From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: A Different Perspective (was Re: Cold Fusion, real again?)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 03:44:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article doug@UC780.UMD.EDU writes:
>In article ems@Apple.COM (Mike Smith) writes:
>>Enclosed is a snippit from sci.physics.fusion:
>>There is some interesting stuff being discussed there ... 
>>***** BEGIN QUOTE *****
>>
>>Materials scientist Edmund Storms reported in a paper submitted to a
>>scientific journal that he has measured 20% more power coming out of his
>>experiment as heat than was put into it electrically. 
>
>I'd like to see a third institution reproduce this. If it can, we've got
>a bit more than a quirky transient phenom... is MIT going to take another crack
>at cold fusion? Any other University?
>
>>14 kWh is no small quantity of heat!  and 70% is a non-trivial percentage.


I talked to Dr. Harold Puthoff the other day.  Dr. Puthoff has published
several papers in Physical Review concerning zero-point energy and
Stochastic Electrodynamics (SED).  His research in that area has greatly
added, but not completed, our understanding of the zero-point energy of
the vacuum.

What does this have to do with cold fusion?   Well first of all, Dr. Puthoff is
associated with a company that is developing CCT (condensed charge
technology), with applications in many areas including energy conversion.
Dr. Puthoff claims (and verification from several National Laboratories
is arranged and hopefully confirmed by the end of this year) that their
device is producing substantial excess energy, and this energy is coming
from the vacuum energy.  Apparently the zero-point energy of the vacuum
(which amounts to well over 10^98 ergs/cm^3 at the Planck cutoff) is not in its
highest entropy state.  This is explainable by the theory (in one of Puthoff's
papers) that the source of this energy (which is believed to be highly
random electromagnetic energy) comes from the motion of all charge carriers
in the universe.  Since the distribution of mass is nowhere near it's
highest entropy state, there is potential to produce useful work from the
vacuum, with the net effect that the energy returns to the vacuum energy
but increases the entropy of the universe.  Thus, the thermodynamic laws are
not violated by this conjecture.

Anyway, back to cold fusion.  Dr. Puthoff believes that the anomalous heat
generation without neutron emission is due to vacuum energy extraction and
not nuclear fusion.  He says that there are some aspects of the cold fusion
experiments that happen to mimic CCT, so under special circumstances (which
may be quite touchy), vacuum energy is tapped and converted to thermal
energy.

Anyway, this is no doubt highly controversial and quite speculative (Dr.
Puthoff and his company have to prove the energy gain of their device),
but I bring it out to add a novel theory as to the real source of the
anomalous heat as observed in many of the "cold fusion" experiments.

Jon Noring


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