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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 |
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!-Note-! - The Ponds/Fleischmann demonstration mentioned was supposedly fixed to fail. Google this topic for more and ignore the debunkers claiming it as myth.
On
May 22, researchers at Osaka University presented the first
demonstration of cold fusion since an unsuccessful attempt in 1989 that
has clouded the field to this day.
To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is
that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can
generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel and
produces almost zero waste. Essentially, cold fusion would make oil
obsolete.
However, many experts debate whether money
should be spent on cold fusion research or applied to more realistic
alternative energy solutions. For decades, researchers around the world
have been simply trying to show that cold fusion is indeed possible,
but they´ve yet to take that important first step.
Now, esteemed Physics Professor Yoshiaki Arata of Osaka University
in Japan claims to have made the first successful demonstration of cold
fusion. Last Thursday, May 22, Arata and his colleague Yue-Chang Zhang
of Shianghai Jiotong University presented the cold fusion demonstration
to 60 onlookers, including other physicists, as well as reporters from
six major newspapers and two TV studios. If Arata and Zhang´s
demonstration is real, it could lead to a future of new, clean, and
cheap energy generation.
In their experiment, the physicists forced deuterium gas into a
cell containing a mixture of palladium and zirconium oxide, which
absorbed the deuterium to produce a dense "pynco" deuterium. In this
dense state, the deuterium nuclei from different atoms were so close
together that they fused to produce helium nuclei.
Evidence for the occurrence of this fusion came from measuring the
temperature inside the cell. When Arata first injected the deuterium
gas, the temperature rose to about 70° C (158° F), which Arata
explained was due to nuclear and chemical reactions. When he turned the
gas off, the temperature inside the cell remained warmer than the cell
wall for 50 hours, which Arata said was an effect of nuclear fusion.
While Arata´s demonstration looked promising to his audience, the real
test is still to come: duplication. Many scientists and others are now
recalling the infamous 1989 demonstration by Martin Fleischmann and
Stanley Pons, who claimed to produce controlled nuclear fusion in a
glass jar at room temperature. However, no one - including Fleischmann
and Pons - could duplicate the experiment, leading many people to
consider cold fusion a pseudoscience to this day.
But one witness at the recent demonstration, physicist Akito
Takahashi of Osaka University, thought that the experiment should be
able to be repeated.
"Arata and Zhang demonstrated very successfully the generation of
continuous excess energy [heat] from ZrO2-nano-Pd sample powders under
D2 gas charging and generation of helium-4," Takahashi told New Energy
Times. "The demonstrated live data looked just like data they reported
in their published papers [J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008]. This demonstration showed that the method is highly reproducible."
In addition, researchers will have to repeat the experiment with
larger amounts of the palladium and zirconium oxide mixture in order to
generate larger quantities of energy.
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