GOING GREEN NOW: A fast fusion fix for climate change
After billion-dollar investment in a far-off fusion future, a cheap cold fusion shortcut has emerged, according to scientists and entrepreneurs
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Green Alert from EraNova Institute:
The latest world-changing energy technology goes public at ICCF-24 Solid-State Energy Summit, which is the 24th International Conference on Cold Fusion. The event takes place July 25–28, 2022, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
Also known as low energy nuclear reactions (LENR), cold fusion is getting a renewed look by scientists around the world.
All interested investors, technologists, and entrepreneurs may register and attend in person or via Zoom, at the ICCF-24 website.
The overall message of the conference is this:
Hot fusion has been getting all the attention (and funding) as a solution to provide unlimited, clean energy for our planet. Investors have poured billions of dollars into hot fusion projects in the last few years.
Yet, to date hot fusion experiments have generated less energy than they consume (a net loss) but the planet is rapidly warming and we don’t know when hot fusion can be practical. However, there just might be a shortcut. Multiple companies and researchers have observed cold fusion devices generating more energy than they put in (a net gain).
The ICCF-24 conference showcases a global array of these cold-fusion research developments and steps toward commercialization.
Felix Kramer, an entrepreneur, strategist, and writer in the field, offers this invitation to attend:
Speakers at the ICCF-24 event include —
- Carl Page, President and Co-founder, Anthropocene Institute.
- Nobuo Tanaka, former Executive Director, International Energy Agency (IEA).
- Huw Price, Distinguished Professor, and Philosopher, University of Cambridge.
- Florian Metzler, Research Scientist, MIT Industrial Performance Center.
- Masami Hayashi, Global Strategy Director, Clean Planet.
- Oliver M Barham, Project Manager, The United States Navy.
- And several others, including those closely working at government agencies.
“ICCF is the premier event for LENR,” says Carl Page, Chair of ICCF-24 and founder of Anthropocene Institute, the event’s organizer. “Our aim is to energize conversations and connections at the frontier of solid-state fusion energy technology.”
Judging from the website, this 24th conference may be special. The science and technology appear less theoretical and more practical than in the past. There seems to be a shift toward commercial prototypes and private investment.
Two commercial examples stand out:
One is Clean Planet of Tokyo, Japan, and the other is Brillouin Energy Corporation of Berkeley, CA. Both are at the forefront of LENR companies raising venture funding and moving toward commercialization.
Clean Planet’s Global Strategy Director, Masami Hayashi, is a scheduled speaker at ICCF-24. She is expected to report on their Quantum Hydrogen Energy technology, which is being developed for boilers.
Most of Brillouin’s team will be attending ICCF-24. That includes Robert Godes, Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer; Robert George; Chief Executive Officer; David Firshein, Chief Financial Officer; and several others.
“Brillouin is likely to be the only company at the event with a demo that is actually generating controlled LENR heat,” says Firshein.
“Brillouin’s newest generation Hydrogen Hot Tube™ (HHT™) demo is much more mature than our research demos of the past,” says its CFO David Firshein. “No longer a lab experiment, this is now an early stage, transportable production unit that is being prepared for technology licensing.”
The demo will also be open-ended and interactive. “Everyone may stop by and see us running our HHT and ask questions,” Firshein says. “We’ll be in a room where a number of our team members, including myself, will address the audience flow.” Remote attendance via Zoom is also available as an alternative choice on the ICCF website.
Brillouin may be the only entity publicly revealing a commercial-scale energy generation device at ICCF-24.
“Government agencies or related commercial partners are closely following our progress,” says Godes, “as well as private organizations focusing on commercial heat generation, hydronic heating, electric power, desalination of seawater, and other uses that apply to broad commercial markets.”
Science from NASA:
Larry Forsley, a senior experimental physicist with NASA, a research fellow at the University of Texas, and CTO of Global Energy Corporation, has greatly driven public discussions on cold fusion with multiple publications and media interviews. Calling this technology lattice confined fusion or LCF, the excess power comes by hydrogen fuel that is bound in a metal lattice. His team is charged with finding a source of energy for long distance space travel.
Forsley says LCF “has the potential to produce a CO2 and methane free energy source that is compact and safe. It has applications from the small-scale from charging laptop and cell phones, all the way to powering homes, cars, and possibly electric aircraft.”
Who’s the commercial leader?
It’s up for grabs. Brillouin, however, appears to be the only company in the field that has perfected a 100% reliable control system for turning the power on, up, down, and off — with advanced plans for a scalable manufacturing process.
A July 21 announcement:
Video on Brillouin Energy:
Regardless of which company implements the first commercial installation, it will be a turning point for the whole industry, which may then take off.
It probably won’t be winner takes all, though. The leading players offer variations of the technology and special ways of approaching the total addressable markets, which far exceed $1 trillion per year and impact many other industrial process and commercial product markets. There’s room for multiple leaders plus hundreds of suppliers, service companies, specialists, and licensees.
The key is for one developer to break the ice. Right now that looks like Brillouin, because their technical developments are significant.
According to Firshein, this is perfectly analogous to the early days of heavier-than-air flight. “Even many months after the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, there were prominent skeptics who still didn’t believe that the aircraft were actually flying.”
“Despite that skepticism, the earliest investors and adopters were the ones who really benefited. This is the same case with Brillouin’s control system mechanisms and its accumulated scientific evidence of controlled LENR heat production. It’s really clear where this is headed, commercially speaking.”
Interested investors, technologists, and entrepreneurs may register and attend in person or via Zoom, at the ICCF-24 website. To get an exclusive 25% registration discount (thanks to EraNova Institute), use promo code ENERGY25.
See this article for more about cold fusion:
Green investors and innovators, take note!
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