[ZGuy]

This is bigger news, if true, because this is the first time the results have been reproduced.

[logic]

and has the potential for small, inexpensive operation. As opposed to equipment required to bombard with neurons...

[grondram]

The Georgia Tech claims were a claim to have repeated.... but again this will be huge if true. It's just that activation energy for fusion is huge and difficult to envision at room temperature.

April 11, 1989 Claim of Achieving Fusion in Jar Gains Support in 2 Experiments By MALCOLM W. BROWNE, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES COLLEGE STATION, Tex. -- A recent claim by scientists in Utah that they had achieved nuclear fusion in a jar of water gained important support today from two independent research groups that repeated part of the experiment. Results reported by Texas A & M University and the Georgia Institute of Technology appear to have substantially strengthened the assertion by researchers at the University of Utah.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/041199sci-cold-fusion.html