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Associated Press
26-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
HYLENR and TakeMe2Space to test LENR Powered Compute Modules
Ink MoU to test and experiment HYLENR's Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) technology for space-based compute infrastructure HYDERABAD, India, March 26, 2025 /CNW/ -- Hyderabad-based startup HYLENR Technologies, a leader in clean energy innovation, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TakeMe2Space, a pioneering space-tech company, to develop and test LENR powered compute modules in space. TakeMe2Space is actively exploring multiple energy technologies, including LENR, to assess efficient methods for heat extraction and potential reuse in its compute-focused satellites. This technology could also be applicable for deep space missions which traditionally use radioisotope based thermoelectric generators (RTGs). As the first step of this collaboration, TakeMe2Space will provide the satellite platform and subsystems required to test HYLENR's LENR-based thermo-electric generator in space. 'Validating our LENR technology in space is a crucial milestone, and TakeMe2Space's platform and expertise provides the perfect opportunity to test our system in a real operational environment,' said HYLENR Founder and CEO Siddhartha Durairajan. 'This could open new possibilities for long-duration missions and off-grid power solutions in space.' Ronak Kumar Samantray, Founder of TakeMe2Space, added, 'We are actively exploring alternative energy solutions for our in-space compute infrastructure and are excited to take this first step with HYLENR to test their technology in space. We are particularly interested in assessing how this approach can be leveraged for efficient heat management and energy reuse in our satellites.' This partnership represents a step towards exploring LENR for space, with TakeMe2Space bringing expertise in space systems and HYLENR demonstrating the viability of its LENR-based power system. About HYLENR: Hyderabad-based Startup HYLENR's has demonstrated world's first and a ground-breaking cold fusion technology to generate Clean Energy. This innovation has received a patent from the Government of India for its Low Energy Nuclear Reactor Technology. HYLENR's Low Energy Nuclear Reactor is a promising alternative for power generation, by amplifying input electricity to produce heat for Space Application (MMRTG), Steam generation for multiple applications, Room Heating across cold regions globally, Induction heating for Domestic and Industrial requirements. Also, HYLENR devices can drastically decrease the risk profile for space missions.
The Guardian
07-02-2025
- Science
- The Guardian
We need to keep an open mind on cold fusion potential
Recently, the letters pages of the Guardian have featured conflicting accounts of cold fusion, otherwise known as low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR). On the one hand, the Nobel laureate Prof Brian Josephson and his co-authors argue (27 January) that cold fusion's time has come: companies can 'make these reactions work quite reliably', with the promise of 'ending reliance on fossil fuels'. In response, Dr Philip Thomas, a researcher at the University of Exeter, proclaims (2 February) that cold fusion is a 'pseudo-scientific fringe theory' in violation of the 'laws of nature'. Which laws, in particular, Dr Thomas does not say. There is, however, a constructive middle ground between Josephson's fervour and Thomas's denigration. LENR advocates often fail to appreciate the evidentiary standard required to demonstrate novel nuclear effects. Overzealous critics are generally not well read on the LENR literature and lack perspective on the emergence of new fields from anomalous effects in science. As a result, they contribute to the palpable stigma that the Cambridge emeritus professor Huw Price calls the 'reputation trap'. Regardless, there is compelling experimental data and strong theoretical motivations to study cold fusion. We are MIT-based researchers in an LENR research programme run by the US Department of Energy's innovation agency, Arpa-E. Our group is pursuing the careful replication and characterisation of promising LENR experiments in close coordination with the original experimentalists and informed by the theoretical work of the MIT professor Peter Hagelstein. Cold fusion could result in spectacular technologies. But we are convinced that the way forward requires rigorous, open-source scientific investigation, not more claims. The Arpa-E LENR programme – a result of Google's research efforts in cold fusion summarised in the journal Nature – is a model in this regard. It balances the highest scientific standards and careful experimental documentation with an open mind to the anomalies reported in the LENR literature. In many ways, cold fusion's time has come. Advances in theory and experiment have made the LENR field eminently actionable. It is time for fellow scientists to constructively engage and for science funders to take Arpa-E's lead and back rigorous inquiry into this promising MessingerPhD candidate, University of CambridgeFlorian Metzler Research scientist, MITMatt Lilley Research affiliate, MITNicola Galvanetto Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Zurich Dr Philip Thomas seems to be unaware of current work on cold fusion. A good example is the five-year EU-funded CleanHME project, which held its wrap-up meeting recently at the University of Szczecin in Poland. This collaboration involved some 40 scientists from several European universities and institutes. To refer to the concerns of such projects as 'pseudo-scientific fringe theory', as Dr Thomas does, is both unfair and unwise. Unfair, because these are serious scientists, fully conversant with the laws of nature. Unwise, because we are in a very tight spot. We need new sources of fossil-free energy, so we need to search for them diligently, even in what many regard as unlikely corners. By all means criticise such work on scientific grounds, but it is folly to discourage it by calling it names. I would be delighted to introduce Dr Thomas to some of the leading scientists in the field if he would like to explore it PriceEmeritus Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy, Cambridge Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
The Guardian
28-01-2025
- Science
- The Guardian
Cold fusion may a viable energy alternative to end reliance on fossil fuels
Luca Garzotti observes (Letters, 22 January) that serious challenges face the production of energy from processes based on thermonuclear fusion, but failed to mention a crucially important alternative, low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), commonly known as cold fusion. Readers of the Guardian's 2012 obituary of Martin Fleischmann will know that the situation regarding cold fusion is more complicated than that commonly assumed: that the claims of Fleischmann and Stanley Pons for the process were discredited. The reality is that subsequent research showed that it was the critics who were wrong, something not widely known because editors of the main journals, under the impression that the claims were false, blocked the publication of papers suggesting otherwise. For a long time, difficulties with making the process work reliably, or in making useful amounts of energy using cold fusion, meant that LENR had no practical value, but now the situation is very different. In the time since the original discovery there has been much progress, a number of companies having been able to make these reactions work quite reliably, one at least confirming claims of genuineness by powering a device from its output. Apart from removing the current reliance on fossil fuels, together with processes requiring the large-scale disposal of radioactive material, such devices would have the advantage of being small in size, and usable in any location. Some companies are now working on making such devices commercially viable, and recently there has been support from governmental organisations such as APRA-E in the US and Horizon 2020 in the EU. More needs to be done, however, to accelerate the rollout of such devices, thereby ameliorating the damaging effects of climate Josephson Emeritus professor of physics, University of CambridgeDavid J Nagel Research professor, George Washington UniversityAlan Smith International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear ScienceDr Jean-Paul Biberian Honorary professor, Aix-Marseille UniversitéYasuhiro Iwamura Research professor, Tohoku University Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
