MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:

The 2005  Cold Fusion Colloquium

Cold Fusion - Science and Technology
also other Clean Energy Investigations

with Special Tribute to Dr. Eugene Mallove, Cold Fusion Investigator, MIT Graduate

General Topics
Science and Engineering Discussions of Cold Fusion
Material Science, Review of Present literature concerning Cold Fusion
Experimental Results
Theoretical Understandings of Cold Fusion
Cold Fusion Device Engineering

Colloquium Schedule: 
Saturday, 5/21/05, 9 AM to 4 PM  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Latest updates including IP (patent), business, and environmental aspects of cold fusion (sometimes erroneously called "low energy nuclear reactions" (LENR) or "chemically assisted nuclear reactions").

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In presidential campaign of 2004, Bush and Kerry managed to find one piece of common ground: Both spoke glowingly of a future powered by fuel cells. Hydrogen would free us from our dependence on fossil fuels and would dramatically curb emissions of air pollutants, including carbon dioxide, the gas chiefly blamed for global warming. The entire worldwide energy market would evolve into a “hydrogen economy” based on clean, abundant power. Auto manufacturers and environmentalists alike happily rode the bandwagon, pointing to hydrogen as the next big thing in U.S. energy policy. Yet the truth is that we aren’t much closer to a commercially viable hydrogen-powered car than we are to cold fusion or a cure for cancer.

 HYDROGEN IS AN ABUNDANT FUEL
True, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe; it’s so plentiful that the sun consumes 600 million tons of it every second. But unlike oil, vast reservoirs of hydrogen don’t exist here on Earth. Instead, hydrogen atoms are bound up in molecules with other elements, and we must expend energy to extract the hydrogen so it can be used in fuel cells. We’ll never get more energy out of hydrogen than we put into it. “Hydrogen is a currency, not a primary energy source,” explains Geoffrey Ballard, the father of the modern-day fuel cell and co-founder of Ballard Power Systems, the world’s leading fuel-cell developer. “It’s a means of getting energy from where you created it to where you need it.”

HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS WILL END GLOBAL WARMING
Unlike internal combustion engines, hydrogen fuel cells do not emit carbon dioxide. But extracting hydrogen from natural gas, today’s primary source, does. And wresting hydrogen from water through electrolysis takes tremendous amounts of energy. If that energy comes from power plants burning fossil fuels, the end product may be clean hydrogen, but the process used to obtain it is still dirty. .... The result: even more C02. In fact, driving a fuel cell car with hydrogen extracted from natural gas or water could produce a net increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.  ...  In the short term, nuclear power may be the easiest way to produce hydrogen without pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Electricity from a nuclear plant would electrolyze water—splitting H2O into hydrogen and oxygen. Ballard champions the idea, calling nuclear power “extremely important, unless we see some other major breakthrough that none of us has envisioned.”

In Japan, their Emperor has given an award for the study of cold fusion. 
The result in Japan: Science and engineering thrive.

By contrast, in America, the (hot fusion) physics community and its conspirators at the US Patent Office continue to systematically obstruct Yankee ingenuity, Congressional mandate, and US Constitutional safeguards, in the very country were cold fusion was first announced in March 1989 (on the day that the Exxon Valdez crashed in Alaska).        [Want more information on this? click here ]

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"Such misrepresentation and falsification of evidence happened after Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman[5] announced in March 1989 that they had achieved fusion by electrochemical means. Several influential US laboratories (Caltech[6], MIT[7], Yale/Brookhaven[8]) reported negative results on Cold Fusion that were based on shoddy experimental work and a misunderstanding of the Pons-Fleischmann claims[9]. They gave a hostile hot fusion establishment the excuse it needed to conclude that the claims made by Pons and Fleischmann were bogus. In November 1989, a DOE panel concluded the same after a shallow mock investigation of only seven months.[10]   Eugene F. Mallove, who was the Chief Science Writer at the MIT News Office at the time and now publishes Infinite Energy, a journal dedicated to covering potential new energy sources ignored by mainstream science, played a part in exposing the MIT report as mistaken, possibly fraudulent[11], and resigned in protest over it in 1991.  ...   It is ironic that each of these negative results were themselves the product of the kind of low quality work of which Fleischmann and Pons were accused. The difference was that the reports said what the hot fusion community wanted to hear. This was the legacy of the 1989 ERAB report, but that legacy must now be reversed-and it will be, however long that takes.

Most people, including physicists continue to be unaware that low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) are real, and have been verified in hundreds of experiments throughout the 1990s.
In February 2002, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center of the United State Navy in San Diego released a 310 page report titled Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System [13] that discusses the overwhelming experimental evidence that the cold fusion effect indeed exists. Dr. Frank E. Gordon, the head of the center's Navigation and Applied Sciences Department, writes in the foreword:

.That "cold fusion" continues to be ignored by the scientific establishment, and, to add insult to injury, is being used synonymously with "bad science", usually in such expressions as "the cold fusion debacle", constitutes one of the greatest scientific scandals in human history, and a human tragedy. While wars over oil are being fought, a potential source of energy that could solve humanity's energy problems for all eternity is being ignored by all but a small community of researchers. At the same time, the dead-end "hot fusion" program continues to receive billions of dollars in public funds. If there is a scandal associated with cold fusion, this is it."

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COLDFUSION REFERENCES AND LINKS
   Cold Fusion Times References (UPDATED)
Cold Fusion Times Cold Fusion Links

Dr. Britz Papers (missing conference, JNE, etc)

Lietz References

Free Energy News Directory

'LENR site' References

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JET Thermal Products 
JET Thermal Products 
(Introduction including Cold Fusion Engineering, including the Optimal Operating Point) 
    JET Thermal Products - Introduction to Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion Science - More Engineering and material science 

JET  Thermal Products -  Public Open-House Cold Fusion Demonstration at MIT and ICCF10

More information about JET Thermal Products

COLD FUSION TIMES  "Your Most Complete, Uncensored, Cold Fusion Resource"

The journal of the scientific aspects of loading isotopic fuels into materials 
ISSN# 1072-2874 Published Quarterly   ©2005 JET Technology

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Lastest on Sonofusion

Collapsing bubbles have hot plasma core  - Mark Peplow
Nature: 2 March 2005

Ken Suslick and David Flannigan, chemists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, say they have recorded the most intense flashes of light ever seen from these bubbles, visible to the naked eye, which has allowed them to probe what happens inside.  "Nobody has been able to measure the temperature inside a single collapsing bubble before," says Suslick. The bubbles reached more than 15,000°C he says, which is four times hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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Fill a flask with liquid, rattle it with ultrasonic waves, and hellish microcosms can form within the fluid. Tiny gas bubbles swell and then implode with a fury now revealed to be extreme enough to strip electrons from atoms trapped in the collapse.  The Illinois chemists who have detected that atomic destruction for the first time have also directly measured temperatures of the imploding bubbles. Some of these register at least 15,000 kelvins, a temperature about three times as hot as the Sun's surface. 

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    Shrimps spew bubbles as hot as the sun - Peter Weiss

Pinkie-size marine crustaceans whose snappy noisemaking has already captivated scientists also stage some flashy pyrotechnics, researchers now find. While earlier experiments had shown that so-called snapping shrimp generate imploding air bubbles that make loud popping sounds (SN: 9/23/00, p. 199), a new study reveals that those collapsing bubbles emit flashes of light and may flare as hot as the sun's surface. 

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Star in a Jar? Hints of nuclear fusion found—maybe  - Peter Weiss A group of scientists claims to have found evidence of nuclear fusion in a vase-size flask of liquid. The researchers say they created tiny bubbles that seemed to have collapsed with enough violence to force atomic nuclei to fuse. 

Single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) results from the extreme temperatures and pressures achieved during bubble compression; calculations have predicted the existence of a hot, optically opaque plasma core with consequent bremsstrahlung radiation. Recent controversial reports claim the observation of neutrons from deuterium–deuterium fusion during acoustic cavitation. However, there has been previously no strong experimental evidence for the existence of a plasma during single- or multi-bubble sonoluminescence. SBSL typically produces featureless emission spectra that reveal little about the intra-cavity physical conditions or chemical processes. Here we report observations of atomic (Ar) emission and extensive molecular (SO) and ionic (O2+) progressions in SBSL spectra from concentrated aqueous H2SO4 solutions. Both the Ar and SO emission permit spectroscopic temperature determinations, as accomplished for multi-bubble sonoluminescence with other emitters. The emissive excited states observed from both Ar and O2+ are inconsistent with any thermal process. The Ar excited states involved are extremely high in energy (>13 eV) and cannot be thermally populated at the measured Ar emission temperatures (4,000–15,000 K); the ionization energy of O2 is more than twice its bond dissociation energy, so O2+ likewise cannot be thermally produced. We therefore conclude that these emitting species must originate from collisions with high-energy electrons, ions or particles from a hot plasma core. 

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Using a technique employed by astronomers to determine stellar surface temperatures, chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have measured the temperature inside a single, acoustically driven collapsing bubble. 

 "When bubbles in a liquid get compressed, the insides get hot -- very hot," said Ken Suslick, the Marvin T. Schmidt Professor of Chemistry at Illinois and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. "The temperature we measured -- about 20,000 degrees Kelvin -- is four times hotter than the surface of our sun."  By substituting concentrated sulfuric acid for the water used in previous measurements, Suslick and Flannigan boosted the brilliance of the spectra nearly 3,000 times. The bubble can be seen glowing even in a brightly lit room. This allowed the researchers to measure the otherwise faint emission from a single bubble.

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Beyond the horizon of humdrum - Jug Suraiya, Vikas Singh 
INDIA TIMES NEWS NETWORK

 Fuel Free-for-all

INDIA - "Imagine .having your own private sun supply all the bijli you'll ever need. That's the promise of cold fusion — giving humankind an inexhaustible, limitless source of virtually free, non-polluting energy. It would revolutionise the way we live. No more soaring oil prices. No pollution. No petro-funded terrorism. The problem is that cold fusion has largely been dismissed as a chimera — a golden goose that can never be.
Cold fusion — harnessing nuclear energy without recourse to the humungous temperatures that conventional fusion entails — has long been the holy grail of fringe science. Experimenters from Baltimore to Bangalore have claimed success. (The lad from Karnataka said he'd achieved cold fusion in his bathtub). All such claims have been disproved. But many — like us — believe cold fusion is indeed possible. And will be made to happen, sooner rather than later. So why not in 2005?"
 

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UNDERNEWS - Progressive Review-  Sam Smith

"AT THE MARCH MEETING of the American Physical Society there will be 14 papers delivered in a session on cold fusion. This isn't the first time there has been such a session, and cold fusion has also been considered a respectable subject at the American Chemical Society. Reports cold fusion advocate Ed Wall, "They have been presenting at APS for a number of years, as well as the American Chemical Society. They generally do not generate much of a turnout, but because the scientists doing the CF research are in good standing in such organizations, and the methods employed are standard stuff and quality of the work they do appears to be good, they were able to argue (Scott Chubb, most persuasively) that they should be allowed to present their work."
There is one place, however, where cold fusion is not permitted to be discussed or debated: the American press. Says Wall: "Once CF started getting treated as a serious science, not just by a strong-willed minority of appropriately credentialed scientists, but by scientific and engineering establishments around the world (Japan), it appeared as more than bizarre that it was still considered heresy in the US."
"In his talk [Dr. Brian Josephson] quoted Charles D. Beaudette as offering the following characteristics of scientific skeptics:
1. They do not express their criticisms in those venues where it will be subject to peer review.
2. They do not go into the laboratory and practise the experiment along with the practitioner. ...
6. Evidence is rejected outright if it does not answer every possible question at the outset.
The problem with the media is even greater since it goes to the established scientific profession rather than the ground-breakers for confirmation."

 

COLDFUSION REFERENCES AND LINKS
Cold Fusion Times References (UPDATED)

Cold Fusion Times Cold Fusion Links

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Dr. Eugene Mallove:
 "Ninth International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF9) Meets in Beijing, China"
 

Some ICCF-9 Papers

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Some ICCF-10 Papers

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Introduction to Cold Fusion

(Introduction including Engineering and the Optimal Operating Point

Cold Fusion Science - More Engineering and material science 

Public Open-House Cold Fusion Demonstration at MIT and ICCF10

More information about CF Devices

JET Thermal Products 

JET Thermal Products

 

 

For slain man's family, no arrests mean no closure 
8 months after his death, no leads in Mallove case 

Concord Monitor - AnnMarie Timmins

 "Soon after Eugene Mallove of Pembroke was found murdered in Connecticut, outside his childhood home, the local police said they had talked to a couple of suspects and expected to have fingerprint and DNA evidence within a month. That was eight months ago, and the police said last week that they are no closer to solving the case. Some of that DNA evidence - the best hope of tying someone to the scene - still hasn't come back from Connecticut's state lab. The police haven't recovered any of the items taken from Mallove, a watch, cell phone and credit cards, said Lt. Timothy Menard of the Norwich, Conn., police. And despite pleas to the public for help, no one has called."

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Anyone with information about Mallove's death is asked to call the Norwich Police Department at (860) 886-5561. The anonymous tip line can be reached at (860) 886-5561, ext. 500. 

"Claims of cold fusion are no more convincing today than they were 15 years ago. That's the conclusion of the Department of Energy's fresh look at advances in extracting energy from low-energy nuclear reactions. A report released on 1 December 2004 echoes DOE's 1989 study that followed the headline-making claims of cold fusion by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann."

[Editor of Cold Fusion Times:  This is not accurate.  First, not all 2004 cold fusion
data was reported to the DOE.  Second, eighteen  anonymous DOE reviewers “split approximately evenly” on whether or not there is excess power observed in the cold fusion phenomena.  That is a great change since the 1989 ERAB report.]

"Since Pons and Fleischmann's claims, cold fusion has fallen into disrepute among scientists, with only a few soldiering on under professional adversity. Most are funded by industry or various governments."

[Editor of Cold Fusion Times:  This is not accurate.  First, more than 3000 scientific papers and hundreds of researchers have expanded the field enormously.  Second, in the USA most researchers are self-funded.  Only in Japan, do industries such as Toyota and Mitsubishi support cold fusion.]

"Just the fact of the review has heightened the level of discussion. There's been a huge upswing in interest in funding cold fusion research." Adds MIT theorist Peter Hagelstein, "A door has been opened by the reviewers.."

More accurate information on the DOE Review

JAPAN - The Japanese Thermal and Electronic Energy Technology Foundation [Toyota], on 12/10/04 awarded scholarships and recognition to three Japanese scientists for their work in cold fusion. Dr. Yasuhiro Iwamura (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Prof. Hiroshi Yamada (Iwate University) and Dr. Tadahiko Mizuno (Hokkaido University) were each awarded research scholarships of 1 M Yen.

Dr. Yasuhiro Iwamura: Nuclear transmutation effects by deuterium permeation through multi-layered Pd complex. 
Prof. Hiroshi Yamada: Excess energy production and transmutation in PdDx with absorption and de-sorption by electric current
Dr. Tadahiko Mizuno: Hydrogen production from organic compound liquid by discharge electrolysis

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JAPAN - Nikkei-Shinbun (Japanese Financial Times) Connotes Japanese cold fusion research as the third most important technological trend in 2004
December 27,  2004 - Cited: Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) cold fusion work in transmutation (under Dr. Yasuhiro Iwamura) using deuterium permeation through Pd complexes.  It is ranked #3 regarding  important R&D in 2004 in Japan.

"This is a very innovative technology to make transmutation of elements with low cost, compared to existing methods as fission reactors and big accelerators."  - Nikkei-Shinbun