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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... hydrogen into helium within the Sun , and vast amounts of heat are generated in such processes . The uncontrolled liberation of fusion energy has existed for 40 years , ever since the detonation of the first thermonuclear or ' hydrogen ...
... hydrogen . This is a relatively clean source of energy compared to chemical sources such as coal - burning power stations and to presently available nuclear power . Moreover the raw materials are plentiful . For example , there is ...
... hydrogen found in heavy water ) like a sponge soaks up water , an electrical current from a battery forcing the deuterium atoms out from a solution of heavy water and into the spaces between the palladium atoms . Deuterium is the most ...
... hydrogen fusion might occur at moderate temperatures within solid materials . This was first thought of not by Fleischmann and Pons nor by Palmer and Jones , but had been anticipated in Europe , India and the Soviet Union up to 50 years ...
... hydrogen - filled craft in which Germany led the world for two decades . In the aftermath of the First World War Germany was forbidden to rearm until restrictions were relaxed in 1926 and airship construction began again . In the ...
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Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion F. E. Close,Professor Frank Close Podgląd niedostępny - 1991 |