Cold Fusion

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  1. SDSUsteve Registered Member

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    Has anyone heard about zyzion.com? This guy claims to have the first successful controlled fusion reactor. His high res photos show the thing in action, it's amazing!
     
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  5. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    Is he the same guy that was selling pills you could drop in you gas tanks to run the car on water?

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  7. AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    Its quite the obvious scam. They ask for 10 million dollars just to TALK with them. Silly, absolutely stupid.
     
  8. SDSUsteve Registered Member

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    He completely redefines the structure of matter. Is his vortex theory plausible?
     
  9. AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    Anytime you see someone trying to give you a COMPLETELY new model of anything and he provides no mathematical tools to backup his claim, its a scam, or he's genuinely an idiot. People often fail to realize that the cut-down dumbed down versions of theories that the public get are NOT what scientists actually use. The version the public gets are usually analogies used to CONVEY the complex mathematical model.

    What this guy and guys like him are trying to do is give you the watered down analogy and convince you it IS a model. Don't be suckered.

    -AntonK
     
  10. Farsight

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    Very nice website. But that matter model looks wrong, and the fire without smoke does too. Ten million dollars to talk, yeah right.

    Funnily enough I was talking about cold fusion on another forum the other day, and one of the guys mention muon-catalyzed cold fusion. The idea has been around for fifty years. Here's something from wikipedia:

    Muon-catalyzed fusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
  11. MetaKron Registered Senior Member

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    He has a violet ray machine. Just some high voltage high frequency tricks.
     
  12. AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    I can build a fusion generator in my garage, it isn't hard. The Farnsworth Fusor is not hard to build. Unfortuantely, unless this guy has his way, the Farnsword will never produce more power than it uses.

    Don't look at the pretty pictures and be awed... ask for data, experiments, independent verification. That is science.

    -AntonK
     
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  14. AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    No, the Farnsworth Fusor is very real. It is real fusion, it just isn't real power generation. Currently they can be built by amateurs and are an excelent neutron source, but they always consume more power than they would generate.

    A researched by the name of Robert Bussard, famous for the Bussard Ramjet is currently looking for funding to scale up a design modification he has that he believes would lead to power generation. I'm still up in the air about this.

    -AntonK
     
  15. Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    It's fairly obvious that you are spamvertising.
     
  16. AntonK Technomage Registered Senior Member

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    I actually hadn't considered that. You're right. I'm still in favor of my rule that if you have less than 20 or 30 posts, you are not allowed to post URLs in your post. Its trivial to write a script to rip it out. Dave could do it no problem.

    -AntonK
     
  17. Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    There's actually just a control panel in Vbulletin for that. No need to write a code.
     
  18. Farsight

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    Thanks Anton.
     
  19. weed_eater_guy It ain't broke, don't fix it! Registered Senior Member

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    that was an unbelievably steamy pile of unpleasent substance... among the worse fake sites I've ever seen, like the guy wasn't even trying to look credible.
     
  20. kmguru Staff Member

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    You can build a fusion hot water for 300 dollars like Dr, Pon did. But to get more out is difficult. The theory goes like this. The paladium electrode has natural tunnels due to creating the mold. Now the hydrogen and helium atoms get trapped in when current is applied. There is a patent for this process and explanation published in either Scientific American or one of those popular magazines in 1994.

    If some one can find a way to artificially create nano tunnels in a platinum/Paladium electrode. You will have made Cold Fusion. One idea is to use carbon nanotubes, other idea is to embed nano structures...last I heard, someone in Italy is working on this with carbon nanotubes....
     
  21. Positron Agony: Not all pain is gain Registered Senior Member

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    :bugeye: You know I read over that and i couldn't help but laugh the corny graphics the overall incorrectness and the large type. Just who do they think they are fooling anyway?
     
  22. weed_eater_guy It ain't broke, don't fix it! Registered Senior Member

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    absolutely no technical papers presented anywhere, not even a real explenation of what he's claiming to be fusion, lol

    kmguru, that's actually quite awesome, any idea who in Italy is doing this? just be nice to read up on his work. thanks!
     
  23. Billy T Use Sugar Cane Alcohol car Fuel Valued Senior Member

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    Idiots with money, they hope.

    BTW is you tag line a ref to Rabi not being much of an experimetalist? (writing requistion of some muons accorrding to physics legend)
     
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