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Experiment Supports Controversial 'Fusion-In-A-Jar' Claims
Information Week ^ | July 22, 2005

Posted on 07/25/2005 8:33:29 AM PDT by Irontank

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1 posted on 07/25/2005 8:33:30 AM PDT by Irontank
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"Sonofusion is thermonuclear fusion and is scalable," said Yiban Xu,

Son-of-a-what?

2 posted on 07/25/2005 8:35:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Irontank

So how long until we have a fusion coffemaker?


3 posted on 07/25/2005 8:37:07 AM PDT by kharaku (G3 (http://www.cobolsoundsystem.com/mp3s/unreleased/evewasanape.mp3))
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To: ClearCase_guy

Son of a sound approach...


4 posted on 07/25/2005 8:37:43 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: ClearCase_guy

I think he is saying it works, and you can make it bigger if you want.


5 posted on 07/25/2005 8:39:10 AM PDT by linear (Repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics!!)
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To: Irontank

Someone please post a link to the picture of Dr. Brown's "Mr. Fusion" from Back to the Future....


6 posted on 07/25/2005 8:39:45 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Register to vote as a Dem! You get to vote in their primaries and it screws up their polling data!)
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To: Irontank
I think the Department of Energy is probably quietly studying all the so-called claims of cold fusion and trying to find one that actually works when scaled up to a bigger device. That's because they want a cheap source of deuterium for the lithium deuteride fissile material used for regular replacement of fissile materials in our nuclear stockpile.
7 posted on 07/25/2005 8:40:20 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: Mycroft Holmes

What is your take on this? Real or bogus?


8 posted on 07/25/2005 8:42:35 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Irontank

BFLR = bump for later reading


9 posted on 07/25/2005 8:42:36 AM PDT by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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To: RayChuang88
That's because they want a cheap source of deuterium for the lithium deuteride fissile material used for regular replacement of fissile materials in our nuclear stockpile

But what about nuclear fusion as a replacement for oil and coal-based energy? Is that something that scientists envision?

10 posted on 07/25/2005 8:43:30 AM PDT by Irontank (Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty -- John Adams)
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They appear to be using cavitation as a surrogate marker for fusion. Well, good luck to them - it sounds like quite cheap research and you never know what the spinoffs might be, even if (as seems likely) Cold Fusion is a dream.


11 posted on 07/25/2005 8:43:33 AM PDT by agere_contra
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""Sonofusion is thermonuclear fusion and is scalable," said Yiban Xu, who performed the experiment..."

cavitation? sonofusion?

Glad he's on our side.


12 posted on 07/25/2005 8:44:08 AM PDT by cloud8
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To: Irontank

How big and how heavy was the aparatus in which they created fusion?

Secondly, how much heat was generated by the apparatus?


13 posted on 07/25/2005 8:48:32 AM PDT by bobjam
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To: Irontank

Cavitation effects were proposed at the time as an explanation for the results obtained by Pons and Fleischman 15 years ago. All those bubbles on the electrodes.


14 posted on 07/25/2005 8:49:33 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: cloud8

What makes you think he is?


15 posted on 07/25/2005 8:50:48 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: RayChuang88

Bush and his 'oil buddies' will put a stop to this! They need to keep us dependent on oil so they can all get richer. Rove is hatching an eeeevil plan in his lair in the White House basement right now! /DUmmie


16 posted on 07/25/2005 8:52:12 AM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: Irontank
Earlier related posts :

Bubble Fusion takes next hurdle

Purdue Findings Support Earlier Nuclear Fusion Experiments

Purdue findings support earlier nuclear fusion experiments

17 posted on 07/25/2005 8:52:22 AM PDT by ZGuy
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To: RayChuang88

Uh huh.

This approach, if it works, would provide a method ANYONE could use to produce fissile material. Yikes!


18 posted on 07/25/2005 8:52:32 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: RayChuang88
I think the Department of Energy is probably quietly studying...

Well, maybe, but I'm involved with a project that we took to the DOE (NOT fusion, something else), and they put us off by requiring more and more studies, papers, etc...

Their response to us was somewhat justified, I'll have to admit, but my point is, they ask other folks to conduct the studies, I think, and review the findings.

19 posted on 07/25/2005 8:52:38 AM PDT by HeadOn (Strict Construction - otherwise, why bother?)
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To: agere_contra

I don't see them using cavitation as a marker - sounds like they clearly (I know that word transgresses quantum physics, but you know what I mean) measured the emission of particles following cavitation.


20 posted on 07/25/2005 8:54:47 AM PDT by linear (Repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics!!)
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