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To: Sooner78
I wouldn't take this article too serious until someone with a physics degree from somewhere other than Utah certifies it as credible. Smells of really bad science to me.

It's pretty credible to me: Here's the relevent part: Wallace's detector measures 36 neutrons per minute just in background radiation from space, and the device's usual output adds only four neutrons per minute. People in airplanes absorb much more than that.

In other words, the machine produces an output of neutrons that is barely over 10% of background levels. One neutron every 15 seconds is, well, not very many. "Notably absent is shielding," the article says elsewhere.

In contrast, if the cold fusion experiments were generating the heat they were said to generate from fusion, Pons and Fleischmann would have been promptly killed from all the neutrons that would have had to have been generated. Many, many orders of magnitude different.

26 posted on 09/17/2003 8:51:01 PM PDT by coloradan
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To: coloradan
Wrong. Cold fusion does not give neutrons.

At the recent MIT demonstration of cold fusion, FReepers were present,
and several presented, including a demo.

You might download some recent papers and get up-to-date.

some update here for FReepers interested in CF

27 posted on 09/17/2003 8:58:29 PM PDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: sourcery; Ernest_at_the_Beach
ping
28 posted on 09/17/2003 8:59:03 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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