Dr. Michael McKubre, long-time researcher in cold fusion from the SRI lab in Menlo Park, California speaks to the public on the subject at Cafe Scientifique.
This is the first of eight separate Youtubes, all entitled “What happened to cold fusion?”
Dr. McKubre describes two main branches of the science, electro-chemical palladium-dueterium PD-D and nickel-hydrogen gas-loading Ni-H systems in plain easy language that any interested person can understand.
“I’m going to teach you enough electro-chemistry to go home and do these experiments yourselves.”
He says “Most of the work in the field has been in PD-D systems.” Francesco Piantelli began exploring Ni-H cells in the early nineties. It is this type of reaction on which inventor Andrea A Rossi based his Energy Catalyzer steam generator. Dr. McKubre will discuss that development at the end of the talk because as a news topic, its “hot and interesting.” He also says “Some recent results at SRI seem to support the idea that nickel and light hydrogen also can support nuclear level excess heat.”
In video 2 following, he says of the excess heat generated by a cold fusion energy cell, “This amount of heat is 100 or 1000 times the sum of all possible chemical energies combined.”
PD-D systems are sensitive to impurities. The cell itself is not glass.Fusilica, Teflon, platinum, palladium, quartz and alumina are the only materials that can be used in the cell.
To measure the heat generated accurately, Dr. McKubre says “we need a very well-defined temperature environment.”
The temperature difference between the water coming in and the water going out is measured by two sensors at the inlet of water moving past the heating unit and two-to-four sensors on the outlet water.
The three things we need to know is “what is the temperature difference, what is the mass, the flow rate, how many grams-per-second of water is going through that calorimeter, and what is the heat capacity of that water which is 4.186 Joules per gram of air-saturated water.”
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Michael McKubre interviewed by James Martinez on Ca$h Flow June 1, 2010 download mp3
Very good
you forgot part 8
Thanks for the heads up Harry. It’s complete now.
@Part2 – deuterium (or Hydrogen, protons) which are dissolved in Pd or Ni CAN NOT be discussed concerning density, pressure as gas! Deuterium atom, ions or protons can fill only crystallic structure of metal (Pd or Ni) just like metal-metal alloy. This is main error in
assumption of possible cold fusion – as D or H nucleons can not be so close to start cold fusion. They are as far, as it is possible in crystallic structure, not closer (to start nuclear reaction)
So then it was impossible to prove cold fusion just checking radiation (whatever, alpha, beta or gamma). Instead some thermal effects are present NOT proving being caused by cold fusion. Thermal effect could be generated by some physical reactions – filling crystallic positions by H or D ions, or in extended electrolysis just great exothermal effect of reaction H + H => H2 + many Joules.