From the Brilliant Light Power site/News and Updates:

- VALIDATION REPORT of 275 kW BOILER SUNCELL®/(11 Apr)

- SunCell® Plasma TPV Test/(05 Apr)

- SUNCELL® ThermoPhotovoltaic (TPV) Window Tests/(04 Mar)

- Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) Breakthrough/(03 Mar)

- SunCell Power Demonstrations at the Homer Building in Washington DC/(01 Mar)

- 250,000 W OF CONTINUOUS STEAM PRODUCTION BY THE SUNCELL® (01 Mar)

From the NewEnergyTimes: ITER, The Grand Illusion: A Forensic Investigation of Power Claims by Steven Krivit (Watch now on Vimeo or YouTube)

Film Synopsis

Is nuclear fusion a likely solution to climate change? Is fusion a viable alternative to fossil fuels?

For 70 years, fusion scientists have proposed new design concepts, provided computer models, and proclaimed that fusion is the answer.

But where is the experimental evidence that the scientific method demands? And why has energy from nuclear fusion always been 20 years away?

Submitted by Mark Goldes/AESOP Institute (The PDF file was just added to our Downloads section). The file contains the following articles:

- FASTER THAN LIGHT – Transcending Light Speed to Explore the Stars by Mark Goldes (2021)
- Ultra Dense Fusion, A Physics/Energy Magnum Opus by Russ George, (2017)
- Future interstellar rockets may use laser-induced annihilation reactions for relativistic drive by Leif Holmlid & Sindre Zeiner-Gundersen (2020)
- SpacePlanes, SpaceShips, StarShips, Superluminal Physics by Millennium Twain, (2021)
- The Evaporation of Common Sense by Ronald Bourgoin

Via QuantaMagazine.org: How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility

by Philipp Ammon for Quanta Magazine

Chiara Marletto is trying to build a master theory — a set of ideas so fundamental that all other theories would spring from it. Her first step: Invoke the impossible.

Constructor theory grew out of work in quantum information theory. It aims to be broad enough to cover areas that can’t be described in the traditional ways of thinking, such as the physics of life and the physics of information.

They say that in art, constraints lead to creativity. The same seems to be true of the universe. By placing limits on nature, the laws of physics squeeze out reality’s most fantastical creations.

World Lecture Series - Nine-minute Video on the 2020 Teleconference

Dear Colleagues,

From CosmosMagazine.com: History: Einstein’s mathematician/ by Jeff Glorfeld/ Overcame obstacles to become a towering mathematician.

Amalie Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882, in the Bavarian city of Erlangen.

Her father, Max Noether, was called “one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century” by Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill in their book Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe, and she was to follow in his footsteps.

A story in journal Science News on 23 June 2018 carried the headline: “In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics”...

From  UofCambridge-Research: UK particle physicists have today announced ‘intriguing’ results that potentially cannot be explained by the current laws of nature.

Results from the LHCb Collaboration at CERN suggests particles are not behaving the way they should according to the guiding theory of particle physics – suggesting gaps in our understanding of the Universe.

Physicists from the Universities of Cambridge, Bristol, and Imperial College London led the analysis of the data to produce this result, with funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The result - which has not yet been peer-reviewed - was announced today at the Moriond Electroweak Physics conference and published as a preprint.

Scientists were baffled (and still are). The generator never made it into production. Had it done so, we might not be confronting a climate emergency.

A contemporary inventor in Russia (and his partner) have discovered how the Hubbard generator functioned. They are developing a contemporary version.

Once in production, a 5 kW model is expected to occupy a volume of one cubic foot. It will be an inexpensive 24/7 replacement for rooftop photovoltaics.

Via BBC.com/News: UK to launch 'high risk' science agency /by Tom Espiner

The UK is to launch a "high-risk" science agency to look for ground-breaking discoveries.

The agency, Aria, will be run along the lines of US equivalents that were instrumental in the creation of the internet and GPS.

Aria, which has £800m funding over four years, will have a "higher tolerance for failure than is normal", the government said.

Labour said the government needed to clarify what the agency would do.

The new body - the Advanced Research & Invention Agency (Aria) - would fund "high-risk, high-reward" scientific research, the government said.

    5. NJ FIrst Offshore Wind Farm to be Powered by the Biggest Turbines

Greetings!
 
As we move into the New Year, our economy is still struggling and in the personal transportation sector, global sales of passenger vehicles fell by 20% but 2020 sales of electric vehicles (EV) soared by an additional 38% as compared to 2019 (Wood Mackenzie, www.woodmac.com).

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The 23rd International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ICCF-23) will be held as a virtual conference, during June 9th-11th, 2021. The ICCF-23 website is now up at http://ikkem.com/iccf23/index.html

The Covid-19 pandemic which struck in 2020 has forced us to re-prioritize our lives and activities including conference activity. The International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science has decided that the ICCF-23 could not be held entirely face-to-face. Considering recent conditions especially travel restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is decided that the conference will be held online. We therefore warmly invite you to join the ICCF-23 online conference.

Please join us for APEC, the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference! You can learn more online at http://www.americanantigravity.com/events - and while you're there, please register for our email announcement list!

So far, we've completed five major events, typically between 4 to 6 hours each in length! We've got them all posted on the American Antigravity and AlienScientist YouTube channels, reaching a combined audience of over 110,000 subscribers.

Last year the number of patent applications that were subject to a "secrecy order" (SO) under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 was the highest that it has been for decades, according to data obtained from the US Patent and Trademark Office and maintained on the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) site by Steven Aftergood.

Whenever disclosure of a new invention is deemed to be "detrimental to national security", a SO may be imposed on the patent application, preventing its public disclosure and blocking issuance of the patent.

From Physics Today: Science and technology of the Casimir effect (extracts)

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...Those experimental and theoretical results are more than just demonstrations. They point to future work in which the Casimir force can be used to manipulate nanoscale objects. In MEMS devices, high surface-to-volume ratios often result in unwanted stiction that could be mitigated with a repulsive Casimir interaction. What’s more, by producing attractive and repulsive forces and torque at the nanoscale, one can create, at least conceptually, a micro-tractor beam for moving quantum dots, nanowires, bacteria, viruses, and other minuscule objects...