Cold Fusion? US Navy says "maybe"

[Mysterion]

Look here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2009032...ergynuclear;_ylt=AuESMOpcnk5oIx7hwx6wfmsPLBIF

This could be an interesting development if it pans out.

 

[clint g]

Well, if anyone can get it to work it would be the US Navy

 

[CorporalClegg]

I'll believe it when I see it...

 

[Plecostomus]

I'll believe it when I see it...

Hey don't knock the Navy. They have railguns now.

 

[John Picard]

I'll believe it when I see it...

Hey don't knock the Navy. They have railguns now.

And the next carrier will have an electromagnetic launch system for launching aircraft, as opposed to steam.

When it comes to R&D, the Navy is very, very serious about results. If one reads the article carefully, it appears that a barrier has been broken to better understand cold fusion and what it will take to develop. That's a stepping stone.

 

[CuttingEdge100]

This is quite fascinating. Such fusion reactors would be far more practical than fission reactors. The biggest advantage is the fact that you don't have to dispose of all those fuel-rods...

 

[Data Holmes]

I'll believe it when I see it...

Hey don't knock the Navy. They have railguns now.

And the next carrier will have an electromagnetic launch system for launching aircraft, as opposed to steam.

When it comes to R&D, the Navy is very, very serious about results. If one reads the article carefully, it appears that a barrier has been broken to better understand cold fusion and what it will take to develop. That's a stepping stone.

There is a reason why starfleet is based on the US navy.

 

[CorporalClegg]

When it comes to R&D, the Navy is very, very serious about results. If one reads the article carefully, it appears that a barrier has been broken to better understand cold fusion and what it will take to develop. That's a stepping stone.

Oh, no doubt. But it's ... Cold fusion.

 

[Mr. B]

Never say never.

 

[Ronald Held]

I will believe it when the results are widely reproduced and the theory for how it works exists.

 

[Chaos Descending]

The article listed has some measure of skepticism to it.

Paul Padley, a physicist at Rice University who reviewed Mosier-Boss's published work, said the study did not provide a plausible explanation of how cold fusion could take place in the conditions described.
"It fails to provide a theoretical rationale to explain how fusion could occur at room temperatures. And in its analysis, the research paper fails to exclude other sources for the production of neutrons," he told the Houston Chronicle.

 

[Marc]

Anyone remember the claims about cold fusion a few years back? if the U.S Navy is onto something then it could either prove the claims (which I don't believe were ever proven) or show they were lying but at the same time proving that it's possible (practicallity would be the next issue)

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Reminds me of the times the Navy ran headlines "maybe" man can spacewalk...after Russia put dogs in space and after the Navy produced some embarrassing "flopniks"

Cold fusion...welcome to the 21st century

Wow the Navy finally woke up

Actually the Navy tried and failed before and now is back into the game a little late and trailing way behind While a bunch of freelance American scientsist, Japanese and French are mastering it in some corporate/government funded international lab called ITER >>> It's already producing promising results

Reagan gave the Navy a few billion for cold fusion back in the late 1980s and they just wasted it. Most of the stuff was done from California, and since the Navy couldn't think of a way to produce a cold fusion weaponized system they soon abandoned it...perhaps California's history of poor budget management contributed to the project's downfall

 

[John Picard]

When it comes to R&D, the Navy is very, very serious about results. If one reads the article carefully, it appears that a barrier has been broken to better understand cold fusion and what it will take to develop. That's a stepping stone.

Oh, no doubt. But it's ... Cold fusion.

So, are you saying that it's impossible for an advancement to have been made? Gotta learn to crawl before walking, and then master walking before running.

After all, the atom was split in the late 1930's/early 1940's.

 

[Deckerd]

Cold fusion is like a room temperature superconductor. A scientist's wet dream.

 

[Alpha Romeo]

I assume this has civillian applications?

 

[Mysterion]

I assume this has civillian applications?

A cheap and plentiful power source? Sure, why wouldn't it?

 

[shipfisher]

Making cold fusion work would be...well...cool.

By the way John Picard, big ups on the avatar - true LOL material. Who knows, McCain might have done better with Michael instead of Sarah.