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The Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, October 21-25, 1992, in nagoya, Japan. Principal sponsors were the Physical Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Apllied Physics, Atomic Energy Society of Japan, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan, The Electrochemical Society of Japan, and the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research.
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Cold fusion is a staggering scientific discovery, George claims, in that the energy it produces is clearly the hallmark of a process of a previously unknown character. The social and economic implications are astounding. For instance, there is more potential nuclear energy in a cubic mile of sea water than in all of the oil, gas, and coal reserves on Earth. Understanding how to release this energy will be a revolutionary advance that makes possible dramatic decreases in power consumption by a broad array of common devices.
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In the United States, commercial activity in cold fusion energy has accelerated beyond the Japanese work. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. of Sarasota Florida (CETI), BlackLight Power, Inc. of Malvern, Pennsylvania, and ENECO of Salt Lake City-- to name the more well-known efforts-- are developing commercial heating and electricity generating devices. Several major utility companies have established investment positions within some of these companies. The Cincinnati Group in Ohio has recently announced for sale a commercial demonstration device that transmutes radioactive thorium into benign nuclides in less than an hour. CETI, whose cold fusion heating devices have been profiled several times on Good Morning America and Nightline... has a radioactivity reducing processes for which a United States Patent has been allowed. A cold fusion New Energy Technologies investment fund, directed from Greenwich Venture Partners of Greenwich, Connecticut has just been launched (see Infinite Energy, Vol.3, Issue #13/14.)
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In 2004, the U.S. Department of Energy decided to take a second look at cold fusion. Unlike the authors of recent books on this subject, the official conclusion of the DoE review stated was that there was nothing new in the field since 1989. In the very same document, it was shown that about a third of the review panel members agreed there are anomalous effects, and half of the reviewers found the evidence for excess power compelling. The conclusion written by the DoE does not match the general perceptions of the reviewers and it remains somewhat of a mystery as to why the DoE even bothered to perform this review in the first place.
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The cold fusion researchers presenting their review document to the 2004 DoE panel on cold fusion said that there are insufficient chemical reaction products to account for the excess heat by several orders of magnitude. They said that three independent studies have shown that the rate of helium production measured in the gas stream varies linearly with excess power. Extensive precautions were taken to ensure that the samples were not contaminated by helium from the earth's atmosphere (5.2 ppm). Bursts of excess energy were time-correlated with bursts of 4He in the gas stream. However, the amount of helium in the gas stream was about half of what would be expected for a heat source of the type D + D -> 4He. Searches for neutrons and other energetic emissions commensurate with excess heat have uniformly produced null results.
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Among other continuing activity in Japan, Infinite Energy has profiled the work of Dr. Mizuno on excess energy from solid state (solid proton conductor) cold fusion devices and established transmutation in metals of more conventional cold fusion devices. Drs. Ohmori and Enyo have obtained excellent excess heat results in light water systems. They have ... observed and published evidence of metal transmutation phenomena. These scientists have been ignored in the official NHE program. In general, the NHE program has not given serious, appropriate attention to the excess energy phenomenon in light-water cold fusion cells, which is the preferred embodiment in many US-based efforts.
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