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"It's history in the making, what we are living through here. I couldn't dream of being in a situation like this. Can you imagine living at the time of Einstein, Curie and Bohr, all these great people who were completely changing the nature of science at the beginning of the century? When I was going to college, I was told, "All the great discoveries are over now. They're done. Just shut up, and learn." Now, all of a sudden, I don't have to shut up, and I can do something. I can bring my own contribution to science and society."
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Jean Paul Biberian, Chair of the 11th International Conference on Condensed Matter
- I've been doing research for 50 years now and I've not seen anything like this. You can make a new discovery in this work every day. - John Dash, Professor Emeritus, Portland State University
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Educational Tools
Professor
John Dash is boldly
teaching this heretical new field to young scientists.
While orthodox scientists argue that "cold fusion is
impossible," similar to the arguments against
heliocentricism centuries ago, high school and graduate students in the
U.S., Italy and China are generating small, but historic
excess energy from metal hydrides by using low energy
nuclear reactions.
Here are a few presentations by some of Dash's students:
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions by Jeremy Freeman and Ben Zimmerman (2002) (3MB Pdf)
The Quest for Excess by Corissa Lee and Shelsea Pedersen (2003) (2MB Pdf)
For
those wishing to try the experiment, Dash has documented
the basics of the experiment in this "recipe," Electrolysis of D2O With a Palladium Cathode... Use appropriate safeguards please.
"The
Quest for Excess," is an outstanding slide presentation by Corissa Lee and Shelsea Pederson, two of Dash's students.
Many teachers and students
have found Dr. Edmund Storms' A
Students' Guide helpful in beginning their cold fusion
research. Another paper which has been reccomended is his 1996 paper, "How to Produce the Pons-Fleischmann Effect." His 2003 paper "How To Make a Cheap and Effective Seebeck Calorimeter" is a good companion document.
New for 2006: Cold Fusion for Dummies, by Edmund Storms.
Charles Beaudette, author of Excess Heat & Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed, 2nd Edition, ISBN 0967854830 reccomends the Giuliano Mengoli "Calorimetry Close to the Boiling Temperature.." paper for starter experiments. He notes that the higher cell temperatures tend to yield excess heat more consistently.
Excerpt from Beaudette's Excess Heat:
Chapter 15, page 216 [or logical page 246]:
"Giuliano Mengoli, Instituto di Polarografia, CNR, IPELP, Padova, Italy, by operating his cells at 95C, responded to an earlier Fleischmann note that higher temperatures facilitate the onset of anomalous power generation. He operated the cell and its bath at that temperature initially to enable cell temperature excursions above 95C allowing a measure of excess heat generation. [Endnote #15]
"His design was similar to Fleischmann's, it being of similar size with a Dewar cell and palladium sheet cathode in a heavy water electrolyte. One difference was that Dr. Mengoli used an external source of gas bubbling through the cell to assure adequate mixing when the current was set at values much lower than those used by Fleischmann and Pons.
"Figure 15.2 shows, partially, the result of one such run in 1995. The figure is labeled in watts of excess heat and in minutes from the point at which, after five days of electrolysis, the current was reduced to 1.5 mA/cm2. After about 45 minutes the current was switched off. The amount of generated (excess) heat then increased to a level of 0.82 watts, about double its earlier value.
"The cell continued at that power level for 3.3 hours as shown in the figure, and for an additional 24 hours that are not shown. During these 27.3 hours, there was no electrical excitation applied to the cell. Furthermore, the excess energy generation stopped only because the experiment was shut down by turning off the thermostatic bath and letting it assume room temperature. Dr. Mengoli reports one run in which the excess heat after current cut-off continued without cell excitation for 150 hours. [Endnote #16]"
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Corissa Lee
with cold fusion demonstration experiment,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 25, 2003
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Cold
Fusion experimenter Corissa Lee of Gresham, Oregon High School
"Most of the time when people
ask me what I did with my summer vacation, and I tell them
'Cold Fusion', and they're like, 'What
is it?' And then the second question I get is, 'Do you
believe it?'"
"Well I did it
and it works,
so yeah, I believe it!"
Well
I did it! (mp3)
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From left to
right: Shelsea Pedersen, Clackamas H.S., Professor
John Dash, graduate student Abhay Ambadkar, Portland
State University, Corissa Lee, Gresham H.S., Ben
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High School
Students perform Cold Fusion Experiments
Thanks
to the support of an anonymous sponsor and the New Energy Foundation,
Inc.of Concord, N.H., three high school students
were able to transport their working cold fusion
experiment from Portland, Oregon to Cambridge
Massachusetts, the site of the 10th International
Conference on Cold Fusion. They were part of
a summer apprencticeship under the guidance of
Professor John Dash, with the assistance of
graduate student Abhay Ambadkar.
They were filmed as
part of of an upcoming documentary including Martin Fleischmann and 27 other cold fusion
scientists from around the world. Listen to an audio clip recorded during the
filming.
The
Cold Fusion Kids (mp3)
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