Focus Fusion is NOT Cold Fusion
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Discuss In ForumsFocus fusion is very hot, in fact, requiring billions of degrees of energy to occur.
Cold fusion, in contrast, involves claims that fusion reactions can be produced at room temperature in a simple cell with a solution and electrodes. For cold fusion to work some basic scientific theories have to be violated. These theories, such as Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism and theories of nuclear reactions, have been well validated in hundreds of thousands of experiments and underlie much of modern technology.
These theories state that atomic nuclei are positively charged and thus repel each other. For nuclei to overcome this repulsion and get close enough to fuse they need to have high energies and thus high temperatures. For that reason, fusion at room temperature just does not make sense. Most scientists were rightly skeptical of cold fusion. The evidence claimed to support cold fusion was inconclusive and hard to reproduce.
The situation is very different for focus fusion. The process that leads to fusion in the plasma focus device is well understood using existing physical theories. Experiments have demonstrated that the very high temperature, plasma density, and confinement time needed to fuse hydrogen and boron have been achieved. Theoretical models of the plasma focus based on these experiments indicate that the conditions for net energy output are obtainable with devices not much larger than existing ones.
[Note: site visitor S. Wu-Kong writes that Cold Fusion gets a bad rap. For your reference here’s the link. More recently, Natural News reports vindication of cold fusion. See also cold fusion on youtube videos.]
This just in (April, 2009) Dr Yoshiaki Arata’s Cold Fusion Experiment is trading on intrade.com:
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