[dirtboy]

This sounds like a series subject.

[ggekko]

I was under the impression that Pons and Fleischman had discredited the whole field of Cold Fusion Research because other reserachers were not able to reproduce their results.

Has something changed since 1989?

[yonif]

bump

[Physicist]

If you build it, we will come.

If you're still buying power from the power company, you haven't built it.

[Quix]

Thanks for your series post on a potentialy hugh topic.

[pt17]

I am a great proponent of Cold Fusion as a web applications server but not as a physics endeavor.

[Return to the Public]

From my reading of your magazine combined with other internet searches, it seems to me to boil down to one quote from Tom Clayton at Los Alamos that he would like to see a massive trial and error program to test every possible palladium alloy, since tiny impurities seem to catalyze dramatic performance gains. "This is how ceramic superconductors were developed," he points out,"by testing 5000 different compounds." But no laboratory has mounted such an effort for cold fusion.

It seems that the key to repeatability will be found in creating a reliable pure alloy of palladium or perhaps some other material not yet discovered.

What do you think?

[Diogenesis]

For FReepers and scientists who care about what is going on:

New Scientist Features Cold Fusion

"No sooner had cold fusion surfaced than it was written off, and the idea of
extracting virtually limitless free energy from water became taboo. So how come
a small band of experienced researchers working for the US Navy just can't let
it drop?"

Theoretical Framework for Anomalous Heat and 4He in Transition Metal Systems

Deuteron Fluxing and the Ion Band State Theory

Calorimetric Principles and Problems in Pd-D2O Electrolysis

Anomalous Effects in Deuterated Systems, Final Report

Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System, Vol 1

Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System, Vol 2

"...California is experiencing rolling blackouts due to power shortages.
Conventional engineering, planned ahead, could have prevented these
blackouts, but it has been politically expedient to ignore the inevitable.
We do not know if Cold Fusion will be the answer to future energy needs,
but we do know the existence of Cold Fusion phenomenon through
repeated observations by scientists throughout the world.
It is time that this phenomenon be investigated
so that we can reap whatever benefits accrue from additional scientific understanding.
It is time for government funding organizations to invest in this research"
Dr. Frank E. Gordon
Head, Navigation and Applied Sciences Department
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego

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Cold Fusion Times

[Drammach]

Bump

[Cautor]

Thanks for the post. Because of all the press, I had assumed "cold fusion" was a total fraud. However, I had a chance to meet Chubb and Nagel at a recent discussion of the topic and found there are some serious areas of research that need to be done. However, they are largely taboo because of the bad name that has become attached to the area dubbed "cold fusion."

[anymouse]

JedRothwell - Since May 6, 2003

Since you are new here, maybe you don't know that it is a "no no" to use a FR thread to plug your own web site.

Especially one as dubious as this.

Especially on the first day you sign on to FR.