Cold Fusion? by Calhoun

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Cold Fusion?

POSTED BY: CALHOUN
UPDATED: Friday, March 18, 2011 07:00
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:47 PM

Anyone else been following this story? Sounds so very promising! If its true then the ramifications will be momentous! Truly historic.

http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2011/02/08/upda
ting-rossi%E2%80%99s-cold-fusion/

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3108242.ece

Thoughts?

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 6:36 AM

CANTTAKESKY

It sounds exciting. I sure hope it's for real.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:17 PM

CALHOUN

Surely well known scientists and academics wouldn't partake in a fraud or scam as their careers would be over in a heartbeat.

It does however seem to good to be true.

We don't know all there is to know, new scientific discoveries have to occur. I surely hope this one is real.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:26 PM

KANEMAN

Dude...who cares? cold fusion...realy?

Kwicko, I formally condemn your mother for not aborting you. Yeah, I'm sure her brother was happy to have a son, but you are inexcusable....

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:13 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

People have used nickel catalysts in the form of a fine powder with pressurized hydrogen forEVER. Well, not forever, but since 1924 (Raney catalyst). I would be thrilled if this was indeed a cheap source of energy, but I have a hard time believing that these materials could be used in large-scale industrial processes for all these decades and no on ever noticed that things were getting hotter than the external heat source would account for.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:50 PM

DREAMTROVE

Anyone with half a wit can solve the world's energy problems. Want a plan? I can draft you one up tonight, you can run it tomorrow.

Oh, and I can solve world hunger too. Easy. Up the biomass yield per acre, which any idiot can do. It just involves intelligent use of cycling crops and moisture.

Ever stop to think of why problems that are so obvious they could be solved by a sixth grader continue to plague the planet? Because people don't *want* them solved.

Food and energy are control mechanisms. I can run a super computer off of 3 watts of power. I have a design here, printed in science news that runs one on zero watts. There's an electric car that runs on just 5% of the EVs of the 90s, and some that aren't in mass production that run on 1%. Reduce the gorram energy consumption. There's your answer. In fact, there's nothing that couldn't run off of a set of solar cells stuck on top of it, or salt water, gravity or steam cycles based on focused solar heat. You could geothermal your home, or grow your own firewood in your back yard, what does it matter, there are a thousand solutions.

What would you run with a fusion generator if you had one? You can run a spaceship on burning rubber, been proven, and yet the space shuttle still exists.

Our problems are not scientific, they're economic and political.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Friday, March 18, 2011 2:24 AM

CANTTAKESKY

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Our problems are not scientific, they're economic and political.

Yes. Technology is not the problem.

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Friday, March 18, 2011 7:00 AM

BYTEMITE

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Surely well known scientists and academics wouldn't partake in a fraud or scam as their careers would be over in a heartbeat.

It does however seem to good to be true.

We don't know all there is to know, new scientific discoveries have to occur. I surely hope this one is real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fleischmann

Another example of a guy who was not inherently dishonest, but the media mislabeled his discoveries so people rushed out to discredit him. There's been recent renewed interest in his work with Palladium, but it can't be called "cold fusion" either, because it's not.

Sounds like this is a similar deal going on here, where they've detected excess heat than would otherwise be expected. It could still be useful, so I don't discount it like most reactionary skeptics, but I doubt it's cold fusion.

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