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Sounds like a third renaming of cold-fusion, then called LENR, now it is lattice confinement fusion... Let's see if this turns out to be snake oil, or somethin
by gitanovic 5y ago
Sounds like a third renaming of cold-fusion, then called LENR, now it is lattice confinement fusion...
Let's see if this turns out to be snake oil, or something comes out of it.
- lumost 5y agoThe cold fusion fiasco did a number on research into nuclear reactions in complex systems. Ignoring any of the energy applications, it's been demonstrated that bombardment of deuterides with hot neutrons reduces the energy requirement for fusion by 10x. There are a number of reasons to believe that interesting reactions would occur in certain metal-hydride systems under specific circumstances.
- gitanovic 5y agoOk, thanks for the clarification, I just don't want to keep my hopes up too much on it. I read quite extensively about cold fusion, and in the end there were too many bad actors to actually have a demystified clue of what's happening
- wolfram74 5y agoI've been working on the assumption low energy nuclear reactions is a more general term that includes phenomena like muon catalyzed fusion in addition to the lattice confinement approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion
- jjk166 5y agoNo, LENR/CANR/Lattice fusion are all the same line of research as the og cold fusion - looking for fusion reactions in metal hydrides with deuterium. Muon-catalyzed fusion is a totally unrelated phenomenon which has merely been referred to as cold fusion by some pop science articles.