For those of you that missed 60 minutes Cold Fusion

[d3adp00l]

I would love to see a system running with power output.

[AbbaRue]

I got some Tungsten welding rods 3 years ago and built a test unit based on the info from JLN. 
I used water and baking soda and I used a half wave voltage doubler to step up 120V to 240V.
I used 470MFD 400V caps and 1000V 6A diodes for the voltage doubler circuit.

I got a lot of heat energy out of the unit but I discovered the tungsten was being consumed very quickly.
I think this has a lot to do with browns gas and the way it burns tungsten. 
Anyway I burned away about 2 inches of tungsten welding rod in about 30 minutes.
At about 50 cents an inch for tungsten, I concluded this was not a viable energy source.

It is much cheaper to make bingo fuel and use that to run a generator.
Carbon rods are about 50 cents a foot and will give you much more heat energy then the tungsten rods.
And you can produce enough bingo fuel from a car's alternator in real time to keep the car going. 
Heating a home with it would be very efficient as well. 

[jadaro2600]

..interesting, but what happens to the deuterium? ..still there is fuel!

Anyway, ...the idea is nice.  I'm just flustered by the cost of Palladium!

[triffid]

The metal "nickel "might take the place of palladium in these experiments.Its in the same column on the atomic chart as platinum and palladium.As far as I know no one has done any CF work using nickel.Metals in the same column on the atomic chart have similar properties.So someone should try nickel.Its a lot cheaper than the other two.triffid

[triffid]

When news of CF came out in 1989,I knew it would be crushed for now.So I collected all the info on it from the newspapers I could and put it in a scrapbook.It most likely will be 50 years before we are allowed to have it.Triffid