Direct Electrical Production from LENR – Digital Download

by David Nagel

This 23-page paper was published in Issue 163 (November 2022-February 2023).

From the Introduction: Most of the attention to energy generation with LENR has been devoted to production of heat. If the temperatures are high enough, greater than 300 to 400°C, then it is possible to generate electricity, albeit with the normal inefficiencies due to thermal losses and Carnot limitations. However, for several years, there has been some attention to direct electrical production with LENR. That approach does not require the inefficient intermediate step of producing heat, and then converting some of the thermal energy to electrical energy…If direct conversion of LENR energy to electrical energy can be made a reliable and efficient process, it might be less complex and cheaper than the production of heat and the use of generators. Interest in direct electron production from LENR has grown rapidly in recent years, and is reviewed in this paper…