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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Re:sceptical?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sceptical" is the British spelling, you wancre.