A month ago, I committed myself to making some local cold fusion connections by placing somewhat cryptic posters in London university physics departments. I was delighted to receive some emails and had some great follow up conversations with curious, open-minded physicists.
One of the physicists was also an entrepreneurial character. He politely critiqued my proposition of needing £10M to make cold fusion a reality. To paraphrase, “No one is going to give you £10M. What can you demonstrate for £1000?” 😱 .
Now, I’m not an experimentalist by trade (my academic fusion research was largely theoretical) but £1000 seemed ludicrously small to me. I took his advice seriously though - he is an experimentalist after all (built his own Fusor like the one I was interested in back in 2014).
After digging around in the literature I came across work of Les Case 1,2,3. He made cold fusion happen in a pressurised container of deuterium gas at 3.4 atmospheres at 200C with palladium on coconut shell carbon. The set-up seemed “simple”:
surely even a theorist like me could pull this off!
So, this is the task I’ve charged myself with - to replicate the work of Les Case. It’s going to be an exciting journey which I hope you will be part of by following my experimental log.
G. Mallove, Infinite Energy Magazine Volume 4, Issue #23 (1999) ↩︎
P. Hagelstein et.al, Appendix B Results of Case Experiments at SRI (2004). (This was Submitted to DoE as part of their second review on LENR) ↩︎