Reply To: minimal size device for focus fusion to work?

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The Ecat suffers from everything cold fusion suffered from. No viable method of real fusion. There is a lot of data out there with fusion reactions. There is a lot of validated theory about the strong nuclear force and the structure of the nucleus. Yet for the Ecat to work is has to all be wrong. literally 1000s of experiments and mountains of data. Now you can get energy out of a reaction fusing hydrogen with nickle. But not without radiation, not without gamma rays and not with the well know decay chains that have been observed 1000 of times in previous experiments. Also there is a really really high coulomb barrier they claim is over come with a little heat. Add to that the high secrecy no details, it stinks of a scam. There are a few mitigating circumstances that perhaps indicate its not a scam but a mislead individual who is ignorant of what he is doing or even measuring. Hell even the successful test that measured ~400kW needed a 500kW generator running the whole time, but just for “warm up”, trust us. Yea right.

This is in stark contrast to Focus Fusion. Focus Fusion, if it works is a break through. But it does have a very legitimate base in theory *and* experimental data. And if it works there are going to gamma rays and some neutrons to deal with. Low levels but they will be there. Eric has said as much in his Google talk. He does not claim anything that goes against all that we do know and have experimental evidence for.

Yes there have been particle accelerator experiments for proton reaction for many materials. It is interesting for nucleoli-synthesis theory’s even if not for fusion.

You know what you get when you add a proton to 11B and then take away 2 Helium nucleus? Another Helium nucleus. You can’t change the number of protons+neutrons you have.