It would be interesting to add that the concept of extra heat, from the pure science point of view, is required for cold fusion because any other parameter is extremely hard to measure. So, while not even 1W of extra heat in hot fusion was produced, that is totally irrelevant, since the source of fusion can be accurately characterized and measured.
So, that post on newenergytimes was a sort of straw man. 2012/11/28 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> > > http://news.newenergytimes.net/2012/11/10/federal-fusion-project-goes-ballistic/ > > The largest inertial confinement fusion research project in the U.S., the > optimistically named National Ignition Facility, in Livermore, Calif., > failed to ignite by its September goal. Although the federal government has > spent $3.5 billion since beginning the project in 1997, the facility did > not produce one Watt of excess heat. > > > An error: "ignition" refers to excess power (fusion energy release) > exceeding input power. It's pretty easy to get some fusion heat, putting > on, what is it, 500 TW of uv laser peak power. Remarkably, thought, I > couldn't easily find numbers for actual peak output power. Or energy. > > The whole concept of Ignition is shaky with the NIF. Supposedly ignition > might mean that the released energy would sustain the reaction, but that > seems impossible with the NIF concept. Instead it might be that it's being > used simply to indicate power out exceeding double power in. Except that > actual power in may be much higher. > > The take-home, though, is that NIF is far, far from practical power > generation. Cold fusion long ago reached this relaxed definition of > ignition. I'll venture a prediction, based on what I've been seeing, that > we'll have practical power from cold fusion long before hot fusion. A > corollary: the huge hot fusion programs will be shut down within a few > years. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:47 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Unexpected data from the Large Hadron Collider suggest the collisions > may be producing a new type of matter. > > > http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/lead-proton-collisions-at-large-hadron-collider-yield-surprising-results-1127.html > > http://tinyurl.com/c8nbwzl > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
