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thomas malloy wrote: thomas malloy wrote: Ed Storms responded' I've been reading about the Yuri Popatov's Yusmar machine, which AFAIK, produces LENR's in an aquas solution by means of a vortex. Heat is a big item with Russians, and electricity costs something there too. The fact that he has lots of orders for the machines, should tell you something. The Yusmar machine has been tested several times, once at LANL under the direction of Popatov, and none of the tests showed excess energy. However, as a method to convert electric energy to heat energy, it is very practical because it is simple and does not require maintenance. Russian water is frequently impure so that using a resistor for conversion results in build up of deposit that requires removal. This is the major reason the method is popular in Russia. Regards, Ed Do you recall what the thermal efficiency that LANL observed was?
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
thomas malloy wrote: thomas malloy wrote: Ed Storms responded' Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, not cold fusion. I don't understand how hot fusion in bubbles differs from what the other LERN researchers are doing, LENR describes nuclear reactions made to occur under conditions that conflict with all conventional experience and theory, while hot fusion in bubbles is normal high-energy fusion. I've always assumed that any induced nuclear reaction, other than lasers in a plasma, was an LENR. Particularly if it involved bubbles in a liquid, which I assume was water. Because of the Coulomb barrier, all nuclear reactions, excluding LENR and neutron reactions, require high energy. The discovery that such reactions can be initiated without high energy is the unique aspect of LENR. The rates are very low and the method would not work if power output were at commercial levels, yet this work gets attention. In contrast, Stringham has caused cold fusion to occur at near commercial levels in metals by applying deuterium to the metal using cavitation, yet this work is ignored. It is regrettable that the physics establishment ignores this research. OTOH, once commercially feasible amount of energy are produced, things will change. Unfortunately, commercial amounts of energy are impossible using this technique. The amount of energy generated by each bubble is just too small. Interesting observation. I've heard about inducing reactions by sonic stimulation of water. You're saying that the energy output for a reactions induced by what ever stimulation he was using will never go over unity, since you've studied it and I haven't, I'll take your word for it. I've been reading about the Yuri Popatov's Yusmar machine, which AFAIK, produces LENR's in an aquas solution by means of a vortex. Heat is a big item with Russians, and electricity costs something there too. The fact that he has lots of orders for the machines, should tell you something. The Yusmar machine has been tested several times, once at LANL under the direction of Popatov, and none of the tests showed excess energy. However, as a method to convert electric energy to heat energy, it is very practical because it is simple and does not require maintenance. Russian water is frequently impure so that using a resistor for conversion results in build up of deposit that requires removal. This is the major reason the method is popular in Russia. Regards, Ed We are not being treated to dreams, but to nightmares. Ever the pessimist Guilty. In my defense, some times are more consistent with pessimism than others. This happens to be one of those times. Regards, Ed I know what you mean.
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At 01:45 am 21-02-05 -0600, you wrote: > >I've been reading about the Yuri Popatov's Yusmar machine, which >AFAIK, produces LENR's in an aquas solution by means of a vortex. >Heat is a big item with Russians, and electricity costs something >there too. The fact that he has lots of orders for the machines, >should tell you something. Looking up YUSMAR I came across the following: === However, the speakers from the Russian Academy of Sciences are probably forgetting about the YUSMAR systems that first appeared in the Moldovan city of Chisinau. This technology has been patented in 42 countries. The YUSMAR system was tested several times in reliable research centers in Russia and the United States. It was discovered that the system produced about two kilowatts of heat per one kilowatt of consumed energy. This technology caused much dispute. Is it a perpetual-motion machine? Many scientists are convinced that this machine cannot operate -- but it does. Let's leave it for scientists to decide whether the machine can work or not. In the near future, the fantastic invention of the Volgograd research group will be realized. A Canadian company has already concluded a contract with Volgograd-s Scientific industrial center GRUS for production of a new type of power source. The company believes that this new technology can "change the whole energy-supply system." These compact generators can continuously generate electricity and need no technical input: Their duration is unlimited. Thus, people having the appliance will obtain an electric-power station of their own that can be placed in the home or office. The power capacity of the new generator is three to ten kilowatts, which is quite enough for energy supply to an apartment or an office. === The report is 2 years old so don't hold your breath. ;-) Frank Grimer
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
thomas malloy wrote: Ed Storms responded' Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, not cold fusion. I don't understand how hot fusion in bubbles differs from what the other LERN researchers are doing, LENR describes nuclear reactions made to occur under conditions that conflict with all conventional experience and theory, while hot fusion in bubbles is normal high-energy fusion. I've always assumed that any induced nuclear reaction, other than lasers in a plasma, was an LENR. Particularly if it involved bubbles in a liquid, which I assume was water. The rates are very low and the method would not work if power output were at commercial levels, yet this work gets attention. In contrast, Stringham has caused cold fusion to occur at near commercial levels in metals by applying deuterium to the metal using cavitation, yet this work is ignored. It is regrettable that the physics establishment ignores this research. OTOH, once commercially feasible amount of energy are produced, things will change. Unfortunately, commercial amounts of energy are impossible using this technique. The amount of energy generated by each bubble is just too small. Interesting observation. I've heard about inducing reactions by sonic stimulation of water. You're saying that the energy output for a reactions induced by what ever stimulation he was using will never go over unity, since you've studied it and I haven't, I'll take your word for it. I've been reading about the Yuri Popatov's Yusmar machine, which AFAIK, produces LENR's in an aquas solution by means of a vortex. Heat is a big item with Russians, and electricity costs something there too. The fact that he has lots of orders for the machines, should tell you something. We are not being treated to dreams, but to nightmares. Ever the pessimist Guilty. In my defense, some times are more consistent with pessimism than others. This happens to be one of those times. Regards, Ed I know what you mean.
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
thomas malloy wrote: Ed Storms responded' Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, not cold fusion. I don't understand how hot fusion in bubbles differs from what the other LERN researchers are doing, LENR describes nuclear reactions made to occur under conditions that conflict with all conventional experience and theory, while hot fusion in bubbles is normal high-energy fusion. The rates are very low and the method would not work if power output were at commercial levels, yet this work gets attention. In contrast, Stringham has caused cold fusion to occur at near commercial levels in metals by applying deuterium to the metal using cavitation, yet this work is ignored. It is regrettable that the physics establishment ignores this research. OTOH, once commercially feasible amount of energy are produced, things will change. Unfortunately, commercial amounts of energy are impossible using this technique. The amount of energy generated by each bubble is just too small. We are not being treated to dreams, but to nightmares. Ever the pessimist Guilty. In my defense, some times are more consistent with pessimism than others. This happens to be one of those times. Regards, Ed
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Thomas, I don't understand how hot fusion in bubbles differs from what the other LERN researchers are doing, I've written about this in detail in my book, and also in part, in two articles in the New Energy Times newsletter #8 http://newenergytimes.com/news/8.htm . Search on "bubble" and "sonofusion." Steve
Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
Ed Storms responded' Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, not cold fusion. I don't understand how hot fusion in bubbles differs from what the other LERN researchers are doing, The rates are very low and the method would not work if power output were at commercial levels, yet this work gets attention. In contrast, Stringham has caused cold fusion to occur at near commercial levels in metals by applying deuterium to the metal using cavitation, yet this work is ignored. It is regrettable that the physics establishment ignores this research. OTOH, once commercially feasible amount of energy are produced, things will change. We are not being treated to dreams, but to nightmares. Ever the pessimist
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- Original Message - From: "Michael Huffman" > Actually, I think that I am confusing Taleyarkhan with an earlier researcher with a similar name. I did a quick Google, and came up with a paper at: > http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/hottopics/bubble/1067589.pdf Hey, along similar more recent lines and threads there is an interesting finding, at the end of this paper, "Tritium activity increases only in chilled ( 0°C) cavitated C3D6O, coupled with evidence for neutron emissions in chilled cavitated C3D6O..." Hmmm... tritium activity increasing in chilled acetone near the freeaing point of D2O. What could that mean? Was D2O present at all? It appears that acetone melts at ?94.8°C so this is not likely to involve the same "brittle mechanical failure" mechanism of explosive ice, or is it? At any rate, when hydrogen (or deuterium) bonds fail catastrophically in an explosive failure, atoms do get accelerated to keV energies, thus the x-rays seen in exploding-ice. One can interpret the implications of the Fateev experiments, cited earlier, in many ways to suit their personal agenda, but one cannot deny that x-rays do result from this mechanical failure. Indeed Bridgman showed the same thing with may types of brittle failure. The Fusor of Miley Hull etc. has demonstrated rather conclusively that head-on D fusion of the "warm" ICF variety requires a minimum of 10 keV per particle. Unlike Ed, I do not agree that this is necessarily the same as hot plasma fusion, even though the fusion products may be the same. There could just be an under-appreciated resonance at 10-25 keV range. BTW the rock-solid Fusor results of R. Hull seem to show that there is no net advantage, perhaps a nerative return of energy, of going much beyond 25 keV per particle in energy in the Fusor, so this is not "exactly" the same as hot fusion, even though the ash is the same, confusion of no. Is it possible that "bubble fusion" is not about bubble *collapse,* necessarily but about the pulling apart of hydrogen bonds in bubble *formation* at the point where the bonds normally would start to stiffen, due to decreasing temperature? IOW when a deuterium bond is at zero-C at ambient pressure, and that pressure is suddenly removed, prior to cavitation in the formation of the bubble; then the "effective temperature" drops signicantly for those bonds. The bonds will tend to realign to the new angle (the angle they assume in the solid, which is different than the bond-angle of the liquid), and the Casimir force will wrench some small proportion of bare deuterons away in a brittle mechanical failure. What happens next is anybody's guess. Of course, wouldn't it be delightful, for other reasons, to learn that there was some heavy water in the acetone. Some fringe observers might then claim that D2O is the active medium... but even if not... Wonder what happens when you get the acetone temperature down closer to the f.p.? They aren't telling, for whatever reason, but the thought surely crossed their collective minds during the experiment, since they already found positive results going lower... maybe Knuke knows what happens at lower temperatures, yet ? Jones
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I think it's easier not to confuse cold fusion with hot fusion by introducing the Beta-ether concept. We have enough trouble just talking about what is known without introducing what is unknown. Cold fusion describes nuclear reactions that take place in special atomic lattices without application of significant ambient energy, and result in helium when fusion occurs. On the other hand, hot fusion occurs in a plasma or when significant energy is applied, is independent of the atomic environment, and produces neutrons and tritium in equal amounts. The Taleyarkhan work produces a microplasma and detects neutrons. Based on the observed behavior, this is hot fusion, not cold fusion. I might add, the reaction rates are over 12 orders of magnitude less than those observed by Stringham. Even if the observations are real, they have a long way to go before the effect is useful. Regards, Ed Grimer wrote: At 10:44 am 17-02-05 -0700, you wrote: Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and >BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, or cold fusion occuring in Beta-aether vacua cavities. 8^) Grimer
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Gnorts again°! Actually, I think that I am confusing Taleyarkhan with an earlier researcher with a similar name. I did a quick Google, and came up with a paper at: http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/hottopics/bubble/1067589.pdf In the references, he credits just about everybody worth crediting. Crum, Matula, Susslick, Gaitan, Barber, etc., etc.. I just did a quick read of the paper, but it looks pretty convincing, and the experiment itself looks to be easy enough to set up with enough money and equipment. I hope the BBC doesn't snot the whole thing up so that it doesn't work on prime time. The assasination of dreams is not a pretty thing to watch. Knuke Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 18:55 schrieb Michael Huffman: > Moin Moin! > > I'm just glad (and a bit surprised, actually) to see Taleyarkhan's work > being examined at all. I read very vague references to his work when I > first started researching cavitation in 1993, and that was in the form of > some BBS messages or something. It wasn't even on the internet. In some > references, he was referred to as being a professor, in others not. There > was no mention of his country of origin, and by his name, I figured that he > was Russian. > > He was using cavitation to clean large aquarium tanks in the far East - > Singapore, I believe, in the mid 70's. Beyond that, there was never any > mention of him, and I was digging for info on him for years. His work just > wasn't very widely published back then. As I recall, he had only published > two papers in some very obscure journals, and I never could find any copies > of those. > > Of course, you are right that a large number of people have contributed to > the science since Lord Reyleigh first proposed the cavitation bubble > collapse hypothosis in the late 1800's, and Jed is also right about the > black and white nature of the announcement of the BBC experiment, but that > is purely showbizness. > > The fact remains though, that Taleyarkhan was doing useful work with > cavitation twenty years before the likes of me, Tessien, or Putterman got > into the act, and I am glad to see that he is still around. By his foto, > he doesn't look to be all that old, either. It would be interesting to > learn more about his career. > > Knuke > > > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > > have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL > > announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, > > it didn't make the news. > > > > Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's > > Co); > > http://tinyurl.com/6f5me
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At 10:44 am 17-02-05 -0700, you wrote: > > > Once again, we are being treated to one > more example of exaggeration and >BS. > The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot > fusion occurring in bubbles, or cold fusion occuring in Beta-aether vacua cavities. 8^) Grimer
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Given a moment to reflect on ALL of the circumstances...DUH... one should always "follow the buck" first and ask questions later. > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > have !). Should have mentioned Russ George also, as Ed suggests... and... I forgot to mention that since incorporation, IDI has received over 20 patents and expects even more. "Our patent attorneys are Townsend & Townsend in San Francisco, one of the nation's best patent law firms," Tessien told one writer. Yup. They are probably THE best, not one of the best, and that is also probably why they have either threatened litigation or asked for a cease and desist order against ORNL, and why ORNL, which has its own hefty staff of IP professionals, does not, and will not, acknowledge the prior art (until a court order, or some settlement, that is) one cannot imagine that there is no possibility of infringement here with this many patents floating around. All this high level legal maneuvering and yet... Bob Park thinks it is still pathological science, with no basis in reality... Follow the Buck, Bob... Jones BTW is it for certain that this show is a "put-down"? The Beeb is usually rather circumspect about that kind of thing.
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have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, it didn't make the news. I am told that the second paper addressed the criticism from the first paper: http://newenergytimes.com/news/8.htm#impulsedevices s
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Moin Moin! I'm just glad (and a bit surprised, actually) to see Taleyarkhan's work being examined at all. I read very vague references to his work when I first started researching cavitation in 1993, and that was in the form of some BBS messages or something. It wasn't even on the internet. In some references, he was referred to as being a professor, in others not. There was no mention of his country of origin, and by his name, I figured that he was Russian. He was using cavitation to clean large aquarium tanks in the far East - Singapore, I believe, in the mid 70's. Beyond that, there was never any mention of him, and I was digging for info on him for years. His work just wasn't very widely published back then. As I recall, he had only published two papers in some very obscure journals, and I never could find any copies of those. Of course, you are right that a large number of people have contributed to the science since Lord Reyleigh first proposed the cavitation bubble collapse hypothosis in the late 1800's, and Jed is also right about the black and white nature of the announcement of the BBC experiment, but that is purely showbizness. The fact remains though, that Taleyarkhan was doing useful work with cavitation twenty years before the likes of me, Tessien, or Putterman got into the act, and I am glad to see that he is still around. By his foto, he doesn't look to be all that old, either. It would be interesting to learn more about his career. Knuke > Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream > arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan > recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not > credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to > the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross > Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the > chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should > have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL > announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, > it didn't make the news. > > Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's > Co); > http://tinyurl.com/6f5me
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Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
Once again, we are being treated to one more example of exaggeration and BS. The Taleyarkhan cavitation work is hot fusion occurring in bubbles, not cold fusion. The rates are very low and the method would not work if power output were at commercial levels, yet this work gets attention. In contrast, Stringham has caused cold fusion to occur at near commercial levels in metals by applying deuterium to the metal using cavitation, yet this work is ignored. We are not being treated to dreams, but to nightmares. Ed Keith Nagel wrote: Hey Jed + Knuke, If the dream dies, can the reality of LENR finally come out? I for one am getting kind of sick of the dreaming K. -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:05 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan Michael Huffman wrote: Gnorts, Taleyarkhan has been doing cavitation experiments for over thirty years, Jed. And the BBC has been doing them for -- what? -- six weeks? And yet they claim: "If the experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream will die." The DREAM WILL DIE, folks!!! All of you in viewing audience: please, clap your hands! Keep Tinker-bell alive! - Jed
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At 10:47 am 17-02-05 -0500, you wrote: >[It is absurd that these people think a claim can be disproved with a >single experiment! And if they do not really believe that, they should not >say it, because people viewing the television will believe them. - JR] > >Horizon >Thu 17 Feb, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm 50mins (BBC2) > >An Experiment to Save the World It would be interesting to know the agenda of the people who thought that one up. 8-( Still, it may be a sign someone's getting worried this Cold Fusion malarkey could be for real, eh, and they want to abort it. 8-) But, as the modern proverb goes, NO PUBLICITY IS BAD PUBLICITY. Grimer
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Hey Jed + Knuke, If the dream dies, can the reality of LENR finally come out? I for one am getting kind of sick of the dreaming K. -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:05 PM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: Re: BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan Michael Huffman wrote: Gnorts, Taleyarkhan has been doing cavitation experiments for over thirty years, Jed. And the BBC has been doing them for -- what? -- six weeks? And yet they claim: "If the experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream will die." The DREAM WILL DIE, folks!!! All of you in viewing audience: please, clap your hands! Keep Tinker-bell alive! - Jed
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Ahoy Knuke, > Taleyarkhan has been doing cavitation experiments for over thirty years, Even so, it was a big mistake, and typical mainstream arrogance, that in all the publicity that Taleyarkhan recieved (riding on the ORNL coat-tails) that he did not credit nor even mention the extraordinary contributions to the field of sonfusion from former vortex contributor Ross Tessien, founder of Impulse Devices, and Dr. Gaitan the chief scientist (nor did he mention Knuke either, but should have !). Caveat: this criticism relates to the first ORNL announcement and they may have issued an addenda, but if so, it didn't make the news. Here is some new and surprising info from them (Tessien's Co); http://tinyurl.com/6f5me Grass Valley CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2004 "Impulse Devices, a developer of sonofusion power (acoustic inertial confinement fusion, AICF), announced Monday the availability of its research reactor to laboratories, universities, power equipment manufacturers and utilities attempting to produce a new alternative energy." Jones They are selling the reactor, which should accelerate R&D but the actual device is a far cry from the Nova reactor pictured in the article.
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Michael Huffman wrote: Gnorts, Taleyarkhan has been doing cavitation experiments for over thirty years, Jed. And the BBC has been doing them for -- what? -- six weeks? And yet they claim: "If the experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream will die." The DREAM WILL DIE, folks!!! All of you in viewing audience: please, clap your hands! Keep Tinker-bell alive! - Jed
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Gnorts, Taleyarkhan has been doing cavitation experiments for over thirty years, Jed. Knuke Am Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2005 16:47 schrieb Jed Rothwell: > [It is absurd that these people think a claim can be disproved with a > single experiment! And if they do not really believe that, they should not > say it, because people viewing the television will believe them. - JR] > > Horizon > Thu 17 Feb, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm 50mins (BBC2) > > An Experiment to Save the World > > Horizon takes one of the most controversial and ambitious claims in > science, and conducts an experiment to see if it's really true. If the > experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of > cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream > will die. The experiment is an attempt to make nuclear fusion, one of the > Holy Grails of science. > > Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun, and scientists know that > if they could just make fusion happen here on Earth, they could solve all > the world's energy problems. Billions of pounds have been spent, but so far > nuclear fusion has failed to deliver. > > Now an American scientist claims to have created nuclear fusion simply by > bombarding a flask of liquid with sound waves. His work has been published > in Science Magazine, one of the most prestigious journals in the world. But > many scientists refuse to believe his claims. > > Horizon attempts to sort the matter out once and for all; we've > commissioned a team of world class scientists to try and replicate Rusi > Taleyarkhan's experiment. This film reveals the result of that experiment. > [With audio description] > > Subtitles Stereo Widescreen > > Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/
BBC Horizon to feature Taleyarkhan
[It is absurd that these people think a claim can be disproved with a single experiment! And if they do not really believe that, they should not say it, because people viewing the television will believe them. - JR] Horizon Thu 17 Feb, 9:00 pm - 9:50 pm 50mins (BBC2) An Experiment to Save the World Horizon takes one of the most controversial and ambitious claims in science, and conducts an experiment to see if it's really true. If the experiment works, then the world could be on the way to a new form of cheap, unlimited, pollution free energy. But if it fails, then that dream will die. The experiment is an attempt to make nuclear fusion, one of the Holy Grails of science. Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the sun, and scientists know that if they could just make fusion happen here on Earth, they could solve all the world's energy problems. Billions of pounds have been spent, but so far nuclear fusion has failed to deliver. Now an American scientist claims to have created nuclear fusion simply by bombarding a flask of liquid with sound waves. His work has been published in Science Magazine, one of the most prestigious journals in the world. But many scientists refuse to believe his claims. Horizon attempts to sort the matter out once and for all; we've commissioned a team of world class scientists to try and replicate Rusi Taleyarkhan's experiment. This film reveals the result of that experiment. [With audio description] Subtitles Stereo Widescreen Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/
