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 - 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- High-temperature Superconductivity in Patches-Aug 23 2012Lewis Larsen
Certain published experimental data suggests that some form of high temperature superconductivity (HTSC) may be occurring in Widom-Larsen many-body patches of protons and SP electrons found in LENR systems. While not widely known or accepted, controversial experimental data collected and published by Tripodi et al., if correct, suggests that even room temperature superconductivity (RTSC) might be possible, at least in PdHx superconducting systems. If HTSC or RTSC truly does occur in W-L heavy-electron patches, although it shares some common characteristics with Type-2 superconductors, it differs in many key ways. For example, ‘normal’ lattice electron-phonon interactions seem unlikely to be involved in facilitating formation of Cooper pairing in a W-L patch’s SP electron subsystem. Instead, it seems like, during brief attoseconds of collective proton coherence, the many-body collective proton subsystem somehow functions as a local ‘lattice’ (a la a dynamic Coulomb crystal???). Viewed in that manner, a many-body proton subsystem’s electromagnetic and Q-M interactions with a patch’s many-body SP electron subsystem might then be able to provide a local environment conducive to electron pairing therein. Perhaps a patch’s two subsystems form dynamic, mutually reinforcing ‘mirror quantum condensates’ as conceptualized on Slide #81 herein. Hopefully, subject matter experts will study these new theoretical ideas to see whether they might lead to additional fruitful insights.
Lattice Energy LLC - Neutron production and nucleosynthesis in electric disch...Lewis Larsen
LENR transmutations can occur all around us. Neutrons can be created when Hydrogen atoms (protons) are present within many different types of electric discharges that can include among diverse other things: atmospheric lightning on earth and other planets, arcs between electrodes in air, water, hydrocarbons, as well as in nano-arcs (internal shorts) that can occur in electrochemical batteries.
Lattice Energy LLC- Increased Energy Densities Drive Convergence of Batteries...Lewis Larsen
Large increases in battery energy densities drive convergence between energetic materials, LENRs and batteries. Today LENRs create problems in high-energy-density advanced batteries; battery manufacturers can potentially turn today’s LENR issues into tomorrow’s opportunities. Importantly,
Japanese companies understand the convergence: Mitsubishi Heavy industries, Toyota Central Research, Toyota Motor Corp., and other unnamed large Japanese companies all now have LENR R&D programs; Lattice believes their ultimate goal is to eventually be able to replace the internal combustion engine using CO2-free LENRs.
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.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs enable green radiation-free nuclear power and prop...Lewis Larsen
If commercialized, LENRs could become one of the world’s preeminent energy technologies. At system electrical 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 a majority of urban and rural households as well as smaller businesses worldwide. Much lower-output, revolutionary portable LENR power sources could displace chemical batteries in applications where ultrahigh performance and longevity are needed.
At electrical outputs of 60 - 200 kwh, LENR-based integrated power generation systems would be able to power vehicles, drones, as well as smaller aircraft and watercraft. This would break oil-based fuels’ 150-year stranglehold on internal combustion engines and decisively decarbonize the entire transportation sector. High-performance LENR thermal sources could also provide high-quality heat for many types of industrial processes.
Although they could very likely be designed and built, development of megawatt-output LENR systems is not mandatory to disrupt the world of energy for the better. If wide deployment of small-scale, low-cost LENR CHP 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, uninterruptible electricity to regional grids serving urbanized areas. Under that scenario, centralized grid power generation would be gradually displaced by vast numbers of smaller, price-competitive distributed LENR power systems inside homes and businesses.
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- High-temperature Superconductivity in Patches-Aug 23 2012Lewis Larsen
Certain published experimental data suggests that some form of high temperature superconductivity (HTSC) may be occurring in Widom-Larsen many-body patches of protons and SP electrons found in LENR systems. While not widely known or accepted, controversial experimental data collected and published by Tripodi et al., if correct, suggests that even room temperature superconductivity (RTSC) might be possible, at least in PdHx superconducting systems. If HTSC or RTSC truly does occur in W-L heavy-electron patches, although it shares some common characteristics with Type-2 superconductors, it differs in many key ways. For example, ‘normal’ lattice electron-phonon interactions seem unlikely to be involved in facilitating formation of Cooper pairing in a W-L patch’s SP electron subsystem. Instead, it seems like, during brief attoseconds of collective proton coherence, the many-body collective proton subsystem somehow functions as a local ‘lattice’ (a la a dynamic Coulomb crystal???). Viewed in that manner, a many-body proton subsystem’s electromagnetic and Q-M interactions with a patch’s many-body SP electron subsystem might then be able to provide a local environment conducive to electron pairing therein. Perhaps a patch’s two subsystems form dynamic, mutually reinforcing ‘mirror quantum condensates’ as conceptualized on Slide #81 herein. Hopefully, subject matter experts will study these new theoretical ideas to see whether they might lead to additional fruitful insights.
Lattice Energy LLC - Neutron production and nucleosynthesis in electric disch...Lewis Larsen
LENR transmutations can occur all around us. Neutrons can be created when Hydrogen atoms (protons) are present within many different types of electric discharges that can include among diverse other things: atmospheric lightning on earth and other planets, arcs between electrodes in air, water, hydrocarbons, as well as in nano-arcs (internal shorts) that can occur in electrochemical batteries.
Lattice Energy LLC- Increased Energy Densities Drive Convergence of Batteries...Lewis Larsen
Large increases in battery energy densities drive convergence between energetic materials, LENRs and batteries. Today LENRs create problems in high-energy-density advanced batteries; battery manufacturers can potentially turn today’s LENR issues into tomorrow’s opportunities. Importantly,
Japanese companies understand the convergence: Mitsubishi Heavy industries, Toyota Central Research, Toyota Motor Corp., and other unnamed large Japanese companies all now have LENR R&D programs; Lattice believes their ultimate goal is to eventually be able to replace the internal combustion engine using CO2-free LENRs.
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.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENRs enable green radiation-free nuclear power and prop...Lewis Larsen
If commercialized, LENRs could become one of the world’s preeminent energy technologies. At system electrical 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 a majority of urban and rural households as well as smaller businesses worldwide. Much lower-output, revolutionary portable LENR power sources could displace chemical batteries in applications where ultrahigh performance and longevity are needed.
At electrical outputs of 60 - 200 kwh, LENR-based integrated power generation systems would be able to power vehicles, drones, as well as smaller aircraft and watercraft. This would break oil-based fuels’ 150-year stranglehold on internal combustion engines and decisively decarbonize the entire transportation sector. High-performance LENR thermal sources could also provide high-quality heat for many types of industrial processes.
Although they could very likely be designed and built, development of megawatt-output LENR systems is not mandatory to disrupt the world of energy for the better. If wide deployment of small-scale, low-cost LENR CHP 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, uninterruptible electricity to regional grids serving urbanized areas. Under that scenario, centralized grid power generation would be gradually displaced by vast numbers of smaller, price-competitive distributed LENR power systems inside homes and businesses.
Presentation: DOE Stetsoon Hydrogen Storage technologieschrisrobschu
Hydrogen Storage Technologies –
A Tutorial
with Perspectives from the US National Program
Ned T. Stetson
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585
Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy
Cocoa Beach, FL
February 22, 2010
• Why do we need better hydrogen storage?
• Physical storage technologies
– Liquid
– Compressed
– Cryo-compressed
• Materials-based storage technologies
– Hydrogen sorbents
– Metal hydrides
– Complex hydrides
– Chemical hydrogen storage
Doe stetson hydrogen_storage_technologies_tutorial
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..
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world.
It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory first suspected to exist in the 1960s and was discovered in 2012 in lhc.
Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field maintained by superconducting electromagnets.
The God Particle or God particle may refer to: Higgs boson, a particle in physics sometimes referred to as the God's Particle.
In our conventional electronic devices we use semi conducting materials for logical operation and magnetic materials for storage, but spintronics uses magnetic materials for both purposes. These spintronic devices are more versatile and faster than the present one. One such device is Spin Valve Transistors (SVT).
Spin valve transistor is different from conventional transistor. In this for conduction we use spin polarization of electrons. Only electrons with correct spin polarization can travel successfully through the device. These transistors are used in data storage, signal processing, automation and robotics with less power consumption and results in less heat. This also finds its application in Quantum computing, in which we use Qubits instead of bits.
Welcome! I make this slide for students of gcse Edexcel.
content of the slides:
1. Compare the size of nanoparticles with the sizes of atoms and molecules.
2. Describe how the properties of Nano particulate materials are related to their uses including surface area to volume ratio of the particles they contain, including sunscreens.
3. Explain the possible risks associated with some Nano particulate materials
Compare, using data, the physical properties of glass and clay ceramics, polymers, composites and metals.
4. Explain why the properties of a material make it suitable for a given use and use data to select materials appropriate for specific uses
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 - 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.
Presentation: DOE Stetsoon Hydrogen Storage technologieschrisrobschu
Hydrogen Storage Technologies –
A Tutorial
with Perspectives from the US National Program
Ned T. Stetson
U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20585
Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy
Cocoa Beach, FL
February 22, 2010
• Why do we need better hydrogen storage?
• Physical storage technologies
– Liquid
– Compressed
– Cryo-compressed
• Materials-based storage technologies
– Hydrogen sorbents
– Metal hydrides
– Complex hydrides
– Chemical hydrogen storage
Doe stetson hydrogen_storage_technologies_tutorial
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..
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world.
It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.
The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory first suspected to exist in the 1960s and was discovered in 2012 in lhc.
Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. The beams travel in opposite directions in separate beam pipes – two tubes kept at ultrahigh vacuum. They are guided around the accelerator ring by a strong magnetic field maintained by superconducting electromagnets.
The God Particle or God particle may refer to: Higgs boson, a particle in physics sometimes referred to as the God's Particle.
In our conventional electronic devices we use semi conducting materials for logical operation and magnetic materials for storage, but spintronics uses magnetic materials for both purposes. These spintronic devices are more versatile and faster than the present one. One such device is Spin Valve Transistors (SVT).
Spin valve transistor is different from conventional transistor. In this for conduction we use spin polarization of electrons. Only electrons with correct spin polarization can travel successfully through the device. These transistors are used in data storage, signal processing, automation and robotics with less power consumption and results in less heat. This also finds its application in Quantum computing, in which we use Qubits instead of bits.
Welcome! I make this slide for students of gcse Edexcel.
content of the slides:
1. Compare the size of nanoparticles with the sizes of atoms and molecules.
2. Describe how the properties of Nano particulate materials are related to their uses including surface area to volume ratio of the particles they contain, including sunscreens.
3. Explain the possible risks associated with some Nano particulate materials
Compare, using data, the physical properties of glass and clay ceramics, polymers, composites and metals.
4. Explain why the properties of a material make it suitable for a given use and use data to select materials appropriate for specific uses
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 - 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 - Battery energy density - product safety - thermal runawa...Lewis Larsen
Global quest to improve performance drives battery R&D toward ever-higher energy densities. High gravimetric energy density rewards battery users with lighter portable or mobile power sources and longer operating times between recharges. Product safety & reliability could be the hidden costs --- higher energy density is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways. Internal electrical shorts, hot sparks, and catastrophic electric arcs are reducing durability and causing thermal runaways, fires, and even explosions in Lithium-ion batteries. Ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) may be causing some of these extreme events; engineering for LENR effects could potentially help improve future battery safety and durability.
Lattice Energy LLC - Renewable lignin biomass aromatics convert into green ra...Lewis Larsen
Two of three major components in biomass - cellulose and hemicellulose - are polymerized sugars that can readily be chemically fermented to create renewable biofuels (this is now occurring commercially); the third, Lignin, is much more resistant to chemical degradation into smaller aromatic molecules. Until recently, Lignin was more-or-less ignored by industry and academic biotech researchers, being regarded more as just a waste product to be burned. Importantly, Lignin is only known major natural source of renewable aromatics. Out in Nature, Lignins are mainly broken-down by various fungi and bacteria. Biotechnologists are now beginning to focus on improving various chemical and enzymatic processes that reduce Lignin to smaller molecules, e.g. aromatics. In 2014, Larsen became aware of improvements in Lignin digestion methods. Advances in chemical processing of Lignin to yield basic aromatic molecules opens-up future possibility of creating revolutionary CO2-free LENR fuels from renewable biomass aromatics that would have 5,000x greater energy density than that of gasoline.
Energy-dense, CO2-free LENR fuels derived from aromatic polymers in biomass could potentially become an effectively inexhaustible new source of green energy.
“Apparatus and Method for Absorption of Incident Gamma Radiation and its Conversion to Outgoing Radiation at Less Penetrating, Lower Energies and Frequencies”
Abstract: “Gamma radiation (22) is shielded by producing a region of heavy electrons (4) and receiving incident gamma radiation in such region. The heavy electrons absorb energy from the gamma radiation and re-radiate it as photons (38, 40) at a lower energy and frequency. The heavy electrons may be produced in surface plasmon polaritons. Multiple regions (6) of collectively oscillating protons or deuterons with associated heavy electrons may be provided. Nanoparticles of a target material on a metallic surface capable of supporting surface plasmons may be provided. The region of heavy electrons is associated with that metallic surface. The method induces a breakdown in a Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Apparatus and method are described.”
Electron capture in a fully ionized plasma - Sept 17 2014Lewis Larsen
Masterful riposte by Widom-Larsen theory coauthors (Widom & Srivastava) and Swain invalidates erroneous criticisms of Maiani et al. (2014) and reaffirms the correctness of our original 2006 EPJC estimates for many-body collective electroweak neutron production rates
Lattice Energy LLC - Revolutionary LENRs Could Power Future Aircraft and Oth...Lewis Larsen
Technologists at NASA, Boeing, and California Polytechnic have been investigating alluring possibility of using ‘green’ low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) to power future aircraft.
Large Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Toyota, among others, have active R&D programs and patent filings in LENRs and are publishing some of their experimental results in peer-reviewed science and engineering journals. It appears likely that their ultimate goal is to replace the internal combustion engine.
After decades of inaction and benign neglect, incredibly cautious and conservative U.S. Dept. of Energy has belatedly recognized LENRs; it is now willing to entertain proposals for modest amounts of funding through its transformational technology breakthrough arm, ARPA-E.
LENRs could revolutionize the world as we know it today if the technology is successfully commercialized and scales-up to several hundred kWh from just Watts today in laboratory devices; megawatt power outputs are only required for a small percentage of applications
Widom-Larsen theory explains device physics behind LENRs; it is published and fully consistent with a large body of peer-reviewed, published experimental data. Altogether, this implies that commercialization of the technology is possible and in fact likely. That said, non-trivial engineering lies between small, unreliable milliwatt laboratory devices of today and scaled-up high performance multi-kilowatt commercial products of tomorrow. Somebody or somebodies, somewhere, will eventually succeed --- Lattice will play a role in this process.
Population growth decelerating faster than expected; potential consequences f...Lewis Larsen
Latest data suggests global population growth is slowing --- unexpectedly fast deceleration may have profound implications for economics, geopolitics, energy demand, and resource depletion --- first Fischer “period of equilibrium” for 600 years in which population growth is decelerating, instead of accelerating; future price stability and huge increases in global per capita income?
Nova paradigma za energetsku tehnologiju s
geo - socio - financijskog učinka /
Нова парадигма за енергетску технологију а
гео - друштвено - финанцијског учинка /
The new paradigm on energy technology with geo-socio-financial impact
Recovery of Platinum and Rejuvenation of Alumina From Spent Reforming Catalys...Waqas Tariq
Abstract Recovery of platinum from spent naphtha reforming catalyst (Pt/γ-Al2O3) which contain 0.30 wt % of Pt was conducted using two methods, the first one was treatment of the spent catalyst with aqua regia whereas the second one involved chlorination of the spent catalyst. The results show that the chlorination method is more efficient than the acid treatment one as 93 % platinum can be recovered, in addition to reserving the γ-Al2O3 skeletal structure from serous changes. The recovered platinum was converted to hexachlorplatinic acid, a material that can be used to prepare the catalyst again by impregnation method using either new alumina or certain proportion of it and recovered one.
Lattice Energy LLC - LENR technology fits beautifully into Saudi Arabias Visi...Lewis Larsen
Ultralow energy neutron reactions (LENRs) are new type of clean, green CO2-free nuclear energy source that has huge energy densities, vastly lower costs versus fission or fusion, and could enable truly sustainable economic growth. Development and utilization of LENR thermal sources for process heat could help reduce upstream and downstream costs for Saudi Aramco and SABIC; also significantly decrease CO2 emission footprint for all of KSA’s industries. Research institutions K●A●CARE and KAUST would have key development roles. Should be possible to develop nanoparticulate LENR fuels derived from aromatic fractions present in oil as well as Carbon-aromatics produced from natural gas; would be suitable for use in huge array of customer applications that include stationary/portable power generation and vehicular propulsion. LENRs would enable development of extremely broad range of new types of high performance products that use low-cost, enormously versatile LENR power sources; these new products could be indigenously produced by Saudi companies and then exported to diverse customers located all over the world. Aramco’s existing crude oil refineries could be modified to add capability for future production of LENR fuels in parallel with traditional industry products. LENRs are a major strategic opportunity for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that fits beautifully into many key goals in the country’s very bold Vision 2030 plan.
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 - 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 - 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-Technical Overview-June 25 2009Lewis Larsen
Commercializing a next generation source of safe nuclear energy: low energy nuclear reactions or LENRs. Widom-Larsen theory, weak interactions, transmutations, nanoscale evidence for nuclear effects, and Lattice's road to commercialization
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 - Transmutation vs Combustion - Are LENRs Chicxulub for Fo...Lewis Larsen
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.
Lattice Energy LLC-Game changing LENRs - What are they and amazing things the...Lewis Larsen
Lacking production of deadly radiation or hazardous long-lived radioactive wastes, LENR power systems would not require any expensive and massive shielding, containment, or waste clean-up. Coupled with intrinsic multiway scalability, these unique attributes could enable development of highly competitive commercial products with outputs ranging from milliwatts to megawatts suitable for portable, stationary, vehicular, and aerospace power markets. End-user price per BTU or kWh for LENR-based power systems could be substantially lower than prices for competing batteries or fuel cells, combustion, and present fission and fusion technologies.
Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO LENR project reported good progress in exc...Lewis Larsen
Japan now funding R&D in LENR technology for use in power generation applications. Quietly threw down the gauntlet to global oil industry.
January 2018: terse project report summarizing progress in Japanese government NEDO-funded R&D in LENRs for period of Oct. 2015 through Oct. 2017 was released by Technova Inc. on ResearchGate. Herein we will review and discuss NEDO project’s reported progress.
Project scientists reported significant R&D progress toward developing LENR devices that serve as powerful heat sources. Reproducibility of device fabrication techniques and excess heat output were improved. Certain nanocomposite, multi-metal LENR test devices with mass <140 grams cumulatively produced up to ~85 megajoules (MJ) of excess heat per mole (MJ/mol) of absorbed Hydrogen (H) or Deuterium (D); some: duration of heat > 1 month. By contrast, complete combustion of Hydrogen releases ~0.286 MJ/mol of H. Chemical processes cannot explain these results.
Japan, Inc. appears to be developing LENR technology to someday replace the internal combustion engine.
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.
Lattice Energy LLC-LENRs in catalytic converters-June 25 2010Lewis Larsen
We provide citations, quotations from published papers, and discussion of experimental data from technical publications reporting identification of various elements/isotopic products found in exhaust emissions emanating from catalytic converters commonly installed in cars and trucks powered by gasoline or diesel internal combustion engines. We believe this evidence indicates that ‘green’ low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) may be occurring in catalytic converters.
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 - Electroweak neutron production explains anomalous CNO el...Lewis Larsen
Many-body collective electroweak neutron production on dust grain surfaces and inside plasma-filled stellar magnetic flux tubes explains anomalous presence of CNO elements detected spectroscopically in atmospheres of some white dwarf stars. Closer to home, LENR CNO analogue could potentially be commercialized for green power generation here on Earth.
Lattice Energy LLC - Japanese NEDO LENR project reported reasonably reproduci...Lewis Larsen
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 - 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-Are LENRs Occurring in Compact Fluorescent Lights-March 7 ...Lewis Larsen
Peer-reviewed paper by Mead et al. just published in February (Environmental Science & Technology) contains amazing new experimental data on anomalous shifts in abundances of Mercury isotopes found in compact fluorescent lights (CFL) used in homes and businesses. When viewed through the conceptual lens of the Widom-Larsen theory, their carefully collected Hg isotope data suggests that low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) transmutations may actually be occurring at extremely low rates in CFLs during normal operation. We discuss their paper and its implications in a new 102-slide Lattice PowerPoint presentation dated March 7, 2013. Therein, we conclude that if the intriguing possibility about LENRs in CFLs unveiled in this data is substantiated by further experimentation, it provides yet more proof that LENRs are likely to be a truly ‘green’ nuclear technology that has great promise for use in CO2-free power generation, providing LENR device heat outputs and operational longevity can be scaled dramatically upwards by applying and adapting recently acquired technical knowledge found in nanotech, plasmonics, and advanced materials science.
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.
Transatomic Power (TAP) is developing an advanced molten salt reactor that generates clean, passively safe, proliferation-resistant, and low-cost nuclear power. This reactor can consume the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) generated by commercial light water reactors or use freshly mined uranium at enrichment levels as low as 1.8% U-235. It achieves actinide burnups as high as 96%, and can generate up to 75 times more electricity per ton of mined uranium than a light-water reactor.
Source: http://transatomicpower.com/white_papers/TAP_White_Paper.pdf
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-New Data on Terrestrial Uranium 238U-235U Ratios Confirm n...Lewis Larsen
Terrestrial Uranium 238U/235U isotopic ratio is not invariant over time --- Hiess et al. (Science, 2012) confirm failure of invariance assumption; propose corrected value for ratio
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.
Lewis Larsen - DJIA approaches previous all-time record high close of 26828 -...Lewis Larsen
Dow-Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is approaching previous all-time record high close of 26,828 - what happens next? If U.S. economy speeds-up by 3Q 2019 and/or good China-US trade deal is completed, DJIA could hit new all-time highs and increase by 3,000 to 6,000 points during next 6 - 18 months.
Lattice Energy LLC - Microbial radiation resistance transmutation of elements...Lewis Larsen
Microbial radiation resistance, possible transmutation of elements, and the dawn of life on Earth
Multi-species communities of microorganisms will expend energy to assimilate and process heavy elements like Cesium, Gold, and Uranium that -- now -- play no obvious roles in growth or metabolism. Credible experimental data suggests some bacteria are shifting isotope ratios and possibly even transmuting certain elements. How and why are microbes doing this? LENRs may explain how, but why?
Although credible experimental data suggests some microbes can transmute certain elements via LENRs, much more experimentation will be required to decisively demonstrate that microorganisms can truly transmute chemical elements at will and determine which species of microbes have such capabilities. LENRs may not be all that uncommon out in Nature; if so, there will be major implications for geochemistry, isotope geology, and nuclear waste remediation.
LENRs can mimic isotopic effects of mass-dependent and mass-independent chemical fractionation. Elements and isotopes conserve their mass-balances in purely chemical systems; that is not necessarily true if LENRs are also occurring in same systems. Accurate measurement of total mass balances for all chemical species may be needed to discriminate between chemical and nuclear processes.
ULE neutron-catalyzed transmutation is not energetically practical for more-abundant chemical elements found in living systems such as Carbon. However, transmutation could potentially be an energetically feasible and advantageous capability that could enable some fortunate microbes to produce life-critical, low-abundance catalytic active site metals that are unavailable in local environments.
Japanese government-funded project with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota, Nissan, and four universities is developing abiotic LENRs for power generation. Recently reported outstanding heat production results at working temperatures and pressures far lower than those found in many undersea hydrothermal vents.
Lattice Energy LLC - Korean scientists use bacteria to reduce concentration o...Lewis Larsen
Korean scientists used experimental laboratory mixtures of bacteria to reduce concentration of radioactive Cesium-137 (as indicated by gamma emissions) present in aqueous growth solutions irradiated with light at 12-hour intervals, shaken, and incubated at 25o C.
During experiments, and compared to controls, measured gamma radiation for flasks containing bacteria decreased at vastly higher rates than would be expected for ‘normal’ rate of Cs-137 β-decay. Is radioactive Cesium actually being transmuted into heavier Cs isotopes and other elements by living bacteria?
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 - March 2 Technova seminar in Tokyo released more info re ...Lewis Larsen
Japan’s NEDO-sponsored LENR device project released additional technical details at Technova seminar held in Tokyo on March 2, 2018. Japanese government is targeting commercialization of LENRs as a revolutionary, radiation-free nuclear technology for use in power generation and propulsion applications. NEDO project results to date have demonstrated Watt-level reproducibility of excess heat in small nanocomposite LENR devices. Assuming substantial scale-up of device heat output is possible, NEDO project’s technical achievement validates future potential for LENRs to someday become an important source of green CO2-free energy.
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 - 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.
Lewis Larsen - Dow-Jones Industrial Average reaches 26000 - what happens next...Lewis Larsen
Dow-Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has just gone above 26,000 for first time ever. What happens next? Boom or bust?
Short pithy answer: “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet”; quoted from Barron’s article published in February 1988
Slightly longer answer: We are presently in an era of low-inflation economic growth and explosion of new technologies. Therefore, a continued global financial and economic boom subject to episodic, healthy market price corrections is much more likely to occur than a fearsome bust like the near-collapse of U.S. financial markets in 2008 and subsequent Great Recession from which world financial markets and many national economies are just beginning to fully recover. Herein we present key reasons why this bullish scenario should transpire as events unfold.
Lattice Energy LLC - Polar vortex cold wave in USA has potential for lower te...Lewis Larsen
Today, the United States is gripped in jaws of a Polar Vortex extreme cold weather event in Midwest and Northeast. On December 27, 2017 the nighttime low temperature in Duluth, Minnesota hit bone-chilling 41 degrees below zero F. This severe cold snap is predicted to persist through January 5 – 7, 2018. How will wind & solar renewable energy sources and commercial natural gas pipelines perform during this latest Polar Vortex event in U.S.? It will be interesting to see what happens between today and mid-January 2018.
Lattice Energy LLC - Fossil fuels and nuclear vs renewables for powering elec...Lewis Larsen
Enormous potential future value for diversified portfolios of renewable, fossil-fueled, and nuclear power generation --- enable grids to have resilience against extreme weather events related to climate change and “Black Swan” volcanic eruptions.
Proverb: “In the first place … an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Benjamin Franklin (1735). Fukushima lessons: mitigate improbable extreme events if not too expensive; $200 million was thought too costly to fix backup generators in 2006 but the ‘cure’ for the 2011 nuclear disaster now costs $189 billion and could take 30 - 40 years.
What may appear ‘greener’ and less $$$ in myopic short-term decision-making about grids could end-up being extremely $$$ expensive or catastrophic in longer-term. Data suggests that is it too risky for society to put all its energy “eggs” into a single renewable basket. Lattice therefore believes balanced diversity of different types of grid power sources is best strategy for insuring 99+% future reliability and excellent resiliency of electricity grids facing onslaughts of extreme weather events and low but non-zero probability for catastrophic Black Swan volcanic eruptions.
Since high % of renewable energy sources on electricity grids is a new phenomenon and unexplored territory, there aren’t preexisting road maps to guide government regulation and critical implementation by industry. Private sector companies by nature are concerned with short-term bottom line profitability and have more narrowly focused interests; by contrast, government is responsible for insuring national energy security over much longer time-frames and broader range of grid-threatening events.
Rick Perry/DOE’s controversial NOPR to FERC in September created an important opportunity for U.S. government and industry to begin productive dialogue about how to enhance the U.S. electricity grid’s ability to maintain present reliability and adapt to climate change.
Lattice Energy LLC - US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry-DOE suggestions to FER...Lewis Larsen
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry-DOE suggestions to FERC re improving future grid resiliency are reasonable
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has been heavily criticized for controversial DOE letter to FERC that proposed changes to compensation rules involving coal and nuclear power generation. Letter suggested that coal and nuclear operators should be compensated somehow for special value to grid resiliency provided by providing uninterruptible power during extreme weather events. Rick Perry-DOE further suggested that another requirement for receiving such compensation would be that eligible grid-connected dispatchable generation assets must be able to store enough fuel onsite to permit 90 days of uninterrupted electric power generation.
Ongoing climate change appears to be increasing the probability of extreme polar vortex cold snaps like what occurred in U.S. in winter of 2014; lowest temperatures during that episode only lasted for several days. Since then, there have been additional occurrences of weather extremes that drastically reduced renewable power output and lasted much longer than several days.
During 2015 there was a severe wind drought in Western United States lasting nearly six months. During December 2016 and January 2017 Germany and Western Europe experienced several protracted periods --- lasting up to one month --- during which there was little or no sun nor any wind. On January 24, power shortfall with renewables got so bad that Germany came within one dispatchable coal-fired power plant of experiencing a national power blackout. That was eerily similar to what nearly happened in Northeastern U.S. during worst of 2014 polar vortex and revealed limited resilience of Germany's Energiewende.
Given that extreme weather events can clearly cause substantial, protracted power shortfalls with renewables and natural gas plants, Rick Perry/DOE’s deep concerns about fuel security and suggestions to FERC are reasonable.
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 - Unclassified 2010 US Defense Threat reduction Agency Pow...Lewis Larsen
U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) favorably evaluated Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs in official contract report originally published back in March 2010. Unclassified document very recently became publicly available on the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security’s digital library website. Quoting from DTRA report’s conclusions: “Could the W-L theory be the breakthrough needed to position LENR as a major source of carbon-free, environmentally clean source of source of low-cost nuclear energy??”
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 - Liu et al increase effective electron masses in ZrTe5 by...Lewis Larsen
In Nature Communications Liu et al. reported detectible increases in the effective mass of electrons in ZrTe5 with application of an extremely high magnetic field. Their ZrTe5 experimental system operates similarly to the Widom-Larsen theory of ultra-low momentum neutron reactions (LENRs) in condensed matter wherein many-body collective effects create surface plasmon electrons with substantially larger effective masses. Quoting from press release about Liu et al.’s paper, “An international team of researchers has for the first time discovered that in a very high magnetic field an electron with no mass can acquire a mass. Understanding why elementary particles -- e.g. electrons, photons, neutrinos -- have a mass is a fundamental question in physics and an area of intense debate.”
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Lattice Energy LLC - Production of Gold via LENR transmutation of Platinum in vehicular catalytic converters - Sept 28 2016
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Possible production of stable Gold (197Au) via LENR
neutron - catalyzed transmutation of Platinum catalyst
during operation of catalytic converters in cars and trucks
Commercializing a next-generation source of safe CO2-free nuclear energy
Contact: 1-312-861-0115 Chicago, Illinois USA lewisglarsen@gmail.com
Lewis Larsen
President and CEO
September 28, 2016
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World is already safely coexisting with LENRs in vehicles
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 nm-μ
microscopic 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.
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Neutron
capture and
beta decay
Transmutation of Platinum
into stable Gold inside
catalytic converters
LENRs
Native Platinum crystals
Konder Massif, Aldan Shield,
Ayan-Maya, Khabarovskiy
Kray, Russia
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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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Image credit: co-author Domenico Pacifici
From: “Nanoscale plasmonic interferometers for multispectral, high-throughput biochemical sensing”
J. Feng et al., Nano Letters pp. 602 - 609 (2012)
Laura 13
Condensed matter ultralow energy neutron reactions
Radiation-free LENRs transmute stable elements to other stable elements
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+ e-
sp g e-*sp + p+ g n0 + νe
n0 + (Z, A) g (Z, A+1)
(Z, A+1) g (Z + 1, A+1) + eβ
- + νe
Electroweak neutron n0
production
Neutron capture
Beta decay
EnergyE-field
Z = atomic number A = atomic mass
Atomic
number
Atomic
mass
Periodic Table of all chemical elements in the Universe
Each element has a fixed number of protons; # of neutrons can vary
LENR transmutations proceed from left to right across rows of the Periodic Table
Transmutation via beta decay
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Contents
Overview: LENRs in catalytic converters of cars and trucks ............................................ 8 - 10
Catalytic converters in motor vehicles ........................................................................... 11 - 19
Combustion chambers in IC engines …………………………............................................... 20
Spark plugs in IC engines ............................................................................................... 21 - 24
Gold found in vehicular electronic systems ………………………………………………………. 25 - 26
Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium and other catalysts in converters .................................... 27 - 29
Numerical values of isotopic shifts are usually small numbers …………………………....... 30
Published data on Gold concentrations in roadway dust, nearby soils and plants ........... 31 - 47
Published data on neutron-rich isotopic shifts in Pt and Pd emitted from exhaust ………. 48 - 55
Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs and how it may relate to catalytic converters …………... 56 - 67
LENR transmutation processes often follow rows of Periodic Table of elements ............ 68 - 69
LENR nucleosynthetic network can transmute stable Tungsten into stable Gold …..……. 70 - 73
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries LENR transmuted Tungsten to Osmium and Platinum ……... 74
Toyota repeated Mitsubishi’s transmutation of Cs to Pr with resonant E-M cavity ……….. 75
LENRs create heterogeneous elemental compositions on μ length-scales ……………..... 76
Osmium emitted from catalytic converters: published data and anomalies ……………..... 77 - 83
Proposed laboratory experiments with catalytic converters to analyze for LENRs …..…. 84 - 86
Working with Lattice …………………………………………………………………………………... 87
Key published information about the Widom-Larsen theory ………………………………….. 88
New book published about LENRs: “Hacking the Atom” by Steven B. Krivit ……….……… 89
Quotation: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from “The Sign of Four” (1890) ………….……..….….... 90
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Scientists have observed LENR phenomena for 100 years
Data was mostly dismissed and ignored because it was not understood
Physics of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs rigorously explains all of this data
Various manifestations of LENR phenomena have been episodically observed
and reported in scientific journals for 100 years. However, prior to publication
of the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs (2005) these very intriguing, anomalous
experimental data were generally dismissed and simply ignored by mainstream
science. This happened because such data: may have been produced by subtle
measurement errors; or, were valid observations that were not reproducible; or,
were otherwise believable results that could not be understood theoretically
Another contributing factor to decades of dismissal and confusion about the
reality of this rather large body of published data was simple fact that LENR
transmutation processes do not produce large, easily detectible emissions of
dangerous MeV-energy neutron or gamma radiation. Absent such well-known
signatures of nuclear fission and fusion reactions, no one imagined that the
observed anomalies were actually being created by a more benign nuclear
process that is radiation-free and really quite different from fission and fusion
Thanks to insights provided by Widom-Larsen theory it is now apparent that
LENRs appear to occur naturally at low rates in surprising numbers of familiar
settings that include atmospheric lightning, commercial Lithium-ion batteries,
electrochemical cells, and as discussed herein, vehicular catalytic converters
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Catalytic converters nearly ubiquitous on cars and trucks
Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd), Rhodium (Rh) catalysts reduce pollutants
Analyses of particles emitted from exhaust reveals unexpected presence of Gold
In mid 1970s, installation of catalytic converters in exhaust systems of cars and
trucks was mandated to reduce pollutants emitted by vehicles during operation
Around same time, use of tetraethyllead (TEL) as antiknock additive was rapidly
phased-out in vehicle fuels because of harmful environmental effects and severe
biological toxicity as well as being a ‘poison’ for Pt, Pd, Rh catalysts in converters.
TEL replaced by adding 1% - 2% benzene, a 6-Carbon aromatic ring, to such fuels
For 30 years it has been known that tiny particles comprising pieces of materials
found inside catalytic converters are shed into gaseous exhaust streams, emitted
into nearby environments, and locally accumulated in road dust, soils, and plants
In past 15 years, environmental scientists began to make greater use of advanced
analytical techniques to analyze local environments for presence of molecules
and elements emitted by vehicles and trace their movement through ecosystems.
One commonly used technique called mass spectroscopy has capability to very
accurately measure elements and isotopes on microscopic samples of materials
Using mass spectroscopy to measure Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium in road
environments, certain researchers reported detection of significant amounts of
Gold. This raises question: did this Gold come from impurities previously present
inside converters or was it created in situ via transmutation of Platinum catalysts?
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What happens if LENRs occur in catalytic converters ?
Isotopic ratios of elements are shifted; different elements are created
Elements present and stable isotopic ratios altered during converter operation
Neutron-catalyzed LENR transmutation reactions alter initial isotopic ratios via
capture of neutrons. For example, stable 195Pt initially captures a neutron and is
transmuted into stable 196Pt. Another name for this effect is an isotopic shift
Combination of neutron capture on a stable isotope followed by β-decay of an
unstable isotope produced by that capture can change an initial element into a
different stable element. For example, stable 196Pt captures a neutron and is
transmuted into unstable 197Pt (half-life 19.9 hours) which β-decays into stable
197Au. Another name for this process is nuclear transmutation of elements; in
this example, an LENR process transmutes initial Platinum-196 into Gold-197
Nuclear isotopic shifts caused by LENRs can be mimicked by certain types of
chemical isotopic fractionation processes. What differentiates the two very
different alternatives is both magnitude (shifts due to chemical fractionation
processes tend to be very small: fractions of 1%) and fact that closed mass
balances of individual isotopes are violated with LENRs but fully conserved
during chemical processes. Sadly, quantities of materials are so tiny that it is
usually impossible to measure closed mass balances with sufficient precision
Appearance of new elements initially absent at the start of converter operation
cannot possibly be caused by chemical processes that must conserve elements
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Lexus LS400 underbody image shows details of vehicle exhaust system
Lexus LS400 sedan
Back Front
Locations of catalytic converters (3)
Cars & trucks have catalytic converters in exhaust systems
Lexus LS400 was manufactured with three catalytic converters in system
For years, Toyota has
been quietly conducting
basic R&D in LENRs;
long-term goal might be
to replace the internal
combustion engine
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Catalytic converter: “is a device used to reduce the toxicity of emissions from an internal
combustion engine. First widely introduced on production automobiles in the U.S. market
for the 1975 model year to comply with tightening EPA regulations on auto exhaust, [today,
three-way] catalytic converters are ... most commonly used in motor vehicle exhaust
systems [to remove NO, CO, and HC pollutants]. Consists of several components”:
Core or substrate: “is often a ceramic honeycomb in modern catalytic converters, but
stainless steel foil honeycombs are used, too. The honey-comb surface increases the
amount of surface area available to support the catalyst, and … is called a ‘catalyst
support’ [or also, ‘monolith’].”
Washcoat: “is used to make converters more efficient, often as a mixture of silica and
alumina … washcoat, when added to the core, forms a rough, irregular surface, which
has a far greater surface area than the flat core surfaces do, which then gives the
converter core a larger surface area, and therefore more places for active precious
metal sites … catalyst is added to the washcoat (in suspension) before being applied to
the core …”
Catalyst particles: “most often a precious metal. Platinum is the most active catalyst
and is widely used. It is not suitable for all applications, however, because of unwanted
additional reactions and/or cost. Palladium and rhodium are two other precious metals
used. Platinum and rhodium are used as a reduction catalyst, while platinum and
palladium are used as an oxidation catalyst.”
Source: Wikipedia, article titled “Catalytic Converter”
Catalytic converters reduce pollutants emitted by vehicles
Pt, Pd, Rh catalysts convert noxious pollutants into benign H2O, CO2, N2
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Since 1981, three-way catalytic converters have been used for control of exhaust
emissions in road going vehicles in North America; throughout China since 1993.
Today, use of these IC engine environmental systems is near-universally mandated
by law and essentially ubiquitous in vehicles manufactured all around the world.
Such converters use mostly Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium catalysts to
chemically transform 3 types of noxious exhaust pollutants into more
environmentally benign molecules, namely O2, N2, CO2, and H2O (water).
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are split into gaseous Nitrogen (N2) and Oxygen (O2):
2NOx → xO2 + N2 Rh mainly used for reduction catalyst
Carbon monoxide (CO) is reacted with Oxygen to make Carbon dioxide (CO2):
2CO + O2 → 2CO2 Pd mainly used for oxidation catalyst
Unburned hydrocarbons (CxH2x+2 ) are combusted by reaction with Oxygen into
Carbon dioxide and water:
CxH2x+2 + [(3x+1)/2]O2 → xCO2 + (x+1)H2O Pt and/or Rh used as oxidation catalyst
Catalytic converters reduce pollutants emitted by vehicles
Pt, Pd, Rh catalysts convert noxious pollutants into benign H2O, CO2, N2
Cuts emissions of Nitrogen oxides, Carbon monoxide & unburned hydrocarbons
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Schematic overview of catalytic converter in exhaust system
Precious metal catalysts in converter render exhaust emissions harmless
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Picture of an actual catalytic converter for a passenger car
Outer case opened to show honeycombs containing Pt, Pd, Rh catalysts
Exhaust gases come directly from IC engine into front and pass through converter
Front
Honeycomb ceramic blocks contain
catalysts mixed in with washcoat on rough
inner surface over which exhaust gases pass
Catalytic converter for vehicles with internal combustion engines
Input
Output
Rear
Data cable from
Oxygen % sensor
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Schematic overview of components in catalytic converters
Converter body & honeycomb can be resonant electromagnetic cavities
Infrared cavity radiation created by heating provides E-M input energy for LENRs
Exhaust gases heat-up converter to operating temperature of 650 - 870 oC
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Honeycombs can be made of metal or ceramic materials
Examples of spiral steel honeycomb on left and square ceramic on right
Top: cross-section of BMW honeycomb Top: broken piece of ceramic honeycomb
Bottom: interior at operating temperature Bottom: melted honeycomb post thermal runaway
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Ceramic honeycomb was melted by internal thermal runaway
Melted ceramic’s morphology suggests possible heating to boiling point
Cordierite ceramic melting point is 1,460 oC; boiling point higher at >>2,000 oC
Pristine ceramic
honeycomb
Cordierite = Al4Mg2Si5O18
Large open gasoline fires --- highest average flame temperatures = ~ 900 oC
with brief spikes up to 1,250 oC; max. flame temp = 2,200 oC
Why did Cordierite boil here?
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Exploded graphic shows microscopic details of inner surface
Honeycomb’s rough surface maximizes area of catalyst exposed to gases
Microscopically rough
inner honeycomb surface
maximizes exposure of
exhaust gases to catalysts
New catalytic converters in U.S. may
contain 3 - 7 grams (gm) of Pt and
lesser amounts of Pd and Rh; OEM
manufacturers protect their catalyst
compositions as key trade secrets
Recyclers shred metal honeycombs;
ceramics are ground into a powder:
Typically can recover 1- 2 gm of Pt,
Pd, and Rh from small cars’ catalytic
converters; up to 12 - 15 gm of these
metals recovered from large trucks
Materials recovered from scrapped
converters in U.S. come in 3 grades
(amounts in parts per million - ppm)
namely, Grade 1: Pt = 1200 ppm,
Pd = 200 ppm, Rh = 300 ppm; Grade
2: Pt = 1000, Pd = 200, Rh = 100;
Grade 3: Pt = 875, Pd = 250, Rh = 30
U.S. recyclers of scrapped converters try to recover Pt, Pd, and Rh but not Gold
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Overview of combustion chambers in gasoline IC engines
Metal electrodes create high-voltage electric discharges in gasoline vapor
Conditions that could permit LENRs also present in vehicle combustion chambers
In many types of vehicles, varied thin-
film coatings, e.g. Tungsten disulfide,
Molybdenum disulfide, and Tungsten
carbide, are used on inner combustion
chamber component surfaces to reduce
friction. These materials will slowly wear,
break down, shed into exhaust gases,
and end-up inside catalytic converters
Mechanical abrasion of direct contacting
surfaces of pistons, piston rings, valves,
and inner walls of combustion chamber
will produce nanoparticles that are shed
into hot engine exhaust gases which then
pass quickly into catalytic converters
Ablation of center & side electrodes on
spark plug by electric discharges will
produce varied nanoparticles that are
shed into exhaust gases which then pass
quickly into catalytic converters
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Spark plugs in combustion chambers of gasoline engines
Several hundred different types of spark plugs are on the market today
Application requirements for “hot plug” vs. “cold plug” drive choices of materials
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Spark plugs in combustion chambers of gasoline engines
Several hundred different types of spark plugs are on the market today
Application requirements for “hot plug” vs. “cold plug” drive choices of materials
“The term Heat Range refers to the speed with which
a plug can transfer heat from the combustion chamber to
the engine head. Whether the plug is to be installed in a
boat, lawnmower or race car, it has been found the
optimum combustion chamber temperature for gasoline
engines is between 500°C - 850°C. Within that range it is
cool enough to avoid pre-ignition and plug tip overheating
(which can cause engine damage), while still hot enough
to burn off combustion deposits that cause fouling.”
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Spark plugs in combustion chambers of gasoline engines
Electric discharges can provide energy for LENRs if Hydrogen is present
Specific metals used in spark plug electrodes vary with types of engine and usage
Metals used in center and side
electrodes of spark plugs vary
greatly and depend upon engine
type, design lifetime, and typical
range of operating temperatures
Typical operating voltages range
from 12,000 to 45,000 V but can get
as high as 45,000 V; avg. operating
temperatures across entire spark
plug ranges from 500 - 800 oC but
temperature of hot plasma in spark
channel can briefly touch 20,000 oC
Prices of noble metals and target
application requirements have
strong impact on materials used;
top-grade spark plugs can often
last from 100,000 to 120,000 miles
Overview of spark plugs for gasoline engines
Depending on price-point and end-user application electrodes may commonly contain:
Nickel alloys, Copper, Platinum, Tungsten, Iridium, Yttrium; rarely Gold, Silver, or Palladium
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Specialized very expensive racing sparkplugs can use Gold
Gold-Palladium alloy: high-enough melting point for use in electrode tip
Can cost US$ 20.00 to
$33.00 each
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Cinch Connectors Ltd. automotive
product for vehicle electronics:
heavy-duty modular integrated
connector enclosure
Gold plated edge connectors on
motherboard PCB (printed circuit board)
Chip with Gold plated
connectors on PCB
Intel 486 chip (2007) with Gold plated connectors on bare
IC die (left) and on pins (right) from plastic chip package
Gold in vehicle electronics inside packaging and enclosures
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Electronics crucial in control systems of modern vehicles
Consequently are protected from mechanical damage and environment
Chips shielded in plastic packaging and located in very robust sealed enclosures
EE-Times graphic at right shows how today’s cars utilize
many different computerized modules distributed across
many different locations throughout entire motor vehicle
In cars and trucks, high-speed CAN bus networking is
used to interconnect fast acting real-time electronic
systems such as engine and power train controls, active
suspensions, as well as (in certain car models) complex
collection of sensors and actuators that are involved
with very new autonomous vehicle driving capabilities
Structural integrity and predictable functioning of Gold-
plated electrical connectors used in such electronic
systems are crucial for motor vehicle safety and reliable
operation. They must be protected from any mechanical
damage such as abrasion or ablation, water, excessive
heat, and open exposure to ambient atmosphere. This is
achieved with chip packaging, placing all PCB boards in
robust enclosures, and outdoor-grade network cabling
Given the above, it is unlikely that Gold will escape from
vehicle electronic systems if they are structurally intact
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Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium dominant catalysts since 1975
Why is Gold found in nanoparticulates emitted from vehicular tailpipes?
Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium have overwhelmingly comprised principal
catalysts used worldwide in catalytic converters since they were first legally
mandated for use in motor vehicles in mid-1970s in U.S., and later elsewhere
Well-known that catalysts embedded in washcoats that cover interior surfaces
of honeycombs inside catalytic converters will slowly ablate over time, enter
exhaust gases as nanoparticles, and then be deposited in local environments
As we noted, environmental scientists have been measuring elemental and
isotopic compositions of particles and gases emitted from vehicle exhausts.
Samples have been collected directly from urban and rural: vehicle exhausts on
highways and in laboratories; local air; dusts accumulated on and in vicinity of
traveled roadways; and from tissues of plants growing very close to highways
Given the above, if local environments around roads were sampled and then
selectively analyzed for presence of specific elements and stable isotopes, one
would assume finding tiny amounts of Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium having
normal isotopic abundances; relatively little or no Gold should ever be observed
Those assumptions are wrong: surprising amounts of Gold have been detected.
Other oddities have been reported in such samples, such as: excess radiogenic
Osmium; anomalous isotopic shifts in Platinum and Palladium; as well as heavy-
isotope enrichment of Carbon, Oxygen, and Nitrogen moieties in exhaust gases
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Current market price: metals used or present in converters
Gold is most expensive metal at $1,322 Troy ounce; Pt second at $1,035
Palladium = $695; Rhodium = $685; Iridium = $685; Osmium = $400; Silver = $19
https://apps.catalysts.basf.com/apps/eibprices/mp/
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Gold (Au) very rarely used as catalyst in vehicle converters
Still minimal usage though lean-burning diesels are potential application
Analysis of elements emitted from converters shows anomalous amounts of Gold
While there has been recent academic discussion of using Gold catalyst in the
converters of lean-burning diesel engines, there still appears to be little or no
use of Gold in that application. Thus, worldwide since 1975 very little Gold has
ever been knowingly used during manufacturing of vehicle catalytic converters
Present Gold price of $1,322 per Troy ounce is ~29% more expensive than price
of Platinum, 92% higher than Palladium, and 95% higher than Rhodium. These
relative prices of alternative, somewhat substitutable catalysts suggest that, if
such pricing continues, use of Gold in converters will be strongly discouraged
Limited instances of refereed published data reveal that since 1975 in the U.S.
and Europe, and from 1990s in China and India, enhanced local abundances of
Gold (significantly larger than normal crustal values) have been observed in and
around traveled roads. Since Gold is little-used in catalytic converters, such odd
enhancements are not readily explainable as being impurities in catalyst metals
Largest industrial usage of Gold is in the electronics industry where it is used in
electrical connectors found in printed circuit boards and many different kinds of
semiconductor chips. However, these connectors are usually encapsulated in
very tight enclosures and are not subjected to abrasion or ablation, so vehicular
electronics are unlikely to be source of anomalous Gold found around highways
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Numerical values of isotopic shifts are usually small numbers
Parts-per-thousand or δ notation therefore used to express such values
Chemical isotopic fractionation processes typically only cause per mil shifts
Actual magnitude of isotopic fractionation resulting from kinetic and equilibrium
chemical fractionation processes typically represents a very small numerical value.
Thus, + or - enrichments are usually reported in "per mil" ( ‰ , parts per thousand).
Source: Prof. Paul Asimow, Caltech, slide from a Geology lecture in 2006
Shifts in stable isotope ratios are commonly expressed in d notation:
d = ( )x 1000
Rsample - Rstandard
Rstandard
e.g.,
( )Xheavy isotope
R = ratio = Xlighter isotope
Wherein by convention:
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Early report of Gold emitted from vehicle exhausts (2003)
Pt, Pd, and Au observed in needles of urban Pine trees in Palermo, Italy
Pt - Pd highly cross-correlated (R2 = 0.74) indicating a common origin from traffic
“Occurrence of Platinum, Palladium, and Gold in Pine needles of
Pinus pinea L. from the city of Palermo (Italy)”
G. Dongarra et al., Applied Geochemistry 18 pp. 109 - 116 (2003)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292702000513
https://www.academia.edu/6265443/Occurrence_of_platinum_palladium_and_gold_in_
pine_needles_of_Pinus_pinea_L._from_the_city_of_Palermo_Italy?auto=download
Analyzed selected elements present in 40 samples of pine needles from trees
growing in and near city of Palermo, Italy; found Pt, Pd, and Au, among others
Amounts of Pt, Pd, and Pd found in living pine needles were substantially higher
than normal earthly crustal abundances (about two orders of magnitude higher)
Abundances of Pt and Pd at given sampling location were highly correlated with
each other (R2 = 0.74); this is consistent with common origin in vehicle exhausts
Abundances of Pt, Pd, Au much higher inside city vs. at well beyond its borders;
traffic density much higher inside city; this is also consistent with a traffic origin
Most surprising and anomalous feature in Dongarra et al.’s reported data is that
the observed abundance of Gold is often higher than Pt and Pd; quite puzzling
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Early report of Gold emitted from vehicle exhausts (2003)
Pt, Pd, and Au observed in needles of urban Pine trees in Palermo, Italy
Abundance data in Figure 5 from G. Dongarra et al., Applied Geochemistry (2003)
Platinum (Pt) Palladium (Pd) Gold (Au)
Once emitted from exhaust into environment, physical-chemical-biological transport
mechanisms as well as mobility can vary greatly between each of these precious metals
Fig. 5. “Areal distribution maps of Pt, Pd, and Au chemical concentrations (mg/kg) in pine
needles from the city of Palermo (Italy) … solid lines delimit the urban agglomeration.”
PdPt Au
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Early report of Gold emitted from vehicle exhausts (2003)
Pt, Pd, and Au observed in needles of urban Pine trees in Palermo, Italy
Abundance data in Table 1 from G. Dongarra et al., Applied Geochemistry (2003)
Quoting: “Gold concentrations were
found to lie in the 22 - 776 mg/kg range.
Tables 1 and 2 clearly show that Au is
found in concentrations which are higher
than crustal values and those found in
some samples from the local surface
soils. Areal distribution (Fig. 5) shows
that the highest Au concentrations are
located in the same areas of the city in
which Pt, Pd are particularly enriched …
in the present case, dispersion patterns
exclude non-local sources for these
elements. Gold is not used in catalysts,
since its catalytic reaction temperature
is too high … Significant Au impurities
are likely to be found in the alloys used in
converter production, resulting in Au
showing a similar distribution to that of
the PGE. As far as the authors know no
emission factors for Au have been
published previously.”
Table 1. from G. Dongarra et al. (2003)
Note especially that 1 μg/kg = 1 ppm
Pd Pt Au
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Gold observed in soils and grass adjacent to UK roads (2007)
Analyzed samples show amounts of Pt, Pd, Rh, and Au in soils & grass
Maximum amount of measured Gold was at site having highest traffic flows
“The distribution of automobile catalysts-cast Platinum, Palladium and
Rhodium in soils adjacent to roads and their uptake by grass”
P. Hooda et al., Science of the Total Environment 384 pp. 384 - 392 (2007)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969707006390
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6233716_The_Distribution_of_Automobile_Catalysts-
cast_platinum_Palladium_and_Rhodium_in_Soils_Adjacent_to_Roads_and_Their_Uptake_by_Grass
“In this paper we report on a study designed to assess the distribution and
plant uptake of Pt, Pd and Rh from soils adjacent to several road networks.
Gold (Au) was additionally, measured because of its increasing use in
automotive electronics (ignition control, anti-lock brake and electronic fuel
injection) in recent years (Corti, 2003). The specific objectives of the study
were to: (a) examine the pattern of soil PGE concentrations with increasing
distance from roads in order to evaluate their depositional behaviour; (b)
assess the effect of traffic characteristics and local landscape on PGE
distribution in the soils; and (c) evaluate PGE uptake by grass and test any
relationship with their soil concentrations.”
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Gold has been observed in soils adjacent to UK roads (2007)
Hoodah et al. Fig. 1 - average metal concentration vs. distance from road
Even adjacent to side of roadway avg. Gold concentration ~ same as Platinum
Pt
PdRh
Au
Once emitted from exhaust into environment, physical-chemical-biological transport
mechanisms as well as mobility can vary greatly between each of these precious metals
Concentration of metals in soils at specified distances from UK roads
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Gold has been observed in soils adjacent to UK roads (2007)
Hoodah et al. Fig. 2 - metal concentration vs. distance away from road
Data below for soils - shows these metals are associated with vehicular traffic
Pt
Pd
Rh
Au
Mobility of Gold
is different
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Gold observed in grass samples adjacent to UK roads (2007)
Hoodah et al. Table 2 - avg. concentrations in samples from 5 locations
Average concentrations of Gold (μg/kg) in grass greater than Rh, Pd, and Pt
Rh Pd Pt Au
Concentrations of Gold are unexpectedly high versus those of Rh, Pd and Pt
High amounts of Gold vs. Pt, Pd, and Rh very similar to data of Dongarra et al.
Quoting: “The soil Au concentrations varied across the sites, with maximum
concentrations measured at site E, which also had the highest traffic flow.”
Concentrations of these metals near UK roads much higher vs. crustal values
Altogether the data indicates that Pt, Pd, Rh, and Au are emitted from vehicles
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Elements in Chinese city road dusts and roadside soils
Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd), Gold (Au), Iridium (Ir), and Osmium (Os)
Catalytic converter emissions created abundances way above natural background
“The characteristics of automobile catalyst-derived Platinum group elements in
road dusts and roadside soils: a case study in the Pearl River Delta region, South
China” L. Qi et al. in Environmental Earth Sciences 64 pp. 1683 - 1692 (2011)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12665-010-0635-y
Quoting: “The contents of Au in dusts from Hong Kong (42 - 453 ng/g,
average 209 ng/g) and Shenzhen (148 - 1345 ng/g, average 471 ng/g) are
much higher than soils (average 19.4 and 14.7 ng/g) and the background
values (average 0.98 ng/g). Dust samples from Hong Kong and Shenzhen
show clearly positive correlation between Au and Pt (Fig. 4). Because
these samples were collected from the commercial streets and highways
with no industrial input, the anomalies are likely related to contamination
from automobile catalysts. The contents of Au in all the samples from
Guangzhou (average 12.2 ng/g) are much lower than those from
Shenzhen and Hong Kong and show no correlations between Pt and Au
(Fig. 4). The similarity between Shenzhen and Hong Kong may have
caused by the frequent shuttle traffic between these two cities. The
difference between Guangzhou and Hong Kong may reflect the different
automobile catalyst systems between mainland China and Hong Kong.”
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Elements in Chinese city road dusts and roadside soils
Table 3. Qi et al. (2011) Abundances in upper crust and local background
Qi et al. measure uncontaminated soils near cities to determine background levels
Table 3.
Quoting: “To identify the elevated PGE contents through anthropogenic
contributions in environmental samples, a local natural background level is
required to establish as a reference point. Therefore, the local uncontaminated
soils can be considered as the background values. As listed in Table 3, the
background values have PGE abundances generally similar to those reported
for the Upper Continental Crust (Wedepohl 1995; Peucker-Ehrenbrink and
Jahn 2001) and the crust levels in eastern part of China (Chi and Yan 2006).”
Uncontaminated Chinese soils
Upper crust
Au
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Elements in Chinese city road dusts and roadside soils
Fig. 4 in Qi et al. (2011) Gold (Au) versus Platinum (Pt) concentrations
Catalytic converter emissions created abundances way above natural background
Figure 4.
Pt
Au
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Elements in Chinese city road dusts and roadside soils
Excerpts from Table 4. Qi et al. (2011) Hong Kong & Shenzhen samples
Similar to Dongarra and Hooda: Gold concentration oddly high vs. Pt, Pd, and Rh
Table 4.
Au
Au
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Qi (2011) Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Ru emitted from catalytic converters
These elements found in roadside dust & soils are well above background
Fig. 2“Automobile catalytic converters were introduced to China in
1993.”
“Automobile catalysts mainly contain Pt, Pd and Rh, and may
release into the environment through exhausting system.
Thus, these three elements show positive correlations for the
roadside dusts and soils samples. Our data indicate that there
are clearly positive correlations between Pt and Pd, Pt and Rh
and Pd and Rh (Fig. 2) for the samples from three cities in the
Pearl River Delta region, again consistent with automobile
catalyst sources.”
“Until present, other than Pt, Pd and Rh, only limited studies
have been reported for automobile catalyst-related Ru and Ir
in environmental samples … The Ir and Ru concentrations of
our samples are clearly higher than the background values
and Upper Continental Crust … There are clearly positive
correlations between Pt and Ir, Pt and Ru, and Ir and Ru in our
samples, except no correlations between Pt and Ru, and Ir
and Ru in Guangzhou (Fig. 3). We suggest that the elevated Ir
and Ru in soil and dust samples from the Pearl River Delta
region are related to emission of automobile catalyst in which
these elements occur as impurities.”
Pt
Pt
Pd
RhPdRh
Background
Background
Background
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Qi et al. (2011) concluded: catalytic converters emit metals
Pt, Pd, Rh, Au, Ir, Ru, Os nanoparticles found in roadside soils and dust
Anomalous high Au concentrations are related to catalytic converters’ emissions
Conclusions:
“This study presents the results of PGE and Au in road dusts and
roadside soils collected from three major cities in Pearl River Delta
region, South China. The proposed low procedure blank and effective
Carius tube technique together have improved the precision of PGE and
Au determination in environmental samples, especially for the
uncontaminated soil samples for establishing the background values.
The background values of PGE and Au in the study area were
established. The highest levels of Pt, Rh and Pd were found in road dusts
and are due to contamination from automobile catalyst. Similar Pt/Pd
ratios for the samples from Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen reflect
similar Pt/Pd ratios in the automobile catalysts used in these cities. The
Pt/Rh ratios of dust samples from Hong Kong are higher than those from
Guangzhou and Shenzhen, reflecting the different automobile catalyst
system between Hong Kong and mainland China. The elevated levels of
Ru, Ir and Os in road dust and roadside soil samples are possibly related
to the impurity of these elements in the automobile catalysts. Anomalous
high concentrations of Au in the dust samples from Shenzhen and Hong
Kong may also be related to emission from automobile catalyst systems.”
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Gold not normally used as catalyst in catalytic converters
Since the mid-1970s in U.S./Europe and 1993 in China when three-way
catalytic converters were initially mandated on all motor vehicles with IC
engines, little or no Gold appears to have been deliberately used in OEM
manufacturing of these important, universal air pollution control devices
Yet when roadside soils, dusts, and tissues of nearby growing plants are
carefully analyzed for the presence of a wide range of different metals,
anomalous Gold is commonly found and is also well-correlated with the
obviously expected presence of Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium PGE
metals that have customarily been used in three-way catalytic converters
Even more odd, experimental data discussed herein that was published
by Dongarra et al. (2003), Hooda et al. (2007), and Qi et al. (2011) clearly
reveal that at many sampled locations, observed Gold concentrations can
even locally exceed the concentrations of Platinum and/or Palladium
Gold concentrations approaching or exceeding those of Pt and Pd is a
highly anomalous, totally unexpected result given that little or no Gold
should be present inside converters when they are initially manufactured
and prior to their use on the road in motor vehicles
Gold is found in roadside dust, soils, plant tissues along with Pt, Pd, Rh
Anomaly: Gold concentrations at some sampled locations are similar to Pt and Pd
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LENR production of Au from Pt can explain anomalous data
While there has recently been academic discussion of using Gold for one of
the catalysts in converters for lean-burning diesel engines, current high price
of Gold compared to Pt, Pd, and Rh would restrict usage in such applications
Certain high-priced racing spark plugs do use Gold-Palladium alloys in tips of
their electrodes, but they would be installed in only a tiny percentage of total
vehicles on roads and thus could not possibly account for anomalously high
concentrations of Gold observed in roadside dust, soils, and plant tissues
It is certainly possible that Gold is initially present as tiny impurities in Pt, Pd,
and Rh catalyst metals before catalytic converters are being manufactured.
However, even if this idea were true it could not possibly explain how some
sampled locations show Gold concentrations that can exceed those of Pt, Pd,
and/or Rh unless one invoked a mysterious ad hoc concentrating process
that operates only on Gold after it is released via exhaust into environments
Gold is extensively used with connectors found inside vehicular electronic
systems. However, such connectors are always tightly enclosed within local
protective structures. It is difficult to imagine very much of this Gold being
released out into the external environment as long as structures are intact
Prosaic processes do not explain data on anomalous concentrations of Gold
Physicochemical processes do not explain anomalous Au near roadsides
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LENR production of Au from Pt can explain anomalous data
Neutron capture on 196Pt produces unstable 197Pt that β - decays to 197Au
Probable location of LENR processes in motor vehicles is the catalytic converter
Data on PGE catalyst metals recovered, recycled, and
refined from scrapped car and truck converters in U.S.
reveals that for all three grades of recycled converter
materials, Platinum comprises ~70% of catalysts present
LENRs are possible in electric arc plasmas (sparks) found
in combustion chambers. However, amounts of available W,
Ir, and Pt in wear coatings and spark plugs that could serve
as LENR neutron capture target elements are minuscule in
comparison to amount available inside catalytic converters
Gold has one stable isotope; only certain LENR nuclear
transmutation paths are able to produce stable 197Au. Most
direct pathway to Au is via neutron capture on stable 196Pt
(natural abundance 25.3%) that transmutes it to unstable
197Pt (half-life 19.9 hours) which rapidly β-decays to 197Au
If Gold is truly produced in vehicle catalytic converters via
LENR transmutation processes then the 196Pt pathway is
our best candidate to explain anomalous Gold near roads
Diorite Gold ore
thin-section
magnified
Canada
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“Nothing is too wonderful to be true,
if it be consistent with the laws of Nature;
and in such things as these experiments
is the best test of such consistency.”
Michael Faraday
Laboratory journal entry #10,040
March 19, 1849
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Other anomalies in Pt & Pd emitted from vehicle exhausts
Stable isotope abundances of Pt and Pd shift toward more neutron-rich
Platinum and Palladium emitted from catalytic converters is isotopically heavier
“Determination of Pt, Pd, and Rh by inductively coupled plasma sector field mass
spectroscopy (ICP-SFMS) in size-classified urban aerosol samples”
K. Kanitsar et al. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 18 pp. 239 - 246 (2003)
http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/DisplayArticleForFree.cfm?doi=b212218a&JournalCode=JA
“Novel matrix separation on-line pre-concentration procedure for accurate quantification
of Palladium in environmental samples by isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma
sector field mass spectrometry”
E. Rudolph et al. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 21 pp. 1287 - 1293 (2006)
http://pubs.rsc.org/is/content/articlelanding/2006/ja/b604820j#!divAbstract
Very interesting papers by Kanitsar et al. (2003) and Rudolph et al. (2006)
are cited above.
The purpose of 2003 Kanitsar et al. study was to measure “… Pt, Pd, and
Rh concentration levels … in Viennese aerosol … emitted from car catalysts
… urban aerosol was studied over a period of 1 month during summer 2002
in a heavy traffic area … Since Platinum group elements (PGE) are emitted
from car catalysts as a result of mechanical processes, Pt, Pd and Rh were
mainly found in the coarse fraction of urban aerosol.”
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Isotopic abundance ratio plots a la Kanitsar and Rudolph
Plot at left shows random enrichment; middle shows only natural ratios
Plot at right shows enhanced enrichment of heavier (more neutron-rich) isotopes
Idealized plots illustrate types of enrichment that could potentially occur
Samples collected and analyzed
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Rudolph et al. use same measurement technique as Kanitsar
Shows that data points for neutron rich samples will cluster near origin
Pt or Pd samples enriched in heavier isotopes will move closer toward origin
Fig. 2 Rudolph et al. (2006): in this illustrative example, only samples that
were spiked with 98.25% 106Pd cluster along the line nearer to the origin
Calibration
with Pd
isotopes
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Other anomalies in Pt and Pd emitted in vehicle exhausts
Stable isotope abundances of Pt & Pd shifted toward more neutron-rich
Platinum and Palladium emitted from catalytic converters is isotopically heavier
Of note is Fig. 1, where Kanitsar et al. plot
values of 194Pt/196Pt vs. 195Pt/196Pt for field
samples, which happen to fall along a
straight line connecting an “isotopically
enriched spike sample” (97.25% 196Pt) with
the x, y coordinate for the standard natural
abundance ratios of these particular Pt
isotopes. They then plot the same graph
for Pd with 106Pd/108Pd vs. 105Pd/108Pd for
field samples, which also fall neatly along a
straight line connecting an “enriched spike
sample” (98.25% 106Pd) with the x, y
coordinate for the standard natural
abundance ratios of these Pd isotopes.
Values of field samples are not distributed
randomly along the lines, nor are they just
clustered close to the natural abundance
values; are shifted toward heavier isotopes
Fig. 1 Kanitsar et al. plots
Pd
Pt
Heavy-isotope enrichment in samples
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Other anomalies in Pt and Pd emitted in vehicle exhausts
Stable isotope abundances of Pt and Pd shift toward more neutron-rich
Platinum and Palladium emitted from catalytic converters is isotopically heavier
Platinum (Pt) has six stable isotopes: 190Pt, 192Pt, 194Pt, 195Pt, 196Pt, 198Pt
Neutron capture on certain Pt isotopes has tiny cross-section for producing Osmium
Platinum is one of three principal metallic catalysts used in most
three-way converters: natural abundance of 190Pt = 0.01% (in fact,
190Pt is a very long-lived unstable isotope, half-life (h.l.) = 4.5 x 1011 yrs
--- it α-decays into 186Os - Osmium which is stable); 192Pt = 0.79%; 194Pt
= 32.9%; 195Pt = 33.8%; 196Pt = 25.3%; 198Pt = 7.2%
191Pt - unstable, h.l. = 2.8 days, decays via electron capture into stable
191Ir - Iridium; 193Pt - unstable; h.l. = 51 yrs, decays via internal KM-
shell electron capture into stable 191Ir - Iridium; and 197Pt - unstable,
h.l. = 19.9 hrs, β- decays into stable 197Au - Gold
Platinum is a very unusual non-radioactive element in that many of its
stable isotopes have tiny cross-sections (c-s) for α-decay into Osmium
upon capturing a single LENR neutron. Specifically: 190Pt - see above;
192Pt → stable 188Os; 194Pt → stable 190Os; 195Pt → unstable 191Os, h.l. =
15.4 days which β- decays into stable 191Ir – Iridium
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Other anomalies in Pt and Pd emitted in vehicle exhausts
Stable isotope abundances of Pt and Pd shift toward more neutron-rich
Platinum and Palladium emitted from catalytic converters is isotopically heavier
Platinum (Pt) has six stable isotopes: 190Pt, 192Pt, 194Pt, 195Pt, 196Pt, 198Pt
Comments:
Of its six stable isotopes, 190Pt has largest neutron capture cross-section
(c-c-s) = 1.5 x 102 barns (b) at thermal energies, then 195Pt = ~28 b, and
192Pt = ~2.0 b; other stable isotopes have much smaller capture cross-
sections; again note that LENR ultralow energy neutron c-c-s can be >103x
- 106x larger than nthermal c-c-s. Unsurprisingly, 190Pt’s natural abundance is
the lowest of six stable isotopes because neutron capture c-s is so high
All other things being equal, at low rates of LENR ULM neutron production
no more than 1 - 2 neutrons may be captured per ‘lucky’ Pd atom located
in or around a given LENR active site, there should be significant
depletion of 190Pt, which has huge neutron c-c-s. Ultralow energy neutron
fluxes would have a strong tendency to deplete 192Pt, 194Pt and especially
195Pt (nat. ab. 33.8% and capture c-s of 28 barns) and progressively enrich
196Pt and 198Pt. If virgin Platinum initially at natural isotopic abundances
were exposed to LENR neutron fluxes, heavy isotope enrichment would be
expected --- exactly as reported experimentally by Kanitsar et al. (2003)
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Other anomalies in Pt and Pd emitted in vehicle exhausts
Stable isotope abundances of Pt and Pd shift toward more neutron-rich
Platinum and Palladium emitted from catalytic converters is isotopically heavier
Palladium (Pd) has six stable isotopes: 102Pd, 104Pd, 105Pd, 106Pd, 108Pd, 110Pd
Presuming that we are not misinterpreting sample isotope data presented in
Fig. 1 of Kanitsar et al. (2003), it appears that a decidedly nonrandom
isotopic enrichment process took place in Pd and Pt found in small airborne
particles emitted from motor vehicle exhausts
Please recall we said that of the six stable isotopes, “105Pd [22.33% nat. ab.]
has the largest neutron capture cross-section of ~22 barns … All other
things being equal, at low rates of LENR ultralow energy neutron production
where only 1 - 2 neutrons are captured per Pd atom, there would be a
tendency to deplete 105Pd, 102Pd and … enrich 106Pd …” Such results are
possible in condensed matter under the W-L theory and LENRs
Lattice is unaware of any plausible chemical kinetic fractionation theories
that could successfully explain the observed significant shifts toward
heavier isotopies in emitted Pd and Pt. Furthermore, while some new ad hoc
chemical fractionation processes could be proposed that also produce such
results, the data of Kanitsar et al. can be satisfactorily explained by a green
nuclear transmutation process, i.e., LENR low-energy neutron captures on
Pd or Pt atoms in catalytic converters per W-L theory in condensed matter
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Electroweak reaction in Widom-Larsen theory is simple
Protons or deuterons react directly with electrons to make neutrons
Need input energy source such as electricity to drive LENR neutron production
EnergyE-field + e-
sp g e-*sp + p+ g n0 + νe
Collective many-body quantum effects:
many electrons each transfer little bits
of energy to a much smaller number of
electrons also bathed in the very same
extremely high local electric field
Quantum electrodynamics (QED): smaller number of
electrons that absorb energy directly from local electric
field will increase their effective masses (m = E/c2)
above key thresholds β0 where they can react directly
with a proton (or deuteron) neutron and neutrino
νe neutrinos: unreactive subatomic particles that fly-off into space; n0 neutrons capture on nearby atoms
Neutrons + capture targets heavier elements + decay products
Neutrons induce nuclear transmutations that release enormous amounts of clean, CO2-free heat
Input energy creates electric fields > 2.5 x1011 V/m Heavy-mass e-* electrons react directly with protons
electrons + protons (Hydrogen) g neutrons + neutrinos (benign particles, fly into space)
Radiation-free LENR transmutation
Require source(s) of input energy Many-body collective electroweak neutron production
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Electroweak neutron production has two distinct modes
Magnetic mode dominates in electric discharges: sparks, arcs, lightning
Many-body collective effects in condensed matter and plasmas + input energy
EnergyE-field + e-
sp g e-*sp + p+ g n + νe [high electric fields on substrate surfaces]
EnergyB-field g e- + p+ g lepton + X [plasmas inside cylindrical magnetic fields]
Collective electroweak production of neutrons on μ-scales on condensed matter
substrates and via direct particle acceleration in magnetic fields of discharges
Both types of processes release nuclear binding energy (heat)
n + atom (Z, A) g (Z, A+1) [neutron capture on nearby atoms]
(Z, A+1) g (Z + 1, A+1) + eβ
- + νe [unstable products beta- decay]
Commonly rapid β - decays of unstable neutron-rich isotopic products
Production of neutrons from protons and electrons via electroweak catalysis:
Transmutation of atoms that capture neutrons into other heavier isotopes/elements:
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Input energy is required to trigger LENRs: to create non-equilibrium conditions
that enable nuclear-strength local E-fields which produce populations of heavy-
mass e-* electrons that react with many-body surface patches of p+, d+, or t+ to
produce neutrons via e-* + p+ g 1 n or e-* + d+ g 2 n, e-* + t+ g 3 n (energy cost =
0.78 MeV/neutron for H; 0.39 for D; 0.26 for T); includes (can combine sources):
Electrical currents - i.e., an electron ‘beam’ of one sort or another can serve as
a source of input energy for producing neutrons via e + p electroweak reaction
Ion currents - passing across a surface or an interface where SP electrons
reside (i.e., an ion beam that can be comprised of protons, deuterons, tritons,
and/or other types of charged ions); one method used for inputting energy is an
ion flux caused by imposing a modest pressure gradient (Iwamura et al. 2002)
Incoherent and coherent electromagnetic (E-M) photon fluxes - can be found in
incoherent E-M radiation found in resonant electromagnetic cavities; with
proper momentum coupling, SP electrons can also be directly energized with
coherent laser beams emitting photons at appropriate resonant wavelengths
Organized magnetic fields with cylindrical geometries - many-body collective
magnetic LENR regime with direct acceleration of particles operates at very
high electron/proton currents; includes organized and so-called dusty plasmas;
scales-up to stellar flux tubes on stars with dimensions measured in kilometers
Appropriate input energy is required to produce neutrons
Catalytic converters can function as resonant electromagnetic cavities
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Electric discharges provide energy to create neutrons
Neutrons created on solid surfaces will have ultralow kinetic energies
Neutrons produced by direct particle acceleration in hot plasmas can be energetic
During electric discharges, electroweak neutron production via e + p reaction
can simultaneously occur in complex, highly variable mixtures of three modes:
1. Nuclear-strength μ-scale local electric fields in condensed matter surfaces of
electrodes. Neutrons mostly ultralow energy and local gamma emissions are
directly converted into infrared photons (IR) by unreacted heavy electrons per
W-L theory; virtually no emissions of MeV-energy gammas or neutrons. MeV
energy betas (electrons) commonly emitted; sometimes MeV alpha particles
2. Nuclear-strength μ-scale local electric fields on surfaces of condensed matter
particles embedded in discharge plasmas. These plasma-bathed particles ---
typically with dimensions of nm to microns --- can either arise from ablation of
electrode surfaces or were present in local gaseous environment and simply
get trapped when discharge plasmas form. Neutrons made in this ~1. mode are
mostly ultralow momentum; gammas are converted into IR by heavy electrons
3. Many-body collective magnetic effects dominate this mode. W-L-S mechanism
operates via direct acceleration of charged particles (mainly electrons and
protons) by electromagnetic fields within plasma channels. Neutron, proton,
and electron energies can range from thermal up to tens of MeVs; produces
energetic X-rays & gammas up to tens of MeVs; also energetic X particles
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Electric discharges provide energy to create neutrons
Neutrons created on solid surfaces will have ultralow kinetic energies
Neutrons produced by direct particle acceleration in hot plasmas can be energetic
During electric discharges, electroweak neutron production via e + p reaction can
simultaneously occur in complex, highly variable mixtures of three modes:
e-*+ p+ g n + νe
e- + p+ g lepton + X
e-*+ p+ g n + νe
e-* + p+ g n + νe
Dusty plasma
channel
e- and p+
Condensed matter particles
embedded in discharge plasma
1. 1.
2.
3. Breakdown region -
huge power density
Breakdown region -
huge power density
Condensed matter
surface of electrode
Condensed matter
surface of electrode
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Summary of steps in Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs
5-step green process in sites occurs in 300 - 400 nanoseconds or less
1. Collectively oscillating, quantum mechanically entangled, many-body patches
of Hydrogen (either +-charged protons or deuterons) will form spontaneously
on metallic hydride surfaces or at certain types of interfaces, e.g. metal/oxide
2. Born-Oppenheimer approximation spontaneously breaks down, allows E-M
coupling between local surface plasmon electrons and patch protons;
application of input energy creates nuclear-strength local electric fields >2.5 x
1011 V/m - increases effective masses of surface plasmon electrons in patches
3. Heavy-mass surface plasmon electrons formed in many-body patches then
react directly with electromagnetically interacting protons; process creates
neutrons and neutrinos via many-body collective electroweak e + p reaction
4. Neutrons collectively created in patch have ultralow kinetic energies and are
all absorbed locally by nearby atoms - no dangerous energetic neutron fluxes
escape apparatus; any locally produced or incident gammas are converted
directly into safe infrared photons (heat) by unreacted heavy electrons (Lattice
patent US# 7,893,414 B2) - no hard MeV-energy gamma emissions
5. Transmutation of elements and formation of craters at active sites begins
Collective many-body surface patches of protons can become LENR-active sites
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Release of nuclear binding energy produces usable heat
Several different mechanisms produce clean heat in LENR-active sites
Conceptually, LENR neutrons act like catalytic ‘matches’ that are used to ‘light
the logs’ of target fuel nuclei. A neutron-catalyzed LENR transmutation network
operates to release nuclear binding energy that has been stored and locked away
in nuclei ‘fuel logs’ since they were originally produced at multi-million degrees in
fiery nucleosynthetic processes of long-dead stars, many billions of years ago
LENR transmutation networks can produce copious heat that comes mainly from:
Direct conversion of gamma photons (γ) into infrared photons (IR) by heavy
electrons; e.g., γ from neutron captures or β and other types of decays. IR is
then scattered and absorbed by local matter, increasing its temperature (heat)
Nuclear decays of unstable neutron-rich isotopes that emit energetic particles
(e.g., betas, alphas, protons, etc.); these particles then transfer their kinetic
energy by scattering on local matter, which increases its temperature (heat)
Neutrino particles from weak interactions do not contribute to any production of
excess heat; they will essentially bleed-off a small portion of released nuclear
binding energy outward into space; unavoidable neutrino emissions are part of
the energetic cost of obtaining energy releases in LENR networks from β - decays
Widom-Larsen explains what generates calorimetrically measured excess heat
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Needed to produce neutrons that induce transmutation of elements
W-L theory explains creation of LENR-active sites
Hydrogen (protons or deuterons) and heavy-mass electrons are key reactants
Substantial quantities of Hydrogen isotopes must be brought into intimate contact with
fully-H-loaded metallic hydride-forming metals (or non-metals like Se); e.g., Palladium,
Platinum, Rhodium, Nickel, Titanium , Tungsten, etc. Please note that collectively
oscillating, 2-D surface plasmon (SP) electrons are intrinsically present and cover the
surfaces of such metals. At full lattice loading (saturation) of Hydrogenous isotopes,
many-body, collectively oscillating island-like LENR active sites comprised of protons
p+, deuterons d+, or tritons t+ will form spontaneously at random locations on surfaces
Or, delocalized collectively oscillating π electrons comprising outer covering surfaces
of fullerenes, graphene, benzene, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)
molecules behave identically to SPs; when such molecules are hydrogenated, they
create many-body, collectively oscillating, entangled quantum systems that per W-L
theory are functionally equivalent molecular analogues of metal hydrides. In this case,
LENRs are triggered on aromatic rings; strong tendency to transmute ring Carbons
Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down in LENR active sites composed of
nearly homogenous collections of collectively oscillating p+, d+, and/or t+ ions; enables
E-M coupling between nearby SP or π electrons and hydrogen ions at active sites and
creates nuclear-strength local electric fields > 2 x 1011 V/m. Effective masses of
electrons in such E-fields are increased to multiple of an electron at rest (e → e*)
determined by required ~simultaneous energy input(s); called “mass renormalization”
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Widom-Larsen provides description for LENR-active sites
Per Widom-Larsen theory LENRs occur in localized micron-
scale LENR-active sites on ~planar surfaces: at certain types of
interfaces; or curved surfaces of various shaped nanoparticles
Tiny LENR-active sites live for less than ~300 - 400 nanoseconds
before being destroyed by intense heat; local peak temps range
from 4,000 - 6,000o C; LENR-active sites spontaneously reform
under right conditions in well-engineered LENR thermal devices
Microscopic 100-micron LENR hotspot can release as much as
several Watts of heat in < 400 nanoseconds; create crater-like
features on surfaces that are visible in SEM images and show
evidence for flash-boiling of both precious & refractory metals
Peak local LENR power density in microscopic LENR-active
sites can hit > 1.0 x 1021 Joules/sec.m3 during brief lifetimes
Control macroscopic-scale temperatures in LENR systems by
tightly regulating total input energy and/or total area/volumetric
densities of LENR-active sites present in the reaction chambers
Infrared video of LENR hotspots
http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=OUVmOQXBS68
LENR hotspots on Pd cathode
Credit: P. Boss, U.S. Navy
Size of these active sites ranges from 2 nanometers up to ~100+ microns
Active sites have limited lifetimes before being destroyed by fast nuclear heating
100 μ LENR crater in Palladium
Electrochemical LENR cell
Credit: P. Boss, U.S. Navy
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W-L concept of a microscopic LENR-active surface site
Comprised of many-body patches of protons and electrons on surface
SP electrons and protons oscillate collectively and are mutually Q-M entangled
Diameters of many-body active sites randomly range from several nm up to ~ 100+ microns
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ‘Layer‘ of positive charge + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
- - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thin-film of surface plasmon electrons - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Substrate: in example, is hydride-forming metal, e.g. Palladium (Pd); however, could just as easily be an Oxide (in that case, SP
electrons would be only be present at nanoparticle-oxide interface, not across entire substrate surface as shown above)
SP electron
subsystem
Substrate subsystem
SP electron and
proton subsystems
form a many-body
W-L active site; it
can also reside on
nanoparticles
attached to surface
Note: diagram components are not to scale
Single nascent LENR-active site
Proton
subsystem
Born-Oppenheimer approximation breaks down in this region
+ + + + + + + + + Many surface protons (Hydrogen) + + + + + + + + +
- - - - - - - - - - Many surface plasmon electrons - - - - -- - - - - -
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Input energy creates high electric fields in LENR active sites
Born-Oppenheimer breakdown enables nuclear-strength local E-field
Huge electric field increase effective masses of some patch SP electrons
Note: diagram components are not to scaleSubstrate subsystem
Correct input energies create huge local E-fields > 2.5 x 1011 V/m between adjacent nanoparticles
Substrate: in example, is hydride-forming metal, e.g. Palladium (Pd); however, could just as easily be an Oxide (in that case SP
electrons would be only be present at nanoparticle-oxide interface, not across entire substrate surface as shown above)
Nuclear-strength local electric fields created herein
Input energyE-field + e-
sp g e-*sp + p+ g n + νe [condensed matter surfaces]
Single nascent LENR-active site
+ + + + + + + Many surface protons (Hydrogen) + + + + + + + + +
- - - - - - - - - - Many surface plasmon electrons - - - - -- - - - - -Nanoparticle
Nanoparticle
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LENRs occur in microscopic active sites found on surfaces
Many-body collections of protons and electrons form spontaneously
Ultralow energy neutrons produced & captured close to LENR-active sites
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Layer of positive charge + + + + + + + + ++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Substrate subsystem
- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - Thin-film of surface plasmon electrons - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Substrate: in this example, is hydride-forming metal, e.g. Palladium (Pd); could also be many other metals
Note: diagram components are not to scale
Input energy
amplifies
electric fields
in local regions
NPNP
n + (Z, A) g (Z, A+1) [neutrons capture on nearby target atoms]
(Z, A+1) g (Z + 1, A+1) + eβ
- + νe [beta- decay]
Often followed by β - decays of neutron-rich intermediate isotopic products
= Metallic nanoparticle (NP)
Intense heating in
LENR-active sites
will form μ-scale
event craters on
substrate surfaces
After being produced, neutrons capture on targets in/around active sites
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Neutrons are charge-neutral; atoms readily absorb them
Capture of neutrons by atoms will transmute them into other isotopes
n + target atom (Z, A) g (Z, A+1)
(Z, A+1) g (Z + 1, A+1) + eβ
- + νe
LENR transmutation processes
often proceed from left to right
across rows of the
Periodic Table
of chemical elements
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LENR transmutations traverse rows from left-to-right
Neutron capture by elements transmutes them into different elements
Tungsten (W) g Rhenium g Osmium g Iridium g Platinum g Gold (Au)
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LENR nucleosynthetic networks can transmute elements
Legend
Neutron captures proceed from left to right denoted by green horizontal
arrow; Q-value of capture reaction (MeV) is above or below horizontal arrow.
Beta- (β-) decays proceed from top to bottom; denoted with bright blue vertical
arrow pointing down with Q-value (MeV) in blue either to left or right; beta+ (β+)
decays are denoted with yellow arrow pointing upward to row above
Alpha decays indicated with orange arrows, proceed mostly from right to left
at angle with its Q-value (MeV) located on either side of process arrow.
Electron captures (e.c.) shown by purple vertical arrow; Q-value at left or right.
Except where specifically listed because branching cross-section is
significant, beta-delayed decays not shown; BR means “branching ratio” if >1
decay alternative
When known, half-lives are shown as “HL = xx”. Stable and quasi-stable
isotopes (i.e., those with half-lives > or equal to 107 years) indicated by green
boxes; unstable isotopes are denoted by purplish boxes; those with half-lives
of < 1 day are in yellow
Natural terrestrial abundances for stable isotopes indicated with % symbol
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LENR nucleosynthetic network can transmute W into Au
Network proceeds with combination of neutron captures and beta decays
Network may potentially continue to even higher values of A;
This depends on ULE neutron flux in cm2/sec
Start LENR process with stable isotopes of pure Tungsten (W) metal
Increasing values of A
IncreasingvaluesofZ
Tungsten has 5 stable isotopes
Tantalum
Rhenium
Osmium
Tungsten (W) g Rhenium g Osmium g Iridium g Platinum g Gold (Au)
Note: certain isotopes have small cross-sections for alpha decay
upon capturing one neutron. To improve legibility and reduce visual
clutter, these are not shown on this transmutation network diagram
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LENR nucleosynthetic network can transmute W into Au
Osmium also produced via α-decay of Pt isotopes after neutron capture
Increasing values of A
IncreasingvaluesofZ
Iridium
Platinum
Network may potentially continue to even higher values of A;
This depends on ULE neutron flux in cm2/sec
Tungsten (W) g Rhenium g Osmium g Iridium g Platinum g Gold (Au)
Note: certain isotopes have small cross-sections for alpha decay
upon capturing one neutron. To improve legibility and reduce visual
clutter, these are not shown on this transmutation network diagram
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LENR nucleosynthetic network can transmute W into Au
Transmutation network also produces Rhenium, Iridium, and Mercury
Tungsten (W) g Rhenium g Osmium g Iridium g Platinum g Gold (Au)
Increasing values of A
IncreasingvaluesofZ
Gold
Mercury
Network may potentially continue to even higher values of A;
This depends on ULE neutron flux in cm2/sec
Note: certain isotopes have small cross-sections for alpha decay
upon capturing one neutron. To improve legibility and reduce visual
clutter, these are not shown on this transmutation network diagram
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries transmuted W to Os and Pt
Utilized apparatus that functioned as resonant electromagnetic cavity
All MHI’s data is explained by Widom-Larsen with neutron captures and β decays
Copyright:
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
(2013)
https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/36792/RecentAdvancesDeuteriumPermeationPresentation.pdf?sequence=1
See hyperlink below for
downloadable pdf copy of
MHI conference PowerPoint
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Toyota repeated Mitsubishi’s LENR transmutation of Cs g Pr
Apparatus utilized functioned as resonant electromagnetic LENR cavity
Element/isotope quantities vary on μ-scale because LENR active sites are tiny
http://iopscience.iop.org/1347-4065/52/10R/107301/
Figs. 1 and 3 reproduced from JJAP
(2013) paper by T. Hioki et al.
TEM
“Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry study on the increase in the amount of
Pr atoms for Cs-ion-implanted Pd/CaO multilayer complex with Deuterium permeation”
T. Hioki et al. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 52 pp. 107301-1 to 107301-8 (2013)
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Condensed matter LENR-active sites size from 2 nm to ~100μ
LENRs create heterogeneous elemental compositions on μ length-scales
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has observed this effect while transmuting Cs g Pr
http://tinyurl.com/zcr3azt
See Slide #44 in the following Mitsubishi PowerPoint conference presentation (2013):
Surface of thin-film Pd/oxide
heterostructure after experiment
Credit:MitsubishiHeavyIndustries
133 141
55 59 PrCs
Implanted Cesium
Praseodymium
Experimental apparatus in these studies functioned as resonant electromagnetic cavity
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Osmium is unexpectedly being emitted in vehicular exhaust
Few industrial uses; many believe is impurity in Platinum group metals
Natural abundances of stable Osmium isotopes are as follows: 184Os =
0.020%; 186Os = 1.58%; 187Os = 1.6%; 188Os = 13.3% ; 189Os = 16.1%; 190Os =
26.4%; and 192Os = 41.0%
185Os - unstable, h.l. = 93.6 days, decays via electron capture into stable 185Re
– Rhenium, nat. ab. = 37.4%; 191Os - unstable; h.l. = 15.4 days, it then β- decays
into stable 191Ir – Iridium, nat. ab. = 37.3%
Upon neutron capture, 192Os is transmuted to unstable 193Os h.l. = 1.3 days,
which β- decays into 193Ir which is stable, nat. ab. = 62.7%; similarly, if another
neutron is captured before 193Os can decay, 194Os is created, which is
unstable, h.l. = 6.0 years, which then β- decays into 194Ir which is unstable, h.l.
= 19.3 hrs, which in turn β- decays into 194Pt, which is stable, nat. ab. = 32.9%
Osmium's thermal neutron capture cross-sections vary greatly between its
different isotopes; their distribution and values are such that exposure to
neutron fluxes tends to deplete 184Os, 186Os, and 187Os and enrich 188Os,
189Os, 190Os, and 192Os; this tendency is reflected in the natural abundances.
On neutron capture, following isotopes have α-decay channels to Tungsten
with tiny cross-sections: 184Os, 186Os, 187Os, 188Os, 189Os, 190Os, and 192Os
Osmium (Os) - 7 stable isotopes: 184Os, 186Os, 187Os, 188Os, 189Os, 190Os, 192Os
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LENR transmutation network can alter 187Os/188Os ratio
Measured value for ratio can vary greatly depending on reaction rates
As explained by Shirey & Walker (1998), the 187Os/188Os ratio is widely
measured and utilized in various types of environmental isotopic studies.
Scientists making such measurements assume that: (a) 188Os is not being
presently produced via nucleosynthetic processes anywhere on earth or its
immediate environs; and, (b) the only source of newly produced atoms of
187Os in the terrestrial environment is radiogenic β- decay of 187Re to 187Os
These assumptions will be violated in operating catalytic converters that are
functioning as resonant electromagnetic cavities. According to W-L theory of
LENRs, it is quite possible that some or all of following possible LENR nuclear
transmutation pathways could be occurring simultaneously at very low rates
in μ-scale active sites on surfaces inside catalytic converters and in high-heat
industrial processes (e.g. smelting) wherein Hydrogen moieties are present:
Measured 187Os/188Os ratio
could vary greatly on either
macroscopic or microscopic
length-scales depending on
the relative rates for each of
these three different types of
competing nuclear reactions
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C. Chen et al. measure 187Os/188Os in many environments
Qi et al. report great variability at different locations in 3 Chinese cities
“Anthropogenic Osmium in rain
and snow reveals global-scale
atmospheric contamination”
C. Chen et al.
PNAS 106 pp. 7724 - 7728 (2009)
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/19/7724.full.pdf
Fig. 1. “Comparison of the Os
isotope ratios of potential
atmospheric sources with values
measured in precipitation. Dashed
line represents the unradiogenic
endmember estimated from the y-
intercept of the mixing line (Fig. 2).”
Note: range of measured values for
the 187Os/188Os ratio in different
environments and materials begins
at ~ .10 (“unradiogenic”) and
extends up to maximum of 2.0
Ratio values of ~ 1.0 and higher are
considered to be “radiogenic”
Fig. 1 Chen et al. (2009)
187Os/188Os
Red bar shows total range
reported by Qi et al. (2011)
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Poirier & Gariepy measure Osmium isotopes in converters
Recycled catalyst metals: higher ppt Osmium concentration vs. pristine
“Isotopic signature and impact of car catalysts on the
anthropogenic Osmium budget” A. Poirier & C. Gariepy
Environmental Science & Technology 39 pp. 4431 - 4434 (2005)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7697491_Isotopic_Signature_and_Impact_of_Car_Catalysts_on_the_Anthropogenic_Osmium_Budget
Note especially: SRM-2557 is a monolithic catalyst standard prepared and distributed by
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Was made solely from used
recycled catalytic converter materials that were recovered and refined by Inco Ltd.
SRM-2557
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Poirier & Gariepy measure Osmium isotopes in converters
SRM-2557 recycled catalyst metals had higher concentration of Osmium
Was unexpected result caused by “contamination” or by LENR production of Os?
“We present the first direct Os concentrations and isotopic measurements
of catalytic converters for major automobile brands to test the
assumption that car catalysts release Os with a distinct signature in the
environment. The analysis of four new catalytic converters yields similar
low 187Os/188Os ratios (0.1 - 0.2), suggesting a similar source for the PGM.
The Os concentrations measured are in the ppt range (6 - 228 ppt).”
Poirier & Gariepy’s (2005) measured 187Os/188Os ratios in four new
(unused pristine) catalytic converters, obtaining values of 0.16 - 0.19;
their numbers are later cited by Chen et al. (2007). Poirier & Gariepy
(2005) further state that, “We show that Os loss from catalysts as volatile
OsO4 [b.p. = 105 oC] is important at car catalyst operating temperatures.”
They then go on to make a very important statement, “The NIST car
catalyst standard (SRM-2557, made from recycled used catalysts) yields
higher concentrations (up to 721 ppt Os) and a more radiogenic isotopic
composition (approximately 0.38), perhaps indicative of Os contamination
during its preparation.” Maybe it wasn’t contamination. Perhaps LENRs?
In catalytic converters any Osmium exposed O2 will produce volatile OsO4 b.p. 105 oC
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Extraordinary Os isotopic variability in catalytic converters
Very difficult to explain magnitude of variation with chemical fractionation
Fig. 4 from Qi et al. (2011)
Os conc. vs. Pt conc. and
Os conc. vs. 187Os/188Os ratio
In three Chinese cities, per Qi et al. (2011) value of
187Os/188Os isotope ratio ranges from 0.23 up to 1.23
which spans over 50% of entire global range of such
variability as reported in Fig. 1 of Chen et al. (2009).
Observed values of the 187Os/188Os ratio thus vary by
factor of ~5x (500%) across three cities; within one
city (Shenzhen) the range is ~400%. Stable isotopic
variation is normally expressed in per mil δ notation,
which means parts-per-thousand shifts in isotopes
Os isotope ratios observed to change by huge 4x - 5x
over distances on the order of miles; this magnitude
would not be expected from chemical fractionation,
even though phase change from Os metal to OsO4 gas
Poirier & Gariepy (2005) reported NIST car catalyst
standard (SRM-2557, made solely from recycled used
catalysts) yielded higher Os concentrations (up to 721
ppt) and more radiogenic isotopic composition (~0.38)
compared to using pristine virgin catalyst metals.
Since chemical processes cannot explain this result
they attributed excess Osmium seen to contamination.
However, it could be explained by Os production from
other elements via LENRs during converter operation
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Peer-reviewed experimental data
cited herein strongly suggests that
LENRs are occurring during catalytic
converter operation. However, all this
evidence is not yet totally conclusive.
Lattice has therefore designed well-
controlled laboratory experiments
using catalytic converters that should
help provide definitive answers
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Experiments with catalytic converters to analyze for LENRs
Design experiments to measure elements/isotopes in inputs and outputs
Tight control of parameters and closure on mass balances should provide answer
1. Begin with a brand new (unused) computer-controlled, gasoline-powered automobile
engine with certified Gold-free spark plugs, chassis, drive train, wheels, and tires (no
body) on a test bed where it can be run and varying loads put on the engine as if it were
actually being driven on the highway
2. Altogether, treat engine, exhaust system, and catalytic converter as if they were a
closed system. It has measurable inputs that can be isotopically characterized and
sampled: air (gaseous), gasoline (liquid), and lubricants (liquid). Measured outputs that
will be analyzed are whatever elements/isotopes may be present in catalytic converter
in solid form at the beginning and end of an experiment, as well as whatever gaseous
and particulate matter is emitted and periodically sampled beyond the exhaust pipe
3. Specially construct two types of otherwise identical three-way catalytic converters
(TWCs) containing customary commercial amounts and ratios of Pd, Pt, and Rh and
washcoat: (a) standard honeycomb ceramic ‘monolith’ support structure; and (b)
stainless steel honeycomb support structure (there will be a total of four TWCs)
4. When preparing washcoat with its Pd, Pt, and Rh particles, make certain that all
catalyst metals used are 99+ % pure and certified ‘virgin’; i.e., they have come directly
from a miner/refiner, e.g., Johnson-Matthey, Tanaka Metals, and have never previously
been recycled or used in catalytic converters or other industrial processes (we now
have 2 ceramic TWCs and 2 stainless steel; one of each will be set aside as a control)
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Experiments with catalytic converters to analyze for LENRs
Design experiments to measure elements/isotopes in inputs and outputs
Tight control of parameters and closure on mass balances should provide answer
5. Exhaustively characterize all elements/isotopes present inside catalytic converters
at the beginning of a experiment with whatever mass spectroscopy techniques are
needed to accomplish that goal. If possible, purchase one lot of fuel and lubricants
that will be enough for all of the experiments and characterize them prior to starting
6. With whatever mass spectroscopy techniques are needed, exhaustively analyze
periodic samples of input air and exhaust emissions (gaseous and particulate) to
characterize all elements/isotopes present to whatever degree is technologically
feasible; idea here is to be able to see whether elements are created or disappeared
and to be able to measure isotopic shifts that may have occurred in stable elements
7. Run each of two experiments for total of 5,000 engine operating hours. At the very
end of each experiment, remove the TWC, tear it apart, and exhaustively analyze the
elements/isotopes in it to whatever degree is technologically possible. It would be
highly desirable to also be able to use a Cameca nanoSIMS 50 to perform before-
and-after mass spectroscopy measurements on small nanoparticulate samples
collected from inner working surfaces of catalytic converters during experiments
8. If measurements with effectively closed mass balances demonstrate that elements
not initially present in significant quantities at beginning of converter operation are
detected at the conclusion of experiments, and/or are accompanied by very large
isotopic shifts, it would be direct, indisputable evidence for LENR transmutations
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Partnering on commercialization and consulting on certain subjects
Working with Lattice
Commercializing a next-generation source of green CO2-free nuclear energy
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 fee-based consulting. This
separate work covers subjects such as: micron-scale, many-body collective
quantum effects in condensed matter; Lithium-ion battery safety engineering
issues including minimizing risks for occurrence of thermal runaways; and
development of ultra-high-temperature superconductors. Additional areas
of expertise include: long-term strategic implications of LENRs for high cap-
ex long term investments in power generation technology; energy storage
technologies; and LENR impact on vehicle exhaust emissions. Will consult on
these subjects as long as it does not involve disclosing Lattice proprietary
engineering details relating to developing LENR power generation systems
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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Publications about the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs
Index provides comprehensive guide to available online information
“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 (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
“Index to key concepts and documents” all hyperlinks in document are ‘live’
v. #21 updated and revised through Sept. 7, 2015
L. Larsen, Lattice Energy LLC, May 28, 2013 [133 slides] download is enabled
http://www.slideshare.net/lewisglarsen/lattice-energy-llc-hyperlinked-index-to-
documents-re-widomlarsen-theory-and-lenrs-september-7-2015
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Steven Krivit’s new book about LENRs “Hacking the Atom”
“Hacking the Atom”
“Explorations in nuclear research” (Volume 1)
Steven B. Krivit
Michael J. Ravnitzky, ed.
Cynthia Goldstein, ed.
Mat Nieuwenhoven, ed.
Pacific Oaks Press, San Rafael, CA
September 1, 2016 (484 pages)
Sold now on Amazon.com
Paperback US$16.00; hardcover US$48.00
Electronic versions to follow shortly
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996886451
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