Purdue panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist

By DEANNA MARTIN , Associated Press Writer, Physics / Physics

(AP) -- A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.

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Posted by Eky 07/18/08 16:54

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I have followed this dispute since it began in 2002, i was in college studying mechanical engineering and fluid mechanics. I read the initial publication and everything that followed. Taleyarkhan is not a pseudo scientist, this work is legitimate and intriguing. That fact is Taleyarkhan and his colleagues are(were?) working on a legitimate piece of scientific phenomena that is poorly understood. they were not out to create "cold fusion". Its a shame that his name has been tarnished by this. Maybe there was something going through radioactive decay in that lab that produced a positive neutron emission from the scintillator, But the fact still stands, the mechanism for sonoluminescence is not fully understood and it is worhty of research.

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Posted by jibbguy 07/18/08 18:40

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Please check out this timely article on Cold Fusion / LENR and how it has been continually repressed and falsely maligned since 1989 despite over 100 successful replications of the Pons and Fleischmann experiments by fully reputable Universities / Professors all over he world.

http://www.opedne...824.html

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Posted by El_Nexus 07/18/08 19:53

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...yes and for every purported successful replication of the Pins & Fleishmann effect, there have been several others that achieved no result. And nobody has been been able to reliably replicate the result.

That said, I think the anomalous heating happens so often it demands some explanation. But cold fusion it ain't.

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Posted by RealScience 07/19/08 01:10

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It's not exactly new; I ran into this at the patent office a long, long time ago.
Check out U.S. 4,333,796! (Of course a patent doesn't mean that it works).

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Posted by Ragtime 07/19/08 04:57

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[i]..the task of committee wasn't to judge the validity of particular experimental results, but to assess the specific charges of misscondict...[/i]
Sniff, sniff... here's smelling something. I'm not big fan of sonofusion, as I'm finding it as a somewhat unpractical approach - but I can feel the fabrication of reasons, why to stop this research ASAP. The reasons published appears as a highly subjective, personally motivated for me. The latest success of cold fusion is reported here - who has attempted to reproduce it? Do we have a cold fusion energy enough to be approved to waste a research potential by such way?

http://physicswor...p_1.html