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Helium 4 and Energy
Two speeding nuclei do not have the speed to over the barrier between them. Hydrogen is composed of an one proton with one electron circling.Water or H2O has two protons with two electrons circling. Deuterium has one proton and one neutron and one electron.Heavy water is composed of two deutrerium nuclei and one oxygen for a total of two protons and two neutrons and two electrons. A very rare isotope called tritium has one proton and two neutrons with a orbiting electron.Possible fusion reaction combinations requiring temperatures between 45-400 million degrees celius 1. deutrerium plus tritum producing helium 4 and a neutron 2. deuterium and helium 3 producing helium 4 and a proton 3. deuterium and deutrium producing either helium 3 and a neutron or tritium and a proton.The problem is getting nuclei close enough together because like charges repel each other.

Quantum tunneling occurrs the nuclei jump through the repulsion barrier between the two nuclei.Quantum uncertainty suggests that there is always a finite but small probability that the nucleus will find itself in another location, at the other side of the barrier that separates them. This is how nuclei in high temperature plasm interact.If they can get close enough for a long enough time, they are able to complete the process by tunneling through the repulsive forces and fuse.

University of Utah, Martin Fleischmann and Stanely Pons announced they had obtained nuclear fusion at room temperature.Fleischmann and Pons experiment cell begins with a rare metal called Palladium.Palladium has the ability to absorb hydrogen, a piece of palladium can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of hydrogen.As hydrogen enter the palladium atoms, they give up their other electrons.They hydrogen atomes are packed together. Fleischman and Pons needed an additional force to get the deuterium nuclei closer together.They realized the most practical way was by using an electrolytic cell. The current caused the oxygen and deuterium to separate; the hydrogen leaves behind its electron and the hydrogen and oxygen become a positively charged nucleus.If the electrolysis conditions were right the deuterium would not boil off but enter into the palladium. Pushing up the voltage one the cell would increasing the electrical pressuring on the deuterium nuclei crowding them even more tightly into the electrode.Pons and Fleischman were estimating with the voltage they were using, they were achieving a pressure equivalent to 100 trillion trillion times that of atmospheric.The conditions inside the palladium rod equivalent to that of a core star.The idea was that deutrium had to be pumped into the negative palladum electrode until the deutrium nuclei were held so close that quantum tunneling would all them to fuse.Fleischmann and Pons argued the fusion reaction carried out with palladium was the reaction deutrium plus deutrium equals Helium 4 and energy, no neutron emissions and no radiation, just pure energy.The fusion reaction promised a totally clean form of nuclear energy with the need to worry about radiation.

Nuclear fusion offerred an unlimited source of clean energy. Fleischmann and Ponns budget was personally financed for a couple hundred thousand dollars, whereas, high power nuclear fusion costs exceeded $10 million requiring powerful lasers and electromagnets. The Deutertium and Palladium experiment had produced a 60 fold increase in heat and persisted over a 100 hours.To help understand the signficance of fusion energy lets look at the requirements to run a 1,000 megawatt generator for a year.The 1,000 megawatt power generator would take 20,000 railcars of coal for the year and an oil fire station would require a similar volume of oil.A single railcar of uranium will power a nuclear fission reactor for a year.However, one auto car full of water would power a nuclear fusion generator for a year.

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Title: Five Dollar Oil, Cold Fusion.
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Too thin, wrong angle on important topic
I was aware that this book was outdated by the time I ordered it, but I was curious to see what exactly it had to offer.

Ironically, it's best use (IMHO) is NOT how to use ColdFusion to build an intranet - the code exampled used are too simple and rudimentary to do much good without major tweaking - but, rather, as an introduction to the intranet concept. And as such, it actually does a decent job. Now, if only Mr. Desborough had stuck with elaborating in depth on the structural setup of an intranet and mentioned ColdFusion only in passing, then it would have been a really good read.

As it is, the book can no longer be recommended. CF3.0 is too outdated, and the code examples are downright lame - more space is wasted on gratuitous hype for the consultants and companies who have written the code than on actual code. And a large part of the code consists of commented-out copyright notices from those same consultants. Waste of paper.

Must have book!
If you are looking for an authorative source on Cold Fusion and for getting ideas for your database driven Web site, this is a must have book. All the applications contained are very professional and require littlework getting them up and running on your Internet or Intranet site. Alsoexcellent for learning how Cold Fusion works.

Answered: What are others doing and how?
I purchased this book and have been pretty pleased with it. The code examples are straightforward and obviously laid-out for combination programmers and IT people asking "Can CF do what I need -- andhow?"

I read some other reviewer's comments and came to a couple ofconclusions: First: The "readers" from Minn./St. Paul MO musthave little time on their hands (same person?), because several CF booktitles inlcude their reviews, all of which are miserable attitudes dressedup as book reviews. Get a life!

Second: No book is going to answer allyour questions unless you just stop asking questions. This book is aimed atenhancing your understanding of what is possible and pointing out somesimple ways to achieve those ends -- it is not a programmer's referencemanual nor a 'bible'.

All code, No explanation or index
I wanted to learn CF and have a reference. I got neither. I will be returning this to the bookstore from whence it came. Yeah, it has a lot of sample code. I can find sample code all over the net for free.

Not for the beginner - but good examples
If (as I was), you want a book which has lots of sample code that you can tear to pieces and transplant into your own systems, then this book is for you.

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Title: Miami rhapsody: Miami is no longer the home of the "cold fusion," thanks to our player of the year, the red-hot Alex Pineda Chacon. (Special Section: The 2001 MLS Season In Review)(Cover Story).
Author: David Brousseau
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Science at it's best
This book so easily explains the "hoopla" concerning the whole cold fusion issue.Great reading!

cold hoopla explained perfectly
As a daughter of a scientist, I could relate to the skeptics out there who question the theory of whether cold fusion can be proven or if it should actually just be called hoopla as Dr. Nathan Hoffman would say.If so, I could say that after reading this book, you will lay the book down with a strong view of optimism for cold fusion, or perhaps a stronger appreciation for scientific study. Either way, the impact of science regardlessin what field will amaze you and leave you hungry for more!!!

CALLING A SPADE A SPADE
Hoffman explains how so many scientist could have erroneously concluded that cold fusion worked.He describes processes that were heretofore misunderstood and led to the fiasco that became the "Cold Fusion Hoopla."His remarks were right on the money, for as we see five years later, cold fusion has not become the panacea that it was made out to be.

The most outstanding book on cold fusion written to date.
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Title: Science-Focused Budget Plan Leaves Civilian Fusion Work Out in the Cold.(Brief Article)
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Tenth International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF10)
This proceedings includes papers that were presented at the 10th International Conference on Cold Fusion held in Cambridge, MA, in August 2003.Following the initial announcements by Martin Fleischmann and Stan Pons in 1989 of an excess heat effect in electrolysis experiments with PdD, both theoretical and experimental work has been pursued by scientists seeking to understand the excess heat and related phenomena.Similarly, following the announcement of Steve Jones of low-level nuclear emissions from TiD, scientists have continued to explore the effect.Recent results in these areas and other areas were reported in more than 90 proceedings papers included in this proceedings.Topics reported on include: [1] experiments on excess heat, calorimetry, correlation of excess heat and helium, laser-induced excess heat; [2] tritium production; [3] transmutation, including elemental and isotopic anomalies, the Iwamura experiment, and other observations; [4] nuclear emissions from metal deuterides; [5] theory.

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Title: Cold fusion.
Author: Dr. Thomas E. Kiovsky
Publication: Designfax (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Nelson Publishing
Volume: 22Issue: 1Page: 49

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Title: New government peer review leaves cold fusion still out in the cold.(News And Comment)
Author: Kendrick Frazier
Publication: Skeptical Inquirer (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Volume: 29Issue: 2Page: 5(2)

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Title: COLD FUSION STILL HOT.(Brief Article)
Author: Jed Rothwell
Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1999
Publisher: Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine
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Born in 1961, Rob Birza is one of the most striking of his generation of Dutch artists. His oeuvre ranges over painting, sculpture, video, and installation work, and draws freely on different styles and genres throughout the history of Western and non-Western art and mass culture. ... Read more

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Title: Cold Fusion launches world's first herbally-active protein bars.(Cold Fusion Foods' Protein Enriched Juice Bars)(Brief Article)
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Date: April 20, 2000
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Title: Cold fusion -- 10th anniversary update.
Author: Dr Thomas E. Kiovsky
Publication: Medical Equipment Designer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2000
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Volume: 11Issue: 1Page: 49

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