Pons and Fleischmann, for whatever reason, ignored the established protocol and jumped right into the public domain, announcing their results in a March 23, 1989 press conference -- even as they were applying for patents for what they believed would become a hugely lucrative industry.

Those pending patent applications were cited as the reason they couldn't reveal all the details of their experiment or provide appropriate documentation of their results -- which meant their results couldn't be tested and verified by other scientists. Basically, they wanted it both ways: they wanted scientific glory for their work, while hoarding the details in hopes of reaping a fortune in proprietary patent rights.

"First, thou shalt not announce thy results via a press conference. Second, thou shalt not exaggerate the results. Third, thou shalt tell other scientists precisely what thou did. They broke all of those rules."

The problem was, hundreds of researchers all over the world scurried to reproduce the experiments, and failed. There were glimmers of hope here and there: teams at Texas A&M and the Georgia Institute of Technology excitedly reported results of excess heat and neutron production, respectively, in April, but withdrew those results almost immediately, citing "lack of evidence."

The late Scottish physicist Douglas Morrison was one of the rare skeptical attendees of the annual cold fusion conferences until his death inn 2001. Each year, he would listen to the extravagant claims, then stand and make a simple request: "Please can I have a cup of tea?"

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JOURNAL OF CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE
 
Experiments and Methods in Cold Fusion
 
VOLUME 17, October 2015
 
Strained Layer Ferromagnetism in Transition Metals and its Impact Upon Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
Louis F. DeChiaro - Naval Surface Warfare Center, 5493 Marple Road, Suite 156, Dahlgren, VA 22448, USA
Lawrence P. Forsley - Global Energy Corporation, Annandale, VA 22003, USA
Pamela Mosier-Boss - Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Pacific, San Diego, CA 92152, USA
Abstract : Spin-polarized Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations have been performed to model the lattice structures for the Transition Metal Group, Columns I and II, and a number of sp elements in the Periodic Table. Our results suggest that most of the transition metals can exhibit ferromagnetic ordering if the lattice is placed in sufficiently high tensile stress. These results are applied to the study of some layered structures employed by a number of Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) research teams and may help to explain some of the anomalous results and the difficulty in reproduction of those results.
 
Nuclear Exothermic Reactions in Lattices: A Theoretical Study of D–D Reaction
Fulvio Frisone - Department of Physics, University of Catania, Italy
Abstract : In this work we try to explain the deuteron–deuteron reactions within palladium lattice by means of the coherence theory of nuclear and condensed matter. The coherence model of condensed matter affirms that within a deuteron-loaded palladium lattice there are three different plasmas: electrons, ions and deuterons plasma. Then, according to the loading percentage x = D/Pd, the ions deuterium can take place on the octahedrical sites or in the tetrahedral in the (1,0,0)-plane. In the coherence theory it is called β- plasma the deuterons plasma in the octahedral site and γ-plasma which in tetrahedral. We propose a general model of effective local time-dependent deuteron–deuteron potential, that takes into account the electrons and ions plasma oscillations. The main features of this potential are extracted by means of many-body theory considering the interaction deuteron–phonon–deuteron. In fact the phonon exchange produces a attractive component between two deuteron within the D2 molecular. This attractive force is able to reduce the inter-nuclear distance from about 0.7 to 0.16 Å. It means that the lattice strongly modifies the nuclear environment with respect to free space. In this way according to deuterons energy, loading percentage and plasma frequency we are able to predict
high o low tunneling probability
 
Empirical Models for Octahedral and Tetrahedral Occupation in PdH and in PdD at High Loading
Peter L. Hagelstein - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Abstract : High D/Pd loading is known to be a requirement for producing excess heat in the Fleischmann–Pons experiment, and much work has in recent years been focused on electrochemical protocols and cathode processing in order to achieve D/Pd loadings approaching unity routinely. However, we know very little about PdD at a loading near unity, and almost nothing about what happens when the loading exceeds unity. It may be that when the octahedral sites are fully occupied, additional interstitial deuterium atoms occupy tetrahedral sites, a proposal which at this point has little experimental support. It is nevertheless possible to construct an empirical model for this scenario, and to make use of available experimental data to fit the associated model parameters. We worked with empirical models for both PdD and PdH that assume an O-site energy quadratic in loading, and an O-site to T-site excitation which is either constant in loading, or else taken as an empirical function fit to estimates inferred from the analysis of experimental data. There are two empirical models, each with four or more free parameters; and insufficient experimental data from which to choose each parameter or function independently. We add supplementary constraints that presume the models for PdH and PdD must be very similar, which reduces the number of degrees of freedom within the models. This allows data from PdH to be used to construct a model for PdD, and vice versa. The models which result are interesting; they suggest these complicated systems might be understood based on a simple underlying picture; they indicate that there is more T-site occupation than has been appreciated previously in the literature; they indicate that the resistance ratio calibrations for PdH and PdD are inconsistent; and finally, measurements of the chemical potential at high loading have the potential to provide information about the O-site to T-site excitation energy.
 
O-site and T-site Occupation of α-phase PdHx and PdDx
Peter L. Hagelstein - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Abstract : An important study of the solubility of hydrogen in α-phase PdHx and deuterium in α-phase PdDx over a wide temperature rangen was published by Clewley et al. (J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1: Phy. Chem. Condensed Phases 69 (1973) 449–458). An analysis of the data based on an empirical solubility model based on O-site occupation allows for an understanding of the data at low temperature, but probably is not a good starting place for understanding the solubility at high temperature. We have applied a recently developed empirical model for both O-site and T-site occupation to this data set, and find good agreement between data and a basic version of the model which assumes that the O-site and T-site partition functions are taken to be harmonic oscillator partition functions. Even better agreement is obtained when a more realistic O-site partition function is used. A range of optimum models with different assumptions about the T-site partition function is considered, and it is found to be possible to select one that matches the T-site occupation at zero loading inferred from neutron diffraction measurements of Pitt and Gray (Europhys. Let. 64 (2003) 344). The O-site to T-site excitation energy is assumed independent of temperature in these models, and we obtain specific model values of 105.3 meV for α-phase PdDx and 106.5 meV for α-phase PdHx .
 
On the Path Leading To The Fleischmann–Pons Effect
Stanislaw Szpak - 3498 Conrad Ave, San Diego, CA 92117, USA
Abstract : Processes leading to the excess enthalpy production, the Fleischmann–Pons effect, are identified. The thermodynamic treatment [1] is extended to include self-organization. Discussion is limited to cells employing cathodes prepared by the co-deposition process.
 
Cold Nuclear Fusion in Metal Environment
E.N. Tsyganov - Cold Fusion Power International, USA
M.D. Bavizhev - LLC “Radium”, Moscow, Russian Federation
M.G. Buryakov, V.M. Golovatyuk and S.P. Lobastov - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russian Federation
S.B. Dabagov - P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”, Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract : This paper discusses the mechanism of cold fusion with deuterium and other elements implanted in the potential sites of conductive crystals. Cold fusion in metals becomes possible due to the fact that the implantation of atoms in a crystal guides them to their p excitation levels, which are determined primarily by the positioning of free conduction electrons in a zone of potential sites. The excitation energy of the p-states is about 10–14 eV. The excited atoms’ orientation in the crystal is not random but dictated by the crystal lattice’s electrostatic potentials. Calculations show that the transparency of the Coulomb potential barrier, for example, in the case of DD-fusion, increases by about 60 orders of magnitude if two deuterium atoms meet each other in the minima of the conductor’s potentials in the crisscross orientation. Most of the papers are devoted to the process of DD-fusion in the electrolytic saturation by deuterium in crystals, a process that is extensively studied in these experiments. This paper also briefly comments on other experimental results related to cold fusion.
 
Silica Favours Bacterial Growth Similar to Carbon
N. Vasanthi and S. Anthoni Raj - RomVijay Biootech Pvt. Ltd., Pondicherry 607402, India
Lilly M. Saleena - Department of Bio-informatics, SRM University, Kattangulathur 603403, India
Abstract : Silicate solubilising bacteria were isolated from soil, river water, pond sediment and talc mineral. The isolates were characterised and found to belong to the genera Bacillus and Pseudomonas sp. Some of the isolates are also identified by 16S r RNA sequencing. Both Bacillus and Pseudomonas isolates solubilised magnesium trisilicate under in vitro conditions either in the presence or in the absence of glucose. Bacillus megaterium isolated from soil solubilised talc, feldspar and magnesium trisilicate by releasing silica in solution. This also exhibited growth exclusively on silicate in the absence of a carbon source and after removal CO2 in the head space of the flask containing medium. Bacillus mucilaginosus, a silicate solubilising species, exhibited growth on acid washed sand (pure quartz) and also in silicic acid in the absence of carbon source revealing the capability of the bacteria to utilise silica or silicate for its growth. The carbon analysis by SEM with EDAX revealed the presence of carbon in cells grown exclusively on silica suggesting the biological transmutation of silica to carbon. The ability of silicate solubilising bacteria to grow exclusively on silica or silicate in the absence of carbon reveals not only their ecological survival in a carbon-free environment in earth but also their likely survival in other celestial bodies.
 
Thermal Analysis of Explosions in an Open Palladium/Deuterium Electrolytic System
Wu-Shou Zhang - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2709, Beijing 100190, Republic of China
Xin-Wei Zhang - Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.O. Box 8009, Beijing 100088, Republic of China
Da-Lun Wang, Jian-Guo Qin and Yi-Bei Fu - Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, China Academy of Engineering Physics, P.O. Box 213, Mianyang 621900, Republic of China
Abstract : An explosion occurred in an open Pd/D electrolytic system at a low current density of 62 mA cm−2. The average power was greater than 6.7 W (65 W cm−3 Pd or 430% of input power), and the incubation time was less than half an hour before the explosion. Thermal analysis indicates that the power of the explosion was 5.1–5.5 kW (or 50–53 kW cm−3 Pd), and the event developed in 2–17 s. It is concluded that this explosion was most probably caused by low energy nuclear reactions taking place in the Pd tube cathode rather than by chemical reactions.

From Dark Gravity to LENR
Henry-Couannier - Université d’Aix-Marseille, 163 Avenue De Marseille, France
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Quantum Electronic Atomic Rearrangement in Solids by H2 Recombination Energy Release On DD Nuclear Syntheses Under Irradiation of Deuterium
Neuville - TCE consultant, F-77165 Cuisy
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Electron Deep Orbits of the Hydrogen Atom
J-L Paillet - Aix-Marseille University, France
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Hydrogen Isotopes in alloys hypotheses and experiments
Fabrice David - Deuo Dynamics BP 4 95130 Franconville France
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Is Super Abundant Vacancy a singular state in the Hydrogen-in-Metal paradigm?
Fruchart - Institut Néel et CRETA, CNRS, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
N. Skryabina - Perm State University, 15, Bukirev St., Perm, 614990 Russia
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Nuclear Syntheses Under Irradiation of Deuterium Loaded Pd Anode by Auto Electron Beams at Pulse Vacuum Discharge
Yu.K.Kurilenkov, Tarakanov V.P, Samoylov I.S., Gus’kov S.Yu., A.V.Oginov - Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lebedev Physical Institute, 119991 Moscow, Russia
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Reverting the Burden of Proof of the Non-Existence of LENR to Orthodox Physicists
J-F Geneste - V.P. Chief Scientist. Airbus Group Innovations.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Unconventional Heat Observation in the Hydrogen/Iron/Sodium System
Jacques Dufour, Xavier Dufour (S*PIC*E, 70 Rue du Vertbois 75003 Paris France )
Jenny D. Vinko (HERA, Velletri Rome, Italy)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Power Generation by Resonant Isotope Transmutation of Nuclides
R. Lundin - Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Box 812, 981 28 Kiruna, Sweden
H. Lidgren - Le Mirabeau, 2 av des Citronniers, MC 98000, Monaco
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
(Papier discuté ici : http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] the-e-cat/)
 
Replication Attempts of the Parkhomov Experiment
J.P. Biberian - Aix-Marseille University, France
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Phenomenological model of collective Low Energy Nuclear Reactions
Leonid Urutskoev - General Physics Institute RAS
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
(Papier discuté ici : http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] onference/)
 
Calorimetric Investigation of Anomalous Heat Production in Ni-H Systems
Budko - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
A. Korshunov - Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Analysis of the Potential Behavior of the Energy Catalyzer as Described in the US Patent 9,115,913 B1
J.Ruer - Directeur adjoint développement des technologies chez Saipem
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
Can Craters and Hot Spots Be Explained by Erzions or Exotic Particles?
J. Ruer - Directeur adjoint développement des technologies chez Saipem
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
 
LENR: from Experiment to Theory
J-F Geneste - V.P. Chief Scientist. Airbus Group Innovations.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1 [...] sp=sharing
(Papier discuté ici : http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] bus-group/)
 
 
Liste dispo ici : http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2 [...] scmns.html

Swedish Scientists Publish Paper Claiming “Ponderomotive Forces” Explain LENR
Posted on October 15, 2015
 
This new LENR theory, developed by Rickard Lundin and Hans Lidgren, is based around a the phenomenon known as ponderomotive force (‘a nonlinear force that a charged particle experiences in an inhomogeneous oscillating electromagnetic field’ — Wikipedia), and that neutrons are “shaken loose” from matter at resonant frequencies through an electromagnetic interaction, and when those neutrons are captured by another element, energy is released in large quantities.
 
Lundin and Lidgren have been in communication with Mats Lewan and have explained that the energy release and isotopic shifts described in the Lugano Report on Rossi’s E-Cat could be explained by ponderomotive force. Subsequently, they did an experiment of their own which verified their theory, but quickly stopped the experiment over concerns about neutron production. A new experiment is planned under carefully controlled conditions.
 
Input energy is needed to shake loose the neutrons, and Lundin and Lidgren have written a patent around their process. They told Mats Lewan:
 
“Our method is more precise, using the lowest possible amount of energy [through resonance] to shake loose the neutrons. Others like Rossi are creating turbulence through square waves [in the electrical current feeding the heat resistors controlling the reaction — square waves containing a large number of harmonics and thus many different frequencies], and they get a turbulent wave spectrum risking that some frequencies become a little too high.”
 
Lundin and Lidgren claim this is a natural phenomenon which takes place inside the earth and would account for the high temperatures maintained beneath the earth’s crust.
 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] ats-lewan/
 
Papier aussi présenté ici : Swedish scientists claim LENR explanation break-through

Gamma Free Nuclear Transition Through De-excitation of Spin 0 Strong Force Excited States by Carl-Oscar Gullström
Posted on October 13, 2015
 
Paper from Carl-Oscar Gullström who is a doctoral student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University, Sweden. Readers may recall that he previously wrote a paper titled Low radiation fusion through bound neutron tunneling.
 
He writes: “I have thought and considered a new way to explain the LENR phenomena by neutron transmission.” His new paper is published below.
 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] ed-states/

Lundin and Lidgren Predict COP of over 1000 Based on their LENR Theory
Posted on October 15
 
There is a section in their newly published paper that is both exciting and provocative (thanks to LENR G for pointing it out), as they look at the energy output potential for the model they propose. They refer to figure 9 in their paper which displays a simulation of a H2 + Ni58 reactor — which they say should give a much higher output compared to one using Li7, because it has a “lower spallation threshold.”
 
They write :

If this is actually true, the bar has been raised in terms of performance of LENR reactions. For many years people have been saying that a COP of even 10 with a LENR system providing megawatts of output, would be sufficient to revolutionize energy production, because it would mean LENR capable of efficiencies that would be much more competitive than those of fossil fuels.
 
If it is possible to reach COPs of over 1000, then we are on a different plane altogether, and really the sky would be the limit.
 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] ir-theory/

Comme on peut le constater à partir de l'agenda de la conférence, il y avait une forte participation de scientifiques français, avec la participation de JP Biberian, plusieurs théoriciens, mais aussi un vétéran, Jacques Dufour (voir "Unconventional Heat Observation in the Hydrogen/Iron/Sodium System" ).
Les Russes étaient bien représentés aussi.
 
Parallèlement à ses deux présentations théoriques, JF Geneste a présenté sont "défi", qu'il avait proposé lors d'une conf' de LENR-Cities/LENRG à Milan en avril (Ummo85 : je vous en avais parlé de ça) :

Beaucoup des papiers Russes avaient déjà été présentés lors de l'ICCF19.
 
D'après certains, la présentation la plus "sexy" a été produite par Fabrice David, duquel Alain espère un rapport.
 
Dans la salle, il y avait, entre autres, le PDG de Neofire, le PDG de Hydrofusion, et le "business developer" de Brillouin. La Suède (Lundin ou Lidgren) et le Canada était également représentés.
 
Il y avait aussi Michael McKubre, assez discret. Il a été surpris et impressionné par le nombre de scientifiques français présents. A la fin, il a fait une petite déclaration :
- Il a dit qu'il y avait beaucoup de sociétés prêtes à investir des montagnes d'argent, dès que "le jeu sera déverrouillé".
- Puis il a répété à nouveau, comme lors de l'ICCF19, l'importance de la «collaboration» dans le domaine. Un mot aussi pour saluer LENR-Cities pour leur travail, et un autre sur la nécessité de créer un écosystème scientifique.
 
La conférence a été bien organisée, avec une visite du hall d'assemblage de l'A380, et une belle soirée le jeudi où les gens pouvaient échanger librement dans une ambiance agréable.

David Fojt made a report to Peter Gluck on Ego-Out blog :
 
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/2 [...] daily.html
 
Many points raised, on Airbus and JF geneste, of Airbus application, of Russian contribution.
 
David made a link between Geneste's theory and Couannier's theory.
 
About McKubre talk : "Mike McKubre- has said that today not money is the mot difficult problem but how to find open minded people willing to invest in LENR. California in the US is a good place, many laboratories there have money."
 
There is also few comments, on Jacques Ruer about transition phases in alloys, and a French scientists about increasing holes in the lattice. It may interest replicators.
 
Rossi's works seems respected but the problem to replicate E-cat/Parkhomov is important...

Je démontre dans les pages de ce site, preuves physiques à l'appui, que les tours jumelles ont été détruites le 11 septembre 2001 par des technologies non conventionnelles très probablement issues de recherches secrêtes des laboratoires du Department of Defense US (DoD) portant sur les phénomènes énigmatiques dits de "fusion froide" (bien que l'essentiel de l'énergie produite pas ces phénomènes ne soit pas nécessairement d'origine nucléaire). J'explique également comment ces phénomènes peuvent par contre être remarquablement bien compris dans le cadre de la théorie de la gravité obscure vulgarisée dans ce site. Le discrédit médiatique de cette nouvelle physique peu après les premières annonces de découvertes empiriques dans les années 80, a été orchestré par le DoD et se poursuit.

Sous pretexte d'empêcher la diffusion de nouvelles technologies susceptibles de faciliter la prolifération nucléaire et donc de fournir des moyens de destruction sans précédents aux terroristes islamistes en particulier ou sous pretexte d'assurer une supériorité incontestable à l'empire, nombreux sont les chercheurs qui ont été convaincus de la nécessité du blackout sur la nouvelle physique et y participent activement même lorsque ce blackout interdit du même coup l'émergence de solutions énergétiques propres et peu couteuses dont la planète à un besoin urgent, et même lorsque ce blackout favorise le terrorisme d'état, i.e l'exploitation criminelle de  technologies nouvelles profitant d'une révolution scientifique d'avance de la recherche militaire sur la recherche publique, à des fins de domination militaire pour une main mise sur les principales ressources énergétiques de la planète (le 11 septembre 2001 a justifié l'invasion et occupation de l'Irak et de l'Afghanistan ) ou pour mettre économiquement à genoux les ennemis ou concurrents avec des armes naturelles sismiques ou climatiques issues de la nouvelle physique.

“The Myth of Basic Science” (GreenWin)
Posted on October 26
 
Today’s Wall Street Journal Review features a full page spread by (UK House of Lords member) Matt Ridley titled: “The Myth of Basic Science” (Link here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-my [...] 45613954). Ridley emphasizes the disruptive shift from institutional, tax-paid research to entrepreneurial innovation.
 
Speaking of years of government intervention and “forbidden tech”, Ridley observes: “The history of technological prohibitions is revealing. Ming Chinese prohibited large ships ; the Shogun Japanese, firearms ; the medieval Italians, silk spinning ; Americans in the 1920s, alcohol”. Ridley does not mention onerous federal statutes like the U.S. Invention Secrecy Act of 1951. And while some prohibitions may actually defend national security, many simply defend industrial monopolies.
 
[...]
 
http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/ [...] -greenwin/