Cold Fusion

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Permalink Reply by Big Buddha on July 12, 2008 at 8:30pm

Yeah, it didn't work. and was a totally bogus idea.

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Permalink Reply by Doc Miles on February 5, 2009 at 6:37pm

When I first read this, I thought the thread was about the programming language. :)

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Scott on July 12, 2008 at 8:35pm

Its at the edge of legit science. Every so often some government lab will toss some money at it and come up with maybe some anomolies but nothing breakthrough.

Hot fusion is 2050-ish and is a major step forward. In my opinion the "hydrogen" economy really is the hot fusion economy. Until then hydrogen cracked from water with electric power is just a battery competing with other energy storage systems to do hybrids or plug-ins. (Which is still a much better world then 20 mpg gasoline engines).

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Permalink Reply by Joe Lalumia on July 12, 2008 at 8:35pm

Here is a great article on cold fusion from a physics website--
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/1258

After all this time no one has actually shown that it really works.

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Permalink Reply by bill richards on February 5, 2009 at 9:07am

don't kmnow much found this cool website superwavefusion.com
they say they are making progress
let me know what u think.
i dont really understand the science

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Permalink Reply by SJC on April 21, 2009 at 9:34pm

The CBS News blog has some interesting comments. One person pointed to a site that has most of the relevant papers on the subject published over the last 20 years.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/17/60minutes/main4952167.shtml

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Permalink Reply by neil cox on April 22, 2009 at 6:43am

My guess is several hundred small companies have made exaggerated claims about their experiments in cold fusion in an effort to get loans, grants and investors. Apparently no one has a one meter cube you can buy that produces as much power as a tiny power cube that you use to run a portable phone. It is possible that a real cold fusion device will be marketed soon. There is a niche market for a unit that produces a small amount of electricity at a reasonable cost for many years with no maintenance. Neil

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