Posted on 01/24/2011 10:44:15 AM PST by Frantzie
According to PhysOrg.com, two Italian scientists from the University of Bologna have taken on one of physics' historically most discredited concepts, cold fusion, and have actually succeeded in creating a sustainable reaction. Aside from the major implications of the energy market should this be validated and recreated (an issue that buried the original Cold Fusion discovery by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishmann), one of the more economically important side effects of this purported rediscovery is that one of the byproducts of the reaction is none other than recently uber-bubbleicious copper.
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I’m glad at least that they keep trying.
We sometimes have the kind of environment now that the Established Church fostered in the Middle Ages.
The media echo chamber turns everything into kind of a witch hunt, in their desire for stories that keep the government off the front page.
I’m too busy watching Fox news and Television, and otherwise supporting Al Waleeds empire to notice this.
I will not be hopping onto this bandwagon until the experiment can be repeated by other scientists.
If I had a nickel for every time this has been “discovered”...
Bologna
The implications are huge, if it can be re-created. The Arab’s power will dissolve into nothing. Oil will be worthless. Unfortunately, there have been so many cold fusion hoaxes over the years, I remain skeptical.
If not they are either fraudulent or criminally negligent with their intellectual property.
The left would want to supress this energy source if it works out as viable, this is because they think that giving humanity a cheaped form of energy would be in their own words “like giving a machine gun to a retarded child” - Paul Elrich.
I think it would be a boon to our increasingly technological society.
A container of 5 year old Turkey Soup once 'fused' with a half-gallon of off-brand strawberry ice cream in the back of my freezer following an extended power outage, but it didn't generate any electricity that I noticed.
And although it produced SOMETHING, that 'something' most definitely was not copper.
The work was done at the University of Bologna, which is often mispelled baloney.
Everything about this sounds like an investment scam.
Perpetual motion machines dont work and neither does this.
If it doesn't work, I don't imagine anyone will buy it. That is the beauty of a commercial product. They put their (or somebody not a government's) money where their mouths are, and now we'll see if it can, or cannot be done.
On another front, there is a commercially available hydrogen generator that is already in use for welders, can be used as an on-demand fuel source, and really works. The principle is electrical resonance and it requires extremely high frequency AC, at rather low voltage. Again, a commercial product.
Attention scientists: Get your head from out of your lab.
Every time I warm up to the announced discovery of cold fusion, I’m left poorer and wiser. At this point, I’m still quite chilly.
Based on some of the other stupid comments here - few recall things done in Rome/Italy that seemed beyond impossible. Rome was about 500 years ahead of the western world.
A recent example is an Italian doctor who discovered a cure for MS which eluded all other experts. He is now being attacked by the drug companies because useless MS drugs are a tens of billion industry.
I think I trust The University of Bologna more than Penn State or Univ of Virginia where “Dr.” Michael Mann scammed U.S. taxpayers with his fraudulent global warming research.
I think Italian universities probably have more credibility as they probably have fewer courses in nonsense like “women’s studies.”
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