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There is a third choice in nuclear power: low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), otherwise known as cold fusion. This science needs to be developed further and given high priority in funding.
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Cold fusion refers to a safe, clean, decentralized energy source that has no harmful byproducts and could supply 100% of our energy needs, replacing dirty energy sources such as oil, gas, and coal forever.
Originally, cold fusion was the term given to the energy effect announced by electrochemistry Professors’ Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann in 1989. This phenomenon produced energies unable to be explained by the conventional electro-chemical processes, but by fusion reactions.
Conventional theories of fusion reactions dictate that they occur only under conditions of extreme heat and pressure, like inside of our Sun and the stars. The Pons and Fleischmann effect was produced inside a beaker on a table top at room temperature.
Their original experiment used two electrodes of palladium and platinum immersed in heavy water, a type of water containing deuterium and an isotope of hydrogen found in sea-water. When a small current was applied to the electrodes, more heat energy was created than electrical energy put in. Thus the designation of a source of energy.
After the initial announcement in 1989, controversy ensued when some scientists could not reproduce the results. That, together with the fact that the effect did not fit in to conventional theory, led many scientists to disregard the phenomenon. However, some scientists did reproduce the effect. It is these scientists who have continued to refine this process over the past twenty years, determining the conditions for success with astounding results.
As of 2009, some labs are producing tens of Megawatts from 0.3 grams of palladium. Energy output currently ranges from 10-25 times the energy input. Not half bad!
Now, the term cold fusion is being used to describe a number of low-temperature nuclear reactions, including variations on the Pons-Fleischmann design, any of which have the possibility to be Earth’s dominant energy source for the future – clean and plentiful, with no radioactive waste.
Renewed attention to alternative energies due to the many crises rooted in burning hydrocarbons is finally increasing the financial support for this research.
If funding for this technology increased, within the time it takes to build a nuclear power plant in the US, approximately 8-10 years, we could possibly have a safe, clean, plentiful energy source to power the future.
To learn more about what cold fusion is, watch the CBS 60 minutes piece (12 mins) on Cold Fusion: More Thank Junk Science linked from the top of the page. Hope is on the way!
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From the article 2001: The Coming Age of Hydrogen Power Arthur C. Clarke wrote “…Yet for five years, Washington didn’t believe that the Wright brothers had actually flown— because everybody knew it was impossible: leading scientists were still writing papers proving it couldn’t be done. Not until the Wrights went to France and started giving public demonstrations did the boys in the War Department say, “My goodness, these things really can fly. Perhaps they may even be useful for reconnaissance. We’d better look into it.” And they did— five years late. Well, history has just repeated itself, with what’s been (perhaps inaccurately) named “cold fusion…” “
Infinite-Energy Magazine Issue #22 1998
Read the comparison between the Wright Brothers development of the airplane and cold fusion science from Jed Rothwell’s piece entitled The Wright Brothers and Cold Fusion first published in Infinite-Energy Magazine Issue #9 1996.
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On October 26th, 2010 at 9:28 pm al smith Said:
“As of 2009, some labs are producing tens of Megawatts from 0.3 grams of palladium.”
Could you, perhaps, give specific citation to some of these “some labs.”
They’re fusing Palladium? What do you get when you fuse Palladium?
On October 27th, 2010 at 2:31 am Ruby Carat Said:
Hi Al, Dr. Robert Duncan the Vice-Provost of Research at the University of Missouri, speaking at the Missouri Energy Summit in 2009 talked about Energetics Technologies achieving an output energy 25 times the equivalent input energy using 0.3 grams of palladium.
Check out the video of his talk here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEMl5WLw3o
The palladium is the metal environment in which this nuclear reaction takes place; it’s not the palladium atoms themselves fusing. Scientists have determined that stuffing palladium full of deuterium, a hydrogen isotope and found in seawater, can create many times the equivalent input energy in heat energy.
There is documentation and a library of all the scientific papers on this new form of nuclear reactions at http://www.lenr.org.
Thanks,
Ruby
On October 27th, 2010 at 9:38 am Jed Rothwell Said:
This article should say “tens of megajoules” not megawatts. Cold fusion cells typically produce 1 or 2 megajoules, but some have produced 50 to 300 MJ.
Al Smith asked:
“Could you, perhaps, give specific citation to some of these ‘some labs.’”
Please see:
http://lenr-canr.org
This site has about 1,000 papers, and a bibliography of 3,500 papers on cold fusion, including 1,200 peer-reviewed journal papers copied from the library at Los Alamos.
There are 200 labs listed in the book by Storms, “The Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction.”
“They’re fusing Palladium? What do you get when you fuse Palladium?”
No, they are fusing deuterium to get helium. The palladium or titanium acts as a catalyst but it does not usually transmute. In a few cases there is evidence that the host metal has been partially transmuted.
On October 27th, 2010 at 1:03 pm Susanna, PF Web Maven Said:
Do you have any of your own video content that shows this research in the lab?
On October 28th, 2010 at 1:27 am Ruby Carat Said:
Hi Susanna, I wish I had original videos! I am part of a group advocating for this science and the research groups engaged in it.
There are many groups who have video and I am urging them to submit to Planet Forward.
The company Energetics Technologies, profiled in the 60 mins piece, has just set up shop in the University of Missouri’s LIfe Science Business Incubator. You can read about their new digs and influx of funding here:
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/oct/09/cold-science-heats-up/
There is also SRI International in Menlo Park, California, that has been conducting the research in this area for 21 years with a team led by Michael McKubre, also profiled in the 60 mins. piece.
Both of those groups have original video from their labs which is posted online.
Dr. Edmund Storms, works out of his Kiva Labs in New Mexico. Read his most recent paper published in Naturwissenschaften available at springerlink.com or read the preprint version here at http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEstatusofcoa.pdf. He has original video from his lab as well.
There are many others working in this field, and I have omitted many labs with video. Please speak with Dr. David J. Nagel of George Washington University Engineering and Applied Science Department (down the hall?!). He’s been working with many of the major contributors in this field and would have privy to private labs’ video. Check out his page on your school website here: http://www.ece.gwu.edu/people/nagel.htm
This science, this new form of nuclear reaction is not just a fascinating intellectual discovery. This science has the potential to provide the world with ultra-clean nuclear energy, with enough fuel (the deuterium in seawater) for millions of years! That alone is enough to warrant support.
I am urging these scientists to post their video on Planet Forward. However if you need anymore references, let me know!
Thanks for reading!
On November 15th, 2010 at 2:16 pm John Andrew Hodgson Said:
Where Can I post a paper written about the Cold Fusion Stuff, I have completed a paper on a cold fusion process. Thanks
On November 15th, 2010 at 9:21 pm Ruby Carat Said:
Hi John, Have you submitted your paper to the Infinite Energy magazine? They have published papers on cold fusion as well as new energy. You can find them here at:
http://www.infinite-energy.com/
Also, the American Chemical Society has a meeting next March in Anaheim, California and the New Energy Technology (LENR/cold fusion) group will be presenting their latest results. For more information, or to submit your paper for consideration, contact Dr. J. Marwan at .
info (at) marwan-chemie.fta-berlin.de.
There is also the International Society of Condensed Matter Nuclear Science at http://www.iscmns.org/ which has conferences where research is shared.
I do hope you are able to find what you want out of this information.
Good luck!
Ruby
On May 21st, 2011 at 1:08 am Liviu Popa-Simil Said:
The process is real, it has some conditions to accomplish in order to take place, but it is the same family of processes that tkaes place in “cold fusion” and irradiation free transmitation.
H systems can reach even higher temperatures, the problem is the distruction of the initial reaction facilitator structure due to nuclear recoil damage. Direct electricity can be produced as well from these systems.
Congratulations to the promoters and my distinguished consideration.
Regards
Liviu
On April 16th, 2012 at 2:32 am Min Da Said:
of course they’d use a precious metal (palladium), will no other metals give desired results?
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