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Cold-fusion demonstration: an update (Prof. Arata's recent demonstration)
physicsworld. ^ | June 16, 2008 8:50 AM. | By Jon Cartwright

Posted on 06/24/2008 7:30:57 AM PDT by dennisw

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1 posted on 06/24/2008 7:30:57 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

When you inject as gas into a closed vessel the temperature goes up.....................


2 posted on 06/24/2008 7:34:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (NOBODY MOVE!!!!.......I dropped me brain............................)
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To: dennisw

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.


3 posted on 06/24/2008 7:35:43 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

Do you know enough physics to understand this article? Can you evaluate it?

Arata has generated the biggest cold fusion buzz in years


4 posted on 06/24/2008 7:38:31 AM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)
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To: dennisw
Way over my head.

Is this like a real Flux-Capacitor?

5 posted on 06/24/2008 7:40:16 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: dennisw

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.


6 posted on 06/24/2008 8:06:16 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: dennisw

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.


7 posted on 06/24/2008 8:06:41 AM PDT by chrisser (The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
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Arata-Zhang LENR Demonstration
By Steven B. Krivit
New Energy Times
May 22, 2008

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.


Yoshiaki Arata receiving Preparata Award in 2007
Photo: S.B. Krivit

The mastermind behind the demonstration is Yoshiaki Arata, a highly respected physicist in Japan who has been the recipent of Japan's highest award, the Order of Cultural Merit, and is the first person to have performed a thermonuclear fusion experiment showing large amounts of d-d reactions in Japan.

A lecture by Arata preceded the demonstration before a live audience in Arata Hall (named in his honor) at the Joining and Welding Research Institute at Osaka University. The demonstration took place in the Osaka University Advanced Science & Innovation Center with the help of Arata’s associate, professor Yue Chang Zhang of Shianghai Jiotong University.

Professor Akito Takahashi of Osaka University was an eyewitness to the demonstration.

 

 

"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.

8 posted on 06/24/2008 8:13:57 AM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)
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To: dennisw

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!


9 posted on 06/24/2008 8:19:23 AM PDT by chrisser (The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
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To: tenpops

ping


10 posted on 06/24/2008 8:19:29 AM PDT by Grammy (Maxine Waters wants to....sociali.... er ....nationali....er... take over the oil industry.)
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To: dennisw

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.


11 posted on 06/24/2008 8:41:57 AM PDT by Sundog (Hussein . . . B. Hussein or S. Hussein?)
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Do you have a wild guess what his equipenat costs? $10,000??


12 posted on 06/24/2008 9:57:49 AM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)
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To: neverdem; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

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


13 posted on 06/24/2008 10:09:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: TexasCajun

More my speed.

14 posted on 06/24/2008 10:16:06 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: dennisw

Is there a Reader’s Digest version of this article? Whew! My brain hurts!


15 posted on 06/24/2008 12:52:56 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: dennisw; sbkrivit

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 Arata’s Cold Fusion Experiment
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
ARATA.COLD.FUSION.DEC09
Dr Arata’s experiment to be replicated in peer-reviewed scientific journal on/before 31 Dec 2009 M Trade 15.1 25.0 12.5 8 0

Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed (2nd Edition) by Charles G. Beaudette (Paperback - May 2002)

http://www.amazon.com/Excess-Heat-Fusion-Research-Prevailed/dp/0967854830/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214364362&sr=8-1


16 posted on 06/24/2008 8:33:12 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: dennisw

http://www.fusor.net/

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.


17 posted on 06/24/2008 8:42:27 PM PDT by Sundog (Hussein . . . B. Hussein or S. Hussein?)
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To: dennisw

Is there a LENR ping list?


18 posted on 06/24/2008 9:09:35 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: dennisw
Video from the Arata-Zhang demonstration has been released.

I found copies from this link provided by Brian Josephson on the Physicsworld.com blog posting #25 located here.

19 posted on 07/12/2008 12:41:41 AM PDT by snowsislander
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To: snowsislander

Are you aware he won the Nobel Prize?


20 posted on 07/12/2008 2:07:50 AM PDT by dennisw
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