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From: rim@csadfa.oz (Bob McKay)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Fusion Powered Dragons
Message-ID: <1856@csadfa.oz>
Date: 11 May 89 00:26:37 GMT
References: <2060@basser.oz>
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, Australia
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From article <2060@basser.oz>, by pete@basser.oz (Peter Merel):
> 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 would require two independent developments
.The ability to concentrate and deposit pure palladium
.The ability to concentrate deuterium
Neither of these is biologically impossible; but each is energetically 
expensive, so would be strongly selected against.
	Cheers

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