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- "somewhere between LK99 and cold fusion" It's cold fusion. Lattice-confinement fusion was an attempted re-branding of the cold fusion field. - "There are al
by perihelions 3y ago
- "somewhere between LK99 and cold fusion"
It's cold fusion. Lattice-confinement fusion was an attempted re-branding of the cold fusion field.
- "There are also upcoming conferences: the American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space conference in Cleveland in May and the International Conference on Cold Fusion 24, focused on solid-state energy, in Mountain View, Calif., in July."
- DennisP 3y agoThe difference from cold fusion is that NASA is blasting the lattice with gamma rays, which is what gives deuterons the energy to fuse. Whether there's a chance of getting net power that way, I have no idea, but at least it's not depending on previously unknown nuclear reactions.
- perihelions 3y agoBut in another place (the paper the grandparent comment linked) they're claiming a classic Pons-Fleischmann experiment, where they're just pumping in cold deuterium gas–no heat, no radiation–and say they observed spontaneous nuclear reactions. Party like it's 1989. I agree with the grandparent commenter: zero credibility here, this group is doing nothing but trolling people.