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U.S. Navy Cold Fusion Research
The LENR-CANR.org library includes several papers by U.S. Navy researchers at the China Lake Naval Weapons Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARS). Here are some examples:
Miles, M., NEDO Final Report - Electrochemical Calorimetric Studies Of Palladium And Palladium Alloys In Heavy Water. 2004, University of La Verne.Szpak, S., et al., Thermal behavior of polarized Pd/D electrodes prepared by co-deposition. Thermochim. Acta, 2004. 410: p. 101.
A sample IR camera video clip that was shown by Frank Gordon during ICCF10. It is described in the ICCF10 paper and PowerPoint slides titled, Polarized D+/Pd-D2O System: Hot Spots and “Mini-Explosions”. The video clip shows two views, Surface and Profile:
Time/space dependency of “hot spots”.
Left - at elevated temperature arrows indicated spots whose temperature was outside of the camera range
Right - distribution of cell temperature. A-A electrode surface temperature, B-B solution temperature.
From the PowerPoint descriptions for Slides 4 and 5: " In the upper left, several different temperatures are represented by the colors with the lighter blue being hotter. Toward the edge of the electrode, the temperatures are lower. Also, these frames 'freeze' the action which is actually very dynamic with flashes of the light blue that decays back to the surrounding temperature. Over time, the flashes become more frequent and tend to cluster in an area with the average temperature of that area becoming hotter than the surrounding areas. Over time, the entire electrode surface reaches the hotter temperature and the process repeats itself with flashes of colors representing hotter temperatures starting to show up. . . .The short video clip . . . shows the hot spots, initially in a small area of the electrode that over about 1.5 minutes expands to cover a significant portion of the electrode's surface."
The video clip is available here in two formats, Windows Media Video (WMV) and Real Media (RM):
SzpakIR.wmv (12 MB)
SzpakIR.rm (8 MB)
Double click on the title to play the clip, or right click and save it to your disk. Both files are large, and may take a long time to appear or download.
In their latest 2006 experiments, Szpak, Mosier-Boss et al. use external high voltage or magnetic fields and CR-39 to detect high energy particles. The CR-39 is placed in close proximity to the cathode because the particles do not travel far. These experiments appear to be highly reproducible. See:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSexperiment.pdf
Here is a video of Mosier-Boss giving a lecture on this subject at the American Physcial Society, March 5, 2007, courtesy Steven Krivit of the New Energy Times.
Pamela Mosier-Boss et al., "Production of High Energy Particles Using the Pd/D Co-Deposition Process"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1214733147725965006
Here is a related lecture, also courtesy Steven Krivit:
Larry Forsley et al., "Time Resolved, High Resolution, Gamma-Ray and Integrated Charge and Knock-on Particle Measurements of Pd:D Co-deposition Cells"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6412593157514157574
For more information, see: "Extraordinary Evidence," by Bennett Daviss and Steven Krivit:
http://newenergytimes.com/news/2006/NET19.htm#ee
A copy at LENR-CANR is here:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KrivitSextraordin.pdf
Here are some other papers describing the co-deposition and electric fields:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakStheeffecto.pdf
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSevidenceof.pdf
We also recommend these papers:
Mosier-Boss, P. A. Thermal and Nuclear Aspects of the Pd/D2O System, Vol 1 (Long: 3 MB), Vol 2.
From the Introduction to Vol. 1: " As I write this Foreword, California is experiencing rolling blackouts due to power shortages. Conventional engineering, planned ahead, could have prevented these blackouts, but it has been politically expedient to ignore the inevitable. We do not know if Cold Fusion will be the answer to future energy needs, but we do know the existence of Cold Fusion phenomenon through repeated observations by scientists throughout the world. It is time that this phenomenon be investigated so that we can reap whatever benefits accrue from additional scientific understanding. It is time for government funding organizations to invest in this research."
Dr. Frank E. Gordon
Head, Navigation and Applied Sciences Department
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
The March 29, 2003 issue of the New Scientist magazine featured interviews with Miles and Mosier-Boss, in an article by B. Daviss, Reasonable Doubt, p. 36. The synopsis: " No sooner had cold fusion surfaced than it was written off, and the idea of extracting virtually limitless free energy from water became taboo. So how come a small band of experienced researchers working for the US Navy just can't let it drop? Bennett Daviss takes up their strange story"
Miles, M. Calorimetric Principles and Problems in Pd-D2O Electrolysis
Miles, M. Anomalous Effects in Deuterated Systems, Final Report. We have uploaded an improved version of this, with better copies of the figures, and Acrobat formatted Bookmarks and Table of Contents. In lectures and correspondence about this paper, Miles emphasizes the last two sections: Discussion and Summary. He makes three critical points in these sections:
1. The choice of cathode material is crucial to the outcome of the experiment. Table 10 shows that some sources of palladium nearly always produce excess, and some never work.
2. The fact that helium is correlated with the excess heat has been confirmed many ways, but perhaps most dramatically with a simple true/false statistical test. " The odds are . . . approximately one in a million that our complete set of 33 heat and helium results could be obtained from random experimental errors in our calorimetry and helium measurements. A more rigorous treatment in Appendix C gives the probability as one out of 750,000 for our set of 33 heat and helium results."
3. This research area has the potential to provide the human race with a nearly unlimited new source of energy. We hope that other scientists will continue to investigate this difficult research area until the challenging problems impeding progress are solved.
Here is a layman's guide to the experiments of M. Miles, by J. Rothwell. Here is a web site describing Miles and his work: http://coldfusion-miles.com/
Several other papers by Miles and other present and retired U.S. Navy researchers are listed below.