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To: zonder who wrote (1654)	3/31/2004 9:30:59 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1715

Actually, I stand corrected, although there are some references to Mitsubishi's cold fusion research, it appears that they are actually claiming something even more controversial and taboo than cold fusion, that is transmutation of elements/alchemy. ICCF9 was held in Beijing last spring; out of it came a definitive report on low-energy heavy element transmutation (with no electric energy input!) from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. This article by Y. Iwamura et al has now been published by the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (http://jjap.ipap.jp) and is available for viewing at that site. It may or may not be that conventional quantum mechanics can explain such phenomena; I think it unlikely that it can. aetherometry.com In claims reminiscent of medieval alchemy, researchers at Mitsubishi have described transmutations of the element Cesium into another element at temperatures below the boiling point of water. Unlike the alchemists, their experiments have actually been duplicated. Other experiments demonstrating excess heat measured using precision devices are repeatable about 75% of the time. These results cannot be simply dismissed as experimental error and cannot be convincingly explained using conventional (non-nuclear) science. With 14 years of research behind them, today's cold fusion scientists have largly addressed the problems of non-repeatability and accuracy that plagued early experiments, and have come to the conclusion that something akin to cold fusion is actually occurring. It's time that mainstream science stopped thumbing its nose at cold fusion and took another hard look at what is going on in these experiments. powerfrontiers.com Look at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as an example. It has one of the world's best, repeatable LENR experiments in house, yet there is no evidence that it is about to charge off to develop LENR/cold fusion technologies. The Mitsubishi investigators have all they can do to convince their management to allow them to continue their present work. infinite-energy.com Dr. Iwamura et al. at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Advanced Technologies Center had the most spectacular work, which will be reported in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics later this summer. They used a very expensive vacuum chamber with in-situ XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectrometry) detection to observe the transmutation of an atomic species; cesium and strontium were used separately. The species is plated onto a palladium and CaO-layered sandwich of material through which deuterium gas passes as it is drawn through layers by vacuum on the other side. The upper surface (facing the D2 gas) is 400 Ångstrom-thick pure Pd, followed by a 1,000 Å multilayer sandwich of CaO and Pd. Then the bottom layer, facing the vacuum, is 0.1 mm thick Pd. The upper D2 gas-facing Pd layer has deposited on it the cesium (or strontium). Iwamura et al. obtained a time-history of the transmutation phenomenon: Cesium (Cs) transmutes to praseodymium (Pr), i.e. Cs-133 goes to Pr-141. As the Cs declined, the Pr increased correspondingly. The group hypothesizes that there is a gain by the initial species of two alpha particles (two He-4) or a Be-8 nucleus! The time-history of the growth of the new species matched the decline of the old species. Contamination has been completely ruled out by exhaustive testing. In the case of strontium, the reaction is: Sr-88 goes to Mo-96. As detected by SIMS analysis, the molybdenum isotope produced is Mo-96, highly anomalous with no possibility of being naturally-occurring Mo. Overall, the Mitsubishi work is as close to being a confirmation of what might be called "modern alchemy" as can be imagined. infinite-energy.com More about the Mitsubishi findings at: world.std.com