DOE is run by polititions and you wonder why they're scientific morons?
Bill Cohane wrote:
At 17:00 08/17/05, jeff.lane wrote:
Like cold fusion? There were a couple of scientists, in Utah, several
years ago that claimed they had made cold fusion work. That is clean,
safe, perpetual, fusion .I don't recall their names but they had the
scientific world standing on it's head for sometime until they
discovered that it was not completely perfect, i.e., infinitely
renewable. My question would be just how long did this run without
renewal? After the idea of infinity went away nobody heard anything
about these guys. If they had discovered pure cold fusion we could
power a whole city in a clean reactor no bigger that a service
station, if that big. The pellet to run a car thing........all of it
runs forever. Anybody think this won't or can't happen, or for that
matter, may already be there???
Most scientists consider Cold Fusion to have been a fiasco. Stanley
Pons and Martin Fleischmann (the two Univ. of Utah Chemists who
claimed to have first observed it) never could explain the physics
behind their "discovery". (Neutrons are always released by fusion
reactions and none were ever detected with this so called cold fusion.
In addition, most other scientists trying to verify the Univ. of Utah
experiments failed to detect any energy release. The whole mess was
probably due to the unreliability of closed calorimetry experiments.)
So Physicists have pretty much debunked cold fusion. Interestingly,
the DOE (Dept. of Energy) still occasionally gets suckered by cold
fusion claims. These guys still seem willing to spend our tax dollars
on research grants for things like perpetual motion machines, Kirlian
photographs of the human aura, "zero point energy", "ball lightning",
"magnet therapy", etc. The most frequent warning sign of voodoo
science is that claims are pitched directly to the media, like the way
the two scientists from the Univ. of Utah released their "results",
instead of in scientific journals where they can be reviewed and
tested by reputable scientists.
That said, Cold Fusion still has believers, but not much confirmation.
Regards,
Bill
