Airbus to Host LENR Workshop in October

[think]

Airbus, a major airline builder from France, will host a LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) workshop on October 15 & 16th of this year. Airbus already has a patent for a LENR device so it appears they are already working in this field.

On a side note Airbus also has a prototype electric plane it plans to fly across the English Channel on July 10th.

This is a brief article by E-Catworld.com announcing the upcoming LENR event being hosted by Airbus:

Airbus to Host LENR Workshop in October

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Frank Acland

An announcement has been made of an upcoming workshop titled: 11th International Workshop on Anomalies in 
Hydrogen Loaded Metals to be held at Airbus in Toulouse, France, on 15-16 October 2015.Airbus Group Innovations Vice-President and Chief Scientist Jean-François Geneste is the conference organizer.

I think the term “Anomalies in 
Hydrogen Loaded Metals” is another way to refer LENR in a perhaps less controversial way than using the LENR or cold fusion labels.

There’s not much information published about the program so far, but there is a call for papers from people who want to contribute. The Goals and Format of the meeting are listed:

Goals and Format

Hydrogen gas loading is a promising technology to reliably create thermal and nuclear anomalies. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together an international group of experts to present their results and encourage discussion. The emphasis is on theory, models, explanations, but novel experimental results will also be accepted. In addition there will be discussion on topics of interest.
The working language of the workshop is English.

Read more:
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/07/01/airbus-to-host-lenr-workshop-in-october/

Link to official page for the LENR workshop:

http://workshop.wonderevents.fr/

[Nihil]

1. To be honest, it was your link to the electric plane stuff that fascinated me!

I'm sure I'll catch up with the LENR side later but the electric plane bit
was pretty interesting.

[AlainCo]

2. Some precision on Airbus commitment in LENR

You are right, the "Executive Chief Scientist" (Executive is highest rank for expert) of "Airbus Innovation" (whose boss is considered as CTO and Chief Innovation Officer), Jean Francois Geneste is publicly supporting LENR research and Airbus Group have signed a MoE with LENR-Cities to develop a business ecosystem focused on LENR technology development : LENRG

This conference is part of the group strategy to support the community. Airbus seems to provide only a nice place and some support, but it seems to be a usual Workshop as ISCMNS organize to discussed basic science and theory. Anyway in 3 month all can change.

JF Geneste have proposed in a conference in Milan (I have attended it) to use one of their thermo-acoustic engine developed for space applications, so that experimenters who have a reactor with COP above 3-4 can convince engineers, because he knows that science even well made will never convince.

Here is a report I've made of that event
http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/1337-LENRG-G-Day-Milano-Airbus-and-LENR/

I have discussed with the German author of the Airbus patent, and it is not really a patent on LENR, but on an interesting control method integrating radiological security deeply in the design of some type of reactor (based on plasma excitation), staying safe even if electronic get crazy. For JF Geneste LENR cannot be patented, but you can patent many thing around LENR.

Note that Boeing have been active.
in the 90s they patented a plane working with an electrolytic reactor, that probably was just a lab toy, but hoping to improve it.
http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/news/index.php/News/65-History-Boeing-filed-a-LENR-patent-in-1990/

they worked with Nasa in SUGAR report on an LENR hypothesis (just feasibility analysis)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120009038.pdf#page=38

Boeing published a patent for aircraft electric fan where LENR was considered
http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/news/index.php/News/2-Boeing-patents-electric-propulsion-system-fan-for-planes-considering-LENR-poweri/

Nasa currently fund seedling project by Doug Wells
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20150000549

in that context Airbus Group strategy, as expressed by it's Chief Scientists is simply rational risk management.