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From: pete@basser.oz (Peter Merel)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Fusion Powered Dragons
Summary: Well, why not?
Keywords: fusion
Message-ID: <2060@basser.oz>
Date: 10 May 89 03:22:30 GMT
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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I've been following discussion in alt.fusion and sci.physics regarding
room temperature fusion. One thread of the discussions touched on the
possibility of living organisms using cold fusion, catalyzed by readily
available metal salts, as a power source. The example discussed was
some variety of mollusc. Some questions occurred to me:

If P&F&H fusion is real (and it seems, since the latest claims of fifty
times more heat out than in, and Lewis' acknowledgement that his cells
were not valid refutations, that it may be), then why have no organisms
evolved that can take advantage of it? It sure sounds easier and more
reliable than eating things. Probably better for your kharma, too :-)

If P&F&H fusion is real, then is there a reason why we can't genetically
engineer or re-engineer organisms to use fusion as a power source?
I imagine plants are a good first target for this sort of effort -
plants that can grow in the dark. Could end the reliance of agriculture
on weather. 

Could it be possible to do this for humans, too? It would be nice to live
in a world without famine.
-- 
That is beyond your compression - Galaxy Being, Outer Limits.  pete@basser.oz.AU
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