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Cold fusion is the generation of anomalous excess heat at low temperatures. It began with experiments using an immersed palladium electrode activated in heavy water. In March, 1989, when the achievement of cold fusion was first reported in the press, electrochemically induced reactions were very difficult to reproduce. Despite the ensuing controversy, much work has persisted.
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The stakes in the debate about cold fusion are enormous. In this case, an unholy alliance seems to have come together. The principle players are the fossil fuel industry, which has no interest in seeing itself eclipsed by a new, non-polluting source of energy, and the mainstream physics community, which wants to protect, seemingly at all costs, the federal funding it relies on to continue its massively expensive hot fusion experiments.
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Cold fusion has been largely a study of results first and theories which then must follow. Since most results from solid fusion experiments do not agree with old and contemporary nuclear theories, new theories are being generated to account for these new data and results.
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Cold fusion effects have not always been easy to reproduce, but that does not make them any less real. The difficulties with reproducibility... are rapidly disappearing as researchers discover the conditions required to provoke the phenomena, such as sufficient deuterium loading of metal lattices, specific metallurgical requirements, and peculiar triggering mechanisms. Some experimenters now report very regular appearances of cold fusion phenomena, suchas tritium production and excess power as exhibited by heating, and even boiling.
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Like the alchemical networks of the 17th century, a worldwide cold fusion underground has sprung up, populated by respected researchers and, inevitably, not a few cranks. Since 1989 hundreds of papers have detailed successful replications and refinements of the original F-P experiment. There are enough researchers to meet for a large annual conference. The next, fittingly, will touch down in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August.
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Dr. Edmun Storms of Los alamost National Laboratory announced on August 15, 1992 that he had successfully replicated the Tkahashi cold fusion experiment. His experiments were conducted using a palladium cathode. Dr. STorms' success was published in Fusion Technology / Several other groups are known to have replicated the Takahashi experiment with varying degrees of success, including the group of Dr. Francesco Celani in Italy.
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