Purdue panel finds misconduct by fusion scientist

July 18th, 2008 By DEANNA MARTIN , Associated Press Writer

(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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  • Eky - Jul 18, 2008
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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.
  • jibbguy - Jul 18, 2008
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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
  • El_Nexus - Jul 18, 2008
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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.
  • RealScience - Jul 19, 2008
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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).
  • Ragtime - Jul 19, 2008
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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

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