The problem is that while the design of a fusor is simple, it just isn't suitable for producing more energy than you spend running it. They're used a lot in experiments and in the medical field, however.
The very fact that she's talking about cold fusion as a possible technology is, as she's said, demonstrating that she doesn't really know that much about the issues behind it. To most scientists it's like a high-schooler saying "We should make Zero Point Energy devices! They'd provide infinite energy out of nothing!"
That's not to deride research on cold fusion, of course, but as it is it's unlikely anything is going to come out of it.
Mind you her plan makes perfect sense in Gensokyo. That is to say, lacks all commonality.
No, you're interpreting that wrong. Sanae does know about the issues (and it's not her fanon-exaggerated "you can't let yourself be trapped by common sense in Gensokyo" thing, either), but whether it's actually possible or not isn't important; the point is that people in the outside world believe that it's not.
The reasoning is as follows:
things that the outside world believes to be imaginary (ie, to not exist) will appear in Gensokyo; and
the outside world believes practical cold fusion to be impossible (ie, to not exist); therefore
practical cold fusion will be possible in Gensokyo.
I don't know what happens if they go with this plan and cold fusion is later proven to be practical in the outside world. It's probably fine, though; things that exist in the outside world also exist in Gensokyo, so it most likely just means they don't spontaneously appear any more.
kounishin said: No, you're interpreting that wrong. Sanae does know about the issues (and it's not her fanon-exaggerated "you can't let yourself be trapped by common sense in Gensokyo" thing, either), but whether it's actually possible or not isn't important; the point is that people in the outside world believe that it's not.
The reasoning is as follows:
things that the outside world believes to be imaginary (ie, to not exist) will appear in Gensokyo; and
the outside world believes practical cold fusion to be impossible (ie, to not exist); therefore
practical cold fusion will be possible in Gensokyo.
I don't know what happens if they go with this plan and cold fusion is later proven to be practical in the outside world. It's probably fine, though; things that exist in the outside world also exist in Gensokyo, so it most likely just means they don't spontaneously appear any more.
The problem is that while the design of a fusor is simple, it just isn't suitable for producing more energy than you spend running it. They're used a lot in experiments and in the medical field, however.
Just for the record, they stopped calling that cold fusion after the Fleischmann-Pons debacle in 1989. Incidentally, the description Sanae gives of the experiment a few pages later matches up with the proposed mechanism for the infamous 1989 experiment quite well; I was pleasantly surprised to find scientific accuracy in my Toohoos.
kounishin said: I don't know what happens if they go with this plan and cold fusion is later proven to be practical in the outside world. It's probably fine, though; things that exist in the outside world also exist in Gensokyo, so it most likely just means they don't spontaneously appear any more.
-"I woke up this morning,ate some breakfast and headed out to sweep the yard when SUDDENLY: COLD FUSION!" Spontaneous cold fusion could prove surprising but I guess you'll get used to it. XD
Zweibach said: -"I woke up this morning,ate some breakfast and headed out to sweep the yard when SUDDENLY: COLD FUSION!" Spontaneous cold fusion could prove surprising but I guess you'll get used to it. XD
cd_young said: So, Sanae's now a heretic? Just like the Stage 6 boss from Touhou 2?
You mean stage 5/final boss, SoEW didn't have a stage 6
A technology that can't be spoken of in the outside world... surely it must be one of Gensokyo's technologies, mustn't--Wait a minute.I don't have any idea what you're talking about, but...But in the outside world, "cold fusion"......is a prohibited topic, and to even speak of it is social suicide.Just as its name implies, it's nuclear fusion that occurs at low temperatures.It's a technology that would allow fusion without the high temperatures and pressures required by today's fusion technologies.Even now, the prominent physicists who worked on it remain consigned to dark obscurity.Even a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Julian Schwinger, is said to have been shunned among the physics community just for expressing a genuine interest in such experiments.
