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Re:Researchers demonstrate the ability to fuse atoms inside ... by dummydata on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:35PM (#24066361)
From the article: “What we did was not cold fusion,” says Lawrence Forsley, a senior lead experimental physicist for the project. Cold fusion, the idea that fusion can occur at relatively low energies in room-temperature materials, is viewed with skepticism by the vast majority of physicists. Forsley stresses this is hot fusion, but “We’ve come up with a new way of driving it.”
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Re:Researchers demonstrate the ability to fuse atoms inside ... by NiceWayToDoIT on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:48PM (#24066448)
How they define "cold fusion" temperature, if we look previous lab fusion experiments they all had very narrow point of fusion, welding arc has temperature of 10000 F withing few millimetre, that is what most of those previous so called cold fusion experiments did. But in reality fusion should occur at 100 million K. Cold fusion is refereed as room temperature, is there some trick in defining room temperature?
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