Cold fusion: Boom or bust?
A research facility will probe whether fusion power is feasible
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Table of Contents:
- Cold fusion: Boom or bust?
- Intro
- Is fusion efficient?
- Long Timeline
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Cold fusion is real. Did you watch the 60 minutes peace on cold fusion. Even the , Rob Duncan, vice chancellor of research at the University of Missouri and an expert in measuring energy believe in cold fusion and featured on the piece.
His first reaction:
"I think my first reaction was something like, 'Well, hasn't that been debunked?'" he replied.
After visting the Energetics Technologies lab ( the lab has reported some of the biggest energy gains yet) he replied
That is the main problem - it is not plain, and it is not simple. Forget about energy production without having fundamental knowledge of the underlying processes!
"...something very interesting..." summarizes it all. Funding should go into fundamental research of phenomena at this time
Just recently there have appeared reports that some Swedish scientists have succeeded in producing microscopic quantities of Ultra Dense Deuterium and are conducting laboratory tests on it. This material has a weight of about 102,000 times that of water and seems to be made up of a Rydberg atom version of Deuterium. If produceable in quantity, it could be used as clean fuel in laser triggered fusion reactions for power generation, and probably for fusion bombs without a fission bomb.... More
What needs to be done first of all is that people should stop thinking on the level of "I love cold fusion, so tokamaks are sh*t" and the other way around. We are not competitors. And those of us who are should re-think if their choise of profession has been done correctly.
I agree that there is clear evidence of some sort of reaction in CF experiments. But what are the physics behind them? Why hydrogen is fusing inside paladium rods? Why the experiments are so sensitive to preparation.... More
Your assertions about cold fusion are completely incorrect. Cold fusion was replicated by hundreds of world-class laboratories, and these replications were published in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals. I have a library of 3,000 papers on cold fusion, including 1,200 peer-reviewed papers copied from the library at Los Alamos.
Cold fusion has produced thousands of times more energy per gram of fuel than any chemical reaction, and it can probably generate millions of times more. In some.... More
