Does anyone on phys-L follow the continuing saga of "CF"? Here's an
interesting announcement from CETI Inc. regarding their claimed
palladium/light-water reaction cell. Their success at obtaining a patent
has moved them to start selling kits and classes to researchers who wish
to attempt replication.
For those not up on CF, CETI Inc. has displayed a cell at a conference
which was raising the temperature of pumped water by a few degrees,
indicating several hundred watts output, while being driven by a few watts
input. Their devices are based on electrochemical cells having anodes of
packed beds of nonmetal beads having thin metal film coatings. No heavy
water is needed, and no neutrons are created, yet the energy output is far
beyond that which could be obtained by chemical reactions, and CETI
reports the presence of helium and numerous heavier reaction products.
Sounds like "cold fusion" should have been named "low energy aneutronic
fusion." Doing so would have saved Pons and Flieschman a lot of greif.
For info, see the FAQ on the Infinite Energy magazine website below, and
Gene Mallove's message further below.
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Date: 11 Nov 96 12:34:56 EST
From: Eugene Mallove <76570.2270@compuserve.com>
Subject: CETI Demo/Commercial Details - 2nd Trans.
November 11, 1996
Dear Colleagues:
This is a very big day for cold fusion. I just spoke this morning
(11/11/96) with CETI's CEO Jim Reding, who gave me more details about the
demo cells they are selling at the American Nuclear Society Meeting --The
Global Benefits of Nuclear Technology"-- at the Washington, DC Sheraton
hotel. (I will post their formal press release later, when I have received
it by fax.)
CETI has sold 40 kits already at $3,750.00 each -- about one-third of
those kits were sold at the Washington meeting.
Licensing or leasing a Research Kit entitles one to the following:
* a 1-year license
* a test chamber
* two research cells
* 4 loadings of three different microsphere (MS) configurations
* Ability to participate in the CETI Corporate Organization Research Program
* Admittance to two CETI corporate conferences per year (exclusively for
people who have leased cells)
* A monthly newsletter of research progress -- edited by Prof. George Miley
* Access to special new microsphere configurations
* Mandatory on-site training in use of the cells at the University of Illinois
* The next CETI Corporate Meeting is Dec. 10, 1996. The one after that
will be June 1997.
* A price list for the purchase of additional beads will be available in
a few months.
Note well, all this info and right-to-buy beads comes only with the lease
of the $3,750.00 cell.
The demo cell in Washington has microspehres with *ceramic substrates*,
designed to achieve temperatures up to 500 C. However, the cell at the
meeting is only running at 5 watts out with about 1.5 watts in, just to
show proof of concept. This small level of heat is designed to let
researchers draw conclusions about the correspondence of the
transmutations to the excess heat. It is not optimized for power
production.
Possibly the biggest news -- other than that there are now 40
groups/people who will have commercially purchased cells -- is a new
patent that the USPTO has notified CETI that it has allowed. The patent
will be issued within the next few weeks. It is titled:
"System in Electrolytic Cell and Method for Producing Heat and De-Activating
Uranium and Thorium by Electrolysis"
This patent describes a method by which radionuclides are inserted into a
special matrix designed for radioactive elements. According to Reding and
inventor Dr. Patterson, with whom I also spoke, "conservatively" they have
demonstrated the reduction by up to 50% of the radiation activity from
uranium and thorium. The process takes only from 2 to 24 hours. Generally,
the process occurs within only 4 hours. It is said that the de-activation
can be as high as 90%, which would make for a pretty conclusive finding, I
would assume. Anyone in the nuclear industry who can verify this result
ought to know that we are "no longer in Kansas." In fact, the allowance of
this patent by the USPTO should tell them that already.
According to CEO Reding, "an organization has already purchased the
*exclusive* world rights" to licence and sub-licence this patent. The
organization has paid CETI $1 million dollars ($1,000,000) for this. The
organization's identity, for now, is private.
The exhibit at the American Nuclear Society Meeting is on today and
tomorrow (11/11/96 and 11/12/96 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Jim Reding reports that response has been very polite. There is a lot of
interest in this technology among those who are initially skeptical. I
guess the sale of about 1/3 of the 40 kits at this meeting speaks for
itself.
It seems, at last, that "cold fusion" has truly been commercialized with
the sale of these units -- with every prospect for increasing sales. As
soon as other former non-involved but ranking people observe these effects
with these cells, the opposition to cold fusion will be dramatically set
back, to say the least. This is exactly what we at Infinite Energy
magazine have been hoping for all along.
Reding reports there is great interest in Prof. Miley's transmutation
paper. He has been given a slot at the American Nuclear Society meeting in
June to deliver his latest findings. There was no slot available at this
meeting.
The exhibit people have told me they expect from 1,000 to 1,200 attendees
at the meeting.
Gene
Eugene F. Mallove, Sc.D.
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher
INFINITE ENERGY Magazine
Cold Fusion Technology
P.O. Box 2816
Concord, NH 03302-2816