Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen meaning the two types of atoms have the same number of protons one but different numbers of neutrons. Cold fusion cf appears to have burst upon the scene in 1989 with the announcements of fusion at room temperature fleischmann and pons, 1989. They should explain the same experiments which involve electrons moved by emf and water. This would seem to indicate dd fusion, but this is assuming that correlation equals causation. Cold fusion moniker renamed simply as coldfusion possibly to distinguish it from cold fusion theory. Cold fusion tool must have control the surface potential of the metal. Godes profusion energy abstract the field of cold fusion is not fusion as the current establishment defines it. In the preliminary paper on the subject which has become known as cold fusion, we pointed out that it was the strange behaviour of hydrogen and its isotopes dissolved in metal lattices 16. The 1989 claim of cold fusion was publicly heralded as the future of clean energy generation. Cold fusion, if true, requires radical changes in our understanding of energy and matter, but even after eight years of intense effort costing tens of millions of dollars, the evidence remains. Dec 21, 2015 cold fusion is dismissed as pseudoscience, the kind of thing that respectable scientists and science journalists simply dont talk about unless to remind us of its disgrace. Nuclear energy is hot fusion and an example is the power of the sun.
Anybody open to new chemistry as a place holder, along with. Jones et al, 1989 in palladium pd electrolytic cells using heavy water deuterium oxide. Fusion between deuterons usually requires temperatures of 100 mk to overcome the repulsive coulomb forces. Pdf physics of cold fusion by tsc theory full paper. Likewise the failure of a theory to account for cold fusion can be discounted on the grounds that the correct explanation and theory has not been provided. The neutrinos challenged a fundamental principle of albert einsteins theory of special relativity, which says that nothing can travel faster than light. Whether considered a scandal, a screwup, or a scientific character assassination by hot fusion advocates, the cold fusion episode is a case study for those who caution against the science of wishful thinking. Adobe coldfusion is a commercial rapid webapplication development platform created by j. And its very clear that krivit thinks of fusion as dd fusion, and that the cf community is very aware that dd fusion is. Coldfusion graybeards keep the research coming wired.
Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. An update pdf, international journal of nuclear energy science. When the coldfusion server is running on an os not supported by the local pdf service manager. Cold fusion is nuclear fusion at room temperature and normal pressure. Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room. When performance of the local coldfusion server is critical as pdf generation is a cpu intensive operation. Please note, that for each and every record, cold fusion will move down a table row, which will make the page look nice. Meanwhile cold fusion or lenr, for lowenergy nuclear reaction is the controversial idea that nuclear reactions similar to those in the sun could, under certain conditions, also. I do not know which theory, if any, is correct, but i like the variable mass theory first proposed in the 1930s fock and.
The third miracle has to do with the absence of the 24 mev gamma, which is known to accompany he4 production when it occurs in incoherent deuteron. Evidence supporting cold fusion lenr is summarized and requirements an explanation must take into. However, the cold fusion process must be stable to be usable and to date it has been impossible to put the theory into practical application. This movement is largely a reincarnation of cold fusion, the shortlived, quickly dismissed phenomenon from the late 1980s of achieving nuclear fusion in a simple benchtop electrolysis device. To speak of transferring energy to the lattice is to invoke lattice excitations, or phonons. However, subsequent failures to reproduce the effect heightened scepticism of. When current is passed through the heavy water from a palladium cathode, the utah team said, the palladium absorbs deuterium atoms, which are. Cold fusion describes a form of energy generated when hydrogen interacts with various metals like nickel and palladium. It is an explanation of how cold to ultra cold neutrons form. Theoretical feasibility of cold fusion according to the bsm. Coldfusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple html pages to a database. This paper was presented atthe fourth international conference on cold fusion,1993. Same game over and over again a brand totally new theory made of pieces of old ones to try to find a way to explain a fiction as if it might ever be possible.
Mcculloch plymouth university, plymouth, pl4 8aa, uk email. Only a few studies have measured nuclear products at the same time as. So, he doesnt agree with fleischmanns theory that the department of defense may have pursued a policy to discredit cold fusion. Anybody open to new chemistry as a place holder, along. Stoyan sarg after he developed the bsmsupergravitation unified theory bsmsg. Why do scientists dismiss the possibility of cold fusion.
Martin fleischmann holding a tiny cold fusion energy cell in 1989. Whether in the form of cold fusion or lenr for low energy nuclear reactions, many have claimed since the 1980s that the solution to our energy needs was either on the horizon or already here. The current assumption of deuterium deuterium dd fusion based on the excellent work of. I want to thank those who have remained largely anonymous while helping in the thankless effort of keeping cold fusion alive. The component running inside the jetty server is referred as the service manager, which takes request for pdf conversion from one or many coldfusion servers. May 29, 2019 italian cold fusion proponents have made the claim since the 1990s, including andrea rossi, the colorful inventor of the ecat, a device that rossi claims is a lenr reactor. The fleischmannpons effect of excess heat when hydrogen, the main element of water, is introduced to a small piece of the metal nickel or palladium, a reaction occurs that can create excess heat and. Deuterium was the material pons and fleischmann chose to fuel their attempted fusion reaction. Oct 17, 2015 16 thoughts on cold fusion theories and the return of the nutty professor cimpy on october 17, 2015 at 16. A basic tenet of research is that correlation does not equal causation. And its very clear that krivit thinks of fusion as dd fusion, and that the cf community is very aware that dd fusion is extremely unlikely to be the explanation. Why cold fusion research prevailed, oak grove press, 2000.
You may need to use a remote pdf service manager instead of the local pdf service manager, if any of the following are true. Cold fusion is supposed to be the energy of the future. Sep 23, 2016 whether in the form of cold fusion or lenr for low energy nuclear reactions, many have claimed since the 1980s that the solution to our energy needs was either on the horizon or already here. As a recent fortune piece puts it, the fleischmann and pons experiment was eventually debunked and since then the term cold fusion has become almost synonymous with. It was the most notorious scientific experiment in recent memory in 1989, the two men who claimed to have discovered the energy of the future were condemned as imposters and exiled by their peers. Twenty years ago the process of cold fusion was heralded as the future of creating electrical power. The fleischmannpons effect of excess heat when hydrogen, the main element of water, is introduced to a small piece of the metal nickel or palladium, a reaction occurs that can create excess heat and transmutation products. It would contrast starkly with the hot fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and be distinguished from muon. Cold fusion remains elusivebut these scientists may revive. Biberian, jeanpaul 2007, condensed matter nuclear science cold fusion. During the last year, the first four patents were issued for cold fusion us, europe. I wanted to write my bachelor thesis on cold fusion, but.
Based on true events, discover cold fusion has text assembled by ruby carat and art by matt howarth. The present status of cold fusion and its expected. However, subsequent failures to reproduce the effect heightened scepticism of this claim in the. Preparata31 department of chemistry, university of southampton highfield southampton s09 5nh, uk2 department of chemistry, university of utah salt lake city, ut. Well, if there really is an effect, as more and more evidence seems to be piling up that cold fusion effects are real, that would mean that these scientists who ridiculed and mocked cold fusion back in the 80s and 90s and even today can be blamed for setting all of our technology back 20 years.
Quantum fusion hypothesis a library of papers about cold. Pdf this paper explains the basic physics of cold fusion by the tetrahedral symmetric condensate tsc theory. Nuclear products of cold fusion by tsc theory akito takahashi1,2 1 technova inc. May 27, 2019 the 1989 claim of cold fusion was publicly heralded as the future of clean energy generation. Some scientists hope that this may be earths future energy source, but most. The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called coldfusion, though is more accurately known as cfml. Related fields the quantum fusion qf hypothesis explains the fleischmannpons effect and a large cross section of experiments researchers in this field have observed. That might seem like an odd way to spend ones money and time, but i was actually. On the 25th anniversary of the rise and fall of cold fusion, its close cousin, lowenergy nuclear reaction lenr science, is still on the fringe but simmering anew.
Cold fusion simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is a method of energy production that physicists have been bouncing about since the early 1900s, and it is. Cold fusion, as the name makes no attempt to hide, is a cold, more scientifically, a low energy, version of fusion. Colder fusion is a new kind of fusion caused by new chemistry. Italian coldfusion proponents have made the claim since the 1990s, including andrea rossi, the colorful inventor of the ecat, a device that rossi claims is a lenr reactor. Fleischmann said, can be initiated in a cell containing heavy water, in whose molecules the heavy form of hydrogen called deuterium is substituted for ordinary hydrogen. What is main difference between colder fusion and hydrino theory. Theoretical feasibility of cold fusion according to the. Fifty years worth of scientific labor and all the evidence supporting nuclear theory was telling them. If there are no more records to display, cold fusion finishes processing the page, or else it just displays all the other records.
The author wishes to thank pete mcquillin for advice and. The science behind cold fusion understanding science. Genie in a jar the discovery of cold fusion nuenergy. It would contrast starkly with the hot fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and be distinguished from muoncatalyzed fusion. The feasibility of cold fusion was theoretically envisioned by dr. At about the time of the salt lake city meeting, or shortly after, i became dissatisfied with my treatment, and began to reconstruct phonon theory. Since 1989 cold fusion research has been mostly absent in accredited journals, even though research in the. Cold fusion theories and the return of the nutty professor. Early in the 1990s, eiji toyota, president of toyota, inc. Google revives controversial coldfusion experiments. Quantum fusion hypothesis a library of papers about cold fusion.
Back in 1989, researchers announced that they had demonstrated the phenomenona nuclear reaction producing excess heat at room temperaturethat. There is currently no accepted theoretical model that would allow cold fusion to. Prediction of nuclear products both for metaldeuterium systems and metal protium systems is made on the basic physics of cold fusion by the tsc tetrahedral symmetric condensate theory. Here it is shown that a theory called quantised inertia predicts that in cracks in the metal with. What do colder fusion and hydrino theory have in common. As the theory for incoherent deuterondeuteron reactions is pretty straightforward as nuclear reactions goes, this is of course impossible. Such theoretical revolutions are the exceptions, not the rule. Cold fusion is also referred to as the anomalous heat effect ahe, reflecting the fact that there is no definitive theory of the elusive reaction.
After the first protection in cipo canada in 2001 15, the bsmsg theory and related articles were posted in physical archives 16,17,18,19 and reported at a. The palladium cathode is in the center of the test tube. Hagelstein and swartz mit 1992today about 2030 working groups in the us, western europe, russia, japan, and china. Consequently, with the many contradictory existing claims it is not possible at this time to state categorically that all the claims for cold fusion have been convincingly either proved or. Cold fusion remains elusivebut these scientists may. What is the current scientific thinking on cold fusion. Cold nuclear fusion theories exploration of exotic hydrogen states. Actually its history spans 67 years with the report by paneth and peters 1926 of fusing hydrogen into he. Starting with the promoted idea by krivit that the cold fusion community rejects wl theory because they are believers in fusion. Chemists and cold fusion scientists michael mckubre and melvin miles consulted on story elements. New theory to explain cold fusion 24 june 1989 soviet scientists may have been the first to carry out cold fusion. Nuclear fusion is the process by which many nuclei, the center of an atom, containing protons and neutrons, are forced to join together to form a heavier nucleus singular of nuclei and during that process, energy is released. The gradual dieoff of public interest in cold fusion was predicted by langmuirs laws of bad science.
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