Xref: utzoo sci.physics:6360 sci.research:714 sci.space:10193 sci.chem:7 sci.space.shuttle:2680 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!labrea!Portia!bugboy From: bugboy@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Frank) Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.space,sci.chem,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications? Summary: Sounds like an April Fools' joke to me Keywords: fusion deuterium power Message-ID: <1098@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 24 Mar 89 02:59:22 GMT References: <290@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> Sender: Michael Frank Reply-To: bugboy@Portia.UUCP (Michael Frank) Distribution: sci Organization: Stanford University Lines: 23 I'm wathing an interview with the discoverers right now on MacNeil-Lehrer. You know, it just sounds too good to be true. Maybe these guys are pulling an elaborate April Fools' joke. Either that, or it's going to be bigger than the high-temperature superconductors. Guaranteed Nobel prizes. But anyway, these guys say they've had bottles producing heat continuously for hundreds of hours in experiments over the last year, and that their experiments could essentially be duplicated using the resources of a high school chemistry classroom. It's just too good to be true. Anyone see "Back to the Future?" remember the "Mr. Fusion" blender-sized device? That's basically what these guys have developed. You put heavy water in, you get gobs of energy out. Just think, governments have spent $billions upon billions on nuclear fusion research using Tokomaks and high-powered lasers, and here these chemists do it at room temperature in their kitchen. Anyway, I'm anxiously waiting to see whether this can be duplicated. -- ,-------M-i-c-h-a-e-l---F-r-a-n-k------------------------------------------. | AI Stanford Microsoft philosophy Alas,Babylon Chattanooga,TN | | Amiga swimming Star Trek Pink Floyd nanotechnology Gainesville,FL | `-----------b-u-g-b-o-y-@-p-o-r-t-i-a-.-s-t-a-n-f-o-r-d-.-e-d-u------------'