Thanks for the ping.
I noticed this came up on the keelynet blog (yes, keelynet is still in operation!)
http://keelynet.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/arata-zhang-lenr-demonstration-cold-fusion/
Arata-Zhang LENR Demonstration (Cold Fusion)
Posted by keelynet on May 26, 2008
And this didn’t make the mainstream media? For my money, its an exotic battery, once its contaminated, you have to gut it and replace with all new parts. Of course, THE POINT is that it produces excess heat with low energy reactions but as Dr. JOM Bockris pointed out years ago, the most interesting thing to him was TRANSMUTATION using low energy.
“Against a monumental backdrop of bad publicity for cold fusion since 1989, researchers in Japan on May 22 demonstrated the production of excess heat and helium-4, the results of an historic low-energy nuclear reaction experiment. The mastermind behind the demonstration is Yoshiaki Arata, a highly respected physicist in Japan who has been the recipent of Japan’s highest award, the Order of Cultural Merit, and is the first person to have performed a thermonuclear fusion experiment showing large amounts of d-d reactions in Japan. A lecture by Arata preceded the demonstration before a live audience in Arata Hall (named in his honor) at the Joining and Welding Research Institute at Osaka University. The demonstration took place in the Osaka University Advanced Science & Innovation Center with the help of Arata’s associate, professor Yue Chang Zhang of Shianghai Jiotong University. Professor Akito Takahashi of Osaka University was an eyewitness to the demonstration. “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 wrote. “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.” - Source
Yoshiaki Arata published something very similar 2 years ago, so he might just be chasing publicity at this point.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Ser. B: Physical and Biological Sciences
Vol.70 , No.7(1994)pp.106-111
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A New Energy caused by “Spillover-Deuterium”
Yoshiaki ARATA and Yue-Chang ZHANG1)
1) Welding Research Institute, Osaka University
[Released: 2006/10/13]
Abstract:
It was verified that a new kind of energy is caused by “Spillover-Deuterium” generated in a double structure (DS)-cathode with “Pd-black”. Using this cathode, the authors confirmed the sustained production of a significantly abnormal amount of energy over a period of several months that could not be ascribed to chemical reaction energy. The chemical reaction energy of 0.1[mol] Pd-black used is only 4[kJ], but more than 200[MJ] of excess energy was continuously produced for over 3000[hr] at an average rate of 50-100[kJ/hr] using a DS-cathode with a same quantity of Pd-black. Intermittent operation over a period of two years using this structure proved the complete reproducibility of these results.
Keywords:
Spillover deuterium, Pd-black, DS-cathode, new energy
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JOI JST.Journalarchive/pjab1977/70.106