Maybe: A nucler reactor in your basement - 02/20/13 02:58 AM
An article on Phys.Org Phys.Org:The nuclear reactor in your basement is about a theoretical way to achieve low temperature nuclear energy. It isn't cold fusion, it works by inducing the nucleus of a metallic atom in a lattice filled with hydrogen to absorb an ionized hydrogen nucleus which becomes a low speed neutron. The metal atom then fissions releasing an electron and becoming the next metal down. The metal used as an example in the article is nickel, and it becomes copper.
I'm slightly skeptical about the theory, but it is being written up by a scientist at NASA Langley, so there is at least a little credibility to the idea. It takes an electromagnetic signal in a specific frequency range which right now we don't have a good way to generate. That means that we don't have a way to test the theory until they can figure out how to get the signal. Even if it works then we are still a long ways from having installed systems. Getting a test working doesn't immediately translate into a fully working system.
Bill Gill
I'm slightly skeptical about the theory, but it is being written up by a scientist at NASA Langley, so there is at least a little credibility to the idea. It takes an electromagnetic signal in a specific frequency range which right now we don't have a good way to generate. That means that we don't have a way to test the theory until they can figure out how to get the signal. Even if it works then we are still a long ways from having installed systems. Getting a test working doesn't immediately translate into a fully working system.
Bill Gill