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NASA Detects Lattice Confinement Fusion

• kristianp 6y ago
  Cold fusion lives on it seems.
  • gomijacogeo 6y ago
    Though 2.9MeV isn't "cold"; it's around ~3e10 Kelvin.
    • jamesmaniscalco 6y ago
      You can't really compare the energy of a particle beam to temperature - temperature is only really defined in equilibrium and macroscopically. Also, from the article, > "In the new method, conditions sufficient for fusion are created in the confines of the metal lattice that is held at ambient temperature."
• jakedata 6y ago
  Erbium instead of Palladium. Takes me back...
  • ncmncm 6y ago
    The only other use for Erbium I know of is to dope optical fibers to make in-line amplifiers powered by light.
• MichaelZuo 6y ago
  Compact fusion reactors will probably be the most exacting and powerful durable devices, pound for pound, that mankind has ever created.
• deleted 6y ago
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• antocv 6y ago
  Pyroelectric fusion may also be of interest to you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectric_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroelectric_fusion