E-Cat: the new rival of cold fusion the piezonuclear reaction?

    E-Cat: the new rival of cold fusion the piezonuclear reaction?

    Not only E-Cat. The controversy shifts to the so-called "piezonuclear reactions"

    He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

    E-Cat. The focus on cold fusion and the catalyst of Andrea Rossi it seems for a moment to have subsided, due to another story, the one concerning the piezonuclear reactions and which sees prof. Carpinteri, President ofNational Institute of Metrological Research who recently presented a report on such reactions, explaining that in the future they could produce energy without giving rise to radiation e slag.





    From here came a sort of beat and beat. According to a note from theNational Institute of Metrological Research the presence of the so-called reactions piezonucleari: “The experiment was carried out using a press, inside which a sample of Luserna stone was inserted. Subjected to compression and brought to the breaking point, it was found that it emitted a quantity of neutrons 100 times higher than the natural background. The test made use of two detectors, to have the maximum possible certainty about the result obtained ”, say the experts.

    This raised a huge fuss. Nine research executives on the arXiv website said they believe Carpinteri's experimental data "is the result of gross manipulation". And yesterday, the Dr. auspicious Fiorillo, one of the nine researchers answered our questions about NextMe.com arguing that it is currently excluded that the piezonuclear reaction can produce clean energy: “I refer to the work published by Prof. Carpinteri in the Strain magazine, which I analyzed together with my colleagues. In particular, we studied the statistical quality of the compositional results, obtained by means of microanalysis in electron microscopy, of the Luserna stone subjected to fracture by Prof. Carpinteri. We verified that the compositional data presented in the work, which referred to 30 points of the fractured surface and 30 points of the external surface of the sample, they could not be the result of independent measurements. This invalid the fundamental conclusion of the work, which states that a measurable fraction of Fe nuclei is transformed into Al nuclei (or in any case lighter nuclei) following the fracture process. In a nutshell, thepiezonuclear effect cannot be demonstrated through these experiments "says Dr. Fiorillo.



    Other experts also believed little in what was claimed by prof. Carpinteri. Among them, Alessio Guglielmi, of the University of Bath that on Oggiscienza he would have published an open letter addressed to Carpinteri to find out more, reiterating that he wanted to clarify.

    Here are some of the hottest questions Guglielmi asked him: "Are you able to respond promptly and comprehensively to the allegations of manipulation of the experimental data that have been made to you? Can you explain why you mention works that have been discredited by the scientific community?"And here it is Carpenters' answer: “The word 'manipulation' was used by my detractors only to claim that they themselves did not manipulate my data. But, apart from this, how can we talk about manipulation when the results have been obtained by different teams and by highly experienced and serious specialists (chemists, physicists and geologists). Moreover, the results of microanalyses are thousands and all unequivocal: something strange and unexpected happens. I think the discrediting of certain works is relative, and even instrumental for other purposes, as is also demonstrated in my own case “.

    Furthermore, he points out, Carpenters, "I have good reasons to firmly believe in the reality of piezonuclear phenomena, which, as I have seen written, do not have much to do with the production of energy (which may perhaps be an application, but it is all to be verified and in any case for now the question is of marginal importance for my research), as much as with the measurement of particle emissions and atomic weights. Therefore INRIM is the ideal location to be able to accurately measure these phenomena and verify the correctness of the experiments conducted in recent years ".


    But the doctor Fiorillo, according to which phenomena like these are unfortunately still chimeras: “I am 23 years that we talk about it and these rivers of words have produced nothing. I am not a nuclear physicist (I study magnetic materials) and I refrain from peremptory statements. But I rely on the opinion of the scientific community and on the set of principles and rules that it has given itself to verify new phenomena and new concepts ('extraordinary claims should be matched with extraordinary evidence', or 'extraordinary statements must correspond to extraordinary evidence'). The story of cold fusion recalls in some ways some great mystifications of the past: i spokes N,abnormal water, and the memory of water".


    Where is the truth?

    Francesca Mancuso

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