Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion

www.physorg.com ^ | 05/27/2008 | Staff

[apt4truth]

"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 told New Energy Times. "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."

This looks good. Really good. I would bet the oil companies will do everything in their power to stop this if it is true. They are making a killing now and don't want to stop any time soon.

[Navy Patriot]

Hummmm, ...... what's a pound of deuterium go for these days? 158 degrees is restaurant grade hot water, and the management could use the helium for the decorative balloons.

[Red Badger]

Suppose this was not, in fact, cold fusion, but a different, heretofore unknown, process that achieved the same goal. It is still worthy of study and research.................

[MinorityRepublican]

Do you think the first experiment back in ‘89 was a hoax?

[Red Badger]

GOOD ONE!!..............

[Larry Lucido]

Ping

[Red Badger]

They may have discovered something akin to cold fusion, but of a different nature. That is worthy of research and further investigations............

[Phlyer]

What benefit would cold fusion bring to the world if it did exist?

The "cold" in cold fusion does not mean cold relative to room temperature. It means cold relative to stellar core temperatures. That can still be quite warm enough for our purposes.

It's hard to believe that a catalyst can both hold the deuterium tightly enough to force fusion, yet let it go at just the right point to allow it to fuse. I'll wait to see what other scientists come up with. On the surface, it sounds to me that they're getting a chemical reaction that's generating heat, not a nuclear reaction. The proof of true nuclear fusion will be when different elements (i.e. helium) and other reaction byproducts (e.g. neutrinos) are detected. The article said that they're producing helium, and if that holds true, then they have a good claim.

[djf]

No matter what they say about the original, from what I hear, Pons and Fleischmann are about as close to perfect you can get when it comes to measuring the thermodynamic ins and outs.

If they say more energy came out than what went in, you can pretty much bank on it.

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[RightWhale]

heretofore unknown, process

We don't need to reach that far when there are several well-known catalytic reactions unaccounted for.

[Old Professer]

Drop some lye, a beer can and about one quart of water in an ice bucket and see what happens in the next two days.

[Straight Vermonter]

If this were in fact fusion we would have to keep fission reactors going just to produce heavy water.

[thackney]

Thanks

[devere]

“Bridge for Sale!! Bridge for Sale!!”

I’m not a physicist, but I seem to recall that many seemingly “impossible” phenomena occur by quantum tunneling. I wonder if that could also be a theoretical mechanism for cold fusion to occur. Any physicists on FR to comment?

In any event, if it is confirmed that Helium is being produced from Deuterium, then fusion is really going on.

I am also reminded of Rupert Sheldrake’s seemingly outlandish theory that nature has habits rather than laws. The strongest habits of nature just appear to us to be laws.
Is it possible that nature is in the process of acquiring the new habit of cold fusion?

[CollegeRepublican]

I have a government client who supports research on electronics and electric motors. One of the unsolicited proposals they received stated clearly that this new motor was a perpetual motion machine. Of course the government is in cahoots with the oil companies....Bush being an oil man and all...so this proposal was never funded...../sarcasm

[RightWhale]

‘89 was a hoax

Not deliberate, to give the benefit of being mistaken rather than being outright charlatans. They were mistaken and wanted to see that result, so they saw it. It's not the first time somebody saw what they wanted to see even though something else is what happened.

[MississippiMan]

Absolutely correct. I wonder what the general reaction would have been in 1908 if someone made the claim that a small bomb could not only destroy an entire city, but also leave it uninhabitable for decades or centuries? Those who sneer and jeer at every difficult concept today are the ones who wind up as the boobs on tomorrow’s documentaries. Not every concept works out but somehow our science does keep marching forward.

MM

[Centurion2000]

What benefit would cold fusion bring to the world if it did exist?

The fuel is cheap as hell by comparison to oil or even plutonium. Fusion byproducts are usually a lot less radioactive as well.

I wonder if they got any radioactive byproducts?