Itty-Bitty and Shrinking, Fusion Device Has Big Ideas

NY Times ^ | April 28, 2005 | KENNETH CHANG

[neverdem]

[P8riot]

[Arkie2]

Woo hoo! Fifth time this has been posted!!!!

[randog]

But because only one in a million of the collisions actually produce fusion, the device is an inefficient generator of energy.

Seems to me that the hard part is done and some clever scientist/engineer could come up with a way to increase the efficiency.

[Right Wing Assault]

This would be a great way to kill a person. Point the thing at him and give him a dose of neutrons. If they have enough energy, the guy dies a few days later. Easily concealed; no bullet; no evidence.

[TomB]

bump for later

[neverdem]

Woo hoo! Fifth time this has been posted!!!!

Was this article from the NY Times posted five times? This one is much better than the one from the AP.

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[spinestein]

[Seems to me that the hard part is done and some clever scientist/engineer could come up with a way to increase the efficiency.]



Just the opposite is true in this case.

Creating minute amounts of fusion in the lab is fairly easy. For decades, the hard work has been to increase the efficiency and control the heat produced in order to use it to generate useful quantities of electricity.

[FairOpinion]

This is a revolutionary find, and various articles provided various different info.

Here are the other threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=fusion

[Arkie2]

Variations on a theme.

[_Jim]

For decades, the hard work has been to increase the efficiency and control the heat produced in order to use it to generate useful quantities of electricity.

I'd settle for consistant amounts of anomolous thermal energy; THEN work out a scheme for pushing the electrons around later ...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

By contrast with the earlier claims, the U.C.L.A. researchers do not assert that their invention will provide unlimited energy. "What we've built so far," Dr. Putterman said, "no chance."

The longest journey starts with but a single step.

[Arkie2]

Already read em all.

[Tacis]

It is just a question of the techies improving efficiency 'til it's are new power source. Look at flying. In 100 years, we went from Kittyhawk to the SR-71.

I've long wondered about the yechnology to covert sunlight to other kinds of usable enery.

[AntiGuv]

But note who posted it first. :p

 

 

sorry, i couldn't resist..

[Calusa]

Funny I was just talking about Amar Bose the brilliant Hindu type Indian well known as the founder of the Bose Audio Company. He led a team that found that this kind of soda fizz nuclear fission could not be duplicated in a rigorous scientific test thereby debunking the concept. However my uncle Silas did invent an alka seltzer fizz tablet that turns water into hi test gasoline, but his dog Exxon ate the formula.

[GummyIII]

Nice to see variations. One might have something the other doesn't. I hope you don't use just one source for all your other information. You might be missing something.

[_Jim]

A Cold Fusion Primer
www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SocialConstruction/ColdFusionPrimer.html

Why Cold Fusion Has Been So Hard to Explain and Duplicate
blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/50stormsaps2003.html


"EXCESS HEAT" AND "HEAT AFTER DEATH" Phenomonons
www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/TianJexcessheat.pdf

Yasuhiro Iwamura of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries:
Observation of Nuclear Transmutation Induced by Deuterium
(an effect often observed in LENR/Cold Fusion experiemnts)
www.mhi.co.jp/tech/pdf/e421/e421050.pdf

[neverdem]

Variations on a theme.

The Times changed its title, as they are wont to do. That's why I didn't catch the earlier posting from the Times. That's one of the bad aspects of the NY Times. Two of the good things about it is that you don't have to excerpt it, and they have first rate illustrations accompany many of their health and science stories.