Michel Jullian wrote:
Now you mention it, anybody knows if anything positive came out of
their Toyota/Technova funded CF lab in Nice, France?
Many positive results came from this effort:
1. Johnson-Matthey learned how to make Pd that works nearly every
time. They characterize the material in detail. Unfortunately, they
are the only ones who know anything about it and they have not
published a single word. Toyota and Johnson-Matthey were never able
to come to an agreement on sharing information or joint development,
according to my sources.
2. Technova learned to trigger massive excess heat and heat after
death in nearly every cell.
3. In the end they made boiling cells that produced as much as 74
watts continuously for 40 to 150 days. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RouletteTresultsofi.pdf
Unfortunately, after the program founder and main supporter Mr.
Toyoda died, the project was killed by harsh political opposition.
That's what Martin Fleischmann and others told me. Toyoda was one of
the sons of the Toyota Company founder and he had enough influence to
ward off the skeptics.
The "failure" of the NHE program also soured some of the Japanese
leadership on cold fusion. I put failure in quotes because the
program actually did produce excess heat in the last stage, in the
experiments conducted by Melvin Miles. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MilesMcalorimetrb.pdf
In the final report the directors of the laboratory lied about Miles
results and claimed that he produced no excess heat.
Japanese skeptics at high levels are now trying to kill off the
transmutation research at Mitsubishi, the National Synchrotron
Laboratory and Tokyo National University. I expect they will succeed,
using the same arguments used to destroy cold fusion in the U.S. by
the DoE reviewers, i.e., this is a disgrace to science and these
results "are not to be believed." See:
http://lenr-canr.org/Collections/DoeReview.htm#StormsRothwellCritique
Pathological skepticism is alive and well in Japan.
- Jed