{"id":90741,"date":"2019-05-15T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas"},"modified":"2019-05-15T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:42:24","slug":"cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/cold-fusion-reactor-independently-verified-has-10000-times-the-energy-density-of-gas","title":{"rendered":"Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists. The research paper, which hasn\u2019t yet undergone peer review, seems to confirm both the existence of cold fusion, and its potency: The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline. Even allowing for a massively conservative margin of error, the scientists say that the cold fusion device they tested is 10 times more powerful than gasoline \u2014 which is currently the best fuel readily available to mankind.<\/p>\n

The device being tested, which is called the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat for short), was created by Andrea Rossi has been claiming for the past two years that he had finally cracked cold fusion, but much to the chagrin of the scientific community he hasn\u2019t allowed anyone to independently analyze the device \u2014 until now. While it sounds like the scientists had a fairly free rein while testing the E-Cat, we should stress that they still don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s going on inside the sealed steel cylinder reactor. Still, the seven scientists, all from good European universities, obviously felt confident enough with their findings to publish the research paper.<\/p>\n

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As for what\u2019s happening inside<\/em> the cold fusion reactor, Andrea Rossi and his colleague Sergio Focardi have previously said their device works by infusing hydrogen into nickel, transmuting the nickel into copper and releasing a large amount of heat. While Rossi hasn\u2019t provided much in the way of details \u2014 he\u2019s a very secretive man, it seems \u2014 we can infer some knowledge from NASA\u2019s own research into cold fusion<\/a>. Basically, hydrogen ions (single protons) are sucked into a nickel lattice (pictured right); the nickel\u2019s electrons are forced into the hydrogen to produce neutrons; the nickel nuclei absorb these neutrons; the neutrons are stripped of their electrons to become protons; and thus the nickel goes up in atomic number from 28 to 29, becoming copper.<\/p>\n

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Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists. The research paper, which hasn\u2019t yet undergone peer review, seems to confirm both the existence of cold fusion, and its potency: The cold fusion device being tested has roughly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}