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    Burning Our Way Toward Fusion

    By Posted on 5.20.2008 12 Comments

    Every few years, a new claim of successful cold fusion shows up in the news. It's the mythical holy grail of energy production. Nuclear fusion—the mashing together of two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom with an accompanying release of energy—is currently only the province of stars, requiring tremendous pressure and heat to succeed. Cold fusion, which is still very much a fantasy, aims to do the same without the pressure and heat. While we continue to see false progress toward viable cold fusion, our goals in the realm of real fusion may have just become a little more realized.

    5.20.2008 at 11:04am - Comment by thebeetitan

    Hi, I just want to open this topic that if someone has created another source of energy (to face-out this oil/gas that continuesly harms our environment), can that person live a normal life? I heard some story that there are persons who has discovered/invented to lessen the use of gasoline (even to triple the mileage in just a liter of gas) and they were offered with big amount of money by this big oil company (or oil loyalists) just to disappear, others just disappear, and still that new tech/invention never came/reach out to the market for mass production. They try to promote biofuel but at high cost and until when we can all use it. Even if its available but its too expensive, then we'll get back to oil again! Soon there will be a new source - environment friendly, but don't know whom to trust and to get a security from those smart oil loyalists (sol). Oil dependency should've been face-out 20 yrs ago!



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