Hm.

[solarbird]

Hm.

The return of cold fusion? The story covers a demonstration based on research documented in this 2003 paper, which was, in turn, a follow-up to a previous paper in 1994.

I'm not banking on this; I'm just noting it.

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[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

would be nice if, but I still think that fast flux neutron thorium-fueled breeders are the way to go, and note that we do have decent supplies of thorium ores within Cascadia (altho' of course liable to be litigated for many years before mining can start).

betcha never thought I'd advocate for non-carbon-based mineral fuels, hey? carbon is strictly a bridging technology to nuclear which in turns gets us the concentrated power to go to LEO solar/microwave. finding the money is a whole 'nother problem, though.... China will probably beat us to it; they have even greater need to solve the energy-flux problem than do we.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Palladium is a pretty freakin' expensive rare earth metal, right up there with platinum. Having a new wide-use application would have some intriguing second-order effects on the commodities market. Hmm....

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

hmm, palladium deposits are known at several locations (Triassic vanadiferous black shale / basic volcanic association....) within Wrangellia (northern Cascadia), so we might well be digging and delving for something new.

where's my staking-tag book, anyway? and who has a burro? can't prospect without a burro ^_^

[wrog]

I wonder what the Caltech folks have to say about it; that's the test.

When I first saw this I thought someone was finally picking up the Jones-Palmer muon-catalyzed-fusion work (which actually looked somewhat real, but got dropped on the floor because J/P made the mistake of announcing with Pons-Fleischemann rather than trying to distance themselves and so when the P/F results were shown to be bogus, their reputations got flushed, too...). oh well.

[solarbird]

I wonder what the Caltech folks have to say about it; that's the test.
Well, that's a test, but yeah.

When I first saw this I thought someone was finally picking up the Jones-Palmer muon-catalyzed-fusion work (which actually looked somewhat real, but got dropped on the floor because J/P made the mistake of announcing with Pons-Fleischemann rather than trying to distance themselves and so when the P/F results were shown to be bogus, their reputations got flushed, too...).
Yeah, I'd always wondered what happened to them, and didn't really know why they co-announced since their approach was materially different.