Does fusion scientist 'hold the secret'?

Deseret News ^ | March 24, 2006 | Elaine Jarvik

[gleeaikin]

Can you tell us the names and something about the real Nobel Laureats who are now working on this?

[ladyshealth]

Dear Sir,

I'd like to purchase your perpetual motion machine. However, I have been testing my own for the past two years and since it hasn't stopped I haven't been able to get off of it. Thank God I have my fusion laptop with me -- otherwise I'd never be able to order your machine and see how it compares to mine.

Please send me two machines, one for comparison, and one for reverse engineering.

[Bellflower]

ping

[Philistone]

42?

[wyattearp]

the answer is still "42"

And we still don't know why.

[Some hope remaining.]

I certainly can't. My comment when I posted the article was that I'll believe it when it's heating my house.

[colorcountry]

Dear Ma'am,

How exactly are you trying to get off?

(I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself)

[SengirV]

No, I'm guessing Young Frankenstein ;)

[PatrickHenry]

"I'll show them. One day I'll show them all! HAHAHAHA" Ping List Don't ask to be added to or dropped from this list. Just don't.

[King Prout]

ah, well... maybe. prob'ly not, but maybe.

love the tagline, btw

[VadeRetro]

Never buy a used theory from a man named for a margarine.

[dennisw]

All I have to say about cold fusion is - MAKE IT SO BABY! I say we must explore this field and invest some millions (Federal government) in it to put it to the test

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I did a little electrochemical work years ago in graduate school. That experience taught me that the experimental apparatus and techniques used were very important in getting the experiment to work.

This is probably the reasons that their work has been very difficult to reproduce.

I too await the nuclear reactor in my basement and in my private vehicle.

[frannie]

30,000 watts is only 30 kwhs, I don't believe that would heat any size house.

There are 1000 watts in a kwh [the base of electric bills]. Our rate is about 11 cents a kwh [kilowatt hour]. Now if it produces 30 kwhs an hour that is another story.

[Galveston Grl]

Why don't you tell us. I can't stand the suspense, LOL.

[FierceDraka]

Who needs this when we've got Chuck Norris?

Ol' Chuck pi55ed in my gas tank back in 1985, and I haven't had to fill it up since!

[takebackaustin]

30,000 watts is 30 kw or kilowatts power ( energy/sec). 30kwh is 30kw for an hour (energy). 30,000 watts does produce 30kwh an hour. Thats the h in kwh.

[FierceDraka]

Can you tell us the names and something about the real Nobel Laureats who are now working on this?

Yasser Arafat and Nelson Mandela?

[Fred Hayek]

Consider the physics involved, ASSuming that this even works. At 300 kW, there is still a respectable amount of of shielding due to neutron flux and gammas. Remember, we are talking about a reaction with an energy release of anywhere from 8 to 25 MeV!

Even at the low power levels that Fleischman claims for his "test tube" experiment, and he was standing right next to it - he should be fried.

One person (here on FR) claimed that the only product of the reaction was He-4 (an alpha particle). Well, if say even 8 MeV was the energy of the alpha particle, it's still going awful fast. Even with a +2 charge, it's going to take more than tissue paper (which will stop most alpha particles from typical radioactive decay) or even the wall of a borosilicate glass test tube to stop it.

Keep in mind that as the neutrons slow down, there will be some degree of neutron activation products.