On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:00 PM, John Berry <berry.joh...@gmail.com> wrote:
If no fusion occurred it should be a 100% efficient conversion to heat, so > now with the energy of fusion, shouldn't it be overunity as a heater? Well > obviously yes unless energy is vanishing. > In a sense, a cold fusion device would be an overunity device, since people's expectations are that nothing should be happening after any putative chemical fuel runs out. In another sense, it would be no more overunity than a fission reactor, since the energy would be coming from the conversion of mass via nuclear reactions. (Assuming nuclear reactions are happening -- this assumption is not shared by everyone here.) Eric
