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Cold Fusion in a Breadbox Instead of a Bottle
rawbytes writes "For the last few years, mentioning cold fusion around scientists has been a little like mentioning Bigfoot or UFO sightings. After the 1989 announcement of fusion in a bottle and the subsequent retraction, the whole idea of cold fusion seemed a bit beyond the pale. But that's all about to change. A very reputable, very careful group of scientists at the University of Los Angeles (Brian Naranjo, Jim Gimzewski, Seth Putterman) has initiated a fusion reaction using a laboratory device that's not much bigger than a breadbox, and works at roughly room temperature. This time, it looks like the real thing." From the article: "Scientists have gotten fusion to occur in the laboratory before, but for the most part, they've tried to mimic conditions inside the sun by whipping hydrogen gas up to extreme temperatures or slamming atoms together in particle accelerators. Both of those options require huge energies and gigantic equipment, not the sort of stuff easily available to build a generator. Is there any way of getting protons close enough together for fusion to occur that doesnt require the energy output of a large city to make it happen? The answer, it turns out, is yes."
it took me a second to figure out why a macromedia product was even coming in a bottle in the first place
Does a duplicate post count?
Apple -> Intel
Transmeta go out of business
Cold fusion
What the hell can happen next? My money's on Bill Gates being found dead with a grapefruit up his arse up a crack whore alley...
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OMG, I'm on slashdot!!
/sorry
//had to
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
McGuyver did this in Ep. 26 with a matchbox, two cotton buds, a filling from his tooth and some scotch tape.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
From the article:
Instead of using high temperatures and incredible densities to ram protons together, the scientists at UCLA cleverly used the structure of an unusual crystal.
That crystal wouldn't happen to be Dilithium would it?
And here I thought pyrofusion was what happened to a slashdotted CPU...
I used to wonder what was so holy about a silent night, now I have a child.
Can they fuse something other than deuterium? Helium, lithium maybe? Don't some of the other elements have interesting fusion properties? (Seem to remember that boron would produce some sigificant voltage in the form of beta radiation).
;-)
I've got a much better solution to their problem. Just add some U-235 to the mechanism. Say, about 51kg. If my calculations are correct, that should fix their energy production problems in no time flat!
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
...and I knew I was in trouble when I missed hitting the 'preview' button! :(
I'll go back to not posting for a couple months again...
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We're halfway there - it's had multiple Slashdot articles. Slashdot is peer-reviewed, right?
Duke Nukem Forever goes on sale?
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We have a slightly-puritanical mindset that we have to work for everything. Yeah. It's called "The Second Law of Thermodynamics", or more commonly, "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".
Judging from slashdot, we can at least say that this method is reproducible. :)
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Is this the first tripe article ever!br>br> No, most of the articles on slashdot are tripe. Yet for some reason we all keep coming back.
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