I’m glad at least that they keep trying.
We sometimes have the kind of environment now that the Established Church fostered in the Middle Ages.
The media echo chamber turns everything into kind of a witch hunt, in their desire for stories that keep the government off the front page.
I’m too busy watching Fox news and Television, and otherwise supporting Al Waleeds empire to notice this.
If I had a nickel for every time this has been “discovered”...
Bologna
If not they are either fraudulent or criminally negligent with their intellectual property.
A container of 5 year old Turkey Soup once 'fused' with a half-gallon of off-brand strawberry ice cream in the back of my freezer following an extended power outage, but it didn't generate any electricity that I noticed.
And although it produced SOMETHING, that 'something' most definitely was not copper.
The work was done at the University of Bologna, which is often mispelled baloney.
Everything about this sounds like an investment scam.
If it doesn't work, I don't imagine anyone will buy it. That is the beauty of a commercial product. They put their (or somebody not a government's) money where their mouths are, and now we'll see if it can, or cannot be done.
On another front, there is a commercially available hydrogen generator that is already in use for welders, can be used as an on-demand fuel source, and really works. The principle is electrical resonance and it requires extremely high frequency AC, at rather low voltage. Again, a commercial product.
Attention scientists: Get your head from out of your lab.
For the physically inclined - here’s some physics.
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=338
Interestingly, this is the only “journal” that carried the article, and the founder of this internet journal is Focardi, the “inventor” of the process.
So let’s say I’m skeptical.
So does this mean the comeback of steam locomotives?
The Navy did major research on this subject but I don’t think it was published. I would not be surprised if they were running a Sub on Cold Fusion somewhere.
Kind of easy to prove. You start with nickel, add hydrogen and wind up with copper as the reaction product. The only way to get ther is a fusion reaction.
You gotta bet that they have a veritable army of patent lawyers on this. Especially since they say that they expect to be selling 11KW commercial devices by the end of 2011.
My compliments to the chefs.
Excellent news for my palladium investments, which have almost trebled since I bought them...
Nickel-and-Dimed Yaun CON Fusion
While I like to think I am open minded about the possibility of finding such things...
the idea that a *chemical* reaction (occurring, by definition, among the electrons of the participating atoms/molecules) can overcome the *binding force* energies implicit in nuclear reactions...is astronomically far fetched.
It would be like saying that the grass growing under a baseball outfielder’s feet can, under the proper circumstances, smack the ball farther than the seasoned ash of a bat in the hands of a pro player.
It would be like saying that a nickel found on the sidewalk can have more influence than $160 billion of synthetic money launched into the economy by the Bernank.
It would be like saying that someone taking a leak off the bow of an ocean liner under forward power can stop and reverse the motion of the ocean liner.
The ratios of the energies involved are so many orders of magnitude removed from each other that it’s painfully implausible for the small one to overcome the big one.
But I won’t criticize it from the standpoint of “all these things are goofball frauds” because one day, somebody may well find some holy grail of the reactive universe. But you can know my take on the odds.
The Navy has been working with cold fusion for a number of years. If the Navy has an interest in it, there may be something to it. Maybe not fusion but something that produces more power than it produces.