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> "The Google team explored three experimental set-ups that have been proposed to generate cold fusion — two involving palladium and hydrogen, and one involving metallic powders and hydrogen. None found evidence of fusion. The results have been published across 12 papers over the past 2 years: 9 in peer-reviewed journals and 3 on the arXiv preprint server." It seems obvious to me that you can't achieve fusion using a…
> "The Google team explored three experimental set-ups that have been proposed to generate cold fusion — two involving palladium and hydrogen, and one involving metallic powders and hydrogen. None found evidence of fusion. The results have been published across 12 papers over the past 2 years: 9 in peer-reviewed journals and 3 on the arXiv preprint server." It seems obvious to me that you can't achieve fusion using a…
This seems to be in keeping with Google's "Moon Shot" philosophy — investing in some projects with potentially high payoff, but low probability of success. If Tesla were pursuing a project like this, they'd probably announce that they were expecting all their cars to ship with cold fusion reactors by 2020 — and then start hiring a team ;-)
There's an Iron Man story arc lone from a few years ago where Tony Stark starts a car company using his repulsor batteries as the energy supply..
Looks like research has been going on from 2015. I wonder why Google decided to keep this a secret... and I wonder how many such long-term projects exist. Maybe it's the possible upside that motivated the secrecy
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There's an Iron Man story arc lone from a few years ago where Tony Stark starts a car company using his repulsor batteries as the energy supply..
sometimes it seems as if Elon thinks Iron Man is a prophesy about his life...
It seems they really did their homework and tried pushing it as well as they could, with new techniques and studies.
The chances of success were slim, but the chances of having missed something 30 years ago were also non-negligible
And even if your main experiment failed, if you could still take out some new techniques and knowledge from it, the better it is
I've yet to make up my mind about 'cold fusion' but since there are interesting results and research is still being funded, there's clearly something we don't understand yet.
Fair play to them It seems they really did their homework and tried pushing it as well as they could, with new techniques and studies. The chances of success were slim, but the chances of having missed something 30 years ago were also non-negligible And even if your main experiment failed, if you could still take out some new techniques and knowledge from it, the better it is
Hello neighbor... I assume.