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The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real
StartsWithABang writes If you can reach the fabled "breakeven point" of nuclear fusion, you'll have opened up an entire new source of clean, reliable, safe, renewable and abundant energy. You will change the world. At present, fusion is one of those things we can make happen through a variety of methods, but — unless you're the Sun — we don't have a way to ignite and sustain that reaction without needing to input more energy than we can extract in a usable fashion from the fusion that occurs. One alternative approach to the norm is, rather than try and up the energy released in a sustained, hot fusion reaction, to instead lower the energy inputted, and try to make fusion happen under "cold" conditions. If you listen in the right (wrong?) places, you'll hear periodic reports that cold fusion is happening, even though those reports have always crumbled under scrutiny. Here's why, most likely, they always will.
Heavier than air flight is impossible...the world will only ever need 5 computers...no home will ever need a computer...people don't need a computer with more the 16 megabytes of RAM...
Cold fusion is bollocks. Scientist knows this and summarises to create blog entry.
I've spent years trying to pretend that Coldfusion isn't real, but somehow I keep running into it now and then.
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Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
If it were valid, it would be reproducible.
It's not real science if it's in a journal whose name I can't pronounce.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Storms claims that there is no good theory to explain the excess heat measurements. He does not deny that the experiments he surveys are overwhelming evidence for the fulfillment of Ramsey's criterion.
I took three toenail clippings, wrapped them in aluminum foil and added three drops of rosemary oil. I then placed a fiberoptic inside the foil, connected to a photomultiplier tube, and recorded the optical emission. There was excess light emission, that I couldn't otherwise account for.
I have no good theory to explain why toenails and rosemary oil should produce light. But, since I applied no energy source to produce this light, it should be considered as one of the most astounding scientific experiments of all time, because if true, it would solve our lighting problems for all of time until we run out of toenails (which I did last week, so if you have some clipping to donate, please email me...)
Similar assertions have been made by proponents of perpetual motion machines.
They do tend to keep going on and on about that. It never ends.