what is cold fusion?

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what is cold fusion?

Answer 1

Cold fusion is a nuclear fusion reaction which its proponents claim occurs well below the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions (millions of degrees Celsius) in a relatively small "table top" apparatus. A variety of experimental methods are used; originally electrolytic cells. The idea was first brought into popular consciousness by the Fleischmann-Pons experiment in March of 1989, which was front-page news for some time, and has been controversial ever since. Cold fusion is sometimes referred to as low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) or chemically-assisted nuclear reactions (CANR

Answer 2

Cold fusion is a nuclear fusion reaction which its proponents claim occurs well below the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions (millions of degrees Celsius) in a relatively small "table top" apparatus. A variety of experimental methods are used; originally electrolytic cells. The idea was first brought into popular consciousness by the Fleischmann-Pons experiment in March of 1989, which was front-page news for some time, and has been controversial ever since. Cold fusion is sometimes referred to as low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) or chemically-assisted nuclear reactions (CANR).



The subject has been of scientific interest since nuclear fusion was first understood. Hot nuclear fusion using deuterium has the potential to yield large amounts of energy, uses an abundant fuel source, and produces only small amounts of manageable waste; thus a cheap and simple process of nuclear fusion would have great economic impact. Cold fusion is especially attractive because proponents claim that it produces very little nuclear radiation, and can be scaled down to small devices such as vehicle engines.



The existence of cold fusion has been a controversial issue. It has been dismissed by some as an example of pathological science, and an idea that would not go away, long after the majority of scientists in the field dismissed it as wrong. Despite this opposition, researchers continue to report results.

Answer 3

Cold fusion is nuclear fusion occurring well below the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions (millions of degrees Celsius) in a relatively small "table top" apparatus

Answer 4

Or, it's the concept of nuclear fusion, which normally happens at millions of degrees, happening at much lower temperatures. So far, no one's been able to get it to work, but it's a nice concept.

Answer 5

ColdFusion is a tag and ECMA script-based programming language which is typically used in web application development for the generation of dynamic web pages. Originally a product of Allaire, in 2001 the company was purchased by Macromedia, who subsequently merged with Adobe Systems in 2005.

ColdFusion resembles a scripting language best suited for data-driven web sites. More advanced users can use ColdFusion as a productivity layer above a J2EE or .NET platform or use ColdFusion as middleware in a service oriented architecture, such as generating web services or Flash remoting.

Recently, ColdFusion has also become a layer to handle asynchronous events such as SMS and instant messaging via its gateway interface.

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-independant database querying via ODBC or JDBC

data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Microsoft Active Direcory, 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

Answer 6

I could write a long explanation, but really, why should I?



Just read this, it explains it better than i ever could - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion