Natural Science Forum / Physics / Fusion / May 2005

The Bush administration proposing funding for other energy sources out
of oil-and-gas money?
Check out the OMB reaction to proposed energy and water act
appropriations for next year at

Here's an article published in IEEE Spectrum magazine:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/may05/0505sono.html
This is from Taleyarkhan et al, on their acoustic inertial confinement
approach to fusion. (ie. they're making bubbles in a coffee cup)

The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/craven.html?pg=1&topic=craven&topic_set=
Forget fusion, cold and hot. This old guy thinks we can provide
unlimited energy, accelerate plant growth, generate drinking and

I attended the MIT Cold Fusion Symposium today.
The main highlight was when Mitchell Schwartz mentioned an imminent
commerical cold fusion development out of South Korea.  Apparently a
group there was granted a patent and Mitchell felt they were close to

Cold fusion - is it intelligent design?

It's a bad sign when I'm out of ideas.
Bret Cahill

One TV report says oil will be very short in 5 years with consequent very
high prices.
When the crunch comes I will not be one of the survivors, I will be 67 in
five years.  My life is almost over.

Instead of easy fusionists limiting themselves to heat and boilers and
41% efficiency Rankine cycle power plants, why don't they daydream
about something better:  A reaction where you can precisely aim high
speed neutrons or other particles at an impulse turbine?  No 2nd law

From:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i8192
Martians Forge Ahead with Nuclear Cold Fusion
Written by Noddy Bigears

A report on the MIT Cold Fusion Colloquium:
The moderator of this gathering was Dr. Mitchell Swartz, a veteran cold
fusion researcher. His doctoral dissertation at MIT, I was told, was in
electrochemistry. He is also a medical doctor specializing in oncology.

A description of the Mallove unit, as proposed by Dr. Schwartz:
The "Mallove" is a proposed unit to describe the height/width of the
optimal operating points which appears to describe most (if not all)
cold fusion systems and their products.  The optimal operating points

Even if small scale hot fusion could be made to work there probably
would be the same problem as anything that could be converted/increased
for a large bomb.
The only difference is this would fit into carry on baggage.

. . . is to stand Truth Herself on Her head."
-- Nietzsche

They should be able to detect the one or two neutrons.
Bret Cahill

Einstein's nine (9) primary fundamental universal base unit values
1) Einstein intensity: [(hG/c^5)^1/2]/sr = 9.8601020(30) x 10^-46 cd
2) Einstein time: (hG/c^5)^1/2 = 1.3511889(33) x 10^-43 s
3) Einstein length: (hG/c^3)^1/2 = 4.0507625(15) x 10^-35 m