Things change, that can be both excellent (e.g. when it is about progress (it is pleonastic to say “technological progress”; do you know other kind of real progress?) and a catastrophe e.g. when you realize that aging is not reversible. This time it is a change that simply makes me a bit sad.

My intention was to tell you about “reverse motivation” You are going to work in an awfully difficult field of research, I cannot convince you it will be fine and glory is waiting for you. On the contrary, just because it will be so bas, you who are special, a great personality in becoming, you will insist to work for LENR.

Please discover yourself reverse motivation. The best tools to explain this are the demotivational posters from http://www.despair.com [www.despair.com] really good managerial black humor and this site which I have used and admired for more than 10 years needs subscription now. I hope you will manage to do it.

I wanted to ask you, young colleague, to read first of all, the two most recent writings at this Blog. I am complaining about the past, but Axil shows the way to the future, your way.

I am also sending you three lists all coming from the fine Cultural Offering Blog to which I have subscribed with enthusiasm- it is really cultural in the best sense of this word. The author/owner Kurt Harden was so generous that he included Ego Out to the list of “25 Blogs Guaranteed to Make You Smarter” and I am reading the other 24 as much as I can. (I almost hear a whisper: “Alzheimer retardant, does it work?”

I advice you to discover the author of this writings, Nicholas Bate. The word excellent was created for him too.

Be bold 101: 

http://culturaloffering.com/files/93688-86434/Be_Bold_101_Poster.pdf [culturaloffering.com]

You need to be VERY bold!

Professionalism 101:

http://culturaloffering.com/files/93688-86434/Professionalism_101_Poster.pdf [culturaloffering.com]

Good professionals are the real noblemen of meritocracy!

The architects of progress.

Get Lucky:

http://culturaloffering.com/files/93688-86434/Get_Lucky_Poster.pdf [culturaloffering.com]

You will need plenty of luck too! Do you know it?

But I offer you a somewhat smaller supplement, too, in the spirit of reverse motivation:

http://www.execupundit.com/2013/03/51-ways-to-fail.html#links [www.execupundit.com]

It is a good initiative to discuss this vital problem of LENR here.

I also have analyzed it on my blog Ego Out and I invite the readers of BuildThe Entreprise to visit my blog or write me.

In my opinion:

a) the problem of bad reproducibility has to be judged in association with 2 other issues

weakness of the heat release and its short duration;

b) it is a "wicked problem" (see Wikipedia) even intractable if a high, say over 95% success rate is the target;

c) for the cradle system of Cold Fusion the Fleischmann Pons Cell the uncontrolled

and uncontrollable blockage of the active sites (a.k.a NAE) by gaseous molecules that are not deuterium coming from the ubiquitous air is the main cause of the bad function; add to this the low density of these active sites (valid for the systems with preformed smart and even smarter nano-structures)

d) essential- the situation has to be considered as absolutely intolerable. it is not a problem we can live with, a solution as to be found.

And it was found and is now developed on the principle that desperate diseases need desperate remedies, here desperate means radical. It is about the change of the mechanism by which the active sites are formed. The new systems imply the continuous formation of active sites in situ- a good equilibrium between the natality, activity and mortality of active sites. LENR+ adds a new dimension- time to the classic LENR systems.

See please the LENR+ Manifesto a sketch of this issue:

LENR+ Manifesto and Plan. (sketch)

1.  Situation: The field has PROBLEMS

2.  Cause:  It appeared too EARLY

   

3. Difficulty: Extreme COMPLEXITY

4. Solution: TECHNOLOGY first!

- No PURE SCIENCE!

- SCIENTIFIC METHOD not applicable.

- HYBRID METHOD necessary

5. No INNER SOLUTION found

-  Usual SYSTEMS hopeless

-  To destroy MYTHS, MEMES!

-  Radical PARADIGM shift.

6 OUTER SOLUTIONS emerging: LENR+

7 Task: to differentiate LENR/LENR+!

- LENR is discovery, LENR+ is invention,

- LENR and LENR+ have different mechanisms;

- LENR+ based on enhanced excess heat,

- LENR+ dynamic system of multi-stage processes;

- LENR+ is based on nuclear interactions, not reactions,

- LENR+ needs a productive meta-theory

8. Task: define, describe LENR+ mechanism;

to make hydrogen reactive and metal receptive

Polariton, Nanoplasmonics, Resonances -BEC, sequences…

Trans-theory in statu-nascendi

9. Task LENR+ R&D by HOLISTIC approach

- optimization performances/control, scale up, diversification

The solution is in development and the reproducibility problem will disappear as a bad dream.

Peter