Re: THE WORLD NEEDS COLD FUSION.

"Richard Schultz" <schultr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In sci.physics.fusion Bill Miller <billmillerkt4ye@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> wrote:
>
> : 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.
>
> You can stop right there -- liquid He is used a refrigerant for
> superconducting magnets used in, e.g., NMR spectrometers.
>
> : For one, the Hindenburg would not have blown up.
>
> Actually, it didn't blow up -- it caught fire.
>
> : 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.
>
> The earth was never hot enough for fusion.

Never's a long time. But I get your point.
>
> : 2. It is generated by some non-fusion process that I do not
understand.
>
> It is generated by radioactive decay of uranium and thorium.
>
> : 3. It is/was generated by some natural "cold" fusion process.
>
> Steve Jones thought that there might be a *small* amount of natural
> cold fusion going on.  IIRC, he was looking for tritium, which would be
> a more easily detected signature.  I don't know that he ever found any.

At last!

An intelligent answer to a basic question.

Thank you!

Bill

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