Posted on 09/25/2015 6:28:38 PM PDT by ckilmer
You know about the tesseract? Are you one of the chosen ones?
great children’s science fiction imho. made an impression on me.
I still say from time to time
A stitch time saves nine.
The title says
“double net energy gain has been produced and gain of 20 times is within reach”
...
That and $10 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
I’ve been falling for this story since the 70’s... I’m sure it’s true this time... /s
Yeah...that’s the theory.
The process emits excess electrons..but I am not sure what they will use to catch them....:-)
Even assuming they could keep a reaction going, what they want to do is capture the free electrons and use them.
IMO, that would be like catching lightning in a bottle and pouring out only what you need. It’s unworkable! (except for some really cool special effects like Tesla once used to impress investors.
The by product is essentially uncontrollable static electricity. Very dangerous stuff..
What is worse is that electrical charges have to balance. You cannot just shove electrons into a power grid. You have to remove a equal number from the grounding grid to create a useable current. If it goes out of balance for whatever reason, stuff tends to blow up!
At best all they could use this for is a circus act and I would not want to be within 300 yards.
Yep, still waiting for my flying car.
My post was neither insightful nor directed at you. It was the Far equivalent of a like button or up arrow.
Pinging kevmo....
Kevmo, see eegator’s post.
Eegator,
Disregard my ping to kevmo; I hadn’t read down to #24 yet..
+1.
And if you read the very beginning of the article you will remember that this is being RESEARCHED which means it is NO WHERE NEAR being ready for commercial use.
I hate it when science is treated as if it is a breaking news story. ANY type of fusion is a difficult process.
Folks are always looking for the magic so that there will be something easy to do to get cheap energy. I don’t have a problem with the desire. It is the breathless excitement over things that are interesting but may prove to be irrelevant in the long run
I’ll believe it when I see it.
For decades Cold Fusion has been right around the corner......that’s one laaaaaarge corner!!!!!
Cold Heat? Interesting name for this topic... What’s your best guess Cold on when we’ll be able to ‘catch lightning in a bottle’?
Only took one year of physics, so I don't know about commercial viability, or even if it works.
What I can say is that if this break through is real, the Petroleum industry will take a big hit.
5.56mm
I’m sure it will be any day now....
I’m told that the Chinese are very, very close!
LMAO
BTW...I might add a bit more humor to this by saying the obvious...
In order to use Muons (Mesons when I was a kid) for any kind of useful work, one has to remember that they only last 2.2 microseconds and then decay leaving one electron and a couple other bits.....
To use the electron, it would have to be a closed system, not connected or even in the proximity of any existing power grid, because it would destabilize it. So maybe you could use it on a ship or spacecraft, but you would need to be careful when the high negative charge you create in the surrounding environment tries to balance it’s self out...(that would be a electrical discharge or what we might call lightning or one heck of a arc flash)
So yes, you would need a bottle to put it in to make it usable to some minor degree, and that bottle I suppose would have to be called a Flux Capacitor!
I have been waiting to meet myself from the future so I can find out more information.
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