[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?

[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.

[Kevin OMalley]

BFLR = bump for later reading

[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.

[ZGuy]

Earlier related posts :

Bubble Fusion takes next hurdle

Purdue Findings Support Earlier Nuclear Fusion Experiments

Purdue findings support earlier nuclear fusion experiments

[theDentist]

Will it work in a Delorean?

[Fog Nozzle]

How about an ethanol powered fusion generator? 99% free energy.

[IpaqMan]

It is good to read that they used a well-designed experiment with a control to compare results. You have one deuterated acetone beaker and one acetone beaker. One produces high energy neutons and tritium and the other does not. The only difference is deuterium.

It seems that they did not rush to make news but started the experiments in 2002 and have changed researchers along the way, so there is less risk of data forgery. And then published in a peer-review journal.

[Cicero]

Whether cold fusion is possible or not, I don't know. But it's evident that something interesting is going on, and it's also evident that the original cold fusion announcement was shot down without sufficient evidence to dismiss it.

The whole business seems extremely unlikely. But ground breaking new discoveries in science usually seem extremely unlikely, until the establishment has its faces well rubbed into the evidence.

[hosepipe]

[ Using acoustic cavitation generated by ultrasound waves in a solution doped with deuterium, ]

Sounds like Hardrock-o-fusion to me.. which has been generating incredibly primitive sound energy for decades.. and many doped with Opiaterium are generating it..

Dangerous, look what it did to Ozzy Osborn.. total burn out.. The dude has been cavitating for years to imaginary drummers.. Effected his whole family..

[WhiteGuy]

"fellow researcher Adam Butt"

You said butt,

hehheh heh hehhehheh

butt...........

[CWOJackson]

"A widely criticized effort three years ago to create low-cost tabletop nuclear fusion could gain new support following an experiment at Purdue University."

In unrelated news, scientists have yet to explain how Lake Michigan's shoreline moved so far south over night.

[tet68]

But criticism followed. When Taleyarkhan replied with a follow-up experiment to address those concerns, the reaction was muted.

Oh boy, WHICH REACTION??

Hehehe.

[Shazbot29]

[aposiopetic]

a way to generate tritium, a helium isotope produced by the reaction

The editor was asleep at the wheel. Tritium is a hydrogen isotope that decays into helium-3.