Rethinking Cold Fusion
Steven B. Krivit (Photo Credit: Daniel Bosler, courtesy of New Energy Times.)
Recently Steven B. Krivit, editor of the New Enegry Times, was scheduled to give a paper at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting. However, this was later cancelled “due to an extremely full and very tight scedule.” Subsequently Steven put his presentation onto YouTube and also published the paper via the Internet.
By way of introduction to these, he published the following on the New Energy Times web site:
On the Reality of LENR and the Mythology of Cold Fusion
by Steven B. Krivit
March 20, 2010
I wanted to believe in cold fusion.
I thought, Our brilliant scientists can figure out so many wonderful things. Why not an abundant source of clean nuclear energy?
I now concede that, to the best of my awareness, it’s not fusion. But hang on - the experiments still prove the discovery of a potentially abundant source of clean nuclear energy, not from fusion but probably from electroweak interactions.
Is the distinction important? Absolutely. Nothing has interfered with the progress and respectability of the field more than the impression that its proponents are either true believers or fools.
I don’t mind admitting that I was wrong when I told people that “cold fusion” was real. I didn’t know any better when I wrote my first book. (more…)
On the Road to Fusion Energy, an Accelerator to Study Warm Dense Matter
Warm dense matter is rare in the laboratory but common in the Universe, in places like the hearts of giant planets like Jupiter.
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it’s hot in here, but to a physicist it’s merely warm – warm dense matter, to be precise, stuff that hasn’t quite undergone thermonuclear fusion yet.
Warm dense matter exists not only in the interiors of gas giant planets but in other high-temperature, high-pressure regimes as well – in a just-triggered nuclear bomb, for example, or when a fuel capsule in an inertial fusion experiment starts to implode.
Given that the field of warm dense matter ranges from fundamental astrophysics to practical power production, physicists are eager to study it in the laboratory. Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) is building a specialized user facility so scientists can do just that. (more…)
Beyond CO2: Study Reveals Growing Importance of HFCs in Climate Warming
"HFCs are good for protecting the ozone layer, but they are not climate friendly," said David W. Fahey, a scientist at NOAA.
Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to scientists from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory and their colleagues in a new study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The authors took a fresh look at how the global use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) is expected to grow in coming decades. Using updated usage estimates and looking farther ahead than past projections (to the year 2050), they found that HFCs—especially from developing countries—will become an increasingly larger factor in future climate warming.
“HFCs are good for protecting the ozone layer, but they are not climate friendly,” said David W. Fahey, a scientist at NOAA and second author of the new study. “Our research shows that their effect on climate could become significantly larger than we expected, if we continue along a business-as-usual path.” (more…)
Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers - Will Suppression of this Science be Repeated?
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons are pictured here in their lab, holding the equipment for their controversial cold fusion experiment. Fleischmann (on the right) had been one of Pons's teachers at the University of Southampton in England. This image is courtesy of the University of Utah.
The following article was originally published on NaturalNews.com. It details how cold fusion was already not just proven, but was gaining acceptance - so much so that the U.S. Navy sponsored research was even reporting “data supporting the reality of cold fusion.” - Editor
Thee world owes Fleischmann and Pons a huge apology: The cold fusion technology they announced in 1989 — which was blasted by arrogant hot fusion scientists as a fraud — has been proven true once again by U.S. Navy Researchers. In papers presented at this year’s American Chemical Society meeting, scientist Pamela Mosier-Boss presented data supporting the reality of cold fusion, declaring the report, “the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions.” (more…)
Free Energy Technology Could Destroy the Natural World (But It Doesn’t Have To)
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Stanley Pons, left, and Martin Fleischmann describe their cold-fusion experiments during a press conference in 1989. Their work was later discredited in what later appeared to have been a deliberate misinformation campaign. (Photo credit: Paul Barker, Deseret Morning News)
Originally published April 24, 2009 NaturalNews.com
(While I don’t necessarily agree with everything Mike Adams says here, he raises issues that few others are talking about. As with any major technological development, there is a dark side - the potential for destructive use - which is rarely given the serious thought it deserves. As well, the connection between energy and population growth is an issue that we can’t completely ignore. — Editor)
As the editor of NaturalNews, I’ve long been a proponent of free energy technologies and research. I’ve written about the reality of cold fusion for more than ten years, braving the incessant whining of ignorant scientists who said it was all a hoax, year after year, right up until the U.S. Navy recently announced its own cold fusion breakthroughs.
But in the world of free energy, cold fusion is where things are just warming up. The really interesting stuff is more in the realm of zero point energy — tapping the vast stores of pure energy woven into the fabric of reality, even absent any physical matter whatsoever. (more…)
Cold Fusion Verification Experiment
In the CBS 60 Munites Cold Fusion story, mention was made that the research by Fleischmann and Pons has now been replicated by a number of labs the world over. For those of us for whom this story is new news, it is perhaps useful to actually see an example of some of this work. The following is from a web site detailing cold fusion experiments done by one such lab. It is reproduced here for private and non-commercial use (with some images reduced) courtesy of JLN Labs, (http://jlnlabs.online.fr/cfr/html/hpcfr2.htm) the copyright holder. The author, Jean-Louis Naudin notes: “The Cold Fusion Reactor ( CFR ) is fully based on the work of the researchers Tadahiko MIZUNO and Tadayoshi OHMORI from the Hokkaido University in Japan. On May 7th, 2003, I have replicated successfully the Mizuno-Ohmori’s Cold Fusion experiment. I have used the experimental protocol fully described by Eugene F. Mallove at : http://www.amasci.com/weird/anode.txt.” - Editor
Test of the Cold Fusion Reactor v2.0 at High Power
created on May 8, 2003 - JLN Labs - Last update May 22, 2003 (more…)
More ‘60 Minutes’ Cold Fusion Follow Up
Comments and insights courtesy Craig Stangland & Sterling D. Allan
A report by CBS News' 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion, which aired April 19, 2009, was on the following day listed as their #1 "Most Viewed Videos" online.
The following is excepted from a news item on Sterling D. Allan’s PESWiki concerning the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion program.
First, on April 19, 2009, Craig Stangland <craig {at} sparkprintsolutions.com> wrote the following review of the program:
It was VERY encouraging from several points.
1. 60 Minutes did a great job covering the story that CF (cold fusion) is real.
2. They reviewed the history of CF, even going so far as going to England’s countryside to meet with Martin Fleischman, one of the two renounced electro-chemist scientists that were disgraced by their ever so smart peers. Even today, their names remain as a joke, even though 20 years later the proof to validate their work exists. There are numerous labs throughout the world trying to solve the unreliability of being able to repeatably make it work so as to commercialize it, even though the public still doesn’t know or believe it works. (more…)
APS Takes Exception to Its Role as Portrayed in the 60 Minutes Cold Fusion Story
The American Physical Society issued a press statement today (April 22) refuting its role as described in the 60 Minutes report on cold fusion.
In full, their press statement reads as follows:
On April 19, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” segment on “cold fusion,” a process that proponents claim could solve the world’s energy problems. The script stated that “… [‘60 Minutes’] asked the American Physical Society, the top physics organization in America, to recommend an independent scientist. They gave us Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri and an expert in measuring energy.” That statement is false. (more…)
CBS 60 Minutes on Cold Fusion: More Than Junk Science
When first presented in 1989 cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science [or rather subjected to a campaign to discredit. - Editor].
But, as CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelle reported on a program first aired Sunday Night (April 19), there`s renewed buzz among scientists that cold fusion could lead to monumental breakthroughs in energy production.
60 Minutes: Twenty years ago it appeared, for a moment, that all our energy problems could be solved. It was the announcement of cold fusion - nuclear energy like that which powers the sun - but at room temperature on a table top. It promised to be cheap, limitless and clean. Cold fusion would end our dependence on the Middle East and stop those greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. It would change everything.
But then, just as quickly as it was announced, it was discredited. So thoroughly, that cold fusion became a catch phrase for junk science. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to oblivion - for many scientists today, cold fusion is hot again.
For a complete copy of the transcript, visit: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml
Cold Fusion - CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Turns Up the Heat
by Steven B. Krivit
Editor, New Energy Times
April 16, 2009
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Low-energy nuclear reactions, historically known as “cold fusion,” will get their 12 minutes of fame on CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in a program titled “Cold Fusion Is Hot Again.”
This is the second TV program on “cold fusion” to run within the last few weeks. “Brink,” a show on Discovery’s Science Channel, ran an episode called “Cold Fusion Cracked?” that aired March 27.
According to “Brink” guest Dwight Williams - introduced as a senior science adviser with the U.S. Department of Energy - there might, in fact, be something real about all of this - that is, real science, real hope and, quite possibly, a real source of energy. (more…)
Breakthrough 60 Minutes Program To Report Cold Fusion is Real
In a landmark broadcast, scheduled to air Sunday, April 19, 2009 at 7pm EST, CBS News Magazine, ’60 Minutes’, is to profile research into cold fusion. Here’s a note and trailer from the CBS web page:
Pelley’s Reporter’s Notebook
Presented in 1989, cold fusion was quickly dismissed as junk science. But today, the experiments could lead to a monumental breakthrough in energy production. Scott Pelley reports.
‘Cold Fusion’ Rebirth? Fresh Evidence for Existence of New Energy Source
![An experimental "cold fusion" device produced this pattern of "triple tracks" which scientists say is caused by high-energy nuclear particles resulting from a nuclear reaction. (Credit: Pam Boss, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center [SPAWAR])](http://x-journals.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/cold-fusion-rebirth.jpg "cold-fusion-rebirth")
An experimental "cold fusion" device produced this pattern of "triple tracks" which scientists say is caused by high-energy nuclear particles resulting from a nuclear reaction. (Credit: Pam Boss, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center /SPAWAR
Low-energy nuclear reactions could potentially provide 21st Century society a limitless and environmentally-clean energy source for generating electricity, researchers say. The report, which injects new life into this controversial field, will be presented here today at the American Chemical Society’s 237th National Meeting. It is among 30 papers on the topic that will be presented during a four-day symposium, “New Energy Technology,” March 22-25, in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the first description of cold fusion.
“Our finding is very significant,” says study co-author and analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss, Ph.D., of the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in San Diego, Calif. “To our knowledge, this is the first scientific report of the production of highly energetic neutrons from an LENR device.” (more…)
Eugene Mallove - Police Offer $50,000 Reward in Murder Case of Cold Fusion Champion
Eugene Mallove, standard bearer of the Cold Fusion torch, editor of Infinite Energy magazine. Murdered May 14, 2004, shortly after his first grandchild was born.
According to a 2/12/2009 report by The Day newspaper in Connecticut, police announced Wednesday they are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the 2004 killing of physicist Eugene Mallove in Norwich.
“The 56-year-old Mallove, who lived in Pembroke, N.H., was found beaten to death in the driveway of his mother’s house at 119 Salem Turnpike on May 14, 2004,” the paper states. “Mallove was editor-in-chief of Infinite Energy magazine and a prominent scientist who had championed cold fusion.”
“Murder charges were dropped in November against the two men originally charged in his death. The state’s case against the men - Gary McAvoy and Joseph Reilly - unraveled when extensive testing on physical evidence failed to establish their guilt,” the paper states. “Norwich police had previously obtained arrest warrants charging them in 2005, and a judge later found that probable cause existed to continue prosecuting them.” (more…)
Video: The War Against Cold Fusion
In the past, we were told by the media that “Cold Fusion” was a fraud - that it would never work. Well, suggest the makers of this video, you may be in for a rude awakening. This video uncovers the history and deliberate attempts to bury, distort and alter the data results regarding cold fusion experimentation.
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