“...an alleged compact fusion reactor based on an assumed Cold Fusion technology...” and “...So far, attempts to replicate the experiment independently failed...”
Note: alleged and assumed.
Look - I’m all for cold fusion if it can be duplicated.
It is called ‘proof’ when a process can be recreated over and over again with similar or identical results.
So far, it ain’t lookin’ good.
Well, the proof will be in the pudding, as they say.
This thing is either going to work, or it's not. Someone out there has become convinced enough to invest millions of euros in building these devices, so I guess we'll just have to see whether they work, or if the investors have been taken for an expensive ride.
In the meantime, this country needs to drill the hell out of our vast mineral resources.
This guy will either disappear or claim that there is a safety issue that he has to resolve that will delay his plans for rolling out the commercial reactor in November.
Things just don’t go from the lab to commercial applications for energy generation this quickly.
People have noted, he doesn’t even have permits and his patent applications have been rejected.
Riddle me this. How does anyone 'allow' the nuclear reactions to become very energetic?
Basically we are dealing with Nickle, Hydrogen and a catalyst. Remember we are dealing with a nuclear reaction, not a chemical reaction (that uses catalysts) so how is the nuclear reaction allowed to become very energetic? By increasing the Temperature from 500C? That will do absolutely nothing to increase the reaction (it needs to get hot like the sun). More pressure? Ditto. Adding a catalyst to a nuclear reaction? I don't think so!
Nothing in the description makes any kind of sense in a nuclear sense. Remember that the nuclear forces are thousands of times stronger than electrical forces. Controlling these forces at this scale is far beyond our current technology.