Successful Cold Fusion Experiment?

An anonymous reader writes "The italian economic journal 'Il sole 24 ore' published an article about a successful cold fusion experiment performed by Yoshiaki Arata in Japan. They seems to have pumped high pressure deutherium gas in a nanometric matrix of palladium and zyrcon oxide. The experiments generates a considerable amount of energy and they found the presence of Helium-4 in the matrix (as sign of the fusion). I was not able to find other articles about this but the journal is very authoritative in Italy. Google translations are also available."

Elium-4?

[kyriosdelis]

Must have been a very successful experiment. All the "H" are indeed gone!

Re:Elium-4?

[bloodninja]

Must have been a very successful experiment. All the "H" are indeed gone!

Obviously, they are Italian. They could even get the trains to run on thyme! Fix It Again, Tony.

wow, elium-4

[circletimessquare]

i mean, i would have looked for helium-4 as a proof of cold fusion, but elium-4?! that's incredible! did they use dilithium crystals to do that? adamantium? unobtanium?

Re:Come on

[pacroon]

You don't really believe all this cold fusion mumbo jumbo now do you?

Of course.. You could build the power plant in Sim City 2000, couldn't you?

Re:It's not Rocket Science!

[Megane]

That's why Slashdot has editors to clean up the submissions, and discard the dupes.

Oh, wait...

Re:Elium-4?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where is the -1 Rod Up Arse mod when you need it?

IT WAS A JOKE.

Re:Come on

[urcreepyneighbor]

I want to believe!

Re:choice of media?

[Anonymous Coward]

Duh! Are you blonde? It's obviously much easier to get past the silly peer review stage of things if you publish in a journal totally unrelated to your field. This is why you physicists never succeed. You should be publishing in a good, well respected journal. Like Penthouse.

Re:A world changing experiment...

[coldmist]

or at best, it's a "word changing experiment". ;)

Re:Come on

[maxwell demon]

Of course! [adobe.com] :-)

Re:The New Energy Times has some coverage as well

[urcreepyneighbor]

The New Energy Times describes itself as "The leader in news and information on low energy nuclear reactions".

Isn't that like going to a Nationalist Socialist website to learn about the holocaust? ;)

Ah, crap. Godwin. I always do this.

Re:nanometric matrix?

[fyngyrz]

Why not a defribulating constant vortex of endoplasmic singularities?

Everyone knows those are unstable. What were you thinking?

It uses Zirconium

[Anonymous Coward]

Zircon, of gawdy jewelry fame, contains zirconium. Maybe my father's gawdawful giant zircon ring will finally become valuable. That can't happen. My father's sense of bad taste was infallible. On those grounds alone, I declare that the experiment was a hoax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconium#Applications [wikipedia.org]

Re:wow, elium-4

[DMUTPeregrine]

No, they used Italianium and Machinetranslatium.

Mr fusion

[Anonymous Coward]

Now all we need is a way of turning egg yokes into deuterium and palladium.

Cat got my tongue :(

[louzer]

I am willing to bet 1 USD on the fact that this invention will not turn out to be churning out energy using nuclear fusion. Payments will be done through paypal if anyone is willing to bet 1 USD on that this invention will prove to be generating energy from nuclear fusion.

english.it

[Dr. Cody]

In my personal experience, machine translation has long since surpassed your average Italian English speaker.

no, just west end London

[Marbleless]

'ere guv, 'ave some 'elium-4 :)

Re:Elium-4?

[Mr. Underbridge]

Well, that was certainly the most interesting etymological post I've seen on slashdot lately! Certainly more interesting than an article on physics posted in an Italian business magazine, which seems to have been the original topic.

H conservation!

[Mark_in_Brazil]

Must have been a very successful experiment. All the "H" are indeed gone!

Don't be silly. That would violate the principle of conservation of Hs. They appear to have migrated to the the deuterium and converted it to "deutherium."

english.it.us

[Dr. Cody]

Don't worry, I'll get modded down once the U.S. Slashdotters start logging on. Americans whose great-great-grandparents came from Sicily will see me talking shit about "Italians" and think that I was talking about them.

Re:So-called geeks!

[Free the Cowards]

Please. The oceans are full of the stuff. In theory, yes, extreme fusion use boils the planet. But in theory, we all die with the heat death of the universe. 10% efficient fusion using seawater hydrogen could be the exclusive provider of all worldwide energy and it still wouldn't make a noticeable difference in sea level for thousands or even millions of years.

Refusing to use fusion because it might one day affect the oceans is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Our current energy usage is destroying the planet now. It would be utterly insane to refuse to use a clean, non-destructive alternative just because over-use will start having some small impact some kilo- or mega-years in the future. Nothing is perfect. If this works (and I am, as I said, quite skeptical) then it would be vastly better than any known alternative.

Re:Elium-4?

[davidc]

If you look carefully, you can see that the H has fused with the deuterium...

Re:Elium-4?

[MrNaz]

That mod option is right next to the "-1 Resists Education" one.

Re:choice of media?

[Paradise Pete]

You should be publishing in a good, well respected journal. Like Penthouse.

Dear Penthouse,
I've heard stories about it happening to other people, but I never thought it would happen to me. I was in the lab late one night (I'm a maverick physicist) working on my latest experiment. I began to hear a soft moaning, which was odd because I thought I was alone in the building. Intrigued, I followed the sound to its source, a beautiful young lab assistant named Marjorie.

Her lab coat was askew, revealing her bosom heaving in time with her moaning. I couldn't help but begin to be aroused. "Is that a deuterium rod in your pocket?" she asked in a seemingly innocent way. "Hai," I replied, falling back on my Japanese roots. "But you're 85 years old, professor!" she exclaimed.

"Yes, but I have fusion," I replied.
She reached out a hand to examine my experiment.

"Ooh, it's chilly," she said with surprise.
Yes, I know!" I said, beaming with pride. "Isn't that amazing?"

Some time later, after thoroughly going over the details of my experiment, I asked what she thought. "Very impressive! But is it repeatable?," she wondered.

And I answered "All night long baby, all night long."

Re:H conservation!

[LrdDimwit]

Law of *conservation* of H's? No, no, no. See, this is Japan. They create H all the time -- one of the most common formulas is Schoolgirl + 6Tentacle -> Schoolgirl +12Tentacle + H

Re:I hope so.

[X0563511]

That's the fun about stupid. You can only look smart to a point, but there is no end to idiot.