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Replication Proposal

Outline of process to get widespread Celani experiment replications

Martin Fleischman Memorial Project

www.Quantum Heat.org

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Overview

The "Celani Cell" seems to be the most understandable and replicable LENR demonstration to date.

Our Goal is to validate the science of LENR and promote widespread, standardized, replications around the world.

The steps towards that end are:

  • Step 1: Build Apparatus (In Progress)
  • Step 2: Initial Calibration (In Progress)
  • Step 3: Initial Replication (In Conjunction with Celani)
  • Step 4: Facilitate Widespread Replication Effort
    • Start with key research institutions around the world
    • Then, offer replication kits to the world

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Intro

Getting this effect validated is extremely timely

  • Rossi has raised a lot of interest and hope
  • Rossi still has not done anything to conclusively demonstrate he can create the effect, leaving the skeptics strong
  • If Rossi, Defkalion are revealed to be scams, then the whole field could be shut down again.
  • At this moment there is a lot of interest and a better network to tap into than ever before to help get this started.

We need to seize the opportunity to get this effect proven to the world.

To help make it irrefutable, the experiment, the procedures and the organization must all be as transparent and understandable as possible

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Team (1)

Bob Greenyer

British, 39 years old

Managing Director of GreenChild Imaging Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Bachelor of Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering (Brunel University, London, UK)

Bob is a serial entrepreneur and ideas man. He principally spends his time in work and play between the UK, Czech Republic and Southern India.

He has worked in the pharmaceuticals, advertising, adult education and finance industries working with several well known blue chip companies along the way. His roles have ranged from product and application design and delivery to corporate image and branding.

He is deeply interested in science and technology that has the ability to make the world better and more fun.

Mathieu Valat

French, 30 Years old

M.Sc. Physics (Portland State University OR, USA)

Master in Engineering (ITII PACA Aix-en-Provence, France)

Mathieu is a philanthropic and selfless engineer and scientist.

He has worked in the field of energy since the beginning of his college studies and is still eager to work on new energy systems.

Working on projects like the conception of a 5 MW windmill prehensile device to seismic strengthening of nuclear test reactors, his professional experience has covered specific startup-like enterprises as well as large scale projects.

He has been involved in the field of Cold Fusion since 2008 and has to date focused his work on elemental analysis and the characterization of hot spots. He collaborates with some key people in this field of study.

Mat likes to put his hands into everything, from welding to mass spectrometry and quantum mechanics, his knowledge covers a wide range of concepts. He leverages this knowledge base to understand the complexities underlying new phenomena.

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Team (2)

Nicolas Chauvin

Swiss & French, 38 years old

CEO of LENR Cars Sàrl

M.Sc. Micro-engineering & Robotics (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Master in Management (HEC-UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Nicolas is an inventor, entrepreneur, engineer and businessman, co-founder of two other startups before LENR Cars (2C3D SA, AmmA Interactive SA).

Nicolas previously worked for highly reputed organizations and companies such as NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, Nestlé and Logitech.

Thanks to strong engineering skills in mechanics, analog and digital electronics, firmware and software programming, optics as well as good understanding of quantum physics, electrochemistry and material science, Nicolas is highly involved in assessing and promoting new technologies across many different fields of engineering. Nicolas is inventor of a dozen patents ranging from cancer detection and computer assisted surgery to computer mouse sensors and LENR powered vehicles.

Ryan Hunt

American, 36 years old

R&D Manager at Hunt Utilities Group

Bachelors in Chemistry and Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Ryan manages a multi-disciplinary engineering and entrepreneurial team working on high performance buildings, combining ancient building technologies with modern engineering, energy conservation, solar heating, and geothermal coupling. Located on the Hunt Utilities Group (HUG) Resilient Living Research Campus in Pine River, Minnesota, the team has a proven history of turning arcane technical concepts into successful businesses. In 2005, he helped found, engineer, and start up a small biodiesel plant using waste cooking oil feedstock.

For the last year and a half Ryan and team have pursued LENR research, performing experiments, and developing related skills and an instrumentation system.

Ryan is also a long time board member of Happy Dancing Turtle, a nonprofit organization working for Food and Water Security, Energy Conservation, and Ecological Stewardship.

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Team (3)

Tyler van Houwelingen

American, 40 years old

BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Michigan)

International MBA (IESE graduate school of management in Barcelona, Spain)

Tyler is the founder, Chairman and former CEO of Azulstar, Inc and the creator of LENRweb.com.

Tyler is a pioneer and regular speaker on high technology with a focus on wireless broadband technology and LENR/Cold Fusion.

Tyler founded Azustar in 2003 in Grand Haven, Michigan as a privately held provider of wireless broadband Internet and communications services. Leveraging its own, all-IP 4G/5G wireless network, AzulStar delivers unprecedented levels of broadband performance and reliability. AzulStar has pioneered the market for wireless broadband access and has won awards for the company’s innovation and service quality. Tyler successfully grew the firm to over 15 employees and $2m annual revenue, partnering with strategic private Institutional investors.

Prior to founding Azulstar, Tyler was a senior technology consultant with McKinsey and Company in Madrid, Spain.

Tyler advised the CEO and executive staff of Spain’s largest telecom Group, leading the strategy for interactive TV (iTV) and assisting with the European expansion of their DSL carrier.

Tyler also served in the McKinsey business accelerator, working as the Director of Marketing and Web Design for the successful creation of an online Spanish financial services firm. Tyler led a team of 40 persons through the development and launch of the interactive website as well as TV, print, on-line and PR media campaigns.

Tyler previously served with Intel Corporation in Santa Clara California, working as an applications and technical sales engineer. Tyler obtained a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an international MBA from the IESE graduate school of management in Barcelona, Spain.

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Step 1: Build Apparatus

Must be clearly understandable

Like Francesco Celani's original, this apparatus must be easily understood and open to scrutiny at all levels

  • Clear quartz tube for visual inspection
  • Easily traced wires and connections
  • Openly publish the engineering drawings
  • Hunt Utilities Group is even willing to provide a power supply, instrumentation package and release the hardware and software to the public domain as an open source project

Must be safe

  • Well engineered to handle a rated pressure and temperature
    • Design goal of 7 Bar, 300°C with appropriate safety factors
  • Include a safety shield - 4.75 mm clear polycarbonate
  • Pressure and temperature cycle each unit to ensure it meets design spec
  • Include Gamma-Scout Geiger-Müller counter connected to a computer to monitor and log alpha, beta and gamma radiations:

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Design and Prototype - Cell

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Design and Prototype - Safety Shield

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Design and Prototype - Instrumentation Package

  • Still a first prototype, please excuse the roughness
  • Engineered for maximum clarity on wiring and connections.
  • Switches for power out to each element wire
  • Computer controlled power option
  • Will ship with a laptop pre-configured for data collection and uploading to global data site

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Step 2: Initial Calibration

Make 2 copies of initial apparatus

  • Send one to team members in Europe - Nicolas and Mathieu
  • Keep one at Hunt Utilities Group - Resilient Living Research Campus

Characterize thermally

  • Load with standard NiChrome wire
  • Perform initial power vs equilibrium temperature calibrations
    • Various pressures of Argon and Hydrogen gas
  • Take thermal camera images of the glass surface to estimate validity of thermal radiation heat estimate

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Initial Calibration: In Process

Initial commissioning and calibration of first prototype is in process

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Step 3: Initial Replication

Critical goals:

  • Conclusively prove to us that the effect is replicable with different samples of wire and attainable in our apparatus
  • Develop a specific written procedure for other investigators to use in order to exactly replicate the experiment and findings
  • Test the procedure in near real time via video connection and near simultaneous replication by Ryan in USA

Procedure:

  • Arrange to ship length of Celani Wire to Ryan in USA
  • Nicolas and Mathieu bring apparatus to Celani
  • Keep a video conference connection open to Ryan & Bob
  • Possibly verify calibration of power vs temperature
  • Replace one NiChrome wire with Celani's wire
  • Load with Hydrogen
  • ...record procedure

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Step 4: Facilitate Massive Replication Effort

Goal: Orchestrate a large number of exact experimental replications that unambiguously show excess heat.

  • Survey all ICCF17 attendees for replication experiment suggestions
  • Raise funds through crowdsourcing website, private donations, etc
  • Announce the replication effort in all forms of media we can
  • Solicit recommended and interested testing institutions

First round of replications - Small, exclusive group, to ideally include respected organisations that have the highest capability for further study and analysis of effect and research post experiment. These will be well documented and publicized, including live broadcast, to raise excitement and credibility, and firmly secure the "Celani Cell" as the defining experiment of the New Fire age.

Second round of replication - Offer many, many "Celani Cells" for sale with appropriate instructions and liability waivers/disclaimers. Continue to document the successful replications in a global replication data repository.

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First Round of Replications

  • Build between 5 and 10 apparati
  • Select 1 or 2 institutions on each continent to perform the replication experiment
  • Require conformance to initial test protocol
  • Ship the apparatus
  • Send a team to assist:
    • Technician/consultant
    • Videographer
    • Interpreter if necessary
  • After the initial replication, the investigating institution is free to experiment on their own, with a commitment to publish data and findings openly.

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Global Data Flow

Data from the experiment will be collected with a pre-set up data acquisition system, synched to a central database, and shared in near real time with the world.

Replication Experiments

World-wide audience

Unified Data Repository

Web interface

For a preview of the web interface,

go to: http://www.hugllc.com/hugnetlab/

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Second Round of Replication

Offer copies of the cell for sale to any party interested in demonstrating the effect or dummy cells to those wanting to have a piece of history. The drawings will already be published, and the instrumentation will already be open source, but many institutions will want to start on this research path with a proven, reliable demonstration of the effect.

Sale of each one will have to be accompanied by a liability waiver.

Use the proceeds to continue promoting the validity of the effect and supporting research.

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How to Help

We need Publicity, Money, and Involvement

  • Spread the word
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  • Donate on the Website
  • Contribute to the Kickstarter Campaign

  • Contribute skills and expertise
  • Discuss the engineering and the science on the forum
  • Watch and help analyze the data as it comes out
  • Buy a kit when they become available and run the experiment in your lab