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- From: vac@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Fusion Papers
- Keywords: cold fusion muon deuterium
- Message-ID: <4616@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 31 Mar 89 21:00:59 GMT
- Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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- Posted: Fri Mar 31 16:00:59 1989
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- The following 3 papers were referenced in the BYU paper and I
- highly recommend them:
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- 1) "Piezonuclear fusion in isotopic hydrogen molecules"
- Journal of Physics G 12, 1986, p 213-221
- C DeW Van Siclen and S E Jones
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- 2) "Muon-catalysed fusion revisited"
- Nature, vol 321, May 8 1986, p 127-133
- Steven Earl Jones
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- 3) "Cold Nuclear Fusion"
- Scientific American, 257, July 1987, p 84-89
- Johann Rafelski and Steven Jones
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- The first paper derives the rate of fusion of deuterium. The
- second two discuss using muons to increase the fusion rate.
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- After reading these papers and their recent paper, I think there is no
- question that Rafelski and Jones are legitimate. It seems that cold
- fusion is not at all new. It was "first suggested on theoretical grounds
- by F. C. Frank and Andrei D. Sakharov in the late 1940's. The first
- experimental observation of muon-catalyzed fusion came by chance a decade
- later. ..."
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- The obvious question is, "Why is this only getting news coverage now if
- its been around for so long?" It seems that until the Pons nobody claimed
- to be able to get more energy out of cold fusion than they put into it.
- What's new is not cold fusion, but cold fusion that has a net energy
- production. Over the last 40 years people have gotten closer to breakeven
- cold fusion and now it seems Pons may have crossed this point.
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- Can people recommend any other references (from the BYU paper or otherwise)
- on cold fusion?
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- -- Vince
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