At 04:32 pm 05-08-04 -0700, you wrote: >What would you think if one America's finest >Universities quashed research which offers at least >the near-term possibility of a source of energy for >space flight, if not for solving the world�s energy >problems� and did it to retain their status as an >abnormally high recipient of federal funding? If you >are an admirer of Gene Mallove, you can probably guess >where this is going� > >In 1989, months after the P&F announcement, a puzzling >experiment was performed at Brookhaven National >Laboratory which is little known today, but is sure to >be brought up in any thorough revue of CF. >Fortunately, a few overseas Labs did not give up on >what is know as the CIF technique (Cluster Impact >Fusion), after MIT successfully quashed the early >enthusiasm, just as it did with electrolytic CF. > >In '89, intrigued by the recent P&F results and the >building controversy, BNL scientists Beuhler, >Friedlander and others, pounced on the warm LENR idea >early-on. They accelerated clusters of heavy water >molecules (containing about 1300 D2O molecules) to a >modest kinetic energy, about 220 eV per molecule, and >observed what happens when the D2O collided with a >metal target. The idea was to test whether fusion >occurs in a compressed cluster at higher energy than >electrolysis, but far lower than a hot plasma. > >The name of the phenomenon, cluster impact fusion >(CIF) was given to the process after an incredible >number of hot-fusion events were identified. Like the >later work of Claytor, substantial tritium was found, >as well as 3MeV protons. Ref: R.J. Beuhler et al., >"Cluster Impact Fusion." Physical Review Letters, vol. >63, no 12 (18 September 1989): 1292-1295
I find this very interesting. The high impact will tear the clusters apart and in so doing create the same type of Beta-atmosphere vacua as one finds in mild steel and sono-luminescence. I suppose one might say like war, it's politics by other means. <g> Grimer
