BTW - George Miley is a name well-known to LENR researchers. Over two decades ago, Miley developed a commercial fusor (Farnsworth Fusor) which "warm fusion" design was was later sold to Daimler Aerospace. This product was not suitable for well-logging - due to size constraint of fitting in a borehole. The design was based on the original Farnsworth invention and used electrostatic confinement. It was at least 5 orders of magnitude below breakeven in terms of output.
Fortunately, this basic design can not only be shrunk in size but also increased in yield by the relatively simple expedient of adding a laser driven muon generator. Muon catalyzed fusion is somewhat of a miracle in itself, especially when bootstrapped with a portable source of muons - never before possible. There are those who have followed LENR who bemoan the fact that this application is not exactly energy related, but it provides a toe-hold. Once there is cash flow, in the best capitalist tradition - other applications will be pursued including perhaps drone aircraft which can stay aloft indefinitely, and other high-value end-uses for portable power. The expected design - consisting of a Holmlid laser driven muon generator coupled to a Fusor - is especially adaptable to aerospace. All that is needed is a direct conversion scheme to provide electricity without a steam cycle. The direct conversion application has been studied preliminarily too so none of this is unexpected. In short the good professor seems to have all the bases covered. There can be little doubt that Leif Holmlid is a man on a mission who is not going to let a few editors of a second-tier journal get in his way. --------------------------- The retraction by the Plos editor is regrettable, even stupid. We can only wait to see if it will be an total embarrassment for them. In the end, the burden of proof is going to be met with a commercial product, or not at all. Based on everything in the record, we could see something like a commercial neutron generator as an initial product. These neutron generators are used for such tasks as petroleum well-logging. Normally the neutron well logger requires tritium - very expensive. Holmlid indicates that his device will not require tritium. The World-wide market for these is actually quite large and no one else uses muon catalyzed deuterium fusion as the source of neutrons. Norront is well positioned to become a prime supplier, if they can avoid the need for tritium - especially given Norway's petro industry would be an initial buyer. Here is a Russian product with lots of details - which is what the present competition looks like. The Russians would be smart to take a license from Norront. VNIIA - Neutron generators - Well-logging
