CFRL English News No.1 (June 10, 1999)
Cold Fusion
Research Laboratory Prof. Hideo Kozima (KOZIMA HIDEO in Japanese)
This is CFRL News
(in English) No.1 translated from Japanese version published for friend
researchers of Cold Fusion Research Laboratory directed by Dr. H. Kozima..
In this issue, there are following items.
1) An article from
net circle “Vortex” by Dr. R. Murray,
2) On the experiment
by L. Case,
3) Introduction of
my TNCF model by Dr. J.O’M. Bockris at SSE Conference. .
1) In the net circle “Vortex”, there appeared a positive article
for CF by R. Murray.
“June 7, 1999 Hello,
I am very pleased to tell of a report by Mike McKubre [mike_mckubre@qm.sri.com]
of Stanford Research Institute on on-going research on Les Case's cell. It uses
a commercial porous carbon catalyst, coated with palladium, to catalyze D2 gas
at 3 atm into helium, producing steady heat output and a linear rise of helium
to almost 11 ppm, twice the background of 5.2 ppm, from day 5 to 30 of the run. The sealed 50 cc metal cell is
connected directly to a highly sensitive mass spectrometer, well able to
totally separate out the D2 peak from the helium peak. A control run with H2 produced
absolutely no effects. The heat output of about .5 to 1.0 W was compatible with
the reaction: 2 D → 4^He + 24 MeV.
About a dozen Case cells have been run, with a success rate of about one in two
or three.
There are some tricks in
getting it to work: the catalyst has to be cleaned and kept clean. The fact
that the cells can not always be made to work increases the credibility of the
report in my eyes, as I would expect a simple artifact to occur every time,
since the output helium rises in a simple, untroubled line. My meager wits are unable to imagine
any applicable artifact. Therefore,
I expect this breakthrough success to continue at SRI, and to be speedily
replicated by other labs. In addition, since in physics, the basic rule is that
what is not prohibited is mandatory, then we must give much greater credence to
the vast body of reports of the many varieties of cold fusion in the last ten
years. The seedling has not
expired, and deserves copious watering.
Without being specific, McKubre said that theoretical progress was being
made.
McKubre, lucid,
calm, confident, pleased, said that the evidence for excess heat was
"essentially overwhelming," and told me, "Les Case is an
incredible man."
McKubre also
reported successful production of excess heat with a palladium & heavy
water electrolytic cell. McKubre spoke at 4:40 PM Thursday, June 3, 1999, at
the Society for Scientific Exploration 18th Annual Meeting, Northrop Hall,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, June 3-5. The first afternoon session was for cold fusion. George Miley of the Low Energy Nuclear
Reactions Lab at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [gmiley@uiuc.edu]
presented his well-known claims of massive nuclear transmutations in plated 1
mm plastic beads, coated with Ni, Pd, or, in Run # 15, Ti, a metal not
previously publicly mentioned to my knowledge, in weeks of electrolysis in
light water. These two dozen runs
were done in 1996.”
The work by L.Case is reported affirmatively in the above
letter. The sample, the porous carbon catalyst coated with palladium, used by
him seems like one we tried in Shizuoka University several years ago when M.S.
M. Ohta, now in Osaka University, was here and obtained null result. The
surface of the porous carbon cathode should be covered with Pd thin layer
responsible to nuclear reactions between hydrogen isotopes and elements in the
cathode by the catalytic effect of trapped neutrons.
3) In the same e-mail letter of Vortex, there is a sentence reporting an introduction
of the TNCF model by J.O’M. Bockris at SSE (Society of Scientific
Exploration) 18 (1999). Following is the related part of the letter:
“Our distinguished and amiable chairperson was John Bockris [bockris@myriad.net],
who mentioned that Hideo Kozima is publishing a 350-page book, reviewing the
field in the light of his trapped cold neutron theory [
cf-lab.kozima@nifty.ne.jp ].” (E-mail address renewed at Jan. 2000 in
translation. H.K.)
Bockris himself
mailed me his message for a preprint of the paper sent him before where
analyzed consistently and successfully his excellent data of tritium detection
for the first time by the TNCF model. In the mail, he says “It is very fine”
for our analysis of his data which were deteriorated by G. Taubes in his
scandalous book.
We have analyzed
their data of simultaneous observation of tritium and helium-4 obtained in 1992
and sent preprint him, already. His data of Nuclear Transmutation (NT) obtained
in 1995 have been copied and sent us from Mr. H. Yamamoto of Yamaha Motors Inc.
and will be analyzed soon.
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Cold Fusion Research Laboratory
Yatsu 597-16, Shizuoka 421-1202, Japan
Professor Emeritus at Shizuoka University and
Senior Consultant Member and Director of JCF (Japan CF-research
Society)
Dr. Hideo Kozima
E-mail: cf-lab.kozima@nifty.ne.jp
Tel/Fax +81-54-278-0327
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