Is there something in the water in Utah? Didn't Jones collaborate with Fleischmann and Pons in the
cold fusion fiasco?
No. Being a resident of the Salt Lake region at the time (I lived in Southwest Wyoming), I followed this one closely. Jones at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, UT, was very active in dissociating his work from that of Fleischmann and Pons at the nearby University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
- [Excerpt from Answers.com]
- "In the mid 1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists demonstrated an interesting new effect related to the potential for harnessing energy from cold fusion, now also referred to as muon-catalyzed fusion. The Jones process not to be confused with the Cold fusion research of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann did not produce excess heat, and therefore did not provide a source of energy. The Jones process, through measurement of charged particles, demonstrated excellent validation that nuclear processes can occur in a relatively simple, room temperature experiment.
- "In the mid 1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists demonstrated an interesting new effect related to the potential for harnessing energy from cold fusion, now also referred to as muon-catalyzed fusion. The Jones process not to be confused with the Cold fusion research of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann did not produce excess heat, and therefore did not provide a source of energy. The Jones process, through measurement of charged particles, demonstrated excellent validation that nuclear processes can occur in a relatively simple, room temperature experiment."
- [continues]
- http://www.answers.com/topic/steven-e-jones
- "In the mid 1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists demonstrated an interesting new effect related to the potential for harnessing energy from cold fusion, now also referred to as muon-catalyzed fusion. The Jones process not to be confused with the Cold fusion research of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann did not produce excess heat, and therefore did not provide a source of energy. The Jones process, through measurement of charged particles, demonstrated excellent validation that nuclear processes can occur in a relatively simple, room temperature experiment.
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