Could This Device be a Real Mr. Fusion?
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Arata Solid State Fusion Device in Japanese Laboratory
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What is also significant besides excess heat generated [ awaiting confirmation according to latest news update], is that if his process could somehow be scaled up in large volumes, perhaps ...just perhaps it may be a way to replace Helium supplies someday, which according to the latest reports is becoming a scarce non-renewable resource, often times released to the atmosphere as natural gas is collected along with fossil fuels. The US strategic Helium reserves are also known to be a finite supply, and despite this are now being sold off to meet supply needs of the scientific and commercial sectors.
If any cold fusion fans have read Dr. Arata's earlier important papers on this device, first published in 2006 in a very reputable Italian journal found here, then you would probably agree that an announcement like this is significant from the standpoint that it shows for the first time his actual prototype laboratory device and that he is now demonstrating it in public as also reported here in an interview by New Energy Times.
The Atomic Motor would like to send out an atomic guitar hero award to Dr. Arata and other fellow scientists who diligently keep trying and making significant progress against all odds in keeping the clean energy cold fusion spirit alive.
This latest story was first reported here at the LENR.org community web site:
Prof. Y. Arata Plans Demonstration at Osaka University
May 14, 2008
Osaka National University Prof. emeritus Yoshiaki Arata has announced a lecture and demonstration of his latest cold fusion reactor, on May 22, 2008, starting at 1:30 p.m. (subject to change). A photo of the reactor is shown below. The lecture will be on the 1st floor of Arata Hall on the university campus, and the demonstration will be later, on the 3rd floor. (Note that Arata Hall is named after Prof. Arata, who is one Japan's leading scientists, with honors including a building named after him at the university, and an award from the Japanese Emperor in 2006.)
Contact. A. Kobayashi, Tel 06-6879-8694
Atomic Links
[New] Update on Arata Demo- Physics World Blog
Italian Newspaper Features Arata Reactor - ILSOLE24ORE.COM ( Translate Italian URL Here )
Inconvenient Truths: Rethink What it Means to Be Green - Wired
Teen Finds Way to Decompose Trash Bags in Three Months - Tree Hugger
Stopping the Exodus of Women in Science - Harvard Business Review
Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell - Make: Blog
Italy Opts for New Nuclear Power Program - Red Orbit
Burning Our Way Towards Fusion - Popular Science
[As Albert Einstein once said "To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets" ]
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Yes, it is interesting to see the general science knowledge of the average Slashdot techie (read the comments here):
Slashdot Post on Arata Demonstration
Also, the comments on a Gizmodo story here:
Gizmodo Story
Not sure which site has the more science intelligent subscribers now, but I do hope many can see how the internet can become dominated by silly arguments that get absolutely no where, circular logic, absurd assumptions, incorrect understanding of history, incorrect physical understanding of basic physics, and a host of other platitudes.
And we all wonder later why the major media never picks up a great science story and humankind doesn't make more rapid progress with so much "noise" abscuring the real facts???
Amazing to see it unfold once again . I suppose many of these folks also think we never made it to the moon.
-JChan
Sunday, May 25, 2008 12:53:00 AM
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Agree. My 8 year old knows more than some of the comments posted.
My favorite is this one:
by RAMMS+EIN (578166) on Saturday May 24, @06:36AM (#23526448) Homepage Journal
``you don't get the Nobel prize for an article in "Il sore 24 ore"''
But you do get to the front page of Slashdot!
More seriously, the established journals are often hideously slow in publishing stuff, and often dare to charge you for it, too. In the age of the Internet, all that can be dispensed with. You can get your discoveries and inventions published, peer reviewed, and communicated to the masses, all for free and without having to wait on some organization's release cycle.
You can also, of course, use the Internet to spread lies and misinformation, create fake peer reviews, and communicate all that to the masses, all for free and without having to wait on some organization's release cycle.
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just goes to show how much people respect 'open source ideas'. The PLOS (Public Library of Science) would get a kick out of that statement and I'm sure the www.arxiv.org pre-print paper service.
It isn't money that often holds up scientific progress, but human ignorance !
Thanks for the posts.
Jed Rothwell sent out the following update to the community:
Sun, 25 May 2008 04:38:43 -0700
Akito Takahashi sent some corrections to my report:
Arata did not stop D2 feeding when inside pressure came to rise up.
The High Temperature Society is Kouongakkai in Japanese. (I had it "the high
voltage society.")
Amount of helium-4 factorx10~17 corresponds to 0.5 to 1 Mega Joules, by 23.8
MeV/He-4.
Takahashi believes "The lecture could be followed completely by native Japanese
speakers" but I know several who were baffled.
Additional comments from Takahashi:
The key result of Arata this time is the long lasting heat generation without
input power, associated with helium-4 generation.
This is essential to making R&D further for energy source application. (As I
too mentioned.)
- Jed
Arata demo picked up by Nano web site here:
A to Z of Nanotechnology
Indian comments on Cold Fusion demonstration by Arata:
Cold Fusion Success in Japan gets Warm reception in India
I see there's good closed loop thinking going on here..
For those interested, Dr. Talbot Chubb (former Navy scientist) wrote a book and has released some of the materials. The Introduction is dedicated to Drs. Arata and Zhang.
Available on CDROM is a collection of papers.
Here's the Link
Here's his web site:
Cold Fusion Energy Science
-JC
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