what is cold fusion, i know its making energy without heat but HOW does it work?

Question

i thinks it'susing oxygenated water combined with electricity. i dont know please help

Answer 1

Fusion when lighter elements are force together to create heavier elements. Our nuclear power plants use fission which is the opposite, splitting heavier elements into lighter ones. Fusion happens all over space, ie: stars, but it takes a huge amount of pressure and therefor heat to force the atoms into themselves. We have yet to be able to do this, mostly because of the amount of heat it requires, which is why cold fusion is such a myth. It is safer than fission because there is less release of radiation, and it provides more energy than fission.

Answer 2

Cold fusion does not apparently work. No one has been able to reproduce the original work.

The idea was to use heavy water, which is water made from deuterium, which is a form of hydrogen with a neutron in the nucleus, which fuses to form helium more easily than normal hydrogen, which releases lots of energy in the process. This is what powers the sun.

Anyway, the heavy water is forced into a metal called palladium by using electric current, rather like charging a battery from an electrical standpoint, but not from an energy standpoint, where it was theorized that the deuterium nuclei would be brought close enough together - at low temperature - which is the "cold" part, to fuse and form helium - which is the fusion part. Normally to force two nuclei that close together requires extremely high temperatures.

Palladium is used because it has a unique ability to absorb enormous quantities of hydrogen.

As I said originally though, no one has been able to make this work and it is thought that mistakes were made during the original experiments which fooled the experimenters. The experiment they did is extremely difficult because they were trying to measure extremely small amounts of energy and radiation. Such measurements are easy to get wrong.

Cold fusion probably is not a real phenomena, unfortunately.

Answer 3

Cold fusion is envisioned as a process for converting a very small amount of matter into energy as Hydrogen undergoes mysterious cold conversion fusion into helium. It was claimed that a certain amount of energy could be multiplied into a larger amount of energy.

Following the announcements by Fleshman and Pons about achieving "COLD FUSION", promoters and Charlatans jumped into action to gather much gullible money which poured in from various origins including state and federal sources.

Analysis: One problem with cold fusion is that it is still cold. Even if cold fusion could "work" like hopeful promoters say it does, the problem of being "cold" remains.

If Sadi Carnot were alive today, he might have something to say about the "cold fusion" designation.He might have suggested the name of the proposed phenomena as "warm" or "small fusion" in hopes that it could be as efficient as solar concentrators for providing high temperature heat for engines that operate through a temperature difference.

What is called "cold fusion" seems to start with the electrolysis of water, andafter a while an extrotherm is said to occur that causes the water to boil. If the heat released to boil the water is in fact greater than all of the energy used to purify the water,mine and manufacture the electrodes,and electolyze the water,the difficult problems of thermodynamic quality and energy availability remain.

The cold fusion process proposes to take a high availability form of energy (electricity) and make a much lower available form of heat energy.

Answer 4

chilly Fusion ability to create a Fusion reaction, w/o warmth. There are not any Fusion reactors interior the international, via fact presently it takes greater warmth to produce the reaction, than the reaction itself creates. So, chilly fusion could be coming up that reaction w/o using the preliminary warmth, which i've got faith is someplace around the 2million to 3million degree Fahrenheit mark. (must be incorrect on the temp however) It would not propose that the reaction itself, isn't made to produce warmth. the only place you will see Fusion, presently, is in an H-Bomb (Hydrogen Bomb). An H Bomb is extremely a fission Atomic Bomb that creates an more advantageous Fusion explosion.

Answer 5

Cold fusion is a release of energy by joining atoms. There is a great deal of heat released but not as much as fission. Still pretty hot. I wouldn't want to touch it.

Answer 6

Cold Fusion is a way to produce energy. However, when we make it ( only for a few seconds ) we have put more energy in to making it then it put out. We have to find out how to make cold fusion put more energy out then we put in so it will be efficient.

Answer 7

Bad Science.

Answer 8

watch the movie :The Saint, its all about cold fusion

Answer 9

Take a look at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

Answer 10

It doesn't work.

Its an example of pathological science.