Sonoluminescence fusion?

[Gooch's dad]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040303080222.htm

I'm a hardcore skeptic about such claims, but it appears these folks have done the necessary work to show that they are achieving fusion in a desktop experiment. There's no other way to explain the production of gamma radiation, plus having tritium left after the experiment.

Odd that the article talks about applications for "new detectors", for producing tritium, but not for producing cheap energy.

If this can be tweaked to produce usable energy, then this is a huge discovery.

Kelly

[Jim Larmore]

Originally posted by Gooch's dad
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040303080222.htm


[Quote]I'm a hardcore skeptic about such claims, but it appears these folks have done the necessary work to show that they are achieving fusion in a desktop experiment. There's no other way to explain the production of gamma radiation, plus having tritium left after the experiment.[Quote]

I haven't read the article above but was wondering if they had any measurable amount of neutrinos produced or not?

[Matrioshka_Brain]

Betterhumans had an article on it:

http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-03-04-2

If this is legitimate, it would be amazing.

[Shadowy Man]

Originally posted by Gooch's dad
Odd that the article talks about applications for "new detectors", for producing tritium, but not for producing cheap energy.

Actually, it does:

Before such a system could be used as a new energy source, however, researchers must reach beyond the "break-even" point, in which more energy is released from the reaction than the amount of energy it takes to drive the reaction.

"We are not yet at break-even," Taleyarkhan said. "That would be the ultimate. I don't know if it will ever happen, but we are hopeful that it will and don't see any clear reason why not. In the future we will attempt to scale up this system and see how far we can go."

[Sven]

[from the article]The discovery was first reported in March 2002 in the journal Science.
There was quite a controversy about this two years ago. Although I also would like to believe that this is for real, we should wait until this is reproduced by someone else. See for example

http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/hottopics/bubble/index.shtml
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994741

I'm curious why the article you linked gave no indication of the controversy surrounding the fusion experiments.