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In 1989, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann introduced the idea of
"cold fusion". They presented experimental evidence for a phenomenon
by which nuclear fusion could occur not only at the extreme
temperatures of the sun's core (~15 million K), but at room
temperature. Click
here for a comprehensive, non-technical story on the current
status of cold fusion, by Wired
magazine. We are currently investigating this claim by monitoring the excess heat generated by a cell of pressurizing deuterium relative to a control cell that contains a heating element. Both cells are suspended in a small vacuum chamber and submerged in liquid nitrogen. A Lakeshore control box continuously records data from temperature probes on both cells. Below are two pictures of our experimental setup. |
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