Posted on 07/19/2005 7:34:14 PM PDT by Arkie2
What's the old saying? There's always something new under the sun?
According to King Solomon
"There is NOTHING new under the sun"
Ecclesiastes 1:9
The first reports on cold fusion involved the use of platinum which has a tremendous ability to absorb hydrogen gas. I've always suspected it was that characteristic, more than any other, that gave rise to the strange results that were interpreted/misinterpreted as demonstrating fusion.
"Go for it you whacky Physicists!"
I spent the first two years in college on that route, but I excaped (sic) to EE, LOL.
I do remember following that whole Cold Fusion thing, so I'll withhold my opinion.
Redsox won at last.
If we can keep the government's mitts off this technology, perhaps it can be commercialized. If not, we'll end up with an FDA of energy - which would mean no energy.
Is there a different purported mechanism for the cavitation fusion than hot fusion, or is the idea that the density is so much greater as the bubble collapses, that even with a vanishingly small reaction cross section, you have so many collisions that you get appreciable output?
Ya know, wouldn't it be neat to have a desktop Nuclear Reactor to power my computer, monitor, and printer?
Guess you're right but man has yet to discover everything that is "under the sun". That's the beauty of science. It isn't stagnant. Nuclear fission wasn't contemplated 200 years ago even though it was always possible awaiting our undestanding of the principles. Besides, the quote has more to do with human nature than our understanding of nature.
THEN they'd have something!
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