[PatrickHenry]

Bold and underlining added by me.

[PatrickHenry]

SciencePing

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[Echo Talon]

The paper was written by Yiban Xu, a post-doctoral research associate in the School of Nuclear Engineering, and Adam Butt, a graduate research assistant in both nuclear engineering and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

What's in a name? :D

[ahayes]

Hmm. . .

[Waco]

Holy ultrasonic cleaner, Batman!

[Hardastarboard]

This is really good news. I'm just waiting to see how the libs will try to demonize this energy source. After all, we can't have everyone in the world live like the US. We'll eventually run out of deuterium. Isn't that what the Nazis used in their early experiments with nuclear weapons?

Yada, yada, yada. . . .

[HoosierFather]

Go Boilers!

[AntiGuv]

w00t!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a different method than the widely reviled Utah research from over a decade ago?

[unlearner]

"1,000 million earth atmospheres"

Uh... wouldn't that be like one billion earth atmospheres.

[King Prout]

it looks like a well conducted experiment, with isolated variables, and the switchup of D-acetone for acetone seems pretty conclusive.
however... unless I missed something... I see no mention of power output vs. power input.
were they not interested in this aspect in this round of experimentation?

[djf]

Correct me if I'm wrong. Why is it so screamingly difficult to confirm or deny any of these fusion experiments? If there's fusion, there's Helium.

We're able to detect Helium on the sun but can't detect it in a lab?

[darth]

I suspect that we should be putting more federal funding into this and less into hydrogen powered autos which have enormous engineering show-stoppers.

[wotan]

How "statistically" significant?

[armymarinemom]

We had a freeper who was working on Cold Fusion when he was murdered. I know remember his name. Was this method different from what he was working on?

[RightWhale]

Development of a low-cost thermonuclear fusion generator would offer the potential for a new, relatively safe and low-polluting energy source

Sure. Unlimited free fuel, unlimited power. That's the template. A lot of con games are based on conversion of scarcity to surplus by converting what you have a lot of [dust in the desert] to something you have little of [water in the desert].

Philosopher's stone, convert pewter to gold--send $$$$$$

[TEXASPROUD]

Hey guys,
maybe we'll get good cheap night sights now.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"The two key signatures for a fusion reaction are emission of neutrons in the range of 2.5 MeV and production of tritium, both of which were seen in these experiments," Xu said.

I didn't see any mention of when the lithium was added to breed the tritium. Is there some other process for breeding tritium that doesn't require lithium?