Posted on 10/14/2020 10:30:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Do you remember in 1989 when two chemists announced they’d created a setup that created nuclear fusion at room temperature? Everyone was excited, but it eventually turned out to be very suspect. It wasn’t clear how they detected that fusion occurred and only a few of the many people who tried to replicate the experiment claimed success and they later retracted their reports. Since then, mentioning cold fusion is right up there with perpetual motion. Work does continue though, and NASA recently published several papers on lattice confinement fusion which is definitely not called cold fusion, although it sounds like it to us.
The idea of trapping atoms inside a metallic crystal lattice isn’t new, dating back to the 1920s. It sounds as though the NASA method uses erbium packed with deuterium. Photons cause some of the deuterium to fuse. Unlike earlier attempts, this method produces detectable neutron emissions characteristic of fusion.
This isn’t as seductive a proposition as having a beaker of heavy water and little else, though, because you do need a source of electrons to kick off the reaction. Still, this should point the way to future research and maybe even inspire some garage experiments.
Keep in mind there is a big difference between creating net positive energy via fusion and just fusing a few atoms together. We’ve seen a few fusors that can pull that off.
NASA VIDEO AT LINK......................
That would be a bit of confusion..................
I even remember their names (I think) without doing a lookup, Fleischman and Pons? I’m still convinced that they were sincere and, like this article suggests, may have found something. If it is real, it could be good for an energy-hungry world!
Oh AND there was a report today of a demonstration of super-conductivity at an AMAZING 57 ºF / 13.3 °C / 287.7 K temperature, albeit under an unrealistic 2.5 MILLION Atmospheres. Still, what is experimental today can, if scalable, lead to an amazing tomorrow!
Not sure about this, but here’s some alleged cool fusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg66QOqSjnA
“I blew up my last shop building with just this kind of nonsense.”
I worked on the room temperature fusion problem years ago, but got stuck on how to heat the room up to 15 million degrees. It looks like you may have gotten closer.
A softball sized hollow sphere of plutonium plus a hohlraum to contain the xrays generated after the sphere’s compaction might do the trick.
I wonder what Kevmo’s up to these days. Did he blaze out of here with an Opus Goodbye or was he just quietly zotted?
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