cold fusion future

Cold Fusion Future FINANCE

Executive Summary - Cold Fusion Future  (CFF), a US company, is now preparing a fast track product development program to build and test solid state fusion energy modules. The first modules will produce a few kilowatts of thermal energy in a compact device comparable to a common household electric space heater. We plan to build and exhaustively test these prototype thermal modules during our first year of operation. Toward this end CFF has entered into preliminary agreements with key teams of scientists in major energy research organizations in the USA and Europe to actively participate in this development and testing effort. The company will primarily operate from its own engineering center in California's Silicon Valley, and has budgeted for its first 24 months of prototype fabrication and testing. In addition to this initial product development fund, CFF expects to raise additional R&D capital through private and public offerings.

HOW IT WORKS - Fusion is a process by which two heavy hydrogen (deuterium) atoms fuse together to yield one atom of helium and a very large amount of fusion heat. The quantity of energy released is determined by Einstein's famous e=mc2 equation. These reactions are the same as the fusion that takes place in the sun and stars (and within hydrogen bombs). Our COLD FUSION reactions which take place in solid metal, as a solid state fusion process have the critically important difference that overall energy reaction operates at warm temperatures (0-500º C) and most importantly produces no penetrating radiation or nuclear waste. No one ought to be surprised about this it's rather like the fission reactions used in nuclear reactors which while being the same fission that makes an atomic bomb is well controlled under warm solid state conditions. Demonstrations of these controlled reproducible reactions have been presented by us for many years in leading laboratories in the US and abroad as reported by Cold Fusion Future scientists in many major scientific venues. 

PROVING COMMERCIAL READINESS - After a review of selected experiments in the field, the US Department of Energy endorsed the potential of these reactions and called for further research in a report released December 1, 2004. Earlier, in 2003, the US Navy issued an even more supportive assessment of D2 fusion phenomena based on experiments conducted by its own scientists. Of course they haven't follwed through save in a glacially bureaucratic fashion.

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Using its own designs and know-how as well as collaborative expertise from the US government's top nuclear science labs, Cold Fusion Future is prepared to build, demonstrate, and test small (kilowatt-scale) thermal module prototypes. These modules will be designed for integration into a wide range of commercial products and technologies. For example, the first low-tech heat producing modules will be suited for a wide variety of domestic and industrial heating uses ranging from hot water and room heaters to industrial process heat.

Using its own designs and know-how as well as collaborative expertise from the US government's top nuclear science labs, Cold Fusion Future is prepared to build, demonstrate, and test small (kilowatt-scale) thermal module prototypes. These modules will be designed for integration into a wide range of commercial products and technologies. For example, the first low-tech heat producing modules will be suited for a wide variety of domestic and industrial heating uses ranging from hot water and room heaters to industrial process heat. 

ENTRY BARRIERS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - Cold Fusion Future intends to patent a wide variety of devices, materials, and methods that are intrinsic components of the technology used to develop its solid-state fusion modules. This field has been commonly known as 'cold fusion' which was first announced to the world in March 1989. Since that time hundreds of researchers have filed a large number of mostly broad speculative and theoretical patents in the field in the USA and other patent venues. Very few patents have been allowed in the field and there is a consensus among many patent experts that the field has -- and will continue to have -- a very confusing patent landscape. In light of this, CFF has chosen a patent strategy that focuses on filing for narrowly defined working devices that can receive patent protection based on demonstration of working utility.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS ARE NON-EXISTENT - Solid-state fusion reactions do not produce the radiation and radioactive waste products commonly associated with other forms of nuclear energy. Since solid-state fusion produces neither neutrons nor penetrating gamma rays, there is no nuclear hazard whatever associated with this energy source, and consequently there are no dangerous waste products or waste management concerns. The only byproduct from these reactions is a tiny amount of ordinary helium, the same gas used in children's birthday balloons.

The fuel for solid state fusion is a safe and common form of hydrogen known as deuterium or heavy hydrogen. One out of every 6000 hydrogen atoms on Earth exists in this heavy isotopic form, and it is easily isolated from ordinary water in the distillation process used to produce heavy water. Ontario Hydro, which operates heavy water-cooled nuclear reactors in Canada, produces vast amounts of heavy water from the waters of Lake Ontario. Although deuterium fuel stock is therefore cheap and plentiful, solid state fusion only requires extremely small amounts to produce enormous energy. For example, comparing deuterium energy to hydrocarbon energy, the top two inches of water in the smallest of North America's Great Lakes contains more potential heat energy than all of the world's known oil reserves.

$5M CAPITAL CAMPAIGN AND TIMING - CFF is now working with eminent US and international research teams to plan and launch our product development projects in late 2009. Initially, the company will use privately provided investment to achieve the following:

1. Pilot project to compellingly demonstrate the commercial promise of Cold Fusion Future technology, producing prototype kilowatt-scale thermal modules for use in many applications.
2. Coordinate design, assembly, and testing of these prototype modules with leading national laboratory scientific and engineering teams to demonstrate these devices deliver safe clean solid-state fusion energy in a commercially useful form. This will both legitimate and publicize the field as well as generating important intellectual properties.
3. Design of a licensing and development plan obtain the highest possible return on our products and technologies.
4. Launch the company on a North American or European stock exchange.
5. Grow the business to develop and deliver new products and processes.

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