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Authored by: Wol on Monday, April 01 2013 @ 11:45 AM EDT |
We wouldn't have a sun to keep us warm ...
That's not to say that cold fusion is (or is not) possible at room temperature,
BUT!
If you look at the hydrogen-burning cycle of the Sun, and work out the minimum
temperature at which it should work, you'll find it is probably about ten times
the actual temperature of the sun. Oops! What's going on!?
What is going on is "cold fusion", otherwise known as quantum
tunnelling. A small (and sufficient) proportion of "impossible"
reactions occur to drive the fusion that provides us with heat and light.
So what's to say that those reactions can't occur here on earth using the same
mechanism? imho, the jury is still out, and unfortunately Pons and Fleishchmann
rather effectively poisoned the well :-( I studied that fiasco as part of my
M.Sc. ...
Cheers,
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