i'm wondering how this could be done, and still be "cold." On 3/26/09, Jason Mier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this could be...strange... > > it might put a real damper on the fuel wars, but all that handy cheap power? > > which is worse: fighting over disappearing fuel sources and cutting waste, > or feeding the current system? > > >> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:23:53 +0900 >> To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [Biofuel] Cold fusion experimentally confirmed >> >> >> >> Cold fusion experimentally confirmed >> >> R. Colin Johnson >> >> EE Times >> >> (03/23/2009 8:43 PM EDT) >> >> PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally >> confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical >> Society's annual meeting. >> >> "We have compelling evidence that fusion reactions are occurring" at >> room temperature, said Pamela Mosier-Boss, a scientist with the Space >> and Naval Warfare Systems Center (San Diego). The results are "the >> first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy >> nuclear reactions," she added. >> >> Cold fusion was first reported in 1989 by researchers Martin >> Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, then with the University of Utah, >> prompting a global effort to develop the technology. Normal fusion >> reactions, where hydrogen is fused into helium, occur at millions of >> degrees inside the Sun. If room temperature fusion reactions could be >> realized commercially, as Fleishchmann and Pons claimed to have >> achieved inside an electrolytic cell, it promised to produce abundant >> nuclear energy from deuterium--heavy hydrogen--extracted from >> seawater. >> >> Other scientists were unable to duplicate the 1989 results, thereby >> discrediting the work. >> >> The theoretical underpinnings of cold fusion have yet to be >> adequately explained. The hypothesis is that when electrolysis is >> performed on deuteron, molecules are fused into helium, releasing a >> high-energy neutron. While excess heat has been detected by >> researchers, no group had yet been able to detect the missing >> neutrons. >> >> Now, the Naval researchers claim that the problem was >> instrumentation, which was not up to the task of detecting such small >> numbers of neutrons. To sense such small quantities, Mosier-Boss used >> a special plastic detector called CR-39. Using co-deposition with >> nickel and gold wire electrodes, which were inserted into a mixture >> of palladium chloride and deutrium, the detector was able to capture >> and track the high-energy neutrons. >> >> >> Silvered Dewar calorimeter used by Navy researchers to detect neutron >> emissions from a cold fusion process. >> >> The plastic detector captured a pattern of tiny clusters of adjacent >> pits, called triple tracks, which the researchers claim is evidence >> of the telltale neutrons. >> >> Other presenters at the conference also presented evidence supporting >> cold fusion, including Antonella De Ninno, a scientist with New >> Technologies Energy and Environment (Rome), who reported both excess >> heat and helium gas. >> >> "We now have very convincing experimental evidence," De Ninno claimed. >> >> Tadahiko Mizuno of Japan's Hokkaido University also reported excess >> heat generation and gamma-ray emissions. >> >> All three research groups are currently exploring both experimental >> and theoretical studies in hopes of better understanding the cold >> fusion process well enough to commercialize it. >> >> Research funding was provided by the Department of the Navy and JWK >> International Corp. (Annandale, Va.). >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Biofuel mailing list >> Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >> http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 >> messages): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. > http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_70faster_032009 > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >
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