Is there any way the human body to perfom cold fusion within itself, and no blow up?

Question

ignoring the fact of how it would do cold fusion, is there any way for it to store all that energy and not explode?

Answer 1

Most people don't understand how truly small some things are. The whole e=mc^2 thing that makes fusion work will produce a large amount of energy out, but only if you put a large mass in.

For example, if you fused deuterium and tritium into helium (somehow), you'd produce 17 million electron volts. While this sounds like a lot, it works out to less than a millionth of a millionth of even one calorie.

So there's obviously a lot of room for adjustment. If you do them one at a time, you're clearly going to starve to death. If you fuse about a billionth of a litre of deuterium a day, then you'll produce about as much energy as a normal metabolism produces (and admittedly, a billionth of a litre isn't much, but your body does things in even smaller amounts all the time).

The question isn't really how you're going to store the energy... you can store it any way you like, as long as the reaction is well controlled. Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Ignoring the how, sure, if the reaction was small enough.