Posted on 07/10/2011 10:39:42 PM PDT by Kevmo
Thanks to Garjog for the reminder about this report from a couple of years ago, it turns out it was never posted on FR.
http://www.lenr-canr.org/News.htm#CBS60minutes
Robert E Godes explains Brillouin energy and Los Alamos National Lab Situation
Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:15:25 PM · 12 of 13
garjog to Kevmo
2010 Sixty Minutes report worth watching. Exciting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyNn_Z6wCIk
Clickable links
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/reports/GarwinLewisReport/garwin.shtml
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2009/RichardGarwinStillDisbeliever.shtml
undoubtedly overwhelming indications that nuclear processes take place in the metal alloys.” See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/GerischerHiscoldfusi.pdf
A detailed description of the broadcast is here: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/news/2009/60MinutesTurnsUptheHeat.shtml
The reported featured the work of McKubre et al., and Dardik et al. Here are some notable papers by these authors:
McKubre, M.C.H., et al., Development of Advanced Concepts for Nuclear Processes in Deuterated Metals. 1994, EPRI. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHdevelopmen.pdf
McKubre, M.C.H., et al., Isothermal Flow Calorimetric Investigations of the D/Pd and H/Pd Systems. J. Electroanal. Chem., 1994. 368: p. 55. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/McKubreMCHisothermala.pdf
Dardik, I., et al. Ultrasonically-excited electrolysis Experiments at Energetics Technologies. in ICCF-14 International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science. 2008. Washington, DC. http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/DardikIultrasonic.pdf
The Cold Fusion Ping List
I’m taking the liberty of adding Jed Rothwell and Steven Krivit to this ping list because they’re both well known cold fusioneers and they’re both freepers.
CBS 60 Minutes alters cold fusion report in response to pressure from the APS
http://www.lenr-canr.org/News.htm
May 2009
Steve Krivit reported that the on-line version of the video has been altered. The video as broadcast said: “’We asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in America, to recommend an independent scientist. They gave us Rob Duncan.” The sentence referring to the American Physical Society has been removed from the on-line video and replaced with the following: “We asked another distinguished physicist to have a look at the research.” There were no other apparent changes to the video.
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/blog/?p=74
The APS says they did not recommend Duncan:
http://aps.org/about/pressreleases/coldfusion09.cfm
I wonder if nuclear war will break out in the Middle East as the various oil-producing countries try to knock out each other's production facilities to keep the price up as long as possible.
I was considering going hard into Palladium. But Rossi’s E-CAT only uses Nickel & Hydrogen. It’s possibly using Thorium or Technetium as the catalyst. So I’m re-evaluating my strategy.
The Comedian seemed to make money by going into Palladium, but this could be a heads up as a time to get out.
Really? Cool. I used to read the usenet news group covering cold fusion all the time back in the early to mid 90s (sci.physics.fusion I think) and Jed Rothwell was a regular poster there. Always incredibly interesting. Nice to know he’s a FReeper as well. I always thought he seemed like a guy with common sense and an open mind :).
The Comedian got bounced, don’t ask me why. Might have been his stupid mask photo.
Self-Ping
Of course, environmentalists don't care for the environment. They are all about population reduction and global communism.
We don’t need fusion. Thorium will do the job nicely:
http://www.thoriumenergyalliance.com/ThoriumSite/portal.html
This is truly revolutionary. Please take a look at it.
bmfl
This is the third time I’ve heard that they’ve discovered cold fusion. If this one turns out like the other two, I won’t hear about it again for another 10 years.
As I sit here in the middle of the night babysitting a Westinghouse PWR at 100% power I have a good preliminary opinion of Thorium based on the link you provided. Sounds interesting.
The future? There are holes in the ground down the hill that are supposed to grow up to be TWO AP-1000's. They filled in another hole a couple of decades ago a stones throw from here that was supposed to be UNIT#2.
Thanks Kevmo. First of all, I appreciate the pings, and secondly, it’s good to have these folks on board. Welcome...
I have absolutely no idea whether this is really cold fusion or something else, but it doesn’t seem even remotely feasible economically. I’m basing my opinion on the description of the devices. It seems like a lot of expense to (potentially) generate very, very tiny amounts of heat. What’s the likelihood of something like this ever generating enough power to run a modern industrial society? For comparison, solar power generation exists and is a proven technology, but it’s hardly competitive. What am I trying to say? Just because something CAN be done doesn’t mean it will be done, and we aren’t even sure at this point cold fusion CAN be done.
bflr
cold fusion = globull warming.
Re Palladium - just FYI - As I understand it, palladium and platinum are interchangeable for catalytic converters - when one gets too pricey buyers for the converter manufacturers switch to the other which is relatively less expensive - the switches in orders causes predictable market swings in the two commodities but its not a game for the little guys. That might have been Comedian’s deal but he’s banned and may be broke now too. IMHO. ;-)
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