Re: CSICOP (was re:CO2)

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> What did happen?  I remember a big hullabaloo, even a colloquium at Santa Cruz,
> and then nothing more -- I even though somewhere else it was repeated, no?

Repeated yes, fusion no.  The "cold fusion" cells do put out thermal
energy which is too large to explain by chemistry, and they create Helium
comensurate with a fusion reaction, but neutrons and gammas are missing.
Known fusion reactions produce neutrons and gammas, any unknown reactions
are thought impossible, so the global concensus is that the results MUST
be a mistake.

EPRI commissioned a study through SRI which was completed after 10 years,
and concluded that the effect was real but certainly not conventional
fusion, yet nuclear reaction products and far too much thermal output were
created, and it recommended that "CF" is worth studying.  A few hundred
researchers still publish papers on "CF", and there was even a "CF"
section at the last APS meeting.  But the topic is currently taboo,
commonly ridiculed as "alchemy", so they maintain a low profile to avoid
nasty politics.  For example, around 1992 the TAMU chemistry department
tried and failed to remove the electrochemist Bockris from the university
for pursuing CF research.

  Fleichman interview 1996
  http://www.mv.com/ipusers/zeropoint/IEHTML/FEATURE/FEATR/297fleischmann.html

  LANL sees tritium in plasma-based "cold fusion" experiment
  http://www.nde.lanl.gov/cf/tritweb.htm

  CF Summary (Dr. Storms' page)
  http://home.netcom.com/~storms2/summary.html

  Cold Fusion FAQ
  http://www.mv.com/ipusers/zeropoint/IEHTML/faq.html

  SF Chronicle: The War Against Cold Fusion  1999
  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/technology/archive/1999/05/17/coldfusion2.dtl&type=printable

  WIRED magazine 1998, "What if cold fusion is real?"
  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion.html

  Dr. Britz' large bibliography
  http://www.chem.au.dk/~db/fusion/index.html


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