Sept 12, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –
On Aug. 7, 2012, we reported a LENR demonstration on Aug. 6 at the National Instruments trade show in Austin, Texas. We have some corrections and additions to that story.
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Sep 072012
Sept. 6, 2012 — by Philip Ball —
The following obituary appeared in Nature on September 6, 2012. Click the link below to read the entire obituary on Nature’s website.
Although a final reckoning should not let genuine achievements be overshadowed by errors, the blot that cold fusion left on Martin Fleischmann’s reputation is hard to expunge.
Fleischmann, who died on 3 August at the age of 85 after illness related to Parkinson’s disease, heart disease and diabetes, was the first to observe enhanced Raman emission from molecules at surfaces, now the basis of a spectroscopy technique. And he developed ultramicroelectrodes, used as sensitive electrochemical probes.
Nonetheless, he is best known for his claim in 1989 to have initiated nuclear fusion in bench-top apparatus. The ‘cold fusion’ debacle provoked bitter disputes that reverberate today. Along with polywater and homeopathy, cold fusion is now regarded as one of the most notorious cases of what chemist Irving Langmuir called pathological science: “the science of things that aren’t so”.
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Sept. 1, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –
Dear Readers,
I am pleased to announce that, on Sept. 15, we will launch a major re-design of the New Energy Times Web site and News Service. We will also start our new subscription service then.
Where We’ve Been
I started New Energy Times 12 years ago after I learned, to my great surprise, that researchers were still pursuing the mysteries of low-energy nuclear reactions. At the time, LENRs held the promise of a new kind of radiation- and waste-free green nuclear energy alternative. They still do today. Continue reading »
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Aug 282012
Aug. 28, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Hal Fox died on Monday, Aug. 20, he was 88.
In July 1989, Fox became the first publisher to specialize in “cold fusion” reporting. During the next ten years, he published Fusion Facts, the Journal of New Energy and New Energy News. His archives provide a substantial historical record of this field and are publicly accessible on the New Energy Times Web site.
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Aug 172012
Aug. 17, 2012 – By Steven B. Krivit –
New Energy Times has obtained additional papers from authors attending the 17th International Conference on Cold Fusion in Daejeon, Korea. New Energy Times had obtained and posted one batch of papers on Aug. 10. Today’s batch includes papers from Robert Godes (Brouillion), John Hadjichristos (Defkalion), Tatsumi Hioki (Toyota Central R&D Laboratories), Yeong Kim (Purdue University), Melvin Miles (University of LaVerne), Roger Stringham (First Gate Energies) and Vladimir Vysotskii (Kiev National Shevchenko University). New Energy Times has requested conference papers from the other authors as well as from the conference organizers.
The Toyota replication (the Hioki paper) of the Arata/Zhang experiment is encouraging both for the fact that Toyota measured anomalous heat generation and for the fact that a major industrial corporation is active in LENR research. Continue reading »
