John Bockris on Modern Electrochemistry and （约翰Bockris现代电化学和）.pdfVIP

John Bockris on Modern Electrochemistry and the Start of Cold Fusion Marianne Macy In July 2008, I had the pleasure of interviewing John may be interchanged at interfaces, in particular at interfaces Bockris as part of the New Energy Foundation’s Cold Fusion between a metal and solutions, the most usual way in which Oral History Project for the Marriott Library at the electrochemistry comes in. And so the electrochemical part University of Utah. Sadly, John Bockris passed away on July then is whatever happens when electrons exchange with 7. At the time of his death, we were working on selecting solids in the presence of solutions. There is another defini- excerpts from his oral history to publish in Infinite Energy . tion that I would like to make, quite a different one, and it In 2000 for Infinite Energy #32, Gene Mallove worked with was given to me a long time ago by a Russian chap and let’s Bockris on a comprehensive history of his transmutation see if I can remember it. “Electrochemistry is the science work at Texas AM and the subsequent issues that arose (see whereby electricity makes things and things make electrici- /images/pdfs/MalloveIE32.pdf). ty.” What he meant by that is that electricity making things We covered this period of his professional career in Bockris’ imparts an electric current into a solution and here if you oral history, but the following excerpts instead focus more have copper metal being plated out, you’ve made copper. on the important beginning of contextualizing electrochem- That’s making things by passing a current in and then if you istry in