[ckilmer]

I heard the feds turned cold fusion down last september.

This is the first I've heard that they renenged in December.

Looks like the pace of events is quickening in this field of research.

This is one of those scientific experimental areas you have to keep a weather eye on. Because if they crack the cold fusion nut...it just changes everything... Big Time.

[staytrue]

More than likely, this is a chemical reaction with palladium or platinum serving as a catalyst to burn contamination in the liquid.

[Talking_Mouse]

This is one of those scientific experimental areas you have to keep a weather eye on. Because if they crack the cold fusion nut...it just changes everything... Big Time.

Absolutely

[aruanan]

I heard the feds turned cold fusion down last september.
This is the first I've heard that they renenged in December.

No, I knew last fall from talking with a representative from the current incarnation of the Office of Technology Assessment (closed in 1995), the acronym of which escapes me at the moment, that they were going to recommend funding. The way this office works is that Congress, for instance, wants to know whether or not to fund a particular project and turns to this agency to assemble a group of experts to analyze the field and the data and to come up with a recommendation. They gave the go-ahead on the study of so-called cold fusion.

[mdmathis6]

It's called OPEC!

[staytrue]

Platinum is a catalyst for carbon monoxide burning to carbon dioxide in a car's catalytic converter and it also gets very hot in the process.

I'm guessing that the platinum may be causing impurities in the water to "burn" for a short time producing heat.

In any event, if cold fusion requires platinium, there would only be enough platinum to replace 2 or 3 power plants. The total platinum in the world would not fill an average sized living room.

[satan]

Someday we must come to grips with the fact that today the National Laboratories in which the Department of Energy (and now the Department of Homeland Security) place their confidence are no more than government contractors cloaked in the respectability and the reputation of those who developed nuclear weapons some 60 years ago.