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Desktop Cold Fusion Reconsidered
Armchair Anarchist writes "Nature.com reports on Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is once again claiming to have achieved ultrasound-induced fusion in deuterium-enriched acetone. Other experts are sceptical, but Taleyarkhan is keen to have other scientists check his results."
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Cold Fusion should focus on the server where it belongs. The desktop is just a pipe dream.
http://webster.com/dictionary/skeptical
I can't believe you call yourselves "editors", or more likely "edatters".
As long as this guy hasn't been seen around, I'm keeping an open mind.
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So apparently I'm wrong.
Oh, and apparently the new MacBook Pro produces energy too.
We now return from our commercial break.
[applause]
So the question is, Is This Experiment Reproducible? Amazingly the answer is "yes". Sonoluminescence has been an established fact in science since 1934, but has only gained attention again in 2002 when scientists began to investigate if Sonoluminescence might be... SonoFusion. The 2004 experiment by Taleyarkhan was reproducable enough that by 2005 most of the critics began to accept the idea that it might be fusion.
But are Fleischmann and Pons vindicated?
Taleyarkhan's experiments showed that sonofusion couldn't possibly be the cold fusion that excited the media so many years ago. Not only do you have to put more energy in than you get out, but the popping of each bubble produces a shockwave that heats the immediate area to thousands of degrees in temperature!
As it turns out, there's nothing cold about this fusion at all.
[Flip to video of lava flowing from volcano]
So for now, science will continue its search for this holy grail of "Cold" fusion. Perhaps one day, Fleischmann and Pons will be vindicated.
[fade to black]
(Don't you hate it when shows give you a cliffhanger like this; then after making you wait, spout some crap you already know?)
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The reason their experiment only works "sometimes", is because the US Military Industrial Complex is in cahoots with Big Oil and is using alien technology from the Rosswell crash to constantly alter the laws of physics in close proximity to any attempted Cold Fusion reactions.
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Don't believe the hype; Tinfoil hats work.
Cold Fusion. And, I quote, "I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells of rainbow sherbert."
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... of a dodgy burrito! 15,000 C - Sure feels that way. tiny bubbles of gas - Sure smells that way. which release a burst of heat and light - Sure sounds that way. hot enough to wrench molecules apart - Sure hurts that way.
We've got diesel from algae, electricity from trees, and now Mr. Fusion! We're saved! Woo Hoo!
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What? You never had hot midget sex?
Guess I don't need to buy the 1kW power supply for this system, or...?
Now, if they also would come up with a laptop cold fusion unit...
> it is definitely worth investigation, just like the concept of fission criticality was early this century.
Last century, but point taken, point taken.
I don't know the meaning of the word 'don't' - J
>Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with
> a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks?
Whenever someone brings this up, I have only one thing to say.
Midget fetish.
I bet he uses a sonic screwdriver to start it off.
"You don't believe in all this cold-fusion mumbo jumbo do you? You know you're a very pretty lady." - Simon
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"Macromedia.com reports on Rusi Taleyarkhan of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is once again claiming to have achieved dynamic web-sites using Cold Fusion. Other developers in the CS department are sceptical, but Taleyarkhan is keen to have other students check his results."