Re: science by press release

[Jed Rothwell]

Steven Krivit wrote:

I guess that's a nice way to say, "After 55 years and 28 Tokamaks 
have failed to make excess energy"


Actually, they have all produced excess energy, but not enough to 
self-sustain. I believe the record power output for a tokamak was 10 
MW for 0.6 seconds, or 6 MJ of energy. Cold fusion cells have 
occasionally produced megawatt levels of power, albeit briefly before 
exploding, and of course many of them have produced more than 6 MJ. 
Many cold fusion cells have self-sustained, running with no input 
power, in heat after death or with gas loading.

- Jed