Emerging hydrogen and electron based energy technologies are now demonstrating potential to provide carbon-free energy, suitable for baseload and transportation applications.
Emerging technologies can typically be characterised as either:
- Super-Chemical,
- Low Energy Nuclear,
- Hot fusion.
Super-Chemical
Super-Chemical systems involve energy release from electron transitions to below ground state, forming "de-excited" electrons. Systems originally proposed by Mills (mid 1980's) involved electron transitions in hydrogen to below ground state, (n=1/2, 1/3, 1/4,...).
Subtle Atomics systems involve transitions directly from waveform electrical electrons (infinite n) to below ground state (n<1).
Low Energy Nuclear
Low energy nuclear systems release energy from nuclear transitions without the requirement of extreme explosive temperature and pressure. Proof of concept low energy nuclear systems have been extensively demonstrated, but theory explaining these systems is still in development. The most accepted explanation for observed energy production and transmutation is neutron capture reactions, (e.g. Widom & Larsen, 2006). New Subtle Atomics theory is now providing additional insights into these systems.
Hot Fusion
Despite huge international investment in hot fusion since the 1950's, relatively little progress has been made towards via energy generation. Energy input for all large scale "proof of concept" controlled fusion systems still vastly exceeds energy output.
"Fusion power has remained 50 years away for the past 50 years.."
Some recent progress toward viable hot fusion energy systems appears to have been made with desktop confinement systems using ultra dense hydrogen. These systems have demonstrated overunity (e.g. Holmlid, 2014).
A New Energy Process?
Subtle Atomics experimentation and theory development provides a new perspective on emerging energy technologies by redefining atomic fundamentals.
"The new electron size state model is consistent with observed hydrogen forms, including excited states, ground state, dense hydrogen and ultra dense hydrogen."
New theory confirms the potential of dense hydrogen transitions for energy production and elemental transmutation.
"Dense hydrogen may be the missing link to better understanding low energy nuclear reaction observations."
A new energy processes has been identified with similarities to the 's-process' identified in astrophysics, but the mechanism now proposed is significantly different from existing models.
"A new understanding of fundamental physics is enabling the development of controlled transmutation and energy production systems."