Nuclear Fusion Update

[Maui]

BACK TO WORK!!!

On the nuclear fusion front, apparently Iran and Russia have an attitude of investigation which favors "virial theory" instead of "Einstein's relativity." That is, "What holds things together?" versus "What happens when you blow everything to smithereens?" I learned of Dr. Amini's work in Iran via Infinite Energy magazine, but I have not heard from him since the elections. Nature had a news feature about hybrid reactors, where fission creates fusion; a subsequent opinion letter questioned the availability of tritium fuel for this. Well, maybe the usefulness of volcanic fusion is that it creates tritium! The Sun continues to behave strangely, and the weather is downright whacky! I give up on health care reform; my insurance is gone November 1 (I am making too much money for Washington State Basic Health Program). But I am enrolled in the UW Seattle's "Sustainable Transportation Certificate" program starting in October, and hold out hope that humanity will survive beyond 2012.

After nine months on unemployment, I am back to work at the hotel as houseman... The place has changed a lot, with lower rates and better rooms. Historic Moran Mansion food facilities and Rosario hotel rooms are not accommodating guests, although I am trying to create a rumor that the spa will be re-opening. My physical labor on this job is more strenuous than any other I have had before, and I have strong family feelings for all my co-workers. And finally, someone (me) is keeping the ice machine rooms clean!!!

Pulama!

Phillip Bose

[meemoeuk]

Cold Nuclear fusion. It's something I've been wanting to look at for a while.
My current take on it -
Muon-catalyzed fusion is the best candidate.
negative Muons act like electrons cept they are 207 times heavier. Muonic atoms, those that have muons instead of electrons, therfore tend to be much smaller. Small enough to allow 2 muonic atom nuclei to get close enough to fuse. Cold Muonic fusion, and the high energy release characteristic of nuclear reactions, was achieved by Luis W. Alvarez in 1956 and this spurred much interest. Could the process of MCF be made efficient enough to allow net energy output?
In 1957 John David Jackson outlined the theorectical challenges to this question.
From then on researchers gradually improved the efficiency of muon induced fusion.
By the 1980s, the acumulation of improvements had brought MCF close to break even. One of jacksons key problems - 'muon sticking' , was shown to be at most only half as bad as was previously thought. Net energy output was on the horizon.
Then the controvesy started!
Suddenly, researchers outside the MCF community, Fleischmann-Pons, were in the mass media spotlight about a non-muon reaction. They insisted they didn't call it cold fusion, the media did. The story got mass media attention as a great breakthrough in cold fusion. The media projected a story about patent battles between competing researchers, and seemed to side with Fleischmann-Pons while asserting the muon researchers were the 'baddies' in the patent battle.
Many facilites around the world proposed to test the Fleischmann-Pons experiments. The results came back negative. The mass media was still with the story and publically decried cold nuclear fusion. It seemed the scientific communities around the world followed suite with mass media reaction and also decried cold nuclear fusion.
To the dismay of the muon community, suddenly their funding was cut to nothing. Protesting that their research was not related to Fleischmann-Pons didn't affect the funding authorities.
Today muon catalysed fusion has little public funding worldwide, non of it is in the US, the former leader in MCF.

What happened?

It looks clear to me this was a covert operation by the energy establishment to derail Muon Catalysed Fusion!
We all know just how touchy the energy people are about control over the worlds energy. Letting public bodies divulge a promising new energy source was too much of a risk. They pulled the plug on MCF. They told their media to create hype over a hopeless claim to fusion power so there could be a percieved reason to rubbish cold fusion.

Check out this youtube series.
Heavy Watergate
It's not too good to watch. But it's typical of the skewed impression of cold fusion thats been given to the public. To me it looks like it was produced for the energy establishment. It's purpose is to send viewer the wrong way and into disarray about what was going on.

What does everyone think about this?