[PowerAmp]

Cold fusion is ignored because it is bogus science. We need to look elsewhere for our energy.

[staytrue]

"The snag is that fusion at room temperature is deemed impossible by every accepted scientific theory."

All you need to do is to lock the deuterium atoms into a very precise locations so that the collective wave function solutions have an interference pattern that produces fusion.

Of course, producing those precise locations would be very difficult.

[GSlob]

Well, but let us use their logic and carry it a step further: so one has a palladium sponge saturated with deuterium. Now, let us say that there is more deuterium around and it can be forced into the sponge by a pressure shock. Then one could end up with a garage-made thermonuke warhead done on the cheap, without any fission triggers, necessity of cooling the radioactive materials, oxygen- and moisture sensitive stuff like lithium deuteride and a lot of other headaches. Deuterium is stable, and so is palladium. The idea should have been surreptitiously planted with the likes of Saddam and Kim years ago, for them to waste their resources upon.

[Diogenesis]

Cold fusion is ignored because al Qaeda runs the Commerce dept's Patent Office.