Posted on 10/07/2025 8:22:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cold Fusion Ping!.................
I remember a physicist in the seventies saying, “fusion is a technology that will always be just ten years away.”
“While we didn’t achieve net energy gain...”
Has anybody ever (via cold fusion/LENR)?
Doesn’t Coors use that for brewing?
Rocky Mountain Spring water...................riiiiight............
Fusion is and shall always remain the energy source of the future.
“While we didn’t achieve net energy gain...”
Has anybody ever (via cold fusion/LENR)?
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I think there have been net energy gains for brief periods of time for hot fusion. but not cold fusion.
But hey if these guys want to try to make it work. Why not go for it.
Thanks Red Badger. Turns out, there was a sequel to Independence Day, made in 2016. Streamed it the other day, probably one of those ad-break full movies YouTube runs now. What a POS it was, all action, no coherent plot points, a lot of pandering. But I did get a laugh about their "cold fusion warheads".
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Seems like to me that if you actually achieve ‘cold fusion’, it wouldn’t stay ‘cold’ for very long....................🤔
Not yet! It’s just 30 years away!...........
Yeah, but wind panels and solar turbines. A blight upon the landscape. Remember when enviros would sue some endeavor because it would interrupt someone’s “view shed”! My how times have changed.
If it works at all, the advantage is strict control over the process, so, no meltdowns, just turn off the fuel and it stops.
It was a mixed bag.
The results were highly irreproducable but on a number occasion we did have distinct indications that some sort of fusion reaction was occurring and that it was related to some sort of cavitation collapse or lattice confinement effect.
Intriguing stuff and researchers seem to encounter just enough positive results to keep the research alive but never enough to get a decisive demonstration that conclusively validates the research.
Hopefully at some point somebody will develop a working theoretical model that will facilitate a proper design of experiment to prove conclusively the process can work.
If they are getting MeV neutrons as a result, that = fusion. Yeah, yeah, still an energy sink. But, juicing a test like this and getting a 15% boost is nothing to laugh at.
Thanks for the ping.
Could be a case of experimental evidence being ahead of theory.
That has been the case with many scientific revolutions.
The one that comes to mind immediately is blackbody radiation, the first hints of which were observed by Kirchoff in 1859, but wasn’t explained mathematically until 1900, by Max Planck, as he pursued a solution to the “ultraviolet catastrophe.”
His mathematical “hack” described photons, and opened the door to quantum mechanics. Planck himself didn’t believe that energy came in “packets,” until Einstein assured him that his equation described something that was real and valid.
Another obvious example is radioactivity, which also took a long time from first observation to a complete explanation; along the journey, the strong and weak nuclear forces were discovered, along with quarks and gluons, etc.
So many people in so many laboratories have observed strange things happening in solid state structures into which deuterium and tritium have been introduced, it’s hard to believe that they’re all fooling themselves. Some skeptics have been converted.
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