Posted on 10/26/2013 3:41:43 PM PDT by Kevmo
Journal Publishes Toyota¡¯s Independent Replication of Mitsubishi LENR Transmutation
http://news.newenergytimes.net/2013/10/22/journal-publishes-toyotas-independent-replication-of-mitsubishi-lenr-transmutation/
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/52/107301/ "Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Study on the Increase in the Amount of Pr Atoms for Cs-Ion-Implanted Pd/CaO Multilayer Complex with Deuterium Permeation"
ABSTRACT To investigate the nuclear transmutation of Cs into Pr reported in this journal by Iwamura and coworkers, we have measured the amount of Pr atoms in the range as low as ¡1¡¿1010 cm^-2 using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for Cs-ion-implanted Pd/CaO multilayer complexes before and after deuterium permeation. The amount of Pr was initially at most 2.0¡¿1011 cm^-2 and it increased up to 1.6¡¿1012 cm^-2 after deuterium permeation. The increase in the amount of Pr could be explained neither by deuterium permeation-stimulated segregation of Pr impurities nor by external contamination from the experimental environment during the permeation. No increase in Pr was observed for permeation with hydrogen. These findings suggest that the observed increase in Pr with deuterium permeation can be attributed to a nuclear origin, as reported by Iwamura and coworkers, although the amount of the increase in Pr is two orders of magnitude less than that reported by them.
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Oct. 22, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –
Low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) researchers at Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories have published a replication of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries deuterium gas-permeation experiment.
The research appeared in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics earlier this month.
New Energy Times reported this replication last year (Mitsubishi Reports Toyota Replication) after the inventor of this LENR method, Yasuhiro Iwamura of Mitsubishi, reported the news at the American Nuclear Society meeting in San Diego, Calif., in November 2012.
The publication in the journal, however, marks a significant achievement both for the field and for this category of LENR research. This is the first mainstream, peer-reviewed journal publication of a replication of the Iwamura experiment.
The replication, by one of the world’s largest industrial companies, signifies the importance of LENRs, as well as the credibility of the controversial research. Login or Subscribe to remove this notice Professional Journalism – LENR Facts Original online content only at New Energy Times
Several years ago, researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., led by Kenneth Grabowski, failed in an attempted replication of the Mitsubishi experiment. NRL paid Mitsubishi at least $200,000 as part (Phase 1) of the research agreement, according to a document obtained by New Energy Times under a Freedom of Information Act request.
After NRL researchers failed in their replication attempt, one of them, researcher David Kidwell, took an unexpected walk around the Mitsubishi lab to collect environmental samples. To everyone’s surprise, laboratory contamination of praseodymium appeared after Kidwell completed his survey.
Kidwell said this contamination, which he ascribed to, among other things, “lucky tweezers” used by a careless Mitsubishi researcher, explained the extraordinary results obtained by Iwamura and his group at Mitsubishi.
In a brief, five-minute rebuttal at a conference in Rome in 2009, Iwamura explained the multiple, logically inconsistent detials of Kidwell’s contamination scenario. (See NRL 2008—The LENR Null Results Laboratory and NRL 2009—The LENR Null Results Laboratory, Again.) _____ Article continues for subscribers. Click here to subscribe. _____
What! Don’t you know that all parties involved in research on LENR are charlatans, selling rights to things that don’t exist?? You know, fly-by-night organizations like SRI, NASA, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Shell......those kinds of organizations.
By The Gods! Way Cool!
More interesting sounding experiments. By a huge corporation, no less.
Praseodymium alert!
Anyone who even remembers that praseodymium (Pr) is an element deserves a pat on the back. If you know where it is in the Periodic Table, you must be a chemist.
citizen wrote:
“More interesting sounding experiments. By a huge corporation, no less.”
I agree, and (ahem), someone on this side of the ocean cannot say “You did not build that!”, since the (ahem) person of reference has not one iota of what the word ‘science’ means.
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