How does cold fusion differ from hot fusion?
Cold fusion releases enormous quantities of energy in the form of heat, not ionizing radiation, as in hot fusion. This heat energy is hundreds to thousands of times what ordinary chemical reactions could possibly yield. If “cold fusion” is a heretofore unknown form of benign nuclear reaction – as most researchers in the cold fusion field believe – there is more potential cold fusion energy in a cubic mile of sea water than in all of the oil reserves on earth. Cold fusion, in contrast to hot fusion, occurs in relatively simple apparatus. Cold fusion reactions are not at all like conventional hot fusion reactions. If they were, cold fusion experimenters would be killed by massive flows of radiation-neutrons and gamma rays.
Cold fusion releases enormous quantities of energy in the form of heat, not radiation, as in hot fusion. This heat energy is hundreds to thousands of times what ordinary chemical reactions could possibly yield. If “cold fusion” is a heretofore unknown form of benign nuclear reaction-as many researchers in the cold fusion field believe-there is more potential cold fusion energy in a cubic mile of sea water than in all of the oil reserves on earth. Cold fusion, in contrast to hot fusion, occurs in relatively simple apparatus, albeit not yet without some difficulties. Cold fusion reactions are not at all like conventional hot fusion reactions. If they were, cold fusion experimenters would have been killed by massive flows of radiation-neutrons and gamma rays. The continuing wonder of cold fusion is that – whatever it is – it is apparently a very clean reaction that gives very little of the radiation common to fission and fusion reactions. Are there theories that can explain “cold fusion”?
