Cold Fusion Gets a Boost From the US Navy

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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Re:I work in the wrong department

[WED Fan]

Pssst...Hey, we are working on some black ops there as well, mud packs and all. Plus the Spooks of SPAWAR are trying to pit the Swedish Spas against the Korean Spas, and we are going to use Japanese Spas as a proxy against the Tuscans.

But, whatever you do, don't tell the folks in Santa Fe, we have really big plans for them.