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The CETI Patterson Power Cell is a power cell invented by James Patterson which some have claimed to be generating more energy than it uses. It is one of several cold fusion cells which have been the subject of some media interest but no independent, objective testing.

The cell is composed of a non-conductive housing filled with thousands of small plastic beads coated with thin film layers of nickel and palladium, as well as a solution of a conductive salt in water through which an electric current is run. Its proponents claim that the device uses about 1.4 watts and yet is capable of generating hundreds or thousands of times this amount of power which is released as heat after a brief "warm-up" period. This supposedly happens as hydrogen or deuterium nuclei fuse together to produce heat through some form of cold fusion, although Patterson himself avoids the term. However, the byproducts of nuclear fusion have not been detected from this device, e.g. a tritium nucleus and a proton or an He nucleus and a neutron, leading a vast majority of experts to conclude that no such fusion is taking place. Scott Little and Hal Puthoff made an independent test and they were unable to measure any excess heat from the cells, but they didn't publish their results outside of their website.

It is further claimed that if radioactive isotopes such as uranium are present, the cell somehow enables the hydrogen nuclei to fuse with these isotopes, transforming them into stable elements and thus 'neutralizing' the radioactivity; and this would be achieved without releasing any radiation to the environment and without expending any energy. This claim has never been properly verified. The Good Morning America 1997 public demonstration didn't measure the radioactivity of the beads after the test, thus it can't be discarded that the beads had simply absorbed the uranium ions and become radioactive themselves. To date, the neutralization of radioactive isotopes has only been achieved through intense neutron bombardment in a nuclear reactor or large scale high energy particle accelerator, at a large expense of energy.

On February 7, 1996, ABC News shows Good Morning America and Nightline featured stories about the Patterson Power Cell. Good Morning America followed up the story one year later, on June 11, 1997.

Patterson died in 2008.

See also

References

  1. US 5494559  "System for electrolysis"
  2. Manning, Jean. "'Cold Fusion' Breakthrough" Atlantis Rising. 1996. 6:37,56. Retrieved December 10, 2007.
  3. ^ Park, Robert. Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. p114-118. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
  4. Voss, David. "Whatever happened to cold fusion?" Physicsworld.com, March 1, 1999. Retrieved December 5, 2007. Physicsworld link
  5. Calorimetric Study of Pd/Ni Beads From the CETI RIFEX Kit, Scott Little and Hal Puthoff
  6. Transcript of ABC-TV "Good Morning America" Program on Cold Fusion Excess Energy and Radioactivity Reduction, June 11, 1997, transcribed by Infinite Energy Magazine.
  7. New Energy Times - James "Doc" Patterson Remembrance

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