Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers - Will Suppression of this Science be Repeated?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor - Key concepts: Cold fusion, NaturalNews and Coal
(NaturalNews) The world owes Fleischmann and Pons a huge apology:
The cold fusion technology they announced in 1989 -- which was blasted
by arrogant hot fusion scientists as a fraud -- has been proven true
once again by U.S. Navy Researchers. In papers presented at this year's
American Chemical Society meeting, scientist Pamela Mosier-Boss
presented data supporting the reality of cold fusion, declaring the
report, "the first scientific report of highly energetic neutrons from
low-energy nuclear reactions."
Technically, it's not the first
report at all, however. It might be the five-hundredth report, given
how many people have been working on cold fusion
since 1989 in laboratories across the world. Following the
politically-motivated assassination of cold fusion credibility in 1989,
the cold fusion movement went underground, renaming itself to LENR (Low
Energy Nuclear Reactions). As LENR, cold fusion has been proven true in
literally thousands of experiments conducted over the past two decades.
I
first went public with the true story about the conspiracy against cold
fusion in 1998. It described this classic conspiracy against a new
technology, schemed up by desperate defenders of old technology -- hot
fusion researchers who, after hundreds of billions of dollars in
research money, have yet to produce a single sustainable hot fusion
reaction that produces more energy than it consumes. The arrogant hot
fusion researchers have the same snooty attitude as cancer researchers:
"Just give us another billion dollars," they say, "and we'll find a
cure!"
It's been the same story for nearly three decades now,
and hot fusion still doesn't work. A working cold fusion unit, however,
can be built on a kitchen countertop for less than $2,000, and it
doesn't require a doctorate in physics to pull it off, either. It is
precisely this simplicity that offends the arrogant hot fusion pushers
who act much like medical doctors in the vicious defense of their territory.
Cold fusion applications
Cold fusion isn't some magical free energy machine. It produces excess heat,
but slowly. So don't go thinking this is some kind of Mr. Fusion device
that you can feed some banana peels and expect to get clean electricity
out the other end.
Rather, cold fusion converts mass to heat energy,
slowly losing a bit of mass through very low-energy nuclear reactions
(hence the LENR name) that generate excess heat. In practical terms, cold fusion produces hot water.
And
why is hot water useful? Because with hot water, you can produce steam.
Steam turns turbines that generate electricity. This is how coal power plants work, too, except they're burning coal
to heat water instead of using cold fusion. Conventional nuke plants
work the same way, too, using much higher-energy nuclear reactions to
heat vast amounts of water that drive electricity-generating turbines.
So
heating water with cold fusion is a big deal. If the technology can be
scaled up and applied properly, it could spell an end to the era of
dirty coal power plants.
And that, friends, could mean a very big deal for reducing CO2 emissions and avoiding a worsening of global warming. It will even help global warming skeptics,
too, because even if you don't believe global warming is real, the
climate still changes on you. Mother Nature can't be debated. It just reacts.
Whether you recognize the reality of global warming or not, cold fusion technology could reduce air pollution due to coal power plant emissions. Coal power plants are the No. 1 source of mercury pollution
on our planet, in case you didn't know. That's because burning coal
spews mercury into the air, which then contaminates oceans and land
masses, contaminating the world with mercury.
(Perhaps there are mercury skeptics
who do not believe coal power plants spew mercury at all, or that
mercury is safe for human consumption. The mercury skeptics are
probably dentists, come to think of it...)
No radioactive waste
Cold
fusion, by the way, does not produce radioactive waste. So it's not
like a world full of cold fusion power plants would create yet another
radioactive waste problem. It might cause a shortage of palladium,
though, which is one of the metals typically used in cold fusion
devices.
Some of the more astute readers of this website will
probably figure out that investing in palladium futures ahead of any
widespread production of cold fusion devices would no doubt be
extremely profitable. But that kind of product rollout is likely years
away, at best.
And that's assuming that this latest round of
cold fusion announcements won't get clobbered yet again by the hot
fusion conspirators. I'm half expecting an updated news announcement in
a day or two, with a headline like, "U.S. Navy Retracts Cold Fusion
Announcement, Scientists Accused of Fraud" or some such nonsense. If
you see such a headline, remember what you're reading here, and you'll
know it's all been manipulated to erase the reality of cold fusion from
the sphere of public knowledge.
Cold fusion, after all, could revolutionize the energy industry and spell doom for coal and natural gas.
I know a bunch of executives in Wyoming who are shaking in their
(insulated) boots right now at the thought of cold fusion sidelining
natural gas.
Authors' Quotes on Cold Fusion
Below,
you'll find selected quotes from noted authors on the subject of Cold
Fusion. Feel free to quote these in your own work provided you give
proper credit to both the original author quoted here and this NaturalNews page.
Nowhere are the resistance to and promise of a new energy technology more dramatically revealed than those of the case of cold fusion.
This well-researched approach has the potential of reversing much of
the pollution while turning the interests of the energy monopolies
upside down. Unfortunately, even the environmentalists haven't yet
given new energy alternatives a fair look. The cold fusion Revolution: The unfolding cold fusion
saga has provided us with an illustrious thirteen year history that
would make the suppression of Tesla seem like a school exercise. - Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truthsby Brian O'Leary - Available on Amazon.com
The coup de grace was delivered to cold fusion when the US House committee formed to examine the claims for cold fusion came down on the side of the skeptics. 'Evidence for the discovery of a new nuclear process termed cold fusion is not persuasive,' said its report. 'No special programmes to establish cold fusion research centers or to support new efforts to find cold fusion are justified.' - Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishmentby Richard Milton - Available on Amazon.com
Cold fusion The fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium at room temperature. In 1989 two scientists announced that they had produced cold fusion
in their laboratory, an achievement that if true would have meant a
virtually unlimited cheap energy supply for humanity. When other
scientists were unable to reproduce their results, the scientific
community concluded that the original experiment had been flawed. - The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Knowby E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil - Available on Amazon.com
Thus within two months of its original announcement, cold fusion
had been dealt a fatal blow by two of the world's most prestigious
nuclear research centres, each receiving millions of pounds a year to
fund atomic research. The measure of MIT's success in killing off cold fusion is that still today, the US Department of Energy refuses to fund any research into it while the US Patent Office relies on the MIT report to refuse any patents based on or relating to cold fusion processes even though hundreds have been submitted. - Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishmentby Richard Milton - Available on Amazon.com
Patent
Office of any application mentioning cold fusion; 3) Suppression of
research on the phenomenon in government laboratories; 4) Citation of cold fusion as "pathological science" or "fraud" in numerous books and articles critical of cold fusion
in general, and of Fleischmann and Pons in particular." One of the DOE
panel members, Prof. Steven Koonin of Caltech (and now Provost there),
said, "My conclusion is that the experiments are just wrong and that we
are suffering from the incompetence and delusion of Doctors Pons and
Fleischmann... - Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truthsby Brian O'Leary - Available on Amazon.com
Six months after cold fusion
was announced, the American Department of Energy denounced it. In
Japan, the people who are considered authorities blindly emulated the
attitude of the Americans, as they invariably do, and they too
pontificated against cold fusion. Perhaps it was inevitable
that most people would assume the claims are cock and bull nonsense. In
keeping with the tide of the times, countless books and articles have
been published attacking cold fusion. The very act of researching cold fusion has become scandalous. - Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishmentby Richard Milton - Available on Amazon.com
Equally illuminating were the remarks of Professor John Huizenga, who was co-chairman of the US Department of Energy's panel on cold fusion
and who came down against the reality of the process. In a recent book
on the subject, Professor Huizenga observed that 'The world's
scientific institutions have probably now squandered between $50 and
$100 million on an idea that was absurd to begin with.' The question
is, what were his principal reasons for rejecting cold fusion. - Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishmentby Richard Milton - Available on Amazon.com
This was perhaps the high-water mark of cold fusion. Scores of organisations over the world were actively working to replicate cold fusion
in their laboratories, and although many reported difficulties a decent
number reported success. And by the end of April, Fleischmann and Pons
were standing before the US House Science, Space and Technology
committee asking for a cool $25 million to fund a centre for cold fusion research at Utah University. Then things began to go wrong. - Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishmentby Richard Milton
