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Fusion Using Sonic Compression

Posted by michael on from the wave-theory dept.

The Only Druid writes "Scientists have confirmed the use of sonic waves to create the necessary compression in plasma to achieve nuclear fusion, far more effectively and cheaply than any other method. Val Kilmer was unavailable for comment."

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  1. Keep your shirts on by Lonesome+Squash · · Score: 2, Informative
    TFA (a press release about the pending publication) is woefully short of the kind of info we want to see. It appears to be a nice confirmation of earlier claims of cavitation-induced fusion that were disputed due to imprecise measuring technique. I couldn't find anything about it on Phys Rev E yet.

    In any event, it's not Mr. Fusion. The amount of actual fusion is tiny, and well below any commercially or societally interesting level.

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  2. Superconductivity? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    We still don't know how superconductivity works exactly, for example.

    You don't? Here's a good article: "superconductivity is caused by a force of attraction between certain conduction electrons arising from the exchange of phonons, which causes the conduction electrons to exhibit a superfluid phase composed of correlated pairs of electrons." Check out Wikipedia sometimes, you will be surprised how many interesting things you can learn there.

  3. Re:Val Kilmer? by bhima · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a reference to a movie he was in: "The Saint".

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  4. The Saint by roseblood · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120053/

    As a young orphan, a boy[Val Kilmer] refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers.

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  5. I think you mean... by centauri · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keanu Reeves.

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    1. Re:I think you mean... by stromthurman · · Score: 2, Informative

      Nope, they mean Val Kilmer.

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  6. published by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The paper was published: Taleyarkhan, R. P. et al. 2004, Phys. Rev. E, 69, 036109, with an erratum this month (2005) Phys. Rev. E, 71, 019901.