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entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones ([personal profile] rone) wrote2005-06-07 07:22 pm
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cold fusion?

No, i'm not talking about my company's inherited product.  [livejournal.com profile] 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!


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