Is Nuclear Fusion Practical?

Cold fusion and nuclear fusion are two completely different processes for one thing.

Cold fusion is also based on a non-scientific theory called, Then a Miracle Happens Here, and has never been proven. A few clever researchers have found ways of making a lucrative income off of Cold Fusion and doing so without the need to produce results. One has to admire that.

However I would like to see someone with some deep pockets step up to the plate and fund the Polywell fusion studies beside the US Navy.

That effort is run on a literal shoestring while the NIF and the ITER suck all of the oxygen out of the air with their billions of dollars of funding. Fortunately, the latter investment is only 20 years from paying off.

At some point we will be successful in harnessing fusion power, but the road is very murky (as well as expensive) and it is unknown when, Sooner would be better than later for us.

they've produced results, the problem is always when a different party attempts to replicate a similar outcome the cake doesn't bake

We call that pathological science.

(Cold fusion and nuclear fusion are two completely different processes for one thing.)

Yes I agree. But, in both cases we are looking at the generation of heat. In nuclear fusion this is brought about by the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. In cold fusion this is brought about by an unproven process that has a reputation of being unrepeatable. pathological science.

So I am speculating about that unproven process? So let us look at producing heat with AC electricity in a conductor. A conductor being a material that has a outer electron shell that is not full, allowing electrons to flow. So let us look at a hypothesis that neutrons within an atomic structure follow the same rule, they occupy shells, and the shells are or are not full? So is there a force (http://phys.org/news202456660.html ) moving neutrons around between atoms, and in doing so generate heat, the same as electrons in a conductor? And is that force a by product of nuclear fusion?

I agree pure speculation. Regards JD.

Some types of hydrogen fusion have been a success.