Topic: Russians will be the first to mine the moon

[Stormbringer]

I just mean that the thing is so small simple and relatively inexpensive that it could become quite passe and ubiquitous.

[Bonk]

I like your vision Stormbringer... 

What's got me suspicious of the deuterated acetone experiment is exposing it to thermalised (I assume) neutrons prior to exposure to ultrasound... which might explain why an effect is seen with d₆ acetone and not acetone (the much greater thermal neutron cross section of the deuterium). i.e. I suspect what is happening is neutron activation instead of fusion as such...  (i.e. expose acetone to thermalised neutrons fro a longer period of time and you might observe the same effect)

[Stormbringer]

But you can tell the nuetrons by their energy profile plus there is tritium produced. Add to that the fact that the researchers are not novices likely to be fooled by something like that andthe fact that i beleive the results are duplicated by other teams...