cold fusion?

Question

i have a question about generating eletricity.
is cold fusion the opposite of nuclear power? while nuclear power is to split the nucleus inside an atom? but cold fusion is to combine two broken nucleus together?

if yes, will the cold fusion method produce any harmful waste?
i have heard if cold fusion works, then the problem of energy will be solve, is it true? is there any disadvantages of cold fusion?

Answer 1

Cold fusion is the fusion of deuterium oxide and palladium electrodes at room temperature. Some scientists have claimed to have accomplished this task, producing vast amounts of energy, however, it is unrepeatable. Cold fusion cleanly produces energy. Fusion has been performed numerous times, however the task was done at extreme temperatures resulting in an inability to perform fusion on a large scale. As far as we know today, there are no disadvantages to cold fusion, however, some will arrise no doubt. We simply do not know enough about the process.

Another positive is that cold fusion does not release as much heat pollution which is a major problem in our world.



In the future, pollution may not be a problem if cold fusion is perfected. Hope grants that devices will be made as small as a car engine.

Answer 2

In general, fusion happens only when it's really really hot. Nuclei need to have lots of and lots of kinetic energy to overcome the repulsive electromagnetic force between them to cause fusion in the first place, and that means it needs to be very hot. The idea behind cold fusion is that this repulsive force could somehow be overcome at much lower temperatures. Exactly how is hard to say, because so far nobody has found a way to make it happen. So one key difference is that fusion is well proven, and cold fusion ... not so much. The rest of your question is pretty confusing. I'm not sure what you're trying to ask. As for lightning, it doesn't involve fusion or fission at all -- it's simply a very large electrical current arcing through the air to create a plasma.

Answer 3

No it is not the opposite of nuclear power it is all nuclear fusion. IT should not produce any harmful wast because of what is used to make it like a deuteron ^2h and a triton ^3H. The prospect of making this process called muon-catalyzed fusion into a piratical energy source is still distant and we will always have problems with energy

Answer 4

Note it is pretty clear that cold fusion has not happened and will probably never happen.



So the main disadvantage is that it doesn't work, and so that any money that is spent on it will be wasted.