The idea sounds good but in spite or endless promise it has never turned up in the market place. Reproducing the energy of the Sun. The Electric Universe people invested a lot of money into the SAFIRE project. It turned out negatively. Our former chairman Tony Haynes, back in the day, was very keen on cold fusion and it’s promise of cheap energy. Ultimately, it goes back to Stanley Pons research. He was an electro-chemist, and, together with Martin Fleischmann, they assumed in 1989 that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature = cold fusion. Mainstream was none too pleased, we are led to believe. Within months physics institutes and federal agencies worked to discredit the findings. Not least because they had set their sights on an alternative way of reaching cold fusion. Funding dried up and Pons left the US and relocated to a laboratory in France funded by Toyota. He died in 2012 without achieving his goal. See https://sayerji.substack.com/p/i-killed-pons-years-ago-epstein-files ….
The recent release of the Epstein emails led to some readers stumbling on an email exchange between Epstein and Al Seckel, a perceptual scientist [whatever that may be]. Epstein’s role was gatekeeper on the investment funds. Basically, they were moved elsewhere, out of reach of Pons and Fleischmann. Other than that I am not concerned with Epstein’s role as the really interesting bit is that Pons may have misinterpreted the signal he saw and which excited him so much. Competing research saw the funds diverted to them – but that didn’t work out very well, either. Cold Fusion became LENR – low energy nuclear reactions. Nowadays, Cold Fusion is always just around the corner. If only.
It seems that Mark LeClair has come along and put a different slant on the story. He is a former Lockheed Trident II hydrodynamiscist. He now has his own business – in nanotechnology. See here https://www.nanospire.com … and he has reproduced anomalous energy output and elemental transmutation signatures confirmed by independent mass spectrometry. He proposed that cavitation driven nuclear reactions may explain what Fleischmann and Pons observed in 19089 – and why the scientific establishment has continued to get it wrong for 30 years. Pons and Fleischmann’s palladium electrodes showed pitting – erosion craters filled with transmuted material whose elemental distributions matched supernova nucleosynthesis patterns. Not contamination profiles. Mainstream physicists attributed these reactions to fusion occurring inside the metal lattice of the palladium itself. LeClair regards this as incorrect. His alternative idea is grounded in the same cavitation physics he spent decades mastering at Lockheed. In the Pons-Fleischmann electrolysis cell, electrical discharge near the palladium electrodes generates plasma – which in turn creates cavitation bubbles in the surrounding heavy water. Those bubbles collapse asymmmetrically near the electrode surface, launching reentrant jets – high velocity streams of water that strike the palladium at high speed. It is the impact of those jets, not reactions inside the lattice, that produces the fusion conditions, transient temperatures and pressures comparable to stellar interiors. Concentrated at the point of impact – for a fraction of time. On the microscopic scale. The pitting in the electrodes is not a byproduct. It is the signature of the mechanism itself.
If LeClair is right the entire field of cold fusion has been chasing its tail for years- thirty five years. No wonder it is always around the corner. See also https://www.waterjournal.org/uploads/vo15/supplement/LeClair.pdf …