Cold fusion: reality or utopia?

Italian physicists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi have invented a cold fusion reactor which fits on a table and requires no unprocurable components. According to the authors, such a device installed at a factory has been warming up water day and night over the last two years, producing 12,400 watts of heat with an input of just 400 watts.

The two physicists invited some 50 colleagues and journalists to attend their presentation in Bologna. They demonstrated a medium-sized blue box running on nickel and hydrogen, which, the scientists claim, produce energy not of chemical origin but as a result of a fusion reaction. First of all, heat is not obtained from hydrogen – the gas is not consumed at all. Secondly, the installation emits weak radiation. The third and most important thing is that the reaction produces copper, nickel’s “neighboring” element in Mendeleev’s Periodic Table. The emergence of a new element is a true sign of nuclear fusion.

Since Rossi and Focardi failed to intelligibly explain how nickel can be changed into copper, all their calculations were taken skeptically in the scientific world and ignored by authoritative magazines and patent bureaus. Press reviews, quite acid-tongued for the most part, focused rather on the two physicists’ personalities, recollecting Rossi’s long-forgotten sins of tax dodging and gold smuggling. At the same time, a Greek company said it is determined to produce Rossi-Focardi modules and will make an official statement to that effect in the nearest future. But all the same, is cold fusion reality or utopia? The Voice of Russia addressed this question to president of the Kurchatov Institute and Academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Velikhov.

There is not a single study indicating that cold fusion is essentially impossible. There is a notion called muonic catalysis, in the course of which the nuclei of muons you use instead of electrons are drawn closely together, making the thermonuclear reaction possible at any temperature. Given several failed attempts to apply this to electrolysis, it is necessary to check this properly once again, Yevgeny Velikhov said.

In other words, cold fusion does not run counter to theory. The academician recalled the stir caused by the reactor invented by Martin Fleischmann from Great Britain and Stanley Pons from the US in 1989. It was a tin filled with deuterium (heavy hydrogen) and palladium electrodes capable of consuming hydrogen. During deuterium electrolysis, the tin was said to be self-heating, which could not be ascribed to the Joule heat effect. This experiment was unsuccessfully retried in many countries, including Russia. Although the interest in cold fusion started to decay gradually by the end of 1990s, some undisclosed research is still under way somewhere in the world, namely in the US or India, where several research institutes recently recommended for the country’s government to allocate funds for cold fusion experiments.

Meanwhile, Italian inventors insist that their device is already market-ready. Three months later, customers will obtain these “sources of cheap and pure energy”, Rossi and Focardi argue, pledging to launch mass production before the end of the year.

The countdown has begun. Soon we will find out what this Italian novelty really is – a great invention or just another hoax. Anyway, Focardi and Rossi will one day be replaced by other enthusiasts to determine who will get access to the sacramental thermonuclear energy after all: adherents of cold fusion or the traditional “hot” one. The latter include seven countries, Russia among them, which are now building the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France. Its launch is set for the 2020s.

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13 Comments on "Cold fusion: reality or utopia?"

george on Sat, 29th Jan 2011 10:49 pm 



LMFAOROFL

Albert Kong on Sun, 30th Jan 2011 12:47 am 



Since when does the inability to perfectly understand a physical phenomenon mean it does not exist? Our time in history is not unique in the belief that everything has just about been explained. It is hard to understand the reports, with liters of water being boiled off in a few minutes by an experiment consuming a few hundred watts and surrounded by dozens of scientists without causing quite a stir. I assume these gentlemen should be familiar with an ordinary electric kettle which should be its equivalent unless something quite extraordinary is going on. Either it is a fraud or it is not, should not be something so difficult to discern. They should speak up very clearly either way, the media normally quite anxious for something extraordinary to happen should take note.

Rick on Sun, 30th Jan 2011 1:57 am 



This claim is pure BS hype.

Kenz300 on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 1:25 am 



Time for the 50 scientists and journalists to come forward and talk about what they witnessed. Who were they and what do they have to say.

Alain on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 1:57 am 



Oh this is real and a huge game changer. Bye-Bye Petro-Dollar recycling, and we won’t be using NatGas to heat out homes and generate electricity anymore. This is why NatGas prices have been declining steadily for the past 2 years, and why so many new electric cars are hitting the market.

Albert Kong on Mon, 31st Jan 2011 9:18 am 



According to the report, the experiment boils off a liter of water in about three minutes. To understand how extraordinary this is put a liter of water to boil on the largest burner of an ordinary kitchen stove on high and see how long it takes to burn off. That being said it can still be a fraud, that some other concealed heat source is present. I doubt it would have escaped the attention of the expert witnesses. For the fraud to be successful, dozens of scientists would have to be party to it. This would not be a great day and may be a record in its own right.

Gaven Rank on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 8:46 am 



In fact, people have been constantly striving for utopia to get the same Eden and Paradise, I think that of course such a philosophical question must still face society. But I have no answer to it, recently at our university we had an essay on this topic, it’s good that I was able to find here https://studydriver.com/utopia-essay/ options regarding this topic and that’s how I was able to get some data for myself, because I was not able to fully develop an opinion about it, let alone to formulate it on paper.

zero juan on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 9:25 am 



dumb fuck pretending:

Gaven Rank said In fact, people have been constantly striving for…

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JuanP on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 9:35 am 



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Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 10:25 am 



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Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 10:34 am 



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Cloggie on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 4:45 pm 



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Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 26th Oct 2020 4:52 pm 



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