Low temperature nuclear reactions and new perspectives: the experiment coming from Florida
From the journal Nature comes the news that from a acoustic cavitation experiment (excitation by ultrasound) of titanium powder deuterated conducted by researcher Max Fomitchev‑Zamilov with the support of the Maximus Energy Corporation of Florida, a sensitive neutron emission. The news reopens the curtain on the famous and forgotten cold fusion which made a lot of noise in 1989 following an experiment conducted by chemists Fleischmann and Pons which indicated a possible nuclear fusion reaction between palladium and deuterium atoms at low temperature: the famous LENR (low energy nuclear reaction).
At the time the news caused a sensation and, although taken up by laboratories around the world, it lacked a shared protocol to then be replicated and ultimately used to possibly produce heat. Among other things, the actual reality of the reaction was questioned since the smoking gun represented by the emission of neutrons as the inescapable proof of its occurrence was missing. nuclear fusion. Today’s experiment could open a new chapter as it takes note of a significant neutron emission coinciding with the solicitation by ultrasound (20 kHz frequency and 550 Watt power) on deuterated titanium powder suspended in mineral oil; emission which provides a peak value of neutrons that is 10,000 times higher than the background value.
It was also noted that the emission of neutrons coincided with the application of the influence of ultrasound, which, specifically, triggers a situation of disequilibrium between deuterium atoms and the crystal lattice of titanium causing pressure peaks of the order of thousands of atmospheres. In short, the outcome of this experiment, which represents an important testimony in the line of research focused on the production of excess heat, also present in Italy at the Infn of Frascati where the group of Francesco Celani has tenaciously maintained an active presence in this sector, could provide an alternative way of studying nuclear processes in conditions very different from the traditional ones on plasma confinement, to which researchers and scientists around the world have been dedicating energy and resources for over half a century to achieve use controlled thermonuclear fusion as inexhaustible and clean energy source.
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