I heard about the confirmation of water of mars pretty soon after it went public after spending an entire afternoon reading newspapers cover-to-cover, but I learned about it from my friend Alex. Not one mention of it in the news.
And you know what? Mainstream media has failed me again: May 22 (yes, over a month ago) Japanese team of physicists Yoshiaki Arata et al. proved incontrovertibly that cold fusion is totally real.
Arata demonstrated what he refers to as “solid nuclear fusion” in front of 60 including reporters, people from universities and companies in Japan, and a gaijin.
The story goes, “spillover-deuterium” causes a “new kind of energy” which creates a double-structure cathode that is used to create a totally whack amount of energy and wicked-ass pressure which can compensate for the relatively frigid 25 degrees of the Système Internationale standard room temperature.
The especially wicked part is that the energy being produced by this cathode and “Pd[palladium]-black” is significantly greater than could possibly be created by chemical reaction alone.
Deuterium gas forced into an cell containing palladium (in zirconium oxide, ArOv2-Pd). According to Arata, huge amounts of the deuterium is absorbed by the palladium which brings the deuterium nuclei close enough together to fuse.
One of the eyewitnesses, Osaka University’s professor Akito Takahashi, wrote,
Arata and Zhang demonstrated very successfully the generation of continuous excess energy (heat) [sic] from ZrOv2-nano-Pd sample powders under Dv2 gas charging and generation of helium-4 … The demonstrated live data looked just like the data they reported in their published papers [J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008). This demonstration showed the the method is highly reproducible.
Arata, on the other hand, took the success a little more philosophically:
I always stay on guard not to be too possessed by my own current knowledge. History has shown up repeatedly, for example, the foolishness of denying heliocentricism, which resulted from individuals adhering too strongly to their own knowledge or to what was common sense in the past.
