Chennai, feb. 4: How the world wishes these three geniuses could come together, setting aside personal agendas! A desktop reactor would then become a reality, providing safe, plentiful power at a very cheap price. A. Widom, L. Larsen and India-born Yogendra Srivastava have solved the mystery behind the process with which one could generate power at room temperature and without radiation or any kind of pollution but says Steven B. Krivit, chief editor, New Energy Times, “These three are no more working together. They are in an economic competition among themselves. The rest of the commercial world has joined the bandwagon.”
Mr Krivit, who has been studying and following the global research on low energy nuclear reaction (LENR), is in Chennai to attend an international seminar on LENR and spoke to Deccan Chronicle.
LENR is the process of generating high temperature inside a laboratory without any radio activity. Mr Srivastava, who works in the University of Perugia, Italy, and his colleagues have understood the whole science behind LENR.
“The process is a combination of weak interactive forces and neutron capturing. When the nuclei of two deuterium atoms come together, these two forces make them fuse and release a lot of energy. This is a very strong explanation based on conventional science. But because of the conflict between the proponents and opponents of LENR, the process is getting delayed,” he said.
Conventional scientists still scoff at workers engaged in LENR, which was initially known as cold fusion. Mr R. Chidambaram, scientific advisor to the Union cabinet and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, had told this reporter recently that he does not believe in the feasibility of LENR.
The LENR seminar, to be hosted by the Indian Physics Association, is to be addressed by eight leading scientists from abroad.
