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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: HICCUP Fusion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.203104.23464@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Dec16.201708.26730@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Dec17.221424.6404@nmt.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:31:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.221424.6404@nmt.edu> houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.201708.26730@asl.dl.nec.com> terry@asl.dl.nec.com writes:
- >>Hi folks,
- >>
- >>HICCUP Fusion: Hot-In-Cold Cavitation Ultra Pressure Fusion
- >>
- >>A humorous name, yes, but the suggestion you are about to read for totally
- >>conventional Jones-level "hot-in-cold" fusion is entirely serious. I hope
- >>someone out there will actually give it a try.
- >>
- >>For those of you unfamiliar with the term, "cavitation" refers to the
- >>creation -- often via ultrasound -- and subsequent collapse of very tiny
- >>bubbles in a fluid. Exceptionally high pressures are generated as the
- >>bubbles collapse.
- >>
- >
- > Is there any reason why this couldn't be done in, say, liquid
- >D2? Would the ultrasound necessarily vaporize the D2 before the cavitation
- >process is set up?
- >--
-
- It would be very expensive. Otherwise, no there's no reason.
-
- dale bass
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