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- From: MEDB@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Dieter Britz)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: CNF bibliography update (total of 722 papers, 111 patents/appl.).
- Message-ID: <BD89AA1F64040812@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:58:11 GMT
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Dieter Britz <MEDB@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Hello all,
- one patent and two comments. The patent is strange - I don't see why an
- electron beam should cause fusion. Anyway, using D- ions is a novelty, mostly
- deuterons, or D+, are used. This is self targeting, and I suspect that there
- were such patents in the 1950's.
- Frank Close reviews Huizenga's book, and he likes it; no surprise there. We
- do get a small surprise by the article about MITI's funding of cnf. Jed has
- been bombarding us with news of all the money MITI is GOING to spend on it,
- and I am sure he has used the figure of hundreds of millions of DOLLARS; it
- seems that not only is that so many YENS (i.e. down by a factor of 1000 or so)
- but MITI has actually only decided to APPLY for the money. Jed, you have not
- been straight with us, or somebody has not been straight with you. But with
- your knowledge of Japanese, I assume you read the originals, so I guess you
- are your own source, nes pas? Some 1E05 dollars is about 1/10 of a NCFI - and
- how much will the Japanese spend on lawyers? NCFI lasted 6 months; 1/10 of
- that is - quick! - 18 days... Maybe it's all for Takahashi, for more Pd-Ag and
- a large supply of D2O.
- Dieter
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- COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Addition 18-Aug-1992
- Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
- Total in Section 2: 722
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- Patents: file cnf-pat
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- Iwamatsu S; Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho JP 04 72,593, 13-Jul-90.
- Cited in Chem. Abstr. 117(2):35367 (1992).
- **** "The fusion is performed by implanting accelerated D- to H-occluding
- metal or alloy. The fusion may also be performed by implanting electron beam
- to H-occluded or H-occluding metal." (Direct quote from CA).
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- Comment: file cnf-cmnt
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- Close F; Nature 358 (1992) 291 (23-Jul).
- "The cold war remembered"
- ** Frank Close, himself the author of one the better books on cold fusion,
- here reviews John Huizenga's "Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the
- Century". Close likes the book and his only criticism is on a point where he
- believes Huizenga's history of events is out by a crucial few days. Close
- rightly considers Huizenga's outline of the helium episodes - Walling and
- Simon's publication of their paper even after P&F's helium retraction, and
- Pons's sabotage of the double-blind helium study - as highlights of the book.
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- Swinbanks D; Nature 358 (1992) 268 (23-Jul).
- "MITI prepares to fund cold fusion by another name".
- ** The Japanese organisation MITI has reported to the press its plan to apply
- for money for research into cold fusion. The amounts to be asked for are not
- known yet, but perhaps hundreds rather than tens of millions of yen (i.e.
- about hundreds of thousands of dollars) might be on. However, because most
- Japanese scientists do not believe in cold fusion, that term will not be used;
- "hydrogen energy" will be substituted. In Japan, as elsewhere, most scientists
- consider cold fusion an error.
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- Dieter Britz alias medb@cc.newcastle.edu.au, until further notice. Mailing
- address: Mech. Eng., Newcastle University, NSW 2308, Australia.
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