From: MEDB@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Dieter Britz)
Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
Subject: CNF bibliography update (total of 722 papers, 111 patents/appl.).
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:58:11 GMT
Reply-To: Dieter Britz <MEDB@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway


Hello all,
one patent and two comments. The patent is strange - I don't see why an
electron beam should cause fusion. Anyway, using D- ions is a novelty, mostly
deuterons, or D+, are used. This is self targeting, and I suspect that there
were such patents in the 1950's.
 Frank Close reviews Huizenga's book, and he likes it; no surprise there. We
do get a small surprise by the article about MITI's funding of cnf. Jed has
been bombarding us with news of all the money MITI is GOING to spend on it,
and I am sure he has used the figure of hundreds of millions of DOLLARS; it
seems that not only is that so many YENS (i.e. down by a factor of 1000 or so)
but MITI has actually only decided to APPLY for the money. Jed, you have not
been straight with us, or somebody has not been straight with you. But with
your knowledge of Japanese, I assume you read the originals, so I guess you
are your own source, nes pas? Some 1E05 dollars is about 1/10 of a NCFI - and
how much will the Japanese spend on lawyers? NCFI lasted 6 months; 1/10 of
that is - quick! - 18 days... Maybe it's all for Takahashi, for more Pd-Ag and
a large supply of D2O.
                                                                        Dieter
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                     COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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                           Addition 18-Aug-1992
                   Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
                           Total in Section 2: 722

Patents: file cnf-pat
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Iwamatsu S;                    Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho JP 04 72,593, 13-Jul-90.
Cited in Chem. Abstr. 117(2):35367 (1992).
**** "The fusion is performed by implanting accelerated D- to H-occluding
metal or alloy. The fusion may also be performed by implanting electron beam
to H-occluded or H-occluding metal." (Direct quote from CA).
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Comment: file cnf-cmnt
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Close F;                                       Nature 358 (1992) 291 (23-Jul).
"The cold war remembered"
** Frank Close, himself the author of one the better books on cold fusion,
here reviews John Huizenga's "Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the
Century". Close likes the book and his only criticism is on a point where he
believes Huizenga's history of events is out by a crucial few days. Close
rightly considers Huizenga's outline of the helium episodes - Walling and
Simon's publication of their paper even after P&F's helium retraction, and
Pons's sabotage of the double-blind helium study - as highlights of the book.
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Swinbanks D;                                   Nature 358 (1992) 268 (23-Jul).
"MITI prepares to fund cold fusion by another name".
** The Japanese organisation MITI has reported to the press its plan to apply
for money for research into cold fusion. The amounts to be asked for are not
known yet, but perhaps hundreds rather than tens of millions of yen (i.e.
about hundreds of thousands of dollars) might be on. However, because most
Japanese scientists do not believe in cold fusion, that term will not be used;
"hydrogen energy" will be substituted. In Japan, as elsewhere, most scientists
consider cold fusion an error.
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Dieter Britz alias medb@cc.newcastle.edu.au, until further notice. Mailing
address: Mech. Eng., Newcastle University, NSW 2308, Australia.
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