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Cold Fusion and the Energy Crisis: to be or not to be?
Foreign Policy Journal ^
| November 30, 2012
| Dr. Stoyan Sarg
Posted on 12/13/2012 1:48:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the remarkable progress in cold fusion achieved in Italy and more particularly by the E-cat reactors of Andrea Rossi Did Rossi ever do anything more than announce remarkable progress? I always had the impression that he would schedule a big event, and then announce an unfortunate delay. Did he ever show anything substantive?
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12/13/2012 3:20:29 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Republicans have made themselves useless, toothless, and clueless.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ah geeze, not this sh!t again...
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12/13/2012 3:55:21 AM PST
by
fuente
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ah geeze, not this sh!t again...
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12/13/2012 3:55:26 AM PST
by
fuente
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Waiting for Obama to give stimulus funds to Andrea Rossi...
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12/13/2012 4:05:23 AM PST
by
dinodino
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ah, more wonderful LENR news—I had thought that this scam had run its course.
Of course, this is just an article extolling the virtues of cold fusion, and it contains no new or substantive information on Rossi. And the author of this piece, if we are to believe his credentials, is one who should definitely know better than to fall for LENR/Rossi.
How long has it been since Rossi made any kind of public appearance? Is he still using random addresses in apartment and office buildings as his “business” addresses? Or is he lying low hoping that fraud investigators won’t notice him?
Well, nothing new, I guess it’s not time to break out the popcorn yet.
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12/13/2012 4:10:44 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: exDemMom
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12/13/2012 4:55:50 AM PST
by
mfish13
(ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!!!)
To: exDemMom
Beating a dead palladium electrode. Why oh why does this still get attention? I guess the show "Ghost Hunters" provides a clue.
Seagull, out.
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12/13/2012 5:19:43 AM PST
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ZX12R
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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12/13/2012 9:45:17 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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12/13/2012 11:45:55 AM PST
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: mfish13
More fairy tales. Yes. And apparently the people who point out that the emperor is, in fact, naked, are known as "seagulls" in the cold fusion world.
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12/13/2012 5:35:44 PM PST
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exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
At least this was posted in the bloggers section, rather than breaking news.
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12/14/2012 12:26:11 AM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: exDemMom
How long has it been since Rossi made any kind of public appearance? Is he still using random addresses in apartment and office buildings as his business addresses? Or is he lying low hoping that fraud investigators wont notice him? Last I heard of him is when his investors backed out after they determined that his little kettle boiler doesn't work.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2930197/posts
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12/14/2012 12:28:57 AM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: exDemMom
There hadn’t been any cold fusion articles on FR for six weeks, and then there’s three in the last ten days that all mention Rossi the con artist. He gets more mention on FR than Ronald Reagan.
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12/14/2012 12:40:48 AM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Moonman62
Last I heard of him is when his investors backed out after they determined that his little kettle boiler doesn't work. That's a shame, I heard it released more energy than any possible chemical reaction.
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12/14/2012 2:38:37 PM PST
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Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: Toddsterpatriot
That's a shame, I heard it released more energy than any possible chemical reaction. I heard that the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide would provide more than enough energy to explain Rossi's kettle boiler.
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12/14/2012 3:10:37 PM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Moonman62
I heard that the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide would provide more than enough energy to explain Rossi's kettle boiler.Well, it's true that over the counter H2O2 had more than enough energy. I guess that earlier claim was a bit off.
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12/14/2012 3:21:36 PM PST
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Toddsterpatriot
(Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
To: Toddsterpatriot
Heat is a catalyst for H2O2 decomposition. It’s probably just a coincidence that Rossi has to hook up his magical rusty can to the grid and heat it up first.
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12/14/2012 4:06:32 PM PST
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Moonman62
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Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Nuclear energy has been commercially adopted since 1951. For the past 60 years, the amount of radioactive waste produced by all nuclear reactors on the Earth is about 225,000 metric tons and it grows by 12,000 tons per year. Such concentrated radioactive waste has not existed naturally in the Earth since the time of its creation about 4.5 billions year ago.
The way to detect nuclear reactions in the purported cold fusion experiments is by the detection of neutrons -- no neutrons, no nuclear reactions. Period. Excuses may be made, but that's The Law for ya.
Neutrons are electrically neutral, and can't be corralled using electromagnetism, so neutron production always leads to radioactivity in the containment apparatus and the machinery close to the reaction chamber, regardless of fission or fusion. This means that, even if cold fusion is for real, radioactive waste will be produced.
And that is A Big If anyway.
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12/15/2012 11:47:28 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
On the neutron thing — you’ll want to pay attention to a process called dense plasma focus. Here’s a google search.http://bit.ly/SvLSOt
They’re part of a family of fusion research that creates fusion without neutrons. They claim their reactor will convert the energy from fusion directly into electricity —without any radioactivity—rather than using the reaction to create heat for a boiler. They claim they have two out of three steps for making a fusion reactor completed.
A lot of claims going on. But their fusion experiments seem to offer a more plausible path to fusion power than iter or lenr
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12/15/2012 2:19:30 PM PST
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ckilmer
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