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Cold Fusion Gets a Boost From the US Navy

Posted by kdawson on from the fuse-this dept.

Tjeerd writes in to alert us to the publication in a highly respected, peer-reviewed journal of results indicative of table-top fusion. The US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, CA (called Spawar) has apparently been conducting research on "cold fusion" since the days of the discredited report of Pons and Fleischmann. They are reporting on the reproducible detection of highly energetic charged particles from a wire coated in palladium-deuterium and subjected to either an electric or a magnetic field. Their paper was published in February in the journal Naturwissenschaften (which has published work by Einstein, Heisenberg, and Lorenz). New Scientist also has a note about the fusion work but it is available only to subscribers.

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  1. curious by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego, CA (called Spawar) has apparently been conducting research on "cold fusion"

    I wonder why they chose that over ASP .NET or J2EE.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
  2. LERN by Skrynkelberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    "... low energy nuclear reaction (LERN)" Someone needs to LERN to abbreviate correctly. (-: