Cold Fusion

Cold fusion is a nuclear fusion process which offered explanations to a number of experimental results which were disputed over

. These were first reported by electrochemists Martin Fleischmann Stanley Pons. Martin Fleischmann was one of the worlds leading electrochemists. The field of cold fusion originated with reports of an experiment conducted by Martin and Pons in the year 1989. In the experiment they reported production of excessive heat which could only be explained in terms of nuclear processes. The small experiment that they conducted involved the electrolysis of heavy water using palladium electrode.

Martin was from the University of Southampton and Stanley was from University of Utah. Both of them formed a hypothesis that the high compression ratio and mobility heavy water (deuterium) which was achieved by using palladium as a electrode could result in a nuclear fusion reaction. Current was applied to the heavy water for many weeks and the heavy water was renewed a few times during the experiment. The power input to the cell remained constant for most of the time and the cell temperature remained constant and was recorded to be around 30 degree Celsius. But suddenly at some point during the experiment the temperature rose suddenly and became about 50 degree Celsius and this happened without any change in the input power to the cell. These phases of high temperature lasted for two days or so and were repeated during the course of the experiment. Also during these phases oh high temperature the power which was leaving the cell i.e. the output power showed significant rise. Till the year 1988 Martin and Pons were using a small device for their experiments which cost them $100,000. This amount was invested by them. In 1988 they applied to US department of energy and requested for funding a larger series of experiments which required equipments of a larger scale. The department turned the proposal for a peer review. Steven E. Jones from Brigham Young University was one of the reviewers. For sometime Jones worked on muon-catalyzed fusion. He had written an article on the topic cold nuclear fusion. This article was published in Scientific American journal in July 1987.

A small group of researchers who are committed to the research in the field of cold fusion have continued to conduct experiment using the electrolysis set-up of Martin and Pons. Many entrepreneurs in the past have claimed that a working cold fusion generator is very near to be fabricated on a commercial stage. Yet, till today no working machine has been fabricated and is not available in the market.

The basic equipment of a common cold fusion experiment consists of:

A metal like palladium or nickel

Deuterium or hydrogen (in form of water, gas or plasma)

Source of excitation in the form electricity, magnetic charge, temperature or acoustic waves.

Objections to cold fusion:

The results of the experiments could not be reproduced in any form

Errors of calorimeter

Only small qualities of reaction products are produced

by: lexorrod

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