Desktop fusion is back on the table

Nature Magazine ^ | 10 January 2005 | Mark Peplow

[PatrickHenry]

We've had false alarms before, but you never know ...

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[writer33]

We're doomed, Patrick. Doomed I tell you.

:)

[SuzyQue]

I love it - a physicist named Putterman.

[VadeRetro]

Cold fusion and "failed to replicate." Seen it before.

[snarks_when_bored]

The key theorist behind the 'tiny bubbles' approach to tabletop fusion:

[Argus]

bump

[PatrickHenry]

I thought this stuff sounded familiar. We had a thread on this topic about six months ago:
Purdue findings support earlier nuclear fusion experiments [Cold Fusion is Back!].

[kcar]

You know I always suspected that percolated coffee provided more energy.

[AFreeBird]

[lepton]

Another obvious problem is that even if fusion does occur, how do you get substantial energy out past the fluid that is sonoluminescing? Sure the fluid itself can transfer the energy, but while it is doing that, it is largely no longer available for the reaction.

[Turbopilot]

You forgot a picture of the experiment...

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[mysterio]

The fact that Nature touched this one sparks my interest. Has to have a net gain before it's groundbreaking, though. Whoever pulls that one off will probably be remembered as one of the greatest scientists.

[PatrickHenry]

The Nature article says it's going to be published in Physical Review Letters, and that's serious.

[RightWhale]

This one is a lot closer to reality than the Pons-Fleishman experiment. Still, it would be next to impossible to get more energy out than is put in because of the nature of the acoustic mechanism. It might produce some useful physics, perhaps a few papers, maybe a PhD sometime.

[mysterio]

Sarcasm or no? I'm unfamiliar with the physics publications. I am in the biochemistry microcosm.

[adorno]

'sonofusion"? "sonoluminescence"?

Sonovabitch! Here we go again!

[PatrickHenry]

No sarcasm.

[phantomworker]

Given that Suslick and Putterman have both investigated Taleyarkhan's past claims, they think it odd that they were not consulted by the editors of Physical Review Letters about the paper.

Not peer-reviewed?