COLDFUSION

ColdFusion: Sounds too good to be true.

Resources used to attain my information:

http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/LonchamptGreproducti.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

http://www.physorg.com/news131101595.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/cold-fusion

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/24/cold-fusion.html

ColdFusion is a hypothetical form of nuclear fusion occurring without the use of extreme temperature or pressure. Meaning that nuclear fusion of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen; can be met at a relatively near room temperature. Now I know that just sounded like mambo jumbo but by the end of this presentation you will be as intrigued by ColdFusion as I was and everyone else in the world.

ColdFusion can date as far back as the early nineteenth century, but what I am focusing on is two electrochemists from the university of Utah Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, they first announced their discovery of ColdFusion on March 23, 1989. They claimed that they conducted an experiment at room temperature using platinum and palladium electrodes immersed in heavy water (deuterium oxide) produced excess heat and other byproducts that they described to be a fusion reaction at room temperature. Fusion is the reaction involved in the release of the destructive energy of a hydrogen bomb, in which requires extensive high temperatures. So, to produce fusion as room temperature is a phenomenon. They used an electrolysis experiment called a calorimeter in which a palladium and heavy water are within the calorimeter- an insulated vessel designed to measure process heat. Current was then applied continuously for weeks. The power can jump from room temperature to 70 degrees Celsius and remain at that level for a period of time but no more then two days, although that proves that the power leaving the cell was significantly higher then the power going in. but recent studies by Lonchampt, Bonnetain and Hicter of New Hydrogen Energy in Japan in 1996, reenacted the experiment and got similar results when compared to the earlier data, so they concluded that Fleischmann and Pons experiment was very accurate, simple and precise. Although there are improvements and changes that need to be made; the experiment itself is a great way towards the study of ColdFusion phenomenon.

All in all if ColdFusion is true it would virtually mean that there would be an unlimited cheap energy supply for all humanity. I know, it sounds too good to be true but it is possible, although investigations of fusion as a possible energy source hit a wall until the problems of being able to design an apparatus to contain and sustain such a reaction is found. But the fact of creating fusion at room temperature means an unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel and produces almost zero waste; it does sound too good to be true. ColdFusion would essentially make oil obsolete, when or if ever proven and the impact on the world would be HUGE, who knows with oil obsolete there would be no oil emissions and there for we could stop and or reverse global warming.

ColdFusion has been being studied for years and still no one scientist including scientist that have claimed cold fusion can duplicate any one experiment and get the same results; making it hard for the government to continue to put money towards the study of ColdFusion. ColdFusion intrigues me, that is why I choose it, I want to save our environment and the production of ColdFusion could do just that. Soon after I started studying, I became obsessed with ColdFusion and how it works, it is rather simple to understand but it is as though there is one piece of the puzzle missing and for us to fully prove that low nuclear energy has been produced and sustained would be HUGE.

Of course the study of ColdFusion is science it has experiments and hypothesis and all that jazz, but some believe and I agree that ColdFusion can not be explained by chemical reaction alone.

I think that out of the scientist we are studying as of right now Newton would be the one to discover ColdFusion. This connects to what we are studying in class rather well because we are studying scientist that have changed the world with their discoveries, and that is what ColdFusion is. Once proven it will change the world and years and years and years from now students will be reading about the scientist who changed the world by creating a way to sustain ColdFusion.

In conclusion I hope that you learned something new today or gain clarification on a question you had about ColdFusion. This is rather fascinating and I highly suggest keeping up to date with it (I know I am going to). If you have any Questions please do ask, I will answer them to the best of my ability.

Thank You.