While a nuclear weapon does indeed create an EMP, that is not the only way that it can be created. A large coil with a powerful enough magnet run through it fast enough can do the same thing.

And yet: <br />1) The discussion was not about nuclear weapons, <br />2) It was about EMPs. <br />3) And, oh yeah, if ionizing radiation is going to fry your semiconductors, then you've got bigger problems than whether your solar cells will survive. <br /><br />Your style grows tiresome. The pattern repeats seemingly without end. You make an incorrect statement. I point out your error. You abandon the statement and come up with another incorrect (or irrelevant) statement. I demonstrate you are once again incorrect, or the statement is irrelevant. You abandon the statement and come up with yet another… You're like a blocked sewage pipe… just when you think you've got it cleared up, another load of crap bubbles back up. <br /><br />In short, you're wrong again, and again, and again. There's no defense for your errors, so you make none. I can appreciate that. It's better than someone who is wrong and insists they're right. But why the constant stream of additional error/irrelevance? Are you even making any effort to post correct/relevant information? (It seems not.) <br /><br />EMPs are actually pretty simple. The only reason that I'd need to learn more than I already know is if I wanted to build an EMP device and quantify its effect for design.

Your first sentence is gibberish (at best ambiguous, but more likely incorrect). Your second sentence is simply wrong. <br /><br />As for the second paragraph, did you miss the "Even a coil would be unaffected so long as the induced voltage is not great enough to span the air gap between the two leads or break down the insulation in the winding."? Or did you just not understand it? <br /><br />Maybe you have a better grasp of physics than you are displaying, but you apparently lack the ability to read and comprehend, write cogently or apply sufficient rigor when discussing physics. The standards at the U Texas physics department must be lower than I thought.

Actually, I hope it DOES work. <br /><br />To your last point: Hasn't someone already paid $10 million?

I just have a hard time believing it's a viable technology since it's been out there for 25 years and no one has even published a peer-reviewed article on it. Think about that: The biggest single achievement in the history of the world - and for 25 years they've not been willing to provide proof? Shockley invented the transistor in the late 1940s. Within about a decade, Kilby had come up with the IC. Within 25 years of inventing the transistor, Intel was stuffing 3500 of them onto a piece of silicon the size of your fingernail and calling it the 8008 processor. <br /><br />In case you hadn't noticed, technology moves MUCH faster today. At this point, we should be able to buy LENR devices at the local Home Depot or Lowes… if not the local 7-11 or Dollar General store… if the technology works. <br /><br />OTOH, if it DOESN'T work, one would expect more "mystery". The announcement of units selling now argues against fraud - but I've seen no reports of buyers experiencing success. Have you?

<a href="http://coldfusionnow.org/first-commercial-cold-fusion-steam-heat-generator-for-sale/" rel="nofollow">http://coldfusionnow.org/first-commercia...</a><br /><br />So, they claim they have a commercial unit selling now and will have consumer units within a year. <br /><br />My bet is that if they stick to the schedule, someone will be hauled into court within two years. <br /><br />I'd love to be wrong, but if I were betting, I'd lay the money on "this is fraud".

Or poop in a pot and make methane! :-P

Actually, a semiconductor may definitely be an open circuit in the sense of "physically disconnected"… when it's physically disconnected! "Physically disconnected" is precisely what I had in mind. That is what "open circuit" means. I believe I already addressed the case where a device in a CLOSED circuit has its rated voltage exceeded… oh look! There it is! <br />"If the voltage exceeds rated values for various components, they can be damaged," That included semiconductors in closed circuits. The reference to a solar panel "in a box under your bed" was intended to make it clear that I was referring to units that were physically disconnected. <br /><br />My bet is that if you have a box full of diodes, transistors, and other discreet components, subjected them to a pulse, they'd be unaffected. As soon as you put them into a circuit where they form a physical "loop", they become vulnerable. Even a coil would be unaffected so long as the induced voltage is not great enough to span the air gap between the two leads or break down the insulation in the winding.