Re: THE WORLD NEEDS COLD FUSION.

"Richard Schultz" <schultr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In sci.physics.fusion Ken S. Tucker <dynamics@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> : Hi Richard, I presume your questions
> : below are rhetorical, otherwise please
> : spec which are serious.
>
> This is not rhetorical:  top-posting is considered very bad form.  I
> meant for you to think about all of the questions that I asked in the
> (presumably vain) hope that you might be able to reach the obvious
> conclusion on your own once you were given enough clues.
>
> :> How long did it take from Budnorz and Muller's announcement of
"high-T"
> :> superconductivity in cuprates for someone to reproduce their results?
> :> How long did it take to find a material that it is superconductive at
> :> T > 77 K (i.e. above the boiling point of N2)?  How long did it take
to
> :> develop a device that used a high-T superconductor?
> :>
> :> How many of those developments depended on a detailed theory of the 
> behavior
> :> of high-T superconductors?
> :>
> :> How long has it been since Pons and Fleischmann claimed to have a
> :> *working* cold fusion water heater?
>
> : If I were to suggest in 1935 that a metal can explode  with 1,000,000x

> more
> : energy/weight than TNT,
>
> H.G. Wells suggested it in 1902.
>
> : I'm sure you would have scoffed, but with a great effort of theory and
> : experiment the A-bomb and H-bomb were developed.
>
> That is completely irrelevant to the point I was making.  Why don't you
> answer the questions above and then think about why what you wrote about
> the A-bomb was a straw man.
>
> -----
> Richard Schultz                              schultr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
> Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
> -----
> "You don't even have a clue about which clue you're missing."

It seems the the presence or absence of He is a key "pointer" to fusion --
 
cold or otherwise. It seems that without He, it is clear that fusion has
NOT 
occurred.

Is the inverse true?

The reason for my question is that there are several Helium wells in the 
world. It is a scarce (but essentially useless) element whose only 
commercially viable use is for lighter-than-air devices. (Novelists 
attention: What would have happened if the US had agreed to sell the Third

Reich Helium? For one, the Hindenburg would not have blown up.) But I 
digress.

Where does this Helium come from? Three sources I can think of:

1. It is left over from a few Billion years ago when the Earth was still
hot 
enough for fusion.
2. It is generated by some non-fusion process that I do not understand.
3. It is/was generated by some natural "cold" fusion process.

Could someone comment, please, on these three obvious sources of Helium?

Bill Miller

(Of course, there is a fourth possible source. Aliens visited the Earth
some 
years back and buried a few fusion plants in selected locations around the

world. There are probably more, but they cannot be located unless one
looks 
for them using a forked willow tree branch. Aluminium foil hat is
optional.)