7 th International Workshop On Anomalies In Hydrogen

7 th International Workshop On Anomalies In Hydrogen / Deuterium Loaded Metals Opening Address Bill Collis Mobile Tel: 3287109142 0 rganizing Committee: William Collis (Chair), Francesco Celani, Vittorio Violante, Antonio Spallone, Michael Mc. Kubre, Jean Paul Biberian 1

Conference Fees ¢ € 250 including meals and coffee breaks. ¢ € 200 for early registrants and accompanying persons. ¢ Works out more expensive than Siena workshop 2005 2 ¢ Same hotel prices as 2004!

Meals ¢ Conference fee includes meals including Monday. ¢ All meals including the banquet tonight 19: 30 will be served in the “Saletta Flauto Magico” on the first floor. ¢ Please inform reception of any special dietary requirements. ¢ 3 Be punctual.

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Giuliano Preparata Medal to be presented at the banquet on to Akira Kitamura Medal winners are chosen by the ISCMNS Executive Committee 10

Bronze Medal for Best Poster Paper ¢ ¢ Your vote counts! ¢ 11 To be awarded at dinner on Monday Why not put your oral paper as a poster?

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Oral Presentations ¢ 30 minutes + 5 for questions ¢ Presenters and moderators may allow interruptions ¢ Overruns come out of Coffee breaks and meal times! 13

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Acknowledgements Local Organizing Committee ¢ Consorzio per la Tutela dell’Asti ¢ Comune di Canelli ¢ ISCMNS ¢ Alessandro Marmigi ¢ Realgest sas ¢ 18

Round Table Discussion The Status of Cold Fusion today and prospects for the Future. Monday: 18: 00 “Il Flauto Magico”. Moderator: Fausto Lanfranco 19

A brief historical digression. Nuclear Fission 1933 -1942 “[Nuclear transformations are] a very poor and inefficient way of producing energy, and anyone who looked for a source of power in the transformation of the atoms was talking moonshine. " Ernest Rutherford in “The Times” 11 September 1933 Some subsequent material included with permission from http: //www. aip. org/history/mod/fission 1/01. html Copyright American Institute of Physics. 20

Otto Hahn. 1938 ¢ 21 Therefore we could conclude that the substances could be really only radium because barium was prohibited by the physicists, that we didn't dare to think it barium in those times. We always tried to explain what is wrong in our experiments, not to say we do have barium, but we always thought it can't be there and therefore we have to say, "What is the nonsense we are doing? " So really, it is so, that we poor chemists—isn't it the same with you? —we are so afraid of these physics people.

Hedging our Bets Do we admit we found Barium? ¢ Submit 2 papers! ¢ O. Hahn and F. Strassman, "Concerning the Existence of Alkaline Earth Metals Resulting from Neutron Irradiation of Uranium, " Naturwissenschaften vol. 27, p. 11 (Jan. 1939), summary, translated by H. Graetzer in The Discovery of Nuclear Fission (N. Y. : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971), p. 4447. ¢ O. Hahn and F. Strassman. "Verification of the Creation of Radioactive Barium Isotopes from Uranium and Thorium by Neutron Irradiation; Identification of Additional Radioactive Fragments from Uranium Fission". Naturwissenschaften, February 10, 1939, volume 27, p. 89 -95. Translated by H. Graetzer. 22

Moral ¢ ¢ The clash between physicists and chemists is not new! Scientists may have difficulty acknowledging even their own positive results! Major progress is made by identifying nuclear products. The products of bombarding Uranium with neutrons were quite unexpected, very different (in mass) from the fuel. 23

Fermi’s atomic pile 2 December 1942 24

Compton’s description of Fermi’s Atomic Pile ¢ We entered the balcony at one end of the room. On the balcony a dozen scientists were watching the instruments and handling the controls. Across the room was a large cubical pile of graphite and uranium blocks in which we hoped the atomic chain reaction would develop. Inserted into openings in this pile of blocks were control and safety rods. After a few preliminary tests, Fermi gave the order to withdraw the control rod another foot. We knew that was going to be the real test. The geiger counters registering the neutrons from the reactor began to click faster and faster till their sound became a rattle. The reaction grew until there might be danger from the radiation up on the platform where we were standing. "Throw in the safety rods, " came Fermi's order. The rattle of the counters fell to a slow series of clicks. For the first time, atomic power had been released. It had been controlled and stopped. Somebody handed Fermi a bottle of Italian wine and a little cheer went up. One of the things that I shall not forget is the expressions on the faces of some of the men. There was Fermi's face, one saw in him no sign of elation. The experiment had worked just as he had expected and that was that. But I remember best of all the face of Crawford Greenewalt. His eyes 25 were shining. He had seen a miracle, and a miracle it was indeed. The dawn of a new age.

Moral 1. Fission’s success was achieved by open international cooperation. 2. Finance obtained by enlisting support of influential scientists (Albert Einstein). 26

Mankind’s first self sustaining fission reactor E. Fermi ¢ 2 December 1942 ¢ 0. 5 Watt (estimated, not measured) ¢ 33 minutes ¢ ~400, 000 kg ¢ Cost $2, 700, 000 (worth more today) ¢ 27

Are we obsessed by Excess Heat? Fermi (and others) didn’t demonstrate “Excess Heat” ¢ Arguing about calorimetry can be counter-productive. The public may doubt all results. ¢ Power measurements without correlation with nuclear products / fuels does little to advance our understanding. ¢ 28

Self sustaining Cold Fusion? No energy in? ¢ Such a demonstration would demolish all arguments about the reality of the effect. ¢ It would allow researchers to concentrate on understanding the nature of the source of heat rather than simply verifying it. ¢ Open the door to new funding! 29

Tantalizing hints of Self. Sustaining Cold Fusion “Heat After Death” S. Pons. M. Fleischmann, Transactions. of Fusion Technology, Vol. 26, Number 4 T, December 1994: p. 87. “Excess Heat” and “Heat After Death” in a Gas‑loading Hydrogen/Palladium System J. Tian, B. Liu, X. Z. Li, W. Z. Yu, M. Y. Mei, D. X. Cao, A. L. Li, Jing Li, Y. G. Zhao, C. Zhang in Proc. ICCF-9 30

Self sustaining heat in Ni / H System August 2006 ¢ 34 Watts ¢ 2 days ¢ ~4 kg ¢ ~$27, 000 ¢ ¢ 31 64 years after Fermi 70 x 10 -5 x 1% No energy input!

Conclusions There has been encouraging progress ¢ The reproducibility problem is being solved but more work is needed before public demonstrations can be made ¢ Let’s wait patiently for published results ¢ 32