Cold Fusion and Gravitational Energy

The concept of generating energy and power from cold fusion and gravitational field energy has not yet been discussed in any renewable energy textbook. This chapter attempts to document scientists investigating the available energy and power from these unique systems. These two technologies appear to go against the laws of physics and thermodynamics and hence seem opposed to what we have learned in these basic courses. However, one should have an open mind and investigate why this is so. Engineers are taught to conduct careful energy and mass balances, and they may be faced with a situation where the output energy is greater than the input energy. Instead of dismissing the event as an error, engineers are also taught to understand the reason for the discrepancies. The vast ocean is a source of large amounts of deuterium that may be used as input in cold fusion technologies. However, because of a lack of funding, research in this area is considered a hoax due to the experience of scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann. Fortunately, there are projects such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), funded by about 35 countries, to prove fusion here on the Earth. The hope is that this project will be successful in finding new sources of non–carbon-based energy. This chapter simply enumerates and describes the work of real scientists trying to invent unique ideas, such as those designed by Nikola Tesla but reported to have been destroyed.