Posted on 08/31/2004 4:48:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
bttt for later read.
Beware of Zombie technologies.
This thing is like a freakin' zombie--you just can't kill it!
More taxpayer money down the rabbit hole. I'm a BIG supporter of science funding, but you've got to wonder about spending money on this!
If cold fusion can be made into a commercial technology, Saudi Arabia's oil reserves will greatly decrease in value.
Except that it does not work...period.
Is the Department of the Navy here playing the role that Bell Labs used to ?
I'd rather see a few $mil tossed at checking out cold fusion than yet another study of the mating habits of gecko lizards
bttt
There do seem to be anomalous phenomena associated with "whatever it is". It may be fusion. It may be something else. It does seem worth finding out what causes the effects
Because of the "discounting effect", the loss in value of oil and gas fields will preceed actual commercialization of low-temperature nuclear power devices. The discounting of oil will begin as soon as there is general agreement that the principle has been validated.
If that ever happens.
I love news like this. It restores my hope that maybe the government finally will pay for the time-machine research I'm conducting in my bathtub.
You are wrong. You have drunk the Kool Aid....
There is something going on with thie phenomenon, and that has been true since the beginning. Why don't you learn to read?
If it had not been for the traditional scientific engaging in the academic equivalent of "mooning" their adversaries, we might be much further along the road to reduced dependence on foreign oil by now.
Thanks, bud, for your valued contribution.
cold placemarker
Learn to read?! I've read and read and read all about cold fusion--there is nothing occuring that can be called anything like 'fusion' happening.
End of story.
Hell, you sound like all the reputable scientists that were hoodwinked by Pons and co. back when they made their "discovery" years ago.
Let it go. It's not real and never will be.
Oh, and I have a perpetual motion machine for sale, too, if you're interested...
*rolls eyes*
Geckos need love too.
Many US and labs overseas have reproduced cold fusion.
There was an open demo this Summer attended by FReepers including the late Dr. Mallove.
At that meeting, Mitsubishi and Toyota presented their recent results.
"...California is experiencing rolling blackouts due to power shortages.
Conventional engineering, planned ahead, could have prevented these
blackouts, but it has been politically expedient to ignore the inevitable.
We do not know if Cold Fusion will be the answer to future energy needs,
but we do know the existence of Cold Fusion phenomenon through
repeated observations by scientists throughout the world.
It is time that this phenomenon be investigated
so that we can reap whatever benefits accrue from additional scientific understanding.
It is time for government funding organizations to invest in this research"
Dr. Frank E. Gordon
Head, Navigation and Applied Sciences Department
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
Hopefully Stanley has been working on something truly useful -- like intelligent design.
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