Cold Fusion?

[Theory5]

Hey, is Cold Fusion impossible?
And if so, why?
Sorry, I should have asked this question better, by Cold fusion I mean the production of nuclear fusion in a tabletop enviroment.

[darman]

Cold fusion is the fusion of deuterium oxide and palladium electrodes at room temperature. Some scientists have claimed to have accomplished this task, producing vast amounts of energy, however, it is unrepeatable. Cold fusion cleanly produces energy.




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[UncleAl]

Here is your cold fusion:

1) Prolonged high current density electrolyis of LiOH electrolyte in D2O. No other cation will "work."
2) Palladium cathode.
3) Lithium metal only slowly reacts with water.
4) A lithium-rich cathode rind builds up then explosively alloys with the palladium.

Pd-Li alloys are used as brazes. The alloys' melting points are around 1000 C, Pd melts at 1555 C.. The dissolution is insanely exothermic as a Lewis acid-base reaction. If you spear a chunk fo sodium on a knife point and plunge it into a mercury pool the mercury boils. Cold fusion is simply bad chemistry. Nuclear evidence claims have all been repeatedly, exhaustively disproven.

[Rade]

UncleAl....

A question....

How does the above chemical explanation account for the many reports of high energy particles being released from the type of Pd-LiOH-D2O experimental design that you discuss above ? I mean, there are many reports of helium, tritons, neutrons being released from these "cold fusion" set-ups, not just excess heat. I agree, if all that was recorded was heat, then chemical reaction most likely explanation--but such is not the case.

See for example the 2009 publication by the US Navy Research Lab suggesting high energy neutrons being released from the Pd-LiOH-D2O type design--which you can read here:

http://www.newenergytimes.com/v2/lib...ipleTracks.pdf

So, I think your statement above "....Nuclear evidence claims have all been repeatedly, exhaustively disproven...." concerning cold fusion experiments perhaps disproven by the US Navy report. Your comments about this experiment would be appreciated.