[Wardad]

Originally posted by oleg:

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Originally posted by Kamog:
Remember when cold fusion was announced by Pons and Fleischmann? Everybody was so excited! People thought that we'll just put a small cold fusion reactor in each house, and we'll have lots of cheap power. We'll put cold fusion reactors in cars and we'll no longer need to use fossil fuels. Then there was that big controversy when the cold fusion experiment couldn't be successfully replicated in other labs. Some people thought that it was a consipiracy by the big petroleum corporations to suppress the discovery in order to protect their industry. Haven't heard anything about those guys for years now.

There is no oil business conspiracy here. Those guys were crooks and all that stuff was a hoax. No wonder nobody was able to reproduce their "results".

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I was attending night school at the time Cold Fusion episode started. The professors were excited and were busy faxing documents back and forth. A two part consensus was formed.

1. False. A hoax or badly controlled experiment.

1. RESULTS: Discrediting the scientist, the school, and the theory. One or both these guys could skip out with the money.

2. Real. The implications are that an uncontrolled fusion reaction might be set off by a large electrical current when the rods approach saturation. Terroist may be able to build an undectable suitcase size fusion bomb with a yield of several kilotons.

2. RESULTS: Discrediting the scientist, the school, and the theory. One or both these guys may object (or agrre to work secretly) and have to disappear along with a convincing amount of money.

When my Dad asked me about investing in the cold fusion metals, I told him no.

P.S. It's been nice posting here. Forget you ever saw this...

[ January 30, 2003, 19:11: Message edited by: Wardad ]