How is Cold Fusion Expected to Work?

Question

Newton's first law is energy cannot be created or destroyed, Chemistry tells us a making or breaking a molecule takes the same energy. If the net difference is zero then things cannot be powered and all energy that is created by this methods goes when you try and create more. Why is this considered a suitable method in theory?

Answer 1

Cold fusion has been disproven. Only hot fusion has been proven to work. Too bad we are still unable to make a practical power plant that way, but in the lab we can show it produces energy.

If you make a bond and do not later break it, you can have a net energy transfer. That is how fire works. Carbon combines with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and energy. The carbon dioxide can be broken back into carbon and oxygen, but it takes energy, as in a plant using solar energy in photosynthesis.

Fusion would combine two hydrogen atoms to make one helium atom. Sure, we would be making helium and using up hydrogen, but the amount of energy is so high that we would need to use very little hydrogen, far, far less than there is on Earth now. We could generate all the power we could want for millions of years and never even use even 1% of the hydrogen on Earth.

Answer 2

Not sure .One guy has claimed to figure it out . Maybe under 100 lbs of pressure or so in a cylinder and maybe a laser and certain radio frequencies with a few atoms of hydrogen it would release a blast not so much as a heat form but more of a force to push the piston . I think everyone is looking for heat when talking about cold fusion when they should be looking at the force then take the force and create heat from that like a wind mill would use the force of the air to turn a turbine then generate electricity .

Take a look at this site http://www.first-molecule.com and read it how he claims to have figured it out . He does have a patent on it

I'm not going to fall into the pathological skepticism about it like i did with the cell phone or the home computer i could be rich like Bill Gates if i didn't listen to all the people saying "Oh that will never work " when there are new inventions coming out all the time creating more ways for other things to work .

Answer 3

Fusion already exists. That's the source of energy for the Sun and for the latest generation of nuclear weapons. Just tell the poor people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the energy release back in 1945 was ZERO.

Most of the energy released by solar fusion is fusing hydrogen atoms into helium atoms.

So, it's not at all a theory. It's a fact. The challenge to using this as an energy source is to do it in a controlled fashion.

And, Newton's "theory" was updated by Einstein's Theory of Relativity. E = mc-squared. This means that matter (m) can be converted to energy (E).

Answer 4

chilly fusion is amazingly unlikely. although, nuclear fusion study is persevering with. There are 2 significant technologies being stepped forward: Magnetic plasma constriction, and laser inertial instruments. the 1st is the main stepped forward and for my area the main promising. The premier candidate for a fusion reactor is the type called a tokamak, which makes use of a doughnut-formed magnetic field to incorporate a severe-potential, low density plasma which includes deuterium and tritium (hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3). whilst those fuse into Helium-4, a severe-potential neutron is produced. The potential from those neutrons would be used to generate warmth, making use of generators to offer electrical energy. The earliest tokamaks have been outfitted interior the Soviet Union interior the 60s. because of fact the top of the Soviet era, a great style of the study has been accomplished in Japan and Europe. at the instant, scientists are turning out to be to be very on the edge of the breakeven component, the place potential output exceeds the enter had to maintain the reaction going. a pair of three hundred and sixty 5 days in the past, seven members agreed to totally fund the ITER undertaking (the european Union, India, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, usa), that often is the main important tokamak outfitted as much as now. The gadget would be outfitted in southern France, and is predicted to be able to producing as much as 500 MW of potential. the subsequent degree would be a prototype which will truthfully generate electrical energy, expected around 2060 or so. the 2nd approach, inertial laser confinement, makes use of pellets enriched with deuterium and tritium as a gas. the approach of fusion initiation is different, yet electrical energy is generated interior the comparable way, from the escaping severe-potential neutrons. This technologies has been much less efficient at drawing near wreck-even than magnetic confinement. the known public of inertial laser confinement experiments have been contained in america, and maximum of this has been interior the interest of weapons purposes fairly than ability technology.

Answer 5

Newton's laws of physics are "good enough" for most things, such as short space flight, and air plane design, but when you get into more complex physics such as thermo dynamics, or deep astro physics Newtonian laws break down. This is where Einstines laws come into play. According to Einstinien Laws Physics is much more viable and accurate. It allows you to "borrow " energy now, and "pay it back" later. According to Newtons laws of physicics kangaroos can't jump because they can never get enough enitial energy to lift their bodies for the first time... since energy takes the breaking down of matter.... This would also mean that birds and insects couldn't fly. Thank goodness Austrailia is filled with kangaroos who can't do Newtonian physics.

Answer 6

It doesn't... from the first "demonstration" in 1989 there has been no duplication of the results... a requirement in science to verify a theory.... or even to get a pilot plant built.

Answer 7

It will never work. It's sombodies pipe dream. You can't have sustainable fusion without the kind of gravity that's on the sun. You can't do that on Earth. Plain and simple.

Answer 8

Not at all.