Is there any evidence suggesting Terrans have actually accomplished Cold Fusion?

[arthas]

I think the terrans have cold fusion. I can't otherwise explain how ghosts and medics can carry personal reactors on their backs (or wherever). Fission reactors would be too large, and if it's not cold fusion, it'd probably be uncomfortably* hot.

Agreed,i have always wondered why the Ghost upgrade is called moebius reactor....,although that may not be why they are so small,probably the Terrans invented some other way to trigger fusion,besides the primary fission(dirty),that requires a critical mass,I guess that's why Nukes don't leave radiation(at least those dropped by Ghosts)

[Norfindel]

The scene from the cinematic could have been both real (it really is a cold fusion nuke, although isn't deliberately blowing up a cold fusion reactor supposed to be difficult?) and the marines used the reactor to smuggle ice and beer. (Which means they would have drank slightly radioactive beer.)

But it's a bomb, not a reactor. Obviously, it would have some safety mechanism to avoid any non-authorized detonation, but the safety could be deactivated before, and it's a cinematic from a game, it's not 100% accurate.

Anyways, if it can release all that energy at once, exploding isn't a problem.

Radioactivity wouldn't be present if it's sealed, otherwise people working in atomic power plants would be doomed.

[Taoo]

Well, if they did achieve cold fusion that would leave a mighty plot hole;

You take;

1 Cold fusion reactor (massive, size of a normal fission reator)

1 plasma cannon (easy to make plasma when you can make fusion occur)

1 Aim bot

=

Dead swarm.

[Hav0x]

The two cylinders going into the new Marine armor look cold to me. Granted, real cold fusion wouldn't be really cold, but this would be "movie-style" cold fusion. Like how gauss rifles in SC produce flashes. Not too fun to see if they don't produce flashes.

If those aren't power supplies, i don't know what they could be.

Gauss rifles would still create a flash due to the high amount of friction. See the following video for an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI

That is all being generated from friction. Nothing is propelling the projectile but the magnets.

[Norfindel]

Gauss rifles would still create a flash due to the high amount of friction. See the following video for an example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI

That is all being generated from friction. Nothing is propelling the projectile but the magnets.

That's a Railgun. It's completely different stuff.

[newcomplex]

Marine suits would literally be impossible to power without cold fusion. Otherwise it would need to frequently recharge every few hours, not days.

The fact that shit is recycled almost 100% points towards fusion of some sorts, as the only kind of known power generation that would use dung to power a power suit with such high energy consumption with any noticeable effect.

Marines either have a normal fusion reactor or a cold fusion reactor in their suits. There is literally no other possible way that thing could operate continuously for days on end that has been even conceived of yet.

And getting a normal fusion reactor on that suit would just be retardedly implausible. .



The cinematic may very well be a joke, but terrans having cold fusion tech is almost a 100% necessity for them to do the stuff they do without having to utilize even more wild stuff that doesn't even exist in theory.


Well, technically, they may be using variant alternative fusion techniques besides the formal theory of "Cold Fusion", which is a bit flawed. For insance, they could use Muon-Catalyzed fusion, but functionally, it would operate very similar to cold fusion, such as large net energy with temperatures as low as 100 Celsius.

There are currently many alternative fusion techniques that have been proven to work, but do not produce net energy, but theoretically could with better tech, like the aforementioned. Cold Fusion itself may be impossible, but really, its just a specific technique, the first one to be conceived, not the only way to achieve fusion at reasonable temperatures.

[Alex06]

Isn't the SC2 Battlecruiser building called a fusion core?
That would indicate they do have fusion...

[arthas]

Isn't the SC2 Battlecruiser building called a fusion core?
That would indicate they do have fusion...

dude....It's not about just fusion,it's about cold fusion,And I think 'Fusion Core' it's about standard 'hot'- fusing hydrogen atoms into helium under tera pascals of pressure and milions of degrees

[phazonjunkie]

dude....It's not about just fusion,it's about cold fusion,And I think 'Fusion Core' it's about standard 'hot'- fusing hydrogen atoms into helium under tera pascals of pressure and milions of degrees

And how could you possibly contain such intense heat/pressure through conventional means w/o immediate meltdown?

Unless it didn't actually get that hot, and nuclear fusion occurred at a more reasonable tempurature?

[inverseninja]

And how could you possibly contain such intense heat/pressure through conventional means w/o immediate meltdown?

Unless it didn't actually get that hot, and nuclear fusion occurred at a more reasonable tempurature?

Starcraft takes place in the 26th century so they dont necessarily need to use todays conventional means. Why wouldnt they be able to have methods of fussion that are beyond our current level of technology?