitsubishi Heavy industries, Toyota, and Nissan..
Lattice Energy LLC - Widom-Larsen theory reveals surprising similarities and ...Lewis Larsen
Widom-Larsen theory unveils additional surprising similarities and connections between LENRs and chemical catalysis.
Synopsis: recent extensions of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs have for the first time revealed additional striking and unexpected similarities between electroweak nuclear catalysis --- collective many-body en + pn reaction in condensed matter --- and enzymatic catalysis, inorganic chemical catalysis, plasmon-mediated chemical photocatalysis with “hot” charge carriers, as well as widely published nanotechnology concept of heterometallic plasmonic antenna-reactor nanoparticles for photocatalysis. Among a number of surprising commonalities between LENRs and chemical catalytic processes, many-body collective quantum effects and high local electric fields > 1010 V/m enable many chemical reactions and LENRs to proceed with substantial rates at vastly lower working temperatures and pressures. Existence of all these unexpected parallels suggests that valuable engineering insights can be obtained by data mining state-of-the art technical knowledge about nanotech and chemical catalysis and then applying and leveraging new insights derived therefrom to help accelerate future development of LENRs for power generation.
Powering the World to a Green LENR Future- Lattice Energy LLC-April 11 2013Lewis Larsen
Powering the world to a green LENR future – a not unduly technical Lattice overview for everybody - truly green hard-radiation-free nuclear energy exists: no gammas, no energetic neutrons, nor any radioactive wastes. During their brief existence, peak power densities in LENR-active sites on condensed matter surfaces vastly exceed the power density that prevails in the innermost core of the Sun.
Lattice Energy LLC- Toyota Confirms Mitsubishi Transmutation of Cs to Pr-Oct ...Lewis Larsen
In Oct. 2013, Toyota published a paper in the peer-reviewed Japanese Journal of Applied Physics which confirmed important experimental results that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had first published in 2002. MHI had claimed transmutation of Cesium into Praseodymium via the forced diffusion of Deuterium gas through a thin-film heterostructure containing elemental Palladium using a permeation method pioneered by Mitsubishi; it is capable of triggering nuclear reactions in condensed matter systems under modest temperatures and pressures.
Importantly, all of this experimental data is predicted and fully explained by the peer-reviewed Widom-Larsen theory of low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs).
While the Mitsubishi permeation method is not a suitable embodiment for commercial power generation systems based on LENRs, it has proven to be an excellent laboratory tool for demonstrating that nuclear transmutations can be triggered at will without the use of huge macroscopic temperatures and pressures. In other words, aging stars, supernovae, fission reactors, and thermonuclear explosions are not necessarily required; nucleosynthesis can occur in tabletop experiments that surprisingly do not have or need any radiation shielding.
Toyota's experimental confirmation of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) neutron-catalyzed LENR-based transmutation method also effectively provided a proof-of-concept for disposal of rather nasty radioactive Cesium (Cs-137) commonly found in nuclear fission reactor wastes into other heavier, non-radioactive stable elements/isotopes using MHI’s permeation process. In principle, a variant of MHI's LENR method with larger neutron fluxes would be extremely flexible and should work on any other type of radioactive isotope that can capture low energy neutrons, e.g., very dangerous Strontium-90, many long-lived transuranics such as Neptunium (please see http://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/nds/proceedings/2004/harada_h.pdf ), etc..
Lastly, at an American Nuclear Society meeting held in November 2012, Yasuhiro Iwamura of Mitsubishi revealed the Toyota Motor Company itself had recently become involved in LENR R&D, along with other large Japanese companies that he declined to name publicly. Given Japanese companies well known excellence at long-term strategic thinking, it would not be surprising if their ongoing LENR R&D programs aim to ultimately replace the internal combustion engine.
Lattice energy LLC - Chinese chemists report photochemical triggering of LENR...Lewis Larsen
Experiments reported in 2017 by Prof. Gong-xuan Lu et al. at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, in Lanzhou, China showed photocatalytic triggering of ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) at NTP with visible light. Experimental results reported in “Journal of Molecular Catalysis” (China) in 2017 claimed production of Deuterium and Helium as well as nuclear transmutation of Potassium to Calcium. Very significant discovery if experimental claims can be independently confirmed by other researchers using same methods. If Lu et al.’s claims are confirmed, their work has important implications. For chemical catalysis, it suggests that LENR transmutations can occur at very low rates in parallel with ordinary chemical reactions; LENRs can coexist and interoperate at NTP. Also implies total mass-balances for chemical elements comprising reactants and products might not necessarily be conserved. For astrophysics and cosmochemistry, it means that nucleosynthesis can occur on surfaces of Hydrogen- and metal-rich dust grains irradiated by starlight.
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 - Production of Gold via LENR transmutation of Platinum in...Lewis Larsen
Presently, unbeknownst to unsuspecting drivers worldwide, green LENR transmutation processes are occurring at very low rates during operation of three-way catalytic converters installed in over a billion cars and trucks.
Radiation-free nuclear transmutation of chemical elements by LENRs inside catalytic converters is strongly indicated by the presence of anomalous Gold, excess radiogenic Osmium, and shifts toward heavier isotopes that have been reported in Platinum and Palladium found in micron-scale nanoparticles that are emitted from vehicle exhaust pipes.
Extensive sampling and chemical analysis of certain roadway dust and roadside soils by environmental scientists have revealed that in scattered locations nanoparticulate Gold emitted from motor vehicle exhaust has accumulated to the point where local concentrations of this precious metal nearing key minimum threshold of 0.5 ppm needed for economic Gold ore.
This surprising nuclear activity in ubiquitous catalytic converters and absence of deleterious consequences for drivers or Earth’s environment argue that world is already safely coexisting with LENRs. This supports idea that LENRs could potentially be a very attractive future source of green nuclear energy if the technology is successfully commercialized.
Lattice Energy LLC - Compelling Economics of Transmutation vs Combustion of C...Lewis Larsen
Revolutionary LENR technology can potentially transform oil and coal into ‘green’ CO2-free LENR fuels that possess >5,000x the energy density (Watt*hours/kg) of unleaded gasoline.
In LENR fuels derived from extraction and processing of aromatic fractions found in oil and coal, generation of thermal heat energy occurs via clean radiation-free, neutron-catalyzed transmutation of Carbon into Nitrogen and Oxygen rather than chemical combustion with O2.
Herein we show how applied LENR technology can potentially increase the economic value of natural fossil Carbonaceous energy sources by at least 500x; much of this increase in energetic economic value comes from enormous energy densities and BTUs produced by nuclear processes as compared to purely chemical energy processes such as combustion.
In British Petroleum's 63rd annual Statistical Review of World Energy (2014) they estimated that oil will run-out in ~53 years and coal in ~113 years. Given at least 500x increase in the energetic economic value of LENR fuel, commercialization of LENRs on aromatic molecules would extend useful economic lifetime of fossil Carbon sources out to at least 25,000 years.
Commercialization of LENRs occurring on aromatic rings would eliminate the so-called “Carbon Bubble” and fossil fuel “stranded asset” problems that during the past few years have begun to concern certain financial players that even include the Bank of England.
Lattice Energy LLC - Adequate reasonably priced dispatchable power generation...Lewis Larsen
Adequate reasonably priced dispatchable power generation is critical for every country’s energy security.
Renewable energy sources sometimes unable to fill total national demand for electric power because they are intermittent. Unusual European weather in December 2016 demonstrated that Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition) as idealistically envisioned by its many supporters may be impractical.
“One cannot simultaneously rely on massive amounts of wind and sunshine, dispense with nuclear power plants, significantly lower the supply of fossil energy, and nevertheless tell people that electricity will definitely be available in the future.” Quoted from article by Heiner Flassbeck, a prominent German economist, that was published on January 10, 2017
It is thus apparent that national energy security, 99+ % grid uptime availability, and reasonably priced electricity for retail consumers could be jeopardized in countries that don’t have adequate dispatchable power generation capacity.
Electricity shortfalls from renewable wind and solar energy sources are today covered by dispatchable fossil fuel and fission power plants --- if fossil fuels and fission are then phased-out, then what will replace them?
Radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) could potentially provide an alternative nuclear technology to fission and fusion. While LENRs do use safe ultralow energy neutrons to trigger release of nuclear binding energy (heat) from an enormous array of stable element target fuels, they are radically different from Uranium and Thorium fission reactors that require criticality to operate properly. Unlike fission, LENRs don’t involve multiplicative chain reactions with fuels that in turn release multiple neutrons which then explosively accelerate neutron production --- nuclear runaways are not a risk with LENRs.
D-T fusion reactors like ITER and other similar Tokamaks mainly produce heat by harvesting the kinetic energy of deadly 14.1 MeV energetic neutrons. Consequently, they require massive shielding and containment systems for safe operation and unsurprisingly have enormous costs and unavoidably huge physical size. Given that the Lithium LENR fuel cycle releases nearly 27 MeV versus a total Q-value of 17.6 MeV for the D-T fusion reaction, it is hard to imagine a sound economic argument for spending 100s of billions on commercial fusion reactors if LENR technology were successfully developed and scaled-up as outlined herein.
Lack of hard radiation and radioactive wastes permit downward scalability that could enable future development of revolutionary, compact battery-like portable LENR power sources that can compete directly on $ price/kwh with chemical batteries in many applications including power tools, tablets, and smartphones.
Lattice Energy LLC - Green hard-radiation-free len rs could provide game-chan...Lewis Larsen
Green hard-radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) could provide game-changing nuclear power for military combat systems ranging from aircraft to individual warfighters. LENRs are the only energy technology on the foreseeable horizon that could provide a quantum-leap in military power generation and propulsion capabilities in the 2030 - 2050 time-frame.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR transmutation of Carbon better energy strategy than...Lewis Larsen
While Obama’s new clean power plan is certainly very well-intentioned, it implicitly throws the fossil fuel industry “under the bus,” naively assumes that wind and solar power will take up the slack at reasonable cost, and does not really attempt to develop radical new sources of low-cost energy.
Rather than eventually replacing fossil fuels with solar, wind, and renewable energy sources over time, LENR technology instead enables oil, gas, and coal producers to convert fossil fuels into cleaner, more valuable form of CO2-free LENR energy --- energy producers, energy consumers, and Mother Earth all win.
While solar PV and wind are CO2-free and extremely biosafe, their intrinsic energy densities are much lower than today’s fossil fuels and inherently intermittent --- not continuous --- sources of electrical and thermal power. Solar and wind renewables therefore simply cannot 100% replace fossil energy sources without enormous economic disruption and gigantic increases in energy costs.
LENRs are the only primary energy technology on foreseeable horizon that could provide the world with affordable dense green energy, connect the unconnected, and empower billions of now powerless, energy-poor people
Lattice’s strategy for replacing today’s combustion with LENR transmutation of Carbon saves the fossil fuel industry yet is highly synergistic with renewables, enables sustainable economic growth, and helps to ameliorate CO2-driven climate change.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR technologys compelling value proposition for oil an...Lewis Larsen
LENRs offer a compelling future value proposition for oil & gas companies. Technology of ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) could enable conversion of aromatics derived from crude oil and natural gas into nanoparticulate LENR fuels with energy densities that are 5,000x greater than gasoline.
Achievement of this unprecedented capability could vastly increase performance of customers’ power generation systems as well as enable the rapid future development of many types of revolutionary products suitable for array of key consumer and military markets.
LENR technology could also stretch useful economic lifetimes of today’s remaining in-ground supplies of oil & gas from British Petroleum's 2016 estimate of < 53 years out to at least another 25,000 years further into far future.
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 - Japanese confirm Lattice hypotheses re importance of ads...Lewis Larsen
Survival of 40% of world’s population heavily depends on higher food production enabled by Ammonia fertilizer produced in large plants via Haber-Bosch process as commercialized in 1909.
Progress is being made with new catalyst technology that could potentially reduce capital and operating costs of future Ammonia plants which would be cost-effective in much smaller sizes that enable distributed production.
Recent Japanese papers confirm Lattice’s hypotheses about importance of adsorbed protons and high
local electric fields for boosting reaction rates on some types of metallic catalyst surfaces.
Manabe et al. achieved high yield Haber-Bosch-like synthesis of Ammonia by applying DC electric fields
along with N2, H2, Cs/Ru catalyst and SrZrO3 support at just room temperature and ~1 atmosphere pressure versus ~450o C and ~200 atm in commercial NH3 plant.
Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs predicts deep causal connection between many-body collective physics of electroweak nuclear catalysis and chemical catalysis: very high local electric fields ≥ 1010 V/m and mobile surface patches of Q-M entangled protons. In LENRs these enable: electron + proton --> neutron + neutrino.
Lattice Energy LLC - Renewable lignin biomass aromatics convert into green ra...Lewis Larsen
Lattice Energy is commercializing ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) as a next-generation green nuclear energy source. LENRs can transmute plant biomass like lignin into fuels with over 5,000 times the energy density of gasoline without dangerous radiation. The company plans to process lignin and other biomass sources into aromatic molecules that can trigger LENRs, creating renewable "bionuclear" fuels. This could enable portable power sources and vehicles that travel the world on a single small fuel amount. Lattice will leverage existing nanotechnology and scale up LENR heat output and power conversion to bring this technology to market.
Lattice Energy LLC - Hyperlinked index to documents re Widom-Larsen theory an...Lewis Larsen
Fully hyperlinked and cross-referenced Index and User Guide to relevant documents concerning the Widom-Larsen theory and ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs)
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs dramatically expand financing opportunities for o...Lewis Larsen
This document discusses how revolutionary low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology could transform the oil and gas industry. It claims that LENR could increase the economic value of fossil fuel reserves like oil and coal by 500 times by enabling their conversion into highly energy-dense, carbon dioxide-free LENR fuels. This would dramatically expand financing opportunities for oil and gas companies through mechanisms like asset-based lending. The document also outlines several potential applications of LENR technology in oil and gas production processes that could significantly reduce costs.
Lattice Energy LLC - Scalability of LENR power generation systems - Nov 29 2015Lewis Larsen
Lattice shows how LENR power generation systems could someday scale-up from today’s primitive milliwatt thermal devices to kwh and megawatts of electrical output.
In this PowerPoint presentation, we outline how substantial scale-up of LENR (safe ultralow energy neutron reactions) power generation systems from today’s primitive milliwatt thermal devices to kwh and megawatts is a feasible goal in the near-future. LENR reactors would be vastly smaller and less expensive than equivalent fission counterparts with comparable thermal output.
D-T fusion reactors like ITER and other similar Tokamaks mainly create heat by harvesting the kinetic energy of deadly 14.1 MeV neutrons. Consequently, they require massive shielding and containment systems for safe operation and unsurprisingly have enormous costs and unavoidably huge physical size. Given that the radiation-free Lithium LENR fuel cycle releases nearly 27 MeV versus a total Q-value of 17.6 MeV for the D-T fusion reaction, it is hard to imagine a sound economic argument for spending 100s of billions on commercial fusion reactors if LENR technology is successfully developed and scaled-up as we have outlined herein.
Lack of hard radiation and radioactive wastes permit downward scalability that could enable future development of revolutionary, compact battery-like portable LENR power sources that can compete directly on $ price/kwh with chemical batteries in many applications including power tools, tablets, and smartphones.
Lattice energy LLC - Climate change can reduce wind and solar power output - ...Lewis Larsen
A mystery wind drought hit the U.S. in the first half of 2015. Total wind-powered electrical output in the U.S. during that year went down 6% while total installed capacity went up 9%. Thus climate change disrupts prior weather patterns which can then impact renewables. If you believe wind and solar can someday totally replace short-notice sources of dispatchable power generation then think again, because they simply can’t --- ever.
Given innate variability in power output from renewable green energy sources, substantial amounts of short-notice dispatchable generation capacity are an unavoidable necessity that, along with a shift toward distributed generation, could serve as key system components crucial to maintaining modern high-availability electricity grids that continue to provide customers with 99+ % uptime during an era of increasing climate change. Having adequate dispatchable power generation capacity on-hand would thus be invaluable in helping to insure reliable, low-cost energy production and prudent risk management with respect to sudden unexpected “Black Swan” events such as extremely large volcanic eruptions and violent earthquakes that can adversely impact power generation by renewables.
Published peer-reviewed data suggests that it would also be prudent for global society to reduce future CO2 emissions from power generation activities. This will eventually happen anyway because at current rates of consumption, British Petroleum has estimated that fossil fuel resources will be totally exhausted in <150 years. Well, nuclear power plants are dispatchable and do not emit any CO2. Like it or not, major worldwide expansion of nuclear power generation is probably inevitable and could play a key strategic role in the long-term future of energy. In that regard, if safe radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) are successfully commercialized for producing green nuclear power, they could someday provide the future “energy miracle” sought by Bill Gates.
Lattice Energy LLC - Synopsis of book titled Fusion Fiasco by Steven Krivit p...Lewis Larsen
Synopsis of Steve Krivit’s book “Fusion Fiasco” in context of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs:
By late October 1989 Dr. Edward Teller, ‘father’ of the first Hydrogen bomb, was apparently convinced Pons & Fleischmann had discovered a little-understood nuclear process that could operate in ordinary electrochemical cells. Bizarre absence of deadly hard radiation indicated to him that P&F’s puzzling results probably weren’t caused by a fusion process. After seeing all the ERAB panel’s data, he further speculated that the underlying process was very likely nuclear and possibly catalyzed by “neutral particle of small mass and marginal stability” that was somewhat akin to a neutron. Krivit reveals how his prescient insights were ignored by the DOE ERAB panel and then effectively buried for 27 years.
Lattice Energy LLC - 1994 conference paper - Prof John Dash reported producti...Lewis Larsen
Synopsis: In a ‘lost’ conference paper published 23 years ago, Prof. John Dash et al. correctly concluded that “slow neutrons” were responsible for creating Gold and Silver transmutation products that were clearly observed in electrochemical cells that had been electrolyzed for 400 hours. However, they mistakenly thought that such neutrons were produced by a nuclear fusion process.
More recently, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has used a proprietary gas permeation method for LENR transmutation of Tungsten to Osmium and finally to Platinum. However, MHI’s ultralow energy neutron fluxes in Deuterium gas permeation cleanroom systems were not quite high enough to proceed all the way down the neutron-catalyzed LENR transmutation pathway to reach Gold like Dash et al.
Mitsubishi is presently pushing aggressively to increase LENR transmutation rates and product yields in laboratory devices. In a recent company technical bulletin, the company revealed that transmutation product yields had been increased by nearly 3 orders of magnitude in 3 years by shifting from gas to electrochemical permeation through a thin-film metal-oxide sandwich structure (see slides #34 - 36). Interestingly, to achieve this increase in yields, MHI unknowingly followed guidelines that were already spelled-out in a Widom-Larsen theory rate calculation paper published back in 2007 (slide #33).
Since MHI is also using semiconductor-like fabrication methods, cleanrooms, and some nanotech to build devices and increase transmutation product yields, it begs the question of whether there are any parallels between today’s primitive LENR devices and the historical development of transistors in the semiconductor industry. Well, there are.
Slides #37 – 43 explain how --- in certain ways --- LENR active sites really do resemble electronic transistors used in microchips. I also discuss what this unexpected similarity may mean for future development and commercialization of LENRs for power generation. Amazingly, some aspects of future transistors and LENR device technology will probably converge and perhaps even strongly overlap.
Lattice Energy LLC- Increased Energy Densities Drive Convergence of Batteries...Lewis Larsen
Over time, the fields of energetic materials, low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs), and battery technologies are gradually converging as they pursue ways to create products with vastly improved performance through utilizing processes at the micron and nanoscale.
This convergence is driven by the quest for higher energy densities in applications like portable electronics and electric vehicles. Emerging technologies like LENRs may enable revolutionary leaps in energy density beyond what is possible through chemical means alone.
The document discusses how LENRs could interact with and benefit battery technologies, presenting opportunities for both increased safety and new high-performance power sources in the future. Japanese companies are exploring using LENRs to replace internal combustion
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR technology could help justify 2 trillion valuation ...Lewis Larsen
LENR technology could help justify Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s proposed US$ 2 trillion valuation for Saudi Aramco in planned 2018 company IPO.
Some outsiders and company insiders believe IPO valuation of US$ 400 billion up to maximum of 1.5 trillion are more realistic numbers. To the contrary, announcing major new R&D program in LENR technology by Aramco prior to IPO could boost valuation by increasing perceived future growth prospects and potentially enabling future production and sale of new types of revolutionary nanoparticulate CO2-free fuels derived from oil. These aromatic Carbon LENR fuels for transportation and power generation applications would have over 5,000x the energy density of gasoline.
Lattice Energy LLC - Widom-Larsen theory reveals surprising similarities and ...Lewis Larsen
Widom-Larsen theory unveils additional surprising similarities and connections between LENRs and chemical catalysis.
Synopsis: recent extensions of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs have for the first time revealed additional striking and unexpected similarities between electroweak nuclear catalysis --- collective many-body en + pn reaction in condensed matter --- and enzymatic catalysis, inorganic chemical catalysis, plasmon-mediated chemical photocatalysis with “hot” charge carriers, as well as widely published nanotechnology concept of heterometallic plasmonic antenna-reactor nanoparticles for photocatalysis. Among a number of surprising commonalities between LENRs and chemical catalytic processes, many-body collective quantum effects and high local electric fields > 1010 V/m enable many chemical reactions and LENRs to proceed with substantial rates at vastly lower working temperatures and pressures. Existence of all these unexpected parallels suggests that valuable engineering insights can be obtained by data mining state-of-the art technical knowledge about nanotech and chemical catalysis and then applying and leveraging new insights derived therefrom to help accelerate future development of LENRs for power generation.
Powering the World to a Green LENR Future- Lattice Energy LLC-April 11 2013Lewis Larsen
Powering the world to a green LENR future – a not unduly technical Lattice overview for everybody - truly green hard-radiation-free nuclear energy exists: no gammas, no energetic neutrons, nor any radioactive wastes. During their brief existence, peak power densities in LENR-active sites on condensed matter surfaces vastly exceed the power density that prevails in the innermost core of the Sun.
Lattice Energy LLC- Toyota Confirms Mitsubishi Transmutation of Cs to Pr-Oct ...Lewis Larsen
In Oct. 2013, Toyota published a paper in the peer-reviewed Japanese Journal of Applied Physics which confirmed important experimental results that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had first published in 2002. MHI had claimed transmutation of Cesium into Praseodymium via the forced diffusion of Deuterium gas through a thin-film heterostructure containing elemental Palladium using a permeation method pioneered by Mitsubishi; it is capable of triggering nuclear reactions in condensed matter systems under modest temperatures and pressures.
Importantly, all of this experimental data is predicted and fully explained by the peer-reviewed Widom-Larsen theory of low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs).
While the Mitsubishi permeation method is not a suitable embodiment for commercial power generation systems based on LENRs, it has proven to be an excellent laboratory tool for demonstrating that nuclear transmutations can be triggered at will without the use of huge macroscopic temperatures and pressures. In other words, aging stars, supernovae, fission reactors, and thermonuclear explosions are not necessarily required; nucleosynthesis can occur in tabletop experiments that surprisingly do not have or need any radiation shielding.
Toyota's experimental confirmation of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) neutron-catalyzed LENR-based transmutation method also effectively provided a proof-of-concept for disposal of rather nasty radioactive Cesium (Cs-137) commonly found in nuclear fission reactor wastes into other heavier, non-radioactive stable elements/isotopes using MHI’s permeation process. In principle, a variant of MHI's LENR method with larger neutron fluxes would be extremely flexible and should work on any other type of radioactive isotope that can capture low energy neutrons, e.g., very dangerous Strontium-90, many long-lived transuranics such as Neptunium (please see http://wwwndc.jaea.go.jp/nds/proceedings/2004/harada_h.pdf ), etc..
Lastly, at an American Nuclear Society meeting held in November 2012, Yasuhiro Iwamura of Mitsubishi revealed the Toyota Motor Company itself had recently become involved in LENR R&D, along with other large Japanese companies that he declined to name publicly. Given Japanese companies well known excellence at long-term strategic thinking, it would not be surprising if their ongoing LENR R&D programs aim to ultimately replace the internal combustion engine.
Lattice energy LLC - Chinese chemists report photochemical triggering of LENR...Lewis Larsen
Experiments reported in 2017 by Prof. Gong-xuan Lu et al. at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, in Lanzhou, China showed photocatalytic triggering of ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) at NTP with visible light. Experimental results reported in “Journal of Molecular Catalysis” (China) in 2017 claimed production of Deuterium and Helium as well as nuclear transmutation of Potassium to Calcium. Very significant discovery if experimental claims can be independently confirmed by other researchers using same methods. If Lu et al.’s claims are confirmed, their work has important implications. For chemical catalysis, it suggests that LENR transmutations can occur at very low rates in parallel with ordinary chemical reactions; LENRs can coexist and interoperate at NTP. Also implies total mass-balances for chemical elements comprising reactants and products might not necessarily be conserved. For astrophysics and cosmochemistry, it means that nucleosynthesis can occur on surfaces of Hydrogen- and metal-rich dust grains irradiated by starlight.
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 - Production of Gold via LENR transmutation of Platinum in...Lewis Larsen
Presently, unbeknownst to unsuspecting drivers worldwide, green LENR transmutation processes are occurring at very low rates during operation of three-way catalytic converters installed in over a billion cars and trucks.
Radiation-free nuclear transmutation of chemical elements by LENRs inside catalytic converters is strongly indicated by the presence of anomalous Gold, excess radiogenic Osmium, and shifts toward heavier isotopes that have been reported in Platinum and Palladium found in micron-scale nanoparticles that are emitted from vehicle exhaust pipes.
Extensive sampling and chemical analysis of certain roadway dust and roadside soils by environmental scientists have revealed that in scattered locations nanoparticulate Gold emitted from motor vehicle exhaust has accumulated to the point where local concentrations of this precious metal nearing key minimum threshold of 0.5 ppm needed for economic Gold ore.
This surprising nuclear activity in ubiquitous catalytic converters and absence of deleterious consequences for drivers or Earth’s environment argue that world is already safely coexisting with LENRs. This supports idea that LENRs could potentially be a very attractive future source of green nuclear energy if the technology is successfully commercialized.
Lattice Energy LLC - Compelling Economics of Transmutation vs Combustion of C...Lewis Larsen
Revolutionary LENR technology can potentially transform oil and coal into ‘green’ CO2-free LENR fuels that possess >5,000x the energy density (Watt*hours/kg) of unleaded gasoline.
In LENR fuels derived from extraction and processing of aromatic fractions found in oil and coal, generation of thermal heat energy occurs via clean radiation-free, neutron-catalyzed transmutation of Carbon into Nitrogen and Oxygen rather than chemical combustion with O2.
Herein we show how applied LENR technology can potentially increase the economic value of natural fossil Carbonaceous energy sources by at least 500x; much of this increase in energetic economic value comes from enormous energy densities and BTUs produced by nuclear processes as compared to purely chemical energy processes such as combustion.
In British Petroleum's 63rd annual Statistical Review of World Energy (2014) they estimated that oil will run-out in ~53 years and coal in ~113 years. Given at least 500x increase in the energetic economic value of LENR fuel, commercialization of LENRs on aromatic molecules would extend useful economic lifetime of fossil Carbon sources out to at least 25,000 years.
Commercialization of LENRs occurring on aromatic rings would eliminate the so-called “Carbon Bubble” and fossil fuel “stranded asset” problems that during the past few years have begun to concern certain financial players that even include the Bank of England.
Lattice Energy LLC - Adequate reasonably priced dispatchable power generation...Lewis Larsen
Adequate reasonably priced dispatchable power generation is critical for every country’s energy security.
Renewable energy sources sometimes unable to fill total national demand for electric power because they are intermittent. Unusual European weather in December 2016 demonstrated that Germany’s Energiewende (energy transition) as idealistically envisioned by its many supporters may be impractical.
“One cannot simultaneously rely on massive amounts of wind and sunshine, dispense with nuclear power plants, significantly lower the supply of fossil energy, and nevertheless tell people that electricity will definitely be available in the future.” Quoted from article by Heiner Flassbeck, a prominent German economist, that was published on January 10, 2017
It is thus apparent that national energy security, 99+ % grid uptime availability, and reasonably priced electricity for retail consumers could be jeopardized in countries that don’t have adequate dispatchable power generation capacity.
Electricity shortfalls from renewable wind and solar energy sources are today covered by dispatchable fossil fuel and fission power plants --- if fossil fuels and fission are then phased-out, then what will replace them?
Radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) could potentially provide an alternative nuclear technology to fission and fusion. While LENRs do use safe ultralow energy neutrons to trigger release of nuclear binding energy (heat) from an enormous array of stable element target fuels, they are radically different from Uranium and Thorium fission reactors that require criticality to operate properly. Unlike fission, LENRs don’t involve multiplicative chain reactions with fuels that in turn release multiple neutrons which then explosively accelerate neutron production --- nuclear runaways are not a risk with LENRs.
D-T fusion reactors like ITER and other similar Tokamaks mainly produce heat by harvesting the kinetic energy of deadly 14.1 MeV energetic neutrons. Consequently, they require massive shielding and containment systems for safe operation and unsurprisingly have enormous costs and unavoidably huge physical size. Given that the Lithium LENR fuel cycle releases nearly 27 MeV versus a total Q-value of 17.6 MeV for the D-T fusion reaction, it is hard to imagine a sound economic argument for spending 100s of billions on commercial fusion reactors if LENR technology were successfully developed and scaled-up as outlined herein.
Lack of hard radiation and radioactive wastes permit downward scalability that could enable future development of revolutionary, compact battery-like portable LENR power sources that can compete directly on $ price/kwh with chemical batteries in many applications including power tools, tablets, and smartphones.
Lattice Energy LLC - Green hard-radiation-free len rs could provide game-chan...Lewis Larsen
Green hard-radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) could provide game-changing nuclear power for military combat systems ranging from aircraft to individual warfighters. LENRs are the only energy technology on the foreseeable horizon that could provide a quantum-leap in military power generation and propulsion capabilities in the 2030 - 2050 time-frame.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR transmutation of Carbon better energy strategy than...Lewis Larsen
While Obama’s new clean power plan is certainly very well-intentioned, it implicitly throws the fossil fuel industry “under the bus,” naively assumes that wind and solar power will take up the slack at reasonable cost, and does not really attempt to develop radical new sources of low-cost energy.
Rather than eventually replacing fossil fuels with solar, wind, and renewable energy sources over time, LENR technology instead enables oil, gas, and coal producers to convert fossil fuels into cleaner, more valuable form of CO2-free LENR energy --- energy producers, energy consumers, and Mother Earth all win.
While solar PV and wind are CO2-free and extremely biosafe, their intrinsic energy densities are much lower than today’s fossil fuels and inherently intermittent --- not continuous --- sources of electrical and thermal power. Solar and wind renewables therefore simply cannot 100% replace fossil energy sources without enormous economic disruption and gigantic increases in energy costs.
LENRs are the only primary energy technology on foreseeable horizon that could provide the world with affordable dense green energy, connect the unconnected, and empower billions of now powerless, energy-poor people
Lattice’s strategy for replacing today’s combustion with LENR transmutation of Carbon saves the fossil fuel industry yet is highly synergistic with renewables, enables sustainable economic growth, and helps to ameliorate CO2-driven climate change.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR technologys compelling value proposition for oil an...Lewis Larsen
LENRs offer a compelling future value proposition for oil & gas companies. Technology of ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) could enable conversion of aromatics derived from crude oil and natural gas into nanoparticulate LENR fuels with energy densities that are 5,000x greater than gasoline.
Achievement of this unprecedented capability could vastly increase performance of customers’ power generation systems as well as enable the rapid future development of many types of revolutionary products suitable for array of key consumer and military markets.
LENR technology could also stretch useful economic lifetimes of today’s remaining in-ground supplies of oil & gas from British Petroleum's 2016 estimate of < 53 years out to at least another 25,000 years further into far future.
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 - Japanese confirm Lattice hypotheses re importance of ads...Lewis Larsen
Survival of 40% of world’s population heavily depends on higher food production enabled by Ammonia fertilizer produced in large plants via Haber-Bosch process as commercialized in 1909.
Progress is being made with new catalyst technology that could potentially reduce capital and operating costs of future Ammonia plants which would be cost-effective in much smaller sizes that enable distributed production.
Recent Japanese papers confirm Lattice’s hypotheses about importance of adsorbed protons and high
local electric fields for boosting reaction rates on some types of metallic catalyst surfaces.
Manabe et al. achieved high yield Haber-Bosch-like synthesis of Ammonia by applying DC electric fields
along with N2, H2, Cs/Ru catalyst and SrZrO3 support at just room temperature and ~1 atmosphere pressure versus ~450o C and ~200 atm in commercial NH3 plant.
Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs predicts deep causal connection between many-body collective physics of electroweak nuclear catalysis and chemical catalysis: very high local electric fields ≥ 1010 V/m and mobile surface patches of Q-M entangled protons. In LENRs these enable: electron + proton --> neutron + neutrino.
Lattice Energy LLC - Renewable lignin biomass aromatics convert into green ra...Lewis Larsen
Lattice Energy is commercializing ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) as a next-generation green nuclear energy source. LENRs can transmute plant biomass like lignin into fuels with over 5,000 times the energy density of gasoline without dangerous radiation. The company plans to process lignin and other biomass sources into aromatic molecules that can trigger LENRs, creating renewable "bionuclear" fuels. This could enable portable power sources and vehicles that travel the world on a single small fuel amount. Lattice will leverage existing nanotechnology and scale up LENR heat output and power conversion to bring this technology to market.
Lattice Energy LLC - Hyperlinked index to documents re Widom-Larsen theory an...Lewis Larsen
Fully hyperlinked and cross-referenced Index and User Guide to relevant documents concerning the Widom-Larsen theory and ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs)
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs dramatically expand financing opportunities for o...Lewis Larsen
This document discusses how revolutionary low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology could transform the oil and gas industry. It claims that LENR could increase the economic value of fossil fuel reserves like oil and coal by 500 times by enabling their conversion into highly energy-dense, carbon dioxide-free LENR fuels. This would dramatically expand financing opportunities for oil and gas companies through mechanisms like asset-based lending. The document also outlines several potential applications of LENR technology in oil and gas production processes that could significantly reduce costs.
Lattice Energy LLC - Scalability of LENR power generation systems - Nov 29 2015Lewis Larsen
Lattice shows how LENR power generation systems could someday scale-up from today’s primitive milliwatt thermal devices to kwh and megawatts of electrical output.
In this PowerPoint presentation, we outline how substantial scale-up of LENR (safe ultralow energy neutron reactions) power generation systems from today’s primitive milliwatt thermal devices to kwh and megawatts is a feasible goal in the near-future. LENR reactors would be vastly smaller and less expensive than equivalent fission counterparts with comparable thermal output.
D-T fusion reactors like ITER and other similar Tokamaks mainly create heat by harvesting the kinetic energy of deadly 14.1 MeV neutrons. Consequently, they require massive shielding and containment systems for safe operation and unsurprisingly have enormous costs and unavoidably huge physical size. Given that the radiation-free Lithium LENR fuel cycle releases nearly 27 MeV versus a total Q-value of 17.6 MeV for the D-T fusion reaction, it is hard to imagine a sound economic argument for spending 100s of billions on commercial fusion reactors if LENR technology is successfully developed and scaled-up as we have outlined herein.
Lack of hard radiation and radioactive wastes permit downward scalability that could enable future development of revolutionary, compact battery-like portable LENR power sources that can compete directly on $ price/kwh with chemical batteries in many applications including power tools, tablets, and smartphones.
Lattice energy LLC - Climate change can reduce wind and solar power output - ...Lewis Larsen
A mystery wind drought hit the U.S. in the first half of 2015. Total wind-powered electrical output in the U.S. during that year went down 6% while total installed capacity went up 9%. Thus climate change disrupts prior weather patterns which can then impact renewables. If you believe wind and solar can someday totally replace short-notice sources of dispatchable power generation then think again, because they simply can’t --- ever.
Given innate variability in power output from renewable green energy sources, substantial amounts of short-notice dispatchable generation capacity are an unavoidable necessity that, along with a shift toward distributed generation, could serve as key system components crucial to maintaining modern high-availability electricity grids that continue to provide customers with 99+ % uptime during an era of increasing climate change. Having adequate dispatchable power generation capacity on-hand would thus be invaluable in helping to insure reliable, low-cost energy production and prudent risk management with respect to sudden unexpected “Black Swan” events such as extremely large volcanic eruptions and violent earthquakes that can adversely impact power generation by renewables.
Published peer-reviewed data suggests that it would also be prudent for global society to reduce future CO2 emissions from power generation activities. This will eventually happen anyway because at current rates of consumption, British Petroleum has estimated that fossil fuel resources will be totally exhausted in <150 years. Well, nuclear power plants are dispatchable and do not emit any CO2. Like it or not, major worldwide expansion of nuclear power generation is probably inevitable and could play a key strategic role in the long-term future of energy. In that regard, if safe radiation-free ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) are successfully commercialized for producing green nuclear power, they could someday provide the future “energy miracle” sought by Bill Gates.
Lattice Energy LLC - Synopsis of book titled Fusion Fiasco by Steven Krivit p...Lewis Larsen
Synopsis of Steve Krivit’s book “Fusion Fiasco” in context of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs:
By late October 1989 Dr. Edward Teller, ‘father’ of the first Hydrogen bomb, was apparently convinced Pons & Fleischmann had discovered a little-understood nuclear process that could operate in ordinary electrochemical cells. Bizarre absence of deadly hard radiation indicated to him that P&F’s puzzling results probably weren’t caused by a fusion process. After seeing all the ERAB panel’s data, he further speculated that the underlying process was very likely nuclear and possibly catalyzed by “neutral particle of small mass and marginal stability” that was somewhat akin to a neutron. Krivit reveals how his prescient insights were ignored by the DOE ERAB panel and then effectively buried for 27 years.
Lattice Energy LLC - 1994 conference paper - Prof John Dash reported producti...Lewis Larsen
Synopsis: In a ‘lost’ conference paper published 23 years ago, Prof. John Dash et al. correctly concluded that “slow neutrons” were responsible for creating Gold and Silver transmutation products that were clearly observed in electrochemical cells that had been electrolyzed for 400 hours. However, they mistakenly thought that such neutrons were produced by a nuclear fusion process.
More recently, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has used a proprietary gas permeation method for LENR transmutation of Tungsten to Osmium and finally to Platinum. However, MHI’s ultralow energy neutron fluxes in Deuterium gas permeation cleanroom systems were not quite high enough to proceed all the way down the neutron-catalyzed LENR transmutation pathway to reach Gold like Dash et al.
Mitsubishi is presently pushing aggressively to increase LENR transmutation rates and product yields in laboratory devices. In a recent company technical bulletin, the company revealed that transmutation product yields had been increased by nearly 3 orders of magnitude in 3 years by shifting from gas to electrochemical permeation through a thin-film metal-oxide sandwich structure (see slides #34 - 36). Interestingly, to achieve this increase in yields, MHI unknowingly followed guidelines that were already spelled-out in a Widom-Larsen theory rate calculation paper published back in 2007 (slide #33).
Since MHI is also using semiconductor-like fabrication methods, cleanrooms, and some nanotech to build devices and increase transmutation product yields, it begs the question of whether there are any parallels between today’s primitive LENR devices and the historical development of transistors in the semiconductor industry. Well, there are.
Slides #37 – 43 explain how --- in certain ways --- LENR active sites really do resemble electronic transistors used in microchips. I also discuss what this unexpected similarity may mean for future development and commercialization of LENRs for power generation. Amazingly, some aspects of future transistors and LENR device technology will probably converge and perhaps even strongly overlap.
Lattice Energy LLC- Increased Energy Densities Drive Convergence of Batteries...Lewis Larsen
Over time, the fields of energetic materials, low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs), and battery technologies are gradually converging as they pursue ways to create products with vastly improved performance through utilizing processes at the micron and nanoscale.
This convergence is driven by the quest for higher energy densities in applications like portable electronics and electric vehicles. Emerging technologies like LENRs may enable revolutionary leaps in energy density beyond what is possible through chemical means alone.
The document discusses how LENRs could interact with and benefit battery technologies, presenting opportunities for both increased safety and new high-performance power sources in the future. Japanese companies are exploring using LENRs to replace internal combustion
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR technology could help justify 2 trillion valuation ...Lewis Larsen
LENR technology could help justify Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s proposed US$ 2 trillion valuation for Saudi Aramco in planned 2018 company IPO.
Some outsiders and company insiders believe IPO valuation of US$ 400 billion up to maximum of 1.5 trillion are more realistic numbers. To the contrary, announcing major new R&D program in LENR technology by Aramco prior to IPO could boost valuation by increasing perceived future growth prospects and potentially enabling future production and sale of new types of revolutionary nanoparticulate CO2-free fuels derived from oil. These aromatic Carbon LENR fuels for transportation and power generation applications would have over 5,000x the energy density of gasoline.
Lattice Energy LLC Company Vision-September 11 2011Lewis Larsen
Lattice Energy LLC's company vision of commercializing Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs): what key milestones remain and why are we doing this? It's not just about money.
Lattice Energy LLC-Game changing LENRs - What are they and amazing things the...Lewis Larsen
LENRs could enable the development of safe, portable nuclear power sources by producing energy through nuclear reactions that do not emit dangerous radiation or radioactive waste. This is made possible by a new theory explaining LENRs as many-body collective electroweak reactions producing low-energy neutrons. LENRs could power devices from small electronics to large power plants due to their potential for high energy density and scalability without the safety challenges of conventional nuclear technology. Portable LENR power sources might vastly exceed chemical batteries in performance by enabling dramatic increases in the range and lifetime of various products.
Lattice Energy LLC- LENR Transmutation Networks Can Produce Gold-Dec 7 2012Lewis Larsen
The document discusses a theoretical process by which low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) could produce gold from tungsten. It presents a nucleosynthetic network starting with stable tungsten-180 isotopes that undergoes neutron captures and radioactive decays to produce intermediate isotopes, eventually yielding stable gold-197 and platinum-197. This theoretical prediction is supported by three experimental results from 1925, 2004, and 2012 that also produced gold from tungsten under different conditions. If commercialized, this LENR process could potentially be a source of precious metals by transmuting more abundant elements.
Lattice Energy LLC - Converting Oil and Coal into More Energetic Green CO2-fr...Lewis Larsen
Clean low energy nuclear reactions (CLENRs) could provide new bridge to the future for the global oil and coal industries.
Potentially major future commercial opportunity would be to develop the capability to convert PAHs and other types of aromatics into CLENR fuels ‘burned’ in relatively unremarkable, compact metallic reactors that utilize selected segments of Carbon target transmutation network discussed herein to produce very low-cost process heat.
At that point in the development of the technology, various commercial versions of CLENR power generation systems would begin to physically resemble present day chemically fueled power sources without having any of their present problems, such as huge CO2 emissions; CLENR-fired boilers for industry are obvious product possibility.
On an energy-equivalent BTU basis, PAHs and related aromatics might easily be worth a million times more $$$ as CLENR fuels, as opposed to their being used to produce chemical feedstocks or to undergo cracking of the aromatic rings to create types of hydrocarbon chains suitable for vehicles, or in case of coal, simply burning pulverized coal with Oxygen to create process heat, H2O, as well as gases and dirty particulates.
If CLENRs’ potential technological capabilities were eventually realized, global oil and coal industries’ even more profitable bridge to the future could include their traditional extraction and processing of hydrocarbons and coal for use in today’s fossil fuels and chemical feedstocks, as well as a new business: producing revolutionary CLENR fuels.
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
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This document summarizes the key findings of the Risø Energy Report 3 on hydrogen and its role as an energy carrier. The main conclusions are:
1) Hydrogen has the potential to help address climate change and energy security challenges if technologies can be developed to make its production, storage, and conversion more efficient and cost-effective.
2) Current barriers include the need for cheaper hydrogen production methods, better storage solutions especially for transport, and lower fuel cell prices with longer lifetimes.
3) If these barriers can be overcome within 20-40 years, hydrogen used with fuel cells could provide an efficient and clean energy system when combined with renewable energy sources and an infrastructure for transport.
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Are LENRS the Chicxulub Cretaceous extinction event for fossil fuels or a strategic future opportunity for oil companies?
In a New World of much greener CO2-free energy sources combustion of Carbon-based molecules with Oxygen is replaced with transmutation of Carbon by radiation-free LENRs. Release 5 million times more BTUs from same barrel of oil or equivalent amount of coal without producing any long-lived radioactive wastes or emitting any gaseous greenhouse CO2 into the Earth's atmosphere.
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Nuclear energy originates from splitting uranium atoms through fission. At nuclear power plants, fission is used to generate heat and produce steam to power turbines and generate electricity. Construction costs for plants are very high but operating costs have decreased over time. Nuclear power produces radioactive waste that remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years, and accidents like Chernobyl show the risks of contamination. There are also concerns about nuclear materials being used for weapons.
This document discusses future energy perspectives based on scenario analyses from international organizations. Key points:
- Developed countries prioritize environmental issues while developing countries focus on energy access and development.
- Global energy demand will continue growing, primarily in developing Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Regions have different technological needs.
- Fossil fuels will remain dominant but renewable energy growth is expected to accelerate from 2020 onward if governments invest in technologies.
- Scenarios show a range of possible energy futures depending on policies and priorities, from fossil fuel-dominated to renewable-dominated. The real future will likely be between these scenarios.
New New Energy - LENR/Cold Fusion/"Free Energy", Fact vs FictionEd Beardsworth
Next Generation Energy - LENR/Cold Fusion/"Free Energy", Fact vs Fiction
The quest, the goal, the holy grail... a source of energy to power modern society which is cheap, clean and inexhaustible. We know a great deal about the sources we have, and why they aren't good enough. Fossil fuel, the sun, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind, oceans, etc. And mankind looks farther:
In the realm of "known" or "generally accepted" science, we look for breakthroughs, either to improve on existing sources, or to make practical concepts we know about but can't yet implement, i.e. fusion.
In the realm of "not accepted" science, a perhaps surprisingly large number of people are hard at work to uncover phenomena that are "known" to be impossible. They are scorned, dismissed, ignored and banished by mainstream science, and with a couple of notable exceptions (e.g. cold fusion), completely ignored by the popular and science press.
"Accepted Science"
New Nuclear Fission
A quick survey: small modular reactors (SMR), alternate reactor concepts and fuel cycles.
Fusion
-- the mainstream programs with huge devices (ITER, NEF) unlikely to deliver, ever.
-- alternate approaches - smaller systems may have a chance--some are venture backed
-- aneutronic. uses different "fuels". much less radiation, but much harder to do (higher energy)
"Not Accepted Science"
•"Free Energy" • "Over unity" • "vacuum energy" • "Magnetic motors" Most of it can be dismissed, but perhaps not all. More than a few established and well trained scientists take these things quite seriously, in spite of career risks. Including, by the way, "cold fusion", aka LENR (low energy nuclear reactions).. What will we know in 50 years that we don't know now? Imagine someone describing a nuclear power plant in 1930)
This presentation provides a basic overview of nuclear power plants in 3 sentences:
It explains how nuclear fission is used to generate energy through splitting uranium atoms, describes the main types of nuclear reactors including pressurized water and boiled water, and discusses some advantages like low emissions but also challenges like nuclear waste storage. The presentation concludes with current nuclear power usage statistics and the future outlook for the industry.
This document provides an overview of energy storage systems and technologies. It discusses the relevance and need for energy storage given increasing energy demand and a shift to renewable energy sources. It covers various types of energy storage technologies including mechanical, chemical, thermal, and electrochemical storage. Specific technologies discussed in more detail include pumped hydro storage, compressed air storage, batteries focusing on lithium-ion batteries, and fuel cells. The document also discusses objectives, syllabus, and textbooks for the course.
Bring the power of the sun to Earth with AVEVA by Fabien Berruyer and Guilla...AVEVA Group plc
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Lattice Energy LLC-Widom-Larsen Theory Explains Data Presented in New Mitsubi...Lewis Larsen
Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs can successfully explain the various experimental data that was presented and discussed in the recently published, LENR-related US patent application filed June 8, 2012, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Japan), US 2012/0269309 A2.
Readers are encouraged to download copies and compare various details of Lattice’s fundamental patent US # 7,893,414 (issued by the USPTO on February 22, 2011) with Mitsubishi’s above-noted, recently published US application.
Mitsubishi uses their EINR model published in 1998 to explain their experimental data; however, it is strictly a conceptual phenomenological model and does not explain physics of exactly how LENR catalytic neutrons are formed and why copious energetic neutron radiation is not observed; neither does it explain why prompt and delayed MeV gamma radiation is not emitted during neutron captures on various isotopes.
Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs, as published in 2006 and 2010, fully explains the physics of ultra-low momentum neutron production, as well as the absence of deadly fluxes of energetic neutrons and ‘hard’ MeV-energy gamma radiation; Widom-Larsen theory’s deep insights in detailed device physics enables meaningful engineering of useful LENR devices for controlled production of thermal energy and/or purposeful transmutation of elements to accomplish a variety of objectives.
Conclusions: the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs can successfully explain the various experimental data that was presented and discussed in the recently published, LENR-related US patent application filed June 8, 2012, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Japan), US 2012/0269309 A2.
As a parting thought, please note that a number of large Japanese companies now have ongoing LENR R&D programs --- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota Central Research, and Toyota Motors, among others. That being the case, it is highly likely that one or more companies, somewhere, sometime in the not-too-distant future, will eventually succeed in commercializing LENRs.
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) is developing a fusion energy technology called "Focus Fusion" using a Dense Plasma Focus device. LPP achieved key milestones between 2009-2012 including a US patent and record plasma confinement temperatures. LPP's approach uses hydrogen-boron fuel that produces no radioactive waste. LPP aims to prove feasibility and reach fusion breakeven in Phase I, then develop a prototype generator in Phase II. LPP's technology promises ultra-low cost, clean energy through direct conversion to electricity without large infrastructure requirements.
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Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO LENR project reported reasonably reproducible Watt-level excess heat production - Feb 4 2018
1. February 4, 2018 Lewis Larsen, Copyright 2018 All rights reserved 1
Lattice Energy LLC
LENRs are disruptive new source of safe, radiation-free nuclear energy
Japan’s NEDO industry-academia-government
R&D program technically validated potential for
LENRs to become major future energy source
January 2018 summary project report and other recent project
reports released by Technova Inc. on ResearchGate showed
reproducible Watt-level excess heat production at ~80% success
rate with fabricated Pd-Ni-Zr nanocomposite LENR device materials
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Herein we will discuss importance of NEDO project results to date
“Some might find this massive change to be
daunting, but we look at it and see the
opportunity to be a disruptor.”
Mary Barra, CEO General Motors (2015)
Commenting on technological change in auto industry
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Comparison of LENRs to fission and fusion
Fission, fusion, and LENRs all involve controlled release of nuclear binding energy
(heat) for power generation: no CO2 emissions; scale of energy release is MeVs
(nuclear regime) > 1,000,000x energy density of chemical energy power sources
Heavy-element fission: involves shattering heavy nuclei to release stored nuclear binding
energy; requires massive shielding and containment structures to handle radiation; major
radioactive waste clean-up issues and costs; limited sources of fuel: today, almost entirely
Uranium; Thorium-based fuel cycles now under development; heavy element U-235 (fissile
isotope fuel) + neutrons complex array of lower-mass fission products (some are very
long-lived radioisotopes) + energetic gamma radiation + energetic neutron radiation + heat
Fusion of light nuclei: involves smashing light nuclei together to release stored nuclear
binding energy; present multi-billion $ development efforts (e.g., ITER, NIF, other Tokamaks)
focusing mainly on D+T fusion reaction; requires massive shielding/containment structures
to handle 14 MeV neutron radiation; minor radioactive waste clean-up $ costs vs. fission
Two key sources of fuel: Deuterium and Tritium (both are heavy isotopes of Hydrogen)
Most likely to be developed commercial fusion reaction involves the following:
D + T He-4 (helium) + neutron + heat (total energy yield 17.6 MeV; ~14.1 MeV in neutron)
distinguishing feature is neutron production
via electroweak reaction; neutron capture on fuel + gamma conversion to IR + decays [β- , α]
releases nuclear binding energy; early-stage technology; no emission of energetic neutron
or gamma radiation and no long-lived radioactive waste products; LENR systems would not
require massive, expensive radiation shielding or containment structures much lower $$$
cost; many possible fuels --- any element/isotope that can capture LENR neutrons; involves
neutron-catalyzed transmutation of fuels into heavier stable elements; process creates heat
Ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs):
Fusion of light nuclei:
Heavy element fission:
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Executive Summary
Widom-Larsen theory provides rigorous physics that explain LENRs
▪ LENR phenomena have controversial history dating back nearly 100 years
▪ At time of most recent rediscovery (1989), milliwatt-level reproducibility of
excess heat was poor and after 2-year debacle, R&D interest in LENRs
waned. This occurred because: (1) there was no theoretical explanation
for anomalous effects observed experimentally, especially transmutation
of chemical elements; and (2) nanotech required to reproducibly fabricate
Watt-level heat producing LENR devices simply did not exist at that time
▪ Between then and now, R&D in LENRs continued at low rates with limited
funding in number of countries scattered around world, including Japan
and USA. Experimentation and measurements of final reaction products
with mass spectroscopy demonstrated microscopic transmutation occurs
reproducibly in both Hydrogen- and Deuterium-loaded LENR systems.
Reproducible production of Watt-level excess heat remained very elusive
▪ Key features of Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs were published in peer-
reviewed European Physical Journal C – Particles and Fields (2006) and
Pramana – Journal of Physics (2010). W-L successfully explains all good
experimental data and observed anomalous effects, predicted new effects
(confirmed), and connected LENRs directly to nanotech via plasmonics
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Executive Summary
NEDO project demonstrates Watt-level reproducibility of excess heat
▪ Recently reported experimental results of Japanese NEDO project clearly
demonstrated that a critical step in commercialization of LENRs for power
generation now technically feasible: better fabrication methods for LENR
device materials that can reproducibly create Watt-levels of excess heat
▪ Technical evaluation of summary project report dated January 2018 and
related earlier project reports released by Technova Inc. on ResearchGate
revealed project achieved Watt-level heat outputs for nontrivial durations
with 80% or better success rate using specially fabricated nanocomposite
LENR device materials comprising nano-alloys of Ni, Pd, and Zr metals.
Demonstrates long-sought experimental reproducibility of excess heat but
relies on spontaneous random formation of LENR active sites in materials
▪ Widom-Larsen theory posits that LENRs occur in microscopic nanometer
to micron-sized active sites located on surfaces or at interfaces. No doubt
that present levels of NEDO device performance can be further improved
with better fabrication methods and yet-to-be-tested materials. However,
Lattice believes vast improvements in device reproducibility and scale-up
of excess heating power will require mastery of design, fabrication, and
emplacement of purpose-built nanostructures that are precursors to W-L
LENR active sites. Once achieved, enables scale-up to kilowatt heat output
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Executive Summary
Nanotechnology can be leveraged to accelerate LENR commercialization
▪ Some might scoff at NEDO project’s achieving only Watt-levels of excess
heat, given that automotive applications would require on order of at least
60 kilowatts to successfully power full-sized motor vehicles. Skeptics would
be wise to recall that world’s first Uranium nuclear fission reactor, Fermi’s
CP-1 at University of Chicago in 1942, weighed 400 tons and only produced
0.5 Watts of excess heat; today’s commercial reactors produce > 109 Watts.
Including mass of reaction vessels, NEDO’s primitive LENR reactor devices
only weigh tens of kilograms and already produce more heat than did CP-1
▪ Unlike Uranium fission reactors, as verified by NEDO results, LENRs do not
produce any deadly energetic gamma and neutron radiation or long-lived
radioactive wastes. Consequently, if future commercial LENR reactors with
sufficiently scaled-up power outputs can be developed they would not
require heavy, expensive radiation shielding and containment systems for
safe operation. That would enable LENR power systems to be vastly less
expensive than fission or fusion reactors and light-enough to be utilized in
unshielded propulsion systems for motor vehicles, aircraft, and spacecraft
▪ Lattice believes that LENRs and nanotechnology are intimately interrelated.
NEDO project’s excellent results with nanocomposites support idea that
nanotech can be leveraged to greatly accelerate LENR commercialization
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Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Japan 8.2 GW 2018
Obinsk
Russia 5 MW 1954
Manhattan Project CP-1
USA 0.5 W 1942
World’s 1st
sustained fission
chain reaction
World’s 1st
grid-connected
fission power plant
World’s largest
multi-reactor
fission power plant
5 x 10-1 Watts
5 x 106 Watts
8.2 x 109 Watts
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Total power output of nuclear plants was scaled-up by > 109 x
In theory, LENR-based power systems should also scale-up enormously
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LENRs are green: no energetic radiation or radwastes
Lack of hard radiation obviates need for shielding and containment
Major opportunity to develop broad range of competitive LENR power sources
Fission reactors need 1 foot of steel and 3 feet
of concrete to protect human beings from
dangerous hard radiation and wastes emitted by
reactor; systems intrinsically large and heavy
LENRs could enable future
development of small, portable
battery-like power sources that
are very safe and disposable
Much larger LENR systems
based on dusty plasma
embodiments could potentially
scale-up to megawatts
Fission and fusion processes both emit deadly MeV-energy neutron and gamma radiation
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Revolution in green
nuclear technology
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Toyota, Mitsubishi & Nissan involved in NEDO LENR project
Mitsubishi and Toyota interested in LENR technology since late 1989
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/06/29/worlds-largest-automakers-toyota-
renault-nissan-volkswagen-neck-and-neck/#45a7687a72fe
“World’s largest automakers: Toyota, Renault-Nissan, Volkswagen neck and neck”
Bertel Schmitt in Forbes June 29, 2017
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Japanese automakers working on NEDO LENR R&D project
Technova Inc. (Toyota principal shareholder) manages NEDO project
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“Disrupt or be disrupted” - Michael Arena, General Motors
https://thefutureorganization.com/disrupt-disrupted-advice-gms-chief-talent-officer/#
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agility-positively-disrupt-disrupted-michael-arena-phd/
January 3, 2018 by Jacob Morgan
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NEDO project reports reproducible Watt-level excess heat
“Excess power of 3 - 10 W lasting for a few weeks at … 200 - 300o C”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317339283_Effect_of_Supporter_Material_on_Heat_Evolution
_from_Ni-based_Nano-Composite_Samples_under_Exposure_to_Hydrogen_Isotope_Gas
From Slide #3
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NEDO project reports reproducible Watt-level excess heat
“Result in integrated heat-energy of 20 MJ/mol-Ni, or 90 MJ/mol-H”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317339283_Effect_of_Supporter_Material_on_Heat_Evolution
_from_Ni-based_Nano-Composite_Samples_under_Exposure_to_Hydrogen_Isotope_Gas
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NEDO project reports reproducible Watt-level excess heat
“Result in integrated heat-energy of 20 MJ/mol-Ni, or 90 MJ/mol-H”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320741361_Heat_evolution_from_silica-
supported_nano-composite_samples_under_exposure_to_hydrogen_isotope_gas
CNS3 #2 run: “ excess heat amounts to 200 eV/Ni (20 MJ/mol) or more
than 0.9 keV/H (90 MJ/mol-H) without detectable dose rate of hard
radiations, which cannot be explained by any chemical process.”
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317339283_Effect_of_Supporter_Material_on_Heat_Evolution
_from_Ni-based_Nano-Composite_Samples_under_Exposure_to_Hydrogen_Isotope_Gas
NEDO project reports reproducible Watt-level excess heat
In this summary of some (not all) experiments reproducibility is > 80 %
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NEDO project reports reproducible Watt-level excess heat
Watt-level heating produced without emitting any deadly hard radiation
▪ Excess heat was produced in ~ 80% of experiments; whenever excess heat is
created, it is most often at Watt-levels or better at operating temperatures of
200 - 300o C. Duration of excess heat production ranged up to weeks, which is
non-trivial. Such LENR device behavior represents excellent reproducibility for
complex early-stage technology; are best-ever results reported to date in field
▪ Watt-level excess heat is produced in Hydrogen (H)- and Deuterium (D)-loaded
systems. This is consistent with & predicted by Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs
▪ No deadly energetic (MeV-energy) gamma or neutron radiation was detected
during Watt-level excess heat production during any project experimental runs.
Observations are consistent with & predicted by Widom-Larsen LENR theory
▪ Substantial variation in heat production between duplicate samples under
otherwise similar conditions is likely due to subtle nanoscale heterogeneities
▪ In Lattice’s opinion, NEDO project’s outstanding experimental results change
LENRs’ Technology Readiness Level (TRL) from TRL-3 to TRL-4 (European
Commission definitions). This is important step for commercialization efforts
▪ Lattice recently discovered surprisingly deep causal connections between
condensed matter electroweak nuclear catalysis (e + p reaction), enzymatic
catalysis, and chemical catalysis --- LENRs are not as exotic as some may think
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LENRs are enabled by many-body collective quantum effects
Safe radiation-free LENRs could be extremely disruptive new technology
The Borg are a fictional group of cybernetic alien beings
that appear as existential threats in the Star Trek universe.
Their ultimate goal is “achieving perfection.”
“We are the Borg Collective.
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimilated.”
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Nuclear energy density surpasses any chemical technology
LENR-based power generation could have vast competitive advantage
57,500,000 (maximum theoretical energy
density – only a fraction would be achievable
in practice)
LENRs (based on an assumption of an average
of 0.5 MeV per nuclear reaction in an LENR
system)
11,500100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Gasoline
5,930100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Methanol
2,300Gas Burning Microgenerator (20% efficient)
1,680Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (35% efficient)
460Zinc-Air Battery
329Lithium Battery
164Alkaline Battery
Approximate Energy Density
(Watt*hours/kg)
Source of Energy
LENRs Versus Chemical Energy Sources: Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Microgenerators
57,500,000 (maximum theoretical energy
density – only a fraction would be achievable
in practice)
LENRs (based on an assumption of an average
of 0.5 MeV per nuclear reaction in an LENR
system)
11,500100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Gasoline
5,930100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Methanol
2,300Gas Burning Microgenerator (20% efficient)
1,680Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (35% efficient)
460Zinc-Air Battery
329Lithium Battery
164Alkaline Battery
Approximate Energy Density
(Watt*hours/kg)
Source of Energy
LENRs Versus Chemical Energy Sources: Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Microgenerators
LENRsChemical
~2,000 Wh/kg
might someday
be practical
with Lithium-air
batteries
~11,680 Wh/kg
is theoretical
maximum with
Lithium-air
Future possibility of converting Carbon aromatics to CO2-free LENR fuels
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Nuclear energy density surpasses any chemical technology
LENR-based power generation could have vast competitive advantage
57,500,000 (maximum theoretical energy
density – only a fraction would be achievable
in practice)
LENRs (based on an assumption of an average
of 0.5 MeV per nuclear reaction in an LENR
system)
11,500100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Gasoline
5,930100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Methanol
2,300Gas Burning Microgenerator (20% efficient)
1,680Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (35% efficient)
460Zinc-Air Battery
329Lithium Battery
164Alkaline Battery
Approximate Energy Density
(Watt*hours/kg)
Source of Energy
LENRs Versus Chemical Energy Sources: Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Microgenerators
57,500,000 (maximum theoretical energy
density – only a fraction would be achievable
in practice)
LENRs (based on an assumption of an average
of 0.5 MeV per nuclear reaction in an LENR
system)
11,500100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Gasoline
5,930100% Efficient Combustion of Pure Methanol
2,300Gas Burning Microgenerator (20% efficient)
1,680Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (35% efficient)
460Zinc-Air Battery
329Lithium Battery
164Alkaline Battery
Approximate Energy Density
(Watt*hours/kg)
Source of Energy
LENRs Versus Chemical Energy Sources: Batteries, Fuel Cells, and Microgenerators
LENRsChemical
~2,000 Wh/kg
might someday
be practical
with Lithium-air
batteries
~11,680 Wh/kg
is theoretical
maximum with
Lithium-air
Future possibility of converting Carbon aromatics to CO2-free LENR fuels
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Nanoparticulate LENR fuels could be used in many systems
Huge energy density advantages vs. fossil fuels & chemical batteries
Green LENR fuels energy densities could be 5,000x larger vs. gasoline
LENR fuels would be inert and benign and could use existing package delivery systems
for resupply; typical gasoline or diesel tanker truck carries ~5,000 - 12,000 US Gallons of
liquid fuel; LENR fuels producing same # of BTUs could be shipped in 1 - 2 FedEx boxes
Consequences: an automobile powered by LENRs could travel around the
entire world on a quantity of nanoparticulate fuel that fits into a medium-size
FedEx box. Unlike fission and fusion, LENRs scale downward. This enables
future development of portable LENR power systems that could compete
directly with batteries and fuel cells, thus vastly expanding range of markets
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LENRs could vastly increase performance for many products
Energy densities of LENR fuels 5,000x larger than chemical processes
LENR systems should be able to achieve 10x - 100x chemical power density
Product Name
Present capabilities with today’s
power sources
Range (endurance)
Vastly enhanced capabilities with
future LENR-based power sources
10x chemical 100x chemical
GreenWing e430 180 miles (~3 hours @ 60 mph) 1,800 (30) 18,000 (300)
Airbus E-Fan 2.0 99 miles (1 hour @ 99 mph) 990 (10) 9,900 (100)
Predator MQ-1 1,800 miles (24 hours @ 75 mph) 18,000 (240) 180,000 (2,400)
Super Heron
est. ~4,000 miles (45 hours @ 89
mph?)
40,000 (450+) 400,000 (4,500)
Springtail 184 miles (2.2+ hours @ 94 mph ) 1,840 (200+) 18,400 (2,000+)
Crazyflie Speed not measured (3 - 10 minutes) ? (30 - 100 min.) ? (maybe 5 - 17 hrs.)
InstantEye est. ~8 miles (18 - 20 min @ 25 mph) est. 80 (3.2 hrs.) 800 (32 hrs.)
Tesla Model S car ~300 miles (4 - 5 hours @ 70 mph) 3,000 (40 - 50) 30,000 (400 - 500)
Shkval torpedo
6.8 - 9.3 miles (1.8 - 2.4 min @230
mph)
68 - 93 (18 - 24
min)
680 - 930 (3 - 4 hrs)
Exoskeletons and
autonomous robots
Require tether cables connected to
some type of external power source
Duration of autonomous activity might be
extended up to weeks or even months
Variousaircraft
Enhancements in product range/endurance if LENR technology is commercialized
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https://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-revolutionary-
lenrs-could-power-future-aircraft-and-other-systems-feb-16-2014
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▪ At system electric power outputs of just 5 - 10 kwh, modular LENR-based
distributed power generation systems providing combined heat and
electricity (CHP) could satisfy energy requirements of majority of urban
and rural households as well as smaller business customers worldwide
▪ At electric power outputs of 60 - 200 kwh, LENR-based systems would be
able to power electric or hybrid vehicles, breaking oil’s stranglehold on
transportation; provide high-quality heat for many industrial processes
▪ Although they could very likely be designed and built, megawatt LENR
systems are not mandatory to disrupt the world of energy for the better
▪ If wide deployment of small-scale LENR distributed generation could be
achieved, large numbers of fossil-fired and/or fission power plants would
not have to be built to supply competitively priced electricity to regional
grids serving urban areas. Under that scenario, centralized grid power
generation could then be gradually displaced by vast numbers of smaller,
lower-cost distributed power systems located at homes and businesses
LENRs could greatly disrupt today’s global energy system
5 -10 kwh LENR powergen systems would be revolutionary development
Systems with megawatt power outputs not required for energy revolution to occur
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Guided by physics of the Widom-Larsen theory,
an opportunity to commercialize LENRs as truly
green CO2-free nuclear energy source has been
enabled by a unique juxtaposition of very recent
parallel advances in certain very vibrant areas
of nanotechnology (esp. plasmonics), quantum
entanglement, new innovations in nanoparticle
fabrication techniques, as well as an array of
new discoveries in advanced materials science.
Widom-Larsen enables commercialization of LENRs
Applied nanotechnology and LENRs are mutually joined at the hip
Development risks can be reasonable thanks to Widom-Larsen and nanotech
Simulation of high local electric fields associated with surface plasmon electrons on substrate
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“World's Largest Automakers: Toyota, Renault-Nissan, Volkswagen Neck And Neck”
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Key conclusions of theoretical paper published in Pramana
Journal is peer-reviewed publication of Indian Academy of Sciences
“A primer for electro-weak induced low energy nuclear reactions”
Y. Srivastava, A. Widom, and L. Larsen in Pramana (2010)
“The analysis presented in this paper leads us to conclude
that realistic possibilities exist for designing LENR devices
capable of producing ‘green energy’, that is, production of
excess heat at low cost without lethal nuclear waste,
dangerous γ-rays or unwanted neutrons. The necessary tools
and the essential theoretical know-how to manufacture such
devices appear to be well within the reach of the technology
available now. Vigorous efforts must now be made to develop
such devices whose functionality requires all three
interactions of the Standard Model acting in concert.”
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Documents about LENRs and Widom-Larsen theory
“LENR technology’s compelling value proposition for oil & gas companies”
Aromatics in oil convert to CO2-free LENR fuels w. 5,000x > heat vs. gasoline
https://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-lenr-technologys-compelling-
value-proposition-for-oil-and-gas-companies-april-12-2017
http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-scalability-of-lenr-power-
generation-systems-nov-29-2015
“Scalability of LENR power generation systems”
https://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-japanese-confirm-lattice-
hypotheses-re-importance-of-adsorbed-protons-and-high-local-electric-fields-in-
chemical-catalysis-june-27-2017
“Japanese confirm importance of high electric fields and mobile protons
in chemical catalysis”
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https://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-japanese-nedo-lenr-project-
reported-good-progress-in-excess-heat-production-and-device-fabrication-jan-27-2018
“January 2018: project report released - summarized progress in
Japanese government-funded NEDO R&D in LENRs for Oct. 2015 thru
Oct. 2017. Project scientists reported good progress in developing
nanocomposite LENR devices for use as powerful heat sources”
Purplish hyperlinks below are ‘live’ as well as in SlideShare PowerPoints
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Key publications about Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs
“Ultra low momentum neutron catalyzed nuclear reactions on metallic
hydride surfaces”
A. Widom and L. Larsen (author’s copy)
European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields 46 pp. 107 - 112 (2006)
http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/widom-and-larsen-ulm-neutron-catalyzed-
lenrs-on-metallic-hydride-surfacesepjc-march-2006
“A primer for electro-weak induced low energy nuclear reactions”
Y. Srivastava, A. Widom, and L. Larsen (author’s copy)
Pramana - Journal of Physics 75 pp. 617 - 637 (March 2010)
http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/srivastava-widom-and-larsenprimer-for-
electroweak-induced-low-energy-nuclear-reactionspramana-oct-2010
“Theoretical Standard Model rates of proton to neutron conversions near
metallic hydride surfaces”
A. Widom and L. Larsen
Cornell physics preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0608059v2 12 pages (2007)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/nucl-th/0608059v2.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996886451
“Hacking the Atom” (Volume 1 - 484 pages) popular science book
Steven B. Krivit, Pacific Oaks Press, San Rafael, CA, September 11, 2016
Paperback US$16.00; hardcover US$48.00; Kindle US$3.99
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Partnering on LENR commercialization and consulting on other subjects
Working with Lattice Energy LLC, Chicago, Illinois USA
▪ We believe Lattice is the world-leader in proprietary knowledge about
LENR device engineering required to develop high-performance, long
lived, scalable power sources. Our published peer-reviewed theoretical
papers rigorously explain the breakthrough device physics of LENR
processes, including the absence of dangerous energetic neutron or
gamma radiation and lack of long-lived radioactive waste production
▪ Lattice welcomes inquiries from large, established organizations that
have an interest in discussing the possibility of becoming Lattice’s
strategic capital and/or technology development partner
▪ Lewis Larsen also independently engages in consulting on variety of
subject areas that include: Lithium-ion battery safety issues; long-term
electricity grid reliability and resilience; and evaluating potential future
impact of LENRs from a long-term investment risk management
perspective for large CAPEX projects in the oil & gas, petrochemicals,
transportation, utility, and aerospace industries
1-312-861-0115 lewisglarsen@gmail.com
L. Larsen c.v.: http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lewis-g-larsen-cv-june-2013
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Dinosaurs dominated Earth’s landscape for 160 million years
Toppled by catastrophic combination of impactor and volcanic eruptions
Combustion of fossil Carbon fuels --- starting
with wood and more recently with coal and oil ---
has dominated mankind’s energy consumption
since the discovery of fire some 350,000 years
ago. These energy sources now threatened by
resource depletion within 150 years as well as
possibility of end-use-restriction stemming from
efforts to reduce global human-related CO2
emissions that might be accelerating what data
suggests may be progressive global warming.
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Image credit: “Jungle
Outpost” by Jose Arias
on DeviantArt
New Age of democratized access to low-cost, CO2-free
LENR energy could enable high rates of sustainable
global economic growth and create universal prosperity
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