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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (40316)	5/31/2013 12:28:57 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 86356

CECReactions are routinely produced in labs worldwide. MIT taught a course on it recently. Cold Fusion Explained at MIT Posted on February 9, 2013 by BTE-Dan Could claims about Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (called LENR or Cold Fusion) end up not being real? Well, at this point I think that these nuclear reactions most likely are very real. Think about this. Many scientist have figured out ways to combine materials, like nickel with hydrogen, and generate excess heat. After adding energy the metal transmutes (nickel turns into copper for example) and huge amounts of excess heat are given off. If it was just one person making these claims (like Andrea Rossi), then we should be very skeptical and perhaps even ignore the claims entirely. But many respectable people are now claiming to have set up experiments and detected the excess heat. And after the heating events take place, the total mass of what was in the heat chamber goes down. So it’s claimed that the thermal energy that was produced must be explained by e=mc2. And if the mass was converted into energy, e=mc2 tells us that a nuclear reaction took place. The video below is from a MIT course given in January 2013 on LENR by Dr. Mitchell Swartz. If you watch this, it’s really hard to imagine that LENR is not real. Could Dr. Swartz really be getting this all wrong after investigating this for the last 20 years? I really, really doubt it. He talks about the experiments they use to show that the excess heat – meaning heat beyond what any chemical reaction would give off – is really occurring.