Cold Fusion

Liquid Fire · Post by **Liquid Fire** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:14 pm

The original link I found

The ucla website, with a couple dozen more links

Seems cold fusion is now a reality. Don't get your hopes up. We haven't found the perfect clean power source yet, but this is a very interesting piece of equipment. It uses a small crystal and electricity to fuse atoms. Thought it does take far more energy to run than it gives out, it only runs at around 45F.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:17 pm

Just caught an article on Fark from The Economist. It's not yet a reality; someone just developed a cost-efficient way to accelerate nuclei. Hopefully, this will make it possible to send a stream of nuclei at a stationary target and cause fusion, but whether or not this will generate more energy than gets put into it remains to be seen.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:14 pm

Don't forget, "breakeven" is the holygrail in Fusion, and there's no guarantee that ITER, nor the Laser-Fusion project at Lawrence Livermore will EVER breakeven.

This method seems an unlikely candidate to breakeven too.

However, a fantastic discovery, that may have many wicked applications outside of power generation.