cold fusion?
Jun. 7th, 2005 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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palecur alerted me about this report. This section,
The new cold fusion experiment went something like this: scientists inserted a small pyroelectric crystal (lithium tantalite) inside a chamber filled with hydrogen. Warming the crystal by about 100 degrees (from -30 F to 45F) produced a huge electrical field of about 100,000 volts across the small crystal.provoked this response.
<lammah> dilithium!The best part, for me, was in the summation at the end:
The current cold fusion apparatus still takes much more energy to start up than you get back out, and it may never end up breaking even."May"?? You mean there's a possibility we could defeat the specter of entropy? Zounds!
