What ever happened to Cold Fusion?

Question

What ever happened to Cold Fusion?

Answer 1

It has been shown to be junk science.



And it cannot be patented - you cannot patent something in the public domain, and Pons & Fleishman put it there by their initial publication.

Answer 2

It went to the same place as the Ether.

Answer 3

The process was patented in 2001, but further panel studeis by the DOE suggested the evidence presented from the original "success story" was of a laboratory curiosity nature. There was minimal but measureable heat. Nothing produced on a large scale for commercial applications.



The gist of the problem is no one actually understands the prinicipal mechanisms involved when cold fusion does occur. More study is needed.

Answer 4

not enough gravity

Answer 5

There are two sites that I know of working on it in the US. One in New Mexico and one in Tenn. Who knows, maybe they can make the needed break through.

Answer 6

COLDFUSION



ColdFusion is an application server and software development framework used for the development of computer software in general, and dynamic web sites in particular. In this regard, ColdFusion is a similar product to Microsoft ASP.NET or Java Enterprise Edition.



The primary feature of ColdFusion is its associated scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), which compares to JSP, C#, or PHP and resembles HTML in syntax. "ColdFusion" is often used synonymously with "CFML", but it should be noted that there are additional CFML application servers besides ColdFusion, and that ColdFusion supports programming languages other than CFML, such as server-side Actionscript.



Originally a product of Allaire, in 2001 the company was purchased by Macromedia, which was in turn acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.



ColdFusion is most often used for data-driven web sites or intranets. More advanced developers can use ColdFusion as a productivity layer above a J2EE platform or use ColdFusion as middleware in a service oriented architecture (SOA), generating SOAP or RESTful web services or Flash remoting.



ColdFusion can also handle asynchronous events such as SMS and instant messaging via its gateway interface, available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition.



ColdFusion provides a number of value-added services out of the box:



conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper

client-side form validation including rich forms using Flash

GUI widgets such as datagrids and date pickers

platform-independent database querying via ODBC or JDBC

data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, POP, HTTP, FTP

client and server cache management

session, client, and application management

file indexing and searching service based on Verity K2

XML parsing, querying, and validation

Server clustering

GUI administration

Task scheduling

Other implementations of CFML offer similar or enhanced functionality, such as running in a .NET environment or image manipulation.

Answer 7

I read a book on it about 2 years after the publicity wave. The book described how the two scientists made a number of method errors. Pond and his partner had no experience using most of the test equipment they used. They got so excited though by what they thought they were seeing that they rushed to the university administration who imeadiately clamped a publicity ban on it. This meant that teams around the world tried it, but didn't know exactly what they methodology used was. A very few teams made the same mistakes but most of the teams found no excess energy, or none within the measurable range of their equipment.



The biggest scientific problem with the process is that when you take two hydrogen atoms and fuse them, you should get heat AND radiation, and a helium atom. Though in their experiments it did SEEM like something was happening heat wise, No radiation was ever emitted, and no helium was ever found. Universialy physicists have agreed that without radiation, and helium, fusion is not happening.