By Dr. Eugene Mallove, an editorial for Infinite Energy Magazine
No.51, September 2003 WWW.INFINITE-ENERGY.COM
Here are some of the high points
to be taken from ICCF10:
Dr. Mitchell Swartz's
Fleischmann/Pons-type electrolytic palladium Phusor/low
electrolyte conductance heavy water/platinum cell performed
flawlessly in Prof. Hagelsteinšs lab at MIT during ICCF10. Its
excess power ranged from 167% to 267% as Dr. Swartz altered the
experimental conditions. This excess heat, as measured by his
precision calorimeter, persisted from Sunday August 24 to August
30, longer than ICCF10 itself. The excess heat was interrupted
on the last day only to bring the equipment back to Wellesley,
MA otherwise it would have continued much longer.
Prof. John Dash of the
physics department at Portland State University in Oregon and
his summer high school student interns also put on historic
demonstrations of excess heat at Prof. Hagelsteinšs lab. They
used simple but effective calorimetric apparatus, which allowed
observers to check the level of excess heat for
themselves.
The Letts-Cravens Effect,
as it is now being called , excess heat stimulated by laser
light irradiation of cold fusion electrolytic cell cathodes, has
now been independently observed by three outside groups: Dr.
Michael McKubre of SRI International, Dr. Edmund Storms in New
Mexico, and Dr. Mitchell Swartz in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
This phenomenon, you may recall, was the subject of the
"Fire from Water" cover story in the last issue of
Infinite Energy. Low-level laser light power is input and a huge
excess power excess emerges, for example: 30 milliwatts input, 1
watt output (a 30-fold multiplication of input power). This is
evidently a highly repeatable effect, one that has the potential
of breaking though into numerous other labs around the
world.
Dr. James Patterson and
his colleagues from Sarasota, Florida revealed a stunningly
simple, robust and ingenious gas-phase cold fusion reactor that
has produced excess heat for months on end. Full details will be
provided to the public in the near term; he is not seeking
patent protection at this point.
Helium-4 correlated with
excess heat has been observed now in a solid-state LENR
device by a laboratory effort sponsored by the Italian
government.
Energetics Technologies
Limited, a company from Israel, which began its
multi-million dollar cold fusion effort only two years ago, has
already achieved excess heat in a variety of processes. Funded
by investors in the United States, the fifteen-member staff of
Energetics Limited is aiming directly at the commercialization
of the technology. The leader of the effort Dr. Arik El-Boher
made a stunning presentation at ICCF10, which caused many jaws
to drop.
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