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   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:34:50 -0500   
   JAB  wrote:   
      
   > Cold fusion is making a scientific comeback   
   >   
   > Earlier this year, ARPA-E, a US government agency dedicated to funding   
   > advanced energy research, announced a handful of grants for a field it   
   > calls "low-energy nuclear reactions," or LENR. Most scientists likely   
   > didn't take notice of the news. But, for a small group of them, the   
   > announcement marked vindication for their specialty: cold fusion.   
      
   Not really, just that someone's willing to chck some money at a vague   
   hope.   
      
   >   
   > Cold fusion, better known by its practitioners as LENR, is the   
   > science--or, perhaps, the art--of making atomic nuclei merge and,   
   > ideally, harnessing the resultant energy. All of this happens without   
   > the incredible temperatures, on the scale of millions of degrees, that   
   > you need for "traditional" fusion. In a dream world, successful cold   
   > fusion could provide us with a boundless supply of clean, easily   
   > attainable energy.   
   >   
   > https://www.popsci.com/science/cold-fusion-low-energy-nuclear-reaction/   
      
   try   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Criticism   
   instead.   
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed Humbug.   
      
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