On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Have you seen such a paper for hot fusion? Why yes. Have a look at http://www.progressive.org/images/pdf/1179.pdf. It's an article from 1979 in The Progressive on the H-Bomb secret. I guess there are many earlier papers, but they're probably classified. > They have run through almost $20 > billion by last count, so why no 'killer paper' or even a convincing > experiment that points to financial justification? LOL. > No. But every one of them verifies that fusion works. That's what's missing from cold fusion. If I understood the question, it was not about financial viability, but just a paper that proves unequivocally that cold fusion works. In the opinion of the DOE in 2004, no such paper exists. (Not much has been published since.) Hot fusion clearly works, but producing a controlled reaction is hard. It requires 100M C, and so every iteration is big, expensive, and time-consuming. It may never be viable, but the odds can be expressed without (negative) powers of 10.
