Thanks, Peter, If it doesn't arrive, you may send it to me and I will happily forward it.
Regards, Terry On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > I have sent a message to Vo, but it has not arrived. > Peter > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, Peter, >> >> Jed posted the message below on Vortex-l. Do you have any additional >> information that you can share with us? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Terry >> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Brian Ahern sent me the following message about Focardi. I will ask the >> > people I know in Italy if they can send someone. >> > >> > Brian heard this from Peter Gluck, in his blog: >> > >> > http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com/ >> > >> > The article in Italian is here: >> > >> > >> > http://it.notizie.yahoo.com/1/20110113/tit-ho-realizzato-la-fusione-fredda-annu-e23ea19_1.html >> > >> > - Jed >> > >> > MESSAGE >> > >> > Apparently, Focardi is holding a press conference to show a 15 kilowatt >> > heating module at Bologna University. The Press conference is scheduled >> > for >> > 15 January at 10 AM. >> > >> > I used google translate to convert from Italian. >> > >> > Bologna, 13 January 2011 -- a chimera of science for decades. A dream >> > called >> > cold fusion. The team of physicists at the University of Bologna, led by >> > Professor Sergio Focardi, announced to have discovered the secret and >> > made >> > an appointment tomorrow to a small group of researchers and journalists >> > to >> > watch the live demonstration. Unlike fission, which splits' the atom >> > with >> > consequent release of energy, nuclear fusion is the joining of two >> > atomic >> > nuclei, which produces a third, new element with the same issue of >> > enormous >> > amounts of energy. It is the reaction that keep lit the stars, the same >> > one >> > that makes the sun shine, where the temperature conditions are so >> > extreme as >> > to allow a merger between atoms. How is it then possible to reproduce on >> > Earth? >> > >> > Cold fusion 'at ordinary temperatures in reality has never been >> > realized. >> > Although many times scientists around the world have given their >> > announcement, regularly denied by trial and error, cold fusion remains >> > an >> > attractive field of study: to gain a stellar furnace 'of energy to Earth >> > from a space-saving device just like a table revolutionize the >> > consumption >> > of society and certainly would be worth the Nobel Prize immediately. An >> > interesting bet that Focardi, and partners with the inventor of the >> > reactor, >> > the engineer Andrea Rossi, put on paper the method patent-pending >> > worldwide. >> > A bet, because, for now, the team has not yet been presented with the >> > papers >> > in front of the community of colleagues drafted the article, after being >> > rejected by accredited scientific journals, was published independently >> > in >> > the Journal of Nuclear Physics , an online magazine founded by the same >> > authors and the scientific committee of which appears as the first name >> > the >> > same Focardi. But an interesting challenge, because if the experiment >> > could >> > be reproduced and shows that the control system of peer review, peer >> > review >> > ', which the world views and valid according to standard eligibility >> > criteria of what is produced by the scientific community is but it is >> > ensured too rigid: as a spam filter but also rejects the important >> > e-mails. >> > >> > 'Said the experiment we obtained copper Focardi and believe that its >> > appearance is due to the fusion of atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen, >> > just the ingredients' that feed our reactor. Since hydrogen and nickel >> > weigh >> > 'with less copper must have released a lot of energy, since "nothing is >> > created and destroyed." In fact, "says Focardi The missing mass is >> > converted >> > into energy and we have measured: it is in the order of a few kilowatts, >> > two >> > hundred times the energy that was the beginning of the reaction." >> > >> > The mechanism remains a mystery of alchemy: "We can not explain how one >> > can >> > trigger cold fusion, but the presence of copper and the release of >> > energy >> > are witnesses, we have the tests but not theoretical." If the device >> > Focardi, Rossi is a magician's hat or a cold fusion reactor can not be >> > established without the theory. This is why magazines have returned to >> > the >> > sender the article. >> > >> > Tomorrow at the GM plant system, in electricity (Roveri industrial >> > zone), we >> > replicate the experiment in front of witnesses credited. The expected >> > energy >> > from the reactor is equal to that which would satisfy the needs of a >> > couple >> > of apartments. They will also measure the radiation emitted from the >> > apparatus as a confirmation of the origin nuclear energy produced. >> > >> > > >
