Re: Cold Fusion

[Joel Baumbaugh <baumbaug@nosc.mil>]

RADSAFERS,

         Without going into (perhaps propriatory) details, research was 
performed by the U.S. Navy to try and validate the claims of "cold fusion" 
after Drs. Fleischman and Pons claimed excess power densities of 20 Watts 
per cubic centimeter of palladium in 1989.  While many of the claimed 
results could not be duplicated, one anomaly, excess tritium, appeared to 
be produced in experiment after careful experiment and could not be 
"explained" away... Go figure....

         Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)
         SSC-SD

  At 09:43 AM 08/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>Just what was the verdict on cold fusion?  I got the impression that the
>bulk of that branch of the scientific community felt it was sloppy
>technique.  But information just kind of receded into the back ground, I
>assume as the efforts to replicate the experiments failed.
>
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>
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Joel T. Baumbaugh
Joel T. Baumbaugh, MPH, MHP
baumbaug@nosc.mil
Radiation Safety Officer
SSC-San Diego, CA, USA


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