<br>Short answer: No.<br><br>Read "Excess Heat" ... <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">A B</b> <<a href="mailto:austriaaugust@yahoo.com">austriaaugust@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Wouldn't cold fusion be a direct and obvious violation<br>of conservation of energy? You could just keep fusing
<br>the lighter elements and then eventually recover the<br>input energy by fissioning (fissing?) the<br>heavy-element end products. I know that it requires<br>more input energy the heavier the element gets, but<br>fat stars manage to do it. That seems more like an
<br>engineering difficulty rather than an immutable<br>fundamental barrier. I don't know enough about it one<br>way or another, but I'm really hoping that it can be<br>validated. That'd be sweeeet.<br><br>Best Wishes,
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