Posted on 11/18/2014 6:37:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s a shame that posting news about LENR/Cold Fusion here at FR is a complete waste of time.
potential to provide answers to the country’s energy problem.
Sure, so does perpetual motion. Might as well go with Bird Blenders (wind mills), at least that provides a fraction of the power used to manufacture them over the life of the units.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true — I just think it will take some time for people to recognize the potential in the LENR field.
It might not have been that way, but for the fact that the guy who used to post most of the LENR threads, took all of the naysaying personally. He sort of soured the discussions about this technology here.
He eventually became so wound up, that he began lashing out at nearly anyone who posted on his threads. He's no longer here, so I won't mention his name.
Mark my words. When this technology is proven to be valid beyond a shadow of doubt, every one of those detractors is going to quietly slink away with nary an apology to those they gave so much grief to, for so long.
At the very best there is great difficulty trying to reproduce the results reliably. It smacks of amateur hour. Maybe some scientist in some lab will be able to puzzle out the secret, and then cold fusion really will be ready for prime time. But this just does not look like 99.9999 of modern technical success stories, which were pursued in labs.
That is the way of the world.
If it doesn’t support either the oil industry, or the Med Mafia, there’s little interest to be found here.
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Seems to me the biggest problem with cold fusion is replicating the experiments. What say you.
With all the interest in alternative energies cold fusion can never get the big investors the way crap projects like Solyndra do. I think word is out on Wall Street that cold fusion is cute but flaky when it comes to repeating the process
Back shortly after Pons and Fleishman published their experiment, a physicist in Palo Alto California decided to pack their recipe in an air tight metal cylinder.
The result exploded violently, killing the physicist, and completely destroying his laboratory. There was no follow-up ever reported on it.
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Sounds like a meth lab
How about Brightsource?
Their multi-billion dollar experiment in the desert is quite effective at cooking birds as they fly by, but is using almost as much energy as it produces just to keep it running.
A total failure, but the media still call it “green energy.”
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The timbers of the building flew much like a meth explosion, but it was a true physics lab, funded by HP, and Stanford.
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I would be leery of playing around with powdered nickel.
I would be leery of playing with anything that had even a hint of a nuke reaction involved.
I think they are not getting nuclear energy, but something related to the powdered metal, a physico-chemical phenomenon. Nobody complained about scattered radiation in that accident.
That's a broken record that's been playing since 1989. I'm not so sure the results can't be replicated today.
Note in the article that other researchers replicated Pons and Fleishman's results in 1990. Nothing ever came of it, and the work ended, because it was drowned out by an avalanche of skepticism in the 'scientific' community.
That is just so typical of history on this planet.
There was no reported follow-up at all after the initial fire department comments the day of the explosion.
There had to be a nuclear component with the vessel being initially a vacuum, then producing sufficient expansion to knock down that wing of the building. It was quite substantial.
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