Successful Cold Fusion Experiment?

An anonymous reader writes "The italian economic journal 'Il sole 24 ore' published an article about a successful cold fusion experiment performed by Yoshiaki Arata in Japan. They seems to have pumped high pressure deutherium gas in a nanometric matrix of palladium and zyrcon oxide. The experiments generates a considerable amount of energy and they found the presence of Helium-4 in the matrix (as sign of the fusion). I was not able to find other articles about this but the journal is very authoritative in Italy. Google translations are also available."

Comments

Elium-4?

[kyriosdelis]

Must have been a very successful experiment. All the "H" are indeed gone!

Re:Elium-4?

[bloodninja]

Must have been a very successful experiment. All the "H" are indeed gone! Obviously, they are Italian. They could even get the trains to run on thyme! Fix It Again, Tony.

Re:Elium-4?

[Mr. Underbridge]

Well, that was certainly the most interesting etymological post I've seen on slashdot lately! Certainly more interesting than an article on physics posted in an Italian business magazine, which seems to have been the original topic.

Re:Elium-4?

[MrNaz]

That mod option is right next to the "-1 Resists Education" one.

wow, elium-4

[circletimessquare]

i mean, i would have looked for helium-4 as a proof of cold fusion, but elium-4?! that's incredible! did they use dilithium crystals to do that? adamantium? unobtanium?

Re:wow, elium-4

[DMUTPeregrine]

No, they used Italianium and Machinetranslatium.

Re:Come on

[pacroon]

You don't really believe all this cold fusion mumbo jumbo now do you? Of course.. You could build the power plant in Sim City 2000, couldn't you?

Re:It's not Rocket Science!

[Megane]

That's why Slashdot has editors to clean up the submissions, and discard the dupes.

Oh, wait...

Re:A world changing experiment...

[coldmist]

or at best, it's a "word changing experiment". ;)

Re:Come on

[maxwell demon]

Of course! :-)

english.it

[Dr. Cody]

In my personal experience, machine translation has long since surpassed your average Italian English speaker.

H conservation!

[Mark_in_Brazil]

Must have been a very successful experiment. All the "H" are indeed gone!

Don't be silly. That would violate the principle of conservation of Hs. They appear to have migrated to the the deuterium and converted it to "deutherium."

Re:H conservation!

[LrdDimwit]

Law of *conservation* of H's? No, no, no. See, this is Japan. They create H all the time -- one of the most common formulas is Schoolgirl + 6Tentacle -> Schoolgirl +12Tentacle + H

english.it.us

[Dr. Cody]

Don't worry, I'll get modded down once the U.S. Slashdotters start logging on. Americans whose great-great-grandparents came from Sicily will see me talking shit about "Italians" and think that I was talking about them.

Re:So-called geeks!

[Free the Cowards]

Please. The oceans are full of the stuff. In theory, yes, extreme fusion use boils the planet. But in theory, we all die with the heat death of the universe. 10% efficient fusion using seawater hydrogen could be the exclusive provider of all worldwide energy and it still wouldn't make a noticeable difference in sea level for thousands or even millions of years.

Refusing to use fusion because it might one day affect the oceans is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Our current energy usage is destroying the planet now. It would be utterly insane to refuse to use a clean, non-destructive alternative just because over-use will start having some small impact some kilo- or mega-years in the future. Nothing is perfect. If this works (and I am, as I said, quite skeptical) then it would be vastly better than any known alternative.