Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion

JSE 34:2 Summer 2020 Whole Issue PDF

“…By contrast to Natureí s Editorial comment, Berlinguette et al (2019) regarded their 4-year project as yielding useful knowledge and urged other researchers to "produce and contribute data in this intriguing parameter space. .…”

“…org); LENR-CANR.org boasts a library of 4,500 journal articles on the subject; and there have been more than 20 international conferences on the matter. Nevertheless, the subject remained anathema in mainstream circles, so it was a surprise when an acknowledged mainstream source widely regarded as authoritative, Nature magazine, published "Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion" (Berlinguette et al, 2019) together with an Editorial preview (Nature Editorial, 2019) of the article. Unsurprisingly, Natureí s Editorial was snarky and misleading, in asserting that "The phenomenonó even if realó seemed ephemeral and had little to no theoretical basis."…”

Technologies to assist in the energy transition to the next century

“…Review work 21 notes that, currently, the academic community has rather a negative judgement regarding the possibility of cold fusion. Nevertheless, the authors describe their own efforts, which could provide new insights into highly hydride metals and low-energy nuclear reactions because still a number of underexplored parameters remain.…”

On the Temperature Role in the Tunneling Process at the Low-Energy Nuclear Fusion

“…Although the probability of the tunneling through a Coulomb barrier is too small in order to speculate about a possibility of the "cold fusion" and its practical usage, but the problem is still actual [1] and is of interest from the general theoretical point of view. In particular, we will consider the dependence of the transparency of a screened Coulomb barrier on such natural and easily changeable physical parameter, as the temperature varies not within the range of millions of degrees, but from 0 K to the crystal melting point (for definiteness, we take 2000 K).…”