Here’s the latest from nuclear fusion hopeful Tri Alpha Energy, now called TAE. I was introduced to these guys by my friend Jim Boyden, who got his PhD in physics from Cal Tech the same year I entered kindergarten.
Tag: cold fusion
The Effects of Some Miraculous Breakthrough in Clean Energy
From my feed at Quora.com: Suppose cold fusion (or some other source of clean and abundant energy) was developed by China. How would this affect the current geopolitical status of the world? What would this mean for oil producers? Would …
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Is Cold Fusion Real?
A colleague asks for my viewpoint on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR, aka cold fusion). I wrote: It’s funny you ask, as my belief has changed over the last few years. If you will read the short chapter on the subject …
Will Our Electrical Power Utilities Remain Relevant?
Here’s a Business Week article whose point is that the relevance of our power utilities is disappearing. Not true. Unless there is a breakthrough in energy of unprecedented proportion, along the lines of cold fusion or something else that appears …
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Cold Fusion Is Hotly Controversial
Regarding my piece earlier on cold fusion, my old school friend Duke Brooks writes, “I thought the idea of cold fusion died in the 1990s with Pons and Fleischmann.” Cold fusion, while fantastically controversial, is definitely not dead. To summarize …
Tagged with: Cal Tech, cold fusion, Duke Brooks, Fleischmann and Pons, Glenn Doty, Lawrence Livermore Labs, MIT, US Navy
Cold Fusion – Hot Subject
A website covering cold fusion posted my video on the subject http://www.e-catworld.com/2012/06/author-craig-shields-on-cold-fusion/, which has garnered 54 comments over a two-day period. Not bad! This really is a hot subject, pardon the pun. Here’s one: Zedshort on June 15, 2012 at 11:33 …
Cold Fusion: A Subject for Seances, not Sciences?
Glenn Doty writes: Craig, I don’t think that cold fusion is a worthy discussion point – as its advocates do not adhere to the common discipline of science. Whether or not a study can technically be classified within the empirically …
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Tagged with: Arthur Schopenhauer, cold fusion, Glenn Doty, James Garfield, mainstream science, science fiction
Energy Policy Should Be Based on Reason
Perhaps the greatest single threat facing mankind today is our failure to apply reason to effect solutions. In fact, we appear to openly defy and ridicule the findings of our scientific community, writing them off as so many liars and …
Thanks to Wally Rippel For His Contribution to “Is Renewable Really Doable?”
Wally’s list of accomplishments in science and technology spans half a century; in fact, he is best known for two achievements separated by almost 40 years: In 1968, he built the Caltech electric car and won the Great Transcontinental Electric …
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Renewable Energy Offers Advantages, But No Free Lunch
I’m in the television studio this afternoon, shooting a series of short videos explaining the basics of renewable energy, for use in introducing newcomers to the subject. If there is a theme to the series, it’s “No Free Lunch.” Each …
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