Cold Fusion documentary

[iMo]

For those who remember that times vividly and for younger among us who are sometimes surprised by today's scams..

A good document, imho. almost a thriller..
Part 1 so far..

[Analog Kid]

Excellent video, great presentation. I watched the whole thing (long).
Except that it leaves you hanging at the end; if you want to get the whole story you have to watch Part 2, which you have to pay for. Ugh. So somewhat click-baity.

[iMo]

Part 2 of the Utah's thriller..

[Analog Kid]

Thank you, thank you.
Now I'm wondering if there's a Part 3. Watching this one now.

[richnormand]

There is supposed to be a part 3.
Not on YouTube yet about the trailing stuff done afterwards.

[Analog Kid]

Dang. I want to see those "scientists" get their comeuppance. Guess I'll have to wait.

[iMo]

I remember the times pretty well - as young phd students we were running around the university depts. looking for a piece of palladium and a pint of heavy water
In 1986 the "high-temperature" superconductors based on a ceramic mixtures were discovered, which were replicated on our university as well, afaik, thus we youngsters were pretty prone to jump on such things easily..
An earth-shaking discovery if true, indeed. Interesting insights I've never heard about in such a details..
PS: waiting on Part 3..

[3roomlab]

nice thunderfoot vibe 
doing an autopsy of bill nye

[vk6zgo]

nice thunderfoot vibe 
doing an autopsy of bill nye

Well, that burnt up about 3 minutes before I realised that I don't have another 40 minutes to watch something about somebody I had barely heard of, & don't give a damn about.

[vk6zgo]

I remember the times pretty well - as young phd students we were running around the university depts. looking for a piece of palladium and a pint of heavy water
In 1986 the "high-temperature" superconductors based on a ceramic mixtures were discovered, which were replicated on our university as well, afaik, thus we youngsters were pretty prone to jump on such things easily..
An earth-shaking discovery if true, indeed. Interesting insights I've never heard about in such a details..
PS: waiting on Part 3..

Whilst all this was going on, I was busy trying to have a life, & the whole "cold fusion" thing "slid by", until it was pretty much debunked.

Various people have since maintained that they have "solved the problem of cold fusion" attracting a number of acolytes, one of which was Wayne Green from "73" & "Byte" magazines.
Wayne went a bit "strange" in his dotage, also being a firm Moon landing denier, filling the editorials of "73" with a lot of pseudo- scientific verbiage.

At the time, it all brought to mind Stanford Ovshinsky, whose concept of "Ovonics" was roundly derided in a "Scientific American" article in the 1960s.
Having read that article, for decades I was of the impression that Ovshinsky was a charlatan, & his "Ovonics" a scam, but much more recently, with the advent of the Internet I "Googled" his name, only to be surprised to find that he is highly regarded for his work, which is in widespread application in the mainstream.

[iMo]

[watchmaker]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/scientist-behind-superconductivity-claims-ousted/

[RJSV]

   By 1989 they already knew, how to push a FAD onto the world, that being the whole, Particle Board Beam weapon.   (Ok, I added in the particle board thing).

   So the PR people knew how to hype up a cold reactor,  by 1989.  IMO,  the death beam sounds more 'sexy'.  (And more instantaneous).

These days, some folks wanna confiscate,  our death ray stock.

Particle beam weapons needed massive amounts of pure voltage...I think the beam apparatus did run on some 50 kv.

   Spark balls and air core coils...felt like I was working at Disney.