Yikes! Do we actually have a positive article in Scientific American??!? (Lizabeth, this is the big one, I'm coming to see you.):
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=after-20-years-new-life-for-cold-fu-2009-03-23 Terry On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am in Atlanta. Mizuno called me from the ACS conference in Salt Lake City > to say hello. He is going to present this afternoon. > > He says there are many people attending the sessions, including young > people. He says Kitamura et al. independently replicated Arata, and will > report on his findings today. They used better calorimetry than Arata did. > The abstract is here: > > http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/237nm/techprogram/P1218224.HTM > > Copy of abstract (which Steve & I already uploaded): > > Deuterium gas charging experiments with Pd powders for excess heat evolution > > Akira Kitamura,, Takayoshi Nohmi, Yu Sasaki, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, Akira > Taniike, Akito Takahashi, Reiko Seto, and Yushi Fujita. > > Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, 5-1-1 > Fukaeminamimachi, Higashinadaku, Kobe, 658-0022, Japan > > Technova Inc, 1-1-1 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 100-0011, Japan > > We have started a series of deuterium (and hydrogen) gas charging > experiments with Pd nano-powders to study possible heat evolution and D (or > H)-loading characteristics by using a revised Arata-type twin system. The > twin system is made of identically designed A1 and A2 systems, in each of > which an inner gas-charging cell with flow calorimeter and an outer vacuum > chamber are set up. The A1 system is used for D-gas foreground run, and the > A2 system is for the H-gas blank run. Our first data with two commercially > available Pd powders (0.1 micron Pd particles and Pd-black) are already > meaningful. Experiments with Pd-black sample gave 2.6 kJ/g-Pd excess heat > for the second phase of 1,300 minutes operation and D/Pd=0.85 for the first > phase (about 100 min interval from start) with zero D-gas pressure. No > excess heat with H-gas charging was seen with H/Pd=0.78. Experiments with > 0.1 micron Pd powders gave D/Pd =0.45 for the first phase and much less > excess heat for the second phase. We are extending experiments for > nano-fabricated Pd samples to be reported at the meeting. In situ radiation > monitors are for neutron and gamma-ray. Elemental analysis of "before/after" > samples is done by PIXE. He detection will be also tried. > > > Here is a recent paper from this group about an Iwamura replication: > > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/YamaguchiTinvestigat.pdf > > - Jed >
