Questions tagged [cold-fusion]
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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:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/01/24/1550205/Italian-...
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Is the E-cat by Andrea Rossi et al. 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 breakthrough in science ever :)
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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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Does the "Energy Catalyzer" by Andrea Rossi et al. 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 any reproducible tested evidence for Ni-H cold fusion? [closed]
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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Another cold-fusion reactor scheme :) Is it feasible?
I have this idea rolling in my head for quite a while, but lately I got really interested to know if it's even remotely feasible.
I am complete novice to the field of nuclear engineering and cold ...
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Would an extremely slowly forming star ignite?
Nuclear fusion requires extremely high temperatures and pressures, both of which are created by the collapse of protostars.
But, what if the accretion of matter happened slowly enough that the core ...
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Cold fusion with ionized hydrogen and neutron radiation
Would bombarding ionized hydrogen gas with neutron radiation cause cold fusion as the neutrons have no electrostatic repulsion to overcome therefore making it much easier to get within range of the ...
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