One more Japanese auto company, Nissan, is researching low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs), New Energy Times has learned.
The information comes from an e-mail sent today by LENR researcher Akito Takahashi to other LENR researchers. Takahashi is a former professor at Osaka University and is affiliated with Technova, a member of the Toyota Motor Corp. family of businesses.
Takahashi’s e-mail confirms that the Japanese government’s initiative to fund LENR research — for the first time in two decades — has moved forward. The LENR research is sponsored through the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency. New Energy Times first reported the NEDO story on Aug. 24, 2015.
“The nano-metal hydrogen energy project (NEDO-MHE),” Takahashi wrote, “has been adopted, conditionally, by NEDO for one of leading projects of eco-energy innovation. The NEDO-MHE project started on Oct. 26, 2015, officially.
“The joint research team (Nano-METS) comprises six institutions: two companies, Technova and Nissan; and four universities, Tohoku, Kyushu, Nagoya and Kobe.”
The experimental program will involve four areas, according to Takahashi: a) development of a new calorimetry system at Tohoku University […]
I must say that I think there are better alternatives than any kind of nuclear energy. Here is an article on all the time, money and energy wasted on nuclear energy in the Middle East from the BBC.
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21679090-egypt-and-others-alternatives-nuclear-power-hold-more-promise-why-more?fsrc=email_to_a_friend