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  • Re: Cold fusion

    From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Aug 26 11:33:42 2023
    XPost: sci.misc

    On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:34:50 -0500
    JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Cold fusion is making a scientific comeback

    Earlier this year, ARPA-E, a US government agency dedicated to funding advanced energy research, announced a handful of grants for a field it
    calls "low-energy nuclear reactions," or LENR. Most scientists likely
    didn't take notice of the news. But, for a small group of them, the announcement marked vindication for their specialty: cold fusion.

    Not really, just that someone's willing to chck some money at a vague
    hope.


    Cold fusion, better known by its practitioners as LENR, is the
    science--or, perhaps, the art--of making atomic nuclei merge and,
    ideally, harnessing the resultant energy. All of this happens without
    the incredible temperatures, on the scale of millions of degrees, that
    you need for "traditional" fusion. In a dream world, successful cold
    fusion could provide us with a boundless supply of clean, easily
    attainable energy.

    https://www.popsci.com/science/cold-fusion-low-energy-nuclear-reaction/

    try
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Criticism
    instead.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Aug 26 06:54:38 2023
    XPost: sci.misc

    On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:33:42 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Cold fusion is making a scientific comeback

    Not really, just that someone's willing to chck some money at a vague
    hope.

    I don't believe this method will be practical, but there might be
    something there to understand.

    Scientific naysayers have eaten lots of crow....

    It's possible atomic structures can "break down or rearrange" in some
    manner with some heat being produced if the right conditions exist.
    Electrons have orbital paths, but when a change in path happens, a
    photon (heat) can be released. I don't believe atomic forces are
    fully understood.

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