Cold Fusion Again

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jdretired Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia. Posts: 1642 Good Answers: 81	Cold Fusion Again 03/18/2013 5:16 AM
	Cold fusion, after reading the recent post and humour? With regard to cold fusion, it roused my curiosity, so I looked further into it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion , I was drawn to the fact that experiments could not be repeated, I would like to point out here that the original experiment lasted some weeks, and when a temperature rise did occur it was random and erratic. This brought to mind another article I had read some time earlier. It is not about cold fusion but about radioactive decay, http://phys.org/news202456660.html. It crossed my mind, are we missing something? I know I'm stretching things, but with a bit of humour it might be put to rest. Regards JD.
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user-deleted-1105 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16512 Good Answers: 670	#1 Re: Cold fusion again 03/18/2013 6:15 AM
	wake me up when my energy bill hits zero... Del __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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jdretired Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia. Posts: 1642 Good Answers: 81	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Cold fusion again 03/18/2013 6:24 AM
	What you have not got solar panels? Regards JD. zzzzzzzzzzzz
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user-deleted-1105 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Harlow England Posts: 16512 Good Answers: 670	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Cold fusion again 03/18/2013 6:51 AM
	Only the home made hot water variety... Del __________________ health warning: These posts may contain traces of nut.
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#4 Re: Cold Fusion Again 03/18/2013 12:02 PM
	You could get some tritium vials and monitor the brightness... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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jdretired Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Australia. Posts: 1642 Good Answers: 81	#5 In reply to #4 Re: Cold Fusion Again 03/19/2013 1:05 AM
	Thats a nice experiment you have set up there, if each vial now randomly glows all at the same time that will be interesting. Thank you for going too the trouble of organising the experiment, Wake me and Del up when it happens. Regards JD.
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energyconversion Guru Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: England & Ireland Posts: 1063 Good Answers: 61	#6 Re: Cold Fusion Again 03/23/2013 3:04 PM
	I read the article on radioactive decay with great interest. A similar article appeared in "New Scientist" within the last year. The fact that radioactive decay rates can be influenced (previously thought to be utterly & absolutely fixed) by an object 93,000,000 miles away is quite extraordinary - even if the effect is very small. The implications could be enormous. What is exciting is that it demonstrates, again, that there is an awful lot we don't know about the sub-atomic world. I posted a response in a recent CR4 - "The future of the automobile" - in which I speculated that vehicles in the future could be powered for life by the nuclear isomers of tantalum or hafnium (or other elements). These nuclei do not undergo fission, but an internal rearrangement, liberating 1 million times more energy per gram than an electrochemical battery. Jumping to conclusions (the only exercise I get), imagine being able to release these enormous quantities of energy from these nuclei simply by turning on/off a source of radiation (as yet unknown). The mind boggles!
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