Thread: Help me out k?

Hay cool and suave guys, help me out here for my thesis.... I know that lurking in here are some brilliant minds amidst the 98% of retards which make up the rest of the demographics.

Why is cold fusion (Physics not the programming language) not possible? I understand that for fusion to happen the nuclei involved in the fusion reactions (typically deuterium and tritium) have to fuse together. The nuclei have a positive charge, so they repel each other. Only when they get very close to each other will they bind together with a force greater than the mutual repulsive force. This binding force is due to the so-called "Strong force" . This Strong Force only acts over very short distances.

And also that, it costs a lot of energy to bring the nuclei within the range of the Strong Force. The temperature of the Deuterium/Tritium mixture has to be so high that the kinetic energy of the ions is enough to breach this barrier.

In our advanced phase and age of technology, don't we have an energy source that is strong enough to achieve said "high temperature"?

Thanks in advance!

So to paraphrase your question in English, you're asking why can't we make cold fusion by using lots and lots of heat?

The answer is we already have done, but then that it isn't cold fusion it's hot fusion.

So far that's been good for making big fission explosions even bigger, and making controlled fusion reactions that absorbs about 50 times as much energy as it produces.

K, thanks for the help guys. So, the answer is (d): All of the above

Originally Posted by Hippocrass

because you touch yourself at night

was going to say this

Good luck on your thesis paper, that'd be like me (the accountant) writing about how great the gold standard is and why Enron has some really smart accountants.
Cold Fusion is the perpetual motion machine of the same world you're in.

I think it's a great topic!

I don't think the issue is lack of an energy source. The problem is that no one wants to spend 100 million kilojoules to capture 50 million kilojoules.

The key is to use a truly renewable, otherwise unusable energy source (like hydrothermal) to power the reaction so we can convert energy from usable to unusable forms.

Of course the sad truth is that we'll always have environmental effects, because even of we have a net gain of energy, we won't replenish it equivalently. Just don't ask the dipshits who think wind turbines and solar energy aren't environmental disasters.

Originally Posted by Hippocrass

cold fusion can't work because it is by definition an attempt to add energy to a system without adding energy to a system

YOU. ARE. STUPID.

Nuclear Physics= magic

i would rather be hippocrass itt