Italian Scientists Claim To Have Discovered Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion

Zero Hedge ^ | 1-24-2011 | Tyler Durden

[Frantzie]

According to PhysOrg.com, two Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have taken on one of physics' historically most discredited concepts, cold fusion, and have actually succeeded in creating a sustainable reaction. Aside from the major implications of the energy market should this be validated and recreated (an issue that buried the original Cold Fusion discovery by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann), one of the more economically important side effects of this purported rediscovery is that one of the byproducts of the reaction is none other than recently uber-bubbleicious copper.

[texmexis best]

The Navy has been working with cold fusion for a number of years. If the Navy has an interest in it, there may be something to it. Maybe not fusion but something that produces more power than it produces.

[Skepolitic]

I was expressing skepticism about cold fusion, not dissing the University of Bologna. Of course, the Italians have some great universities.

[aquila48]

I’m a nuclear engineer and am quite familiar with both fission and fusion. I know how difficult it is to fuse atoms. A friend of mine has been working on inertial confinement fusion at Sandia for years and the goal of commercial fusion is as elusive as it was when he started. But I’m also open minded and willing to consider new findings if there is a scientific basis.

At the end of the day it either works or doesn’t. If these guys claim to have something that works let them show it. That’s the easiest way to convince people.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Frantzie.

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[Condor51]

Rossi and Focardi say that, when the atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen are fused in their reactor, the reaction produces copper and a large amount of energy.

Uh-huh. Sure. Okaaaaay.

nickel: Ni, atomic #28 +
hydrogen: H, atomic #1 =
copper: Cu, atomic #, 29

WOW, really looks good on paper. But hey, why stop there. Hydrogen is a dangerous element to work with (see Hindenburg) and require ENERGY to produce it (it's not a natural occurring single element). So why not work with commonly found elements instead, and go for 'the gold'.

Copper: Cu, atomic #29 +
Tin: Sn, atomic #50 =
Gold: Au, atomic #79

Not on;y would more energy be produced, but it also 'proves' that these two guys have made The philosophers' stone of Alchemy days that 'Merlin The Magician'(snix) was shooting for.

Of course that would make the value of Gold about that of dirt and these two would be whacked by the CIA on orders from the 'Big Gold' industry.

[SuperLuminal]

Yawn...Same words...Different music...

Like clockwork every 4-5 years since the 80's.

[SuperLuminal]

"We sometimes have the kind of environment now that the Established Church fostered in the Middle Ages. "

Yep! It happens every February when the federal budget preparations begin for the following fiscal year and grants and contracts need to be extended/justified...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘Perpetual motion machines dont work and neither does this.’

Perpetual motion machines violate the Laws of Thermodynamics, and are therefore a physical impossibility. Does not seem to be the case with Cold Fusion.

[aruanan]

‘Perpetual motion machines dont work and neither does this.’

I think you honestly believe saying that makes you sound intelligent. Remember that experts were telling Edison, who claimed he would make a generator that was more than 90% efficient, that it was a law of nature that generators could not be more than 50% efficient. When their criticism was published saying it was an impossibility, he had already done it.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Apparently the University of Bologna is the first university which ever existed, dating, it appears, to 1088. Earlier theories tracing its founding to the fifth century Roman Empire are no longer generally accepted.

[aruanan]

Nobody could ever duplicate Pons’ and Fleishmann’s claims, as I recall.

Your recollection is faulty. Plenty of people in many companies and universities around the world have duplicated the generation of anomalously high heat using a variety of chemical substrates and different types of apparatus. Back around 2002 I talked to a representative of the current version of the Office of Technology Assessment during a job fair at the University of Chicago who told me that after they had studied the results of the continuing research they had recommended that it be explored more thoroughly by federal agencies connected with the defense department.

[Tecnitrwjkiygbdfhjjjn]

Hate to break it to you but George W passes TARP on October 3, 2008. Obama had nothing to do with that legislation.