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Title: Cold fusion experimentally confirmed
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URL Source: http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/ ... QSNDLSCKHA?articleID=216200272
Published: May 1, 2010
Author: R. Colin Johnson
Post Date: 2010-05-01 17:54:51 by gengis gandhi
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EE Times: Latest News Cold fusion experimentally confirmed R. Colin Johnson EE Times (03/23/2009 8:43 PM EDT) PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting. "We have compelling evidence that fusion reactions are occurring" at room temperature, said Pamela Mosier-Boss, a scientist with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (San Diego). The results are "the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions," she added. Cold fusion was first reported in 1989 by researchers Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, then with the University of Utah, prompting a global effort to develop the technology. Normal fusion reactions, where hydrogen is fused into helium, occur at millions of degrees inside the Sun. If room temperature fusion reactions could be realized commercially, as Fleishchmann and Pons claimed to have achieved inside an electrolytic cell, it promised to produce abundant nuclear energy from deuterium--heavy hydrogen--extracted from seawater. Other scientists were unable to duplicate the 1989 results, thereby discrediting the work. The theoretical underpinnings of cold fusion have yet to be adequately explained. The hypothesis is that when electrolysis is performed on deuteron, molecules are fused into helium, releasing a high-energy neutron. While excess heat has been detected by researchers, no group had yet been able to detect the missing neutrons. Now, the Naval researchers claim that the problem was instrumentation, which was not up to the task of detecting such small numbers of neutrons. To sense such small quantities, Mosier-Boss used a special plastic detector called CR-39. Using co-deposition with nickel and gold wire electrodes, which were inserted into a mixture of palladium chloride and deutrium, the detector was able to capture and track the high-energy neutrons. Silvered Dewar calorimeter used by Navy researchers to detect neutron emissions from a cold fusion process. The plastic detector captured a pattern of tiny clusters of adjacent pits, called triple tracks, which the researchers claim is evidence of the telltale neutrons. Other presenters at the conference also presented evidence supporting cold fusion, including Antonella De Ninno, a scientist with New Technologies Energy and Environment (Rome), who reported both excess heat and helium gas. "We now have very convincing experimental evidence," De Ninno claimed. Tadahiko Mizuno of Japan's Hokkaido University also reported excess heat generation and gamma-ray emissions. All three research groups are currently exploring both experimental and theoretical studies in hopes of better understanding the cold fusion process well enough to commercialize it. Research funding was provided by the Department of the Navy and JWK International Corp. (Annandale, Va.).
Poster Comment: how about that. some more of that crank science being proven right, only by the military industrial complex.....i guess we can believe it now, since they'll let us.
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Actually that is not true. Some window dressing was done to discredit it - but the correct protocols were not followed, and positive results buried, in the so-called experiments aimed at disproving cold fusion. Pons and Fleischman did not originally intend to go public when they did as they wanted to do more lab work. Once "the cat was out of the bag" they were forced by death threats to move to Europe to continue their work. Some of what I have read on it suggested that their was some confirmation of Pons and Fleischman's work. However the the big gun was the faulty experiment conducted by The reality is that the PTB do not want the general public to have energy independence as that is one of their control strings and profit centers. With cheap energy from a safe, reliable, backyard power plant the general public could thumb their nose at the energy biz - including the big oil companies. Every now and then a new breakthrough will get a little reportage, but after the initial report you never hear another peep about it. It is just like the "untimely" death of the editor of "Infinite Energy Magazine" Dr. Eugene Mallove. While evidence suggests that it was not a political murder it was nevertheless bad timing for the alternate energy crowd. Written by Dr. Mallove after he resigned his position at M.I.T. in protest: Dr. Mallove was killed in May of 2004 - apparently when he interupted a burglary.
thats the whole enchilada there....energy. the entire economy, a unit of money, represents energy. if you can find a cheap or 'free' source for it, the whole control game is finished. it will do for the control of energy what the internet did for the control of information.
#14. To: gengis gandhi (#6)
I want my Mr. Fusion, and I want it now!
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CIA M.I.T. which did not follow the correct protocols and seems to have been aimed at preventing people from exploring the concept. With the publication of the M.I.T. hit piece the grant money dried up - which I am sure was the intent. "I was the Chief Science Writer at the MIT news office when the cold fusion story out of Utah broke on March 23, 1989. It turns out the cold fusion effect was real. In fact, what Pons and Fleischmann found was only the tip of an iceberg. There are huge quantities of technical literature published by proponents, and a much smaller amount by the people who found so-called negative results….One day while at MIT, I inadvertently was looking through some piles of paper by physicists doing their repeat of the Pons-Fleischmann experiment. To my utter astonishment, I can remember sitting at my desk and actually seeing two sheets of paper, one dated July 10 and another July 13. The July 10 control experiment showed in the raw data excess heat. But then, on July 13, it was shifted completely. It was altered. Clear fraud—no question. I asked for a review at MIT. I got nowhere. Yet today, MIT data is held up. There has been an extraordinary abrogation of legal responsibility at the Patent Office and the Department of Energy on the matter of cold fusion. There is serious criminal activity going on that ultimately must be rooted out if the cold fusion and new energy revolution are to go forward. "
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Replies to Comment # 6. if you can find a cheap or 'free' source for it, the whole control game is finished
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