Detail Table-top Fusion: The Beast That Will not Die   Oleh:  The Economist Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 390 no. 8624 (Mar. 2009), page 76. Topik: Hydra; Monster; Fusion; Low-energy Nuclear Reaction Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.54 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel IN GREEK legend, the hydra was a many-headed monster. If a head was severed, it grew back. Indeed, in some versions of the story, two new heads sprouted. Some scientists wonder whether cold fusion is a similar beast. On March 23rd, 20 years to the day since Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced that they had accomplished nuclear fusion at room temperature in apparatus built on a laboratory bench (they hadn’t), experimental results purporting to demonstrate such cold fusion were presented to a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cold fusion is so called to distinguish it from the sort that goes on in stars and hydrogen bombs. That needs a temperature of several million degrees. If cold fusion worked, it could provide an inexhaustible supply of clean energy. But it has been cold-shouldered by most scientists. Funding has dried up. What research there is, is conducted outside mainstream laboratories. In fact, its advocates have renamed their endeavours “low-energy nuclear reactions” because cold fusion has received such a drubbing. That is because most scientists think it impossible. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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