[ExI] Cold fusion paper

[Tomaz Kristan]

> Unfortunately the darn thing is pretty stable under room conditions.

Or fortunately. Otherwise to much would have fused long ago?

OTOH I can't be 100% certain, that there is no "loophole" somewhere. To
many real life fusors ARE working. That they use more energy than they
produce, might be only a coincidence. With some clever improvement this
might change.

Had been no fusors, I wouldn't say a thing on this matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> On 2013-05-26 13:03, Tomaz Kristan wrote:
>
>> The only real question is, whether there is a combination of any
>> (non-radioactive) metal and hydrogen (or some other light stuff) which
>> yields to some significant nuclear reactions under "normal, room"
>> conditions?
>>
>
> Check out the physics on
> http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.**uk/pdf/0-19-856264-0.pdf<http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-856264-0.pdf>and
> http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/**atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_**
> 7/4_7_4.html<http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/atomic_and_nuclear_physics/4_7/4_7_4.html>
> This would apply to cold fusion too. You need to get up to tens of keV of
> energy to get any fusion reactions, compress stuff to 10^9 g/cm^3, or add
> muons. It looks like there are no ordinary elements that gives you nuclear
> reactions at normal temperatures or densities. Deuterium is the most
> fusable element you can get - a decent cross section, large energy gain,
> and reacts at low energies. Unfortunately the darn thing is pretty stable
> under room conditions.
>
>
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> Dr Anders Sandberg
> Future of Humanity Institute
> Oxford Martin School
> Oxford University
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