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Movies etc. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7037/suppinfo/nature03575.html When the slashdot crowd gets through with it, more stuff here. http://rodan.physics.ucla.edu/pyrofusion/ K. -----Original Message----- From: Keith Nagel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 5:05 PM To: Vortex Subject: RE: Nature re Putterman cold fusion Hi Akira, Lithium Tantalate. http://www.sawseek.com/prody1.html http://www.almazoptics.com/LiTaO3.html K. -----Original Message----- From: Akira Kawasaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:48 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: Nature re Putterman cold fusion April 27, 2005 Vortex, Hi Mark. Did the Nature article say what the crystal was? Thanks for the news tip. -ak- > [Original Message] > From: Mark Goldes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Date: 4/27/2005 1:00:00 PM > Subject: Nature re Putterman cold fusion > > News > > Nature 434, 1057 (28 April 2005) | doi: 10.1038/4341057a > Physicists look to crystal device for future of fusion > > Mark Peplow, London > Top of page > Abstract > > Desktop apparatus yields stream of neutrons. > > Seth Putterman is usually on the side of the sceptics when it comes to > tabletop fusion. But now he has created a device that may convince > researchers to change their minds about the 'f-word'. > > Tabletop fusion has been a touchy subject since Stanley Pons and Martin > Fleischmann said in 1989 that they had achieved 'cold fusion' at room > temperature. Putterman helped to discredit this claim, as well as more > recent reports of 'bubble fusion'. > > Now Putterman, a physicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has > turned a tiny crystal into a particle accelerator. When its electric field > is focused by a tungsten needle, it fires deuterium ions into a target so > fast that the colliding nuclei fuse to create a stream of neutrons. > > Putterman is not claiming to have created a source of virtually unlimited > energy, because the reaction isn't self-sustaining. But until now, achieving > any kind of fusion in the lab has required bulky accelerators with large > electricity supplies. Replacing that with a small crystal is revolutionary. > "The amazing thing is that the crystal can be used as an accelerator without > plugging it in to a power station," says Putterman. > > Putterman got the idea when he delivered a lecture on sonoluminescence and > energy focusing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Physicist > Ahmet Erbil suggested that Putterman should instead consider > ferroelectricity. > > "Here's someone telling me in front of 100 people that I'm working on the > wrong thing," recalls Putterman. But the comment got him started on his > fusion reactor. The result is published in this week's Nature (see page > 1115). > > Will he be able to avoid the controversy that has dogged other fusion > claims? "My first reaction when I saw the paper was 'oh no, not another > tabletop fusion paper'," says Mike Saltmarsh, an acclaimed neutron hunter > who was called in to resolve the dispute over bubble fusion. "But they've > built a neat little accelerator. I'm pretty sure no one has been able to > generate neutrons in this way before." > > Putterman himself isn't worried. "If people think this is a crackpot paper > that's just fine," he says. "We're right. Any scientist who says this is too > wonderful to believe is welcome to reproduce the experiments." > Top of page > Related links > RELATED STORIES > > * Collapsing bubbles have hot plasma core > * US review rekindles cold fusion debate > * Nuclear flash in a pan > * Table-top nuclear fusion > > EXTERNAL LINKS > > * Putterman on energy focusing > * Fusion tutorial >
