User:POVbrigand/material
Editing controversial topics[edit]
How WP:REDFLAG can be misused to delete content and sources that support a minority view.[edit]
WP:REDFLAG: "Any exceptional claim requires multiple high-quality sources"
Any part of a minority view can be seen as an exceptional claim from the mainstream view. Therefore, any part of a minority view requires multiple high-quality sources.
Example:
the claim that "NASA researchers are working on LENR" is supported by multiple verifiable sources:
- A self published video hosted on a NASA server explicitly stating that NASA researchers are working on the topic [1]
- An interview with a chief scientist from NASA explicitly stating that research is ongoing. interview transcript
- A patent on the subject filed by those NASA researchers. [2]
- 2 NASA technical memoranda describing experiments on the topic [3], [4]
- A peer reviewed paper mentioning among others experiments conducted by NASA researchers [5]
- Multiple presentations from those NASA scientists stating the research from NASA server, per Freedom of Information Act request by NewEnergTimes.com
- NASA website explicitly mentioning the topic [6]
- Secondary sources (russian news outlet) mentioning NASA research on LENR: [7], [8]
- A few secondary sources commenting on the NASA video.
Reason to delete in 2 easy steps:
step 1) "NASA researchers are working on LENR" is an exceptional claim thus multiple high-quality sources are required
step 2) the provided sources are not high-quality
Questions:
- What is an exceptional claim ?
- What is high-quality ?
- If any part of a minority view is always an exceptional claim and thus always needs multiple high-quality sources, then why do we need WP:PARITY of sources ?
Wikipedia:SELFSOURCE, Wikipedia:ABOUTSELF, Wikipedia:SELFPUB
How peer reviewed journals can be dismissed[edit]
Current Science H-index of 55 ranks 7/77 [9] and its SJR of 0.053 ranks 18/77. [10]
But because the journal also publishes minority view papers, the whole journal is dismissed for being unreliable. Wikipedia:SOURCES#Reliable_sources
Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_mainstream_encyclopedia[edit]
Started by now banned User:VanishedUser314159
Italy ENEA Book[edit]
[11] ENEA technology brief - Excess of Power in Deuterium-charged Palladium - Vittorio Violante
adherents of the fringe theory[edit]
George Miley presentation at the following URL: University of Urbana shows he is collaboration with an Australian Emeritus Professor Heinrich Hora [12] CV [13]
Example of publications by Heinrich Hora:
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/STAFF/VISITING_FELLOWS%26PROFESSORS/pdf/KellyJuly-Aug09%5B1%5D.pdf
Heinrich Hora cannot be described as "adherent of the fringe theory" and yet he works together with George Miley and coauthors a presentation where there is explicit reference to Patterson Cell and the Rossi Cell.
Y.E. Kim[edit]
Opposition and support for cold fusion
Gaining acceptance[edit]
see also Heinrich Hora's comment:
"After Miles' talk showing heat production I ask for his comments to the following fact: After the Hokkaido conference I visited Dr. Okamoto at his highly supported Japanese research lab for cold fusion and he told to my colleague and me that they had paid a huge sum for getting a number of experimental sets from the Riviera laboratory to show heat generation. After no heat was detected they had Stan Pons in Sapporo for about 10 weeks to get the instruments running: not any heat was produced. -- I should mention that the only fact I am taking serious as I explained in my talk shared with George Miley is with his very carefully and reproducibly seen heavy element generation. At the atomic number 153 appears a local maximum in his measered generation disctribution similar to the uranium fission at 119, the Maruh-Greiner effect. Miley could not know this then and all the consequences are in our article in Volume 2 of the LENR book at Oxford University Press edited by Jan Marwan and Steve Krivit. This is the point where I see that there is substance in the field.
Posted by: Heinrich Hora | March 27, 2010 07:46 AM"
Scientific discourse[edit]
Reproductions[edit]
statement from MIT progress report 2010:
- For example, SRI reports excellent reproducibility of excess heat for cathodes that load well enough and long enough to satisfy the criteria they have established;
- Swartz has for years reported a very high reproducibility in his excess heat experiments with phusors
- Wired - Cold-Fusion Graybeards Keep the Research Coming
- Swartz, M, "Quasi-One-Dimensional Model of Electrochemical Loading of Isotopic Fuel into a Metal", Fusion Technology, 22, 2, 296-300 (1992).
- Swartz, M., "Isotopic Fuel Loading Coupled to Reactions at an Electrode", Fusion Technology, 26, 4T, 74-77 (1994)
- Swartz, M., "Isotopic Fuel Loading Coupled to Reactions at an Electrode", 4, Proceedings: 'Fourth International Conference on Cold Fusion", sponsored by EPRI and the Office of Naval Research, December (1993).
- Swartz, M., "Codeposition of Palladium and Deuterium", Fusion Technology, 32, 126-130 (1997).
- Swartz, M., "Generalized Isotopic fuel Loading Equations", "Cold fusion Source book, International Symposium on Cold Fusion and Advanced Energy systems", Ed. Hal Fox, Minsk, Belarus, May (1994).
- the Energetics group reported good reproducibility for moderate levels of excess heat in their experiments with Superwaves;
- Mosier-Boss reports good reproducibility in the case of low-level energetic radiation in codeposition experiments;
- and earlier in this report we discussed the two-laser experiment and the modified Szpak codeposition experiment, both of which were quite reproducible in Letts's lab."
Eiichi Yamaguchi [14] reproduced Fleischmann-Pons
Akira Kitamura - reproducing Arata-Zhang in Physics Letters A
Energy Catalyzer[edit]
Media coverage[edit]
The topic has been covered in Italian newspapers [1] on Italian radio, television [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
in the USA [9] [10] [11][12] [13]
and in some other countries. [14] [15] [16] [17][18] [19][20]
more media coverage[edit]
Newest Cold Fusion Machine Does the Impossible ... Or Does it? - By Natalie Wolchover, Life's Little Mysteries Staff Writer - 15 April 2011 [15]
- FAZ [16]
- wired.co.uk
- Forbes
- Spiegel [17]
The Machine That Changes Everything - Pat Archbold
other interesting collectibles[edit]
NewEnergyTimes book and proceedings list
Failed[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Bologna Si Candida Per Il Brevetto". Il Sole 24 ORE. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011. ,"In Giappone ancora un mese di lavoro – Sono ricerche molto complesse e costose". Il Sole 24 ORE. 25 March 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011., "Il Tempo – Spettacoli – L'energia gratis parla italiano". Iltempo.it. Retrieved 10 June 2011., "Fusione Fredda, secondo strike" (PDF). La Stampa. 11 May 2011., Dario Bressanini. "Nucleare da tavolo". Ilfattoquotidiano.it. Retrieved 10 June 2011., "Il catalizzatore di energia inventato da Focardi e Rossi". Rinascita. Retrieved 11 July 2011., "Ho realizzato la fusione fredda: Annuncio choc del fisico Focardi". il Resto del Carlino. 13 January 2011., "Ilaria Venturi: ''Fusione nucleare a freddo – „A Bologna ci siamo riusciti"". La Repubblica. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
- ^ Radio 24, Il ritorno della fusione fredda, April 6, 2011
- ^ Radio 24, Fusione fredda: una possibile spiegazione, April 7, 2011
- ^ a 4-minute interview (in Italian) by the Radio 1 with Sergio Focardi about the E-Cat. The interview was aired on 11 May 2011 and starts 1h26 min since the beginning of the broadcast. Edited version
- ^ youtube.com (in Italian) Michele Cucuzza reports on the Energy Catalyzer during his 90 minutes talk show on Radio 2, Radio2days, Saturday 2 July 2011 (The original transmission).
- ^ La magia del signor Rossi, Angelo Saso, Rai News (Italian) (2011-05-03 20:35). Retrieved on 2011-07-10. (Youtube version in Rai News official channel. Retrieved on 2011-07-10.)
- ^ "Parla lo scienziato che ha inventato la fusione nucleare a freddo". Panorama (Italian magazine) (in Italian). 22 April 2011., "Fusione nucleare a freddo: i dubbi del fisico Antonio Zoccoli". Panorama (Italian magazine) (in Italian). 28 April 2011., "Energia all'infinito. In un laboratorio italiano realizzata (pare) la fusione fredda. Risolverà i problemi energetici del pianeta?" (PDF). Focus: 32. August 2011.
- ^ "cold fusion articles". Focus.it.
- ^ Clarke, Peter (January 24, 2011). "Italian scientists claim cold fusion success". EE Times.
- ^ Clay Dillow, Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough, Fox News, January 24., 2011
- ^ Benjamin Radford, Discovery News, Cold Fusion Claims Resurface, 1/21/2011, Cold Fusion Claims Resurface
- ^ Frank Perley, Nuclear future beyond Japan. Purported cold fusion advance aimed at energy woes, Washington Times, March 17, 2011
- ^ Rossi Cold Fusion Device, Coast to Coast AM, March 23, 2011
- ^ Srinivasan, Mahadeva. "Cold fusion poised to become an industrial reality" (PDF). Science Reporter July 2011. 22passi.it.
- ^ "Ny Teknik Articles on Cold Fusion". nyteknik.se.
- ^ "Kalte Fusion in der Black Box?". Telepolis. heise.de. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- ^ defkalion-energy.com, Makedonia, 29 June 2011
- ^ "Επένδυση 200 εκατ. στην Ξάνθη για «πράσινη» ενέργεια". express.gr. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- ^ "Energy catalyzer – Defkalion Green Technologies on NET tv HD". YouTube.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|accessdte=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - ^ "Cold fusion: reality or utopia?". Voice of Russia. Retrieved 2011-07-10.