Hello, Peter, Jed posted the message below on Vortex-l. Do you have any additional information that you can share with us?
Thanks! Terry On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
