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Spring 2009 National Meeting & Exposition
Salt Lake City and County Building
Utah Office of Tourism, Jerry Sintz
237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
March 22-26, 2009
Salt Lake City, UT
Cold Fusion Rebirth? Reports on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR)
In 1989, cold fusion was hailed as a scientific
breakthrough with the potential to solve the
worlds energy problems by providing a virtually
unlimited energy source. But subsequent
experiments largely failed to replicate the
initial findings and the controversial concept
was dismissed by most people in the scientific community.
Although cold fusion is considered
controversial, the scientific process demands of
us to keep an open mind and examine the new
results once every few years, says Gopal
Coimbatore, program chair of the American
Chemical Societys Division of Environmental
Chemistry, which organized this symposium.
Some researchers say they have new evidence that
the phenomena now called low energy nuclear
reactions has evolved and is supported by
rigorous, repeatable experimental data. Nearly a
dozen scientists will present their findings
during a daylong symposium, New Energy Technology.
Fleischmann, Miles Report New Evidence of Excess Heat from Cold Fusion
Some scientists dismissed the original 1989 cold
fusion experiments by Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann as bad science due to alleged
errors in calorimetric systems, or heat
measurement that could have led to erroneous
reports that the excess heat produced was nuclear in origin.
Using more precise calorimetric techniques, a new
study by Fleischmann and colleague Melvin Miles
reports evidence that the excess heat generated
is nuclear and not the result of calorimetric
errors. Our work shows that cold fusion effects
are real, but we cannot assess if this excess
heat can become useful. Much more research work
is needed to answer such questions, says co-author Miles.
