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U.S.
Defense Intelligence Agency report on cold fusion: "Although no current theory exists to explain all the reported phenomena, some scientists believe quantum-level nuclear reactions may be occurring. DIA assesses with high confidence that if LENR can produce nuclear-origin energy at room temperatures, this disruptive technology could revolutionize energy production and storage, since nuclear reactions release millions of times more energy per unit mass than do any known chemicai fuel. Although much skepticism remains, LENR programs are receiving increased support worldwide, including state sponsorship and funding from major corporations. DIA assesses that Japan and Italy are leaders in the field, although Russia, China, Israel, and India” are devoting significant resources to this work ..... In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that their electrochemical
experiments had produced excess energy under standard temperature and pressure
conditions.Because they could not explain this physical phenomenon based
on known chemical reactions, they suggested the excess heat could be nuclear
in origin. However, their experiments did not show the radiation or radioactivity
expected from a nuclear reaction. Many researchers attempted to replicate
the results and failed.
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Turning
heat to electricity
MIT research ... points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity. Peter Hagelstein,..., an associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT, says existing solid-state devices to convert heat into electricity are not very efficient. ... Theory says that such energy conversion can never exceed a specific value called the Carnot Limit, based on a 19th-century formula for determining the maximum efficiency that any device can achieve in converting heat into work. But current commercial thermoelectric devices only achieve about one-tenth of that limit, Hagelstein says. In experiments involving a different new technology, thermal diodes, Hagelstein worked with Yan Kucherov, now a consultant for the Naval Research Laboratory, and coworkers to demonstrate efficiency as high as 40 percent of the Carnot Limit. Moreover, the calculations show that this new kind of system could ultimately reach as much as 90 percent of that ceiling. Hagelstein, Wu and others started from scratch rather than trying to
improve the performance of existing devices. They carried out their analysis
using a very simple system in which power was generated by a single quantum-dot
device — a type of semiconductor in which the electrons and holes, which
carry the electrical charges in the device, are very tightly confined in
all three dimensions. By controlling all aspects of the device, they hoped
to better understand how to design the ideal thermal-to-electric converter.
.... A key to the improved throughput was reducing the separation between
the hot surface and the conversion device. A recent paper by MIT professor
Gang Chen reported on an analysis showing that heat transfer could take
place between very closely spaced surfaces at a rate that is orders of
magnitude higher than predicted by theory. The new report takes that
finding a step further, showing how the heat can not only be transferred,
but converted into electricity so that it can be harnessed.
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Weird
"Particles" Spotted in Hot New Material
ScienceNOW Daily News October 2009 Adrian Cho "In the past 5 years, no material has excited more interest from condensed matter physicists than graphene, a sheet of carbon only one atom thick. ..... Now, a team of physicists has taken a key step in fulfilling graphene's promise as a hotbed of exotic physics by showing that the electrons within it can team up to behave like particles with a fraction of the electron's charge. The effect is called the fractional quantum Hall effect, and it's an esoteric embellishment of an already esoteric phenomenon known as the Hall effect. .... Things get weirder if the bar is made of semiconductor and is extremely thin top to bottom. In that case, the electrons can flow in only a few quantum channels that close one by one as the magnetic field increases. The Hall voltage climbs as the magnetic field increases in a series of even steps whose spacing is set by the electron's charge. The discovery of that quantum Hall effect won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1985. Weirder still, if the slab of semiconductor is made very pure and cold, then the electrons can gang up to act like "quasiparticles" with fractional charges--say, 1/3 of an electron's charge--adding more steps to the Hall-voltage stairway. That's the fractional quantum Hall effect, which bagged a Nobel in 1988. ... the team suspended micrometer-sized bits of graphene to avoid interference from the underlying substrate. The researchers then used a special arrangement of electrodes to keep from shorting out their own measurements, they report online this week in Nature. They observed quasiparticles with 1/3 an electron's charge." |
EXPERIMENTPhys. Lett. A, 2009. Karabut, Experimental Research ICCF-14 Stringham When Bubble Cavitation Becomes Sonofusion 237rd ACS 2009 Johnson, Melich. Weight of Evidence for the Fleischmann-Pons Effect. ICCF-14 |
Berkeley
researchers find new route to nano self-assembly
Science Centric October 2009
Electron micrograph of self-assembled nanoparticles of PbS-DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. "Berkeley researchers find new route to nano self-assembly. By adding specific types of small molecules to mixtures of nanoparticles and polymers, the researchers are able to direct the self-assembly of the nanoparticles into arrays of one, two and even three dimensions with no chemical modification of either the nanoparticles or the block copolymers. In addition, the application of external stimuli, such as light and/or heat, can be used to further direct the assemblies of nanoparticles for even finer and more complex structural details..... For this study, Xu and her group used two different types of small molecules, surfactants (wetting agents) dubbed 'PDP' and 'OPAP.' These small molecules can be stimulated by light (PDP) or heat (OPAP) to sever their connection to the surface of a block copolymer and be repositioned to another location along the polymeric chain. In this manner, the spatial distribution of the small molecule mediators and their nanoparticle partners can be precisely directed with no need to modify either the nanoparticles or the polymers." |
THEORYKim, Theory of Low-Energy Deuterium Fusion in Micro/Nano-Scale Metal Grains and Particles. ICCF-14 Takahashi Dynamic Mechanism of TSC Condensation Motion. ICCF-14 Moagar-Poladian,
Possible Mechanism For Cold Fusion. ICCF-15
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Bio-inspired catalyst design could rival platinum Chemistry World December 2009 Hayley Birch "French scientists have demonstrated the potential of a new fuel cell catalyst inspired by hydrogenase enzymes.... A close look at the catalyst reveals a striking similarity to the metalloproteins on which it is modelled. At the centre is a nickel atom, as in nickel-iron hydrogenases, combined with a diphosphine ligand bearing a basic N-H that mimics a co-factor in iron-iron hydrogenases and helps to control proton movement as hydrogen is either produced or oxidised. Artero's team grafted their complexes onto electrically conducting carbon nanotubes that drive electrons to or from the active site and embedded them in a polymer to protect them from acidic electrolytes - mimicking the protection afforded by polypeptide chains in enzymes. The result is a catalyst that shows impressive efficiency and stability under operating conditions."
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"There are more than 10 groups world wide that have reported the measurement
of excess heat in 1/3 of their experiments in open and/or closed electrochemical
cells with a Pd solid metal cathode and deuterium containing electrolyte,
or D2 gas loading of Pd powders (see Table 1 of the main text). Most of
these groups have occasionally experienced significant events lasting for
time periods of hours to days with 50–200% excess heat measured as the
ratio between electrical input energy and heat output energy.
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Metal
atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film
Chemistry World December 2009 | Simon Hadlington
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on the Science and Engineering of Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions (LANR) at MIT The Science and Technology of Deuterated Metals, Deuteron Flow, and LANR Devices Saturday, June 20, 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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A
metal oxide alternative to carbon as catalyst support in low-temperature
fuel cells
"Current polymer electrolyte fuel cells use platinum and platinum-based alloys supported on nanoporous carbon as electrodes. However, during the duty cycles of repeated start-ups and shut-downs, the fuel cell undergoes high potentials that lead to carbon and Pt degradation processes. In order to maximize catalyst utilization in the electrodes, Pt nanoparticles have been downsized to 2-3 nm. Thermodynamic size effects make them less stable than bulk Pt, which causes the dissolution/sintering into bigger agglomerates in order to restore stability. ,,,. At the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) and Turku (Finnland), researchers have successfully imparted semimetal conductivity to TiO2 nanotubes through carbonization in acetylene gas atmosphere at 850°C. While carbonization forms a new carbon-containing titanium oxy-carbide compound, the nanotube structure is hardly altered. The compound has been identified as a solid solution between TiCx and TiOx rather than C-doped TiO2. It exhibits high electronic conductivity similar to metals and a much superior mechanical hardness thanks to its titanium carbide content. Together with very good electrochemical properties, these new conductive titanium oxy-carbide nanotubes show great promise especially for DMFC applications: when introduced as support for Pt and Pt-Ru anode catalysts they are claimed to increase the activity for methanol oxidation by 700%. [P. Schmuki et al., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48 (2009), 7236-7239]. ...The novel Pt/TiO2 catalyst was tested as cathode in a PEMFC: it showed performances comparable to or even better than Pt/C at the same loading (0.4 mg/cm²), which was attributed to improved mass transport in the thinner cathode layer. .... Based on these results, mesoporous TiO2 should be considered as an alternative support for Pt in fuel cells [S.-Y. Huang et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131 (2009), 13898-13899]. |
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deuterium, and cold fusion
February 2010 - "Using his detector, in 1957 Alvarez observed the capture of mesons by deuterium molecules, immediately followed by the nuclear fusion of the two deuterium atoms. He reported his discovery in one of the 168 scientific publications he wrote; he described the process as the chemical catalysis of nuclear fusion. The force holding two atoms together in a diatomic molecule is linear in the mass of the electron. Substituting a meson for an electron effectively increased that force more than 200 times, allowing the fusion to occur..... In 1989 Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons also discovered the fusion of deuterium without the use of great heat and called a press conference to announce their “cold fusion” results....If those involved in the cold-fusion controversy read Alvarez’s paper, they will recognize that deuterium does undergo fusion if exposed to cosmic-ray secondaries. |
Death
of the Electric Car: Li-ion Batteries Too Valuable for Plug-In Vehicles
"The electric car died for two simple reasons. First, the batteries are too valuable to waste. Second, it takes a couple hundred pounds of batteries to store the useful energy found in a gallon of gas that weighs 6.4 pounds." |
| White
House Moves To Restrict DoE Nuclear Research
"The White House has proposed barring Energy Department research on fast reactor recycling of nuclear waste and technical support for licensing of small, modular light-water reactors, drawing protests from Energy Secretary Steven Chu that such prohibitions will have broad adverse effects, including hurting the U.S. nuclear industry's renaissance; crimping U.S. ability to influence other countries' fast reactor designs to address proliferation concerns; and taking away nuclear waste disposal options that might be considered by the administration's planned blue-ribbon panel on alternatives to the Yucca Mountain repository. In particular, OMB's opposition to letting DoE help U.S. nuclear vendors develop and license small, modular light-water reactors runs directly counter to broad bipartisan backing for such reactors as a promising area for rebirth of the U.S. nuclear industry and near-term deployment of emissions-free nuclear generation." |
Super-soldier
exoskeleton to get 3-day fuel cell powerpack
"A radical powered exoskeleton under development for use by the US military
is to be fitted with fuel-cell power supplies which will increase its endurance
from hours to days - and furnish juice for the burgeoning load of electronics
carried by modern soldiers, too.
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ScienceDaily (July 31, 2009) — A team of physicists from the Universities
of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can
divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.
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to Automobile Clunkers House approves $2B more in clunker cash Justin Hyde FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF • July
31, 2009
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P.A., et al., Use of CR-39 in Pd/D co-deposition experiments. Eur. Phys.
J. Appl. Phys., 2007. 40: p. 293-303.
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Nanocapacitors
Offer High Power and Large Storage
Janice Karin "Researchers at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland have created nanocapacitors capable of both high power concentrations and large storage capacities. ... The new battery system, developed by Gary Rubloff and his team at the Maryland NanoCenter facility, is approximately ten times more efficient than anything currently commercially available, allowing for a tenfold increase in power density. ... The nanocapacitor takes advantage of self-assembly ... Pores 50 nanometers in diameter and 30 nanometers deep are etched into a glass plate covered with aluminum with 25 nanometer spacing." |
SPAWAR
Experiments and the
Recurring Resurrections of “Cold Fusion” |
Courtney E. Howard, Military Aerospace Electronics |
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DARPA -Fox News - "Real-life "Transformers" could soon be used by American soldiers on the battlefield. The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is well into the second phase of a project to develop "programmable matter" that could reshape itself to fit any situation ... Program manager Dr. Mitchell R. Zakin give the example of a soldier needing a tool. He commands a bucket of programmable matter to form a wrench, and it does. Then he needs a hammer, and the wrench dissolves and reforms into a hammer.,,,Other applications of the technology would be robots that reshape themselves to adapt to specific jobs or conditions, aircraft wings that morph for more efficient airflow, uniforms that change density and coloring according to environment, and even "Terminator 2"-style liquid-metal robots that flow through cracks and small openings."
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Work
begins on world's deepest underground lab
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – "Far below the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews
are building the world's deepest underground science lab at a depth equivalent
to more than six Empire State buildings — a place uniquely suited to scientists'
quest for mysterious particles known as dark matter.
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| Seminar at U. Missouri:
"Excess Heat and Particle Tracks from Deuterium-loaded Palladium" Friday, May 29, 2009 - Jesse Wrench Auditorium Memorial Union University of Missouri Many research groups have reported excess heat from deuterated palladium using many different experimental techniques. Recently, the Navy's SPAWAR laboratory published experimental results that document the production of nuclear particles, thereby suggesting that nuclear reactions are occurring. These excess heat reports often vastly exceed that which would likely be produced by chemical reactions or by structural phase transitions in the palladium. |
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while Hot Fusion is delayed
(Hot) Fusion dreams delayed Geoff Brumfiel, Nature Faced with ballooning costs and growing delays, ITER's seven partners are likely to build only a skeletal version of the device at first. The project's governing council said last June that the machine should turn on in 2018... In fact, the ultimate cost of ITER may never be known. Because 90% of the project will be managed directly by individual member states, the central organization has no way of gauging how much is being spent, says Norbert Holtkamp, ITER's principal deputy director-general. "They won't even tell us," he says. "And that's OK with me." "Those close to the project now see Scenario 1 as the only practical way forward. Under the plan, the reactor would initially be built without several crucial and expensive components, including an inner shielding wall and test bed for new materials such as lithium blankets that generate tritium for the machine, along with the diverter, a series of tiles at the bottom of the tokamak that shunts heat safely out of the device. Also gone will be expensive accelerators to pump neutral beams of fuel into the machine, and some radio-frequency devices designed to further heat the plasma. Without these components, ITER can handle only plasmas of hydrogen, not deuterium or tritium." |
Giant
Laser Reactor Unveiled
June 01, 2009 - "Dignitaries and top scientists gathered
near San Francisco Friday for the formal opening of a massive new facility
that they hope will accomplish what was once thought impossible — nuclear
fusion, the Holy Grail of energy sources. The National Ignition Facility
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will focus 192 laser beams on
a hydrogen pellet the size of a bead, heating it to incredible temperatures
in an attempt to recreate the power of the sun."
Jon Cartwright NEW SCIENTIST "At his home near Salisbury, UK, 82-year-old Fleischmann ....
regrets not having resolved his past dealings with the mainstream science
community, who he thinks behaved in a "very unscientific" manner. ... Many
scientists berated the two chemists for publicly announcing their results
before having them published in a peer-reviewed journal. Fleischmann has
always insisted they had no choice, because they had to apply for a research
grant, which revealed a similar line of research being performed at Brigham
Young University, also in Utah. When officials at the University of Utah
heard of the competition, Fleischmann says he and Pons were railroaded
into applying for a patent and delivering a press conference. "It was a
very unfortunate time to try to float the idea," he explains.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – "A new, superheavy chemical element numbered 112 will soon be officially included in the periodic table, German researchers said. A team in the southwest German city of Darmstadt first produced 112 in 1996 by firing charged zinc atoms through a 120-meter-long particle accelerator to hit a lead target. "The new element is approximately 277 times heavier than hydrogen, making it the heaviest element in the periodic table," the scientists at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research said in a statement late on Wednesday. The zinc and lead nuclei were fused to form the nucleus of the new element, also known as Ununbium, Latin for 112. .... Scientists at the Helmholtz Center have discovered six chemical elements, numbered 107-112, since 1981.". |
US
lab debuts super laser
" A US weapons lab on Friday pulled back the curtain on a super laser with the power to burn as hot as a star. The National Ignition Facility's main purpose is to serve as a tool for gauging the reliability and safety of the US nuclear weapons arsenal but scientists say it could deliver breakthroughs in safe fusion power. ... Construction of the NIF began in 1997, funded by the US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). "NIF, a cornerstone of the National Nuclear Security Administration's effort to maintain our nuclear deterrent without nuclear testing, will play a vital role in reshaping national security in the 21st century," said NNSA administrator Tom D'Agostino." |
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Janese Heavin "Frank Gordon, head of the Research and Applied Sciences Department at the U.S. Navy SSC-Pacific. Navy chemists in March announced they had conducted “highly replicable” experiments creating low-energy nuclear reactions. “We’ve been carefully designing experiments for 20 years,” Gordon said. “By doing that, essentially we’ve been hidden in plain sight.”
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Wall Street Journal - Keith Johnson "The Nation needs transformational energy-related technologies to overcome the threats posed by climate change and energy security, arising from its reliance on traditional uses of fossil fuels and the dominant use of oil in transportation.” |
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Scott Chubb Issue 85 May/June 2009 Infinite Energy Magazine |
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ICCF-15
October 5-19, 2009
Third
International Conference On Future Energy
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“60
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COLD FUSION TIMES
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ABC News - Ned Potter But a few researchers continue to work on it. A team of researchers, led by Pamela Boss of the U.S. Navy and Lawrence Forsley of the technology firm JWK International, reported evidence that they have seen high-energy neutrons, a possible side effect of nuclear fusion, in a laboratory experiment. "I am confident we are seeing nuclear reactions," said Forsley by telephone from San Diego, where he now does much of his work in collaboration with the Navy. "We're seeing conventional nuclear reactions in an unconventional place." |
60
Minutes: Cold Fusion is Hot Again
DIGG BLOG - "When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But, as Scott Pelley reports, there's renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production." |
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CBS "60 Minutes" Cold Fusion /Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions Coverage "Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything. But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.. .... With so many open questions, 60 Minutes wanted to find out whether cold fusion is more than a tempest in a teapot. So 60 Minutes asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in America, to recommend an independent scientist. They gave us Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri and an expert in measuring energy. ... We asked Duncan to go with 60 Minutes to Israel, where a lab called Energetics Technologies has reported some of the biggest energy gains yet. Duncan spent two days examining cold fusion experiments and investigating whether the measurements were accurate.... He crunched the numbers himself and searched for an explanation other than a nuclear effect. "I found that the work done was carefully done, and that the excess heat, as I see it now, is quite real," Duncan said." |
April 14, 2009 David R. Butcher ThomsdasNET "Researchers at a U.S. Navy laboratory have unveiled what they call "significant" evidence of a potential energy source that supposedly doesn't exist: cold fusion. Cold fusion, the supposed generation of thermonuclear energy using tabletop apparatus, was first reported in 1989 by electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. .... Indeed, the world — particularly the science community at large — soon reacted with skepticism and, ultimately, derision. ... Nonetheless, research into the supposedly debunked field continued within a relatively small network of dedicated cold-fusionists. Continued research now allegedly shows signs of paying off, as scientists last month described what they called the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons, subatomic particles that scientists say are indicative of nuclear reactions." |
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The Patriot Ledger Nov 17, 2008 - Gayle Verner Quincy, MA - "There isn't a day that goes by where we don't hear the national angst over alternative energy; it's predominately either wind or solar, end of discussion. Many may think this subject is a big yawn. I, on the other hand, am furious. What about the other energy - from sea water? We used to call it cold fusion, but it's been so unfairly disparaged over the years that you have to be careful who you tell. Simply put, it's energy from fusing the heavy hydrogen atoms found in the ocean with a piece of precious metal and a jolt of electricity; ultimately, you get more heat out than you put in. The result? Another clean energy source - at room temperature. One day this kind of energy-from-water could substitute for all the Earth's oil reserves. The harnessing and perfecting of this process continues to this day, making way for higher-efficient water boilers, alternative energy systems for cars and even potable water." ... Cold fusion is real and respectable and continues to be examined by respectable people who have steadfastly advanced the technology. Given its progress, it deserves to be included in the national energy debate." |
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FOX News, March 25, 2009 - "The 'cold fusion'
device produced this pattern of 'triple tracks' that may be caused by high-energy
neutrons resulting from a nuclear reaction. Twenty years ago this week,
a pair of previously unknown scientists stunned the world by announcing
they'd done the impossible by achieving nuclear fusion in a lab flask at
room temperature. ...Now a U.S. Navy researcher, speaking on the anniversary
of and in the same city where they made their announcement, thinks Fleischmann
and Pons may have been right."
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New
Scientist - Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion
"Twenty years to the day that two electrochemists ignited controversy by announcing signs of cold fusion at an infamous press conference in Utah (watch a video of the 1989 event), a separate team has made a similar claim in the same US state. But this time, the evidence is being taken more seriously." |
| Cold
fusion - Citizendium
"The field of research and the name cold fusion began spectacularly in 1989 when chemists Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton reported in a press conference that they had conducted low-cost experiments that led to the production of excess heat in an electrolytic cell in a manner that could only be produced by a nuclear process.....Two separate review panels organized by the United States Department of Energy, the first in 1989 and the second in 2004, concluded that the evidence is not convincing. Both panels recommended that limited research funding be made available. The 2004 report says: "The nearly unanimous opinion of the reviewers was that funding agencies should entertain individual, well-designed proposals for experiments that address specific scientific issues relevant to the question of whether or not there is anomalous energy production in Pd/D systems. . ." [6] This recommendation has not been implemented." |
"... Cold fusion is so called to distinguish it from the sort that goes on in stars and hydrogen bombs. That needs a temperature of several million degrees. If cold fusion worked, it could provide an inexhaustible supply of clean energy. But it has been cold-shouldered by most scientists. Funding has dried up. What research there is, is conducted outside mainstream laboratories. .... To try to persuade their fellow researchers of the reality of cold fusion, Pamela Boss and her colleagues decided to search for evidence of the presence of high-energy neutrons, which should be produced when two nuclei fuse. Dr Boss works for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Centre in San Diego, California, an organisation that develops communication systems for the American navy. The experiment that she thinks results in cold fusion uses an electrochemical technique in which two electrodes are plunged into an electrolyte made from a recipe that includes heavy water." |
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"The Michelson Doppler Imager on SOHO captured this white light continuum image of the spotless sun on March 31, 2009. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73 percent). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days. " |
Retired U.S. Navy Physicist and Engineer James A. Marusek 2 Apr 09 – “The sun has gone very quiet as it transitions to Solar
Cycle 24. Since the current transition now exceeds 568 spotless days, it
is becoming clear that sun has undergone a state change. It is now evident
that the Grand Maxima state that has persisted during most of the 20th
century has come to an abrupt end. (The sun) might (1) revert to the old
solar cycles or (2) the sun might go even quieter into a “Dalton Minimum”
or a Grand Minima such as the “Maunder Minimum”. It is still a little early
to predict which way it will swing. Each of these two possibilities holds
a great threat to our nation."
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Scientific American - Katherine Harmon "We have been working for … years to know what kinds of questions to address," one of the presenters Antonella De Ninno, a scientist at the New Technologies Energy and Environment in Italy, said in a statement. "After long term and intensive research, we found ourselves able to give a reasonable … explanation."... One team, led by Pamela Mosier-Boss, an analytical chemist at the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, has announced visual evidence of a fusion-like reaction. .... In other signs of fusion, Tadahiko Mizuno, an assistant professor in the department of nuclear engineering at Hokkadio University in Japan, reports having detected gamma radiation .." |
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e! Science News March 25, 2009 - "Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions.. once called “cold fusion” ... “Our finding is very significant,” says study co-author and analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss, Ph.D., of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) ...."
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IEEE Spectrum online - Mark Anderson 25 March 2009—On Monday, scientists at the American
Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Salt Lake City announced a series of
experimental results that they argue confirms controversial “cold fusion”
claims. Chief among the findings was new evidence presented by U.S. Navy
researchers of high-energy neutrons in a now-standard cold fusion experimental
setup—electrodes connected to a power source, immersed in a solution containing
both palladium and “heavy water.”
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It will soon be powered up "Recreating the conditions that exist within the Sun has been a long-term desire for physicists, and it would appear that scientists in the US are very close to finally fulfilling this dream. The country's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is, according to officials, operational and ready for action. The device is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, California, and is, in fact, a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research facility. Scientists hope it has the ability to compress small amounts of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion is obtained. ... Experiments at the NIF will begin this June at the earliest, and concrete results are expected to be available for publishing anywhere between 2010 and 2012. ...“The technology of NIF allows the laser to fire every few hours." |
Fusion
nucléaire à froid: nouvelles expériences peut-être
prometteuses
LE MATIN ch - "Des chercheurs travaillant pour un laboratoire de la Marine américaine ont fait part lundi de résultats d'expériences peut-être prometteurs dans la fusion nucléaire à froid, un champ de recherche dont la crédibilité est sujette à caution dans la communauté scientifique. Des chercheurs travaillant pour un laboratoire de la Marine américaine ont fait part lundi de résultats d'expériences peut-être prometteurs dans la fusion nucléaire à froid, un champ de recherche dont la crédibilité est sujette à caution dans la communauté scientifique." |
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fusion' rebirth? New evidence for controversial energy source
EurekAlert Michael Bernstein "This research was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. ... One group of scientists, for instance, describes what it terms the first clear visual evidence that LENR devices can produce neutrons, subatomic particles that scientists view as tell-tale signs that nuclear reactions are occurring." |
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'Cold
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ScienceDaily "Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. " |
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scientist announces possible cold fusion reactions
Eric Berger Houston Chronicle "A U.S. Navy researcher announced today that her lab has produced “significant” new results that indicate cold fusion-like reactions. ...Devising a fusion-based source of energy on Earth has long been a “clean-energy” holy grail of physicists....Today’s announcement is based partly on research published by Mosier-Boss’ group last year in the journal Naturwissenschaften. In this sense, she has not repeated the mistake of Pons and Fleischmann, who announced their findings before they had been tested by the peer-review process and published in a scientific journal." |
Claim
rekindles heat on tabletop cold fusion
New Delhi 'Telegraph" G.S. MUDUR - March 23: Scientists today presented what they claim is the strongest evidence yet that nuclear fusion — the nuclear reaction that powers stars — can be attained on a tabletop.... esearchers from the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Centre in San Diego, said they have visual evidence for high energy neutrons, a telltale signature of fusion, that had never been seen in tabletop fusion experiments until now." |
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ISSUE 81, September/October 2008 • Scott Chubb: "Summary of ICCF14 (pdf)" |
Cold
Fusion Gets a Little Respect
Eric Smalley,Energy Research News - March 24, 2009 "The study of low-energy nuclear reactions, a.k.a. cold fusion, is coming in from the cold.....It’s unfortunate that it’s taken 20 years. The reaction against cold fusion was so severe that the valid scientific questions raised by the early cold fusion work became radioactive, and few scientists were willing to risk their careers exploring them. This created a Catch-22. Scientists, peer-reviewed journals and funding agencies demanded a lot of evidence before they would consider cold fusion research but there were few researchers generating evidence.There’s a lot of lost time to make up ..." |
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International Cold Fusion Conference August 10-15, 2008 Hyatt Regency Hotel Capitol Hill (Washington, DC) - 180 attendees of ICCF-14 gathered week-long to discuss, develop, and understand their research. Despite meandering blockades, plasterboard, and a slow elevator, the spirit of the researchers forged ahead. From Llewlellyn King, who identified the forces against clean abundant nuclear energy to the final day on non-helium-4 transmutation, led by Prof. George Miley, the program of nearly a hundred lectures, keynotes, posters, and discussions producing a highly informed, and scientifically robust group. |
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"50 years from now, when you look back at your life, don't you want to say you had the guts to study cold fusion?" |
YOU-TUBE on Cold Fusion (aka.LANR,
CMNS, LENR)
2007 Cold Fusion Colloquium at MIT (High Energy Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions) |
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Local
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"Energy: What is small enough to be hauled on a truck, has the power to provide electricity to 45,000 homes, can help the U.S. cut its dependence on foreign oil and has no emissions? ....Next week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will rule on an application from NuScale Power, an Oregon-based startup that is seeking federal clearance to move ahead with its project to build mini or portable nuclear reactors....Mini nuclear power plants, from end to end, would be no more than 65 feet long ......The U.S. has not seen a nuclear plant of any size come online since the Watts Bar facility in Tennessee went into production in 1996. While France gets more than 75% of its electricity from nuclear power, the U.S. has been stuck at the 20% level for years." |
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CARBON CATALYST FOR FUEL CELLS TOKYO, Jul 14, 2008 - Nisshinbo Industries Inc.
(TSE:3105) has worked with the Tokyo Institute of Technology to develop
the technology to use carbon instead of expensive platinum as the electrode
catalyst for fuel cells.
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'The chemical properties of the super atoms that have been identified up until now are very similar to those of elements in the periodic table, because their outer layers are much the same. However, we may yet discover super atoms with a different outer layer, giving us another set of completely new properties.' |
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The University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library will be the repository for New Energy Foundation's Cold Fusion Oral History Collection upon its completion. “This arrangement brings to fruition the hopes that the New Energy Foundation and I had at the beginning of the project, to have the benefit of the University of Utah’s expertise and capabilities,” stated Project Director Marianne Macy. New Energy Foundation General Manager Christy Frazier noted, "We believe it is of important historic value that the University of Utah will become the repository for this Collection, and we are also excited about the fact that it will be completed around the 20th anniversary date. Most in this field have been working diligently, with great results, for these 20 years, and it is extremely important that their life's work and contribution to science be recorded for posterity." The non-profit New Energy Foundation was founded by the late Dr. Eugene Mallove, who, until his murder in May 2004, was a leading proponent for new energy/new science. For more information about the New Energy Foundation Cold Fusion Oral History Collection, please contact the New Energy Foundation at (603) 485-4700, or staff@infinite-energy.com. |
Is
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M. Srinivasan, Former Scientist, BARC India - Occurrence of nuclear reactions at room temperatures has been confirmed. ... The phenomenon, once known as cold fusion, but now more accurately regarded as low energy nuclear reactions, represents a significant paradigm shift in our understanding of nuclear phenomena. It is unfortunate that CF got embroiled in a worldwide controversy. And that is because according to our current understanding of nuclear physics the kind of low energy nuclear reactions apparently occurring in cold fusion devices cannot and should not happen.Are we to believe the new experimental findings and change our theories or are we going to cling to our age old concepts and refuse to face facts? This is the dilemma facing nuclear physicists the world over. Immense resistance to accepting a paradigm shift is common to science. History is replete with such instances. The experiments show that when deuterium (or at times even hydrogen) atoms are inserted (or loaded) inside a metal such as palladium, titanium, nickel etc, occupying interstitial lattice positions in sufficiently large numbers (we call it “high loading ratios”) and if the right ‘Nuclear Active Environment’ is created, a variety of nuclear reactions are found to occur involving not only the deuterium nuclei but also the host metal atoms. In this process ‘excess energy’ is often found to be produced and in some cases nuclear particles such as neutrons, X-rays or even charged particles are released. But increasingly it has been observed that new ‘transmutation’ elements not present prior to the commencement of the experiments have been detected. The occurrence of such nuclear reactions at ‘room’ temperatures has been confirmed in diverse experimental conditions and configurations such as electrolysis experiments, glow discharge devices and even simple gas loading configurations. |
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International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science International Conference on Cold Fusion Washington, D.C., USA, 2008 LENR have been studied by hundreds of scientists globally since the field began in 1989. At this time, the experimental evidence for the existence of LENR is strong. Further, many of the characteristics of LENR are already known. Measurement techniques and results obtained with them have been published in over 1,000 scientific papers. The mechanisms for such reactions are not yet understood theoretically. Nevertheless, the empirical information shows that LENR produce energy with harmless helium as the primary by-product. In most experiments, there is neither significant immediate radiation nor residual radioactivity. Several start-up companies and other organizations are working on the science of LENR. The emerging results might provide the basis for green energy sources with many applications, such as desalination. Information and papers on Lattice Assisted Nuclear reactions (aka LENR)
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AT APS MARCH MEETING "It has been over a decade since Dr. Scott Chubb (a technical editor
of Infinite Energy) first arranged to include a cold fusion session at
the APS March Meeting. ...r. Melvin Miles opened the 2008 session with
a report on replication of heat results obtained initially by Energetics
in Israel. This work by Dr. Michael McKubre, Dr. Francis Tanzella, and
Dr. Vittorio Violante was based on independent experiments performed at
SRI and ENEA. Initial studies at ENEA and the University of Rome guided
experiments evaluating a novel cathode current stimulus developed by Energetics
in Israel. McKubre, Miles, Violante, and Tanzella are world class scientists.
This paper, “The Significance of Replication,” is landmark science.
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JET
Thermal Products is Developing
JET has pioneered contributions in the development of the evolving landscape of cold fusion and its utilization, by developing a continuum electrophysics model which has led to the quasi-1-dimensional model of isotope loading of a metal, and then to codeposition, the optimal operating point, Phusor technology, control of "heat after death", among other directions.
Metamaterial Technology PHUSOR™ Electrode
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New Energy Now™ (http://pesn.com/Radio/Free_Energy_Now/) (PESWiki Page) - Monday; 12:00 - 1:00 pm Pacific. WEEKLY one-hour show with host Sterling D. Allan; goes in-depth into various cutting-edge, clean energy technologies. Archives * http://www.podshow.com/shows/?show_id=1049&mode=current - publicly accessible * http://www.bbsradio.com/archives/free_energy_now.php (login required) |
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Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions in Deuterated Metals Scott Chubb and Christy Frazier Excerpts from Issue 75; Sept/Oct 2007; Infinite Energy Magazine - More in that issue
The 2007 Colloquium on Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions in Deuterated Metals was held on August 18, 2007 in Room 34-101 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ..... Dr. Scott Chubb gave a brief overview of the events at the recent (June 2007) ICCF13 conference, held in Russia. ... Prof. Peter Hagelstein presented a “Review of Experimental Findings Involving Deuterated Metals.” "Dr. Larry Forsley presented on “Gamma Emissions from CR39 Films Near Codeposited Deuterated Palladium. Dr. Ludwik Kowalski and Rick Cantwell also presented on the topic. Dr. Forsley’s and Dr. Kowalski’s presentations related to work they presented during the March 2007 meeting of the American Physical Society—replicating effects that have been observed by Stan Szpak, Pamela Mosier-Boss, and Frank Gordon. ” Excerpts above, full
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on "Lattice-Assisted Nuclear Reactions (LANR) Cold-Fusion Graybeards Keep the Research Coming Mark Anderson ![]() ![]() "CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- At an MIT lecture hall on Saturday, a convocation
of 50 researchers and investors gathered to discuss a phenomenon that allegedly
does not exist. ...Presenters at the MIT event estimated that 3,000
published studies from scientists around the world have contributed to
the growing canon of evidence suggesting that small but promising amounts
of energy can be generated using the infamous tabletop apparatus.
... Excess energy comes in bursts in these experiments," said Hagelstein.
"The effect has been observed in many other laboratories. It's also not
been observed in other laboratories, especially in the early days. ....
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promise: Cheap power from water
"For the first time in his company's 19 years of persistent trial and error, Mills says he has a market-ready product: a fuel cell that produces a chemical reaction to alter hydrogen atoms. The fuel cell releases heat that turns water into steam, which drives electric turbines. The working models in his lab generate 50 kilowatts of electricity - enough to power six or seven houses. But these, Mills says, can be scaled to drive a large, electric power plant. The inventor claims this electricity will cost less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour, which compares to a national average of 8.9 cents." |
"I've been attending conferences on Cold Fusion (also called Low Energy
Nuclear Reactions and Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reactions) since the 10th
International Conference (ICCF10) held in Cambridge, MA in 2003.
Excerpts above, full story at Strategy Kinetics |
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"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. |
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An All-Electric Car That Accelerates Faster Than a Ferrari - Technology Review |
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"[W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of." - Erasmus Wilson (1878) Professor at Oxford University |
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A Sponge's Guide to Nano-Assembly Technology Review - Kevin Bullis |
(Hot) Fusion reactor work gets go-ahead |
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Energy secretary says coal, oil will power U.S. for decades |
Carbon Fullerenes Now Have Metallic Cousins |
Being invisible 'a possibility' - Reuters May 26, 2006 |
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Record-breaking laser is hot stuff - Mark Peplow |
JT-60 Tokamak Reactor Doubles Plasma Confinement Record Sven Olsen - May 10, 2006 |
U.S. energy research is declining - Conference here shows other nations way ahead |
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High Gasoline Prices Here to Stay - Bodman(U.S. Energy Secretary) - Forbes |
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Ex-CIA chief: Oil key to U.S. security - Jason Cato |
Argonne's drive: new fuels for cars |
Kramer (100 MPG cars) come to Washington |
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Purdue University scientist stands by his findings |
Dr. Melvin H. Miles Cold Fusion Website |
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Does fusion scientist 'hold the secret'? - Deseret News March 24, 2006 Elaine Jarvik |
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." |
Make Way For Ethanol - How fields of corn may hold the key to the future’s fuel source |
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Hydrogen fuel cells become faster and greener with new catalyst |
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Rejection leaves bubble-fusion patent high and dry - Eugenie Reich |
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"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad." |
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DOE Warms to Cold Fusion Whether outraged or supportive about DOE's planned reevaluation of cold fusion, most scientists remain deeply skeptical that it's real.
COLD FUSION TIMES "Your complete guide to cold fusion, condensed matter nuclear science, and low energy nuclear reactions" "We coldly go where no one has gone before" |
Chinese experimental thermonuclear reactor on discharge test in July - People's Daily |
More cold water on fusion theory - Fascination with cold fusion Persists - Apr. 15, 2006 Toronto Star - Jay Ingram |
Nuclear fusion - Once is happenstance - Mar 9, 2006 |
Rejection leaves bubble-fusion patent high and dry - Eugenie Reich |
Purdue University investigating 'sonofusion' claims - PhysOrgForum |
Scientist Says He Stands by Fusion Data - March 9, 2006 Kenneth Chang |
College Reviews Physicist's Tabletop Fusion Claims |
Is bubble fusion simply hot air? Concerns gather momentum over claims for table-top energy production |
Purdue scientist is under scrutiny - Will Higgins |
Bubble bursts for table-top fusion - Data analysis calls bubble fusion into question - Eugenie Samuel Reich |
Scientists unplug tabletop fusion - Chris Williams March 8, 2006 |
University to Investigate Fusion Study - Kenneth Chang March 8, 2006 |
(WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taleyarkhan, whose study was published while he was at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, now works at Purdue |
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Experts argue about Cold fusion Haiko Lietz - Handelsblatt, March 23, 2006, p.11 |
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Financial Times March 9, 2006 - Robert Matthews Dr Mills first came across quantum mechanics after graduating in medicine from Harvard and taking up post-graduate studies in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Struck by the weirdness of the theory, he set about devising a radically different account of the sub-atomic world, based on ideas from Victorian physics. |
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Did "Dark Matter" Create the First Stars? - Max Planck Society March, 15 2006 |
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Man to face trial for murder of New Hampshire man |
Evidence may link together three crimes STONINGTON -- Investigators are now trying to piece together evidence involved in three violent crimes that happened in southeastern Connecticut. Stonington police are not commenting on any evidence they found linking a Jarion Childs, 27, a former Groton basketball standout, to the beating, robbery and death of an 89-year-old local farmer....Now the evidence gathered at the Groton and Stonington crime scenes may be connected to a murder case 20 miles away. Eugene Mallove, a world expert on cold fusion, was killed during what police suspect was a robbery at his mother's rental property in Norwich. |
Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab Ker Than |
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THE
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Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion Tadahiko Mizuno |
Fire from Ice : Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor Dr. Eugene J. Mallove |
Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed Charles G. Beaudette |
Electrogravitics Systems : Reports on a New Propulsion Methodology Thomas Valone |
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Energy of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, U.S. House of
Representatives" ISBN 0-16-041505-5. (May 5, 1993) U.S. Government Printing
Office,
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Hal Fox "Cold Fusion Impact"
ISBN-0-96349780-4 (Fusion Information Center 1993) |
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Milton, "Forbidden Science", ISBN 1-85702-302-1
Paul A. Laviolette Subquantum Kinetics : The Alchemy of Creation Paul A. Laviolette Quest for Zero Point Energy Engineering Principles for Free Energy Moray B. King |
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Nanotube ultracapacitors would store energy on atomic level, providing what is said to be the first technologically significant and economically viable alternative to conventional batteries in more than 200 years. Capacitors store energy as an electrical field, making them more efficient than standard batteries, which get their energy from chemical reactions. Ultracapacitors are capacitor-based storage cells that provide quick, massive bursts of instant energy. .. The LEES ultracapacitor has the capacity to overcome this energy limitation by using vertically aligned, single-wall carbon nanotubes -- one thirty-thousandth the diameter of a human hair and 100,000 times as long as they are wide. ...Storage capacity in an ultracapacitor is proportional to the surface area of the electrodes. Today's ultracapacitors use electrodes made of activated carbon, which is extremely porous and therefore has a very large surface area. However, the pores in the carbon are irregular in size and shape, which reduces efficiency. The vertically aligned nanotubes in the LEES ultracapacitor have a regular shape, and a size that is only several atomic diameters in width. The result is a significantly more effective surface area, which equates to significantly increased storage capacity. |
ideal for automobiles "The MIT team's new lithium battery contains manganese and nickel, which are cheaper than cobalt. |
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A Partial List of Successful Documented EM Over-Unity and Negative Resistor Devices and Processes Ferroelectric Capacitors and the Magnetic Resonance Amplifier
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Novel invention could mean cheaper source of energy from solar power
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HONOLULU - In a state where tropical sunshine is near constant and electricity costs twice the national average, solar power seems an easy answer. But with the panels that produce the electricity already popular abroad and a batch of new domestic tax credits just kicking in, solar suppliers locally and around the globe are scrambling for stock. ... The problem is that while demand for solar panels is increasing, the ability to meet that demand hasn’t caught up, said Reed, president of the Hawaii Solar Energy Association. |
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Introduction to Cold Fusion (Introduction including Engineering and the Optimal Operating Point Cold Fusion Science - More Engineering and material science Public Open-House Cold Fusion Demonstration at MIT and ICCF10 More information about CF Devices PowerPedia:Cold fusion
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