Summary of ICCF14 The 14th International Conference on Cold Fusion

摘要

Between August 10 and 15, the 14th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ICCF14) took place in Washington, D.C. at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (on Capitol Hill). In many ways, this conference was anrnhistoric event. For the first time, experimental evidence was presented that shows conclusively that excess heat can be reproduced on demand. In one series of experiments (Arata and Zhang), the reported heat occurred using a device in which there was no electrical (or other) form of input power; the associated measurements of excess heat, which were performed by monitoring changes in temperature and pressure of gases above particular nm-scale palladium (Pd) powders, persisted for such long periods of time and involved such simple forms of measurement that it is virtually impossible to understand how the resulting effect could have occurred, except from room temperature nuclear reactions.