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MSimon wrote:
Compare that with the progress in high temperature superconductors 20 years after their discovery.

In fact I am betting that within 5 years we will have attained room temperature superconductors.

I think there is a lot more cold fusion news to come soon!

Yes and I hope some of it will be credible.

One other thing, Pamela Mosier-Boss has worked with Fleischmann for a few years, she is a firm part of the 'cold fusion' camp. And your point? If there is a physical phenomenon underlying all of the anomalous results then why should it matter what "camp" the researcher comes from? Are you perhaps a...

David The problem here is no mention of a control, how do we know the triple tracks weren't generated from background radiation? It was reported that when the experiment was run without deuterium, no neutron tracks were observed. That still wouldn't allow the researchers to know if the tracks that ...

I predict it will end up being instrument error. Unlikely. The "Instrument" is a piece of plastic that shows sets of triple bore holes caused by neutron impact. http://www.physorg.com/news157046734.html David The problem here is no mention of a control, how do we know the triple tracks weren't gene...

However, if this is the case, then it is likely they would not have used Gallium Arsenide in their test device I would think that being based on 'spintronics' research, materials such as GaAs would be la ogical selection. Being a proto-prototype, There's a lot of research and advances to be made on...

Mmm. perhaps useful in electronics, storing small amounts of energy in small spaces, etc. Unfortionatly they give no clue as to the energy density compared to chemical batteries, except to say oneday they could power a car for miles (with how big of a battery?). Chemical batteries can currently pow...

An interesting discovery, a battery that uses direct conversion of magnetic fields into electromotive force.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 162807.htm

If we can dispense with the cocky, shrill, right-wing infoporn and get down to some hard analysis, I would be more interested. The short form: we are screwed. The only way to pump money into an economy without increasing inflation is to see that the money goes to producers. The money (most of it) i...

MSimon wrote:

Skipjack wrote:

One hundred watts from such a cube would tax materials science

uhhhhm, lightbulb?
I do get what you are saying though, 2000 watts seemed a bit much for me as well, considering the scale.

A 100 W light bulb is bigger than a sugar cube.

Not the one pound cube I use in my coffee.

From what I've gleaned from the theories, ZP fields only "resists" movement when their is a force acting on a particle, not when there is a constant velocity. Thinking about it, using the analogy of Doppler shift, where the frequency of an electromagnetic wave increases when the source approaches th...

If the Zero Point energy is invested in the structure of the universe as we know it, what happens if someone manages to extract some? Does the structure of the universe wobble (time distortion, say, or worse) or do the conservation laws still get obeyed over some timescale? Or maybe the universe ju...

LOL, almost had a spit take. Now that was funny!

Doing some further research, It may be possible that the ground state is metastable and only a local minimum and not a true ground state as we determine it, this of course is based on supersymmetry.

Fair enough. Aside from theoretical arguments, I can only think of two consequences of the vacuum energy density, and therefore two ways in which it might have physical meaning (and perhaps measurability). One is the the attractive force between parallel conducting plates (which can also be interpr...