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To: SatinDoll
If cold fusion is the "real deal" why hasn't it been observed in nature? There are billions and billions of examples of "hot" fusion visible all around us, requiring almost unimaginable pressures and temperatures. We even have created weapons that mimic the process that fire the stars. But cold fusion remains as elusive as the philosophers stone. I remain unconvinced that it is even theoretically possible. There is no such thing as a free lunch in life or modern physics.

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10 posted on 08/21/2011 3:14:37 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray
If cold fusion is the "real deal" why hasn't it been observed in nature?

If teflon is the "real deal" why hasn't it been observed in nature?

11 posted on 08/21/2011 4:16:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Maybe it does exist in nature, only it is a geologic process occurring deep in the earth and we never see the ‘process’ of fusion, only its end result.


12 posted on 08/21/2011 4:35:50 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

If cold fusion is the “real deal” why hasn’t it been observed in nature?
***Here’s a start.

Science: Rocks reveal the signature of fusion at the centre of the Earth

06 May 1989
Magazine issue 1663. Subscribe and save

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12216633.500—science-rocks-reveal-the-signature-of-fusion-at-the-centre-of-the-earth—.html
NUCLEAR fusion could be responsible for at least some of the Earth’s heat, according to one of the researchers involved in the current controversy over producing cold fusion in a test tube.

Steven Jones and his team at Brigham Young University, Utah, who last week published the results of their experiments on cold fusion in Nature (vol 338, p 737), suggest that the fusion of deuterium and hydrogen could produce the isotope helium-3 deep inside the Earth. This mechanism would also explain the high levels of helium-3 found in rocks, liquids and gases from volcanoes and regions in the Earth’s crust where tectonic plates are active.

It was this implication that provided the impetus for Jones’s efforts to achieve fusion between deuterium nuclei in an electrolytic cell with titanium and palladium electrodes. Jones detected a few neutrons with a specific energy that indicated nuclear fusion.

Three years ago, Paul Palmer, ...
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19 posted on 08/21/2011 10:14:44 PM PDT by Kevmo (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Here also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_transmutation


20 posted on 08/21/2011 10:23:29 PM PDT by Kevmo (Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all. ~Ronald Reagan)
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