Cold Fusion School: Now Open

LENR Supremos, Nagel, McKubre and Hagelstein To Run 2 Day LENR Course in October.

The courses (a must for any serious LENR student) are being run by Nagel's company NUCAT whose name is derived from the words NUClear and ATomic. NUCAT seem to be conducting this course in anticipation of the commercially planned rollout of LENR systems such as Andrea Rossi's Nickel Hydrogen Fusion Product - "The eCat".

Other competitors are also ramping up to enter the market commercially with their own LENR devices but Rossi's product leads the way at this point in time with an Italian patent granted already, ongoing discussions with NASA and a large "well known" U.S. partner gearing up for production.


They state: "If, as planned, many energy sources based on LENR are produced and sold, it will be necessary to educate a workforce in their design, manufacture, installation, maintenance and other functions. This will require knowledgeable managers, engineers, technicians and sales people. Hence, NUCAT Energy is offering the commercial short course on LENR in October of this year at a site very near Washington DC."

The course will feature speakers on varying topics including Materials Challenges, Systems Engineering,Calorimetry Options, Nano-Scale Materials and even an overview of the history of LENR.

The cost, $1500 is probably prohibitive for your average enthusiast but should be accesible to researchers, govt and industry professionals. What we'd probably like to see in future is for these guys to drop the price significantly and conduct the course to a few hundred people at a time to get the latest generation of people involved in the coming energy revolution, which (by-the-way) the mainstream media are still ignoring.

NUCAT BIOS
David J. Nagel, PhD, is a Research Professor at The George Washington University and CEO of NUCAT Energy LLC. He has contributed to this field as a scientist and manager since its origins in 1989. Dave participated in all 16 of the International Conferences on Cold Fusion (ICCF), and chaired ICCF-14. His primary activity has been and remains writing technical articles on LENR.


Michael C.H. McKubre, PhD, is Director of the Energy Research Center at SRI International. He has been active in this field as an experimentalist since 1989. Mike researched the palladium deuterium system from 1978. He presented at all 16 of the International Conferences on Cold Fusion, and was co-chairman of ICCF-4. His primary expertise includes electrochemical kinetics, metal-hydrogen systems and calorimetry.

Peter L. Hagelstein, PhD, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, is an applied physicist.  Peter has worked on anomalies associated with the Fleischmann-Pons experiments since 1989.  The focus of his research in the field has been to understand the new LENR physical mechanisms. Peter was Chairman of ICCF-10 in 2003.

David Nagel and Michael McKubre are also former Steorn Jury members.

NUCAT Website
http://nucat-energy.com/


Course Agenda
http://nucat-energy.com/short-course/agenda/

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Energy Catalyzer: Andrea Rossi's Cold Fusion Device

For newcomers to the story, the Energy Catalyzer is the world's first commercially viable cold fusion reactor.

The device has been tested for many years before being made public recently. This year sees a marked acceleration in activity as a demonstration of a 1MW facility is being talked about for the USA followed by the construction of a massive 1 MW facility comprising approx 125 10KW modules which will be built in Greece.

Although much higher power figures have been obtained, commercial sales should then start with the 10KW modules. As the technology is in it's infancy, it's easy to imagine what kind of power outputs could be obtained in just 5 years from now.

Rossi's Energy Catalyzer truly has the potential to replace all traditional fuel technologies including coal, oil and gas and end our dependence on Middle-Eastern oil. Rossi estimates that the cost of producing 1KWh of electricity will work out at less than 1 cent which makes a mockery of gas and oil prices.

The primary fuel source is powdered Nickel which is a safe and very abundant resource. The energy catalyzer uses very small amounts along with pressurized hydrogen to produce vast amounts of energy so it's very difficult to see any sort of shortage or problem with fuel supply. The reactor is able to self-sustain but functions better with an input.

So far the mainstream media have been in "Ignore Mode" which is something we are all sadly accustomed to whenever a new invention threatens existing power structures and the pockets of rich white men. However, the tide may be starting to turn in the following weeks as things ramp up. It's hard to imagine the stonewall silence continuing in the face of a 1MW demonstration and working devices being shipped.

With the current terrible situation in Japan nuclear power has been perhaps exposed as a step too far in providing cheap energy. Safety should be first priority and it seems that Rossi's Energy Catalyzer is leading the charge in both safety, cheapness and energy security.

Bellisimo!

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