09 Nov 2011, 3:57 pm
DC wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
He claimed some kind of a "cold" nuclear process. No such thing. Both fission and fusion is -hot-. Fission requires very high temps to bang hyrogen nucleii together and overcome the coulomb repulsion. Fission liberates lots of heat. In fact that is why fission is used in generating electricity. It is used for heating up water and making steam.
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Fission?
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Sorry ruveyn, couldn't help it.
Both fission and fusion are hot processes. Fusion, because high temperatures are required to overcome the Coulomb repulsion of positively charged nucleii and fission because the energy liberated by the mass loss in splitting the nucleus heats up the surrounding material.
There is no cold fusion and there is no cold fission.
That is why I think the claims being made are bogus.
ruveyn
