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by CharlesKramer
Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:51 am
Forum: News
Topic: emc2's website
Replies: 232
Views: 151142

choff wrote:Relative scale. Photo of WB7 looks straight out of sci-fi...
FIREFLY:

Wash: [about River] Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science-fiction.

Zoë: We live in a spaceship, dear.
by CharlesKramer
Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:44 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

Cold Fusion Russ George, of D2Fusion, built a strong case with solid scientific evidence for cold fusion as real, repeatable, and feasible as an energy source. His publicly-traded company (SLRE.ob) has received significant funding. With the collaboration of Dr.Martin Fleischman, who conducted the o...
by CharlesKramer
Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:22 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

I thought your point was that the same experiment needed to be reproducible every time, but that half did not reproduce That too. :) My point is that its not always the same experiment being reproduced, and when it isn't the skeptics dont note this and still chalk it up as one more failure for cold...
by CharlesKramer
Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

Your opinion may be dated. There are many things going on in LENR. I hope you're correct (and I have no reason to suggest you're not). One thing about LENR that seems the most curious -- is the repeatably reaction that you speak of big enough to be exciting? Or, if not big, is there a theoretical r...
by CharlesKramer
Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

Real reproducibility is the SAME result EVERY time. Half isn't good enough, and "something" happening every time isn't the same result.. Charles, this sort of a statement doesn't reflect reality, because in reality, researchers tend to modify their experiments for IP reasons I'm an IP lawyer -- tho...
by CharlesKramer
Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:36 am
Forum: History
Topic: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)
Replies: 10
Views: 49752

You are confusing low energy input with low energy of reaction. The heat is used to generate high voltages. High voltages = hot fusion. I see your point that at the spot where fusion occurs there may be high energies ("an electric field of about 25 gigavolts per meter to ionize and accelerate deute...
by CharlesKramer
Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:44 pm
Forum: History
Topic: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)
Replies: 10
Views: 49752

Re: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)

Coulomb forces need to be overcome. If achieving fusion necessarily means overcoming Coulomb forces, then pyroelectric fusion *does* that -- since it achieves fusion, and at very low temperatures (heating a crystal from −30°C to +45°C over a period of a few minutes). The Pons/Fleischmann reaction, ...
by CharlesKramer
Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:12 pm
Forum: History
Topic: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)
Replies: 10
Views: 49752

Re: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)

If you want a small compact and low flux neutron source, sure, that seems to work out. But no chance for 'over-unity' - too many electrons spoiling the party. I believe even those pursuing pyroelectric fusion agree with you. What I find curious is pyroelectric fusion appears to be the first proven ...
by CharlesKramer
Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:55 pm
Forum: History
Topic: Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)
Replies: 10
Views: 49752

Pyroelectric fusion (the other "cold" fusion)

One of the possibilities raised by the Navy's recent revelations about cold fusion (or, if you prefer, LENR) is: - the Pons/Fleishman type experiments that *do* generate heat sometimes maybe are nuclear (neutron generating, element transmuting) - maybe such reactions are no big deal -- occurring in ...
by CharlesKramer
Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

One of the things that interests me about LENR is what it has to say about present-day abundance of elements. If these reactions can occur in nature I can believe it. Not that it's the same thing, but water-mediated sustained fission appears to have occurred naturally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
by CharlesKramer
Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

As opposed to very few of the experimenters in the beginning. That's not science. Maybe the difference between then and now is the mechanisms used to try to obtain the result, or some impurity in the latest batches of Palladium or heavy water. Maybe something weird like chirality is going on (see T...
by CharlesKramer
Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

What it does not need is the knee-jerk assumption that anyone looking into it is a kook. It developed a legacy of attracting the wrong kind of interest. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it true there's no doubt that: -- Farnsworth/Hirsch/Polywell DOES create fusion?; and -- design improvements ha...
by CharlesKramer
Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:49 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

It can be reproduced by all experimenters about 1/2 the time. That's a very specific assertion. Your source? So it's a reliable source of heat, as long as you have always have at least two to fire up at the same time because at least one will work? Japan spent years and $20m investigating -- and th...
by CharlesKramer
Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

The phenomenon is no longer difficult to reproduce. It is difficult to reliably reproduce. I don't understand that distinction. Science = reproducible = a known set of variables always causes a predictable result. Pons and Fleischman had their shot -- including the millions they got from Toyota dur...
by CharlesKramer
Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
Replies: 153
Views: 52007

I still think "cold fusion" is an open mystery. There may be a bigger issue. Whether "cold fusion" involves actual fusion seems to be beyond the point. The reality is the phenomenon is so weak and so difficult to reproduce that it's existence is in doubt. Which also makes it of dubious significance...