Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion w video. Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen meaning the two types of atoms have the same number of protons one but different numbers of neutrons. Mills named this curious new type of shrunken hydrogen the hydrino, and he. The other main branch of the field uses a nickel hydrogen setup. Im finishing the last programming on calorimetry and construction of the. Cold fusion is back with anomalous heat claim the register. Despite the tenmile, chernobyl, and fukushima accidents, uranium fission reactors remain the safest options in the power generation. Reduction of nickel by hydrogen from ammoniacal nickel.
The energy catalyzer is a claimed cold fusion reactor devised by inventor andrea rossi with support from the late physicist sergio focardi. Deuterium was the material pons and fleischmann chose to fuel their attempted fusion reaction. During fusion welding of tough pitch copper, the high oxygen content of the alloy often leads to embrittlement in the heat affected zone haz and weld metal porosity. Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion. In fact one of my 17 theories i mentioned was my proposal in 2005 that high pressures and high temperatures on sulfur compounds with hydrogen would cause a bcs superconductivity with my associate mechanism of hydrogen nuclei acquiring a quantum motion in a triple as was just computed and substantiated in an article in nature this week by some. Cold fusion power international cold fusion energy power. Cold fusion by electrolysis in a light waterpotassium. The devices inventor, andrea rossi, claims that the ecat uses cold fusion lowenergy nuclear reactions, lenr to fuse nickel and hydrogen atoms into copper, releasing oodles of energy. Furthermore, assuming hydrogen was the fuel no more than 1% of the total final sample could have been transmuted into copper65 given any. Cold fusion and making hydrinos both hold the holygrail promise of generating endless amounts of cheap, pollutionfree energy.
Verifications of lenr observations in nickelcopper alloy. I have been attempting the dissolution of hydrogen into plated nickel over a 12 month period but without any apparent generation of excess energy. Hydrogen orbitals conferences and talks nim b 2019 dubna jinr manchester symposium 2017 channeling 2016 channeling 2014 moscow state university iccf19 russia contact image gallery blog what it is all about. Each reactor contains three cores and consumes small amounts of treated nickel powder and hydrogen gas under pressure, approx. What is the current scientific thinking on cold fusion.
Last friday, the scientists held a private invitation press conference in bologna, attended by about 50 people, where they demonstrated what they claim is. Now after a bit of research i have discovered the are a few proponents believers and a lot of skeptics. As for whats happening inside the cold fusion reactor, andrea rossi and his colleague sergio focardi have previously said their device works by infusing hydrogen into nickel, transmuting the. For the sake of my questions which follow, let us assume that the ecat and pf were both successful cold fusion experiments. Electrodeposition of nickelcopper alloys to use as a.
Nickelhydrogen cold fusion by intermediate rydberg state. Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas. According to, two italian scientists from the university of bologna have taken on one of physics historically most discredited concepts, cold fusion, and have actually succeeded in creating a. Cold fusion died 25 years ago, but the research lives on. Rossis claim for the ecat is that a low energy nuclear reaction puts together nickel and hydrogen, with the outputs being copper and. The difference is that inside the unstable copper nucleus, produced from the fusion of a hydrogen miniatom with a nickel nucleus, is trapped the miniatom. Cold fusion research lies at the intersection of nuclear physics and materials. The energy catalyzer also called ecat is a claimed cold fusion reactor devised by inventor.
Various experiments have shown that in these conditions excess energy andor transmutation of nickel into copper occur 2,3. Ni the only two nickel isotopes which can fuse with hydrogen, at 3. Jed rothwell, a former software engineer turned journalist who has taken an active interest in cold fusion since 1991, sums up the sad situation. The jury is not out, but just in case the technology comes in as a winner here is the latest and it happens to be a. Bush rt, eagleton rd 1993 calorimetric studies for several light water electrolytic cells with nickel fibrex cathodes and electrolytes with alkali salts of potassium, rubidium, and cesium. There is new theory for explaining one category of lenr low energy nuclear reactions what was called cold fusion. For the first time, hydrogen has been merged with nickel in a cold fusion nuclear reaction to produce copper and significant amounts of excess energy in a controlled and continuous fashion.
Hydrogen hho nickel vs stainless cell who will be the victor. Cold fusion reactor verified by thirdparty researchers. Coldfusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple html pages to a database. Even if commercial lenr systems use nickelhydrogen, palladium will always have a. Cold fusion times journal is a scientific journal of the loading isotopic fuels into materials yielding anomalous excess heat and excess energy with excess power gain from palladium electrode using heavy water by electrochemically induced reactions making helium nuclear ash for efficient heating and clean heating and green energy using palladium phusortm electrodes making this the ultimate.
Hydrogennickel cold fusion probable mechanism journal of. Pdf nickelhydrogen cold fusion by intermediate rydberg. I am under the impression that two of the recent attempts to create cold fusion are called the ecat of andrea rossi ecat and an attempt by pons and fleischman pf. Scepticbait ecat cold fusion generator goes on sale for. Selection of the isotopes for energy optimization and radioactive waste minimization january 2014 project. Phosphorus deoxidised copper is more weldable but residual oxygen can result in porosity in autogenous welds especially in. Cold fusion and blacklight power explained as stripping. By version 2 1996, it became a full platform that included. Ecat technology is based on lenr which is far superior in comparison to all existing energy sources. An italian patent, which received a formal but not a technical examination, describes the apparatus as a process and equipment to obtain exothermal reactions, in particular from nickel and hydrogen. The nicu alloys were electrodeposited on a cu substrate by direct current dc and pulse current pc electrodeposition in a fixed plating bath. Adobe coldfusion is a commercial rapid webapplication development platform created by j.
Electric power research institute 3412 hillview ave. Google entered the solar power space on monday with a program called project. The theory behind cold fusion is that the metal rod somehow crushes the hydrogen gas together by itself, circumventing the inconvenient need for starlike temperatures and pressures. This paper is an account of a detailed examination of the reaction by which nickel can be precipitated from aqueous ammoniacal nickel sulfate solutions by hydrogen at elevated pressures and temperatures. If it turns out we can only generate cold fusion energy from palladium, and not some other metal such as nickel or titanium, this will probably limit the use of cold fusion to things like central generators which have. Italian scientists claim to have discovered nickel. Moreover, this reaction is completely green leaving no waste or any toxic byproducts. Palladium cold fusion as an energy source physics lenr. Hydrogennickel cold fusion probable mechanism journal. The other main branch of the field uses a nickelhydrogen setup. The focardirossi approach considers this shielding a basic requirement for surpassing the coulomb barrier between the hydrogen nuclei protons and the nickel lattice nuclei, resulting into release of energy, which is a fact, through a series of exothermic nuclear processes leading to transmutations, decays, etc.
While hydrogen does not react chemically with copper, there are at least two instances where hydrogen interactions with copper are real life problems. The physics of why the ecats cold fusion claims collapse. This form of nuclear fusion requires no radioactive materials, produces no radioactive waste, and emits no pollution into the environment. Both demonstrations were supported by national instruments ni in the form of integrated software and instrumentation. Nickelhydrogen cold fusion by intermediate rydberg state of hydrogen. Hydrogen entrapment during electrohss copper deposition in the electroless copper deposition process, the deposition of 1 tool of copper accompanies the evolution of 1 tool of hydrogen 3. Hydrogen in contact with nickel during the reduction of nickel chloride system i and the hydrogen in contact with raney nickel system ii have been studied.
Less than 14 wc water column or psig pounds per square inch gauge. I have a big but here and i am not fond of hydrogen near my copper in these cases. Rossi and focardi say that, when the atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen are fused in their reactor, the reaction produces copper and a large. Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000. This movement is largely a reincarnation of cold fusion, the shortlived. The ability of palladium to absorb hydrogen was recognized as early as the. The coins were 25% nickel and 75% copper alloy, just like todays u. We have uploaded the original russian report by alexander parkhomov and his english translation.
Alexander parkhomovs ecat experiment report was issued on december 25, 2014. Instead, a lowenergy nuclear reactor lenr uses common, stable elements like nickel, carbon, and hydrogen to produce stable products like copper or nitrogen, along with heat and electricity. Nickelhydrogen attempt replication attempts lenr forum. High temperature, nickel, natural hydrogen by michael c. The apparatus consisted of a 1kw quartz element inside a 25mm diameter stainless steel tube 180mm long. Pdf nickelhydrogen cold fusion by intermediate rydberg state. The nedo program experiments employed metal composite powders synthesized from various combinations of the elements copper, nickel and palladium. Italian scientists claim to have discovered nickelhydrogen cold fusion zero hedge 1242011 tyler durden posted on 01242011 10. Compared with nickel, palladium has a much higher hydrogen reactivity and much lower debye temperature, allowing for palladium based lenr systems to be triggered at lower temperatures. In both types of reactors a nickel nanopowder is used, while the isotope composition and reaction environments are different. Cold fusion is supposed to be the energy of the future. It would contrast starkly with the hot fusion that is known to take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and be distinguished from muoncatalyzed fusion. The ecat utilizes small amounts of nickel powder, hydrogen gas, and a proprietary catalyst to produce a safe and clean form of nuclear fusion. The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called coldfusion, though is more accurately known as cfml.
Nano technology netbook technology news computer software. Weldability of materials copper and copper alloys twi. The electrocatalytic activity of nickelcopper nicu alloy coated electrodes for the hydrogen evolution reaction her in an alkaline media was studied. The cold fusion phenomenon, in which the law of conservation of energy is apparently violated when electricity and heat are applied to special systems involving hydrogen isotopes in water or. A nuclear reactor to replace your water heater forbes. Graphic from increased excess heat from palladium deposited on nickel. International space station nickelhydrogen battery onorbit performance penni dalton national aeronautics and space administration glenn research center cleveland, ohio 445 2164335223 penni. Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room. Nickel hydrogen reactor test october 6, 2011 youtube.
Abstract a process of energy generation and an energy generator by means of anharmonic stimulate fusion of hydrogen isotores absorbed on metal comprising a charging step on a metallic core 1 of a quantity of hydrogen isotopes h and d. Rossi and focardi said the device worked by infusing heated hydrogen into nickel powder, transmuting it into copper and producing excess heat. But, hydrogen can react with copper wiring and other copper conductors that are produced to standard copper cond. International space station nickelhydrogen battery on. Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. A mechanism is proposed to account for the catalytic effect of ferrous salt additions, and. There will be 10 kilowatt nickel hydrogen cold fusion. The difference is that inside the unstable copper nucleus, produced from the fusion of a hydrogen miniatom with a nickel nucleus, is trapped the miniatom electron. Situations where hydrogen is in contact with nickel.
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