On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:08 PM, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote:
[snip]
ROSSI. Exactly. In fact, mine is not cold fusion, but weak energy
nuclear reactions. Fleischmann and Pons did heavy water
electrolysis with a palladium cathode and platinum anode. I don't
do electrolysis, I don't use either platinum or palladium and I use
temperatures that manage to melt nickel.
Well! There you have heard it almost directly from the source! Rossi
is using the most narrow possible definition of cold fusion. A
definition only marginally acceptable since 1989. Can you imagine
how boring and irrelevant the ICCF (International Conference on Cold
Fusion) would be if limited only to papers that were restricted to Pt
anode, Pd cathode, heavy water, and near room temperature. There
would be almost no literature in the field! No experiments on Ni-H
systems, gas discharge, sulfonated plastic beads with Ni-Pd layered
coatings, fluid beds, Pd black, CaO, transmutations, T-D systems,
electrolytic arcs, electrospark, magnetic influences, Ti, Zr, Nb, and
Al cathodes, co-deposition, electro-migration, superwaves,
radioactive stimulants in and out of the cathode, anode glow,
metallic glasses, nano-powders, and many more things presented at
ICCF. How ridiculous is that!
A temperature of 1500 °C is nowhere near hot fusion, or even near the
kinetic energy involved in Claytor's tritium creating gas discharges.
It is cold fusion.
I guess I wasn't totally wrong about Rossi's view in the past:
On Jan 22, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Horace Heffner wrote:
On Jan 22, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
The journalists instantly lumped Rossi's experiments and patent
applications under that umbrella, despite his statements that it
was not cold fusion.
Did he say that? I missed it. What does he think it is? Focardi
sure thinks it is cold fusion.
I can't find anywhere he said that. I must have confused what
Rossi said with what Dufour and Krivit have said. Just my bad
memory again. I did see an exchange where Rossi distances himself
from hydrinos:
[snip]
Many thanks to Shirakawa Akira for the translation.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
