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Desktop Cold Fusion Reconsidered

Posted by samzenpus on from the tabletop-sun dept.

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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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. My recommendation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cold Fusion should focus on the server where it belongs. The desktop is just a pipe dream.

  3. light was a form of energy last time I checked... by inio · · Score: 4, Funny
    Caption on the figure:

    Imploding bubbles, caught on film emitting light. Are they emitting energy too?

    So apparently I'm wrong.

    Oh, and apparently the new MacBook Pro produces energy too.
  4. Conspiracy Theory by Essef · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Cold Fusion by ltwally · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cold Fusion. And, I quote, "I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells of rainbow sherbert."

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    /dev/random
  6. What a day! by alex_guy_CA · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've got diesel from algae, electricity from trees, and now Mr. Fusion! We're saved! Woo Hoo!

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    San Francisco Photographers
  7. Re:sceptical?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sceptical" is the British spelling, you wancre.

  8. Desktop cold fusion by Thomas+Henden · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...