Low-energy Nuclear Reactions Sourcebook

Editors Marwan, a chemist based in Germany, and California-based Krivit (editor, New Energy Times) begin with an introduction to the terminology and a history of this controversial field, which they state was labelled erroneously as "cold fusion" when introduced in 1989, but is more accurately identified as low energy nuclear reactions (LENR), in the field of condensed matter nuclear science. Distinguished from high-energy nuclear physics research, which requires high temperatures or particle accelerators to produce energy, LENR research explores the phenomenon of unexplained excess heat generated in the experiments of Fleischmann and Pons. Martin Fleischmann, one of the original investigators, provides a background chapter and discussion of the genesis of the concept. Following are 14 more contributions arranged in sections on theory, mechanism, and modeling; excess heat and calorimetric calculations; transmutation and nuclear ash; and metal hydride systems. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jan Marwan, who built up his own research laboratory in Berlin, Germany, to deeply investigate cold fusion processes, is a specialized electrochemist and focused his research on the electrochemical properties of metal hydride systems.

Steven B. Krivit is the editor of the New Energy Times online magazine and Executive Director of New Energy Institute. He has been the lead journalist investigating the LENR field for the last eight years.