On December 2 in Rome, Italy, a LENR conference was held successfully. Dubbed as Coherence 2011, the said conference provided ten important presentations surrounding the (still) controversial technology.
Two reports from the conference were provided by Daniele Passerini on his blog. With all the interesting debates during the conference, the LENR world made a strong year end statement for all the skeptics and among others, pushed the ECat technology even further as a future new energy solution.
Among the presentations, Passerini reports that the one of Italian physicist Francesco Celani was quite interesting. He said that Celani has been working on an experiment with cells and his own LENR project has been operating at 200% excess heat range. It is believed that Celani has been working with Japanese researcher Yoshiaki Arata to develop his device.
Arata made a public demonstration of his cold fusion work in 2008 that gave many scientists the inspiration to continue with their work, including Andrea Rossi and Brian Ahern.
This is very important news for the e-cat world, as it strengthens the credibility and huge potential of the technology.
The reports provided a lot of significant and relevant information about e-cat. The big question is if it is enough to break the heavy skepticism from the scientific community.
Plenty of details about the Coherence conference, plus various presentations are available on the 22Passi blog, but only people who understand Italian well could help us understand the information better, since the texts are mostly written in Italian and Google translate is quite messy. So, if your Italian is not as rusty as ours, we’d appreciate if you could provide more insight into the discussions.
There are many other questions that we need to ask ourselves, before we jump into a conclusion: Will this new information on LENR help the development of Rossi’s e-cat? Will it increase the number of people who believe in the legitimacy of this technology? Finally, how will this conference affect the credibility of cold fusion?
Nicola
December 20, 2011
i can translate from italian better that g translate — i hope so nevertheless. The Celani experiment is really really interesting. He talks about phonon and other interesting phenomenas
Admin
December 21, 2011
Please do share most important highlights of the presentation.
Nicola
December 21, 2011
2 / 3. Contribution by Giancarlo
Rome, 2011 Coherence – Intervention F. Celani (GPT photos) According to Celani the reaction between Ni and H would be catalyzed by ” PHONONS “.
The phonons are not particles but points where thermal-electromagnetic waves in phase contacts themself, waves produced by thermal agitation in
the lattice of nickel. These are points of “summation” of multiple heat waves produced by a variety of nickel atoms that vibrate at the same frequency … these frequencies would provide to hydrogen (as HYDRIDES?) the ability to overcome the Coulomb barrier and make the merger of its proton to the core of nickel (as I understand it). [Editor's note. I'm asking Celani verification of this and other points of his speech]
The power density is very high, and in some of his reactions Celani has
exceeded 1400 watts per gram of nickel, which is higher than that of
uranium fission in the “cladding” Zirconium. Although Celani doesn’t want to talk about “technological reality”, as it has not exceeded 200% yield for two weeks.
Celani has worked very hard with the Japanese scientist Arata.
The Japanese government has funded plenty not only for the research of Arata but
also those of three foreign groups who have had full access to the
laboratory by Arata.
Celani was able to perform various types of experiment and measurement, even the “craziest”.
Among these groups was that of MIT and INFN (of Celani and …).
Arat worked with the DEUTERIUM … but the import and the production of Deuterium prohibited by the peace agreements had to self-refine it with the sulfur-iodine cycle .
Arata produced an excess power of 60 watts, which is easily measurable. The improvement over Fleishman and Pons was when he abandoned the traditional Arata electrode foil. Not only that, the blades perfectly flat, shiny, does not work well. The laminae were good rather rough, porous, etc..
In short, had to increase the surface area of ??contact between palladium and deuterium.
When he returned to Italy, Celani, modified experiments (together with Preparata) and began to use wires of nickel and hydrogen at high pressure
(eliminating water, oxygen and ‘ Oxonian )
He realized that the power increased by using highly porous nickel. He returned to Japan. There Arata began to experiment with nickel of every size possible. He found that the nickel nanomerico in aggregates of less than 20 Ångström had the best reactions.
Indeed, the reaction took place (although not as powerful) even at room temperature.
As for GAMMA they are an end product of the reaction, not desired by Celani, that you can do without.
By applying radio frequency (microwave) to dust (I did not know whether
that of Smith or his), he had a massive production of gamma rays, which
does not want Celani and does not consider useful.
As the catalyst for him are metals such as platinum or palladium (must
resist the micro-points where the heat reaches thousands of degrees,
ionizing hydrogen)
Celani talks about scientific reality of the PROCESS.
Celani says that the Greeks today have passed Rossi, from the technological point of view. [Editor's note. others believe that Defkalion has put together a nice frame and a beautiful body ... but do not have the "engine"].
He says that this attitude of secrecy is “stupid” [ed.
Celani is understandably affected by 1) not being invited to the
demonstration of 28 October and 2) the negative response to the proposal
of Rossi independent testing under the aegis of INFN], and in the end,
continue along this road will not have the triumph of science and
industrial deserves it. According to Celani, Rossi arrives to yield around 600%
Transletor note: INFN is the acronym of “insituto nazionale fisica nucleare” — “National Institute for Nuclear physics
Admin
December 21, 2011
Thank you, @Nicola