Thanks for the ping here Kevmo!
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/23/2010 12:28:49 PM PST by Kevmo
Cold Fusion ping!
Thanks Kevmo. Glad that worked out for you.
barely related sidebar:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2435201/posts
If I remember right, burning a wax candle was more efficient than this process.
Burning a wax candle is more efficient than what process?
A typical cold fusion experiment using Seebeck calorimeter
costs roughly $50,000 including all equipment, and they are run by volunteers and retired professors. Some have produced 50 to 300 megajoules in one run. They have achieved the two goals hot fusion has failed to reach for 60 years: breakeven and full ignition.
The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy cost “about a billion dollars” to construct and $70 million a year to operate. It produced 6 megajoules in one experiment, the world record run for hot fusion.
I like cold fusion but why not get a simple reproducible demo out there that can be done in a high school science project? How about this? I am very aware of Arata’s demonstration. Can you duplicate that in your garage on a cruder basis minus the $50,000 test equipment
What’s your lowest estimate for you doing a cold fusion demo in your garage?
I checked into overcoming the startup barrier, and it is at least $300k or more. I’ll take a check.
>>>self ping
Keep doing that and you’ll go blind.
huge equipment costs.....barrier to entry
$300k is a lot less than $3B — and they’ve achieved ignition already. Can’t say that about a tokomak reactor.
Thanks for the ping here Kevmo!
Your link is to an excerpt of 17 pages. Do you have a link to the full text?
It was available when I linked to it. I gather that, since that time it has become an excerpt.
EXCESS HEAT
Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed
Free Download:
http://iccf9.global.tsinghua.edu.cn/lenr%20home%20page/acrobat/BeaudetteCexcessheat.pdf
Kevmo, WTH? Is this the first time you linked this book? I don’t have much free time but it looks like an interesting read. It also has figures of experimental cells among a lot of other things.
I like figures.
The only problem I have is that I prefer a real book in my hands and not a screen but beggars can’t be choosers. I don’t think work would appreciate me printing out four hundred pages for something not for work.
Kevmo, WTH? Is this the first time you linked this book?
***No, WW and I have both been promoting that book as the best place to start in examining the science behind cold fusion claims. I remember seeing it as a full download but lost the reference and recently recovered it. It’s a good read.
The only problem I have is that I prefer a real book in my hands and not a screen but beggars can’t be choosers. I don’t think work would appreciate me printing out four hundred pages for something not for work.
***Then buy it.
I have been aware of the free download for a while, but figured that Beaudette deserves the few cents he is likely to garner from sales. Even interlibrary loan...(virtually free to you)...gives him at least a few cents.
Only problem with Beaudette is that the book only covers up to (IIRC, 2006), and MUCH new science has been added since. But it "is" THE best source for coverage of the science (and science politics) of the early LENR period.
Also....if you do NOTHING else.....watch the last half of the last days video from the MIT Cold Fusion Short Course (the segment with Mitchell Schwartz discussing his NANOR CF cell). INCREDIBLE. Current cells are putting out 80 watts with 1 watt input, from ~100 MILLIGRAMS of nickel (and a truly insignificant amount of pre-loaded hydrogen).
Schwartz has also shown that Nickel works with deuterium (it has been the previous notion that Palladium worked with D2 and nickel with H2).
There is also a short video segment of a small Stirling engine being driven by one of his LENR cells.
I have been aware of the free download for a while, but figured that Beaudette deserves the few cents he is likely to garner from sales.
***He got his royalty from me. What I find useful is the ability to start quoting sections of his book without having to type it in myself. Also, it removes one more excuse that comes from the PTSIFOM crowd.
Good point. I hadn't thought about doing that.
Thank you for the update on “cold fusion”.
As an MIT alum I was dismayed when Eugene Mallove revealed that MIT did replicate the Pons and Fleischmann experiment, but then denied doing so, likely to protect the many millions of dollars they were receiving annually from the U.S. taxpayer, for hot fusion research.
https://jamesfetzer.org/2011/12/the-history-of-mits-blatant-suppression-of-cold-fusion/
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