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Subject: DailyTech - Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes


> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7168

Almost 20 years after Pons and Fleischman were tarred and feather and 
run out of town on a rail before being drawn and quartered and hung 
and worse by the scientific community, for having reported cold fusion 
in subsequently discredited experiments, the nicely named US Naval 
"SPAWAR" team in San Diego are continuing to work on 'Cold fusion' 
research and have been doing so for many years now.

Aside: If cold fusion proper is ever actually found to be possible and 
easy to do then we can not only expect unlimited cheap power but are 
all also in very very very deep trouble. Useful highish energy neutron 
sources applied creatively to low grade Uranium can probably lead to 
catastrophic consequences.

In early 2007 SPAWAR published a peer reviewed report in 
Naturwissenschaften on what appeared to be an experimentally 
repeatable cold fusion process where Neutrons are liberated from a low 
energy electro-chemical process. These reports are now working their 
way through the popular media.
However, alas, as always, a dig under the immediate surface reveals 
that all is not as it might be or may not be as it appears or ... .

Despite the rigour of their methodology there are still substantial 
avenues for doubt.
In particular, the plastic sensor material which they use as a neutron 
detector MAY have suffered the unquestionably demonstrated physical 
pitting effects which are usually taken as evidence of neutron 
absorption by electrolytic rather than neutron action.



                Russell

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SPAWAR paper received 5 September 2006, published 15 February 2007.

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Stanislaw Szpak1, Pamela A. Mosier-Boss1  and Frank E. Gordon1

      (1)  Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center San Diego, 
San Diego, CA 92152-5001, USA

Received: 5 September 2006  Revised: 20 December 2006  Accepted: 2 
January 2007  Published online: 15  February 2007

Abstract  Almost two decades ago, Fleischmann and Pons reported excess 
enthalpy generation in the negatively polarized Pd/D-D2O system, which 
they attributed to nuclear reactions. In the months and years that 
followed, other manifestations of nuclear activities in this system 
were observed, viz. tritium and helium production and transmutation of 
elements. In this report, we present additional evidence, namely, the 
emission of highly energetic charged particles emitted from the Pd/D 
electrode when this system is placed in either an external 
electrostatic or magnetostatic field. The density of tracks registered 
by a CR-39 detector was found to be of a magnitude that provides 
undisputable evidence of their nuclear origin. The experiments were 
reproducible. A model based upon electron capture is proposed to 
explain the reaction products observed in the Pd/D-D2O system.
====================


This page from a learned nay sayer adds balance to the claims

        http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/321rejected.html

Here's a 2002 report from the SPAWAR team reporting cold fusion then.

    http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue44/navy.html


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Ref: Matthew McMahon


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