Is atomic cold fusion possible?

Question

I know there has been some work on this, but it is now so de-bunked I wonder if we may be missing some thing.

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Answer 1

Fusion without high temperatures requires short-lived muons or astronomically high pressures unobtainable outside a collapsed star. It has been adequately debunked as sold. There are true believers that will never be swayed, though. It will continue to be studied until the last one dies of old age.

Answer 2

The answer here is a definitive....maybe.

Low-temperature fusion has indeed been performed using muonic hydrogen - that is, hydrogen atoms whose electrons have been replaced by much heavier but also negatively charged muons. The problem is that the energy balance is lousy; it doesn't produce sufficient energy output to be used as a practical power source.

A similar problem faces pyroelectric fusion, in which an intense electric field is used to accelerate charged particles toward each other. Again, nuclear fusion occurred at relatively low temperatures, but the energy required to cause the fusion far outweighed the energy output.

Low-temperature fusion would certainly go a long way toward ending our current energy problems, but only if it can produce much more energy than it consumes. Therein lies the problem; it's hard to get those atoms to fuse without generating enormous temperatures and pressures. Perhaps some day it can be achieved, but I wouldn't make any offers on a fusion-powered car just yet.

Answer 3

Muon catalized fusion is possible at low temp. The problem would seem to be that the He (3) or He(4) species both (2+ve) formed tends to bind the muon(-ve) particle too quickly for it to catalyse more D+H or D+D fusions. You need a sweep field to separate these species before this takes place.
An alternative approach is to generate bubbles in liquid Deuterium using high frequency sound. The cavitation effect of the collapsing bubbles is believed to exceed 10^5K perhaps sufficient for localised fusion.

Answer 4

Fusion happens. At any time atoms can fuse together to make a bigger atom. This is fusion.

Unfortunately when it happens it releases energy. This energy is released as radiation. A considerable amount of this radiation is felt as heat. My conclusion is that significant fusion will release significant heat (think fusion bomb).

Proponents of cold fusion could be categorized with historical alchemists who wished or claimed to be able to transform any element into gold. To be precise the act of transforming a element into gold is either fusion or fission. Fission is splitting atoms, fusion is joining atoms. Both processes release energy/heat.

Answer 5

conceivable possibly, yet very no longer likely. Atomic nuclei are somewhat strongly repelled from eachother via electrostatic forces. to be certain that fusion to ensue, this repulsion should be triumph over. interior the main helpful prevalent situations, this demands temperatures around a million stages and the linked pressures. an exciting factor to contemplate is that anybody who can generate "unfastened" warmth from a glass beaker, even an exceedingly small volume, is going to be an exceedingly very wealthy man or woman. whilst somebody who isn't an exceedingly very wealthy man or woman tells you that they have got chanced on chilly fusion, be sceptical.

Answer 6

Not yet. If one could perfect it though, you'd be so freakin rich...well actually some government agency would probably knock you off, and steal it for themselves.

Answer 7

yup, just give me two walnuts, a dewar of liquid helium and a block of platinum a foot cubical and I will have it ready for you in a few years.

Answer 8

yes cold fusion is possible when arsenal is bought by the russians...

Answer 9

It was checked and it failed and was scrapped. At the moment it is a non starter.

Answer 10

No.