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Nuclear Fusion Re-discovered?
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Posted by: Asmodai
Seems that some scientists in Tennessee may have discovered Nuclear Fusion, at least on paper. There's still plenty of scepticism going around and not much has been done yet in the way of tests, so we'll see. Here are some quotes from the article.
Nuclear physicists split yesterday into camps of excitement and skepticism after a group of scientists announced it may have created nuclear fusion -- the awesome power that fuels the sun -- in a device the size of two coffee cups stacked one atop the other.
And here's a funny one:
"At first blush, we were very excited about it," said Lawrence Crum, a physicist at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. Closer examination suggested that skepticism was in order, he said, adding, "the researchers might be deluded by Mother Nature, whose principal object in life is to make fools of scientists."
You can read the rest of the article here.
Posted by: redwench
heh, probably another cold fusion dud. it took more energy to do it than it released. oh, and the title is misleading, weve been able to do fusion for quite some time, just on a small and expensive scale. and this so far looks to be no different. but interesting.
Posted by: JANNA
i can bang two rocks together and get the same results call it fusion??? no. but when they manage to get more out than in, then we have something. till then its nothing more than people banging rocks together and the media using it to sell copy.
Posted by: TotalRecall
I live in the area. I'm not too up-to-date on the whole thing, but I do know the plant and location of the studies are in a town called Oak Ridge. This is the plant where a lot of research and development for the Manhattan Project (WW2 Atomic Bomb) took place.
Posted by: Asmodai
Sorry about the misleading title. I wasn't really sure what to call it, so I just went with a generic fusion title...
suggestions?
Posted by: JANNA
supposedly they claim its fusion but looks more like a chemical reaction the way they describe it.
Posted by: redwench
no, its fusion. just done in an odd method. you dont get tritium popping up in a chemical reaction if it wasnt there to start with. be nice if they could make it self sustaining, or better yet, energy generating.
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