Cold Fusion Nanotech Breakthrough - Respected Japanese Scientist Quietly Claims a First 
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 Cold Fusion Nanotech Breakthrough - Respected Japanese Scientist Quietly Claims a First
By Johnathan Chan
Editor - The AtomicMotor Blog

Berkeley, CA, USA (Jan. 17) -- A Japanese scientific team may claim a
historic first this year. The following paper released on the web
friday after publishing in an Italian science journal "IL Nuovo
Saggiatore" at year's end unequivocally states: [paper link:
http://www.***.com/ ]

[quote]
"as a consequence, in our experiments, for the first time in the world,
we succeeded in producing intense nuclear fusion reactions inside
metals, and generated a significantly large amount of He4 and thermal
energy by using "solid deuterium" as a new fuel."
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Dr. Arata,  a well respected Japanese scientist who just received his
second award from the Emperor of Japan in his 40 year career, claims
his teams cold fusion process uses ultrasound with the end result being
huge amounts of clean Helium-4.  The new process is said to be free of
any neutrons or dangerous gamma radiation, just lots of clean He-4 and
heat.

It may be similar to work being rumored at the labs of Dr. Amar Bose in
a recent  Popular Science article and editorial to that issue. See:
http://www.***.com/ ,22221,75066...

Arata's paper simply claims he has achieved a "new state of deuterium"
using nano particles of Palladium to create a ultra high density of
"solid deuterium" as a new fuel. Higher in density than deuterium
chilled to 4 degrees Kelvin. This may account for his claims of large
amounts of Helium and heat, because the deuterium atoms would be very
closely packed making fusion easier to obtain than in a gaseous
environment. The paper lacks specific technical detail, possibly
protecting IP related to the new method.

Of course these claims will need to be verified like other Japanese
tran{*filter*}ations claims with the Iwamura team at Mitsubishi, which
claimed in 2002 a method of low energy tran{*filter*}ation of Cs to Pr and Sr
to Mo. The next cold fusion/condensed matter nuclear science
conference, ICCF-12 is slated for this fall in Japan.

See also a trip report :
http://www.***.com/
from a Sandia Labs attendee who lent his first hand observations from
last November's ICCF-11 conference, in which a Nobel Laureate attended
and presented a paper.
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Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:01:25 GMT
 Cold Fusion Nanotech Breakthrough - Respected Japanese Scientist Quietly Claims a First
Hmmm...  Interesting, but we need details and replications.  Hopefully,
those will be coming shortly.  I do think if a major breakthrough in
cold fusion/LENR is going to happen, it is going to come out of Asia.
There are Asian countries that are desperate for energy and there is an
incentive for them to research cold fusion/LENR, even if it provides
only a remote possibility of solving their energy problems.  This
development out of Japan, is exactly what I'd expect to occur if we are
going to see a major breakthrough in cold fusion/LENR.  Major
breakthrough?  I mean, overwhelming evidence for the effect and/or
commercial development.  We'll have to see if this is just another
flash in the pan, or if it is replicated and accepted as a legitmate
breakthrough.  In the meantime, here's more from The Atomic Motor blog:

The year 2004 has been quite good to basic nuclear science coming out
of Japan and the cold fusion field in general, but its unfathomable to
me why the general science community hasn't picked up on the latest
exciting news. A true industrial revolution in experimental nuclear
physics is going on in Japan in plain view of the internet to some
extent, yet we Americans are lost in translation, and it appears we are
not only missing history in the making, but missing the new boat
building industries along with it.

Large industrial companies like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) are
playing a key role. Sure, Japanese cold fusion research was well funded
and then cancelled during the mid 1990s by the government of Japan, but
it appears to ironically be bearing fruit recently in fundamental ways.
The Japanese have learned well from the rest of the world, quite well
indeed, perhaps even in a leveraging on ideas they imported. But just
look at history. Seiko imported their ideas for new digital watch
technology, and the Swiss will tell you it was at one of their watch
conferences in Europe. The US person who dreamed up the digital watch
technology was passed up by many US companies who simply laughed. The
Japanese laughed all the way to the bank.

I find it quite karmic that the country most devastated by US bombs in
world war II is now leading us in taking fusion technology and
experimental nuclear physics to new levels of understanding, while we
continue to focus on outdated "heavy handed" macro approaches and
methods to explore the atom, simply because we refuse to look with
fresh eyes at a new subject in fresh nano oriented ways and turn the
oil tanker a bit faster. Its as if the flash of the bomb blinded US
scientists with its shock and awe to this very day, and perhaps a
paradigm they can't yet let go of hangs on.

Even California Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger knows better these days
and recently consulted with the Japanese on hydrogen research while
selling California when he met with chief executives from Toyota. Key
robotics technologies like those of the Honda with the new Asimo Robot
are also taking place in Japan and Korea. See any trends? [ Hint to US
science policy analysts: its often a good engineering principle to
leverage revenue from one technology to assist research in another and
develop new markets to jump start job growth of the future. Its never
too late to start ].

The recent Japanese leadership in the cold fusion field is the result
of learning the ropes with the help of many world scientists. These
Japanese experts are named Arata, Mizuno and Iwamura. Memorize these
names and teach them to your children for they will no doubt end up in
the physics, chemistry and nanotechnology text books of tomorrow. Their
works are quite abstruse to the layman, but make no mistake they have
generated the equivalant of a Tsunami to those who track this
technology area. They have done for cold fusion, condensed matter and
LENR what Manhattan project scientists like the late Nobel Laureate
Richard Feynman (the grandfather of nano) did in nurturing along
Italian & French nuclear findings mixed with German quantum ideas
developed in the pre-world War II days. Out of this the DoE grew, while
developing the bomb and nuclear reactors during the war years. Cold
fusion in Japanese labs might end up doing the same someday.

As we speak, methods to not only tran{*filter*}e elements under the watchfull
eye of Japanese nano instrumentation are occuring, but also methods to
release heat and He4 from a condensed "nano form" of solid deuterium
are occuring in labs as was recently claimed by Dr. Arata. Quite
startling that he also explains why deuterium (symbol: D) adheres to
nano Pd particles and has difficulty migrating in the bulk solid metal
form of Pd as deuterons jostle for position in a lattice.

The term "condensed matter" does seem to apply well in a way to this
new idea of Pd/D bonding and pairing to bring deutrons closer together
waiting for stimulus and tunneling. Dr. Arata could not attend the
recent ICCF-11 cold fusion/condensed matter conference last November in
France because he had an important meeting with the Emperor of Japan,
where he was receiving a Japanese award.

Arata, a well known and respected physicist in Japan, has a fascination
with cold fusion (all done in retirement ) and has had exciting
experimental luck and it might be paying off quite nicely if his recent
announcement in an Italian science journal is confirmed by others. Its
ironic that a scientist in retirement can make breakthroughs in areas
that US science policy simply ignores as a thorn in its side to a
certain extent. To me its hard to fathom how we can continue our
underfunding in ignorance. Maybe a lesson to learn is that thorns are a
good thing to investigate when you feel poked and prodded and the
general public likes the cultural words "cold fusion..made in the
USA".. Hints can come in many forms perhaps.

Arata's recent claims to a new form of solid deuterium are quite simple
to explain in nano terms as he did in this recent paper. Culled from
over 2000+ papers, only nine made the yearly annual print and editorial
review. Arata's paper was one of those chosen. What Arata has found is
a possible explanation as to why bulk solid forms of Palladium (Pd) are
not as good as small nano clumps of Pd atoms in setting up the
conditions for "solid state fusion" as he calls it. It turns out these
small nano sized clumps of Pd have an affinity to grab and move around
and hold onto deuterons (an isotope of hydrogen) alot more readily than
solid bulk Pd in key ways. He claims loading to 800% of normal H
loading in Pd. An amazing claim.

Put lots of nano Pd clumps together (also called Palladium black)
loosley packed more or less like nano beans in a bag, add D2 gas to
percolate through and what you get is some D2 gas as an output, but
miraculously also alot of He4 and heat too. Its hard to read more
technical detail and his spectral analysis from this paper, but his
Japanese reputation over the years is quite remarkable. Of course
adding vibrational energy via ultrasound helps to kick start his
process as his paper explains. Dr. Bose are you listening? As Arata
claims in his paper:

"as a consequence, in our experiments, for the first time in the world,
we succeeded in producing intense nuclear fusion reactions inside
metals, and generated a significantly large amount of He4 and thermal
energy by using "solid deuterium" as a new fuel."

No small claim indeed. Not only fusion, but a new fuel to help. Double
wammy. Now, lets think about this. It does need further confirmation,
but does the Emperor of Japan know something some old DoE high energy
physicists don't? But of course, what's the price of a cheap
Travelocity plane ticket to Japan compared to the US policy to continue
funding high energy physics fusion research to the exclusion of other
valid endeavors. Not that 50 years of plasma science still won't be
usefull mind you. [ Hint : I'de take the plane ticket as the cheaper
alternative at the moment to a D.C. policy meeting and get a look at
Japanese ideas in 2005 at the fall ICCF-12 conference to be held in
Japan ].

Corporate sponsors like Mitsubishi will most likelly present some of
their startling tran{*filter*}ation results at ICCF-12 this fall(2005). Its
also interesting to note that this same company who also sells missile
nose cones to defense contractors, also has a depth of understanding of
nanotechnology with some key patents in the area of carbon nanotubes,
which by the way are being used to manufacture things like Japanese
Plasma TVs in several large companies along with carbon nano horns. See
any trends to watch that might impact US industries and jobs in a big
way?

I suppose we'll all just end up as salesmen at Best Buy when the energy
stuff comes on line with current trends underway in US science funding
of basic research. Hopefully we will wake up and smell the nano beans
in the coffee.

Speaking of Mitsubishi, what they have done recently is simply amazing.
Another scientist, Dr. Iwamura has basically done what alchemists have
tried for centuries in some respects when he tran{*filter*}ed via Ca oxide by
passing deutrium through a thin film of Pd covered with Cesium (Cs)
atoms at room temp and low energy. The output was Protactinium (Pr)
atoms. Using Strontium (Sr) instead of Cs yielded Molybdenum (Mo) in
another experiment. Using nano-like instruments and X-rays, his team
watched literally, as the Mo and Pr grew "in situ" on the Pd thin film
[see links above for details from his papers presented at ICCF-11 ].

Now to the credit of some bright DoE reviewers, the recent DoE second
look made mention of these key findings in some "post review" remarks,
but not in a big way for anyone to take notice in a public relations
sense. Iwamura first reported his startling tran{*filter*}ation results back
in 2001. Its been replicated to the tune of several milion dollars in
semiconductor class clean rooms already and confirmed in a mass
spectrometer (used to verify new elements were created and that they
were not impurities). Not the stuff ...

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Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:52:48 GMT
 
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