Brian Ahern sent me the following message about Focardi. I will ask the
people I know in Italy if they can send someone.
Brian heard this from Peter Gluck, in his blog:
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/
The article in Italian is here:
http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/1/20110113/tit-ho-realizzato-la-fusione-fredda-annu-e23ea19_1.html
- Jed
MESSAGE
Apparently, Focardi is holding a press conference to show a 15 kilowatt
heating module at Bologna University. The Press conference is scheduled
for 15 January at 10 AM.
I used google translate to convert from Italian.
Bologna, 13 January 2011 -- a chimera of science for decades. A dream
called cold fusion. The team of physicists at the University of Bologna,
led by Professor Sergio Focardi, announced to have discovered the secret
and made an appointment tomorrow to a small group of researchers and
journalists to watch the live demonstration. Unlike fission, which
splits' the atom with consequent release of energy, nuclear fusion is
the joining of two atomic nuclei, which produces a third, new element
with the same issue of enormous amounts of energy. It is the reaction
that keep lit the stars, the same one that makes the sun shine, where
the temperature conditions are so extreme as to allow a merger between
atoms. How is it then possible to reproduce on Earth?
Cold fusion 'at ordinary temperatures in reality has never been
realized. Although many times scientists around the world have given
their announcement, regularly denied by trial and error, cold fusion
remains an attractive field of study: to gain a stellar furnace 'of
energy to Earth from a space-saving device just like a table
revolutionize the consumption of society and certainly would be worth
the Nobel Prize immediately. An interesting bet that Focardi, and
partners with the inventor of the reactor, the engineer Andrea Rossi,
put on paper the method patent-pending worldwide. A bet, because, for
now, the team has not yet been presented with the papers in front of the
community of colleagues drafted the article, after being rejected by
accredited scientific journals, was published independently in the
Journal of Nuclear Physics , an online magazine founded by the same
authors and the scientific committee of which appears as the first name
the same Focardi. But an interesting challenge, because if the
experiment could be reproduced and shows that the control system of peer
review, peer review ', which the world views and valid according to
standard eligibility criteria of what is produced by the scientific
community is but it is ensured too rigid: as a spam filter but also
rejects the important e-mails.
'Said the experiment we obtained copper Focardi and believe that its
appearance is due to the fusion of atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen,
just the ingredients' that feed our reactor. Since hydrogen and nickel
weigh 'with less copper must have released a lot of energy, since
"nothing is created and destroyed." In fact, "says Focardi The missing
mass is converted into energy and we have measured: it is in the order
of a few kilowatts, two hundred times the energy that was the beginning
of the reaction."
The mechanism remains a mystery of alchemy: "We can not explain how one
can trigger cold fusion, but the presence of copper and the release of
energy are witnesses, we have the tests but not theoretical." If the
device Focardi, Rossi is a magician's hat or a cold fusion reactor can
not be established without the theory. This is why magazines have
returned to the sender the article.
Tomorrow at the GM plant system, in electricity (Roveri industrial
zone), we replicate the experiment in front of witnesses credited. The
expected energy from the reactor is equal to that which would satisfy
the needs of a couple of apartments. They will also measure the
radiation emitted from the apparatus as a confirmation of the origin
nuclear energy produced.
