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From: johna@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM (John Abt)
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Subject: Re: Success with cold fusion reported
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Date: 30 Mar 89 01:17:44 GMT
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In article <1989Mar28.041030.2291@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> kocic@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Miroslav Kocic) writes:
>
>The discussion in this newsgroup has so far been about the authenticity of the
>Utah breakthrough, but I have two different concerns.  First, what if fusion
>turns out to create problems we don't foresee?  We didn't foresee radioactive
>waste or meltdowns back when fission was at this stage, and, if history teaches
>anything, it teaches that every benefit has a proportional price.  Second, what
>if cold fusion becomes the crack-cocaine of energy production?  I can imagine
>a thousand fanatics in 750 terrorist cells making an H-bomb in their kitchen.

With unlimited cheap and pollution-free energy available, we won't be
talking about the greenhouse effect, it will be the furnace effect.