Fusion is a fiendishly difficult technical problem. When I attended a science summer school at Sydney Uni in 1978, everybody was talking about tokamaks and nuclear fusion as the holy grail of energy, and it seemed just around the corner.About 20 some private initiatives to create nuclear fusion, LENR, and fission projects. Bill Gates is betting on fusion. — Posty McPostface
LENR is just a rebranding of cold fusion. It is largely the province of cooks and scammers. — SophistiCat
I personally support research into fusion energy. We just need to be really, really careful. — SnowyChainsaw
You should look into it more. Seems you have a provincial view on the subject. — Posty McPostface
Look where? Rossi's E-cat? :rofl: — Benkei
There isn't evidence. — Benkei
Rossi has a customer for 40MW of his product. Let's wait and see if he can deliver on his promise. — Posty McPostface
What are the chances, anyway, that sustainable nuclear fusion would be achieve by a lifelong scam artist who doesn't have a degree in any scientific field whatsoever? — Pierre-Normand
He then invented a magical device to convert waste heat into usable electric power (the laws of thermodynamics be damned). His devices were independently tested to only delivered 0.1% of the advertised power. Nuclear fusion just is his latest scam. — Pierre-Normand
As stated, the amount of gamma radiation should've killed him. — Benkei
Not true. I've been following the advent of LENR for 4 years now — Posty McPostface
What is not true? Rossi's involvement with LENR is his latest scam. But I was talking about Rossi's previous scam, marketed by his firm Leonardo Technologies, Inc., when he falsely claimed to have achieved 20% efficiency with thermoelectric generators. But the devices were actually generating 1 watt rather than 1 kW. — Pierre-Normand
I agree that Rossi is not the ideal candidate to provide for the legitimacy of LENR. But, phrasing him as the sole failure if the entire field that is LENR, is a gross overgeneralization. — Posty McPostface
Unfortunately, the whole field seems to be is a comedy of errors, self-deception, and plain deception. — Pierre-Normand
JohnyFive — Posty McPostface
Three decay back into nickel, while emitting gamma radiation. The other two decay into copper by radiating gamma radiation. — Benkei
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