Reply #18: Cold fusion - hydrogen fuel skeptics, read this [View All]

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Edited to fix link.

Posted this on another thread - for those of you who ask the question "where do we get the hydrogen?" Um, perhaps water? There is a non-trivial body of evidence that hydrogen can be derived from water in a controlled chemical reaction suited for many types of energy.

http://www.blacklightpower.com

http://www.allnerdsandgeeks.com/index.EugeneMallove.html


(FYI Eugene Mallove was murdered in early 2004, perhaps by suspicuous circumstances)

Could Cold Fusion Be For Real?


An Interview with Dr. Eugene Mallove

By Bill Moore

17 March 2000 -- Imagine a battery that weighs just 10 pounds, yet can power an electric vehicle 1000 miles! One US company, Blacklight Power, is allegedly developing just such a battery based on the much debated and maligned theory popularly dubbed "cold fusion."

There have been few recent controversies in modern science as enduring and divisive as the debate over "cold fusion," a little understood process which purportedly creates "anomalous" excess heat from the interaction of heavy water, a catalyst and small amounts of electrical energy.

When the US Patent and Trademark Office recently awarded Blacklight Power a number of patents on its technology, EVWorld.Com decided to take a little closer look at the cold fusion controversy to see if any thing has changed since the 1989 furor that arose from the claims of two Utah researchers, Pons and Fleischman.

We contacted Dr. Eugene Mallove, the Editor In Chief of Infinite Energy magazine to find out what is the current status of cold fusion research. Is it still a fringe science or has it begun to achieve wider acceptability?

Other Hydrogen Chemistry?

Dr. Mallove, who holds two engineering degrees from MIT and a third from Harvard University, began our interview by stating that, indeed, hydrogen is most promising new fuel of the 21st century, but not the hydrogen talked about in discussions on fuel cells.

"The normal conception of hydrogen for use in vehicles, which is an admirable pursuit, considers using basically the normally understood chemical energy of hydrogen. Now what if you were to find one or more mechanisms associated with hydrogen, and I do believe there are more than one mechanism associate with this so-called 'cold fusion' phenomenon. What if you were to find something that would extract a thousand to a million times or beyond the normally understood chemical energy. That's what we're talking about in cold fusion energy."


More at link.