With weeks passing since my visit to MIT for the event held at MIT on the 2011 Cold Fusion/Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions Colloquium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the debate spanned about Steven Chu’s interest in Cold Fusion and Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions, we contacted the event coordinators Dr. Mitchell Swartz of JET Energy to get his synopsis of the forward progress and the people doing the research and bringing their innovations and dialogues for advancement in the necessary area of Alternative energy and solving the worlds energy security crisis.
Here is the Report prepared by staff of JET Energy, Inc. for the 2011 Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions/Cold Fusion Colloquium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) was held on Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12, 2011.

The meeting focused on the science and technology of cold fusion and lattice assisted nuclear reactions (LANR). This year, there were 23 presentations. LANR nanomaterials headlined the talks, only to be surpassed by patent issues, Rossi’s contribution and recent high technologic developments in LANR. Plenary lectures in LANR were delivered by Dr. Mitchell Swartz (JET Energy), Professor Peter Hagelstein (MIT), Dr. Brian Ahern (Vibronics),
Prof. Xing Zhong Li (Tsinghua University), Dr. Francis Tanzella (SRI International), Prof. George Miley (University of Illinois-UC) and Robert Smith (Oakton International Corporation).

Another eight presentations were given by:
Dr. Edward Tsyganov (UT Southwestern), Jeff Driscoll (Zhydrogen), Keith Owens (Cold Fusion Energy), Doug Yuill and David French (Second Counsel Services), Abd ul-Rahman Lomax (Lomax Design Associates), Ludwik Kowalski (Montclair State University) and Robert Weber (Strategy Kinetics).

These were followed by two group discussions of the Rossi matter, the present
LANR/CF business opportunities and Patent Office quagmire. In addition, two cold fusion researchers who were diligent workers in the field, John “Alf” Thompson and Dr. Scott Chubb, had recently passed away and were memorialized.

Background:
The organizers were Dr. Mitchell Swartz (Chief Technology Officer of JET Energy, Inc.), who hosted the event, and Gayle Verner, also of JET Energy
(http://world.std.com/~mica/jet.html).

Support was provided by the Cold Fusion Times, the Energy Production and Conversion Group in RLE at MIT, JET Energy, Inc. and the New Energy Foundation. Well deserved thanks and also attendees’ gratitude go to Alan Weinberg, Jeff Tolleson, Kim Tolleson and Jeff Driscoll for all their help.
These annual cold fusion colloquia were initiated by Dr. Mitchell Swartz and the late Dr. Eugene Mallove beginning in 1991. They were originally designed for colleagues involved in the science and business of LANR, but later they evolved so that members of the student and other science communities were also welcome.

The goals have been to increase cooperation among colleagues and public awareness of the development of the science and engineering of LANR/CF (lattice assisted nuclear reaction aka, cold fusion) systems. These cold fusion colloquia at MIT have become popular, not just because they are one of the few, if not the only, events of this nature, but because they allow everyone with a science or technology interest “a voice.” And so this year, too, it did not disappoint. Not only did well known scientists of all stripes in the cold fusion arena come to speak from all over the world, eager to share their continuing research data, but they were augmented again by those voices who were previously unheard and who have worked quietly in the field for years. Also, some who usually are denied a platform at the larger conferences, and others who are systematically censored in other media forums, also are encouraged to openly present their work at the conferences.

Learn more about the MIT event and others research at Infinite Energy and at the Cold Fusion Times website:
http://world.std.com/~mica/cft.html

To many experts, workers and thinkers in the domain of electrical invention and
generation, the apparatus and devices that are familiar, are cumbrous and wasteful,
and subject to severe limitations.

On the 155th Anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla a leader whose vision
and mission is forged in dedication not only to the American people but to
Humanity and the world.

Even though he has become a legendary leader for many across
the globe, others feel that Nikola Tesla is not given the merit, recognition
and acknowledgement that his vision and contributions has established in making
our daily life easier. Tesla is unknown to many generations, and in our current
society and amongst Science, history and within the grasp of the human
consciousness many feel unrecognized.

Much of his quotes still remain true in our so called “modern technically advanced innovated world”:

“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.”

“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”

“though free to think and to act – we are held together like the stars – in firmament
with ties inseparable – these ties cannot be seen but we can feel them – each
of us is only part of a whole”

Nikola
Tesla

He was honored with his name on the International System of Units unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla, was named in his honor (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960), as well as the Tesla effect of wireless energy transfer to wireless powered electronic devices (which Tesla demonstrated on a low scale with incandescent light bulbs as early as 1893 and aspired to use for the intercontinental transmission of industrial power levels in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project) the Tesla Society is working to restore the Wardenclyffe Tower Site as place to honor Nikola and to share his vision, teaching others about the man who put corporate greed and returns on investments below the love for humanity and to give others free energy.

This week, Nikola Lonchar and the Tesla Science Foundation in Philadelphia is holding the Tesla Science Conference,celebrating his many accomplishments, here is a list of some of his extraordinary achievements listed on wikipedia:

Electromechanical devices and principles developed by Nikola Tesla:

• Various devices that use rotating magnetic fields (1882)
• The Induction motor, rotary transformers, and “high” frequencyalternators
• The Tesla coil, his magnifying transmitter, and other means for increasing the intensity of electricaloscillations (including condenser discharge transformations and theTesla oscillators)
• Alternating currentlong-distance electrical transmission system(1888) and other methods and devices for power transmission
• Systems for wirelesscommunication(prior art for the invention of radio) and radio frequency oscillators
• Robotics and the electronic logic gate
• ElectrotherapyTesla currents
• Wireless transfer of electricity and theTesla effect
• Tesla impedance phenonomena
• Tesla electro-static field
• Tesla principle
• Bifilar coil
• Telegeodynamics
• Tesla insulation
• Tesla impulses
• Tesla frequencies
• Tesla discharge
• Forms of commutators and methods of regulating third brushes
• Tesla turbines (e.g., bladeless turbines) for water, steam and gas and the Tesla pumps
• Tesla igniter
• Corona discharge ozone generator
• Tesla compressor
• X-rays Tubes using theBremsstrahlung process
• Devices for ionized gases and “Hot Saint Elmo’s Fire“.
• Devices for high field emission
• Devices for charged particle beams
• Phantom streaming devices
• Arc light systems
• Methods for providing extremely low level of resistance to the passage of electric current (predecessor tosuperconductivity)
• Voltage multiplication circuitry
• Devices for high voltage discharges
• Devices for lightning protection
• VTOL aircraft
• Dynamic theory of gravity
• Concepts for electric vehicles
• Polyphase systems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

http://www.teslasociety.com

www.teslasciencefoundation.org

On June 28, 2011, Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant restarted its operations following a forced outage to replace a leaking safety relief valve (SRV). The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is a nuclear power plant located in Monticello, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River, with an estimated population count from the 2010 census as having a population of 62,976 people living within 10 miles (16 km) of Monticello Nuclear Plant.

At 10:27 a.m. (CST) on June 24, 2011, Monticello operators inserted a manual scram to complete a reactor shutdown. The unit is currently shut down and in a safe and stable condition. Station personnel shut down the reactor to commence an outage to replace a leaking safety relief valve (SRV).

The Nucelar plant had shutdown on June 24, 2011, after leakage through the “E” safety relief valve reached licensee/vendor pre-established limits for continued operation. The valve had exhibited higher than normal tailpipe temperatures, indicative of leakage through the valve, following plant restart from a planned refueling outage in May 2011.

The NRC resident inspectors, augmented by a region-based inspector, monitored the reactor shutdown, the valve replacement activities and the subsequent restart, and has no concerns.

State and local officials had been informed. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a press release on June 23, 2011, describing the event. The preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. Some of the information may not yet be fully verified or evaluated by the Region III staff.

The information presented by the NRC had been discussed with the licensee, Northern States Power Company,and is the most current information available as of 8:00 a.m. (CST), on June 29, 2011 as released by the U.S. NRC.

A flurry of calls and emails came my way with the MIT LANR event and my article on Steven Chu interest in LANR Cold Fusion. I was contacted by Tom Blakeslee who was ecstatic to see such commitment of focus and the revitalization of this important player in solving the worlds Energy Security and Electricity Generation issues. This is a collaboration that takes everyone supporting each other and working together, a real commitment, whose time has come.

He forward one of several of his most recent articles that he published through RenewableEnergyWorld.com to me. And he makes some very important points on where we were, where we are now and what the new future and the re-emergence of Cold Fusion LANR, LENR can be. I thought it may be of interest to others.

Swedish Skeptics Confirm “Nuclear Process” in Tiny 4.7 kW Reactor

By Thomas Blakeslee he wrote on May 3, 2011

Tom writes, I spend much of my time debunking the free energy fantasies of my less technically competent friends. Wishful thinking makes many believe that cars can run on water after seeing a brief youtube video. Lately, however, I have been undergoing an exciting paradigm shift.

Remember the “cold fusion” fiasco of 1989? Well, I have come to realize that it wasn’t what it seemed at all. Denial, groupthink, dirty tricks and easily manipulated media combined to create an historical injustice. Two decades have been wasted virtually ignoring this game-changing discovery. Today’s environmental disasters, expensive energy and oil wars could possibly have been avoided. I’ll say more in a moment about what really happened in 1989, but first, let me tell you what got me started reexamining what I thought I knew about cold fusion.

You probably think that 4700 watts of clean, radiation-free power from a three cubic inch reactor sounds like yet another impossible hoax. But this was a third iteration demo, designed to satisfy skeptics of two previous demonstration at the prestigious University of Bologna. Attending the third demo were two Swedish scientists. One was chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society and the other was chairman of the Energy Committee of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science. They were both allowed to freely examine the entire setup except for the contents of the tiny, 50cc reactor chamber.

Their written report ended with: “Any chemical process for producing 25 kWh from any fuel in a 50 cm3 container can be ruled out. The only alternative explanation is that there is some kind of a nuclear process that gives rise to the measured energy production.” They also noted that you would have to burn 3 liters of oil to produce 25 kWh. There has since been another confirmation.

The inventor, Adrian Rossi, is very accessible on his blog and has said that more than one hundred of his 4.4 kW reactors are running in four countries. He plans to ship a larger unit in October that produces one MW of hot water. It consists of hundreds of the small reactors in series/parallel mounted in one 2 X 3 X 3 meter box. It weighs two tons. The proprietary nanopowdered nickel fuel will be replenished every six months. Everything has been financed using Rossi’s own money and the customer will pay only when satisfied.

Rossi is an inventor and businessman who decades ago noticed excess heat effects while working with a nickel catalyst to synthesize fuel from hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Using Edison-like experimental techniques, he soon learned to control the heat production. He even kept his factory heated for two years with a prototype reactor. More than two thousand prototypes were built and destroyed in refining the design and learning how to control and scale up the reaction.

Researching the science literature, Rossi soon found Dr Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna, who had regularly published work on nickel-hydrogen reactors since 1994. Using his own money, Rossi contracted with Dr. Focardi and the university to help him understand and develop the technology as a product. By January 14, 2011 they were ready for a public demonstration of a 10 kilowatt desktop reactor.

The press reaction was muted in Europe and nonexistent in the U.S. Skeptics accused him of hiding a battery inside the reactor so another, longer, demonstration was held, using calorimetry that heated but didn’t boil water to answer other critics. The 18 hour demonstration produced 18 kilowatts average over the entire 18 hours. The U.S. press was still silent and skeptics were still suspicious so two more demos were held.

Still, the silence from the U.S. media was deafening. Rossi announced that there will be no more demonstrations until October 2011, when the million watt heating plant will be shipped to a customer in Greece. If he succeeds, be prepared for a repeat of the Sputnik shock of 1957 when the US woke up to find that they had fallen way behind in science.

Nickel is plentiful and cheap and so is hydrogen in the tiny amounts used. Nickel is so plentiful that energy becomes virtually free. Rossi’s reactor is very simple in principle. Powdered nickel and a catalyst are simply heated to about six hundred degrees centigrade in a stainless steel chamber filled with pressurized hydrogen. At a certain point, the gradual heating starts accelerating due to nuclear reactions in the metal lattice. The heating resistor is backed off to keep the reaction going at a steady state, with about 15 times more heat output than input. Much higher ratios are possible but can be unstable and dangerous. This is why the 1-MW plant will be built using hundreds of smaller modules.

The reactor is enclosed in a lead shield because some radiation is, unpredictably, produced during operation. However, the spent fuel is not radioactive but contains copper that has transmuted from nickel in the nuclear reaction. The lack of dangerous radiation drives hot fusion experts crazy, but clearly there are things happening that are not covered by the equations used in hot fusion. Obviously, quantum mechanics needs to be rethought to include these reactions.

There are many proposed theories. Biological processes have been found to produce transmuted isotopes without radiation. Also, tritium sometimes comes out of volcanic vents from unknown reactions inside the earth. Clearly, the physicists have more to explain if they will just open their ears. Here is an equation they should study carefully:

Groupthink + Denial = Environmental Disaster + Expensive Energy + Wars

Groupthink can make us totally irrational. The dot-com bubble and the housing bubble are examples of renowned experts becoming completely blind to facts that are now obvious in hindsight. Making a lot of money tends to blind us poor humans to clear evidence that we are living in a fantasy world. The consequences can be terrible.

Nuclear physicists in 1989 were riding a bonanza of tens of billions in government research money for the development of hot fusion reactors. After several decades of hard work, they were still far from achieving break-even, where output energy exceeds input energy. Just as the next round of appropriations was assured, Fleischmann and Pons came along with the announcement that they had already achieved excess heat output without government support and on an inexpensive desktop setup.

Denial was immediate. MIT and Caltech, who had been leaders in hot fusion work, immediately went to work “trying” to replicate the experiment. In just five weeks Caltech announced negative results. At a May 1st 1989 APS meeting in Baltimore, two thousand physicists gave a standing ovation to the Caltech team’s presentation. A lynch mob mentality, combined with denial, turned the exciting discovery of cold fusion into an enemy.

MIT helped set the tone by arranging a front page story in the Boston Herald on the day of the meeting with the headline, “MIT bombshell knocks fusion “breakthrough” cold.” The story was an interview with leaders of the MIT fusion lab that accused Fleischmann and Pons of fraud. The charge was later denied but tapes of the actual interview confirm what was said.

MIT further disgraced itself by altering data in its failure to replicate study. This was discovered two years later by MIT employee Eugene Mallove, who found copies of the July 10 and July 13 drafts of the paper. The July 10th version had a graph that clearly showed excess heat. In the July 13 version the graph was redrawn to show no excess heat. The atmosphere at MIT, as shown by a “Wake for Cold Fusion” party (before the data was analyzed) and t-shirts and mugs offered by the plasma fusion lab, was hardly impartial.

To this day, denial reigns among most of the guilty parties of this travesty. The Department of Energy, Nature magazine, Scientific American, the American Physical Society, the U.S. Patent Office and many of the world’s top physicists still cling irrationally to the belief that cold fusion is junk science. Of course, this is how denial works: We protect our belief system by quietly stepping around the “elephant under the rug.” As long as a majority of our group backs us up, our view of reality remains grossly distorted to preserve the group-think consensus. Global warming deniers do this every day.

The Fleischmann-Pons announcement should have been the start of a new era of cheap, clean energy that would have saved us from the financial and environmental disasters and wars caused by fossil fuel energy. Instead, denial and dirty tricks caused us to waste 23 years and tens of billions of dollars on failed nuclear projects as though nothing had happened. The Presidents 2012 budget includes $2.5 billion for such projects. The first DEMO hot fusion plant is currently scheduled for 2033.

A surprising natural process was discovered in 1989 that can provide us with clean, essentially free energy. It clearly conflicts with the current consensus understanding of quantum mechanics that works nicely for hot fusion reactions. It seems reasonable to try to improve the theory to accommodate this new reality, but denial has instead tricked many good scientists to try to “shoot the messenger.”

The time has come to admit the mistake and get busy trying to improve our understanding so that we can perfect this amazing new technology. We have spent $20 billion and 55 years trying to reach break-even with hot fusion. Time to give cold fusion a chance.

There have been many painful scientific battles in the past over paradigm changes, but truth has a way of prevailing eventually. Cold fusion work has continued under the radar using the more accurate term “Low Energy Nuclear Reactions” (LENR.) Shunned by the establishment, supporters of LENR have created their own journals and meetings. Much progress has been made.

The reasons for the initial difficulty in replication of excess heat have been identified and the amount of excess heat has increased. By 1995 there were 21 published replications showing excess heat of up to 205 watts. Strangely, the press lost interest after the initial media circus. The media’s face-saving denial has left most people with the impression that cold fusion is still dead. In 2009, 60 Minutes broke the silence and did an excellent update. But the rest of the media simply ignored it and focused instead on less risky reports on newsworthy items like rising gasoline prices.

Annual conferences have continued. A weeklong working demo of LENR was included at the tenth ICCF conference, which was held in 2003 at MIT. The power output was 2.3 times the power in. The most recent meeting was held in San Francisco in 2011 under the auspices of the American Chemical Society. The number of presenters at this meeting have quadrupled since 2007. The results this year were so enthusiastic that the American Institute of Physics refused to publish the 370 page proceedings. The cancellation of the publication contract was a last minute decision, clearly ordered by someone at a high level. This attempted blackout of a new technology will backfire in the long run as results get stronger and stronger.

By using nickel and ordinary hydrogen, several researchers have significantly increased energy output and reduced costs. In 1992, Thermacore, a U.S. military contractor ran a cell for nearly a year with a 50 Watt output and 3X excess energy. In 1996 Dr. Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna in Italy described an experiment using nickel & hydrogen that produced an average excess power output of 39 watts continuously for 278 days. There are a dozen competing theories to explain how nuclear reactions can produce so much energy without emitting dangerous radiation. Theories are helpful but not necessary. We still don’t really know how permanent magnets work, yet we use them every day. Practical applications can be developed experimentally, just as Edison developed the light bulb.

Now that Rossi and Focardi have shown what can be done, expect to see a flurry of new announcements. New technologies tend to take forever to totally debug, so it won’t be surprising if the October delivery is delayed. There are several other companies such as Lattice Energy LLC, Blacklight Power, Brillouin Energy, and Energetics, who have announced product plans to the press and then gone silent.

Silence is not necessarily a bad sign, as the Bloom Box demonstrated. My bet is that we will have some amazing surprises within a year that will be a wake-up call, just as Russia’s Sputnik launch was in 1954. This moment could have come ten years ago if only we had listened to Fleishman and Pons in 1989.

“Swedish Skeptics Confirm “Nuclear Process” in Tiny 4.7 kW Reactor” Article courtesy of Thomas Blakeslee and RenewableEnergyWorld.com

Watch the CBS 60 minutes Video on “More Than Junk Science” that aired on April 24, 2009

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4967330n&tag=related;photovideo#ixzz1PNsVjRNS

When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But, as Scott Pelley reports, there’s renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy product.

Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy is looking at Lattice-assisted Nuclear Reactions (LANR) Cold Fusion as a part of implementing President Obama’s ambitious agenda to invest in clean energy, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, address the global climate crisis, and create millions of new jobs.

This weekend at (MIT) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, a global group of scientist and entrepreneurs met to discuss the latest advancements in LANR and CF.

On target with Dr. Chu vision to devote his recent scientific career to the search for new solutions to our energy challenges and stopping global climate change – a mission he continues with even greater urgency as Secretary of Energy. The event held at MIT brings together key players in the Cold Fusion LANR and other types of Nuclear Reactions.

As a distinguished scientist and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1997), Dr. Steven Chu hopes that bringing to the table Cold Fusion Nuclear Reactions research and development to level the playing field and start to focus on supporting, funding and creating real solutions to America’s and the world energy problems.

With the re-emergence of Cold Fusion Nuclear Reactions and projects like LANR it truly allows for all the partners in America’s Energy Sector to work together to solve the challenge of energy. The MIT event is one of many LANR/CF scientific discussions in a shared collaboration to develop further understanding of the science and engineering of CF and lattice assisted nuclear reactions.

The group covered the Importance of CF/LANR and other Nuclear Fusion as a highly efficient clean source of energy production, the Activation – Anharmonic motion, crystal size, magnetic fields, and optical irradiation. Codeposition – Impact, Response time, Products, Cathode changes, Developments – Nanostructured ZrO2-PdNiD, Pressure Driven LANR systems, Emissions – Neutron and other Emissions, IR Studies, Nuclear tracks, CR-39 detectors Materials – Pd, Ti, Ni, ZrO2PdNi, diatomaceous and nanomaterial’s, Electrochemistry Metamaterials – Improved deep flux distribution. Ways to create “spillover” Nuclear solid-state – optical phonons, nuclear excited states. Finding and sharing information on pathways of Optimal Operating Point Control, nuclear products Power Production. And Excess Heat Calorimetry, Modes of Excess Heat, HAD, Quenching – Possible key to Energy Gain. Spillover – Catalysis and LANR effects, Nanomaterial’s boost Theory – Modeling excess heat in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment. . Impact of Heavy Water Gate by the US PTO et alia. Followed with the concerns, issues and the turnaround years of non- support to LANR/CF by the Patent offices, Government and the Academia. The team meets annually to create national bench marks, planning and sharing of goals for further development and the production, to build a viable Industry.

President Obama said, “The future of our economy and national security is inextricably linked to one challenge: energy. Steven has blazed new trails as a scientist, teacher, and administrator, and has recently led the Berkeley National Laboratory in pursuit of new alternative and renewable energies. He is uniquely suited to be our next Secretary of Energy as we make this pursuit a guiding purpose of the Department of Energy, as well as a national mission.”

Please also read this Related Article:  http://localhost/cold-fusion-the-black-swan-of-energy/2011/3429611.html/

by Tina Quizon.

The research was conducted by Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and it predicts that major parts of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will be hit badly. Millions of people in the region are already experiencing a food crisis.

This research has now made it clear and much more evident how the effects of climate on agriculture will intensify hunger and in turn poverty. Climatologists have been little late in using the global climatic data and models to understand the effect of increase in temperatures on particular regions.

As the temperature increases and the regions get drier, countries have the option to switch to drought resistant crops. Africa’s main agricultural production being maize it can switch to crops that are more drought resistant. But countries in West Africa which already produce sorghum and millet, which are already very drought resistant, are not left with much of an option.

The director of CCAFS, Bruce Campbell expressed the same. He said: “West Africa really stands out as problematic. Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali. They are already dependent on sorghum and millet. In many places in Africa you are really going to need [a] revolution in farming systems.”

To tackle the situation governments need to act fast and come up with new ways to meet the challenge ahead. Sir Gordon Conway, professor of international development at Imperial College London, said: “We need everything we can lay our hands on.” He said that even though the governments are trying to limit the raise in temperature to 2C by the end of the century, the current trends indicate that the rise would actually be 3-4C.

This will add wind to global crisis debate.

This decision came into press attention with the announcement of Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen post the meeting of members of ruling coalition Monday.

An ethics panel was set up by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to evaluate nuclear power issues especially post damaging Fukushima plant disaster in Japan recently. Germany countered this anti-nuclear protest in the wake of Japan disaster.

The declaration came from Rottgen with an assurance that seven German oldest nuclear reactors that were subject to suspension besides the Kruemmel nuclear power plant won’t get resumed anymore.

“The year 2021 will see six older plants to go offline by 2021 besides three newest ones to shut in 2022,” said Rottgen. He further said, “The decision is unchangeable so definite. An assured end for last three nuclear power plants was scheduled for 2022 without rethinking.”

The ethics panel had submitted conclusive report Sunday when the Christian Democrats met Ms. Merkel and junior partners for a thorough debate on this matter though she still insists that the initiative is definitely a good step to safeguard humanity but several unanswered question would remain in the limelight for future debate,” said a release.

Surely the anti-nuclear drive by German Green party has impacted for a new world order.

Exactitude in timekeeping is the nuclei of technologies of today’s modern science and technology. For precise navigation on Earth and in deep space, synchronization of broadband data streams, precision measurements of motion, forces and fields, and tests of the constancy of the laws of nature over time.

With new advancements in science, we are drawing near to having near perfect real time accuracy in measuring and calculating time. This month’s achievements by a team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced from NIST of a new method of Calculations with Blackbody Energy Set the Stage for Clocks with Unparalleled Accuracy.

“Using our calculations, researchers can account for a subtle effect that is one of the largest contributors to error in modern atomic timekeeping,” says lead author Marianna Safronova of the University of Delaware, the first author of the presentation**. “We hope that our work will further improve upon what is already the most accurate measurement in science: the frequency of the aluminum quantum-logic clock,” adds co-author Charles Clark, a physicist at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland.

The paper was presented earlier this month at the 2011 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in Baltimore, Md.

The team developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. Although small, the correction could represent a big step towards atomic timekeepers’ longstanding goal of a clock with a precision equivalent to one second of error every 32 billion years—longer than the age of the universe.

The researcher and NIST article also explains :

The team studied an effect that is familiar to anyone who has basked in the warmth of a campfire: heat radiation. Any object at any temperature, whether the walls of a room, a person, the Sun or a hypothetical perfect radiant heat source known as a “black body,” emits heat radiation. Even a completely isolated atom senses the temperature of its environment. Like heat swells the air in a hot-air balloon, so-called “blackbody radiation” (BBR) enlarges the size of the electron clouds within the atom, though to a much lesser degree—by one part in a hundred trillion, a size that poses a severe challenge to precision measurement.

This effect comes into play in the world’s most precise atomic clock, recently built by NIST researchers***. This quantum-logic clock, based on atomic energy levels in the aluminum ion, Al+, has an uncertainty of plus or minus 0.000 000 000 000 000 008 6, or about 1 second in 3.7 billion years, due to a number of small effects that shift the actual tick rate of the clock.

To correct for the BBR shift, the team used the quantum theory of atomic structure to calculate the BBR shift of the atomic energy levels of the aluminum ion. To gain confidence in their method, they successfully reproduced the energy levels of the aluminum ion, and also compared their results against a predicted BBR shift in a strontium ion clock recently built in the United Kingdom. Their calculation reduces the relative uncertainty due to room-temperature BBR in the aluminum ion to 4 x 10-19 , or better than 18 decimal places, and a factor of 7 better than previous BBR calculations.

Current aluminum-ion clocks have larger sources of uncertainty than the BBR effect, but next-generation aluminum clocks are expected to greatly reduce those larger uncertainties and benefit substantially from better knowledge of the BBR shift.
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With the speed of time becoming faster and faster with nanoseconds and beyond, it begs to differ some other questions “what time is it really?” And will science ever be able to stop time, or bring our “past and future time” to the present? Only time will tell.

Alexander B. Niculescu, M.D., Ph.D, associate professor of psychiatry has informed that fatty acid DHA is working effectively to normalize the behavior of (stress-sensitive mouse).

“When we looked into their brains, using comprehensive gene expression studies, we were surprised to see that genes that are known targets of psychiatric medications were modulated and normalized by DHA’” said Dr. Niculescu.

The mice started behaving normal and there were no signs of anxiety or being maniac in nature.

Researchers also came to realize that the mice also showed decreased signs of taking alcohol.

“These bipolar mice, like some bipolar patients, love alcohol. The mice on DHA drank much less; it curtailed their alcohol abusive behavior,” he said.

All these factors indicate towards a better and healthier tomorrow. Omega 3 fatty acids may help us to treat bipolar disorder and check alcohol related problems as well. It is just a beginning. There is a long way to go with the kind of advancements made here.

“A lot more work needs to be done in this area,” Dr. Niculescu said.

The single most influential aspect of this study is that there is no major side-effect to be worried about. Omega 3 fatty acids are good for our health and it has been scientifically proved once again.

Alexander N. Krot, a researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii, can across a rare find, “the discovery of new minerals are not really the goal of our study.

We’re just trying to understand the processes of the solar system,” Krot humbly acknowledged. Such a rare discovery is probable to be amongst one of the earliest minerals formed in the solar system.

The first natural occurrence of a low-pressure CaAl2O4 mineral had been found in a refractory inclusion in a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. The mineral was found in a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that landed in Morocco. The 17.6-pound rock, that was discovered is called the Northwest Africa 1934 or NWA 1934, was found in 2003.

The krotite grains found in the meteorite formed as high-temperature condensates from the solar nebula from which the solar system formed, approximately 4.6 billion years ago.

The Krotite was reported in 2011[2] in a calcium-aluminium-rich inclusion (CAI) in the carbonaceous chondrite meteorite NWA (North West Africa) 1934, which crashed through the earths atmosphere and landed in Morocco[3]. The mineral name was approved by the International Mineralogical Association (IMA Number 2010-038)[4] and honors Alexander N. Krot.

Krotite is a natural mineral composed of calcium, aluminium and oxygen, with the molecular formula CaAl2O4. It is the low-pressure dimorph of CaAl2O4, of which the high-pressure dimorph is named dmitryivanovite.

The discovery and identification of the mineral will help the scientific community, AstroPhysics, Geophysics, and Cosmo chemists piece together more records of the nebular and early solar system progressions and how the first solid building blocks ultimately turned into asteroids and planets, our universe, life forms and earth itself.