Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold FusionPrinceton University Press, 14 lip 2014 - 388 Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a story ignored until now in spite of the glare of publicity surrounding Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. On March 23, 1989, these two Utah scientists held an astonishing press conference, maintaining that they had succeeded, working in secret, in harnessing atomic fusion. What was the basis for their claims to have achieved cold fusion in a test tube in a basement laboratory, while other scientists--using magnets as big as houses and temperatures hotter than those in the center of the sun--were failing to produce as much power as they were using? Why did Fleischmann and Pons proclaim their "discovery" at a news conference, when first announcements of scientific results are almost always made within the scientific community? Why did the full-blown media event inspired by their initial report cause governments to reorient their research programs in hopes of cornering the "new technology"? And why did some scientists recklessly abandon their traditional painstaking methods in haste to be first to prove or discredit the experiment? Acquainted at first hand with investigations of cold fusion on two continents, Close is uniquely qualified to probe the motivations behind Fleischmann's and Pons's startling assertions and to explore the intellectual and political turmoil that surrounded the cold fusion debate. |
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... produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in ... produce carbon dioxide and warmth . Nuclear reactions by contrast involve changes in the atomic elements themselves ...
... produced about 26 watts of energy per cm3 , ' about four and a half times what we put into it ' and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of ...
... produced helium and also energy , or so he must have thought , for in 1927 he put in a patent application for a ' method to produce helium and useful energy ' . The patent office replied with the comment : ' received but not understood ...
... produce heat in a fire ) . The rearrangement of protons and neutrons also involves changes in energy , ' nuclear ... produced electrical discharges and occasional deafening bangs , but saw no radiation or radioactive residues . And ...
... produce helium - 3 and tritium ; the tritium is unstable and decays producing helium - 3 which would add to that directly produced . The helium would seep up through fissures , and hence its natural occurrence near the hot springs ...
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Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion F. E. Close,Professor Frank Close Podgląd niedostępny - 1991 |