Reply #8: ugh...Is this the same guy who faked the results a decade ago?

[Solon]

It is impossible to have unlimited energy from Cold Fusion, that's a misnomer, it may last a long time, but not forever. I always viewed an energy source's practical usability in terms of how much longer they will last as such, for example:

Fossil Fuels: 5(pessimistic)-20(optimistic) years

Fission Fuels: Hundred of Thousands to a Million years or more.

Geothermic: Many millions of years, depending on geologic activity.

Fusion/Cold Fusion: Many millions of years theoretically, depends on whether getting the hydrogen or process is economically viable at all.

Solar/Wind: Considering the source for both, another 4 billion years, give or take, longer whenever we get off our butts and leave Earth when unlivable as the Sun starts expanding into Red Giant phase. Use other stars as source for energy.

I do not discount Cold Fusion altogether, it may be theoretically possible to Fuse two H atoms into HE at room temperature through chemical or quantum means without raising the temperature to so many million degrees of Kelvin. I just doubt that we could find the way or means before we can successfully develop a system of regular fusion in a magnetic bottle.

Also another important point is portability and practicality. Theoratically a single fusion plant could power the entire Globe, but how the hell are you going to string power lines to the other side? This is an important point, because even a terawatt plant would have limits in how the energy is transported, you can't have a fusion battery, at least not anytime in the next 20 years, regardless as to how Arnold is powered. :) But a large amount of electicity is lost, today, over the hundreds of miles of electrical lines strung throughout the world, and we have yet to come up with a practical superconducter that would be cheap enough to use along such lines, not to mention the Oceans and Mountains that are in the way of such lines.