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Chromotron t1_j9t4k55 wrote

Apart from what people already said about "cold" quite possibly meaning "10000°", it's also not like you need something to be hot to create power. Photovoltaic, hydroelectric and wind power are not boiling hot either. And neither are batteries or fuel cells. A cold fusion cell that works akin to a hydrogen fuel cell is not unthinkable, just pretty unlikely to exist.

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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_j9t28jn wrote

The room temperature means that no heat is added not that no heat is produced, basically hot fusion requires enormous temperatures which of course means energy being put into the process so any energy extracted has to be balanced out with the energy you input. Cold fusion has been a pipe dream for science but it just won't work https://youtu.be/GNdJHcM7-5U

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