Hello Gerrit,

 >>> PYROFUSION: A ROOM-TEMPERATURE, PALM-SIZED NUCLEAR FUSION
 >>> DEVICE has been reported by a UCLA collaboration, potentially
 >>> leading to new kinds of fusion devices and other novel
 >>> applications such as microthrusters for MEMS spaceships.

 MvdV>> Another cold fusion story? Is this a hoax?

 > I was thinking about that, too. We'll have to see if anyone
 > else comes up with similar results during the following time.

So we wait...

 > And even if that is the case it remains to be shown that you
 > can actually build something like a power station based on
 > this concept.

I'll believe it when I see it.

 > /Some/ fusion reactions take place in more or less every hot fusion
 > experiment nowadays... but break even is still not reached.

Indeed. We are still a LONG way from practical application.

 >>> a copper disc which itself is surmounted by a tungsten probe.
 >>> They cool and then heat the crystal, which creates an electric
 >>> potential energy  of about 120 kilovolts at its surface.

 MvdV>> There we have it: Eenrgy isn't expressed in Volts!

 > Michiel, of course you can measure energies by means of a
 > potential in kV. Photon energies are often given in eV or even
 > in cm^-1, so what?

eV, electron-volts, yes. Not just Volts, without the electron.

Sloppy use of dimensions...

 >>> The electric field at the end of the tungsten probe tip is so high
 >>> (25 V/nm) that it strips electrons from nearby deuterium atoms.

 MvdV>> 25 V/m is not a strong field. Certainly not enough to strip
 MvdV>> electrons.

 > Well, you omitted a factor of 10^9 here... 25 V/nm = 25GV/m.

Yeah, I missed that. See previous messaga.


Cheers, Michiel

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