Breaking Through! - Cold Fusion
Goes Commercial...
Source: Infinite Energy Magazine
We knew all along it would happen...."cold fusion" would
begin to be commercialized long before science fully came to grips
with what the mysterious and extremely potent excess heat-generating
process really is.
Remarkably, cold fusion is being commercialized even in
the face of continued widespread, but obviously misguided skepticism
that the phenomenon even exists! As former Los Alamos National
Laboratory scientist Dr. Edmund Storms, now with Salt Lake City-based
ENECO, has suggested, "We can thank the skeptics for allowing some of
us the chance to become very rich." Clearly, if the U.S. Department of
Energy evaluation of cold fusion in 1989 had been even 10% objective,
and if threatened institutions had been open to the new discovery, in
1995 there would be precious little room in the field for small
companies and entrepreneurs.
As it stands now, "cold fusion" and allied "new energy"
technologies, in which energy appears to materialize perhaps literally
from the vacuum quantum fluctuations of space or from subtle mass
conversion to energy - are possibly the greatest commercial
opportunities of this century. It is the quintessential
entrepreneurial field, in which those "in the know" have an
opportunity to reap vast rewards in a tidal wave of business activity.
The entire energy infrastructure of advanced industrial civilization
is at the brink of radical
reconstruction as early-stage and prototype cold fusion systems emerge
with great vigor.
Our "Infinite Energy" (IE) cover highlights the work of
Dr. James Patterson and his robust cold fusion cell, which has the
honor of having been granted the first U.S. Patent for a cold fusion
apparatus. It was a smash hit at the Fifth International Conference on
Cold Fusion (ICCF5) at Monte Carlo, Monaco last April. Participants
were invited to test it themselves-and they did. The cell bubbled with
excess energy throughout the conference.
Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. (CETI) of Dallas, Texas
intends to scale up this highly reproducible electrochemical cold
fusion system, which has already proved that output/input power ratios
of 10:1 (i.e. 1,000%) are achievable. The CEO of CETI, Jim Redding
(incidentally, the grandson of Dr. Patterson), has told "IE" that his
company is
working with other individuals and companies to produce high power
units in the kilowatt range as soon as possible. It seems to us at
"IE" that kilowatt-level heat production with this process is a
distinct possibility within the next six-months or so.
There may even be a light-weight cold fusion-powered
cars that have traversed in U.S. and Australia in "Tour de Sol" races
in recent years. Well, at least one cold fusion pioneer has his eyes
on driving such a light-weight vehicle - with solar panels replaced by
a one-horsepower cold fusion engine-clear across the U.S. may he will
park it near the U.S. Patent Office, which is still blocking hundreds
of U.S. patent applications for cold fusion. (Patterson's was granted
by what amounts to a bureaucratic slip-up by the obstructing
authorities!)
It is most remarkable that the Patterson Power Cell
works with ordinary water, not the heavy water of the original Pons
and Fleischmann cell. The potential of this ordinary water technology
has been a very hot prospect ever since Dr. Randall Mills in
Pennsylvania announced his nickel-based ordinary water "hydrocatalysis
" process back in 1991. Technological setbacks may have temporarily
stalled the work at Hydrocatalysis Power Corporation and at nearby
Thermacore in
Pennsylvania, but it is very much alive in Texas and at other labs and
corporations known to be working with CETI.
At ICCF5, electrical engineer Bruce Klein with Bechtel
Corp. gave the attendees his perspective of how large corporations
could begin to become involved in the field. For their own sake, one
hopes that some of them will heed Klein's advice, which we reprint
here in full. Dr. Robert Horst of Tandem Computers also puts forward
his personal ideas about market strategies for cold fusion companies.
Now for an incredible commercial bombshell- a water-fuel
device that did not originate from the mainline cold fusion field at
all, but which is very definitely penetrating the marketplace already
in eastern Europe. We have learned that in a former region of the
Soviet Union, now the country of Moldova (known also as Moldavia), the
VIZOR Corporation in Kishinev has already sold thousands of heating
units to homes and industries! These work on the cavitation principle
in ordinary water, very reminiscent of the Hydrosonic Pump of
Hydrodynamics, Inc. of Rome, Georgia in the US, only they are
apparently much more effective in generating excess thermal energy.
Dr. James Patterson (l) and Dr. Dennis Cravens
with the Patterson Power Cell Demonstration at ICCF5 (photo: EFM) The
Hydrosonic Pump of James Griggs may produce 10% to 50% excess power as
steam or hot water-in the kilowatt range, from a metal cylinder
rotating in ordinary water in a confined chamber. This is remarkable
enough, and has already been confirmed to
have reduced the electric heating bills in some US installations. But
Dr. Yuri S. Potapov's devices input several kilowatts of electricity
into a centrifugal water pump that feeds the device and gets out
reportedly 400% to 1,000% excess power in hot water! Laboratory
reports from other CIS states appear to confirm these claims. But what
is most important is that hundreds upon hundreds of satisfied
customers have ratified the technology in the marketplace! Who would
buy a device that potentially could increase their electric hot water
heating bill by 100% if the conventional centrifugal pump were say
only 50% efficient (a common efficiency for such pumps)? The answer is
simple: nobody! Russian and Moldovans are not fools. They know when
their water and space heating bills have been cut in half or less-as
VIZOR's customers regularly report. That would mean these devices have
to be in the range of at least 400% "over-unity." Of course, this is
such a provocative preliminary conclusion, it simply has to be tested
in laboratories in the US and elsewhere before it can be fully
accepted. That is precisely what will soon happen. Please stay tuned!
IE contributing editor Chris Tinsley of the UK and IE
scientific advisor, chemical engineer Dr. Peter Gluck of Romania,
traveled to Kishinev to see what was going on at VIZOR; they file
their report in this issue ("Infinite Energy2, Vol. 1, No. 2 1995).
What they found was most astonishing: an obviously robust commercial
enterprise, producing a variety of heating units that can heat entire
large buildings. The essence of these units is a fluid vortex chamber
that apparently produces intense cavitation between fluid layers. If
the Griggs Hydrosonic Pump and the E-Quest Sciences ultrasonic reactor
are taken as confirmed evidence that remarkable energy-producing
effects
are at work in cavitation systems, then it is a small step to imagine
that Potapov's machines work too. The quantum leap of VIZOR's machines
is their spectacularly greater efficiency in their present embodiment.
People associated with the Russian space program have
become convinced that the Potapov technology is real and
revolutionary. Moreover, theoretical physicist Dr. Lev G. Sapogin of
MADI Technical University in Moscow proposes a theory to explain the
Potapov device, as well as more conventional "cold fusion" processes.
Readers are invited to
explore his challenging theory in this issue of IE. Preliminary
testing revealed no neutron or gamma radiation emanating from tests of
the Potapov devices. Certainly no mere chemical ash commensurate with
the astonishing excess power could be found. What does that leave?
Zero Point Energy? Subtle mass conversion to energy in heretofore
unknown ways., or some subtle radiationless nuclear reaction still
undetected? Whatever the case, profound shocks are certain to be
coming to the world of physics-ordinary "conventional" cold fusion was
enough to do that already. Electric energy production in
self-sustaining devices may not be far behind-or may already have been
achieved, as Dr. Potapov suggests. But these earthquakes from
cavitation devices that may rock physical theory to is foundations are
no less portentous than the shock to the world's energy economy that
is about to occur. Welcome, indeed, to the Water Fuel/"Free Energy"
age! Cold fusion, at long last, has gone commercial.
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