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'Double crystal fusion' could pave the way for portable device
Eureka Alert ^
| 13-Feb-2006
| Jason Gorss
Posted on 02/14/2006 2:14:25 PM PST by ckilmer
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:14:27 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: ckilmer
Looks like the flux capacitor from "Back to the Future."
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:15:15 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: ckilmer
Oh my... Calling all Telsa adherents.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:18:09 PM PST
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: ckilmer
the most immediate application may come in the form of a battery-operated, portable neutron generator.I want one of those.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:18:18 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: ckilmer
Cold Fusion on the desktop. Isn't this kind of like, big news?
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:19:19 PM PST
by
Flavius Josephus
(Enemy Idealogies: Pacifism, Liberalism, and Feminism, Islamic Supremacism)
To: dropandgimme20
Looks like something Doc hacked together all right.
Actually it reminds me of the equipment we used to have in Physics lab when I went to RPI :-)
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:20:54 PM PST
by
mhx
To: bill1952
Are you efering to the rock group or the scientist?
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:23:25 PM PST
by
Ben Mugged
("Television is the most perfect democracy, You sit there with your remote control and vote")
To: ckilmer
I made one of those once, you could pick kwik radio real good but nobody else. Somebody stole it back in 59' now I know who - and I want it back.
Build your own
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:24:47 PM PST
by
kentj
To: ckilmer
The description sounds a lot like a vacuum tube.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:25:46 PM PST
by
wolfpat
(Dum vivimus, vivamus.)
To: My2Cents
"Looks like the flux capacitor from "Back to the Future."" Obviously dilithium crystals.
To: ckilmer
Theophrastus noted that tourmaline becomes charged when heated,
in 314 BC...
Although the reported fusion is not useful in the power-producing sense, we anticipate that the system will find application as a simple palm-sized neutron generator.
Never know, there's more than one way to skin a cat, nothing wrong with researching all possibilities...Any way power is generated, you'll still need power protection devices... job security for me!
To: ckilmer
Now to start the DUmmies thinking this is the way the VRWC is going to use to wipe them out ala' "neutron bomb".
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:30:17 PM PST
by
techcor
To: ckilmer
I actually got the same effect with geranium diodes.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:34:07 PM PST
by
Flint
To: My2Cents
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Flux Capacitor |
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:35:58 PM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Flavius Josephus
We're way beyond that at my local junior college.
We have dispensed with "double crystal fusion" and are "wrapping quantum strings of gravity around our particle deccelerator and have created a nano-double dutch chocolate powered perpetual motion machine."
For just $25.00, you'll never have to buy gas or electricity again...and it also brings back the dead.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:37:05 PM PST
by
Dark Skies
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
To: Incorrigible
I want this!
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:37:49 PM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Flavius Josephus
[Cold Fusion on the desktop. Isn't this kind of like, big news?]
This is not a "macro" fusion device like a hydrogen bomb or a fusion power generator in which you create enough energy to generate electricity for commercial use.
This is sort of like a single atom "micro-nano" (I just made up that word) scale device which could be used for scientific detection or analyzing purposes.
Such small scale fusion has been easy to do for years, but the hard part has been developing the technology to scale up the fusion power to quantities large enough to generate commercial electric power without melting the apparatus if it gets too hot, or ending the reaction if it gets too cold.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:38:22 PM PST
by
spinestein
(All journalists today are paid advocates for someone's agenda.)
To: Incorrigible
The fusion-in-a-box device looks like it's made from three blocks of wood.
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:40:45 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: Flint
[I actually got the same effect with geranium diodes.]
You mean they grow them on FLOWERS now?!
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posted on
02/14/2006 2:40:58 PM PST
by
spinestein
(All journalists today are paid advocates for someone's agenda.)
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