HOUSTON COLD FUSION OCT 15, 2008Palladium will soon be in very high demand.
-- Control Engineering, 8/11/2008
Research Triangle Park, NC and Munich, Germany – Cold fusion will be a special keynote topic at ISA Expo 2008 in Houston in October and the following month electronica 2008 will highlight a variety of power supply technologies. Process sensors, instrumentation, and power protection and power control technologies are involved.
Dr. David J. Nagel, research professor at George Washington University, will present the Keynote/Rimbach Lecture at ISA Expo 2008, Oct. 15 in Houston.
The potential for a new sensing and instrumentation market with continued exploration and evolution of cold fusion technology will be discussed in the address, Instrumentation for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, scheduled at 9 a.m.
An excerpt focuses on the history of cold fusion: "Two chemists announced in 1989 that they could produce nuclear reactions and energy under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. These reactions were termed ‘cold fusion,’ even though no one really knew then what nuclear reactions might be occurring. In the years since 1989, hundreds of experiments have been done on what is now called Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, or the Fleischmann-Pons Effect. The total body of experimental evidence shows that it is indeed possible to produce nuclear reactions at low input energies. However, the field remains controversial and poorly understood. There is no satisfactory theory now for what has been observed."
Experiments require sophisticated instrumentation, including multiple sensors, and automated control of relevant conditions. Many believe that understanding, control, optimization and commercial exploitation of the new means to trigger nuclear reactions will follow in the future. If these advances occur, including significant scaling up in power levels, a new nuclear reactor industry will emerge. Sensing and control instrumentation will be critical.
For 36 years, Nagel has had positions of increasing responsibility at the Naval Research Laboratory. He has written or co-authored more than 150 technical articles, reports, and book chapters. In 1998, he became a research professor of George Washington University. He is general chairman of the 14th International Conference on Cold Fusion (Washington, DC). His R&D career paralleled developments in MEMS and nano-technology. He is recognized as an authority in MEMS and nano-technology-based sensors and wireless sensor systems.
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