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Successful Cold Fusion Experiment?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-cold-it's-hot dept.

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."

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  1. A world changing experiment... by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and what do we get on Slashdot? Nothing but posts about a fracking typo in the summary. Grow up and get some perspective.

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    1. Re:A world changing experiment... by clang_jangle · · Score: 4, Insightful

      They spell differently in Italia, dufus. So apparently if intelligent beings from another planet land here, most people will be too busy making fun of them to understand their message?

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  2. Peer-Reviewed Articles by DancesWithBlowTorch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If found older (English) peer-reviewed papers by this Author here and here. He doesn't seem to have published much on this since then, except for a very vague patent application to be found here.

    It seems unlikely to me that the first move an earnest discoverer of a new energy source in Japan would be to call an Italian newspaper. All the more since he seems to be working in academia and would thus have a strong incentive to publish in a peer-reviewed journal first (you don't get the Nobel prize for an article in "Il sore 24 ore"). But, here are the papers. Form your own opinion...

    1. Re:Peer-Reviewed Articles by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ``you don't get the Nobel prize for an article in "Il sore 24 ore"''

      But you do get to the front page of Slashdot!

      More seriously, the established journals are often hideously slow in publishing stuff, and often dare to charge you for it, too. In the age of the Internet, all that can be dispensed with. You can get your discoveries and inventions published, peer reviewed, and communicated to the masses, all for free and without having to wait on some organization's release cycle.

      You can also, of course, use the Internet to spread lies and misinformation, create fake peer reviews, and communicate all that to the masses, all for free and without having to wait on some organization's release cycle.

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  3. Why not? by jcr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cold fusion isn't ruled out by any known laws of physics, so I'll keep an open mind about it until it's proven one way or another. Pons and Fleischman may not have succeeded, but that's no reason to quit. As long as the people trying to make it work are doing so with their own funds, more power to them. If someone succeeds, then a lot of the scarcity in the world can be solved.

    -jcr

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  4. Re:So-called geeks! by jcr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Firstly, let's remember that so far, cold fusion has been a con. A rip-off. A fraud.

    None of the above, actually. It's been a failure to date, but who's been defrauded? Can you show that anyone who funded it was lied to about the difficulty of bringing it to market?

    Investments in basic research are a long shot, and long shots can pay off very well if they come through.

    -jcr

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  5. Just an idea... by OpenSourced · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could we please restrict all further "cold fusion" articles to at least the level of "cold fusion experiment of X successfully reproduced by Y"?. That would help keeping the noise level down.

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