Cold fusion success: real or myth?

9999 · May 23, 2008

Hello guys,
the leading economical Italian newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" wrote yesterday an article about cold fusion regarding the success - or so it seems - of a Japanese scientist being able to produce energy from deuterium. For those of you able to read Italian, here's the link:

http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/Sole...03-11dd-9bec-00000e25108c&DocRulesView=Libero

I searched on google about the Arata Phenomena, as it's been called this process, but got next to nothing. Since the newspaper is not exactly a gossip rag, I still don't know what to think.
Comments, anyone?

achilles28 · May 23, 2008

I believe its possible because Government and Big Energy says its not.

Stanely Myer invented a water fuel cell demonstrated to British dignitaries and Military who said it was the real deal.

I believe it.

Are there any vested interests in Corporate or Political life that stand to lose with FE? Who are they and why?

bigmoose · May 23, 2008

Sonoluminescence phenomena should be considered also in the cold fusion debate.

Humpy · May 23, 2008

If the oil lobby get their way it will be a dead duck

nokomisjeff · May 23, 2008

Cold fusion is a myth, nothing more. All claims of cold fusion have been debunked as the experiments haven't replicable by other parties. I could go into the exact science of why it's a myth, but this is a trading forum.

http://masteroftheuniverse.wordpress.com/

thrunner · May 23, 2008

http://atomic-motor.blogspot.com/2008/05/could-this-device-be-real-mr-fusion.html
http://lenr-canr.org/News.htm

As a nuclear engineer with a strong interest in nanotechnology for many years, there aren't many cold fusion devices that I've seen and read about over the years that excite me as much as the potential of Dr. Yoshiaki Arata's solid state fusion reactor which uses Palladium nanoparticles to help initiate his cold fusion reaction process, which creates He4 (the kind found in children's balloons) from Deuterium gas (a readily available hydrogen isotope). What is also released in the process is heat energy from fusion. No small accomplishment as any physicist would tell you, because this process should be impossible according to the known laws of nuclear physics and chemistry.

What is also significant is that if his process could be scaled up in large volumes, perhaps ..just perhaps it may be a way to replace Helium supplies someday, which according to the latest reports is becoming a scarce non-renewable resource, often times released to the atmosphere as natural gas is collected along with fossil fuels. The US strategic Helium reserves are also known to be a finite supply, and despite this are now being sold off to meet supply needs of the scientific and commercial sectors.

If any cold fusion fans have read Dr. Arata's earlier important paper on this device, first published in 2006 in a very reputable Italian journal found here, then you would probably agree that an announcement like this is significant from the standpoint that it shows for the first time his actual prototype laboratory device and that he is now demonstrating it in public as also reported here in an interview by New Energy Times.

The Atomic Motor would like to send out a guitar hero award to Dr. Arata and other fellow scientists who diligently keep trying and making significant progress against all odds in keeping the clean energy cold fusion spirit alive.

This latest story was first reported here at the LENR.org community web site:

Prof. Y. Arata Plans Demonstration at Osaka University
May 14, 2008

Osaka National University Prof. emeritus Yoshiaki Arata has announced a lecture and demonstration of his latest cold fusion reactor, on May 22, 2008, starting at 1:30 p.m. (subject to change). A photo of the reactor is shown below. The lecture will be on the 1st floor of Arata Hall on the university campus, and the demonstration will be later, on the 3rd floor. (Note that Arata Hall is named after Prof. Arata, who is one Japan's leading scientists, with honors including a building named after him at the university, and an award from the Japanese Emperor in 2006.)

Contact. A. Kobayashi, Tel 06-6879-8694
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andread · May 24, 2008

yeah, just google for "Yoshiaki Arata" and deuterium, you'll find something:

http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/05/coldfusion_demonstration_a_suc_1.html

it happened already 20 years ago. I would wait a few months before saying it's possible

TraderZones · May 24, 2008

Quote from andread:

yeah, just google for "Yoshiaki Arata" and deuterium, you'll find something:

http://physicsworld.com/blog/2008/05/coldfusion_demonstration_a_suc_1.html

it happened already 20 years ago. I would wait a few months before saying it's possible
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that is very true. The purpose of science is for people to discover something interesting/new, publish in a quality journal + make an announcement. Then other reputable institutions/scientists CORROBORATE the work, following the techniques as detailed.

If uncorroborated, it is DISMISSED, as cold fusion was. It doesn't matter how loud or slick the original scientist's work appears. Without the needed proof, his work is considered unfounded or suspect. This is as it should be.

A distinguished South Korean science was disgraced recently, for basically falsifying his work - stem cell research or cloning I believe - his exact research escapes me at the moment.

maxpi · May 24, 2008

Cold fusion research is not going to come out of the US. A law was passed that any university working on it would have their federal funds pulled!! Energy companies are not going to stand for such nonsense at the taxpayers expense

MGJ · May 24, 2008

Tony Stark built a 10 cm cold fusion reactor using 1.2 grams of palladium, in a cave in Afghanistan. Why can't the well funded geniuses at CERN (link) or LANL (link), with all their billions, do the same?