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ENERGY PRODUCTION
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It 's an important and universal term we hear everyday. We all want to
find better sources of energy, make them more efficient, and increase their
output. So at JET Thermal Products
we have been spending our energy and time exploring, researching
and developing newer, more efficient, cleaner and cheaper ways of doing
just that.
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In the past, energy production had its risks, from the industrial
revolution to the current issues involving global warming, carbon
dioxide greenhouse effects, nitric oxide and sulfur dioxide as pollutants.
No one can dispute that energy is a major part of our healthy future
as is the need for critical thinking and openness.
What is the Earth to do?
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One answer is the development of cold fusion which appears to have the
ability to generate unlimited amounts of energy from water. It's
cheap and clean -- without any environmentally destructive products.
It is a new and challenging technology that offers much hope.
For a better perspective of what cold fusion is, what it can
do, and why it is important, the following is an excerpt from "COLD FUSION",
the "21st Century" radio show on 4/18/04, by Dr. Bob Hieronimus with guests
Dr. Eugene Mallove and Dr. Mitchell Swartz (**, ***).
Dr. Swartz: "Cold fusion is the fusion of two heavy hydrogen nuclei
to form a helium nucleus at near room temperature. Cold fusion happens
when we take heavy hydrogen and we load it into a metal such as palladium,
much as water is loaded into a sponge. When the hydrogen loading
reaches a certain sufficient threshold level, then all of the sites in
the metal lattice that are available become filled. If we keep pushing
harder, then the lattice continues to fill, and if we continue to push
in a sufficient amount, then eventually, if the conditions are correct
and if we actually have prepared the metal a little bit, then we know that
there are certain sites in the loaded metal where these desired reactions
occur. Cold fusion then does occur. Under the appropriate conditions,
some of these pieces of palladium appear to generate reactions that involve
heat directly from the generation of new (de novo) helium-4."
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Crystalline lattice of palladium (left) is filled
with hydrogen from water (right)
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Dr. Swartz: "Unlike the internal combustion engine which generates carbon
monoxide, nitric oxide, sulfur dioxide, in amounts all of up to 100,000
tons per day preceding, cold fusion offers the opportunity to generate
only for garbage bags of helium at the same energy generation. It
is not even close. Cold fusion will be the source of energy for this
planet, and for interstellar probes, into the future."
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Dr. Swartz: "For each gigawatt-day a city needs, a city must
burn coal at a rate of 9,000 tons per day. And in doing that, the
pollution by this old technology will make 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide
(CO2), 600 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2), and 80 tons of (nitrogen dioxide)
NO2, and tons of other contaminants, each and every day. This exhaust
contamination is made in conventional systems day after day. By contrast,
with cold fusion producing the same amount of power, that is a gigawatt
that lasts for a day, that amount of energy production would require only
one pound of heavy water containing deuterium to fuel the city's needs,
and that cold fusion process would produce only 4 pounds of helium exhaust.
Consider, the product with cold fusion, helium, is environmentally safe
and does not produce global warming. Remember that we let children
play with, and even breathe helium, directly from balloons on occasion,
to change the pitch of their voice. This biocompatibility difference
between the benign product of cold fusion and the toxic cornucopia of
products of conventional systems is a big and dramatic contrast between
the two sources of energy." |
Dr. Mallove: "One important implication of cold fusion is that
there are, at least, 300 gallons of gasoline equivalent in every gallon
of ordinary water. If you take the heavy hydrogen contained in one
gallon of water, normal water that you drink, or get at the pond or the
lake or the ocean, and fuse that heavy hydrogen into helium, which is what
is happening in cold fusion. This gives you heat, and that
amount of heat is the equivalent of 300 gallons of gasoline. That
means that in only one cubic kilometer of ocean, we have the energy equivalent
of the entire known oil reserves on Earth. And that means total energy
independence from any localized supply of oil plus the environmental benefit
of not producing CO2 and other noxious pollutants." |
Dr. Swartz: "With cold fusion we get to transfer the use of petrochemicals
and gasoline into making useful pharmaceuticals and plastics and perhaps
even nanomaterials. Imagine using the atoms in gasoline to make new
materials, rather than just burning it into carbon dioxide (CO2).
How important is this new form of energy production? For the
United States alone, the potential economic benefits resulting from controlled
fusion with the generation of safe helium-4 are somewhere between substantial
and staggering." |
Dr. Mallove: "With cold fusion, we would have a much more active
economy because there would be a need to essentially retool and restructure
the entire energy infrastructure of the world, giving thousands and thousands,
millions and millions, of new jobs to people. And giving them more
leisure time as well. There has been mention of the water supply.
Fresh water is greatly in need, particularly in third world countries,
developing countries; and if you have a cheap source of energy and
its small and portable and safe, then you could use that source of energy
to help desalinate water, and to help decontaminate water, of course by
evaporation and boiling. It could also desalinate ocean water.
So as a result, fresh water would be in abundance, presumably in places
that now don't have it, and deserts would bloom." |
Dr. Swartz : "The product of these energy producing reactions
is helium-4, or simply helium. We already live in an atmosphere where
there is some helium. If we adopted cold fusion, then [the
Kyoto Agreement problems and CO2 pollution and greenhouse effect] would
be a moot issue, because the result would be the trading of 30,000 tons
of CO2 for a mere 4 pounds of helium each and every day. The reason
I say that the cold fusion helium-4 is de novo is that this helium-4 is
created new, fresh, and is generated directly from the deuterium within
the loaded palladium. This new cold fusion-generated helium-4 is
not a contaminant, and does not come from the air. We know that now from
very careful experiments by Dr. Melvin Miles [US Navy] who used metal flasks
as part of his cold fusion apparatus. The metal prevents contamination,
and the samples were then examined by several national laboratories for
the presence of increased amounts of helium-4 by the cold fusion.
The new helium was present in an amount consistent with the observed generated
energy." |
Dr. Mallove: "We all are empowered when technological devices
do work for us that would ordinarily cost us time or money in other areas.
Today, we all know that for both heating and cooling we spend a lot for
electricity for oil and for natural gas and coal and so forth. And
conventional fission power plants are required to generate electricity.
When there is this new era, it will amount to, we have to be careful using
this term, free energy where the fuel to provide the energy will be effectively
free, in this case water which is effectively free. Even if the devices
won't be free, when we have large reserves of energy at the disposal of
any given human being, then that person or family will be empowered.
Literally empowered. They will be able to use the time and effort
that they normally expend to raise money to pay for basic things such as
heating, cooling and electricity on other things. They will be able
to spend that time doing other things whether its leisure or using the
saved money toward other purposes. So it will help, in my opinion,
to alleviate poverty in that sense." |
** The authors thank Laura Cortner, Christy Frazier, Gayle Verner
and Bob Weber for their helpful comments and suggestions.
*** It is with great and deepest sadness and grief
that our friend and cold fusion colleague, Dr. Eugene Mallove, the
first historian in this field, was brutally murdered May 14, 2004
in Connecticut.
This happened after this broadcast aired.
The crime still remains unsolved. |
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