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On the net Since 1994Cold Fusion
These pages show work
done in 1989, shortly after Pons & Fleischmann's famous announcement at the University of Utah.Mar. 23 1989 press release:
"Two scientists have successfully created a sustained nuclear fusion reaction at room temperature in a chemistry laboratory at the University of Utah. The breakthrough means the world may someday rely on fusion for a clean virtually inexhaustible source of energy."
Email © Photo by @ComIn the 2009 study, Mosier-Boss and colleagues inserted an electrode composed of nickel or gold wire into a solution of palladium chloride mixed with deuterium or "heavy water"...
2 Pons & Fleischmannn's Papers --
3-11-1989 (~ 700 KB)3-27-1990 PART 1 (~ 500 KB)
3-27-1990 PART 2 (~ 900 KB)
Our Cold Fusion Cell
TIME Cover
1st Annual Conference
at Salt Lake City, UtahArthur C. Clarke
on Cold fusion
Wikipedia...
How things stood in 1999
Articles
Links
Cold Fusion
Scotch tape makes X-rays
News
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PhysOrg.comIn 1989 two researchers proclaimed that they’d achieved cold fusion, the ultimate energy solution. The work went nowhere, but the hope remains.
Navy Chemist May Have Rediscovered Cold Fusion
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A palladium electrode is surrounded by a platinum wire cage. Electrolysis current is provided by two Heathkit™ power supplies.
The deuterium oxide is recycled by means of electrical sparks which were produced every few seconds to burn the deuterium to convert it back into water -- deuterium dioxide. (Thus these sparks regenerated Deuterium to D2O so as not to waste the expensive deuterium. The voltage for the ignition spark was about 20kv.)
The palladium electrode shows deformation due to deuterium uptake into the palladium lattice.
Careful calorimetric measurements (thermometer not pictured) showed that no excess energy was produced.
On 5-13-1989 this apparatus exploded in my kitchen. This was likely due to the electric sparks causing the apparatus to ignite the built-up deuterium and oxygen -- this was probably not because of any fusion reaction.
I know the date, because I wrote it next to the thermometer's blue fluid-stain on the ceiling. (The thermometer's stain as since evaporated -- disappeared, but I wrote the date on the ceiling.)
Video: soon
Nuclear Transmutation:
The Reality of Cold Fusion
Beaudette shows how
media attention escalated into
a confusing controversy...
should research be continued?
Searching for the Truth
Behind the Cold Fusion FurorTapping the Zero Point Energy
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