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Re: [Phys-l] Navy Cold Fusion



My goodness! Yor correspondent seems very excitable.
I have accurately reported my recollection of a talk by Kevin Wolff (or wolfe?) given, as it turns out, on 28 Sept. 1990. I just Googled "Cold Fusion" "Teas A&M" and got thousands of hits. There is a story on Wolf's findings (from 1995) at
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MalloveEalchemynig.pdf

Enjoy! I'm not interested in further communication with anyone as free with personal invective as your correspondent seems to be. Let's him and Wolf fight, if they care to.
Regards,
Jack


On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

On Nov 18, 2006, at 11:58 PM, Jack Uretsky wrote:

Back when cold fusion was hot we had a speaker from Texas A&M who had
been
investigating some local experiments. As I recall the talk, one of the
main points was thet there is practically no Palladium available that
has
not been used in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor. Investigation of
the
local Palladium supplies confirmed that all of itw was hot, we were
told.
Regards,
Jack

Jack, assuming you would not object, I quoted the above on the
restricted list for CMNS researchers, and asked for comments. The
acronym stands for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science; it is a new name
for "cold fusion." What follows is a reply that came, from France, this
morning. The author of the message is usually very critical about CMNS
claims. By the way, traces of beta radioactivity, accompanied by gamma
rays, if Pd was recycled from fission products, would be from 107Pd.
That isotope is not alpha radioactive. The CR-39 chips are totally
insensitive to beta and gamma rays.

Ludwik Kowalski
Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.

Hmmmm.

Well, now I have survived in this field long enough to see the old
lies (or caltrops) recycled.  Maybe this is a good sign.

The mischievous misinformation reposted by "Jack" below was offered
originally to defuse any excitement caused by various autoradiographic
and low level charged particle evidence of cf.  Having scrutinized A
LOT of Pd (before, after and during electrolysis) in a very high
sensitivity gamma detector I can assure this group that Pd as received
from a variety of sources is not normally (in our case ever)
radioactive.  This is as expected.  The mischievous part of the post
is that Pd IS NOT normally found or used near reactors*.  The bold,
bald and false assertions by the unnamed TAMU speaker were simply
intended to disconcert.
Mike





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