Experiment Supports Controversial 'Fusion-In-A-Jar' Claims

Information Week ^ | July 22, 2005

[ClearCase_guy]

"Sonofusion is thermonuclear fusion and is scalable," said Yiban Xu,

Son-of-a-what?

[kharaku]

So how long until we have a fusion coffemaker?

[trebb]

Son of a sound approach...

[linear]

I think he is saying it works, and you can make it bigger if you want.

[Personal Responsibility]

Someone please post a link to the picture of Dr. Brown's "Mr. Fusion" from Back to the Future....

[RayChuang88]

I think the Department of Energy is probably quietly studying all the so-called claims of cold fusion and trying to find one that actually works when scaled up to a bigger device. That's because they want a cheap source of deuterium for the lithium deuteride fissile material used for regular replacement of fissile materials in our nuclear stockpile.

[fooman]

What is your take on this? Real or bogus?

[Kevin OMalley]

BFLR = bump for later reading

[Irontank]

That's because they want a cheap source of deuterium for the lithium deuteride fissile material used for regular replacement of fissile materials in our nuclear stockpile

But what about nuclear fusion as a replacement for oil and coal-based energy? Is that something that scientists envision?

[agere_contra]

They appear to be using cavitation as a surrogate marker for fusion. Well, good luck to them - it sounds like quite cheap research and you never know what the spinoffs might be, even if (as seems likely) Cold Fusion is a dream.

[cloud8]

""Sonofusion is thermonuclear fusion and is scalable," said Yiban Xu, who performed the experiment..."

cavitation? sonofusion?

Glad he's on our side.

[bobjam]

How big and how heavy was the aparatus in which they created fusion?

Secondly, how much heat was generated by the apparatus?

[buwaya]

Cavitation effects were proposed at the time as an explanation for the results obtained by Pons and Fleischman 15 years ago. All those bubbles on the electrodes.

[em2vn]

What makes you think he is?

[GaltMeister]

Bush and his 'oil buddies' will put a stop to this! They need to keep us dependent on oil so they can all get richer. Rove is hatching an eeeevil plan in his lair in the White House basement right now! /DUmmie

[ZGuy]

Earlier related posts :

Bubble Fusion takes next hurdle

Purdue Findings Support Earlier Nuclear Fusion Experiments

Purdue findings support earlier nuclear fusion experiments

[clee1]

Uh huh.

This approach, if it works, would provide a method ANYONE could use to produce fissile material. Yikes!

[HeadOn]

I think the Department of Energy is probably quietly studying...

Well, maybe, but I'm involved with a project that we took to the DOE (NOT fusion, something else), and they put us off by requiring more and more studies, papers, etc...

Their response to us was somewhat justified, I'll have to admit, but my point is, they ask other folks to conduct the studies, I think, and review the findings.

[linear]

I don't see them using cavitation as a marker - sounds like they clearly (I know that word transgresses quantum physics, but you know what I mean) measured the emission of particles following cavitation.