World’s 1st cold fusion tech for clean energy generation unveiled in India

HYLENR- an India-based startup – has demonstrated what it says is the world’s first cold fusion technology to generate clean energy.

The company based in Hyderabad has also received a patent from the Indian government for its Low Energy Nuclear Reactor technology.

In the live demonstration, HYLENR achieved consistent 1.5 x heat amplification from 100W electrical input.

The heat amplification ratio of 1.5 has been the product’s defining feature during the development process.

HYLENR’s cold fusion technology

According to a press release by the company, HYLENR’s reactors utilize Low Energy Nuclear Reactors (LENR known as “cold fusion”) by applying milligrams of hydrogen and small volume of electricity to stimulate and generate excess heat through fusion.

The LENRs can produce at least 1.5x more energy heat than the input energy, making it a much desired feat for power generation from fusion.

The company is aiming to scale up the output to 2.5 times that of the input energy for cold fusion.

The low energy nuclear reactors can amplify input electricity to produce heat for space application (MMRTG), steam generation for multiple applications, room heating across cold regions globally, and induction heating for domestic and industrial requirements.

The company also says that its devices can “drastically decrease the risk profile for space missions.”

“The patent for the product validates the inventiveness of the technology, and the viability of integrating LENR with existing power generation systems to enhance efficiency and reduce reliance on traditional energy sources. The proposed approach by LENR leverages LENR to amplify electricity from renewable and non-renewable sources, Space Application, ultimately aiming for a 2.5 times power output increase,” said Siddhartha Durairajan, Chief Executive Officer, HYLENR.

The process through which it is achieved

During the demonstration of the technology, Durairajan explained that hydrogen cold fusion occurs as two hydrogen atoms fuse, producing Helium3, which is unstable.

“Hydrogen cold fusion is taking place here, two hydrogen atoms come and generate fusion. That creates Helium3, which is still unstable and then another hydrogen atom fuses and this creates Helium4, which is stable. The release of this excess hydrogen is creating this heat,” said Durairajan.

There have been many significant developments in fusion energy in the recent years.

Earlier in April, a small-scale and compact device built by US-based fusion startup Zap Energy has achieved plasma electron temperatures of 1-3 keV, roughly equivalent to 20 to 66 million degrees Fahrenheit (11 to 37 million degrees Celsius).

In nearly a century of humanity working with fusion reactions, only a few technologies have reached plasma fusion temperatures above 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius), the temperature of our Sun’s core.

With the world looking for cleaner ways of meeting its energy demands , nuclear fusion is considered a responsible way to generate large amounts of energy.