Guest moonchild1980 Posted December 21, 2003 Share Posted December 21, 2003 Do you believe cold fusion can really be achieved or is it just a case of high hopes? I know a few have tried to prove it and now have given up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted December 22, 2003 Share Posted December 22, 2003 No, i quite doubt this is possible the convention of cold fusion is that under certain conditions like fusion atoms/molecules will release large amounts of energy, the paradox i see with this is the substance is supposed to remain cold for the process to be self sustaining but with high scale exothermic reaction, the substance can no longer remain cold so i dont believe this can ever be achieved,no with convential understanding and not in the world as we know it tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 wasnt there two guys that claimed they had acheived cold fusion, but they were later exposed as a hoax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 In the early 90s two researches claimed they had observed a fusion reaction that emitted energy but occured at room temperature. There results were not valididated by others who performed the experiment, so nobody gave it much credence. Cold is a relative term remember. Fusion normally requires tens of millions of degrees and a huge amount of pressure to occur. They didn't say it would not heat up, it has to if heat is created, but it certainly would be be around the millions of degrees normally required. Also, the exeriment was not large scale. They had only a small amount of reactants, and they observed a few neutrons. This amount of energy would not heat much of anything even if it did exist. It may not be entirely incorrect though. While nobody has been able to come to the same conclusions the original two researches did, when performing similar experiments more neutrons are produced then can be normally accounted for. This odd result has prompted many to continue research in the area, although they are often ridiculed as crackpots. They even hold an annual conference if I am not mistaken. Maybe possible. It would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 didn't they just use pallidium electrodes for electrolysis of water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MolecularMan14 Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 well, I really dont know if cold fusion is real. It could be real, and it could be fake. It's not as if it will be real in 10/20 years from now if it isnt now. so I would vote "maybe", because I really want to believe it's real, but no one seems to want to prove that to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted October 10, 2004 Share Posted October 10, 2004 didn't they just use pallidium electrodes for electrolysis of water? I dont know how they did it, you could easily look this up on google if you are curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted October 14, 2004 Share Posted October 14, 2004 http://www.essayworld.com/essays/science/964.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 I'd like to think cold fusion were a real possibility, but I suspect not. I have just run across this information that tends to support those who believe anyone who seriously believes in cold fusion is a couple of electrons short of a filled orbital. http://www.iccf11.org/ The 11th ICCF (that's The International Conference on Condensed Nuclear Matter) will be held from the 31st of October in Marseilles. Marseilles! You hold a conference in the south of France and you site it in Marseilles? It does raise questions! On a more serious note their keynote speaker is Brian Josephson (Nobel prize. Josephson junctions. even I've heard of them) who believes there may be something in it, so maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Do you believe cold fusion can really be achieved or is it just a case of high hopes? I know a few have tried to prove it and now have given up. Maybe it's a only microscopic..fission-fusion nuclear reaction because are always required elements with an high density........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 anyway isnt it a contradiction in terms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Later this month, the U.S. Department of Energy will receive a report from a panel of experts on the prospects for cold fusion... Don't steal material from other web sites and pass it off as your own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 one question however is that if cold fusion occurs at room temperature because of hydrogen molecules becoming closer on one side of the experiment. then how come nasa doensn't see this when they super cool hydrogen for use as fuels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 The aim of cold fusion is to get fusion happening at or near room temperature - that does not mean "the colder the better". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPL.Luke Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 I know, but my understanding of the phenomena is that when the current is provided in between the two electrodes the deuterium as it is sepperated gathers at one of the electrodes and becomes more dense after a certain point the density becomes high enough that the deuterium starts to fuse producing energy. so if its a phenomena brought on by density then very very cold deuterium should also exhibit the process Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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