Cold-fusion?

[too-open-minded]

I was more or less asking for information about it. Although I understand now that cold fusion is completely theoretical with no hard evidence, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[JohnB]

Although I understand now that cold fusion is completely theoretical with no hard evidence, sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

Not quite. I look at this occasionally and my best impression is that it is maddeningly confused. Some people get results and others can't replicate them and there is a distinct lack of actual theory.

 

An effect was noted by accident in the original experiments. Since then some have had similar results and some haven't and everybody is trying to work out a theory as to what is going on. There are enough unusual results to keep the interest going but not enough positive results, either in theory or practice to break into the wider world yet.

 

There is also the possibility that it does work quite well but the evil empire of "Big Oil" is keeping it a secret so that they can continue to rape the planet and make obscene profits. A "Big Somebody" always seems to be responsible for something, so I thought I'd throw it in now.

[Panopticon]

Hi! This is my first post. But I'd like to jump into this somewhat stagnant discussion with the following not-so-new news:

 

http://www.sede.enea.it/produzione_scientifica/pdf_brief/Violante_ExcessPower.pdf

 

Is anybody reading up on this stuff?

[too-open-minded]

I fallow up on these things but the link you directed me too, my knowledge is not large enough to fully comprehend that.

 

Personally I think our next big step is learning to harness chemical energy. We do it with solar panels but I'm talking about harnessing chemical energy from fission.

[Pantaz]

Hi! This is my first post. But I'd like to jump into this somewhat stagnant discussion with the following not-so-new news:

 

http://www.sede.enea.it/produzione_scientifica/pdf_brief/Violante_ExcessPower.pdf

 

Is anybody reading up on this stuff?

Note to Panopticon: It's generally considered bad form to post a file link without some description of what it contains.

 

I spent a few minutes back-tracing the source of the PDF -- http://www.sede.enea.it/produzione_scientifica/WebTechnology.html

On that page is the link, titled: "Excess of Power in Deuterium-charged Palladium - Jan 2009 - Vittorio Violante" (The website is in Italian, but this and a few other links are in English.)

 

The English-language document is just a four page "technology brief" that discusses ongoing (as of Jan 2009) work building upon Fleishmann & Pons fusion experiments.