The company JET Thermal Products, under the direction of Mitchell Swartz, ScD, MD is in the process of developing cold fusion technology to the point that it could be commercialized. They have been instrumental in bringing the technology through many generations of advancement.

In August of 2003, they made history running a successful demonstration of their technology for five consecutive days at a cold fusion conference in Cambridge Massachusetts, including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). (http://world.std.com/~mica/jeticcf10demo.html) The demonstration included modifying the input energy while showing a corresponding increase/decrease in output heat produced. The amount of excess heat generated was documented to be 2.3 times greater than the amount of heat generated from an ohmic resistor used in electrical series in the apparatus as a control.

JET has pioneered contributions in the development of the evolving landscape of cold fusion and its utilization, by developing a continuum electrophysics model which has led to the quasi-1-dimensional model of isotope loading of a metal, and then to codeposition, the optimal operating point, Phusor technology, control of "heat after death", among other directions.

"We have sought not only the better performance, improved understanding and control of the physics, better and more diverse materials, and advanced engineering, but also quality assurance and quality control. By tackling this advancing science with these new ideas, we have moved closer to maximizing the rate of the desired safe, heat-producing reactions."

Swartz envisions that when cold fusion technology matures it will be totally clean and affordable, eliminating our dependence on all fossil fuel technologies, powering everything from automobiles and power plants to implanted medical devices.

How it Works

Lattice assisted nuclear reactions, simply put, obtain energy from hydrogen in water, which is made to undergo a nuclear "burn" to helium in the metallic lattice. The process involves conversion of deuterons, from heavy water, into inert, safe helium, thereby producing substantial heat which is picked up by the metallic lattice. The amount of heat it produces, in excess of the energy used for all electrical input including loading of a lattice with deuterium, and activation energies, is termed "excess energy". Obtaining the desired reactions requires running the device within a narrow optimal window of performance, at the Optimal Operating Point.

Once fully developed, cold fusion is expected to be no only cleaner than present conventional energy technologies, but also less expensive

Totally clean. No pollution. No radioactive products. No CO2 produced.

Anything that can harness heat, including Stirling engines for use in automobiles, planes, and trains.

Swartz also envisions that the technology may have medical applications such as powering artificial internal organs.

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