sanguisuga635 t1_j9t03dw wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM Reply to ELI5: How would power be harnessed from cold fusion? by off-and-on The "cold" in "cold fusion" refers to the starting conditions, rather than it being cold the whole time (I think!) So it still gets hot, and you can extract energy from it, but it doesn't require as much energy to get it going. Permalink 1
sanguisuga635 t1_j9t03dw wrote
Reply to ELI5: How would power be harnessed from cold fusion? by off-and-on
The "cold" in "cold fusion" refers to the starting conditions, rather than it being cold the whole time (I think!)
So it still gets hot, and you can extract energy from it, but it doesn't require as much energy to get it going.