Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, Edmond Storms

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This dude testified before Congress, but then so have a lot of other people. The purpose of this post is to lend a tiny amount of credence to the hydrino/blacklight notion.


http://www.amazon.com/Science-Energy-Nuclear-Reaction-Comprehensive/dp/9812706208/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281749308&sr=8-1

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5.0 out of 5 stars Science of LENR is a comprehensive work, October 16, 2007
By Horace Heffner (Palmer, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Science of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction: A Comprehensive Compilation of Evidence and Explanations about Cold Fusion (Hardcover)

This is the definitive work on low energy nuclear reactions. No fusion researcher should be without this book. It provides a newcomer to the field a rapid comprehensive exposure to the scientific work to date, provided with more than 1000 references, and is a valuable continuing resource. Dr. Edmond Storms is one of the leading experts in the field. He began work in the field in 1989 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, under DoE funding, and continues experimental work in his private lab following retirement. He has testified before congress on cold fusion.

The book covers his personal experiences with cold fusion and what is known about cold fusion in general, including where it occurs, what influences its behavior, how it is initiated, and how it is measured. The book includes explanations of the phenomena by leading theorists, as well as discussion of limitations to the known theories. It also includes a useful set of appendices, including one on construction of a Seebeck calorimeter. This book will become increasingly important as awareness of the reality of low energy nuclear reactions becomes commonplace.

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1. Let's check that credibility ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=hydrino+fraud&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

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2. Cold Fusion = BS

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3. They say that someday the Japanese will supersede the U.S. in

automobile manufacturing. Come out from under that rock dude.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100321182909.htm
Among the reports scheduled for the symposium are:
Michael McKubre, Ph.D., of SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., provides an overview of cold fusion research. McKubre will discuss current knowledge in the field and explain why some doubts exist in the broader scientific community. He will also discuss recent experimental work performed at SRI. McKubre will focus on fusion, heat production and nuclear products. <3pm, Monday March 22, Cyril Magnin >

George Miley, Ph.D., reports on progress toward a new type of battery that works through a new cold fusion process and has a longer life than conventional batteries. The battery consists of a special type of electrolytic cell that operates at low temperature. The process involves purposely creating defects in the metal electrode of the cell. Miley is a professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana and director of its Fusion Studies Lab. <11am, Sunday March 21, Cyril Magnin I>

Melvin Miles, Ph.D., describes development of the first inexpensive instrument for reliably identifying the hallmark of cold fusion reactions: Production of excess heat from tabletop fusion devices now in use. Current "calorimeters," devices that measure excess heat, tend to be too complicated and inefficient for reliable use. The new calorimeter could boost the quality of research and open the field to scores of new scientists in university, government, and private labs, Miles suggests. He is with

Dixie State College in St. George, Utah. <2.30pm, Sunday March 21, Cyril Magnin I>
Vladimir Vysotskii, Ph.D., presents surprising experimental evidence that bacteria can undergo a type of cold fusion process and could be used to dispose of nuclear waste. He will describe studies of nuclear transmutation -- the transformation of one element into another -- of stable and radioactive isotopes in biological systems. Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine. <11.20am, Monday March 22, Cyril Magnin I>.

Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D., discusses an unconventional cold fusion device that uses phenanthrene, a substance found in coal and oil, as a reactant. He reports on excess heat production and gamma radiation production from the device. "Overall heat production exceeded any conceivable chemical reaction by two orders of magnitude," Mizuno noted. He is with Hokkaido University in Japan, and wrote the book Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion. <3pm, Sunday March 21, Cyril Magnin I>

Peter Hagelstein, Ph.D., describes new theoretical models to help explain excess heat production in cold fusion, one of the most controversial aspects of the field. He notes that in a nuclear reaction, one would expect that the energy produced would appear as kinetic energy in the products, but in the Fleischmann-Pons experiment there do not appear energetic particles in amounts consistent with the energy observed. His simple models help explain the observed energy changes, including the type and quantity of energy produced. Hagelstein is with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. <10.20am, Sunday March 21, Cyril Magnin I>.

Xing Zhong Li, Ph.D., presents research demonstrating that cold fusion can occur without the production of strong nuclear radiation. He is developing a cold fusion reactor that demonstrates this principle. Li is a scientist with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. <9.10am, Sunday March 21, Cyril Magnin I>.

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4. People have made (and retracted) low temperature fusion claims for over 80 years

It's my understanding such claims typically aren't consistent with standard current models of nuclear reactions, which provides good reason to be rather skeptical of the claims

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5. That won't stop the OP, he follows pseudoscientific "Electric Universe" nonsense.

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6. You follow BBBS... big bang bs and so it goes.

Van Flandern (2002), the former Chief Astronomer for the United States
Naval Observatory, has detailed 30 major problems with the Big Bang theory,
including its reliance on ad hoc theorizing to paper over glaring inconsistencies,
its reliance on constantly adjustable parameters to prevent its falsification, and
the fact that there are quasars, large scale structures, and globular clusters
which are far older than the date given for the Big Bang.
Although the "Big Bang" is often presented as if it is proven fact, there is a wealth
of data, including recent revelations of the several space probes and findings in
fundamental physics, which tells a different story (Arp et al. 1990, 2004;
Eastman, 2010; Lerner 1991; Ratcliffe 2010; Van Flandern (2002).

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7. It seems to me the cases are not entirely comparable. Cosmological origin theorizing

must attempt to construct theories valid over a large range of time and space scales and must consider the possibility that the dominating physical laws at very high density and temperature differ from the dominating physical laws at much lower density and temperature, in the effort to look back through billions of years starting from what we currently know about an enormous universe. So it is hardly surprising that the current state of knowledge is highly imperfect

On the other hand, the cold fusion folk work on systems at lab bench scale with rather ordinary temperatures and pressures; they would have access to rather good theories of nuclear reactions, if they wanted to avail themselves of that. Yet all we hear, year after year, is merely that someone or other has "found evidence" of cold fusion, without the evidence being very convincing. Now, I have no abstract objection to the notion that some nuclear reactions might occur at a low rate as a result of quantum mechanical tunneling -- but if someone thinks (for example) that collecting hydrogen atoms in the defects of a metal lattice can significantly improve the chances for such reactions, then there ought to be (say) supporting calculations; otherwise, one is looking for something that hardly anyone believes can be found

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8. Thank you for the explanation of your views, you gave them

without the personal attack component. You made a very clever Freudian thingamabob with the reference to the "current" state of knowledge.



http://www.physorg.com/print160726282.html
Study plunges standard Theory of Cosmology into Crisis
May 5th, 2009 in Physics / General Physics
As modern cosmologists rely more and more on the ominous “dark matter” to explain otherwise inexplicable observations, much effort has gone into the detection of this mysterious substance in the last two decades, yet no direct proof could be found that it actually exists. Even if it does exist, dark matter would be unable to reconcile all the current discrepancies between actual measurements and predictions based on theoretical models. Hence the number of physicists questioning the existence of dark matter has been increasing for some time now.

Competing theories of gravitation have already been developed which are independent of this construction. Their only problem is that they conflict with Newton’s theory of gravitation.
“Maybe Newton was indeed wrong”, declares Professor Dr. Pavel Kroupa of Bonn University's Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA). “Although his theory does, in fact, describe the everyday effects of gravity on Earth, things we can see and measure, it is conceivable that we have completely failed to comprehend the actual physics underlying the force of gravity”.
This is a problematical hypothesis that has nevertheless gained increasing ground in recent years, especially in Europe.

Two new studies could well lend further support to it. In these studies, Professor Kroupa and his former colleague Dr. Manuel Metz, working in collaboration with Professor Dr. Gerhard Hensler and Dr. Christian Theis from the University of Vienna, and Dr. Helmut Jerjen from the Australian National University, Canberra, have examined so-called “satellite galaxies”. This term is used for dwarf galaxy companions of the Milky Way, some of which contain only a few thousand stars.

According to the best cosmological models, they exist presumably in hundreds around most of the major galaxies. Up to now, however, only 30 such satellites have been observed around the Milky Way, a discrepancy in numbers which is commonly attributed to the fact that the light emitted from the majority of satellite galaxies is so faint they remain invisible.

A detailed study of these stellar agglomerates has revealed some astonishing phenomena: “First of all, there is something unusual about their distribution”, Professor Kroupa explains, “the satellites should be uniformly arranged around their mother galaxy, but this is not what we found“. More precisely, all classical satellites of the Milky Way - the eleven brightest dwarf galaxies - lie more or less in the same plane, they are forming some sort of a disc in the sky. The research team has also been able to show that most of these satellite galaxies rotate in the same direction around the Milky Way - like the planets revolve around the Sun.
Contradiction upon Contradiction

The physicists do belief that this phenomenon can only be explained if the satellites were created a long time ago through collisions between younger galaxies. “The fragments produced by such an event can form rotating dwarf galaxies”, explains Dr. Metz, who has recently moved across to the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aero-space Center). But there is an interesting catch to this crash theory, “theoretical calculations tell us that the satellites created cannot contain any dark matter”. This assumption, however, stands in contradiction to another observation. “The stars in the satellites we have observed are moving much faster than predicted by the Gravitational Law. If classical physics holds this can only be attributed to the presence of dark matter”, Manuel Metz states.