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Re: Cold fusion is 100% real

Date:

Mon, 5 Apr 1999 07:39:51 -0900

From:

hheffner@mtaonline.net (Horace Heffner)

To:

vortex-l@eskimo.com

Gee, to read the interview with SI you would think Russ George invented cold fusion all by himself!

One very interesting part of the interview, quoted below, seems to refer to a deuterium version of Les Case's approach:

" RG: In my current experiments, I am using a regular gas cylinder filled with hydrogen gas and some active materials, and it just heats up. The more volume you use, the hotter it gets. This reaction will keep going indefinitely. The cylinder is typical of any used for compressed gas, such as a tank used at an amusement park for filling balloons with helium. The only difference is that this cylinder will maintain a temperature of about 250C or 400F almost for ever.

"SI: The materials will not be used up, nor are they too expensive?"

"RG: No. A fusion reaction can produce heat for centuries without "using up" the materials. The reaction uses 'heavy hydrogen' which, like hydrogen, is an abundant element in the universe. This reaction also works with other materials " some just work better than others " so no-one will be able to monopolize the materials to make exclusive profits."

I wonder if the phrase "more volume you use, the hotter it gets" was just a miscommunication typical of live interviews. Maybe he meant to say the energy produced is in proportion to the volume of the device? While it is true that for a fixed geometry and given output of energy per unit volume that the "more volume you use, the hotter it gets" is true due to the insulating quality of a lower surface area to volume ratio, that problem is a disadvantage to be managed in order to avoid overheating the catalyst, etc. Clearly the geometry should be manageable so that volume can be increased indefinitely while maintaining a fixed operating temperature range, so this is not meant by me to imply a problem, only a curious and interesting choice of words.

In any event, the "250C or 400F" temperature Russ George says he has achieved that can be maintained "almost for ever" is incredibly impressive!

Well, Scott, if it doesn't work small just make it bigger! (Where have I heard this before?) It sounds like all you need is fifty pounds of catalyst, a steel tank, and some deuterium gas.

Could it be true the bigger and taller the tank the bigger the convection cell weather system you develop in the tank? Any bets on the pressure of the tank being over the 400F boiling point? Let's see, 400 deg. F corresponds to 247.25 PSIA for light water, so maybe the tank is operating around or over 300 PSIG?
Maybe Russ or Les Case will provide some replication info?

Regards,

Horace Heffner

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