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Why is cold fusion considered bogus?
Cold fusion is being mentioned a lot lately because of some new setup that apparently works. This is an unverified claim.
See for example:
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What are the challenges to achieving cold fusion?
I am an absolute neophyte regarding physics. What are the challenges to achieving cold fusion?
I'm not sure this is a duplicate of Why is cold fusion considered bogus?, because that question is ...
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Atomic mass of Copper-63?
This URL lists the mass of Copper-63 as 62.9295975(6) and this other URL lists the mass as 62.939598. These values differ by almost exactly 0.01 which seems hard to explain by experimental error. ...
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Does the “Energy Catalyzer” generate energy by converting Nickel to Copper?
From Wikipedia:
The Energy Catalyzer is an apparatus built by [...] Andrea Rossi, [and] Sergio Focardi. The 2009 patent application claims "a method and apparatus for carrying out nickel and ...
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Is there a sound theoretical argument against inner-shell induced nuclear chain reactions?
There is a claim often made about cold fusion, that it is excluded theoretically. The main theoretical argument is that electronic energies are too low to overcome the Coulomb barrier, since d-d ...
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Widom-Larsen Theory
Does the Widom-Larsen theory pose a credible underpinning for Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, often incorrectly referred to as "Cold Fusion"?
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505026
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Production vs. Collection, and Contaminants vs. Depositions, what might be missing in cold fusion research
I though cold fusion and LENR were discredited, but just a few days ago I found out that NASA is claiming LENR is real. So I thought if they're detecting something, what could it be, and why wasn't it ...
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How can I determine the feasibility of Pd(d,f) fission chains?
The conclusion of this paper (p. 6) discusses some hypothetical Pd(d,f) yields as a possible explanation for anomalous results that the author observed. Suspending disbelief in the data reported in ...
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Is the E-cat for real?
Does this thing really do what they say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvD4KuAEmo
If it does, it looks like this will probably be the biggest breaktrough in science ever :)
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cosmic radiation muons as a source for muon-catalyzed fusion
taking rough numbers from here and here, it seems that with natural cosmic radiation sources, we could sustain $10^6$ muon-catalyzed fusion reactions per square-meter per minute. This would be $14 ...
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Muon production in particle accelerator
PAMELA is a particle accelerator which have two concentric rings, protons are accelerated in the inside ring.
At ISIS muons are produced when a 800 MeV proton beam collides with a graphite ...
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What's up in this SPAWAR video?
Here is a video presentation of infrared recordings of anomalous heating in a deuterium palladium cell: ( youtube video) (see also this presentation if you want more detail, and have time). There are ...
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Is there any reproducible tested evidence for Ni-H cold fusion?
The main replications of cold fusion, the ones that are beyond reproach, used Pd/d as the system. But commercial developers have often claim to use Ni-H to achieve similar effects. The claims include ...
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What is causing the CR39 particle tracks in SPAWAR cell?
At between 28 and 30 minutes into this video presentation the SPAWAR group describes an experiment where a CR39 detector is placed outside a codeposition Pd/d cell.
They saw a large number of ...
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Why does a respected newspaper keep pushing Rossi's “cold fusion” device? [closed]
Rossi is a snake oil guy (IMHO), but why do nyteknik.se keep pushing it? They are (used to be?) the leading paper in Sweden among engineers and scientists for pop news. Usually a trustworthy (tm) ...
