Cold Fusion is Back (there's just one problem)

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In the past couple of years cold fusion has received renewed attention, though it’s now been renamed to “low energy nuclear reactions” or LENR for short. In this video I look at what we know and don’t know, and how promising it is.

The early papers on muon catalyzed fusion that I mention are here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/160525a0
https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.106.330

The papers about electron shielding in lattices are here:
https://www.publish.csiro.au/ph/PH540373
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01289572

The references for the early cold fusion papers from the 1920s are
Paneth & Peters, Naturwissenschaften, 14(43), 956–962 (1926)
Wendt & Irion, JACS, 44(9), 1887–1894 (1922)

Huw Price has a paper about the entire cold fusion story here
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03776
If you want to get started with reading about the topic, I suggest you start with Huw’s paper.

The paper with the laser modulation is this:
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/71612

The report from the follow-up experiment that failed to reproduce the laser modulation results is here:
http://coldfusioncommunity.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1_JCMNS-Vol20.pdf

The paper from Edmund Storms is here:
https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BiberianJPjcondenseds.pdf#page=86

Arvin Ash’s video about the strong nuclear force is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF2c_jzefKc

The recent paper with hypotheses for how low energy nuclear reactions might come about is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07245

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00:00 Intro
00:31 Cold fusion works
05:27 Cold fusion doesn’t work
09:41 Something works, but we don’t know what
14:12 What does it mean?
18:16 Sponsor message

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