Fw: Re: Cold Fusion: A Story of Suppressed Energy Technology
John W <[email protected]> Fri, 3 May 2013 05:44:44 +1200 (NZST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.science.chemistry.the-chemistry-cluster |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
This is a post of mine on another group. John W. > >Cold-fusion is something of an enigma, because the electrostatic barrier to the fusion of two positively-charged nuclei, even singly-charged ones, means that it normally requires high-velocity collisions to achieve. However, even if it is proven, it is still a very long way before cold fusion, originally discovered by accident by Fleischmann and Pons in 1989 and now promoted by Rossi in Italy, can be economically harnessed as a "clean" energy source, generating heat by cold-fusion of deuterium nuclei to form alpha-particles (helium-4 nuclei). Quite a lot of energy has to be expended up-front to separate deuterium oxide (heavy water) from ordinary water, by fractional distillation or diffusion. > > > >The cold fusion requires the adsorption of deuterium gas formed by electrolysis on a cathode made of palladium, a rare and expensive metal that can absorb an huge quantity of hydrogen or deuterium even at ordinary pressures, and for which the nearest substitute would be platinum and just possibly other platinum-group metals (which are used industrially as catalysts for chemical reactions of gases or vapors). It may turn out to be possible to use much cheaper nickel as a substitute, as Rossi claims to have done in 2011, but this would require the application of high pressure to get it to absorb deuterium in the same concentration as palladium does. > > > >But even then, there there are the problems of extracting the generated heat to use to generate electricity, shielding from the resulting alpha-particles and gamma-rays, and removing the helium-4 that is generated. > > >See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion , >http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/cold-fusion-claims-resurface.htm , >http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/02/andrea-rossi-italian-cold-fusion-plant/ , >http://coldfusionnow.org , >http://www.cold-fusion.cc , >http://coldfusion3.com , >http://cold-fusion.us . > > > >John W. > > > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >>From: Forbidden Knowledge TV <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:46 AM >>Subject: Cold Fusion: A Story of Suppressed Technology >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>Dear John, >> >> >> >>This documentary was produced as >>an episode of the US TV series >>"Phenomenon: The Lost Archives" >>and it originally aired in 2000, the >>last year a series like this could get >>made for commercial television. >> >>It tells a vile story of large-scale >>corruption in science and the personal >>destruction of an accomplished American >>scientist, who has since forfeited his US >>citizenship and become a national of >>France. >> >>His elder work partner had a more dead- >>panned response: "People were telling us, >>'What are you trying to do? Break the laws >>of nuclear physics?' And that's exactly what >>we were doing - and succeeding, you see." >> >>Video (about 46 mins): >> >> >>Cold Fusion: A Story of Suppressed Technology >> >>- Alexandra >> >> >>P.S. Please share Forbidden Knowledge TV e-mails and videos with your friends and colleagues. >> >>That's how we grow. Thanks. >> >> >>Alexandra Bruce >>Publisher, ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com >>Daily Videos from the Edges of Science >>Buy Books by Alexandra Bruce >> >> >> >> >>Miss a broadcast? All FKTV broadcasts are backed up >>on Facebookand Twitter >> >> >> >> >> >>Not Subscribed? Click on the button above to >> >>subscribe to FKTV. You'll receive one excellent short >> >>video in the morning and one important full length film >> >>in the evening FREE, each day. (Don't worry, you don't >> >>have to watch them all!) >> >> >>You can watch them later or delete -- whichever you prefer! >> >>AND you can instantly unsubscribe at any time by following >> >>the SafeUnsubscribe link at the bottom of every FKTV email. >> >> >> >> >>Forward email >> >>| >>. >>Forbidden Knowledge TV| 7920 Norton Ave Suite 4| West Hollywood| CA| 90046 >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thechemistrycluster/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thechemistrycluster/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/