As you can see in the French section, Quebec Agence Science Presse have made an article on Cold Fusion
http://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca…roide-laisse-encore-glace
they are less negative but bashing with myth, when not exploiting Rossi's fiasco.
They attack Iwamura with Kidwell paper, ignoring Takahashi replication and critics on Kidwell theory feasibility (magic balance).
They claim no replication, accidental succes, ignoring that the cause of unpredictability are now quite identified.
They repeat old stories and everlasting myth.
In a way this is full cherry picking typical of conspiracy theorists as mainstream critics everyday now.
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Display MoreCold fusion still leaves us cold
Agence Science-Presse , September 16, 2016, 10:52
(Agence Science-Presse) It is no wonder that people are pursuing research on cold fusion. But millions still raining there can be perplexing, given the thinness of the results ... and the climate of mistrust and acrimony that surrounds some big players.
The "cold fusion" is this announcement at the University of Utah in 1989 that chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman have achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature. However, nuclear fusion is what makes our Sun shine for five billion years. If it was able to reproduce the phenomenon with bric equipment and pieces, so that would be the solution to all energy problems of the world: clean energy, free and inexhaustible.
The 1989 experience was quickly discredited - nobody was able to reproduce, including the "discoverers" - to the point that today, those who continue to pursue that dream swept under the carpet the words "fusion cold "and replace them with" low energy nuclear reactions ".
New Scientist spends in its latest edition in a long report that dream , because it is not only pursued by a handful of marginal: the US Naval Research Laboratory and the high energy of the Mitsubishi company, Japan, are those who invest. Philanthropists as 5 million and a half dollars were given to an "Institute for Nuclear Renaissance" established in 2012 at the University of Missouri. And one of the most effective hunters patrons of recent years is called Andrea Rossi, about which the magazinePopular Mechanics suggested in May that he might be rolled his backers in flour.
Rossi is an Italian engineer who is since 2007 promoting his energy catalyst or E-Cat: a cylinder the size of a wine bottle, filled with nickel and hydrogen, which generate large amounts of energy when subjected to an unknown reaction. Rossi reached an agreement with an American company, Industrial Heat (H), to finance a one-year experience in an undisclosed location. The experiment was due to end in March and expected results at a special congress in June. Instead, IH announced in April that the breach of contract with Rossi, and this triggered a further $ 100 million against IH - the amount, he says, IH was supposed to pay him. IH claims to have terminated the contract because the experience was not going anywhere, and this is the latest in a long series of partners or observers who, in words more or less covered, treated for Rossi 'scammer .
Are the experiences in the US, Japan or elsewhere, which always have the same thin menu to offer: among hundreds of attempts in which it nothing happened, he found suddenly a which occurred during an "anomaly", a "heat emission." Each time, it is impossible to reproduce or to provide solid evidence, raising fears whether an error of the instruments or error researcher in making its data. And few are inclined to get outside and independent observers in their laboratories because, as says one of the researchers involved, Graham Hubler , himself a defender of cold fusion, "most people who work on it have symbols of dollars in the eye. "
Mitsubishi, rather than energy production, it is on the "transmutation" that works - transform radioactive elements into something harmless. The researchers claimed in 2002 to have been a transmutation, and again in 2015. The Japanese government, which would like to be provided with a miracle solution to decontaminate the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant, provided a grant. But a team of naval research center in the United States, who had visited the country several years ago, came back with a report - obtained by New Scientist - inconclusive: elements of operator error or language scholar, "contamination".
That is the risk inherent in any private research conducted behind closed doors. And that's why the defenders of cold fusion would love that governments invest: research funded by public funds requires researchers involved in more transparency. But some just want to be transparent, convinced to be on the verge of discovery of the century that will make them rich and famous.
