Why do they always have to go to places like Afghanistan to do groundbreaking work, when there are plenty of places here in the good old USA? Whenever I read of strange news coming out of places like Russia, South America, and the Far East, I always miss the ole World Weekly News, starring "Batboy." http://masteroftheuniverse.wordpress.com/
Absolutely. It's not the first time that someone comes out with the most important discovery in history, which at the end turns out to be hot air yes, I remember: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/20/dog_cloner_sacked/ I think the guy showed up in tears on tv, or something like that. Very sad. But the interesting thing of the cold fusion is that there is indeed an apparent production of energy, and as far as I know some processes are not clear yet. It's not completely wrong, but it's just not fusion. At the end, a breakthrough is not to exclude
And as soon as there is corroboration, it becomes interesting. Doesn't always matter if we understand why something works. For centuries, people would use moldy bread to alleviate infection and willow bark for pain. Didn't hurt people. Turns out it was a good antibiotic and the otehr contained a compound in aspirin. How Egyptians used to practice dentistry and medicine: http://virtuallibrary.stao.ca/elementary-data/elements/05NovPgs6-7elements.pdf
There have been over 2000 confirmed reports of anomolous heat recorded during cold fusion experiments by researchers all over the world. To discount Cold fusion as a myth really reflects your total lack of understanding in relation to this subject. We may not understand where the effect is coming from, but it is there. That much we do know. Runningbear
I'd be astounded if this is actually true. I know for a fact that NSF was funding cold fusion research as recently as a few years ago, but i haven't followed this research lately. I can tell you that many of those pursuing it are very highly trained and capable scientists of unquestionable integrity. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/coldfusion.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
Also, by now there have been enough credible reports of Helium being generated that it is highly likely that nuclear fusion is occurring, but apparently at very low yields.
Having studied kinetics, and undergone very rigorous training in physical chemistry, I'm able to identify an exothermic reaction when I see one. When I was a measly PhD student, I thought cold fusion was possible, much like I thought I could deduce a Unified Field Theory. I also thought LaPlace was the holy grail for discerning future price movements. I was wrong, just like you are right now. There is no such thing as cold fusion. The released energy of any fusion reaction(do the math) certainly couldn't be contained in a beaker, calorimeter, or other standard lab ware.
No there have not. There have been a lot of claims, sure. But none have been reproduced independently. People can make mistakes 1000 different ways. But there is only one correct answer.