At 11:21 AM 12/24/2009, you wrote:
That's great! For my database, please upload the abstracts here. If they
don't have abstracts, the few paragraphs.
- Jed
Jed,
There are no abstracts. Feel free to publish the introductions.
Steve
Cold Fusion Precursor to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions
SB Krivit, New Energy Times, San Rafael, CA, USA
& 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
On 23 March 1989, electrochemists M. Fleischmann and
S. Pons claimed in a press conference at the University of
Utah that they had achieved nuclear fusion in a tabletop
chemistry experiment. Since then, evidence of fusion in
what is now called low-energy nuclear reaction (LENR)
research has grown only slightly stronger. Their hypothesis
that a novel form of thermonuclear fusion was responsible
for their experimental results is still unproved.
On the contrary, LENR experiments have continued
to demonstrate increasingly convincing evidence for
some sort of nuclear process or processes though not
necessarily fusion year after year.
The suggestion that LENR research represented a
new form of thermonuclear fusion has caused significant
confusion. The two fields, thermonuclear fusion and
LENR research, and their respective sets of phenomena
are very different. Therefore, direct comparisons between
the two are irrelevant.
Cold Fusion: History
SB Krivit, New Energy Times, San Rafael, CA, USA
& 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Introduction
Research on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) originated
as the result of an electrolysis experiment that
used the elements palladium (a heavy metal) and deuterium
(an isotope of hydrogen). The first modern experiment
was performed by Martin Fleischmann and B.
Stanley Pons at the University of Utah in early 1985.
Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters of the University of
Berlin preceded Fleischmann and Pons with a similar
experiment in 1926.
Fleischmann and Pons used an electrochemical
method of generating nuclear energy, in the form of heat,
in a way previously unrecognized by nuclear physicists.
The two electrochemists announced their work at a press
conference on 23 March 1989. They said that they had
attained a sustained nuclear fusion reaction. The media
identified the discovery as cold fusion.
This event initiated a new field of science. It did not
belong exclusively to chemistry, physics, or any other
scientific discipline. As the field approaches its third
decade, much has been learned, but certain significant
facts remain unknown. However, this limitation is not
unexpected, considering the novelty and scope of the
subject matter.
