At one point in time, whenever physicists spoke of cold fusion, they were given the silence treatment, or were looked at in disbelief. But those days seem to have disappeared, according to ideas being circulated at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The meeting is being held at the Mos... |
22 March 2010
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Recreating the conditions that exist within the Sun has been a long-term desire for physicists, and it would appear that scientists in the US are very close to finally fulfilling this dream. The country's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is, according to officials, operational and ready for action. The device is... |
31 March 2009
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The dream of developing a method of obtaining nuclear fusion has been a long-standing one for physicists, ever since the idea was first proposed. Basically, cold fusion is the opposite process of nuclear fission, the method that is currently used in atomic power plants to produce electricity. These facilities split a... |
24 March 2009
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Pseudoscience or finally the real thing? Well, that still remains to be seen, but if it indeed works then mankind will be able to generate large amounts of energy at room temperature without worrying about waste or fuel. In the last decades, researchers have been frantically trying to demonstrate that cold fusion is ... |
27 May 2008
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