From: zeropoint Subject: CHARGED CLUSTERS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| To: "COLD FUSION" It is your privilege as a ZEROPOINTER to have been provided the essence of discovery embodied in the work of Ken Shoulders, inasmuch as certain of his observations have been available to Z.A.P. ***** Subject: Shoulders Award on Charge Clusters, complements-etimes@teleport.com The following article appeared in Vol.4 No.3 of Electrifying Times, which was one of many timely new energy articles which will be used used in many forms to propel our vehicles in the future. Check it out http://www.teleport.com/~etimes/ Ken Shoulders obtained and analyzed samples of cathode materials from different operating cold fusion cells and found evidence of many strikes by high density charge clusters. Deuterium was loaded into a malleable palladium cathode by electrolysis. The palladium becomes stressed and hydrogen-embrittled. At some random times the palladium cracks. Trillions of ionic bonds in the in the metal lattice are broken, resulting in a very short-duration high voltage across the crack. This cracking promotes the fracto-emission of high density charge clusters. The charge clusters pick up deuterons, race across the crack, slam into the opposite wall, and the highly-accelerated piggyback deuterons have sufficient energy to cause a nuclear reactions. The end result is the formation of many new elements and excess heat. This phenomenon is not d plus d fusion but d plus Pd fusion. Conclusions 1. The concept of fracto-emission and the resultant nuclear reactions, could be a major source of excess energy in many cold fusion devices. 2. It is much easier to make charge clusters directly, than to create charge clusters by fracto-emission. See Kens US patent is # 5,018,180. Ken Shoulders was honored as Scientist of the Year-1996 by New Energy News, a monthly newsletter by the Institute of New Energy PO Box 58639, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-8639 Phone 801-583-6232, Fax 801-583-2963, www.padrak.com/ine/, e-mail ine@padrak.com( from Jan 97 New Energy News, page 1 and 2.