And now, Breit Bart? Linked from Drudge: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a67cf72fe27770f9ec992da18169937d.a1&show_article=1
http://snipurl.com/ehs9c Terry On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >
