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Here is a very significant problem... I have gone from very hopeful skeptic to pessimistic doubter. I must conclude that Rossi is completely incompetent. I've tutored undergraduate heat and mass transfer labs that were better conducted than Rossi has performed. Perhaps he really has discovered some...

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Slashdot had a nice discussion in the user comments that seem relevant: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2441350&cid=37484194 Comment: Re:What about a supernova? (Score 5, Interesting) by radtea on Thursday September 22, @04:30PM (#37484194) Attached to: CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Ligh...

I suppose general might have been more appropriate, but since I saw this while reading 'news', my pea brain put it here. I'll wander over to 'general' and see if there are any good limericks :lol: There was a young lady named bright who could travel much faster than light She went out one day in a r...

"Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017484

Mr. Simon, you as well as many here know the important thing is that muon catalyzed fusion is possible - and that this fact is a very clear demonstration of overcoming the coulomb barrier. The fact that making and keeping muons in an economical fashion is not currently possible is not the point. (Po...

I've not seen this topic discussed here before, so forgive my obvious lack of homework or understanding of the physics involved, or if this has already been discussed. So, with that disclaimer, the subject contains my question: Might it be possible to initiate a thorium fission reaction using the ne...

I have no doubt that Rossi (or anyone in his position) would be intentionally misleading. Based on the quality of his work, he's clearly not interested in scientific fame or publications. Until he gets sufficient patent coverage, it's in his best interest to release nothing, say nothing, demo nothin...

Axil, Wasn't the runaway reaction halted by flooding the reactor with nitrogen? If so, then a very simple, purely mechanical temperature + coolant flow 'kill' mechanism with a small bottle of pressurized N2 could be implemented. Hardly elegant, but if it prevents a runaway reaction then Rossi's cata...

Giorgio, I'm sorry, I do not. The paper was published in a physics journal in the mid to late 1980's time frame. I no longer have access to the university library, and must pay for articles. The journal articles on scholar.google.com only seem to go back to 1992. The acetate solution method we used ...

Joe Eck's review of the literature may not be spot on in this case, or perhaps his choice of words isn't terribly specific - room temp superconductors have been observed before, but were not stable. Way back in 87 or 88 some Japanese researches reported a Tc well above room temp with BSCCO in a 1:2:...

Georgio - liquid nitrogen is very, very cheap compared to other forms of cryogenics. Anything above 77k is considered high Tc by the engineering and physics world due to it's low cost and simplicity. In this case, it is the reality of physics and engineering that gives us the current definition of h...

Even if the critical current is low this would still be monumental. Cheap SQUIDS, more easily deployed than a cryogenic device. Providing that phase can be produced in bulk... Providing the 'magnetic tolerance' doesn't limit it to very modest currents... Provided quenches don't cause 'prompt disasse...

Emmet, you are correct. I guess I was trying to make a tongue-in-cheek point that with essentially limitless energy, we can desalinate all the water we need and synthesize all the fertilizer to feed and _properly_ care for a lot of humanity. Not necessarily any more probable than today, but possible...

Scenario 1: World energy prices skyrocket. Since nearly all fertilizer in the industrialized world is derived from fossil fuels, food prices also soar. Global violence ensues as the moral boundary between aggression and starvation is easy to cross. Without cheap oil derived fertilizers, the natural ...