On Dec 26, 2008, at 7:06 AM, Terry Blanton wrote:
General Fusion offers a twist on LANL's research by using spherical
force focusing reminiscent of Fat Man's explosives:
http://www.popsci.com/node/3051
If you continue reading the article to here you find a most
provocative statement:
http://www.popsci.com/node/30516?page=2
"Two things have conspired to hamper evolutionary leaps in peacetime
fusion research. The first is bad press. To the great frustration of
people like Laberge and Richardson, fusion's good name has been
besmirched by a handful of highly publicized failures, most
prominently the cold-fusion experiments of Stanley Pons and Martin
Fleischmann and the "bubble fusion" experiments Rusi Taleyarkhan
conducted at Purdue University. Pons and Fleischmann announced in
1986 that they had achieved fusion at room temperature, but later
review showed that faulty equipment had failed to accurately measure
the results. The U.S. Department of Energy all but called them
frauds. In 2002, Taleyarkhan published a paper stating that he had
used ultrasonic vibrations to make bubbles in a liquid solvent and
that, when the bubbles collapsed, they had created fusion. His
results, too, would later be discredited, and last year he was
stripped of his university chair."
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
