There is very little information on this so far. If anyone finds other sources, please post them. This is the science world's quest for the holy grail of renewable energy sources. M

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Japanese Scientists Demonstrate Cold Nuclear Fusion

Japanese Scientists Demonstrate Cold Nuclear Fusion

PhysicsWorld is reporting on a Japanese breakthough in energy generation with the apparent demonstration of cold fusion in front of a gathered audience.

Although it sounds like a dubious made for television spectacle, emeritus physics professor, Yoshiaki Arata, from Osaka University, Japan performed a demonstration of cold fusion on Saturday. In front of an audience of about 60 people from Japanese universities and companies, some foreigners and gathered media from six major newspapers and two TV stations, Prof. Arata created a heat generating reaction he claims to be due to cold fusion.

The process consisted of Arata and his co-researcher Yue-Chang Zhang, forcing deuterium gas under pressure into an evacuated cell. The cell contains palladium dispersed in zirconium oxide. Arata claims the deuterium is absorbed by the Palladium sample to produce dense or "pynco" deuterium. The deuterium nuclei are then close enough to fuse releasing heat and helium. After the injection of deuterium gas, the temperature rose to about 70 °C, which according to Arata was due to both chemical and nuclear reactions. With the gas turned off the temperature in the centre of the cell remained significantly warmer than the cell wall for 50 hours.

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This is just another CF hoax that has been going on in the Phisics world for decades. Anyone who gets CF to work, will have to rewite the current laws of physics, as it is currently phyically impossible.

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The nitty gritty is that someone submits their research to peer review, and the same experiments need to be duplicated by someone else. So far, no one has passed that test.

I am interested to see if Technology Review picks up the story and evaluates it. This is the online periodical published by MIT.

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The problem is that often peer reviews are done by a "close" peer that is so hoping to see what they want to see that they lose objectivity, and create a false positive that, when they try to reproduce the results, make them look very foolish.

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Tech Review is also a blog site for scientists. If a full article on what they are doing gets coverage in this eMagazine, it will get plenty of feedback.

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