NPA'S 2012 JOHN CHAPPELL LECTURE: ED STORMS ON COLD FUSION

"Low energy nuclear reaction" (LENR)—a pipe dream, or a potential source of cheap energy? Dr. Edmund Storms, now retired from Los Alamos Laboratories, has followed the twists and turns of the Cold Fusion debate from the beginning. Today he is amongst the world's leading experts on the subject, having monitored numerous frantic attempts to reproduce results first announced by Pons and Fleischmann in 1989, including decades of quiet research long after the bubble seemed to burst in the face of scientific condemnation.

A Ph.D. in radiochemistry and author of over seventy reviewed publications, monographs and books, Dr. Storms conducted basic research at Los Alamos in high temperature chemistry of materials used in nuclear power and propulsion reactors. Even in retirement, Storms continues to investigate "cold fusion" in his own Sante Fe laboratory. Now he is ready to share with the NPA the findings of his twenty-plus-year study.

"What is Cold Fusion and Why Should You Care?" will be this year's John Chappell Memorial lecture, an annual event sponsored by the NPA to honor the most significant contributions to the advancement of science.  (Last year's lecture was by Electric Universe proponent Wallace Thornhill.)  Though the cold fusion effect has been reproduced hundreds of times since 1989, a satisfying theory to explain the behavior and to give it quantifiable predictability remains elusive. In his paper and corresponding lecture, Dr. Storms will describe the paradoxes that a good theory must explain, and he will share his own views on what is actually occurring in the more promising experiments.
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