Saturday, April 28, 2012

LENR and DESTINY.

“In retrospect, all surprises are causal”

This is a very wise statement, I created it for a presentation of the influential book “Black Swan” and I understand it only, say, 85%.
At my age it is not surprising that
- I am not more shocked by surprises;
- I well know that surprises are vital for both victory and creativity; humor is a pleasant form of surprise;
- I have accepted that a form of Pareto’s Law governs surprises, 80% of them are bad and 20% neutral or good;
- Surprises have a splendid mathematical theory by Itti and Baldi, see: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608009003256
- In essence surprises happen only when Nature acts faster than we can think; therefore Scouts and good researchers are instructed to practice anticipative thinking, to be prepared.

The tortuous ways of our scientific field - see again my “Metaphor history of LENR” - were full with surprises, more negative than Pareto predicts. However, a rather rational geography of LENR was developed and symposia, including ICCF’s were organized mainly by the greatest contributors.
The great surprise is that the dream of technology oriented LENR-ists like me, will become reality first in Greece a country absent from the LENR world map a year ago.
Geography is destiny- in retrospect this can be easily explained. Greece is a country of genius, the cradle of the European civilization. The ancient Greeks had perhaps the last friendly religion; their Gods were hybridizable with humans of both sexes (and even more) and were not completely immune to a bit of corruption. Greece was a place where surprising inventions were made, please see e.g.:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2011/08/scientific-values-of-professor.html
It is regrettable that that the ancient Greeks have not used the opportunity to generalize their findings, to formulate the Scientific Method and to build a world based on technology. After a world of light the Dark Ages came and who knows when will they end completely?!
Thanks to Goddess Athena- at least technology is again free and flourishing. The descendants of the ancient Greeks had plenty of time, more than 2500 years to be excellent technologists and engineers- and Fast Company Defkalion Green Technologies has surprised us all. A very pleasant surprise, reading about their techno-deeds converts chronos in kairos.


An other subject, age is destiny too and determines what I can do. Allow me please to use recent or future events for exemplifications.

Athanor is a sensationally interesting laboratory device see: http://22passi.blogspot.com/2012/04/spazio-riservato-ai-test-dellathanor.html I would be so happy to make this test myself too
and enjoy judging the results.
However, unfortunately, I am 74 years old and not 14and I have no personal lab, I am sitting many hours per day at my PC- Athanor has to prove what it can do without me. Sorry!

Today, journalist Ruby Carat has published : http://coldfusionnow.org/?p=16981- it is about a cross-US tour. She has met i.a. with Andrea Rossi and the inventor has not disclosed the location of his robotized E-cat factory. A group of
Rossi fans have decided to organize an expedition to a suspect area of Everglades- something like a robotized E-cat factory was seen from a helicopter there. One of them has invited me to join – “You will publish the photos on you blog” he said.
However, unfortunately, I am 74 years old and not 24.from a distance greater than 2 meters I am not able to distinguish
an E-cat from an alligator or a panther, so it’s too risky for me.
Next time (next life)!

I am really enchanted with the list of jobs published by Defkalion Green Technologies see: http://www.defkalion-energy.com/jobs
The very first position was created just for me, however I have some serious doubts that I will survive the relocation and will be able to work in the style of the DGT people, i.e. day and night
However, unfortunately I am 74 years old and not 34, and 40 years makes a great difference. Not in my favor!

OK, it is a great list; any position at DGT would be OK if it has
do with chemistry or materials science, I can forget that “Aquila
non capit muscam”, I will even accept a young man telling me what I have to do
However, unfortunately I am 74 years old and not 44 no chance!

Some rich people here –but not sufficiently rich to make serious investments, smart but no so smart to understand a complex situation, honest but not very that I could trust them, have called me, said that they have read about Rossi and DGT and want to pay me for developing a similar device in maximum 6 months.
However, unfortunately I am 74 years old and not 54We met and they were amazed that I so old and still breathing. They paid me a cheap warm beer and… addio vecchio!

ICCF-17 is coming, it is in a very fine place, I want to meet my many old friends, I want to speak about my poisoning theory, I hope to meet brand new friends and see at lease one breakthrough in action, a demo!
However, unfortunately I am 74 years old and not 64So Judith says me, please sit home old man, it is difficult and costly to recover you dead or ~alive from so far!

It is one of my favorite clichés to say that somebody has “a holistic and holographic vision” of his profession, specialty
whatever. For LENR, such a superior vision really needed to understand the basic difference between the old processes that give fractions of watts or only a few watts of heat excess and the new ones that give kilowatts. Nobody understands the New Paradigm.
However very fortunately I am 74 years old and not 14, 24, 34, 44, 54 or 64- I have climbed the shaking learning curve for more than 23 years, have lived vividly small victories and painful failures and I understand perfectly this difference.
Because this writing is much too long I will tell you the answer in very few words.
The old systems work with active sites, the new ones work with hyper-active sites.
Peter

PS I am writing a new issue of QUI CITO and the Internet wants to help me with this essay; it sends for encouragement this:
Maintain Your Brain: The Secrets to Aging Success: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120427163335.htm
The Internet likes me and I like the Internet.

10 comments:

  1. You seem confident that DGE has succeeded. I filled in a request for employment. I am not 74 yet

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  2. Yes, it is true I can bet they will go on the market
    this summer.By the way they are DGT(echnologies) not
    E(nergies)
    I envy you that you are young but I have very bad news for you- it is a temporary state- I also was young once. I wish you success with the job.

    Peter

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  3. Peter, consider that if you live to be One Hundred years old,(or more), you will look back at yourself as you are today and think of them as your younger years!

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    1. Dear Nixter,

      Thanks, you are really nice. However at 101
      years and beyond I want to study botanics,
      my passion in childhood.The flowers smell the
      best from the part of the roots.
      Peter

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  4. I enjoyed this, Peter. Thank you.

    My father is also 74, he does not have a clue whats going on. Few do.
    But yes, the new sun will arrive from Greece this summer. That i can promise you.

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    1. Dear Anonynous,

      Should it remain entre nous, 74 is not so much
      it comes so fast!
      Sunrise and sunset can be both wonderful and glorious.

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  5. Peter,
    Thank you for these interesting comments. I very much hope that you are correct about DGT. I look forward to reading more about this from you as things progress. One question I have is about Athanor. Do you have any comments on the suggestion that the excess power might be accounted for by Ti oxidation?

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    1. I am right about DGT, you will see.
      Re Athanor- I have already confessed it
      has my vivid sympathy but I will not
      analyse prior to getting experimental
      data - detailed ones. Repetitive ones.

      I am applying in many cases the following
      simple method: say this is a complete 100%
      success (to be defined for all cases), Ok,
      what comes then? General problem- electrolysis
      LENR experiment works well, how to go further to
      scale-up, intensification, application, engineering.

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  6. A very well written post, Peter.

    As always i have enjoyed it. Thanks!

    I remember that my grandfather used to say the same about how quickly life passes. That is life ...

    Anyway you should be happy to be your age and still have a mind as clear as you have.

    I really hope that you are right about DGT and in general the LENR field as a whole, for the future of the Human Race. We need this so much... I guess you have reasons for being so optimistic. You may know something you can not tell openly at this time. Is this true?

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    1. I am grateful for your nice words. I will
      try to deserve them in the future.
      Exactly as there are FAQ-Frequently Asked Questions
      re a subject, many times you can make a list of
      Obviously Unanswerable Questions.
      I don't expect(as I have explained on an Italian Forum)
      an answer from DGT about their ingredient like:
      "Rossi uses Cabbage Sulphate but we have found that Broccoli Nitrate is much better."
      Anyway, I am not speculating and I take responsibility for my statements

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