[I wrote this about a month ago at the request of an Italian
researcher who wanted to know what the Nikkei article said.]
The Nikkei article was published on December 27, 2004. The title
was:
"Results from miniaturization and micro-scale devices
2004 technical trends survey"
Twenty notable discoveries were selected in each of three categories:
1. Advanced research
2. Practical applications, such as miniature hard disks and devices to
diagnose viruses within 15 minutes
3. Socially notable, which seems to include new products people are
talking about, such as cell phones. I do not know what it includes,
because this list is not shown in the clippings I was sent.
The winners were picked by a group of 12 experts, who examined 206
articles in the Japanese press and technical journals describing recent
breakthroughs.
There is very little text in the article about Iwamura's work. I think
Takahashi already translated all of the relevant sentences: "This is
a very innovative technology to make transmutation of elements with low
costs, compared with existing methods as fission reactors and big
accelerators, and when rare-noble elements will be produced like
'alchemy' it will be so beneficial to humanity." The article did not
mention cold fusion.
The first ten items in the "advanced research" list is
eclectic:
1. Synthetic 'animal energy' systems. Synthetic ATP is being developed as
a possible source of energy for nanoscale machines.
2. Instantaneous communications with photons. (I assume this refers to
quantum cryptography, but it could be entangled photons. The text does
not explain.)
3. Progress in transmutation technology. (Iwamura et. al.)
4. Photonic semiconductors. (Devices that manipulate photons directly,
instead of electrons.)
5. A detector capable of identifying individual atoms.
6. Manmade synthesis of a virus similar to ebola.
7. A new kind of color emitting crystal.
8. A new breed of cow that is not susceptible to BSE.
9. A 1 cm glass tube electron accelerator,
10. Regenerating nerve cells in the brain with RNA treatments.
Four or five other newspaper and magazine articles about Iwamura's work
were published in 2004. Takahashi sent me some examples. Most of them did
not mention that this is cold fusion. An article by Ikebe, H. �R&D
Topics, 21st Century �Alchemy,� Transmutation Observed at Mitsubishi . .
.� Nikkei Sentan Gijutsu, p. 22, tried to show that Iwamura's
transmutation claims are quite different from cold fusion.
- Jed
