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U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion
lhouk281 writes "Technology Review is reporting that the U.S. Department of Energy has decided that recent results justify a fresh look at cold fusion. According to Peter Hagelstein, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, experiments performed under properly controlled conditions reliably produce more heat than standard theory predicts, and nuclear products show up in about the right amounts to account for this excess heat. Maybe we'll get those atomic-powered automobiles after all ..."
Don't you see that Bush can claim that water is a WMD? A "Nu-que-lar" one at that.
Thanks for pointing that out.
There was a National Public Radio discussion of this a few weeks back. In one school that taught abstinence, 11 of 12 kids that had signed a statement declaring their intention to abstain had become sexually active within the next four years anyway.
The States of Texas,West Virginia and most to the western US go bankrup with in a few months if this works. But that won't matter because the Global War that will be underway will make seem really a small thing. The first thing that would happen is Oil prices drop to nothing. Great huh? What about all lost jobs, the economies destroyed, the lives ruined. Next all of the oil and energy comapies would go bankrupt putting millions out of work. Including all of the support companies that live off of them. Then as the Gobal Deprssion gets underway well the refugees start to pour out of little oil dependant counties like oh I don't know Mexico. To bad they will be pouring into areas wiped out by non-existant oil revenues. About then a real Global War should get under way and that should about finish things off. Please read the book Power 1990 Bean books for some idea of the hell this would csuse if it worked.