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Basics Facts and the Controversy |
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Frequently Asked Questions About Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions |
| b) |
under construction (cft) |
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Selected Papers: Selected current and historical published low energy nuclear reaction papers |
| d) |
The Cold Fusion Short Story: A brief explanation of the cold fusion controversy |
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The Real Cold Fusion Problem: A detailed article explaining the full spectrum of the cold fusion controversy |
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Background to Cold Fusion: the Genesis of a Concept: Martin Fleischmann's explanation about the research which led to the start-up of the project known as “cold fusion.” |
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The Fleischmann-Pons Cold Fusion Method: Physical explanation, diagrams and photos of original experiment |
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| 2. |
Critique |
| a) |
A Critical Evaluation of the Pons-Fleischmann Effect: Critique of calorimetry and possible experimental errors, reasons for success and failure (pdf) |
| b) |
Cold Fusion: An Objective Assessment: Review of the methods, reproducibility issues, prosaic errors, claimed nuclear products and anomalous energy |
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* The Mistakes of Fleischmann and Pon
and Why Their Discovery Was Initially Thought to Be a Mistake - The first few days |
| d) |
MIT's Allegations of Fraud: Discussion, news story, tape recordings regarding disputed Fleischmann-Pons gamma ray spectrum. |
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*The News Heard 'Round the World: Why the public came to think that cold fusion had been debunked |
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*Understanding the Initial Reaction to the Cold Fusion Discovery: An in-depth review of the response from the science community - the first few months |
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| 3. |
Historical Evidence |
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The Seminal Papers of "Cold Fusion," the Precursor to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions |
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Historical Analysis of Key "Cold Fusion" Experiments: False negatives and unknown positives |
| c) |
Validation of Excess Power Observations by Independent Laboratories: Early evidence of a new potential source of energy |
| d) |
Groups Reporting LENR Evidence: By 1990, many dozens of researchers had reported evidence of LENRs |
| e) |
U.S. Navy Reports Confirming Evidence of LENR |
| f) |
November 2003 Review of a few Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Papers: Papers showing helium-4 and heat correlations, nuclear transmutations, charged particle emissions and tritium evolution |
| g) |
Papers Showing Evidence of Excess Heat and Nuclear Product Correlation |
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Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Papers Published In Peer-Review Journals -
Survey performed in 2005 |
| i) |
Amoco Production Company - Shell Research - Oil company confirmations of excess heat |
| j) |
Garwin and Lewis Audit at SRI International - JASONS/Pentagon confirmation of excess heat |
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| 4. |
The Media Spectacle and Early Drama |
| a) |
under construction (jfp) |
| b) |
March 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Release |
| c) |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Videotape |
| d) |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Audiotape |
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March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Transcript |
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March 23, 1989 University of Utah N-Fusion Press Conference Images: Screenshots captured from videotape |
| g) |
The Five Press Conferences of Cold Fusion: Commentary on the famous and infamous press conferences and the allegations of secrecy |
| h). |
Background to University of Utah Press Conference: Chase Peterson's explanation about the events leading up to the March 23, 1989 press conference, his response/corrections to "The Rebirth of Cold Fusion." |
| i) |
Jerry Bishop, The First Cold Fusion Journalist: The physics establishment's treatment of the first journalist to look seriously at the cold fusion claims in 1989 |
| j). |
Science Reporting and Getting it Right: Cautionary advice from cold fusion author and investigator Charles Beaudette |
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| 5. |
Science Philosophy |
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Fear Within the Institution: The matter of institutional incoherence and its impact on the recognition of the cold fusion field |
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On The Question of Scientific Proof: The desire for an irrefutable experiment and the strict criterion demanded by the nuclear physics establishment |
| c) |
Controversy in Chemistry: How Do You Prove a Negative?: A key aspect of the cold fusion controversy |
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| 6. |
Tritium Discovery and Controversy at Texas A&M |
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Georgia Tech Team Confirms Nuclear Process, Tritium Found (oops, the Times missed the real story) |
| b) |
Tritium Discovered by Bockris at Texas A&M: Excerpt from The Rebirth of Cold Fusion Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy,
by Steven B. Krivit and Nadine Winocur, Psy.D. (pdf)
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| c) |
Bockris' Letter to Taubes, March 19, 1990: Bockris lays out the facts to Taubes before Taubes publishes Science article (pdf) |
| d) |
Science Media Advisory, June 13, 1990: Science issues press release announcing their forthcoming story by Gary Taubes (pdf) |
| e) |
Science: Cold Fusion Conundrum at Texas A&M, June 15, 1990: The unfortunate science story written by Gary Taubes and published by Science (pdf) |
| f) |
Edmund Storms' Letter to Science, June 25, 1990: Unpublished in Science to date (pdf) |
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Bockris' Letter to Science, June 29, 1990: Unpublished in Science to date (pdf) |
| h) |
Bockris' Note Concerning an Article by Taubes Which Was Published in Science: "So much then for the spiking. It didn't occur." (pdf) |
| i) |
Bockris' Answer to an Assault on Legitimate Research , & Suggestions of Fraud, in an Article Published in Science, July 9, 1990: The complete retrospective, as written by John Bockris(pdf) |
| j) |
Accountability and Academic Freedom: The Battle Concerning Research on Cold Fusion at Texas A&M University, by John Bockris (pdf) |
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| 7. |
Bubble Fusion and The Story of Rusi Taleyarkhan |
| a) |
The
Bubble Fusion Controversy Chronology |
| b) |
Sonofusion and Bubble Fusion and Acoustic Inertially Confined Fusion: A tutorial |
| c) |
The New Energy Times Special Report on Bubble Fusion /Sonofusion July 10, 2007
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| d) |
On Science, Journalism, and Nature: Assault On Rusi Taleyarkhan and his research |
| e) |
Bubble Fusion Discoverer Taleyarkhan Strikes Back: Article reviewing scientific support for Taleyarkhan's claims |
| f) |
Purdue University Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan Files Legal Complaint: Alleges consipiracy to to harass, discriminate and intimidate |
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| 8. |
U.S. Government Agencies |
| a) |
under construction (gs) |
| b) |
The 2004 and 1989 U.S. Department of Energy Cold Fusion Reviews |
| c) |
Patent and Trademark Office Cold Fusion screening memo |
| d) |
Patent and Trademark Office Sensitive Application Warning System Program Reminder (pdf) |
| e) |
Thomas Valone Patent and Trademark Office Hearing (Oct. 2004) |
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Multimedia |
| 1) |
March 23, 1989 University of Utah Press Conference Videotape |
| 2) |
Excerpts from Cold Fusion: Fire from Water |
| 3) |
Glen Seaborg's Presidential Briefing on Cold Fusion |
| 4) |
U..S. Navy SPAWAR San Diego LENR Research Lab |
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