COLD FUSION IS COMING
"Other alternatives lie in the future, with hydrogen,
when used in an electricity-producing fuel cell, being
touted by many as the obvious replacement for gasoline.
.. Hydrogen isn't cheap to produce, and although
potentially it's infinitely available, the cost at this
point makes a mass conversion from gasoline economically
unfeasable. ... Until a miracle breakthrough in
technology appears -which is possible- the fuel cell
floats in the netherworld of technology like cold fusion
and a cure for cancer."
Car and Driver, January 2005, Brock Yates,
'Doomsayers proliferate as oil tops $50 a barrel'
Does fusion scientist 'hold the secret'? -
Deseret News March 24, 2006 Elaine Jarvik
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635194149,00.html
He was ballyhooed and then discredited and then largely
forgotten. But cold fusion pioneer Dr. Martin
Fleischmann still holds the secret to a cheap energy
source for the world, says a California company that
plans to produce prototypes of a cold fusion-powered
home heater, with Fleischmann as "senior scientific
adviser." ... Eventually, though, "when truth and
justice are done," says David Kubiak, the University of
Utah will bask in the glory of its association with cold
fusion. Kubiak is communications director of D2Fusion of
Foster City, Calif., and Los Alamos, N.M., which will be
hosting Fleischmann and is setting up a lab using his
"recipe."
These days, Kubiak says, the term "cold fusion" has
generally been replaced by "solid state fusion,"
"low-energy nuclear reactions" or "nuclear reactions in
condensed matter." But the principles are still the same
— a fusion reaction produced at normal temperatures
using hydrogen-loving metals such as palladium or
titanium.
To start with, D2Fusion plans to produce a 2,000-3,000
watt heater that would never need refueling. ...
Kubiak says scores of labs around the world are pursuing
cold-fusion techniques, some of them originally inspired
by Fleischmann's work in Utah. Fleischmann and Pons
originally built their device for $100,000 in the
basement of the Henry Eyring Chemistry Building. ....
The researchers now working on the technique "are not
tin-pot inventors working out of a garage," he says.
"They're top-notch scientists, including a couple of
Nobel laureates." "Instead of arguing any more about the
theoretical basis of it," he says, "we're saying 'this
works, this is where we should be putting our
attention.' "
COLD FUSION TIMES
"The journal of the scientific aspects of loading
isotopic fuels into materials"
http://www.std.com/~mica/cft.html
Dr. Melvin H. Miles Cold Fusion Website
http://coldfusion-miles.com/
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Make Way For Ethanol - How fields of corn may hold the
key to the future’s fuel source
The Guardian - Katie Westfall
http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/features?art=2006_04_17_02
The alcohol known as ethanol was used as a fuel in the
early 20th century before Prohibition criminalized
alcohol production, but has recently re-entered the
limelight and is now being used as a fuel additive. It
replaces the anti-knocking agent known as MBTE, which is
being phased out after it was discovered to pollute
groundwater.
Ethanol is most commonly used in a blend known as E10,
which is 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline.
However, with the development of “flex-fuel” cars
specifically built to handle a higher amount of the
alcohol, the ethanol industry is pushing for the use of
E85, a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent
gasoline. Currently, there are about five million of
these vehicles produced or sold.
... The United States is not the first to experiment
with alternative fuels, and is, in fact, following in
the wake of countries like Brazil, which has been
producing ethanol-running cars since the late 1970s.
According to an ethanol study conducted by the Solar
Energy Research Institute, up to 90 percent of new cars
in Brazil run on pure ethanol produced from sugar cane,
with the remainder running on a blend of 20 percent
ethanol and 80 percent gasoline.
Although research is not complete, the preliminary
experiments and computational studies have shown that,
in some aspects, ethanol is better for the environment
than gasoline or diesel fuels.
..... Saxena thinks that these obstacles can be overcome
and that ethanol is a good stepping stone for energy
evolution. “Ethanol as an energy source is a good
interim solution until we are able to accomplish
hydrogen economy, fuel cells and cold-fusion
technologies,” he said.
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MIT develops new fast-charging battery technology
ideal for automobiles
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5228/1/
"The MIT team's new lithium battery contains manganese
and nickel, which are cheaper than cobalt.
Scientists already knew that lithium nickel manganese
oxide could store a lot of energy, but the material took
too long to charge to be commercially useful. The MIT
researchers set out to modify the material's structure
to make it capable of charging and discharging more
quickly..... Lithium nickel manganese oxide consists of
layers of metal (nickel and manganese) separated from
lithium layers by oxygen. The major problem with the
compound was that the crystalline structure was too
"disordered," meaning that the nickel and lithium were
drawn to each other, interfering with the flow of
lithium ions and slowing down the charging rate.
Lithium ions carry the battery's charge, so to maximize
the speed at which the battery can charge and discharge,
the researchers designed and synthesized a material with
a very ordered crystalline structure, allowing lithium
ions to freely flow between the metal layers. A battery
made from the new material can charge or discharge in
about 10 minutes -- about 10 times faster than the
unmodified lithium nickel manganese oxide."
http://www.std.com/~mica/cft.html
"Cold fusioneers' science is 'not bad'.
The pathologic skeptics just describe it that way."
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