On 6/27/06, Robert J. Chassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Although at least muon-catalyzed cold fusion worked . . . although in the short life of a muon, it apparently cannot catalyze enough fusion reactions to make as much energy as it took to make the muon in the first place, so it is not a great new source of energy.Muon-catalyzed fusion is elegant: the muons cause protons to come closer together! If I remember rightly, a muon as currently produced by humans must catalyze more than 800 fusion reactions before the method becomes energy-effective. (I cannot remember how many a muon catalyzes, but the number is, or was, considerably smaller.) I was in Provo at the time, and I'll try to find a summary I wrote of what went on if anyone's interested . . . Yes, I am curious. -- Robert J. Chassell
The number appears to have been around 100. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion ~maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
