Posted on 03/04/2013 10:25:07 PM PST by Kevmo
13 things that do not make sense - space -
19 March 2005 - New Scientist
Mark Gibbs Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:44:58 -0800
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?full=true And #13 is ...
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13 Cold fusion
AFTER 16 years, it's back. In fact, cold fusion never really went away. Over a 10-year period from 1989, US navy labs ran more than 200 experiments to investigate whether nuclear reactions generating more energy than they consume - supposedly only possible inside stars - can occur at room temperature. Numerous researchers have since pronounced themselves believers.
With controllable cold fusion, many of the world's energy problems would melt away: no wonder the US Department of Energy is interested. In December, after a lengthy review of the evidence, it said it was open to receiving proposals for new cold fusion experiments.
That's quite a turnaround. The DoE's first report on the subject, published 15 years ago, concluded that the original cold fusion results, produced by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and unveiled at a press conference in 1989, were impossible to reproduce, and thus probably false.
The basic claim of cold fusion is that dunking palladium electrodes into heavy water - in which oxygen is combined with the hydrogen isotope deuterium - can release a large amount of energy. Placing a voltage across the electrodes supposedly allows deuterium nuclei to move into palladium's molecular lattice, enabling them to overcome their natural repulsion and fuse together, releasing a blast of energy. The snag is that fusion at room temperature is deemed impossible by every accepted scientific theory.
That doesn't matter, according to David Nagel, an engineer at George Washington University in Washington DC. Superconductors took 40 years to explain, he points out, so there's no reason to dismiss cold fusion. "The experimental case is bulletproof," he says. "You can't make it go away."
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Thanks for posting this.
I went to the link and went through all thirteen.
Lot’s of good food for thought.
It would be a downright hilarious hoot and a riot if it became open source of some sort of cold fusion device that could be used as a weapon say from removing a safety parameter, such as seen in certain movies.
And suddenly all across America while Obama is sending out thousands of MRAPS and drones ordinary, well smarter than most have conjured up red neck versions of cold fusion IEDs or claymores.
A sudden tilt in the supremacy scale.
The article was apparently published 8 years ago. Any resolution fir any of these things as yet?
We’re living in someone else’s dark age.
***Yikes, that’s an incisive insight. The bible calls these days “the end times”, just before the return of Christ.
Matthew 24:38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating ...
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For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
There has been some whittling away at some of these. The Pioneer anomaly was explained by a minute re-examination of the mass of the device. 3 of these items point to the same thing: that the speed of light is not a constant. I don’t think that’s such a big deal, because Einstein was pretty straightforward in saying that it was an ASSUMPTION he used in coming up with his theories because it was based upon the best available evidence at the time. But that is no longer the case, so there is likely to be a correction factor in physics in the future. Instead of E=mC^2, you’ll have E=m(C(X)^2) where X is some kind of fancy function. Since C shows up so much in physics it will have wide ranging implications (like the fine structure constant, for one thing).
Which means that some theoretical physicist is missing out on his Nobel Prize.
"That doesn't matter, according to David Nagel, an engineer at George Washington University in Washington DC. Superconductors took 40 years to explain, he points out, so there's no reason to dismiss cold fusion. "The experimental case is bulletproof," he says. "You can't make it go away."
Note the bolded portion. The skeptoid faction here at FR absolutely refuses to examine the experimental evidence, or in many cases, simply denies that it exists. That attitude is pseudoscience, not science.
For lurkers, the quickest introduction to the experimental evidence for CF is Charles Beaudette's book "Excess Heat". It doesn't have the absolute latest results, but what it does cover is more than sufficient to make the science case.
The rest can be found either in Storm's book on LENR, or from the library of papers in the LENR/CANR collection.
That's because it never really arrived.
Gives me an idea for a design. Using the heat differential from the top of the plate to the bottom on the cooler table, we power up a lasing diode array ~ which lays in a pleasing design to the plate facing the diner.
Make steaks look bigger ~ for example ~ without adding all those extra calories and fats.
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