Posted on 06/24/2008 7:30:57 AM PDT by dennisw
When you inject as gas into a closed vessel the temperature goes up.....................
It wont matter in the US even if this works.
El Baradei and his ilk guard the US Patent Office
against even the remote possibility of this moving forward.
And the US Congress?
Asleep at the wheel, drunk, partying, ignoring the
security of America and El Baradei’s control, as always.
Do you know enough physics to understand this article? Can you evaluate it?
Arata has generated the biggest cold fusion buzz in years
Is this like a real Flux-Capacitor?
Much of the legitimacy of cold fusion rests in the very counter-intuitive phenomena of physics at the very small scale.
For example, a type of shrimp can create a small cavitation bubble that explodes with a force strong enough to stun or kill its prey. Interesting trivia, made relevant because the internal temperature of that bubble, for just an instant, is about 5000 degrees Kelvin (8500 degrees Fahrenheit).
At a thousandth or more of the scale of this cavitation bubble, you might be able to produce temperatures high enough to force a nuclear reaction.
I’m no physicist, but this equation...
D + D = 4He + heat
...would lead me to believe that a simple verification would be to check for Helium.
OSAKA, JAPAN -- Against a monumental backdrop of bad publicity for cold fusion since 1989, researchers in Japan on May 22 demonstrated the production of excess heat and helium-4, the results of an historic low-energy nuclear reaction experiment.
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"Arata and Zhang demonstrated very successfully the generation of continuous excess energy (heat) from ZrO2-nano-Pd sample powders under D2 gas charging and generation of helium-4," Takahashi wrote. "The demonstrated live data looked just like data they reported in their published papers (J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008). This demonstration showed that the method is highly reproducible."
Takahashi wrote that 60 people from universities and companies in Japan and a few people from other countries attended, as well as representatives from six major newspapers (Asahi, Nikkei, Mainichi, NHK, et al.) and two television stations.
In an earlier conversation with New Energy Times, Arata offered his perspective on "cold fusion" research, which he calls solid nuclear fusion.
"Some people say we have reached the end of science, that there are no more great discoveries that remain. In my view, nature always has more secrets to reveal," Arata wrote. "I always stay on guard not to be too possessed by my own current knowledge. History has shown us repeatedly, for example, the foolishness of denying 'heliocentricism,' which resulted from individuals adhering too strongly to their own knowledge or to what was common sense in the past."
New Energy Times will have a more complete report in the next issue on July 10.
That’s what I get for trying to FReep and work at the same time...I end up doing neither well.
Thanks for the post!
ping
The explanation looks pretty tight and well documented to me.
The next step for him, to go further than what Ponds and Fleishman could, is to sell — or provide the setup so others can reproduce the heat differential and H4 generation effects.
Many other labs would be willing to take something, plug it in, and confirm the observation.
In the heyday of cold fusion, even though it was nearly impossible to reproduce, people were filing patents like crazy, even those who were most skeptical of the outcome.
Do you have a wild guess what his equipenat costs? $10,000??
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/06/coldfusion_demonstration_an_up_1.html#comment-54675
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/06/coldfusion_demonstration_an_up_1.html#comment-55112
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/06/coldfusion_demonstration_an_up_1.html#comment-53934
More my speed.
Is there a Reader’s Digest version of this article? Whew! My brain hurts!
Thanks for posting this.
I’m almost done reading Beaudette’s book “Excess Heat”.
Note that Steven Krivit, editor of New Energy Times, is a Freeper. I’ve pinged him a couple of times, no response.
I suggested a Cold Fusion contract on Intrade, and to my surprise they put it up. Currently trading at about 15% probability of being replicated in a peer reviewed journal by the end of this year.
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=615448&z=1214364789375
Dr Yoshiaki Aratas Cold Fusion Experiment
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Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed (2nd Edition) by Charles G. Beaudette (Paperback - May 2002)
Here is a web site for very similar research, probably around $2,000 would get you a working setup with deuterium. The gas can be freely purchased, 250 liters for — I think — around $400.
Beyond that would be an ounce of palladium, just under $500, and a way to get it mixed in with Zirconium — I don’t know whether that means deposited on the surface of it, impregnated into it, or how it is blended.
If you google “palladium zirconium” you get several articles on using a palladium catalyst . Something there might be relevant, it should be easy for these other labs to follow cook-book procedures, many of them tried the cold-fusion equipment and couldn’t make it work.
Sandia national labs should be a good candidate to watch for results.
These things are all supposed to be ‘peer review’ you know.
Is there a LENR ping list?
I found copies from this link provided by Brian Josephson on the Physicsworld.com blog posting #25 located here.
Are you aware he won the Nobel Prize?
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