Tom Wind discusses the 1985 Fleischmann and Pons cold fusion hole in the floor experiment by @mes on 3Speak
Rare clip of electrical engineer Tom Wind discussing the Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons 1985 palladium + deuterium electrolysis experiment that produced a 1 ft hole in the lab bench top and a ...
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Well, the initial discovery of Lennar was, or cold fusion, was a reaction that creates unexplained or anomalous heat. And it was first discovered by two electrochemist researchers, Martin Fleischman and Stanley Ponds. And Martin, Fleischman, was one of the world's top electrochemist. He was known throughout the world. And Stanley Ponds headed up the University of Utah's chemistry department. And he wrote, and co-wrote more than 200 scientific papers. These guys were not sluff-offs. Brilliant, brilliant people. Here they are in their laboratory. And they started working, they got interested in this because of work done in 1926. by German researchers, they were looking at palladium, which is a metal, a heavy metal like platinum or gold, and heavy water. And these two researchers back in 1926 said, hey, something strange is going on when we put this in a electrochemical cell. They never, they just said, we're getting extra heat out of this, we don't know why, we don't have time to work on it, and so they let it go. And so there was some additional, a little bit additional work was happening, but A pallium cathode is... Pladium is just like a piece of metal. And if this were pladium, it would cost me about $400. This is a piece of tinfoil. You can pretend as pallium. But you put this down in an electro -catalletic cell, which is just... It could be... a jar, if you've been in chemistry classes, you've had these before, and you put an anode and cathode in there and apply electric current between the two, and then you put some water solution, electrolyte in there, and you have electrocate cell. Well, palladium is one metal that hydrogen can be absorbed right into the metal. Hydrogen is small molecule, it can go right into the metal. It's hard to believe, but hydrogen gets absorbed into pladium. And so it's used for a lot of experiments. Here is the cell that Flashmane Ponds used, where they, when they announced their cold fusion. And so they've been working on this for quite a while for a few years, and in 1985, they were running this experiment, this electrolytic cell, and their piece of palladium was a one inch, excuse me, a little cube of pladium, that was a centimeter by centimeter. and they've been running it for months and months, and they couldn't get anything to happen, so they turned up the current a little bit, up to over an amp or so in the cell, and they went home for the weekend. And they came back on Monday morning, and they said, hey, where did our experiment go when they went into their laboratory? And here was their lab desk, and there was a hole right in the middle of where their lab was, their equipment was, as a one-foot diameter hole in a lab table. Then if you look down below that, there was a 4-inch hole in the concrete. It wasn't, didn't go all the way through, just 4-inch hole or so. And, and they were a little sheepish, and there was this dust all over the place, you know, from this concrete being burned away or whatever. And they smiled at each other, and they just knew they had finally figured it out. So, that was to start. So, 1985. So they kept working at it, and instead of using blocks of palladium, they use foil and wires, pladium from that point on, so they didn't have that problem. And so after putting a lot of their own money into it, about $100,000, they finally said, you know, went to the university and say, hey, we've got this process, and the University of Utah was fascinated, and all they could think about is making money on a patent. Fusion. So they had a conference, a special news conference, announced it, and it made news all over the world. How many of you are old enough to remember the announcement of Cold Fusion? It was neat. It was a neat time, and there is a cover of Time magazine back in May of 1989. And how too obscure chemist stirred excitement and outrage in the scientific world. So they became celebrities. They went to the House, Congressional Committee, Science Committee, and they testified there. There they are, they're telling about their experiment. So everything looked great. So let me tell you what the experiment was. It was, just like I said, it was electrolytic cell with a palladium wire. is the one that they held up at the news conference, and they put a constant current power supply in it, and they force current into one electrode and out the other. And on the electrode where the hydrogen from the water is being expressed, little hydrogen bubbles, there's an intense concentration of hydrogen right on the surface of that palladium. And as a result, a lot of that hydrogen goes into that palladium metal. And so you've loaded up the metal with pladium, with the hydrogen. And here's a picture of the cell, and if you've been in a chemistry class, it's not too different. There's a temperature measuring equipment in here, and they also are very careful to measure the heat produced by the cells. So it was a very well-designed cell, and again, these guys were experts. But it took years of experimentation to get this excess heat. I mean, they get it occasionally, and it was fickle. And for example, a cell might be operated for a month or two under varying conditions. They vary all types of things. And then they finally get a produce, and then once in a while, every once in a while, they get a blip of an excess heat. And so they published a paper, and in this paper is a graph in here. And this graph is so famous now, it's on a t-shirt. And you see that graph there, and that is a graph of temperature over time, the time across the bottom axis, and you see this gradual increase in temperature. There's nothing to do with cold fusion, and then you see that blip there, that increase. And I believe that occurred, I can't remember, that's like a one watt amount of heat there for, I don't know, it was a day or something like that, or part of a day. And that was big news. It's hard to measure one watt in a cell like that. But that's what caught the world's attention, being able to produce that.