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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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May 1, 1991
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COLDFUS1.ASC
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This interesting file uploaded to KeelyNet courtesy of
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Jim Shaffer.
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From the Williamsport, PA _Sun-Gazette_, April 25 1991:
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FIRM CLAIMS COLD FUSION MYSTERY SOLVED
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Lancaster Company's Assertion Disputed
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Pennsylvania company claims to have solved
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the puzzle of cold fusion.
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Mills Technologies, of Lancaster, Pa., claims to have determined a
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non-nuclear mechanism for the purported phenomenon reported at the
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University of Utah two years ago. Mills also says it has made the
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effect reproducible.
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The company attributes the effect to a previously unknown reaction
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that creates a new, smaller form of hydrogen.
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The explanation disputes much of the quantum mechanical theory that
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has guided nuclear scientists most of this century, and was greeted
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with some skepticism by other scientists.
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"Basically, we have both the theoretical and practical aspects
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solved," Mills' owner, Randell L. Mills, said in a telephone
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interview Wednesday.
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The company scheduled a news conference in Lancaster today.
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Mills said his company of about a half-dozen employees has built its
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own cells that have produced up to 40 times the electrical energy
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put in.
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He also said the heat production works with ordinary water as well
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as heavy water, and it does not require a palladium electrode.
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University of Utah researchers Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann
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stumbled on to the process "by serendipity" and they were wrong in
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their assumption that nuclear reactions were creating the excess
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heat, Mills said.
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But since hydrogen from ordinary water is the fuel, the prospects
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for use as an energy source are still very good, he said.
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Mills also said the effect is "100 percent reproducible" and the
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company has applied for patents worldwide. Reproducibility has been
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a major hindrance in the acceptance of the phenomena.
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Under the theory, the electrons in hydrogen atoms drop to previously
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unknown energy levels below the "ground state" thought to be the
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lowest level under conventional quantum mechanics. Dropping to
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these lower levels requires a release of energy as heat.
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A paper is to be published in the August issue of the Journal of
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Fusion Technology, where a number of cold-fusion-related articles
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have appeared, Mills said. He will speak on the work at the August
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meeting of the American Chemical Society in New York City.
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Fritz Will, director of the National Cold Fusion Institute at the
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University of Utah, was out of the country. Haven Bergeson, who
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directs the physics group for the institute, said he was unfamiliar
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with Mills and his work and could not comment on its specifics.
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"On the surface, it seems like an unlikely idea," Bergeson said.
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"It's a line of thinking that I don't think any of us have
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followed."
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John Huizenga, a University of Rochester nuclear chemist who co-
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chaired the Department of Energy's cold-fusion review panel, said he
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also knew nothing of the work, but thought it difficult to take the
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claim seriously at this point.
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Huizenga, who has previously said that cold fusion would require "a
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succession of miracles," said the Mills work appears to be more
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willingness to surrender a well-accepted and proven theory for the
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sake of sketchy experimental evidence.
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"When surprise upon surprise upon surprise comes along, one has to
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be very careful," he said.
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Mills said his company was formed in 1986 as a research-oriented
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business. He said his background includes a bachelor's degree in
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chemistry and a medical degree from Harvard University. He also
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studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
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Technology.
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