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| After 20 years of continuous study and tens of millions of research dollars spent worldwide it is appropriate to examine the basis for, and confidence in what has been learned since the public announcements of a new effect in March 1989. One fact that seems irrefutable is the existence of a heat effect in the electrolytic deuterium-palladium system that is quantitatively consistent with nuclear, but not chemical heat production. Now established as the Fleischmann-Pons Effect (or FPE) several tasks require further study: 1) certain identification of the pathway from reactant (presumed to be D) to primary product (observed in some experiments to be 4He), 2) quantitative or upper bound definition of the products of secondary or tertiary reactions (the so-called ash), 3) complete development of a mechanistic and quantitatively predictive physical and mathematical model for the reaction process, and 4) evaluation of potential applications of any new phenomena. |
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New Energy Technology
8:30 AM-11:25 AM, Sunday, March 22, 2009 Hilton -- Alpine Ballroom West, Oral
Division of Environmental Chemistry |