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Royal Dutch Shell’s Interest indicates Major Shift for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions

Shell also seeks oil deal with Libyan NATO-rebels.

From: New Energy Times Blog
By Steven B. Krivit

Royal Dutch Shell, plc, one of the largest energy companies in the world, is interested in exploring low-energy nuclear reaction research as a possible game-changer in the energy business.

Two Shell scientists, Anitha Sarkar and Gilles Buchs, with the backing of the Shell GameChanger program, are looking for opportunities to work actively with Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) experts, according to a brief introduction the researchers prepared.

Edward Beardsworth, a venture capitalist at Jane Capital Partners in San Francisco, introduced the researchers to the field in a message to the CMNS e-mail list today.

“At my request, they prepared the attached biographical sketches and description of what they bring to the group. They are both located at the company’s research and development offices in the Netherlands,” Beardsworth wrote. “I believe their fresh and enthusiastic approach will lead to good contributions to the field.”

According to its Web site, Shell GameChanger “helps move ideas to reality by sponsoring entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into a product that can be introduced to the marketplace.”

“Specifically,” the site says, “we look for innovative ideas that address a demand or significant problem in the energy industry and have the potential to change the game.”

The Shell researchers, according to the document provided by Beardsworth, offer the following to the field:

  • Broad expertise in wide variety of energy conversion systemsAccess to significant group of Shell surface science and catalysis experts

  • Access to key related disciplines: thermodynamics, physics, electrochemistry, computational chemistry,   heat exchange, etc.

  • Shell GameChanger program, (www.shell.com/gamechanger) rapidly funds initial proof of concept testing for revolutionary innovation

  • Significant expertise and track record of development and scaling-up and from lab-scale to commercial unit of a wide range of complex energy technologies.

This is not the first time Shell has looked into LENR research. In 1995, Shell sponsored LENR research at the French laboratory Laboratoire des Sciences Nucléaires at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM). This research showed high-quality LENR work, and the research paper provided the expected level of professionalism in a scientific communication.

The researchers found a small ratio of excess heat compared to the input electrical power in both light- and heavy-hydrogen experiments. However, the experiments demonstrated a sustained period of steady excess-heat production. The hydrogen experiment produced 16 megajoules during a 39-day run, with a mean excess-heat production of 4.7 Watts from a 150 Watt electrical input.

Consistent with the extensive body of LENR research, the CNAM researchers found no significant levels of dangerous radiation from neutrons, X-rays or gamma rays. The researchers failed to find nuclear signatures consistent with the amount of excess energy produced. They did not, however, check for isotopic shifts or transmutations, and they did not use solid-state nuclear track detectors to look for alphas or bursts of spallation neutrons.

The current Shell initiative follows an inquiry from the United States intelligence community into LENR. Both news items are powerful indicators that 2012 is the year that LENR will move forward into serious technology research.

After publishing this article, the author has received the following email from above mentioned Edward Beardsworth:


REPLY

Steven B. Krivit says:

Dear Ed,

The CMNS list is a members-only GoogleGroups chat list that is used for discussion of LENR. According to the list rules, nobody is supposed to leak things out to nonmembers. So you joined this list without signing any legally binding nondisclosure agreement. You know some of the members of that list but you do not know everybody on that list. In fact, you do not even have an index of who the members of that list are or claim to be. You have no idea if the list includes other businessmen who are your competitors, other energy companies who are Shell’s competitors. You have no idea if there are other journalists lurking on the list. You have no idea what foreign representatives are on that list.

And now you tell me that you sent “privileged information” to that group?
And you state that my disclosure of the information was “highly inappropriate?”

Really???

NOTE: Royal Dutch Shell Plc also aims to restart exploration in Libya, whose so-called new government (a bunch of NATO-led rebels who came to power through only violence and aren’t chosen or wanted by the Libyan people) says to “seek to stabilize relations with foreign companies.”

Shell head Peter Voser said in Doha, Qatar, on December 6 that the company, together with BP Plc, “evaluates resumption of drilling at wells.”

Libya is the holder of Africa’s biggest oil reserves. Under Jamahiriya government, a portion of every Libyan oil sale was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens. Now the illegal NATO-rebel government seeks to steal the benefits of the oil production (a 1.6 million barrels) from the Libyan people in an attempt to solve the immense problems of the bankrupt Western countries.

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