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This sanction of professor Taleyarkhan is a bad news for the research on bubble fusion. Despite this, I keep some hope on bubble fusion for two reasons:
- in 2007, Suslick and Eddingsaas have demonstrated the formation of a plasma with an experiment of sonoluminescence in sulphuric acid (*): this process of sonolumiscence have an extraordinary capacity to concentrate the diluted sound energy in a tiny hot spot,
- the use of tritiated surfactant could permit the test of bubble fusion with the reaction deuterium-tritium: this reaction is 100 times easier than the reaction deuterium-deuterium tested by Taleyarkhan.
(*): Evidence for a Plasma Core during Multibubble Sonoluminescence, by Suslick and Eddingsaas, J. AM. CHEM. SOC. 2007, 129, 3838-3839.