Not many people remember this chapter in the history of LENR "offshoots" ... since presumably it did not work as well as initially claimed, despite coming from Brookhaven.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_impact_fusion Here is the story of the "debunking" of CIF (Cluster Impact Fusion) but unfortunately the "authority" is the same group that was caught falsifying positive LENR data to make it appear that there was no effect - when in fact there was gain. Had Gene Mallove not caught them in the act, this debunking of CIF might be more believable. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/cluster-0513.html The point of this posting is not recrimination - but simply the suggestion that even though CIF apparently did not work, at least not as well as claimed in its original incarnation at Brookhaven, that is not necessarily end-of-story. In a revised concept there might still be an exploitable fusion anomaly if and when the "cluster" loaded with deuterons arrived in such a way that the atoms were already far closer to each other than they would be in heavy water, and in addition the structural strength of the 'containment' (macroscopic particle) were hundreds of times stronger (tensile strength). Jones
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