A US company called NanoSpire Inc. claims to be able to achieve fusion through a process that involves boiling water. The company is using a process called cavitation which involves heating water to high temperatures so it sounds like a hot fusion process. Yet this seems to involve some of the same phenomena involved in low energy nuclear reaction so it could be LENR.
This is Apparently NanoSpire's device at its workshop
Cavitation apparently involves heating water to high temperatures which creates jets of water. The jets collapse and create bubbles that apparently result in some sort of fusion. NanoSpire claims to have received four patents for this process and that will have applications in several fields including nanotechnology, targeted drug delivery (biological treatment of disease), micro fabrication of materials, extraction of oil from algae and photovoltaic solar panels.
NanoSpire Inc. was apparently founded by Mark L. LeClair who claims to have discovered a crystalline form of water while researching cavitation jets. He has worked with Albany Nanotech and has received grants from the Maine Technology Institute, MIT and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Another researcher named Serge Lebid is apparently the other person involved in NanoSpire. LeClair has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
Another shot of NanoSpire's work it makes Andrea Rossi look high tech in comparison
LeClair has worked in the defense industry and as a consultant. He apparently has some connections to the US Navy’s research establishment. It is unclear if he has any connections to the US Navy’s cold fusion research efforts which have reportedly been shut down. NanoSpire’s website lists Edmond Pope a retired Naval officer with experience in Intelligence and Research and Development as the only member of the company’s board of advisors.
NanoSpire’s website claims that it is producing a machine tool that is capable of welding, shaping, cutting and drilling materials that are only a few nanometers in length. The company itself is described as an Intellectual Property holding company which means it was founded to keep ownership of patents.
Some more of NanoSpire's equipment it looks like another garage operation.
A blurb on the website states that NanoSpire’s process produces something called the LeClair Effect which produces both fission and fusion. Note I don’t see how it is possible. On its own website NanoSpire admits that the LeClair Effect appears to violate the first and second law of thermodynamics because it extracts energy from a quantum reservoir in amounts large enough to achieve fusion.
The process described on the website is a little different than that described in the press release. Among other things it mentions a crystal that moves at super sonic speeds. The site also mentions that LeClair has apparently performed what he calls “an experimental investigation of the use of crystallized cavitation jets for the production of energy.” He claims that his apparatus produces excess heat of up to 28 degrees Celsius (that doesn’t sound very hot) and a coefficient of energy or COP of 3.4 more energy than he puts into it.
This is pretty hard to describe but this does sound like low energy nuclear reaction. At least one other LENR process that developed by George Miley also uses nanotechnology. It’s actually pretty hard to figure out what LeClair and his team are doing. Although they claim that they will be able to develop a fusion technology that is safer, simpler and more inexpensive than competitors. They also state: “We have already gone beyond breakeven, producing significantly more energy than is required to trigger the process.”
Despite these bold claims there is no evidence anywhere that NanoSpire has built any sort of reactor or generator. Until they can actually build a device that makes energy it is hard to tell if this is a breakthrough or simply an interesting experiment.
To me it sounds like they’ve discovered a new effect but haven’t figured out how to harness it. Obviously this process deserves a lot more investigation. Only time will tell if this is for real or not.
This is post from Ed Pope to the Alternative Energy Network, on Linkedin groups on Feb. 28, 2012:
“I have spent 3 years in the past working at the Office of Naval Research. While I am not an expert in the phenomena behind what Mark and Serge are working in, I do know for a fact that it is real and very complex. I have seen these guys demonstrate their abilities and talked to several former colleagues from NRL and academia who also know and respect their work. They are opening doors that are on the cutting edge.”
You claim, “Despite these bold claims there is no evidence anywhere that NanoSpire has built any sort of reactor or generator. Until they can actually build a device that makes energy it is hard to tell if this is a breakthrough or simply an interesting experiment.” Intersting that the author does not identify themselves.
In contradiction of your statement, the pictures you show are three reactor designs that we built and successfully tested (2007, 2009, 2010). The overwhelming data, including transmutation, radiation and extraordinary excess heat, are shown on our website. This is far more than Rossi, Defkalion or Brillouin have shown.
Yes but the only verification from these claims is from Mr. LeClair. Has any of this been tested and verified by an outside lab. Are we just supposed to take your word for it. Nice to hear from you.
I didn’t expect anyone to take my word for it, so I did five redundant analysis on the same transmuted particles, including SEM-EDAX, XPS and LA-ICP-MS. Evans analytical did the mass spec. They said they had never seen particles that contained all the elements in such amounts, ever. The particles cooked the plastic dishes they were in before they cooled down, hard to argue with that evidence, the nuclear track images are profound. When two people (Serge and I) both get radiation sickness from two experiments, then you know something profound has happened. NRL was supposed to be the big verification experiment, but was rigged. Then, McMaster University was going to do it and was very enthusiastic about it, but for mysterious reasons they stopped contact, we think it was suppressed.
Ed Pope, who’s comment is above, is one of the Navy’s top experts in cavitation and he know’s this real and he has put his name behind it. The NRL group knows him well.
Thanks. That’s interesting. I wonder who would be suppressing it. Have you contacted the University of Missouri or Syndey Kimmel. They might have the resources to actually test this and verify it.
One more thing, the most valuable company on the planet, Apple Computer, started in a garage!
True I’ve pointed that out before LENR today reminds me of the early days of the computer industry nice to hear from you. Note computers didn’t reach the average consumer until garage inventors took them away from big business and big government. The state of nuclear research today.
Jenni, please take the time to thoroughly read our website under fusion and you will understand that there has been independent verification, including Mr. Edmond Pope’s statement.
LENR = LeClair Effect Nuclear Reactions
The “low tech” look of the reactor prototypes only illustrates how cheap and easy they were to build.
All the hype about the danger of radiation is for nought, I’m fairly certain that I can with further development build a cavitation heater that will liberate the zero point energy from the LeClair Effect and not trigger nuclear reactions. Other designs that do produce nuclear reactions for transmutation and increased energy production from fusion and fission resulting from the LeClair Effect would be properly shielded.
Yeah, how to make a device that produce a lot of radiation for about 250 dollars. Wonderful.
http://pieeconomics.blogspot.com/p/cavitation-transmutation-take-this.html
On August 25, 2009, LeClair was experimenting with cavitation, and unexpectedly created a desktop supernova releasing serious radiation. LeClair wrote: “I was sickened, along with Serge, in two separate experiments. We barely survived the first set of experiments, this is no laughing matter. The day after the experiment, Serge showed symptoms first, vomiting and diarrhea. A day later, I was in the same boat. For two days, we both had to fight to breath, I was convinced I was going to die. My wife and children witnessed both of our symptoms, Serge stayed with us for months before he was well enough to return home to Cleveland. I lost about one third of my hair. I had beta burn on my skin. I was sore down the entire length of the right side of my body, the side facing the experiment. Blood tests showed that my white blood cells were nearly wiped out. McMaster University did SKYradiation dosimetry on us gratis, and found multiple chromosome breaks and translocations in both of us and concluded it was plausible it was caused by radiation damage. For five months, we had no ability to thermoregulate our body temperature, which would swing from 95 degrees up to 101 degrees, back and forth over the course of minutes. I had to cal 911 when Serge passed out from a 95 degree body temperature. The first responders did not even dare to enter the lab to carry him out. Over the course of months, we both lost the linings of our intestines. This was particularly disturbing since GI problems associated with radiation are the sign of a near fatal dose. Every object within two meters of the experiment was laced with nuclear tracks.”