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Hot fusion, not cold fusion. It runs at a hundred million degrees C. Hot fusion is a well-known process that powers the sun. Cold fusion is a supposed low-temp
by DennisP 4y ago
Hot fusion, not cold fusion. It runs at a hundred million degrees C.
Hot fusion is a well-known process that powers the sun. Cold fusion is a supposed low-temperature process that most scientists doubt is real, and if it is real we don't understand the physics of it.
- ben_w 4y agoSometimes I like to say that the 15 million kelvin core of the sun is actually a cold fusion reactor, on the grounds that fusion within it is dominated by quantum tunnelling, rather than classical kinematics, overcoming the Columb barrier. Also like to surprise people with a fusion process that works at temperatures in the single-digit kelvin range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion But yes, the linked reactor isn’t that, and the thing commonly referred to as “cold fusion” probably isn’t real.