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Mark Parsons
12th June 2007, 14:30
Formerly called 'Cold Fusion'. Also referred to as Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) and Chemically Assisted Nuclear Reactions (CANR). Scoffed as instrument error in 1989 when first presented turns out to be very real but not fully understood.

This company is developing a 1kW heater as first commercially available product.
http://www.d2fusion.com/

Not sure that this applies under the 'biofuel' tab. The fuel is water. Usually heavy water but also works with light water. Following the educational section of D2Fusion's site shows that fuel requirements for a 1000 megawatt power plant is 2,100,000 tons of coal per year or 600 liters of heavy water.

Back to the future's 'Mr. Fusion' powered car and home is getting closer....:D

Joe Blake
12th June 2007, 23:29
I was skeptical when it was announced first time, and still remain so, but on the other hand some of my skepticism is due to my not wanting to be thinking it's true because I'm WISHING it to be true.

I'll definitely keep an open mind on it, and I'm willing to become a convert.

Joe

James Dolan
21st October 2009, 08:24
Mark,
Is the site down? Can you give another location--I am interested. JimD

Rob Beckers
21st October 2009, 14:29
James, we can only guess at this point what Mark's intent was when he posted, as he passed away last year. I think it was tong-in-cheek, as I've never heard of nuclear fusion of this type (and it would make headlines if true).

-RoB-

Dave Turpin
30th November 2010, 13:35
Fusion already exists in the laboratory. Look up "tokamak reactor". Problem is the magnetic containment uses more energy than is produced... So far. Once somebody discovers a superconductor that works at high temperatures, fusion will be viable.
On the other hand we already have an incredibly powerful, almost untapped crush fusion reactor... Called Sol.