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From: symon@lhotse.cs.unc.edu (James Symon)
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Subject: Room Temperature fusion, expert skepticism
Keywords: fusion deuterium power
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Date: 29 Mar 89 13:20:09 GMT
References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> <1644@etive.ed.ac.uk> <13470@steinmetz.ge.com>
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In article <13470@steinmetz.ge.com>, blackje@sunspot.steinmetz (Emmett Black) writes:
> . . .
> I'm inclined to believe them, too.
> 

I'm inclined not to. My father is a theoretical physicist who worked
for years in plasma research. I called and asked him "Say Dad, do you
suppose if I squeezed some deuterium into a metal lattice it might
fuse?" He just said, "No."

Then again, there is a wild, cheering, science enthusiast in the back
of my head yelling, "Experts have been wrong before, wrong before,
wrong before!" I bet my father has the same demon in action but
probably under many more muffling layers of knowledgable skepticism.

jim
symon@cs.unc.edu
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