Sunday, May 25, 2008

Did he do it?

Japanese physicist Yoshiaki Arata demonstrated cold fusion to an audience in Japan. He claims that his method is "highly reproducible," although I don't know if anyone outside of his lab has reproduced it.

Well, we've seen this movie before. Maybe this time it will end differently.

Wikipedia says that Arata is "a strong nationalist," which some may take as a sign of crankishness. If he really does have lightning in a bottle -- I'm not an optimist, but let's just say -- would he take steps to make sure that only Japan benefits from it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

if he did it, sell crude futures,,,,you'll make a billion.

Anonymous said...

Joe don't know how crankish. Arata's had hundred of paper published.. been working on Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (also known as Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions or cold fusion if you must)-- and you can read most of them at the LEN-CANR library. Incidentally you can also find a document at the library from Amoco's research on LEN-CANR where they found a net increase in energy, but then decided to drop the project...