Cold Fusion

[Choobus]

or a gamma ray laser.....

[a different tim]

There's an article in this week's New Scientist saying that someone else has found a way to make it work. Or not. They aren't sure.......

Choobus wrote

the main problem with cold fusion is that it doesn't fucking work. Other than that it's great.

Hey good news...cold fusion may work :lol:

Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes

Daily Tech, May 5, 2007

Scientists at Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (Spawar) claim they have achieved a low energy nuclear reaction (LERN) in an experiment that can be replicated and tested.

They coated a thin wire with palladium and deuterium, then subjected it to magnetic and electric fields. The researchers have offered plastic films called CR-39 detectors as evidence that charged particles have emerging from their reaction experiments.


Read Original Article>> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7168

Accuser of the Brethren wrote

Hey good news...cold fusion may work :lol:

Navy Heats Up Cold Fusion Hopes

Daily Tech, May 5, 2007

Scientists at Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (Spawar) claim they have achieved a low energy nuclear reaction (LERN) in an experiment that can be replicated and tested.

They coated a thin wire with palladium and deuterium, then subjected it to magnetic and electric fields. The researchers have offered plastic films called CR-39 detectors as evidence that charged particles have emerging from their reaction experiments.


Read Original Article>> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7168

I only barely comprehend this, but...

Isn't that just a demonstration of the probability of a neutron rich isotope of Palladium being beta decayed by a lucky quantum tunneling Deutrium atom? How much fucking Palladium can you go out and get?

It's my understanding that it's the PALLADIUM that's important for this reaction, and that as a quantum event, it's going to be a rare reaction... measurable, but hardly able to achieve a high enough reaction rate to actually power anything. Assuming you actually get any net power at all.

[a different tim]

That's the New Scientist one as well.

There is, as far as I can tell, no suggested mechanism, which casts a bit of doubt on it in my mind.