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Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)?
srhuston writes "According to a story at the NY Times (first born child req'd, yadda yadda), 'Scientists are again claiming they have made a Sun in a jar, offering perhaps a revolutionary energy source, and this time even some skeptics find the evidence intriguing enough to call for a closer look.' This has been covered here before (First, second, third) but it looks like they claim that the latest round of experiments, using better detectors, 'offer more convincing data that the phenomenon is real'." The scientists involved come from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Russian Academy of Science; here's their press release.
Cold fusion is just around the corner, why would we need this?
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All I want to know is when I can throw garbage in the gas tank of a DeLorean to fuel it.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
Willow worked out a spell to make a ball of sunshine. This would allow Buffy to easily kill vampires... not that she needs help killing vampires.
This is news? We've had canned sunshine in our gift shops here in Florida for years!
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A SUN in a jar? If you think Darl is bad, just wait to see the look on Scott McNealy's face once everyone starts creating his server in their mayonaise jars.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Sigmentation fault - core dumped
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Well, at least this finally fills that ugly hole on Wednesday in the Slashdot weekly schedule:
Monday: Patch Windows
Tuesday: Stop SCO's latest plan
Wednesday: Invent Fusion
Thursday: Patch Linux
Friday: Watch LoTR while patching Windows
Since they got Fusion out of the way early today, I think I have a little time to go bash Infinium Labs some more. Tally ho!
...people standing around said jar start dieing.
I was so hoping this was an item about "the son of Jar Jar". My bad. "Meesa so sorry."
In other news today, Hell has frozen over. Satan responded to the sudden freeze by noting, "Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Russian Academy of Science collaborating on nuclear research? Who would've thought it possible?"
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
>>>JasonF, a scientist at NCSU, has created a perpetual motion machine!
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer S.
Young lady, in this house we obey the second law of thermodynamics!
how the end always is
Fusion In Sonoluminescence
First the win a grammy for Best New Artist, and now they're experimenting with jazz. I, for one, welcome our new musically-experimental overlords.
It turned out that the secret to making this work was to use polywater as the liquid medium.
SIR, PUT THE BONG DOWN AND STEP AWAY PLEASE!
I know the stupid filter says "Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING" but I AM YELLING!
$discovery is really cool. Once again, $scienceFictionAuthor was a visionary when he wrote about this concept in $book. I hope that we can come up with some practical applications using $discovery soon.
$wittySig
I though Sunny Delight was "Sun in a jar"
Well, you better let it out! *click*
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The *real* problem is forgetting to hide the little battery in the bottom of the apparatus.
Without that, they usually don't work very well.
Now my ghost in a jar doesn't have to read in the dark.
...tastes better than Bud.
If it can be used to subjugate the native population of Mars, I'll be happy. They need to be moved out so we have room for our steakfruit farms.
In a darkened room,
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"Neutrons are slippery little rascals," he said. "They can fool you. They can bounce and show up around corners you don't expect."
Yep, ran into three of them on the way to lunch this afternoon at the corner of Hargett and Fayetteville St.........
Unfortunately, it's getting the reaction to generate more energy than it consumes, is the problem.
Actually, they solved that problem in the 50's. It's controlling that reaction that is rather more difficult...
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Good News:
Piping hot coffee or soup in seconds.
Bad News:
Everything metal in kitchen becomes mildly radioactive from neutron bombardment.
Good News:
Rats, mice, cockroaches hate the sound of a sonofusor in operation, emptying cities of vermin.
Bad News:
Sound also drives dogs into a frenzy of mindless leg-humping. Except Boston Terriers, whose tightly sutured little skulls explode.
Good News:
Leads to development of ultra-efficient (but low thrust) rocket motor that uses water as a reaction mass.
Bad News:
All water outside of Mars orbit turn out to be owned by Capella OmniVolatile GMBH, who charge a heavy fee, payable in increasingly rare Boston Terriers.
Stefan Jones
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More fun than a Farnsworth fusor w/a fuel feed. Now the really neat part would be if it can be overdriven. Anyone remember the "oopsies" that may or may not have happened back when cold fusion 1st appeared. Hey!! Y'all watch this!! Nuke in a jar!
If you had meant us to read very large as industrial, why didn't you just write industrial?
Just curious (read: baffled (read: confused) by this common (read: prevelant on slashdot (read: idiot funhouse)) idiom (read (read: interpet and understand writing): little bit of stupidity (read: you)).
XML causes global warming.
So if you drop Frosty the snowman onto the floor, his head will pop off?
"and how did he manage to generate 1.21 gigawatts of electricity with only a steam engine? A giant capacitor?"
A FLUX capacitor.
DUH.
+++ATH0
Mod parent (read: immediate ancestor) up (read: -1 times the gravity vector).
All it takes is nukes and nerves.
What if you lit a cigar and tossed the match on the ground and the world caught fire and burned to a cinder!!! You never know! It could happen!
I can make bubbles in my bathtub, and the sound generated during that process is not very high frequency...
It even produces a little bit of heat!
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
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Actually, the paper appears on the PhysRevE site
as accepted in January. The March issue in not
yet available. I'd like to make two points on
other posts:
1) E=mc^2 and c is very large!
(M(4H)-M(He))/M(4H)~0.007 so there is not much
worry that Eout-Ein > 0 with a bit of effort.
2) Low energy nuclear reactions (cold fusion) are
being taken quite seriously these days including
interesting trasmutation experiments performed in Japan.
Finally, THIS IS VREY GOOD NEWS!!! I'm sick of
our people getting killed in Iraq for oil. Thanks
Oak Ridge!