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A hotbed of cold fusion
I'm a sucker for fringe science. What can I say?
From the BBC News Service:
The long-standing debate about cold fusion is receiving new impetus at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in the US this week.
Cold fusion, first announced 20 years ago on Monday, was claimed to be a boundless source of clean energy by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons.
Attempts to replicate their experiments failed, but a number of researchers insist that cold fusion is possible.
The meeting will see several approaches that claim to produce fusion power.
See the full BBC article here
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11 years ago
Sigh.
Reply 11 years ago
Just close your eyes. Think of the beach. A nice, warm beach. Cool, clear, sparkling turquoise water. Sugar-white sand. The gentle sound of the waves lapping on shore. Listen...
There, better? :D
Reply 11 years ago
Augh! There's sand in my shorts! And my shoes! And now there's a f--ing horseshoe crab biting my heel! That's why I hate the beach. Where are my nice fluorescent lights, and my WiFi connection?
Reply 9 years ago
Right on!!!
Reply 11 years ago
Yeah!?!?!??!!??
Reply 11 years ago
I only dislike it when I get sand in the hotel and then eventually into bed.....makes for a really itchy night.... still, I miss going
The worst I was ever bitten by (and it is debatable if one can say they actually bite) were small jellyfish.
Reply 11 years ago
There are so many things which can make for really itchy nights. At least you don't need antibiotics for sand...
Okay, okay, that violates the be nice policy. Too bad
Reply 11 years ago
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Reply 11 years ago
HA!
Reply 11 years ago
....like sand fleas..... ;-)
Reply 11 years ago
They sting
Reply 11 years ago
Ugh. I got stung by manymanymany red jellies last time I went to the beach. Some like bee stings, others like long whip lashes. >_<
Reply 11 years ago
yeah, they are not the best part of the beach, for sure...
Reply 11 years ago
I invited you to my Happy Place - and you rejected it! :'-( I has a sad.
Reply 11 years ago
I hate beach. I like mountains.
Reply 11 years ago
:'( Not want to make you sad. My happy place is different than yours See below :-)
Reply 11 years ago
Rejection!!
Reply 11 years ago
LOL
Reply 11 years ago
Just close your eyes.Think of the workshop.A nice,warm workshop.Cool,blue,flickering fluorescent bulbs.Brown floor planks.The creaky sound of the WiFi modem pinging....Listen...
There,better? XD
Reply 11 years ago
And the reassuring steady yellow and green lights on my VME controller module... Ahhh....much better :-)
Reply 11 years ago
i see that every day as i live in the virgin isles on a sail boat (hehe its ok for some)
Reply 11 years ago
Home in Hawai'i.
11 years ago
you should look at this, too:
http://focusfusion.org/index.php/gallery/image_med/5/
Keep hitting next until you've seen the whole thing.
Reply 11 years ago
Can someone make it into .gif animation?
Reply 11 years ago
Well, it's a bit better thought out than the usual science fiction "adamantium-plated unobtanium dioxide" explanation, but "unstable carbon 12 nuclei"? Funny, last time I checked C12 was stable and unlikely to undergo spontaneous fission..
They have some nice CGI though :) but I thought the initial diagram was going to be a toroidal-armature railgun (ie plasmazooka) or something else cool like that.
Reply 11 years ago
Good catch, that's very strange that they would say that.
Reply 11 years ago
Here is some, perhaps, slightly more reputable information on "cold fusion", enjoy.
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1862/tr1862-vol1.pdf
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sti/publications/pubs/tr/1862/tr1862-vol2.pdf
11 years ago
Yeah if you happen to have a palladium rod and a bale of platinum wire lying about, it might work.
11 years ago
When my experiment was running at SLAC, we used a palladium sponge desorber to remove excess water vapor from the drift chamber gas.
Sadly, we had to use electrical power to keep it running, and never got any power back out of our "cold fusion" cell :-(