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vaidehipatil — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:07:17 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Cold conFusion ?

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Troythulu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:29:23 +0000

[1] After 20 years: New life for cold fusion?; Is the science community warming to cold fusion?: It’s been 20 years since Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, electrochemists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City announced the discovery of what they believed to be “cold fusion.”; The pronouncement sparked a flurry of excitement…

[2] Evolution in a bottle: Synthetic Life Oozes Closer to Reality; Self-replicating RNA sequences advance science another step toward artificial life…

[3] Mind Games: Can computer brain training help schizophrenics?; Research shows that brain-training video games may reduce the seemingly intractable symptoms of schizophrenia…

[4] What Can Magicians Teach Us about the Brain?; Neuroscience can learn a lot by tapping the intuitive knowledge of magicians as new sources for inspiration and study…

[5] An odd supernova may revise stellar evolution theory; A neat piece of detective work to trace the roots of an exploded star has turned up a deeper mystery: why the victim, which turned out to be a beast of a star more than 50 times as massive as our sun, didn’t disappear into a black hole…

[6] Tesla Motors gets ready to unveil the Model S; Tesla Motors, the maker of the eye-catching, all-electric Roadster sports car, is set to pull away the tarp on a street-ready prototype of its highly anticipated Model S sedan…

If It Sounds Too Good To Be True . . . Maybe It Is?

Killian Bundy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:41:16 +0000

Cold fusion experimentally confirmed

U.S. Navy researchers claimed to have experimentally confirmed cold fusion in a presentation at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting.

“We have compelling evidence that fusion reactions are occurring” at room temperature, said Pamela Mosier-Boss, a scientist with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (San Diego). The results are “the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from low-energy nuclear reactions,” she added.

Cold fusion was first reported in 1989 by researchers Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, then with the University of Utah, prompting a global effort to develop the technology. Normal fusion reactions, where hydrogen is fused into helium, occur at millions of degrees inside the Sun. If room temperature fusion reactions could be realized commercially, as Fleishchmann and Pons claimed to have achieved inside an electrolytic cell, it promised to produce abundant nuclear energy from deuterium–heavy hydrogen–extracted from seawater.

Other scientists were unable to duplicate the 1989 results, thereby discrediting the work.

The theoretical underpinnings of cold fusion have yet to be adequately explained. The hypothesis is that when electrolysis is performed on deuteron, molecules are fused into helium, releasing a high-energy neutron. While excess heat has been detected by researchers, no group had yet been able to detect the missing neutrons.

Now, the Naval researchers claim that the problem was instrumentation, which was not up to the task of detecting such small numbers of neutrons. To sense such small quantities, Mosier-Boss used a special plastic detector called CR-39. Using co-deposition with nickel and gold wire electrodes, which were inserted into a mixture of palladium chloride and deutrium, the detector was able to capture and track the high-energy neutrons.

The plastic detector captured a pattern of tiny clusters of adjacent pits, called triple tracks, which the researchers claim is evidence of the telltale neutrons.

Other presenters at the conference also presented evidence supporting cold fusion, including Antonella De Ninno, a scientist with New Technologies Energy and Environment (Rome), who reported both excess heat and helium gas.

“We now have very convincing experimental evidence,” De Ninno claimed.

Boy oh boy, can you just imagine the possibilities if this technology were to ever become commercially viable? We’re talking low cost, environmentally friendly, plentiful energy.

/the Saudis, Uncle Hugo, and all the rest of the evil people holding us over an oil barrel would suddenly become economically irrelevant

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Troythulu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:45:39 +0000

[1] British UFO files show ‘close encounter’; A boomerang-shaped object seen from an airport control tower and a woman’s encounter with an “alien” are among the secrets revealed in official UFO files; The third set of UFO documents to be released by the Ministry of Defense covers the period from 1987 to 1993; What’s the likelihood of any of these reports representing anything truly and inexplicably out of this world? As far as the evidence shows, not very good at all, but read on…

[2] Cold fusion debate heats up again; The long-standing debate about cold fusion is receiving new impetus at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in the U.S. this week; Cold fusion, first announced 20 years ago on Monday, was claimed to be a boundless source of clean energy by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons…

[3] Rare star-to-supernova link established; A supernova, or stellar explosion some 200 million light-years away has been traced to its progenitor star, one of only a few times the source of a supernova has been identified based on pre- and post-supernova images…

[4] Rise of the Robots–The Future of Artificial Intelligence; By 2050 robot ‘brains’ based on computers that execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivalling human intelligence; In recent years the mushrooming power, functioning and ubiquity of computers and the internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology’s rate of advancement and usefulness in everyday life…

[5] How do you find an elf? Elf Detection 101: How to find the hidden folk of Iceland; A “large number of Icelanders” believe in elves, or “huldufolk,” or “hidden people.” In light of Iceland’s economic woes, maybe we could overlook this sort of irrational belief, which though vexing to skeptics, is common among even developed nations, ingrained into each culture. Belief in nonsense is one of the oldest bad habits of our species, one we would do well to overcome, though…

La prova che la Fusione Fredda funziona!

robex — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:57:54 +0000

La Fusione Fredda funziona: la prova scientifica della sua realizzazione pratica e’ arrivata.