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Mar3-04, 05:58 PM
In 2002, Rusi Taleyarkhan's team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, US caused a storm, when it announced it could make heavy hydrogen nuclei fuse by forcing tiny bubbles in acetone to implode when blasted with sound waves - a process called sonofusion.
The result opened up the possibility of a cheap, limitless supply of energy. Yet critics were quick to point out flaws in the work, especially when a second team of researchers at Oak Ridge repeated the experiment and failed to find neutrons or radioactive tritium, the tell-tale signs for fusion.
Now Taleyarkhan, who has since moved to Purdue University in Indiana, claims he has done it again - and this time he says the evidence for desktop fusion is even stronger
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994741
Will sonofusion be a fraud, like it was cold fusion?...
The result opened up the possibility of a cheap, limitless supply of energy. Yet critics were quick to point out flaws in the work, especially when a second team of researchers at Oak Ridge repeated the experiment and failed to find neutrons or radioactive tritium, the tell-tale signs for fusion.
Now Taleyarkhan, who has since moved to Purdue University in Indiana, claims he has done it again - and this time he says the evidence for desktop fusion is even stronger
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994741
Will sonofusion be a fraud, like it was cold fusion?...