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LENR Researcher Biberian Has Limited Answers About Cold Fusion

Mar 222013
 

New Cold Fusion Book by Biberian
March 22, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

New Energy Times interviewed LENR (low-energy nuclear reaction) researcher Jean-Paul Biberian by e-mail between Jan. 13, 2013, and Feb. 1, 2013. He has written a new book, La Fusion Dans Tous ses États (Fusion in All Its Forms). Biberian is one of the most senior researchers in the field and has a long history with “cold fusion.” Biberian is reluctant to abandon the term, identity and concept of “cold fusion” and, in its place, recognize the research as LENR. In this candid scientific discussion, Biberian explains why.

Biberian blames the lack of progress in the field – 24 years old tomorrow – on the unwillingness of mainstream science to consider the claim of “cold fusion.” Yet when New Energy Times asked Biberian specific questions to support his claim of “cold fusion,” he gave conflicting answers.

He also wrote that Peter Hagelstein, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a theory that supported the claim of “cold fusion.” Biberian made several claims about the validity of Hagelstein’s theory. New Energy Times asked Biberian specific questions about the theory, but Biberian did not answer some important questions.

Biberian’s perception of credible support for Hagelstein’s theory is common among LENR experimentalists.

Last year, on Feb. 5, 2012, New Energy Times sent an e-mail to Hagelstein and asked to learn more about his theoretical ideas. We placed telephone calls, left messages on his voice mail and spoke with his administrative assistant Susan Davco. Hagelstein did not respond. What we know of his “cold fusion” theory work is on our Hagelstein Theory Portal Web page.

Even if a viable theory does not exist for the idea of “cold fusion,” that doesn’t mean “cold fusion” doesn’t exist. It’s not sufficient to look at the idea of “cold fusion” from only a theoretical perspective, because theories only guide and experiments decide; this is the scientific method. From an empirical perspective, however, the data are inconsistent with the idea of “cold fusion.” (See these articles: “Investigation of Michael McKubre’s M4 Experiment” and “Cold Fusion Is Neither.”)

Biberian is aware that LENR phenomena may also be explained by non-fusion mechanisms such as weak-interaction and neutron-capture processes.

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LENR Archives Illuminate Scientific Mystery of Century – Part 4

Mar 062013
 

LENR Research Scientific Mystery
March 6, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

[This is Part 4 of a four-part series. Part 1 published on Feb. 20, Part 2  published on Feb. 22, and Part 3 published on March 1.]

This is the continuation of a review of selected papers from the first decade of LENR research. This part continues with research from 1998.

This report briefly reviews two papers:

Campari, E.G., Focardi, S., Gabbani, V., Montalbano, V., Piantelli, F., Porcu, E., Tosti E. and Veronesi, S., “Ni-H Systems”

Kim, Y.E. and Zubarev, A.L., “Ultra Low-Energy Nuclear Fusion of Bose Nuclei in Nano-Scale Ion Traps”

The research published in the Campari paper is one of the most detailed presentations from the Piantelli group.

The paper from Yeong E. Kim, a physicist at Purdue University, reveals precisely how theorists who pursued the “cold fusion” hypothesis cherry-picked their data to fit their goals, thus leading to unscientific conclusions.

Kim is the co-chair of the forthcoming International Conference on Cold Fusion. The conference series was called the International Conference on Cold Fusion for most of the first decade, then shifted briefly to the International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, and is now back to the original name.

Also mentioned in this article is research commissioned by Thomas O. Passell, when he was working with the nuclear power group at the Electric Power Research Institute. Passell was one of the few researchers who had the insight and interest to look at LENRs from the perspective of nuclear chemistry, his discipline.

The sets of nuclear evidence that Passell found remain among the most significant and irrefutable proofs of LENR. Excess heat, on the other hand, makes for difficult proof of LENR because it vanishes immediately. The permanent nuclear evidence that Passell found does not have this problem. But the “cold fusion” believers avoided talking about this kind of data because it also disproves the hypothesis of cold fusion.

The slow progress of the field in the last decade cannot be blamed on attacks from mainstream scientists or pathological skeptics. In most cases, the critics have simply ignored the field. Cold fusion believers’ continued promotion of anomalous heat, rather than direct nuclear evidence, is the most significant reason for the field’s stagnation because skeptics don’t trust anomalous heat.

The review concludes with a brief example of how cold fusion believers, like Peter Hagelstein, ostracized Gene Mallove, who played a significant role as a journalist in and archivist of this field. Mallove was the founder and editor of Infinite Energy magazine.

 

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LENR Archives Illuminate Scientific Mystery of Century – Part 3

Mar 012013
 

LENR Research Scientific Mystery
Feb. 25, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

[This is Part 3 of a Four-Part Series. Part 1 published on Feb. 20, Part 2 published on Feb. 22]

This is the continuation of a review of selected papers from the first decade of LENR research. This part continues with research from 1998.

This report briefly reviews the following papers:

David S. Silver and John Dash, “Surface Studies of Palladium After Interaction With Hydrogen Isotopes”

G. S. Qiao, X.L. Han, L.C. Kong, S.X. Zheng, H.F. Huang, Y.J. Yan, Q.L. Wu, Y. Deng, S.L. Lei, and Xing Zhong Li, “Nuclear Products in a Gas-Loading D/Pd and H/Pd System”

K.P. Sinha and Peter Hagelstein, “Electron Screening in Metal Deuterides”

Of significance to the more recent work performed at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, are fascinating results from a Chinese experiment that also used solid-state nuclear track detectors to detect charged particles.

The papers also reveal several contradictions between experimental data and statements made by Peter Hagelstein.

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LENR Archives Illuminate Scientific Mystery of Century – Part 2

Feb 262013
 

LENR Research Scientific Mystery
Feb. 22, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

[This is Part 2 of a Four-Part Series. Part 1 published on Feb. 20.]

This is the continuation of a review of selected papers from the first decade of LENR research. This article continues with research from 1996.

ICCF-6 Conference (1996)

Tadahiko Mizuno, Tadayoshi Ohmori, Tadashi Akimoto, Kazuya Kurokawa, Masatoshi Kitaichi, Koichi Inoda, Kazuhisa Azumi, Shigezo Simokawa and Michio Enyo, “Isotopic Distribution for the Elements Evolved in Palladium Cathode After Electrolysis in D2O Solution”

In this paper, Tadahiko Mizuno, now the director of Hydrogen Engineering Application and Development Co. in Sapporo, reported one of the most distinctive before-and-after elemental analyses of LENR transmutations in the field.

LENR Transmutation by Tadahiko Mizuno

LENR Transmutation by Tadahiko Mizuno

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NASA’s LENR Article “Nuclear Reactor in Your Basement”

Feb 222013
 
NASA's Video Announcing LENR Method Based on the Widom and Larsen LENR Method

Images from NASA’s Video Announcing LENR Method Based on Widom-Larsen LENR Method

Feb. 22, 2013 – By Steven B. Krivit –

The Feb. 19 PhysOrg article “The Nuclear Reactor in Your Basement” has come to the attention of many New Energy Times readers. A few points about the article are worth mentioning.

The first point is that this article was not written by PhysOrg. It’s a public relations piece written by and for NASA. New Energy Times spoke with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory media relations department on Tuesday and learned that it hired Bob Silberg, a former NASA science writer and now freelance writer, to write the original article, which NASA published on Feb. 13 on its Climate Web site.

PhysOrg says at the bottom of the article that it was “Provided by JPL/NASA.” But PhysOrg failed to clearly state that it was republishing NASA’s story, as it did, for example, with another story, “provided by” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology news office.

New Energy Times readers would be well-advised to note carefully when they are reading a PhysOrg article to see whether it is an original news article written by a PhysOrg staff member or independent freelancer versus an article written by a government agency, academic institution or private corporation.

Moving on to the actual NASA article: Two NASA staff members, both from NASA’s Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Virginia, have been public about their LENR interest and activity. The first is Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist of NASA Langley and a mechanical engineer by training. The second is Joseph. M. Zawodny, a senior research scientist in the Climate Science Branch at Langley and a physicist by training.

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