https://e-catworld.com/2020/06/05/lattice-confinement-fusion-nasa-announces-t...https://e-catworld.com/2020/06/27/rossi-and-team-increasing-the-energy-densit...We got two things going on that may be the same thing as seen from different perspectives.
Rossi is working on a SKL that has better "density" (more energy per volume) and NASA is floating patents on a nickel matrix device that has waste radioactives in it and deuterium gas as its host gas. The NASA device is intended for unmanned long distance missions and it intentionally runs on up in the "active emissions" range of LENR outputs.
Yes, that means radioactive radiation is produced .......
With this radiation trade off, you can use radioactive waste breakdown to give you a lot of extra power and much greater durability of the fuel charge. Your satellite has no meat animals on it to be harmed by the hot nature of the device,this hot nature is similar to the large amounts of very expensive transuranics that have been used for decades now in long term exploratory satellites. The large amount of hot nasty stuff in the old satellites or the smaller amount in the new ones still means that you still have to intentionally crash the satellite into the ocean where it is nice and deep (if they are going be allowed to fall back to earth at all) ....... or you intentionally let them wander off into deep space forever.
This shows that the earlier NASA research efforts to use LENR to transmute/recover radioactive wastes have indeed yielded some mixes that have significant power outputs compared to the 100% clean stuff that Rossi is pushing with his E-Cats.
It also indicates that a deep understanding of Rossi's stuff exists apart from Rossi.In both cases, Rossi has been apparently doing some "occasional" work for a paying customer along the way .......
NASA put up the patents for the devices on line for several days, then took them down for security reasons. Being the internet, they were all cached several times while they were active and that info is still available as links in the web sites listed above.
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Rossi now sees the SK (heat only) units becoming "over taken" shortly by the SKL units. Since none of the above are being sold yet, it is all a moot point right now.
The theory of LENR is getting more complex and more "mature" as more directed basic research is done. We are understanding "right and left hand rotation particle change" better and that leads to understanding "transformation of elements" better.
It no longer takes a supernova to make up transuranic elements any longer, they can slide together without all that BIG BANG that was presumed necessary by earlier scientists.
Exotic Vacuum Objects are still only partially understood, but small ones can reliably exist when powered by a 9 volt battery ....... that is significant potential progress in power generation.
And yes, some of the power seen is coming from the vacuum. While we certainly don't understand the multi-dimensional aspects of LENR yet but we are advanced enough to entertain these "energy from the vacuum" sort of ideas once it is realized that LENR is not any form of fusion a la any of the types of hydrogen bomb fusion that we know about .......
Instead LENR is some form of energy generated during transformation of particles but the full element transformations that may result from "adding in" the particle transformations that result in extra neutrons, protons and electrons are not 1) seen as necessarily "beneficial" nor are they 2) the source of the energy or the organized electron flows produced by SKL units.
Rossi now thinks Bohm's thoughts hit closest to the mark at this particular point in space/time (pun is intentional).