neo1980 Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tiny bubbles imploding in a solution of acetone may have generated nuclear fusion, Russian and U.S. scientists said on Monday, in an experiment that, if confirmed, represents a giant advance in nuclear physics. read here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postertoad Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 oh yeah !!! That would seriously rock. Hands down the coolest thing to happen in my lifetime. wow. OK everybody ... lets pool all our goody points with our respective dieties and make this one happen.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo1980 Posted March 5, 2002 Author Share Posted March 5, 2002 Nuclear fusion if created artificially is much much safer than our current nuclear use and could make nuclear batteries running whole buildings with 2-3 batteries like our normal AA and BB batteries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonHi Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 Hell when can i get my hands on my own fusion generator then? I want one now. Powergen would be able to go screw themselves then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blahsted Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 Thats pretty crazy, gonna be awhile before we see batteries powering buildings though, maybe not in my lifetime heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted March 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 5, 2002 lol! the powergen dude- i hate those god dam weather ads!!!!! role on n-power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedr0 Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 Link? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 I wouldnt say it wont happen in your lifetime. There are people who have seen the most advanced century in human history. THeyeve seen the evolution of the computer. From the first aeroplane flight to man walking on the moon. THeve seen a bomb that can level a building to a bomb that can wipe out a city. Theyve seen how the media has evolved from the telegraph newspaper to the multi-lateral network of information flows we have now. THeyve seen some of histories greatest killers, and some of histories greatest men and leaders. So dont say it wont happen in your time, because looking back on that, and all the new things on the horizon it looks like the best is yet to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 Look @ how science is being discovered now and being implimented quicker I say it will happen in the next 20 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blahsted Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 I dunno i doubt ill see it in my life time, looks like they just discredited that it was created according to yahoo's msg board on the subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3nd3r Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Tiny bubbles imploding in a solution of acetone may have generated nuclear fusion, Russian and U.S. scientists said Monday, in an experiment that, if confirmed, represents a giant advance in nuclear physics. The experiment was run in a series of beakers that would take up only a corner of any tabletop, using what amounts to souped-up nail polish remover and sound waves. Because the collapsing bubbles produced temperatures as hot as those found in the sun, the experiment does not mean that the long-sought goal of cold fusion has been achieved, scientists warned. But if it can be replicated, it could mean an easy way to generate nuclear energy has been found -- one that mimics what the sun does and that would be many times safer than current nuclear fission methods used by modern-day power plants and makers of atomic bombs. Nuclear fusion joins, or fuses, hydrogen atoms or other light atoms in a reaction that creates a third, heavier atom and creates energy as a byproduct. This is how the sun generates heat and light. Bombs and nuclear plants use another process, nuclear fission, which is the splitting of an atom such as uranium to create a burst of energy. Fusion is much more desirable as it can use the hydrogen found in water and it produces fewer radioactive waste products. Reporting on their experiment in the journal Science, Rusi Pusi Taleyarkhan of the Russian Academy of Sciences and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, said they had created a special form of the ordinary solvent acetone by substituting a variant of hydrogen called deuterium for the hydrogen atoms found in an acetone molecule. They chilled it to the freezing point of water and pulsed it with sound waves. Tiny bubbles, no larger than the size of a period, appeared and then imploded, sending out flashes of light and, they said, high-energy neutrons. The process is called "acoustic cavitation," a phenomenon studied for nearly a century. Temperatures inside these bubbles can be about as hot as the sun's surface, and recent experiments suggest they can be even hotter -- 10 million degrees or as hot as the temperatures inside the sun where nuclear fusion takes place. "If the results are confirmed this new, compact apparatus will be a unique tool for studying nuclear fusion reactions in the laboratory," Fred Becchetti of the University of Michigan wrote in a commentary on the findings. "But scientists will -- and should -- remain skeptical until the experiments are reproduced by others. Many, including the author, could not reproduce past claims made for table-top fusion devices," Becchetti added, referring to a now-discredited 1990 experiment that made headlines when scientists said they had caused nuclear fusion in what amounted to a glass of water at room temperature. Becchetti added that Monday's report had been reviewed by other scientists and was "credible until proven otherwise." An immediate challenge has already come from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which helped conduct the experiment. The lab reviewed the work and said its scientists could find no evidence of the key neutron emissions. Taleyarkhan, who could not be reached immediately for comment, said the reviewing scientists had improperly calibrated their detector and misinterpreted the findings, Science said in a statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k420 Posted March 5, 2002 Share Posted March 5, 2002 According to http://science.box.sk a working prototype of a fusion reactor will be complete by 2009. And if you think that this will be the most technological important advancement in our lifetime don't forget we should have quantum computers complete by 2020. I personnaly would love a fusion battery running my house . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted March 6, 2002 Share Posted March 6, 2002 Time to overclock my CPU with the Voltage from one of those Baby's!!!! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintamanate Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 with that heat to your chip you could fry eggs to feed an army!:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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