What an excellent Christmas present for the field of LENR research... Merry Christmas all!
-Mark _____ From: Steven Krivit [mailto:stev...@newenergytimes.com] Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:44 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Krivit Elsevier Encyclopedia Articles Publish At 11:21 AM 12/24/2009, you wrote: That's great! For my database, please upload the abstracts here. If they don't have abstracts, the few paragraphs. - Jed Jed, There are no abstracts. Feel free to publish the introductions. Steve Cold Fusion - Precursor to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions SB Krivit, New Energy Times, San Rafael, CA, USA & 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. On 23 March 1989, electrochemists M. Fleischmann and S. Pons claimed in a press conference at the University of Utah that they had achieved nuclear fusion in a tabletop chemistry experiment. Since then, evidence of fusion in what is now called low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR) research has grown only slightly stronger. Their hypothesis that a novel form of thermonuclear fusion was responsible for their experimental results is still unproved. On the contrary, LENR experiments have continued to demonstrate increasingly convincing evidence for some sort of nuclear process or processes - though not necessarily fusion - year after year. The suggestion that LENR research represented a new form of thermonuclear fusion has caused significant confusion. The two fields, thermonuclear fusion and LENR research, and their respective sets of phenomena are very different. Therefore, direct comparisons between the two are irrelevant. Cold Fusion: History SB Krivit, New Energy Times, San Rafael, CA, USA & 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Introduction Research on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) originated as the result of an electrolysis experiment that used the elements palladium (a heavy metal) and deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen). The first modern experiment was performed by Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons at the University of Utah in early 1985. Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters of the University of Berlin preceded Fleischmann and Pons with a similar experiment in 1926. Fleischmann and Pons used an electrochemical method of generating nuclear energy, in the form of heat, in a way previously unrecognized by nuclear physicists. The two electrochemists announced their work at a press conference on 23 March 1989. They said that they had attained a 'sustained nuclear fusion reaction'. The media identified the discovery as 'cold fusion'. This event initiated a new field of science. It did not belong exclusively to chemistry, physics, or any other scientific discipline. As the field approaches its third decade, much has been learned, but certain significant facts remain unknown. However, this limitation is not unexpected, considering the novelty and scope of the subject matter. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.722 / Virus Database: 270.14.117/2583 - Release Date: 12/24/09 00:11:00