Posted on 03/08/2014 6:43:45 PM PST by Kevmo
Is the Cold Fusion Revolution Here? Published March 8, 2014 |
There seems to be a lot happening in the world of cold fusion/low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) right now. So we can now rightly say that a cold fusion revolution could be beginning.
Some of the most important developments include:
Peter Hagelstein and Mitchell Swartz’s 2014 Cold Fusion Independent Activities Period (IAP) Course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January. Jerry Rys the Alien Scientist blogger attended the course and created a great video about it which does an excellent job of describing cold fusion what cold fusion is and laying out its early history. In particular Rys does a tremendous job of describing the science in such a way that even a history major like me could understand.
He doesn’t seem to be up on recent developments but hopefully that will change. The video is worth watching and showing to cold fusion skeptics. He also makes one important point:
Mitchell Swartz at work
“While critics and skeptics like to call cold fusion pathological science in light of recent events it seems that their denial is pathological,” Rys says of the skeptics. Rys seems to hit the nail on the head here. Rys has posted all of Swartz and Hagelstein’s lectures on his website.
He notes that Swartz started out as a skeptic who was out to debunk LENR. After doing some real research Swartz became a true believer and recently launched NANORTech a company working to commercialize cold fusion. Swartz has essentially been blacklisted by big science they’ll probably forgive him when he makes a billion dollars.
The IAP is really a set of lectures and not a course. There is no credit attached, Hagelstein himself noted that working in LENR can destroy your scientific career in Big Science.
Scenes from the 2014 MIT Cold Fusion IAP
Yet another cold fusion patent has been granted by the US Patent Office to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. USA.
EP 1202290 B1 issued on December 4, 2013, issues a patent for a “Nuclide Transmutation Device and Nuclide Transmutation Method” which would be used as a disposal process for long lived nuclear waste.
The US Patent Office it seems has quietly changed its mind about cold fusion and one of the world’s largest corporations is interested in it. I wonder what the big oil conspiracy theorists will make of this.
NASA is still showing a lot of interest in LENR aircraft. Its Aeronautics Research Institute discussed an LENR aircraft. A slide from the conference shows a giant aircraft called a comfortable global transport with a flight range of 12,500 miles and minimal noise pollution. It also mentions an autonomous package delivery package in other words a drone. That sounds like the US Air Force is interested in LENR.
Over in the United Kingdom Her Majesty’s military like the Pentagon is also interested in LENR. A PDF document put out by the UK’s Ministry of Defense called Global Strategic Trends Out to 2040 actually mentions LENR as something that strategists should worry about. It states:
“For example, the development of commercially available cold fusion reactors could result in the rapid economic marginalization of oil-rich states. This loss of status and income in undiversified economies could lead to state-failure and provide opportunities for extremist groups to rise in influence.”
Basically British generals and admirals think a new energy source is about to appear and that energy source will cause the collapse of states and governments reliant on oil profits such as Venezuela, Nigeria Saudi Arabia and Russia. It names that energy source as cold fusion.
That means the cold fusion revolution will be neither peaceful nor entirely beneficial. It will bankrupt some people and could increase political instability. The military men it seems believe in cold fusion if the so called scientists do not.
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Toddsterpatriot: Is it because I took 15 minutes to refute your silly claim? The claim you had been making for months.
Of course not. Does your silence about the rest of the data mean that you acknowledge that the vast majority of the 14700 replications could NOT have been H202?
Since you have been so dishonest in the past, I hold no hope that you will honestly address this evidence.
What a fantastic post. I applaud it, especially since I posted the thread in the first place. Now all that remains is that you somehow prove that ALL of the 14720 replications (more since then) were due to H202. If I were charitable to your claim, there would be about 20 experiments that involve H202 as the input that could account for the energy deltas, so that simply shows that you have 14700 more to go. Best of luck with that.
That's silly. You said
The data on this phenomenon is very consistent — the heat generated is several orders of magnitude more than could be possible with any known chemical reaction.
I disproved your claim on the very first "replication" I looked at.
Now you’re just talking bowlsheet. Explain away 14000 replications.
Does your silence about the rest of the data mean that you acknowledge that the vast majority of the 14700 replications could NOT have been H202?
Yup. Maybe it does.
It’s a good book so far, I recommend it to anyone interested in this effect. It also has some good illustrations of the different types of cells and experiment setups.
I knew it took a long time for the P&F cell to produce excess heat but it took over 50 days for the power burst so anyone trying to recreate the effect needs to keep that in mind.
The controversy over the original P&F experiment not having a mechanical stirrer doesn’t make sense since they had control cells so not stirring the cells should have had the control cells have the power burst as well. The Baltimore meeting and the attack against both Pons and Fleischmann was really sleazy.
Okie doke, if you say so: Inconsistent non-reproducible experiments are the scientific way to prove hypotheses.
Straw argument. That ain’t what I said — you’re propping up a caricature of the argument so you can argue against it. Typical of the average skeptopath.
I agree that P&F were handled with sleaze. They did sorta shoot themselves in the foot a couple of times. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, so it’s easy to criticize them for mentioning the word “nuclear” or “fusion”. If they had said that it was a very strong unknown chemical reaction, they’d have broken through. But they were up against entrenched budget infighters that know how to destroy competitors.
That's exactly what they should have done. Nevertheless, even if any nuclear process was ruled out, there's still the effect of anomalous heat which should have been studied.
“I knew it took a long time for the P&F cell to produce excess heat but it took over 50 days for the power burst so anyone trying to recreate the effect needs to keep that in mind.”
P&F spent over $40 million trying to replicate it and they never could!
“I knew it took a long time for the P&F cell to produce excess heat but it took over 50 days for the power burst so anyone trying to recreate the effect needs to keep that in mind.”
P&F spent over $40 million trying to replicate it and they never could!
” But they were up against entrenched budget infighters that know how to destroy competitors.”
Oh. Do you realize that P&F got over $40 million to try to replicate it and they failed? Budget was not a problem.
” But they were up against entrenched budget infighters that know how to destroy competitors.”
Oh. Do you realize that P&F got over $40 million to try to replicate it and they failed? Budget was not a problem.
“Nevertheless, even if any nuclear process was ruled out, there’s still the effect of anomalous heat which should have been studied.”
Studied? P&F got their own lab and $40 million dollars to study ....
How many times does a FReeper have to ask until you stop posting to them?
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