Questions tagged [cold-fusion]

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How does cold fusion work?

I understand that in regular fusion, you use high levels of heat to accelerate atoms to speeds high enough to overcome nuclear force. What method would be used to achieve cold fusion?
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Could Excess Energy in Cold Fusion Experiments be Explained by Transmutation of Elements?

Scientists have been frustrated trying to duplicate published results ever since Fleishman and Ponds. If fusion really did occur there would be neutrons but none were ever detected. The excess energy that is intermittently detected and in…
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Why have the cold fusion prototypes not been more closely considered as instances of muon catalyzed fusion

We have some evidence of excess heat being generated by Pons & Fleischmann type experiments. Ultimately, I want to understand why the orthodoxy put down the muon theory & shut down the entire line of inquiry. Is Eric Weinstein right? Have physicists…
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